Capital Datang

In today's Liangyi Hall, both civil and military personnel are well-attended. Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji sit at the front for the civil officials, and others such as Wei Zheng, Xiao Yu and others are behind. Li Jing is naturally the leader for the generals, but let What surprised Li Yin was that Li Xiaogong was also sitting there, followed by Li Ji, Cheng Yaojin and others. (Baidu search: stay up late novel network, the fastest update when reading novels)

As soon as Li Yin came in, he found that all the people in the hall, regardless of whether they were civil or military, all had serious expressions on their faces. They all stared at their feet without squinting, as if they were studying a rare treasure. No one even came in. Look up.As for Li Shimin who was sitting on it, his face was livid and flushed, and there were memorials all over the place in front of the desk, and there were even traces of being torn. It seemed that he had been very angry just now.

Although he knew that Li Shimin was in a fit of anger, Li Yin still had to bite the bullet and stepped forward, bowing and saluting: "I will see my father!"

Li Shimin, who was sitting with a sullen face, saw Li Yin, and his face recovered a bit, nodded and said: "Liu Lang, you can pick up a few memorials on the ground and have a look!"

Li Yin felt strange, but still picked up a few copies from under his feet as he said.Speaking of which, he really didn't pay attention just now, the number of memorials on the ground is really quite a lot, probably at least two or three hundred.After Li Yin opened the memorials in his hand and looked at them, he found that they were all played on the same day.Capital Datang 128

It has been almost two years since I came to Datang, and Li Yin's level of ancient prose has also improved a lot, and he can roughly understand the contents of these memorials. After reading all the memorials in his hand, Li Yin's mouth also turned pale With a sneer.

These memorials were written by different people, and these people not only had different positions, but also lived in different geographical locations, but the contents of the memorials were similar, nothing more than accusing the development of industry and commerce for hindering local agriculture.That year's grain production was greatly reduced.Therefore, I request the imperial court to restrict industry and commerce and impose heavy taxes on industry and commerce, otherwise this situation will be allowed to continue.I'm afraid it will cause widespread famine and so on.

Obviously, this is what Li Yin has been waiting for for a long time, the official suppression of industry and commerce by the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes.

But when Li Yin looked at the memorials all over the floor.Can't help but take a breath, and finally have an intuitive understanding of the influence of the five surnames and seven wangs in my heart. The Tang Dynasty is not a dynasty of later generations, and the ratio of officials to people is extremely low. It is estimated that there are only more than 1 people, and the number of those who are eligible to send a counter-report here is even rarer.However, the memorials in this place in front of me represent that hundreds of officials were influenced by the five surnames and seven wangs. This ratio is quite astonishing.

Watching Li Yin read the memorial.Then Li Shimin said angrily: "Liulang. Look, there are more than 300 states in the country. Almost every state has people submit memorials, telling me about the harm of industry and commerce, but they don't even mention that the tax revenue of the national treasury has increased several times in the past two years. Is it true? Are they all blind?"

Looking at Li Shimin who was angry and wanted to kill, Li Yin also expressed his understanding. After all, as a generation of emperors, he saw so many officials being controlled by another force, deliberately exaggerating the shortcomings of industry and commerce, but keeping silent about the advantages of industry and commerce. Not to mention, this is what makes Li Shimin most unacceptable.

Seeing the furious Li Shimin, the ministers sitting below looked at each other and lowered their heads wisely. They were all insiders about the suppression of industry and commerce by the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes, and many of them knew It is on the side of industry and commerce, but now that Li Yin is the leader, there is no need for them to stand out.

Just when Li Yin wanted to persuade Li Shimin to calm down, anyway, he had already told Li Shimin the way to deal with it. As long as he formally issued an order, everything would go according to plan.But at this moment, one of the courtiers below suddenly came out and said loudly: "Your Highness, although these people were organized to put pressure on the court, what they said was not unreasonable. Agriculture is the foundation of a country. If agriculture is affected, I am afraid that the country will also be shaken!"

Dare to say such a thing at this time, there is probably no other person in the entire Tang Dynasty except Wei Zheng.Speaking of which, Wei Zheng is also an orthodox Confucian scholar. In his opinion, agriculture is far more important than those opportunistic industries and commerce. Therefore, no matter how much tax revenues commerce and industry bring to Datang, if it affects the fundamentals of agriculture, it must be suppressed.

Li Shimin was in a fit of anger, and immediately wanted to explode when he heard Wei Zheng's words, but Li Min said first: "What Doctor Wei said is reasonable. Agriculture is indeed the foundation of a country, but industry and commerce are also the strategy for a country to be rich. If China's development affects agriculture, it will treat industry and commerce as a scourge and vigorously suppress them!"

Although Wei Zheng had a good impression of Li Yin, he didn't have the slightest sympathy to say when it comes to such important national affairs, so he asked without compromise: "Oh, then I would like to ask Your Highness, if you don't suppress industry and commerce, how can you Let the farmers who abandoned farming work return to the land again?"

Wei Zheng only had traditional agriculture in his mind, and he never thought of other ways at all.What Li Yin was waiting for was the other party's words, so in front of civil and military officials, he told all the three strategies proposed by Wang An, as well as the Champa rice he had prepared.In fact, after the meeting between him and Cheng Huailiang yesterday, these four coping methods have already been circulated among the insiders. For example, Li Shimin and most of the civil and military officials present have known it in advance, so they didn't feel the slightest surprise at all.

As an advising doctor, Wei Zheng doesn't have much contact with people, and his family style is strict, and he has never had anything to do with Li Yin's business interests, so he didn't know about it in advance.Therefore, when he heard these four solutions to agricultural problems for the first time, he was greatly admired. After all, he was not right about people. As long as the food problem was solved, he still held a relatively open-minded attitude towards industries and commerce that could increase tax revenue. .

Most of the people in the court were related to Li Yin's interests, and Li Shimin was very annoyed by the practice of the Five Surnames and Seven Wangs, so the four suggestions put forward by Li Yin were immediately approved, although some of them came from big families such as the Five Surnames and Seven Wangs. Officials obstructed, but their small voices of opposition were quickly drowned out by the voices of approval around them.

Of course, what Li Yin put forward was only a rough suggestion. The detailed implementation rules will be perfected by ministers like Fang Xuanling. Li Yin can't help at all with this, so he closed it wisely. Mouth, stand aside and be an obedient listener.

I saw a group of civil servants headed by Fang Xuanling gathered together, discussing one by one, analyzing the difficulties that may be encountered in the implementation of the four suggestions one by one, and then pooling the wisdom of everyone to come up with a solution road.I don't know how long it took, but four detailed implementation plans were born before Li Yin's eyes. However, these four plans still required the cooperation of Li Yin. To be precise, it should be the cooperation of Li Yin's newly founded Datang Daily.

After everything was discussed properly, Li Shimin asked the civil and military officials to step down, but he kept Li Yin, mainly because he wanted to ask about the newspaper.At the beginning, Li Yin told Li Shimin two countermeasures against the Five Surnames and Seven Prestige, one of which was to use the newspaper as a tool of public opinion as a weapon to attack the prestige and influence of those aristocratic families.However, in order to achieve this, newspapers must be distributed all over the country. If it is only done by the imperial court, it is estimated that they can only pay money to them, and the effect may not be good, so Li Yin took this matter in himself.

"Father, don't worry, the newspaper is just getting started. Chang'an has already published a few issues, and the branch in Luoyang is also ready, and it will be published at the same time as Chang'an. As for the information transmission, the flying slaves are used, although There will be some delay, but it is also very fast, as for branches in Taiyuan and other big cities, they are also under preparation!" Li Yin reported the progress of the newspaper to Li Shimin.

"Liulang, I heard that every time you sell a newspaper, you lose a little money. The more newspapers you sell, the more you lose. Is that true?" Li Shimin asked worriedly.Capital Datang 128

Li Yin smiled when he heard this, and said, "I would like to report to my father, it is indeed the case. If you calculate it, the newspaper will lose a penny for every two newspapers sold on average." Although the price of one penny for a newspaper is enough It is high, but in terms of the cost of newspapers, it is still a loss.

"Liulang, I know you are good at collecting money, but if you lose money at this rate, I'm afraid it's not the way to go. Otherwise, I'd better ask the treasury to allocate a part of the money to support the newspaper industry, right?" Li Shimin hesitated, and finally spoke. Said.

"Thank you, Father, for your kindness, but newspapers can actually be profitable, and the more we sell now, the more we can earn in the future, so you don't have to worry about this, Father." Li Yin smiled. Said.

Although businessmen in this era already have the concept of advertising, for example, when a new store opens, the owner will hire a group of idlers to promote his store.And when the newspaper's circulation reaches a certain level and has enough influence, Li Yin will launch an advertising space business on the newspaper, which will definitely attract many discerning businessmen to place advertisements on it.

Li Shimin finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Li Yin's newspaper could make a profit. Although the revenue of the treasury has increased several times now, most of the reserves of the treasury have been consumed just after the Goguryeo war. A troublesome matter was before his eyes, and it might even trigger a new round of war. Although the opponent this time is not as good as Goguryeo, it should not be underestimated. The remaining reserves of the national treasury alone may not be able to support this war at all. .

Li Yin saw Li Shimin heaved a sigh of relief after hearing what he said, but his brows were still tightly frowned, it seemed that there was something difficult, and he was curious, so he asked, "Father, what's on your mind? "