Man Tanghong

Seeing that the military was firmly on Li Yuanji's side, the spokespersons of many aristocratic families in the court could not say anything more about Li Yuanji's profit from water transportation.

After all, although their family background is profound, if they really make a move, they will not be opponents of the military at all.

The military does not need to send too many soldiers and horses, it only needs to send a school of soldiers and horses to wipe out their homes.

Li Yuanji saw that the spokespersons of the wealthy families stopped talking, nodded slowly and said: "It seems that all the ministers agree with me, so it's settled. In the future, whoever wants to do business by water transport or go to sea To do business, you must pay for the dredging of water transportation, otherwise, you will not be able to travel on big rivers or seas.”

"Well..."

The spokespersons of the wealthy families reluctantly agreed.

Li Shentong laughed loudly and said: "I still have more than a dozen fishing boats in my hand. I am going to do fish selling business in the water transportation. I am going to take out [-] guan to dredge the water transportation. I don't know if His Highness will allow it."

Li Shentong is taking the opportunity to beat the dog in the water, and he is also taking the opportunity to increase the price of dredging water transportation.

Just think about it, as a fish dealer, he has to pay [-] yuan to buy the right to use water transportation. If others do other businesses, wouldn't they have to pay more.

Such as cloth, porcelain, leather goods, jewelry, jade, medicinal materials, wouldn't that have to pay 40 to [-] guan, or even more? !
He is a county king, and he is also a county king in power. How can ordinary people change the tune?
The spokespersons of the wealthy families suddenly felt mournful.

Li Gang, Wei Zheng and a group of courtiers who cared about the common people all frowned.

As a superior, competing for profits with the people, and monopolizing a fairly important transportation industry, this is not a good thing for the people, and it may even develop into a government-run industry that exploits the people.

Therefore, after hesitating again and again, Wei Zheng slowly cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness, you use the money from the family to clear water transportation, and use the water transportation to make profit and reduce the consumption of the national treasury, it is understandable.

It's just that your Highness, you have banned all ships except official ships from passing through the water transport, which is very detrimental to the people.

Some people who rely on fishing for food may not be able to live in the future. "

Li Yuanji also thought of this, but he didn't expect Wei Zheng to say it in advance, so he smiled immediately: "Wei Qing, don't worry, I just said that merchant ships are not allowed to pass through water transport, let alone go to sea, but I didn't say that fishing boats are not allowed. Down the river for fishing.

I will tell the soldiers patrolling the water transport to let them release the fishing boats.

When necessary, fishermen can also seek shelter from patrolling soldiers. "

For example, if a river floods, or is robbed by water bandits, or is in a shipwreck, you can seek shelter from the Tang's navy.

This is the most basic operation, and it is also the most basic duty of soldiers.

As a soldier of the Tang Dynasty, when he saw the people of the Tang Dynasty suffering, he should stand up.

Specifically, Li Yuanji will ask Li Xiaogong and Samurai Yi to draft a charter and issue it later.

The current navy of the Tang Dynasty was established on the basis of the navy left over from the former Sui Dynasty and the navy founded by Li Xiaogong in Jingzhou.

Then it has to be reorganized and refined again.

In the eyes of the vast majority of people in the Tang Dynasty, the navy is just that, except that it can play some role in specific places, it is of little use in other places at all.

But Li Yuanji knew that the navy had a lot to do. After it was done well, it would not only be able to navigate the rivers and lakes in the Tang Dynasty, but also the sea.

In this era when the sea is still in an unknown territory, if Datang can form an ocean-going fleet, then Datang is qualified to explore the world and dictate to any regime in the world.

However, there is still a long way to go to form an ocean-going fleet.

Datang needs to lay a solid foundation before it can launch the ocean-going industry and start a new journey in the ocean.

A thousand miles begins with a single step.

Datang's navy is the foundation of all this.

Wei Zheng didn't know the grand goal in Li Yuanji's heart. After hearing that Li Yuanji would not ban fishing, and would even provide fishermen with some protection, he bowed his hands and sat down again.

Li Gang stroked his beard and said hesitantly: "What about the small merchants and hawkers in various places? If they didn't communicate with each other, the commercial tax of Datang would probably be reduced by more than half."

What Li Gang valued was business tax, not the life and death of small merchants and peddlers.

In Li Gang's eyes, scholars, farmers, industry, commerce, and commerce are industries that can only be run by low-level people, and they are not worthy of attention.

If the merchants in the commerce can give up the commerce and go to farm, then there will be more farmers in the Tang Dynasty.

In his opinion, this is definitely a good thing.

The thinking of most of the veteran officials in the court is also similar to that of Li Gang.

Because in the eyes of all of them, agriculture is more important than business, and its status is higher than that of business, and agriculture has contributed more to Datang than business, so they all support the matter of going to business to promote agriculture.

The only thing they worry about is that after the merchants are unable to do business, the commercial tax will decline accordingly.

Although the commercial tax in Datang is not high, and the commercial tax only accounts for three-tenths of the tax in Datang, this three-tenth tax is enough for the court to do many good things that benefit the country and the people.

As a later generation, Li Yuanji's thinking is naturally different from theirs. He also finds it funny that Li Gang pays more attention to commercial taxes than merchants. However, facing Li Gang's question, he patiently answered: "Li Gong , I just do not allow merchant ships to pass through, but I did not say that their goods are not allowed to pass through, let alone that they are not allowed to trade.

In the future, I will set up wharves along various water transportation routes such as Chang'an, Luoyang, Dizhou, and Yangzhou, and assign several batches of ships to help merchants transport goods in the name of official ships. Merchants only need to pay a certain amount of freight. "

Without waiting for Li Gang to ask again, Li Yuanji continued: "Don't worry, Mr. Li, I will order the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the person in charge of water transportation to negotiate the freight. If different freights are given for different goods, I will never let it change. It has become an evil policy of seeking people's fat and people's anointing."

Basically, when transporting a series of goods such as food that are beneficial to Datang and various places in Datang, the price can be appropriately reduced, or even exempted.

When transporting silk, jewels and jade, precious medicinal materials, and high-quality furs, you can charge more, or even impose heavy taxes.

Anyway, these things will end up in the hands of poor people, and eventually they will be sold to aristocratic families, or rich people with family status. It is absolutely not bad to make money from them.

There is a saying that when luxury goods are collected, they will never be available to the poor, because the poor have no access to luxury goods.

"Since that's the case, the minister has nothing to say."

When Li Gang learned that Li Yuanji did not take the opportunity to harm the people and block the people's livelihood, he sat down again and stopped talking.

Li Yuanji said: "Then this matter is settled. Apart from this matter, I am also planning to set up martial arts in each way, so that the soldiers of each team leader and above can study in it."

When the civil and military officials in the Tai Chi Hall heard this, they were in an uproar.

There is no precedent for this, this, this.

Doing this is a bit of digging the foundation of the general's family.

These military officials failed to agree.

For a moment, the civil servants all saw the joke of the military minister.

It was the military officials who watched their jokes just now, and now it's finally their turn to watch the military officials' jokes. They all looked gloating and couldn't hide it at all.

Li Shentong's expression changed slightly, he looked at Li Yuanji and said, "I don't know what the purpose of King Yong's establishment of martial arts is?"

Li Yuanji sighed and said, "Of course the purpose is to teach the illiterate generals in the army to read."

Speaking of this, Li Yuanji looked at Li Shentong, Su Dingfang, Luo Shixin, Xie Shufang and others, and said with a long sigh: "In the process of leading troops in battle, have you ever encountered illiterate generals who don't know you Will the orders conveyed so that the fighter planes be delayed, and finally lead to the failure of the battle?"

Li Shentong stopped talking for a while.

Su Dingfang, Luo Shixin, Xie Shufang and others looked hesitant.

They have really encountered this kind of thing, and they have encountered many times.

Let’s take the previous abrupt battle as an example. Su Dingfang almost bit Xieli’s tail several times in the process of chasing Xieli. The most successful one was because a team under him was illiterate. He didn't understand his order, so that he didn't plug the gap well, and let Xieli run away.

If the team could read and understand his orders, this wouldn't have happened.

Maybe Xieli has been caught by now, and he is keeping Tuli company.

This kind of thing has always been a drawback in the military.

It's just that the strategy of war, the essentials of leading an army, and all kinds of martial arts are almost all things passed down from generation to generation by the general's family, and it is impossible to pass them on to outsiders easily.

So even though they knew there was a problem in the military and knew how to solve it, no one stood up to solve it.

Because no one is willing to pass on to outsiders what they depend on for survival, let alone teach a large group of people to grab their jobs.

More importantly, a stable dynasty does not need too many generals who can lead troops to fight.

Human desires are often higher than abilities.

When a person's ability is far higher than that of ordinary people, he no longer wants to be an ordinary person willingly.

Driven by desire, he will ask for more.

Therefore, when many people learn the ability to lead troops and fight in battle, they will involuntarily think about showing off their strengths and making contributions.

When a dynasty is stable, they become a source of chaos for a dynasty.

Therefore, throughout the dynasties, in addition to the generals and families adhering to the essentials of the art of war, those in power also deliberately avoided spreading the essentials of the art of war.

Therefore, Li Shentong and others knew the benefits of Li Yuanji's plan to set up martial arts in various ways, but they couldn't understand and didn't agree.