Shock of Thoughts
All the officials looked sideways and looked at Lin Fei and the censor as if they were watching a show. The censor's jealousy was too obvious, and Lin Fei was the kind of person who could not stand others being unhappy with him. It could be seen from the last time when Lin Fei was angry at all the officials because they supported Zhangsun Wuji.
As expected, after Lin Fei took a deep look at the censor, he asked indifferently,"What kind of difficult problem is it that can make you stand up so impatiently?”
As if he didn't see the other officials 'eyes, the official continued to walk further and further down the road of courting death." It's not a big problem. It's just that the Great Tang is facing a locust plague that only happens once in a hundred years. In order to provide disaster relief, the national treasury has been emptied. I'd like to ask County Duke Lin if there's any way to make the national treasury rich.”
Lin Fei looked at Li Shiming, then at the other officials, and finally at the censor." Is this a small problem?”
"Just this little problem." The officer smiled and replied. The other officials nodded their heads.
"You can't even solve such a small problem. Are you pigs? He was actually a pig. Why should he be an official? He should just go home and farm.”
Lin Fei suddenly flew into a rage and scolded all the officials. He had been unhappy for a long time. None of these guys were good people. They were all prepared to watch his good show just now.
The officials did not expect Lin Fei to be so calm a second ago and suddenly fly into a rage the next second. This caught them off guard. Their faces turned red, but they could not find any words to refute. Who asked them to say that this was a small problem just now? It was actually a small problem. Why couldn't they solve it themselves?
"Lin Fei, what good idea do you have? Hurry up and say it.”Seeing that no one was talking, the situation was extremely awkward. Li Shi Min had no choice but to step forward to ease the atmosphere.
Lin Fei didn't care about those officials, but he had to give Li Shiming face. After all, Li Shiming had just transferred 1,000 households under his name.
Lin Fei cupped his hands to Li Shiming and said,"Your Majesty, it's very simple to solve this problem. You just need to order the opening of a bank and support the merchants."”
"Bank? What is it?" Li Shi Min asked in confusion.
"A bank is just a money house. It's just that the rules have been changed. In the future, you can't charge fees for saving money. You have to pay interest to the person who saves money.”
"Wouldn't the bank lose money like this? How do we earn money?"
"We can lend the money we saved to those merchants at a higher interest rate. Your Majesty, I believe you know that there are many businesses in the Great Tang that want to expand, but they lack capital. If they can borrow money, they won't care about the interest.”
"This won't do." Fang Xuanling quickly stood up and waved at Lin Fei."County Duke Lin, this won't do. If the merchants become bigger, there will be more people doing business in the future. No one will farm. This will shake the foundation of the country.”
In the Great Tang Dynasty, agriculture was valued and commerce was suppressed. They thought that farming was the foundation of the country. They were afraid that if there were too many people, no one would farm. Food production would decrease, and people would starve to death, causing social unrest and the destruction of the dynasty.
This was the thinking of the people of this era. Lin Fei was very clear about it, so when he said this method, he had already thought of a countermeasure.
" No. When merchants become bigger, they have to pay more taxes. With more taxes, we don't have to collect taxes from the farmers. We can even collect more taxes from the merchants and subsidize the farmers. In this way, the burden on the farmers will be reduced, and naturally, there won't be so many people who want to enter the business world.
If you don't believe me, you can look at history. How many great merchants chose to go into business because they couldn't support themselves by farming?”
Everyone in the throne room looked at Lin Fei in shock. They had never thought that there would be a day when they could not collect taxes from the farmers, let alone give them subsidies.
However, when the young man in front of them proposed this idea, they did not reject it immediately. Instead, they began to consider the possibility of his idea.
"Is that possible?" Li Shi Min asked.
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