Zhenguan Wenzong System

Chapter 114

"Chen Yan said: Heaven will assign great responsibility to people, and Sri Lankan people will always be tempered. Heaven will prosper the country, and Sri Lanka will first encounter chaos. But today, the wolves are going north, and the Rong and Di are coming. It's a sign. Before there was the victory of Jingzhou, and later there was the ambition of the court. The Turks are so powerful, how can I be insignificant? I heard that Chen Bing was in the Weishui River, and Ransi sent an envoy to Chang'an. Yelang's trip, the meaning of worship. The minister is invincible Rejoicing. The saint is newly ascended, and the Wei River is stained with blood. It is not a pity. However, Nabai will give him a name, and he will give him gifts when he asks for peace. Many courtiers give him gold, silver, silk, food and grass, and ask him to retreat quickly. , I thought it was absurd.

Those who have gold, silver, grain and grass, the lack of Rong and Di, are also the lack of us.Gold and silver things are taken from deep mountains and created in the dark, and they have their own definite numbers.There are many people who are given to Rong and Di, but few are available to my court.Grain and grass are the foundation of life, and the abundance of various treasuries is also worrying about the weather.There are many people in Rong and Di, but few people in my life can eat.

Those who want to give gifts without harming their own country are salt.The benefit of salt and iron is to enrich the treasury, but it also has the ability to weaken the enemy.We are cheap, Rong Di is expensive.However, the matter of salt and iron is banned by the country, and desperadoes also seek their own interests.I gave Rong Di gold and silver, and he sold Rong Di with salt and iron.I give gold and silver for many, and he sells salt and iron for many.Benefiting from Rongdi, profiting from the national calamity, being banned for a long time is hard to get rid of, and being harsh and useless.

Now we give salt as a gift more than gold and silver.Compared to China, a thousand green clams are exchanged for a hundred catties; compared to Rongdi, a hundred thousand green clams are exchanged for a hundred catties.Its advantages and disadvantages are clear at a glance.Domestically sell salt and iron in exchange for gold and silver, and later sell them to Rong and Di. It is better to save their waste, and directly sell green salt, save their material resources, and cut off the root of their lives.

Bold words, family opinion.Only be diligent and diligent, and wish the king and the country peace.Chen Yan bows again. "

In the early morning of the next day, Li Shimin made an exception and let Luo Yan, a seventh-rank official, enter the Chengde Palace. After discussing with the courtiers how to negotiate peace with the Turks.After discussing the reward, Li Shimin signaled Luo Yan to submit his memorial.

Luo Yan, who was at the end of the line, came out now, and after bowing and saluting, he handed over his memorial.

The old team of Prince Qin's Mansion was naturally calm and calm, waiting to hear what Luo Yan had to say about using salt as a reward.But the other courtiers don't know, Luo Yan's official uniform is a seventh-rank official, because Luo Yan has always kept a low profile, there are many people who don't know him yet, and now they start discussing in private.

"Why did you let such a young man come up to participate in the court meeting? Your Majesty is really violating the etiquette." This is what a speech officer said. Anyway, he is just talking about it, as long as he catches something that is not in line , just to make a big noise.

"Brother, please save yourself. Don't look at this young man with a weak face. This is the ruthless man who killed King Qi. I don't know what happened inside. I haven't received the reward from His Majesty yet, but he can participate in the court meeting. That’s what happened in the past few months. I think you’d better not cause trouble.” There was someone beside him who knew Luo Yan, so he reminded him immediately.

"Extremely, extremely. I thought that this person committed something and was left out by His Majesty. Looking at the situation today, I am afraid that Jane is in the heart of the emperor. I am afraid that she will fly to the sky in the future. Your Excellency, it is better not to be in trouble." Although the officials said that they were responsible for monitoring every word and deed from the emperor down to the courtiers, and that they might offend many people, they still had a good relationship, so they came out to remind them at this moment.

The speaker was discouraged, and immediately thanked the two of them.

After Li Shimin read Luo Yan's memorial, he was taken by the servant to read it to the whole court.

After hearing this, it exploded.Luo Yan's courage was too great, and he directly tore open the things that were prohibited from being sold to the Turks.This is not acceptable.Some people in the court were purely thinking that Luo Yan's proposal would shake the foundation of the country, while others thought that the interests they represented would be damaged. So at this time, the two kinds of people opposed together, and the court immediately caused a commotion with the vegetable market. There is no difference.

Fortunately, there were special officials to maintain the order in the court, and after a few quiet shouts, these people stopped making noise, and only started to criticize Luo Yan one by one.

"Your Majesty, don't listen to this Zhuzi's words of harming the country. Salt and iron are the foundation of the country. If it is given to the Turks, it will be an enemy." Luo Yan, an official surnamed Song, did not know him, but he listened to this tone , Luo Yan was also a little upset.At this time, although there is not as rich swearing language as later generations, the swearing words are also divided into levels.As soon as this sentence came out, it was obviously an infinite contempt for Luo Yan.

That's not to say, something more ruthless came out. The surname Wang said: "Your Majesty, don't listen to the words that are wrong to the country, and take down the traitor who is wrong to the country, and there will be strict torture. The minister thinks that this dog must be the one who received it." For the benefit of that Rongdi, I specially spoke to Rongdi."

This is definitely a ruthless person, wanting to put Luo Yan to death as soon as he makes a move.

This is unbearable. Whenever Luo Yan thinks about this Wang, he thinks of some bad memories, so at this time, regardless of some people who want to jump out and object, he immediately said to Jishou: "Your Majesty, I have a few questions for you. Is it okay to ask this one?"

Li Shimin originally agreed to use green salt as a reward, so at this time, he was naturally thinking about how Luo Yan could win back the battle, so seeing Luo Yan's actions at this moment, he naturally agreed.

"May I ask where your hometown is?" Luo Yan asked some irrelevant questions.

"I'm from the Wang family in Taiyuan. Don't ask these irrelevant questions, Lizi." The old gentleman had a displeased look on his face.Hearing this answer, Luo Yan knew it in his heart.Taiyuan Wang family, hehe, as a new aristocratic family, it's no wonder that this guy hasn't done any dirty things secretly.

Taiyuan belongs to Bingzhou, next to the prairie.As an aristocratic family rising in Taiyuan, which one has no secret deal with the Turks.Trafficking in salt and iron, hiring Turkic people to suppress opponents, and supporting the bandits, the Taiyuan Wang family did a lot of these things. The land in Taiyuan has been harassed by Turks every year. If there is no trick, it will be strange to create a family.

With the bottom line in his mind, Luo Yan naturally had the confidence to refute: "Dare to ask, where did the Turks come from to harass them every year?"

The official surnamed Wang looked disdainful: "Naturally, they came here to loot everywhere. Don't you think it's naive to ask such questions."

"The Turkic people have been defeated by me in successive years of wars. Why do they still have excellent soldiers every time? Does the Turkic understand my art of fine iron smelting?" Luo Yan was merciless at this moment. How can I bear it if I am dying.A series of harsh questions not only stopped this person, but also blocked the mouths of many people.

What is the reason here, everyone actually knows it well, but no one is willing to lift the lid.Luo Yan has seen exactly this point, and I will not expose it. If you dare to object, then you will face yourself.In this way, before the issue of salt is discussed, the matter of iron has stumped these people.

"I banned the sale of Turkic salt and iron, but now it seems that the Turkic people are not weak. Why? Could it be that the vast Chilechuan has become a salt field, so that millions of Turkic people have green salt? "After some questioning, these people were stopped.You say I am wronging the country, okay, then I am not wronging the country, how did people get these things?
After washing off the black spots on his body, Luo Yan said: "Your Majesty, let me tell you. Since the success of sea salt drying, the domestic production of blue salt has increased a lot, which can fully meet the needs of the people. The extra part, It must be sold to the Western Regions and other places with the help of Hu merchants. The material resources are wasted and the income is very small. Besides, the green salt was originally intended to fill the treasury and exchange it for gold and silver. Rare, save money, get the best of both worlds.”

Li Shimin pretended to meditate for a while, but in fact he was giving the courtiers time to think about Luo Yan's words.After a while, the courtiers who opposed it were much less, so Li Shimin took the opportunity to make a decision to offset a large amount of money and food with green salt.

When he retired from the imperial court, Li Shimin left behind Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, eldest grandson Wuji, and Luo Yan to discuss meeting Jieli in Weishui the next day.

Yu Chigong is about to arrive, Li Shimin has arranged these things for the remaining troops, and Du Ruhui, the minister of the Ministry of War, has made arrangements. Tonight, all the troops in Chang'an will go to Weishui River, and at the same time, they will step up inspections in various places.

Seeing that all the arrangements had been made, Li Shimin nodded in satisfaction, and motioned for everyone to retreat.

But Luo Yan spoke again at this time, and all the people present were Li Shimin's loyalists, and they were also the top few people in the think tank, so Luo Yan spoke out about the overproduction of green salt.

"Your Majesty, please wait, I have something else to do, so I will take this opportunity to talk about it." Luo Yan stabilized the few people: "I'm afraid something will go wrong with the Qingyan matter."

Li Shimin was in a hurry, thinking that there was a problem with Turkic Qingyan: "What's going on, tell me quickly."

"There is too much green salt in stock and production." Roja didn't mind letting Li Shimin relax at this time, so Mance said methodically.

This time, these people were confused. Wouldn't it be a good thing to have too much green salt? Why did Luo Yan say something would happen instead? "What's going on, isn't this a good thing?"

"Now is not the time to hide wealth from the people. There is too much green salt, the price of salt will fall, the tax will decrease accordingly, and the national treasury will be short-lived. Once there are no other things, the time will be stretched." No matter what time the country is for the market It is in the position of macro-control, so the simple overproduction of green salt will inevitably lead to a series of bad consequences, Luo Yan has to explain in advance.

Maybe Fang Xuanling and the others don't know what the reason for the drop in salt prices is, because the output of green salt has been in short supply before.But they have seen the price of food fall before. Although the social status of merchants is not high, the rulers do not understand economics.There have been turmoil caused by falling food prices in all dynasties, so there have been minimum standards for food prices in all dynasties.

Food is like this, will Qingyan be an exception?

"What do you want to do?" As the first person to ask this question, Li Shimin naturally threw the question to Luo Yan.

"Taking advantage of part of the supply to the Turks, the inventory was consumed, and now we are stepping up ties with the Western Regions to sell the excess green salt to other places. In the past few years, various places have focused on water conservancy construction to minimize the impact of drought and flood disasters. At that time, we will wait for taxes The source is stable, and then gradually adjust the salt price and output, and finally the price will not change, so that there will be no impact.” Luo Yan can’t curb the output, after all, he can still make some money by exporting, so he just said gradually control .

After pondering for a while, Li Shimin said: "I will pay attention to this matter, and we will discuss it carefully later. During this period, we will temporarily slow down the output of sea salt, and it will take a while."

Feeling that Li Shimin's method is indeed more suitable for the current situation, everyone nodded and then dispersed.

　Thank you Bai Niaofei, Returning to the Sun with a Spear to Turn the Tide, Bin Lin, Little Shutong Also Knows the King, Gargamel Jack, 0001 Chen Shuyou, Jiang Langshan Xia Dachenzi, An Leier's younger brother, Xianer Yajing for their rewards.Sorry for the late update, I took a lot of time to pretend to be ancient in the previous few sentences, I am still secretly coding, the speed is a bit slow, I have been waiting for a long time.

　　
　
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