Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 303 Tea Road
Hearing Xun You's words for the first time, these young courtiers were still a little confused. Jia Xu shook his head. Anyway, he was not going to talk too much, just take care of himself. Unlike him, Xun You told them a lot thing.

When the emperor came, all the officials paid homage, Wang Fu stood at the head, and all the officials gritted their teeth.

Looking at these angry courtiers, the emperor felt a little helpless, so he had to go through the process first, and after he asked for the King's Day letter, he began to formally discuss politics. After Xun You's teaching, those young courtiers also hurriedly followed behind many ministers, Nothing as interesting as Jia Xu happened, and the emperor looked at these new faces seriously.

Although today's government is extremely complicated, it can be clearly divided into two camps. One side invites Cook Wang Jiexin, headed by Yuan Feng. After a long period of training, Yuan Feng's ability is getting better and better. He is strong, not to mention that he is the only minister in the court who can convince both the aristocratic family and the poor family. He has no selfishness, and the emperor is willing to reuse him.

The other party is Wang Fu, and he is the only one in this party.

Originally, there was Wen Renxi supporting him, but after the assessment, the two parted ways, and now they have become rivals. Every time he asked for a letter from the king, Wen Renxi worked harder than Yuan Feng, which made him almost To replace Yuan Feng's position and become the No. 1 in the fight against traitors in the court, there is also Taiwei Zhang Wen, who was originally neutral and did not crusade against Wang Fu.

But Wang Fu vetoed Zhang Wen's suggestion of attacking the Southwest, and scolded him, which made Zhang Wen fall to the other side. Similar to Jia Xu, Jia Xu was low-key, Not daring to support Wang Fu alone anymore, quietly became one of the group of people who opposed Wang Fu, and moved extremely quickly.

"Your Majesty, the minister has played!"

Wang Fu frowned and said: "One of them is the matter of playing cotton. This time, I personally went to Liangzhou and other places in the Western Regions to investigate. Sure enough, cotton can be cultivated in Western Regions and other places, but the people don't want to." There are three types of cotton that are cultivated, the most, the whole body is white, like snow, the second is dark yellow, and several places in Liangzhou are just like this dark yellow, and the last is gray cotton, which is not suitable for weaving."

"Cotton is the most suitable in the Western Regions, and many of the finished products are white cotton!"

"I suggest that the military colonies guarding the Western Regions be able to cultivate cotton on a large scale for winter use. In addition, the people in Liangzhou are allowed to cultivate and merchants are allowed to transport cotton to the surrounding areas for sale. In this way, with benefits, they can be exchanged for food. , the people will be willing to farm. As for the merchants, they cannot be allowed to make huge profits and oppress the people affected by the disaster in the frontier fortress. The imperial court can set a price."

After Wang Fu finished talking about some things he was thinking, he heard Yuan Feng stand up and said, "No, how can a temple compete with the people for profit and help merchants, it's not proper!"

After he finished speaking, most of the ministers nodded in agreement, only Wen Renxi sat quietly, frowning, and he seemed to get up to refute Wang Fu at this moment, cursed, and even directly attacked, but, his This policy seems to be able to bring huge profits to the national treasury. Think about the fact that these merchants have to transport a large amount of cotton to various places, just because of the vehicle and boat tax they pass through the canal and the road.
Wen Renxi was extremely entangled in his heart. In the end, his concern for the treasury of the Han Dynasty overcame his dislike for Wang Fu. He got up and said: "Your Majesty, the people in You, He, Xin, He, Liang and other states have suffered from disasters for a long time. , if cotton can suppress the disaster, not to mention supporting the merchants, even if I let the minister personally transport the cotton to sell, the minister is willing!"

Listening to his righteous words, Baiguan thought to himself, selling cotton can make money, of course you are willing!
The ministers started arguing about it. Yuan Feng and others naturally thought that if merchants were allowed to sell cotton, the price of cotton would increase, making the border residents unable to buy it, and the merchants would make a lot of money, especially when there was a disaster. These merchants don't care about the suffering of the people, they just keep driving up prices, and even hide a large amount of supplies.

However, Wang Fu still insisted on controlling the prices of these merchants to suppress the occurrence of such a situation. In addition, he still wanted to make cotton able to create profits, so that the common people would go to farm, otherwise, they would not be able to plant cotton. These inedible crops, fierce disputes between the two sides, the final choice is still in the hands of the emperor.

"In this matter, follow what Wang Jun said. However, Yuan Jun, you are responsible for monitoring these merchants. If anyone dares to make huge profits, they will be punished!" The emperor ordered, and since the emperor has made a decision, the officials will no longer argue. Yes, nod, and keep it in mind.

"Your Majesty, the other thing is that the ministers of Yizhou went to the Western Regions this time and found that merchants in foreign regions prefer to drink tea, especially the tea from Yizhou, Jingzhou, and Yangzhou is greatly loved by these foreign businessmen. , I thought about it for a long time before I learned that people from outside regions eat more meat and less vegetarian food, so most of their intestines and stomachs are blocked, and they suffer from it."

"The tea drinker can make it laxative"

"Wang Fu!" Before he could finish speaking, a minister interrupted him angrily, saying: "Wang Jiexin, you bastard, in the temple, before the emperor, how can you say such filthy words? Your Majesty, please Cooking King's Day letter!"

"Shut up!" Wen Renxi looked at him and cursed angrily, raised his head again, looked at Wang Fu eagerly, and asked, "What does Wang Jun mean, is that they need tea very much? If we start the tea trade with foreign countries"

"That's what I mean. If Yizhou is ordered to grow tea on a large scale, and then transport it to Liangzhou, and then dispatch Han merchants to sell it to the outside world, in exchange for gold, slaves, salt and iron, and even cotton. Strange things." Wang Fu said, he was about to open up the big man's foreign trade again, he squinted his eyes, and said: "Besides the big man, there is Guishuang, and outside of Guishuang, there are strange things in the rest of the world, I don't know How many!"

Wen Renxi nodded hurriedly and said, "Your Majesty, what Wang Jun said is absolutely true!"

"Before, he started foreign trade in Yangzhou, and every year he exchanged a large amount of gold and silver for the big man, which was stored in the treasury. Within three years, he even bought nearly [-] slaves. Now he is using it to develop Yangzhou, build Chidao and In addition, Xing Ziang also proposed many times that he wants to land in Yizhou, develop it, and then use this place as a starting point to open up overseas."

"If we can make Liangzhou a commercial channel to the outside world, Liangzhou will definitely be as prosperous as Yangzhou. Perhaps, even more prosperous, the business travelers of the Han Dynasty can go anywhere and exchange for a lot of material and money." Wenren Xi spoke slowly, in terms of economy, Wang Fu could not say that he had heard of Xi, so he listened quietly to his words.

After Wen Renxi finished speaking, he solemnly bowed to the emperor, and then said: "Your Majesty, this matter. I would like to do it myself. If it fails, please behead Wang Jiexin!"

Wang Fu, who was listening carefully to his words, was suddenly taken aback.

"kindness?"

(End of this chapter)