Capital Datang

Although Tang Jian's words seemed abrupt, all three people present could understand them.Among them, Fang Xuanling shook his head and smiled wryly after hearing this, while Li Yin smirked, because the article he published in the newspaper caused another great disturbance.

Li Min was also to blame for this incident. In order to commend Qian Gui's active big businessmen and at the same time attract more wealthy big businessmen to buy land bonds, he boldly proposed the concept of Confucian businessmen.

Don't underestimate the power of these two words, what is Confucianism?Confucianism is the basis for the formation of the scholar class and the basis for the scholars to control the state power.And what is the business?Business is a cheap business. A few years ago, businessmen were at the bottom of the political class in the Tang Dynasty. As long as you get involved with businessmen, no matter what position you can sit in in the future, you will be despised by people.

This is Wu Meiniang's father, warrior Yu, who is a typical representative. Although he was named Ying Guogong, he was despised everywhere because he was a timber merchant. After his death, his two sons did not live up to expectations. The mansion has completely declined now, and many people don't even know that there is such a Duke in Datang.

Confucianism represents the highest ruling class, while merchants are the lowest occupations. Although the status of merchants has improved, overall, there is still a huge gap with the scholar class.However, Li Yin was lucky enough to risk the disapproval of the world and put the two characters together, which made countless arrogant scholars feel angry, so they published articles in newspapers, accusing Li Yin of insulting the sages. .Capital Datang 145

Regarding the accusations of the scholars, Li Yin was uncharacteristically.He began to publish articles one after another, and started a debate with the scholars who opposed him.If this kind of thing was put in the past, he probably wouldn't have dared to think about it. After all, how can a person who can't even memorize the Analects be compared with those scholars in writing?

But now it is different. Last time Li Yin set off a vernacular debate, and Datang Daily also launched a vernacular newspaper.There are even many local newspapers that have vernacular sections. With the spread and influence of these newspapers, more and more people no longer reject vernacular.There are even many people who are new to literacy and can only understand vernacular Chinese.

It is because of this that Li Yin dared to boldly post his article to the newspaper.With my own knowledge and point of view of the later generations, I had a verbal battle with those scholars.Although there were many people on the other side, the quarrel was nothing more than one point of view, that is, Li Yin insulted the sages and disrespected the way of Confucius and Mencius.

In this regard, Li Yin took another slant, using Confucius' saying that "there is no class without education" as a weapon, and shouted that although businessmen value profits, if they are taught by the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, they will get rid of all kinds of illegal behaviors in the process of doing business, and at the same time will A gentleman loves money, and he takes it properly as the criterion of conduct.It makes the various behaviors of businessmen more in line with the Confucian standards of conduct. In this way, wouldn't it show the broad mind of Confucianism and better reflect the teachings of the saints to the world.

Not to mention, Li Yin's theory is based on Confucianism.Indeed, many poets and calligraphers have been convinced, and their attitudes have gradually softened, and many people even openly support Li Yin.The reason why it is so easy for these poets and calligraphers to change their attitudes is mainly because Li Yin's strategy is correct, he did not choose to confront the opponent head-on, and he took over Confucian theories.Use Confucianism as your own weapon against Confucianism. No matter which aspect you win, Confucianism will not lose any reputation.

Of course, in such a short period of time, there are still a small number of scholars who support Li Yin, and most of them still hold old ideas. , Even Kong Yingda's gang of stubborn veterans went to the book for several days in a row, participating in Li Min's humiliation of royal demeanor and so on.

If these matters were not suppressed by Li Shimin, and most of the courtiers remained neutral in the face of the 3000 million yuan income, I am afraid that Li Yin would have been punished long ago.

However, this matter is not over yet. Confucian newspapers still criticize Li Yin for raising the matter of Confucian businessmen, and those poets and writers who support Li Yin also publish articles in Datang Daily and Industrial and Commercial Daily. The unscrupulous literati from the two sides are now arguing more and more fiercely, and it is even possible to overshadow the vernacular incident last time.It is precisely because of this that Tang Jian kindly reminded Li Yin to be careful in everything and not to be careless.

Li Min was naturally very grateful for Tang Jian's kindness, and after thanking him, he personally sent the two of them out of the house.Looking at the backs of Tang Jian and Fang Xuanling leaving, Li Yin felt a little emotional.The reason I met Tang Jian was simply that we both love food, and we just eat, drink, and discuss rare delicacies from all over the world, but we don't have a close relationship in other aspects, at most we are friends with wine and meat.

In addition, Tang Jian is usually lazy and lustful, and he gave Li Min the impression that he was actually a white-haired dude, but he didn't expect that at this time, he would think of reminding himself. As for the relationship of the last love, I have a closer relationship with Fang Xuanling than Tang Jian, but Fang Xuanling didn't remind himself from the beginning to the end. Instead, Tang Jian, who is a friend of wine and meat, spoke first.

Of course, Fang Xuanling, as the head of all officials, must have more worries than the heartless Tang Jian, but it is precisely this that makes Li Yin have an extra layer of favor for Tang Jian. He thought that if it would be beneficial in the future, he would definitely go to the Tang Mansion, not to mention that his son was still his brother-in-law.

With the money in hand, Li Shimin's courage immediately strengthened. First, he praised Li Min in the court hall, and then used Gaochang as a vassal to disrespect orders, and sent troops to attack Yanqi without authorization, blocking Datang's trade routes. , Hou Junji was appointed as the general manager of the Jiaohe march, Xue Wanjun was appointed as the deputy general manager, and the generals under his command also included Zhao Yuankai, Ashinasheer and others, who led 10 horsemen, and the affiliated Turkic and Qibi conquests Gaochang.

However, on the day when Hou Junji set off for the expedition, apart from the army, there was also a very large team of merchants who left Chang'an. Such goods, with the army westbound.

On the Goguryeo battlefield, the war involving merchants has already seen the benefits of the Tang army, so as soon as the Goguryeo war ended, the Tang Dynasty immediately promulgated laws to encourage merchants to enter the battlefield. Of course, this time they can enter the battlefield All merchants must be jointly confirmed by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry, and a certificate will be issued, otherwise they will not be eligible to enter the battlefield. This is mainly because they are afraid that the enemy will pretend to be a merchant to spy on the military situation.

It is also worth mentioning that although the accompanying merchants carried all kinds of goods, compared with before, they did not carry much copper coins on them, which greatly reduced the weight of the caravan, and caused this The reason for the result is still thanks to the intervention of Datang Bank.

It turned out that before the departure, I don't know who thought of the solution?These merchants accompanying the army have already deposited all the copper coins they want to bring into the bank, asked the bank to issue them certificates of deposit with different denominations, and then entered the battlefield with these certificates of deposit. When they want to buy spoils from soldiers, they can Directly use this deposit certificate for settlement. Anyway, the soldiers of Datang were the first to recognize the bank, and they were willing to accept this thin piece of paper. It should be the banknotes spontaneously made by the merchants of Datang.

The departure of the army to conquer Gaochang temporarily diverted the attention of many people, which reduced the quarrels about the Confucian merchants in the newspapers a lot, and began to report on the itinerary of the army to conquer the west, as well as some situations of the opponent this time, Gaochang country. Many so-called experts also expressed their views on the role played by the Western Turks in this battle.It's just that these bricklayers are of different levels, and they haven't analyzed any results yet. In the end, they quarreled first.

Seeing this "chaotic" situation, Li Yin went to Li Jing with a cheeky face and asked him to write an article to analyze it. Unexpectedly, the old man was very happy when he heard it, so he wrote an article about his own feelings about the situation without even thinking about it. The views on the war, once the results were published, immediately caused quite a stir. After all, this was the first high-ranking Tang Dynasty official who published an article in a newspaper other than Li Yin, the idle king, and many people could also see that, Wei Gong's analysis of the Gaochang battle that has not yet happened in this article is many times better than those in the newspapers a few days ago.

The army to conquer Gaochang has set off, and there are fewer quarrels about Confucian businessmen in the newspapers. Li Yin is finally relieved, but he knows that now is not the time to rest. Now that Li Shimin has money and people in his hands, if the military academy is built earlier, Datang's army construction can be on the right track sooner.Capital Datang 145

This day, Li Yin entered the palace early in the morning, and went to have breakfast with Concubine Yang first. In another month, the baby in Concubine Yang's belly was about to be born. I want to go to the palace to accompany my mother for a while.

After the morning court, Li Min went straight to the Hall of Liangyi to find Li Shimin. After saluting, he was about to talk about the military academy, but Li Shimin suddenly said: "Liu Lang, you came just in time, let's take a look at this first!"

As Li Shimin said, he handed an approved memorial to Li Yin, but when he took it over and looked at it, he was shocked immediately. Although the content of this memorial is not much, it is extremely bloody, because it is a murder. .

"Father, although these people are hateful, if they killed more than a dozen at once, wouldn't that be too much?" Li Yin asked cautiously.

"Liulang, you are good at everything, even on the battlefield. Although not as good as when you were your father, you still have a bit of courage, but you have to remember that sometimes the court is more cruel than the battlefield. When it is time to kill, You must not be soft!" Li Shimin looked at Li Yin, but said calmly.When he was young, he killed countless people on the battlefield, but now he just killed a few people who deserved to be killed, so naturally he would not soften his heart. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)