The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

The matter of returning the power of salt and iron to the court is good for the court, the Tang Dynasty, and the people, but it is not good for these aristocratic families.

Even if Du Ruhui cares about the court and the Tang Dynasty, he has to consider his family because he is from an aristocratic family.

But this matter has been discussed in the court, and His Majesty is determined to do so. Even if it cannot be done now, he will not stop doing it. It will be done sooner or later.

What the Du family has to do is to support His Majesty at the right time.

Otherwise, because of this matter, there will be a rift with His Majesty, and when the time is not right in the future, regret not doing things in advance, it will be a great loss for the family.

Du Ruhui sat in the study, while he was grateful for His Majesty's kindness to him, and he was thinking about how to balance the interests between the family and the court.

The housekeeper went to invite people.

In the evening, Du Chuke first arrived at Du Ruhui's study.

"Brother, what do you want to talk to me about?" Du Chuke bowed.

"Shanbin, come sit down and talk." Du Ruhui looked up at Du Chuke: "It's about the court wanting to take back the salt and iron business rights. Our Du family also has this business, so today we want to discuss this matter, and I also invited uncle and Jingtong to come."

Du Chuke nodded slightly.

This matter has been discussed in the court, but there is still no sign. At present, only the Changsun family and the Pei family in Puzhou have handed over the salt pond industry and mines.

There is no need to say more about the Pei family. Pei Ji has been exiled, and Pei lawyer is dead. Pei Ji handed over his industry before exile. Even if he voluntarily did it, it would not cause any waves.

Because His Majesty has issued an order to confiscate the Pei family, even if Pei Ji does not write that document, the Pei family's industry will be returned to the court.

And Pei Ji's "voluntary" handing over is nothing more than disgusting the aristocratic families in the court now.

When the Pei family was in trouble, no one helped, let alone tried their best to save the Pei family.

It has come to this point, what is he still worried about? It's nothing more than that his branch of the Pei family is finished and there will be no good days, so no one will be comfortable.

Pei Ji is not worried that others will retaliate against the Pei family members who are still in Chang'an after he is exiled.

Pei Ji has fallen, but the Hedong Pei family is still standing. If they want to target the Pei family, they will go too far. How can the Hedong Pei family sit idly by?

Therefore, after Pei Ji left Chang'an, although he did such a not-so-genuine thing, no one dared to target what the Pei family was doing.

The current Minister of Revenue is Pei Ju, a member of the Hedong Pei family. Although he has no contact with Pei Ji on weekdays, and the two sides are not the same kind of people, but counting up, Pei Ji's father is also from the Hedong Pei family, and the two cannot be said to have no relationship at all.

Not long after, Du Yan and Du Jingtong also came to the study room in Du Ruhui's mansion.

The four of them sat together, and Du Ruhui re-examined the matter and expressed his concerns.

"The last point is that your majesty treats me as a national hero, and I, Du Keming, should have entrusted my life and property to your majesty, but the Du family is not just my Du Keming's Du family, and the Du family's family property is not my property alone." Du Ruhui sighed helplessly.

"Keming, if the people in the family don't agree with you doing this, what will you do?" Du Yan asked.

"Then I can only divide my share." Du Ruhui said.

He made up his mind that if the Du family disagreed, he could still decide on his share.

If the elders of the Du family didn't even agree to this, Du Ruhui had also thought about the way forward.

Isn't this the case between Pei Ji and the Hedong Pei family?

Just divide it separately.

If a family only cares about the immediate interests and does not make long-term plans for the future, then no matter how diligently he works for the court and plans for the family, it will be in vain.

If he wants to plan for the future of the family, he must listen to him and stand with him.

A carriage with two horses, working in different directions, can only stay where it is.

And in the new dynasty, if you stay where you are, what is the difference between you and those old officials of Wude, you will be eliminated in the future.

Even if you enter the court as an official, it is mostly in vain if you can't enter the circle around His Majesty.

As a person in the core circle around Li Shimin, Du Ruhui also understands the reason.

Now the court is still short of money, and it wants to do many things, which are limited by the money and grain of the national treasury.

But the court is also trying to find a way, especially the tea industry presented to His Majesty by King Jingyang.

Now it is just tea, if there are more things like tea that make money in the future's property, your Majesty's treasury may not be short of money. If your Majesty is not short of money, you may transfer money from the treasury to the national treasury in the future.

In short, the court is short of money now, which is temporary.

Helping your Majesty to accomplish this matter now is like sending charcoal in the snow.

When the court is in a general trend and has everything, rushing to do this matter again will not even be icing on the cake.

"You are going to do this?" Du Yan was also surprised.

"In the future, it will be a general trend." Du Ruhui looked serious and determined: "It's better to make a decision earlier."

"Could it be that we can still go against the court?" Du Ruhui looked at the three people sitting opposite him and asked: "Our Majesty is different from others."

"His temper can be so good that even if Wei Zheng accused him of his faults in front of everyone, he would not care, but would reflect and repent."

"But his temper is not good either, not so bad that he would destroy two kings in one battle when the enemy is numerous and we are few."

Du Ruhui was reminding the people of the Du family that the emperor was the best leader of the Tang Dynasty.

"The aristocratic families are still these aristocratic families, but the current majesty is not the emperor, nor is he the emperor of Sui Yang." Du Ruhui said: "No matter how much trouble you make, can you still make it through now?"

Now is not the time for the aristocratic families to turn the table over whenever they want.

Even if the aristocratic families want to turn the table over, they have come to that point, will the majesty be afraid of them?

The most capable fighter is His Majesty.

"No one wants to be the next Pei Ji." Du Ruhui said.

There are many dirty deeds of the noble families, it depends on whether they are willing to investigate seriously and whether they want to dig up old accounts.

If they want, everyone can be Pei Ji.

"Pei Ji's property was confiscated, and His Majesty has a lot of extra things in his hands, but until now, there has been no movement in the palace. Even we don't know what His Majesty thinks. The emperor's mind is hard to predict."