Zhenguan Leisurely King

Chapter 178
"Your Majesty, absolutely not. If all the ministers here go into business, compete with other merchants for customers, or sell inferior products to the people, the people will not dare to quarrel with them after they learn about the competition, and finally form an official business relationship. Collusion, causing public grievances, Your Majesty!" Wei Zheng knelt down as he spoke, this is his usual practice, kowtow if he can't kowtow, if he can't do kowtow, he will remonstrate to death.

Li Er was silent. What Wei Zheng said was probably true, but he also knew that although the various ministers were not involved in any business, their family members, relatives, and even their servants were doing business.

On the surface, everyone is in charge of their own affairs. In fact, the collusion between the government and businessmen has been completed. Li Er didn't go to ask, because there are too many, and it will affect the whole body. What's more, there is no legal basis, and people cannot be arrested at will.

Wang Ping'an and the big guys didn't expect that Wei Zheng would say something about collusion between officials and businessmen, which would offend all officials in the world.

Wang Pingan's mind was spinning rapidly. He knew that collusion between government and businessmen was a felony in feudal society, and he had to find a way to explain it.

"Yes." Wang Ping'an had an idea, and said, "Your Majesty, what Lord Wei said is right, don't be afraid of [-], just in case."

All the ministers, including Li Er, looked at Wang Ping'an in disbelief, but they didn't expect Wang Ping'an to admit defeat just like that.

Just listen to Wang Pingan continue to say: "Your Majesty, the collusion between officials and businessmen is indeed hateful, but the cooperation between officials and businessmen is different. The imperial court can formulate a commercial law to formulate some rules for official-business cooperation. This will not only prevent official corruption, but also promote economic development. , circulation of goods, etc.”

Wang Ping'an simply said a few words and turned the collusion between government and businessmen into government-business cooperation. He also talked about two benefits. There is one benefit that Li Er has to pay attention to, and that is corruption. Then the country began to be corrupted.

"Government-business cooperation, government-business cooperation." Li Er and the ministers recited silently several times in their hearts. They felt that they had found a way, a way to make the country stronger.

Li Er asked: "Ping An, tell me, how to cooperate with government and business?"

In fact, Li Er didn't say anything, that is, he doesn't care about his minister opening a shop to do business, but he can't say it, once he says it, he knows everything, you have no secrets, although they know it, but once If you say it, it's like rubbing the window paper.

"Your Majesty, the most important thing is the imperial court's policy. How much is the support for merchants? What about the policies for the shops opened by the government? Second, tax the people one out of ten.

For example, Weichen develops a commercial plaza. There are hundreds of stores in the plaza. The common people have the first right of purchase, and the people of the imperial court can only buy later.

Another example is that some technologies of the imperial court cannot be known by the common people, but can be sold to the common people. At this time, the merchants of the imperial court can set up a store to sell this product, such as cement. "Wang Pingan talked a lot, and his saliva was almost dry. I hope Li Er and those big guys can understand.

"Your Majesty, I feel that the government-business cooperation can indeed be tried, so I will use the commercial square of Flying Tiger General Wang Ping'an as an experiment to determine whether the government-business cooperation will become a government-business collusion." Du Ruhui stood up and said.

"Quasi-playing." Sitting in the first seat, Li Er yelled loudly. In fact, he also wanted to know how much benefit the country would benefit from the government-business cooperation.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Wang Ping'an quickly knelt down and continued, "Can I talk to the adults about the cooperation with the commercial plaza?"

"Yes, I also want to know whether what you are talking about will harm the interests of other businessmen." Li Er replied with interest.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Wang Ping'an turned his head and said to his grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others: "My lords, you are both Ping'an's superiors and Ping'an's elders. Today, Ping'an will talk to you about business in His Majesty's imperial study. The size of the square."

"Everyone knows that there is a lot of wasteland in the south of Chang'an City. The land there is barren and cannot grow food, so it has been abandoned."

"The old man knows there. It was used by the former Prime Minister of the Sui Dynasty, Yu Wenhua, to garrison troops. It was abandoned in my Tang Dynasty. It is a big place and the transportation is convenient, but there is no city wall to guard it. Are you going to build a commercial square there? ?” Changsun Wuji said.

Wang Ping'an nodded and said: "Exactly, Ping'an just doesn't want a city wall. My commercial square needs to be connected with nature. There are attic waterside pavilions next to it. I also want to erect five statues on the square. One is four meters high and the other four are three meters high." Of course, the tallest one, Ping Anxiang, engraves His Majesty's heroic posture, and there are four other ones that intend to carve civil servants and generals who will protect His Majesty."

"Sculpture Zhen, this is not good." Li Er said dutifully.

"Boy, there are four more. They should be two civil servants and two generals, right?" Yu Chigong said to Wang Ping'an with his fierce face, which shocked Wang Ping'an.

"Yes, yes." Wang Pingan said tremblingly.

"Well, the old man should be able to arrange one?" Yu Chigong said.

"If you are one, there will be this old man, right, Yuchi?" Niu Jinda also said.

"If there is me, there will be you. How can you be compared to this old man like an old cow." Yu Chigong said unconvinced.

They were originally equal in size, with similar official positions, similar martial arts skills, and even similar ages, so no one obeyed the other.

Wang Pingan never thought that the two generals, Yu Chigong and Niu Jinda, could fight each other in front of the emperor Li Er in the imperial study room. If Cheng Yaojin, Qin Shubao, and other generals were all present, would there be a seven-night battle? Let's fight the country.

What shocked him the most was that Li Er didn't care about it at all, and even looked at them with a smile, even if a few tables and chairs were broken, and the cups were smashed, he turned a blind eye.

He threw out four statues, suspected of killing three soldiers with two peaches. The generals have already begun to snatch the statues on the surface.

There is no way, the temptation of the statue is too great, not only is there Li Er next to it, but it also has a kind of escort function, and it can be famous in history, and it will truly be famous forever.

Even Wei Zheng began to regret calling out Wang Ping'an, and he certainly had no chance to engrave his own image on the statue.

"Okay, don't argue any more, you'll lose face in front of the juniors." Li Ji interrupted suddenly.

Li Ji's words worked, Yu Chigong and Niu Jinda stopped fighting, glared at each other, snorted coldly and separated.

(End of this chapter)