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    "Brother Six, please try this dish quickly. Although it doesn't look good, it tastes good." Li Zhi chewed the so-called whale meat and said vaguely.  It was obvious that this dish must be to his liking. Not only did he eat it himself, but he also tried his best to ask Li Min to try it too.

    "No, you can eat it yourself. I still like to eat fish." Li Min lowered his head and picked up the carp, pretending to like it very much and said.

    "Hey, Brother Liu, don't you always like to eat fish? And aren't whales and carp both fish?" Li Zhi asked casually while eating. He was usually tired of eating delicacies from all over the world, but now he suddenly ate Zhang Liu's  The home-cooked food naturally felt very fresh and delicious, so I ate it alone and didn't notice anything unusual about Li Min.

    "Whales are not fish, they are" Li Min just wanted to explain whales and mammals, but when he thought that the problem was a bit complicated, he simply changed his mind and said: "Whales are from the sea, and they have a fishy smell. I don't like it very much, but this carp does  The ones are very fresh and tender, Sister-in-law Zhang is really good at her craftsmanship!"

    Hearing Li Min's praise, Mrs. Zhang Liu was also very happy. After telling the two brothers to eat well, she and her mother-in-law took their children into the kitchen, but the two children kept staring at the food on Li Min's table and swallowing it.  Drooling, he finally pulled them into the kitchen, and then the family of four set up a small table to eat.

    Li Min took a look at them when they weren't paying attention, and found that the two adults were nibbling a kind of black steamed bun, while the two children ate a white steamed bun each, and drank millet porridge, but it was obviously much thinner than theirs, with bright bowls.  It can be used as a mirror, and there is a plate of green vegetables on the table, but there is no oily smell in the vegetables, which makes people feel a little sad just looking at it.

    He squeezed Li Zhi, who was eating enthusiastically, with his shoulder and asked him to take a look at the situation in the kitchen.  As a result, Li Zhi felt that the delicious food he had just eaten suddenly lost its flavor.  I looked at the half-eaten steamed bun in my hand. I couldn't eat it, but I felt a little uncomfortable putting it down.  Li Min looked a little at a loss for a while.

    "Eat how you want to eat. This is your choice. The more you eat, the happier I will feel!" Li Min knew the psychology of low-level people like Zhang and Liu very well, so he said this to Li Zhi.  .

    But even though he said that, Li Zhi lowered his head and reluctantly finished the steamed bun in his hand, but he couldn't eat any more.  Li Min didn't feel like Li Zhi, so he lowered his head and ate most of the dishes on the table. Although the ingredients of these dishes were ordinary, they tasted pretty good, making him feel like eating home-cooked food, and the millet porridge  I drank two bowls in a row.

    After eating and saying goodbye.  Li Min and Li Zhi still walked back slowly.  The days are long now, the sunset is still hanging in the western sky and the pedestrians on the street are not in a hurry to go home.  They gather in groups and call for friends.  Go into the nearby wine shop to drink and have fun.

    "Ninth brother, what do you think after today's interview?" Li Min looked at the passers-by and asked with a smile.

    "Sixth brother, you can still laugh when you see the situation in Zhang Liu's family?" Li Zhi rolled his eyes at him and asked with some dissatisfaction.

    "Ninth brother, don't just look at things on the surface. In your eyes and mine, the life in Zhang Liu's family is indeed very poor, but you have to think about it on the other hand. In their family, only Zhang Liu is supported by a weak woman.  With her monthly wages, she can still support a family of four. This is much better than her previous days of not having enough to eat. This is enough to show that with the development of industry and commerce, it has brought inconveniences to these poor people.  The advantage of having less." Li Min acted like an elder brother and taught him a serious lesson.

    Although Li Zhi is smart, he is still a child after all, and it is relatively simple to see things. After hearing Brother Six's explanation, he thought about it carefully and said with great admiration: "Brother Six's words really make sense. I miss my Datang Factory a lot."  , there are countless workers in the factory. Although not every worker can get wages like Zhang and Liu, the difference must be limited. Based on this calculation, industry and commerce can support almost tens of millions of people. It is indeed worthy of being said.  There is no wealth without work, and there is no life without business.¡±

    "Well, yes, industry and commerce can not only allow a few people to gather a lot of wealth, but also have an extremely important impact on the vast number of poor people. The most direct change is that it gives them one more way to survive.  You can get remuneration to support yourself and your family by working, and this remuneration is even more generous than the most traditional farming. It is precisely because of this that the number of farmers in Datang is gradually decreasing, while the number of industrial and commercial people is increasing rapidly." Li  He nodded and said, and the topic unknowingly turned to the population dispute between industry, commerce and agriculture.

    "Brother Six, I heard that the method of land replacement and the promotion of coarse seeds was to deal with the problem of reduced grain production in the Tang Dynasty. It seems that some people are already dissatisfied with the development of industry and commerce?" Although Li Zhi is young, he is aPrince, there will be someone in the palace to explain to him the policies of the imperial court, but he didn't pay attention to it before. Now after personal experience and conversation with Li Min, he finally remembered it.

    Li Min also hoped that Li Zhi could see the importance of industry and commerce. When he heard him ask this question, he patiently told the story of the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes suppressing industry and commerce, and also analyzed in detail the relationship between industry, commerce and agriculture.  Opposition and complementarity.

    Li Zhi, a young age, did not expect that behind the surface land replacement and promotion of rough method, there was such a complicated hidden feelings.  At the same time, I never expected that the laughing and joking Sixth Brother in my impression would actually have the power to influence the general trend of the world.

    "Sixth Brother, is the Five Surnames and Qi Wang really that scary? As the emperor, my father can decide life or death with just one word. Why not use force to destroy these disobedient families like the Five Surnames and Qi Wangs?" Li Zhi  After hearing this, he said angrily that through today's interview with Zhang and Liu's family, Li Zhi saw the changes that industry and commerce have brought to poor families, so he was full of good impressions of industry and commerce. As for the opposing Five Surnames and Seven Hopes, they naturally became  The villain in his mind.

    "Haha, Ninth Brother, it would be great if things were really as you said." Li Min touched Li Zhi's head, showing a wry smile and said, "Five surnames and Qiwang, these great families are entrenched in the Central Plains.  For hundreds or even thousands of years, their relationships and favors have been intertwined in the entire society, and their influence is almost unimaginable. For example, among all the officials in the Tang Dynasty, 20 to 30% of them were directly from these aristocratic families.  , of the remaining 70% to 80%, at least half have deep relationships and origins with these aristocratic families. Therefore, the father can use troops aggressively externally, but when dealing with domestic affairs, he has to be cautious. As for being tough,  The means are even more impossible, unless my father dares to shake the foundation of the Tang Dynasty!"

    After listening to Li Min's explanation, Li Zhi fell silent thoughtfully. Although he still couldn't quite understand some of the joints, he finally realized from the words of Sixth Brother that the terrifying power of the five surnames and seven looks of these aristocratic families, and at the same time he understood  Why would my father spare no effort to attack these wealthy families?

    Seeing Li Zhi meditating like a little adult, Li Min also sighed softly, letting a ten-year-old child understand that these may be a bit cruel, but as a prince, these things he will have to face sooner or later, no matter he  Whether you want to be an emperor or not, you will inevitably have to deal with aristocratic families in the future, and because of their origins, they are naturally on the opposite side. It is not a bad thing to know more about the strength of their opponents.

    "By the way, Ninth Brother, was the whale meat you ate today delicious?" Li Min knew that Li Zhi would not be able to fully understand the meaning of his words in a short period of time, so he should wait until he goes back to think about it slowly.  So he started to change the topic.

    "Huh? Whale meat?" Li Zhi didn't react for a moment. He was stunned for a moment before thinking of the dish made by Zhang Liu. He was a little puzzled and replied with some aftertaste: "It's quite delicious!"

    "Is it really delicious?" A playful smile flashed across Li Min's face.  The large bowl of whale meat just now was all eaten by Li Zhi, but it saved the two children who were left to harm the Zhang Liu family.

    After all, Li Zhi was a child at heart, so his attention was easily diverted by Li Min, and he said with a positive look: "Of course it's delicious! By the way, Sixth Brother, I also want to ask you, what do you think of Zhang Liu's whale meat?"  Is it different from what you brought last time? Although it looks a little different, it tastes pretty good and the fishy smell is much less. Is it the new canned whale meat in Dengzhou? Where can I buy it? "

    Seeing the greedy look on Li Zhi's face, Li Min shook his head sympathetically, patted his shoulder and said, "Ninth brother, do you still remember what I said to you when I showed you how to make ice with saltpeter?  ?"

    "Ice made from saltpeter?" Li Zhi looked reminiscing, but soon thought that he had eaten the ice because he didn't know it was made from saltpeter, and ended up having diarrhea for several days.  At that time, Sixth Brother made sarcastic remarks and told himself not to eat randomly, otherwise big problems would definitely occur.

    Thinking of this, Li Zhi's face turned pale, and he immediately had a bad premonition, and stammered: "Liu Brother Liu, you don't want to tell me that there is something wrong with Zhang Liu's whale meat, do you?"

    "Ahem~, so what It's not Zhang Liu's fault. She also means well, but she doesn't know that it's not real whale meat." Li Min also said a little embarrassed.  He is also responsible for this matter, because the whale meat made by Zhang Liu is actually a kind of canned food produced in Dengzhou. Of course, although this kind of canned food is marked as whale meat, in essence, it is at most  It can only be regarded as a kind of mixed meat.

    "Brother Six, what do you mean, what is not real whale meat?" Seeing Li Min's face, Li Zhi felt even worse.

    (To be continued)

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