"Your Highness! You have lost your virtue and lack of self-cultivation. Please send Kong Yingda and Lu Deming to the Eastern Palace to assist you in your cultivation. Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom. Otherwise, the Great Tang will definitely be plagued by disasters and the people will be in dire straits."
Zhang Xuansu saw that the ministers were shocked and felt proud. These three words were enough to leave a name in history.
Little did he know.
He didn't meet Li Shi Min, but Li Yuan Jing.
Li Yuanjing, who had killed Chen Shuda with a single slash.
At this moment, Li Yuanjing could not stop sneering. It seemed that the people of the imperial court would only know fear when they saw blood.
He turned his head and gave Xiao Yan a signal with his eyes.
Da da!
Xiao Yan, who was dressed in black armor, walked into the hall. He held a long blade in his hand and his face was filled with killing intent.
Zhang Xuansu panicked and was about to admit her mistake.
"Your Majesty, I was wrong. Don't…Don't!"
Xiao Yan instantly raised his blade and hacked down.
Puchi!
The hall was dyed red with blood, and his head fell to the ground. His eyes were wide open, filled with regret.
Li Yuanjing smiled." Today, I will kill Zhang Xuansu to worship the heavens. If anyone tries to stop me, I will do the same as this person!"”
Everyone!
He was stunned!
"Too... This is too much!"
"How dare you kill someone in front of all the officials of the Imperial Court?”
"Don't you know what the law is?"
"Stupid ruler! A fatuous ruler!"
Everyone in the court cursed in a low voice, but no one stepped forward to seek revenge.
Zhang Xuansu was remonstrating!
Unlike the corrupt officials from before.
Li Yuanjing's cold eyes swept across the place, and all the officials shut their mouths and stopped cursing.
The civil and military officials also had ugly expressions. The little prince was still so violent.
Thinking of the forty officials just now, he understood.
"Who else wants me to cultivate and learn? Who else wants me to issue an edict of sin? Who else wants to stop us from killing the locust?"
All the officials trembled, but no one spoke.
Li Yuanjing looked around at the crowd. Minister Wu, follow me to the royal study."
The officials quickly dispersed.
They wanted to escape from this palace. This was hell.
......
The Minister of Works, Wu Shi, caught up. Li Yuanjing saw a flash of light in Wu Shi's figure.
The situation in the court was complicated. If Li Yuanjing wanted to reform the new policies, he had to select talented people. If he relied on the few Prime Ministers, it would be difficult for them to achieve great things if they did not do their best.
However, the people of Prince Qin's Mansion and the Eastern Palace did not understand business.
Wu Shi was the person he valued today.
"All of you, retreat!"
Li Yuanjing ordered the eunuchs and palace maids to leave, leaving Cao Zhengchun alone.
"Greetings, Your Highness!" The warrior bowed slightly, his face full of respect. The fact that Li Yuanjing had just killed the censor had shocked him.
"No need to be so polite!" Li Yuanjing smiled." Minister Wu, I heard that you are a businessman. You have your own views on business. What do you think of Chang 'an merchants?"”
If he had heard others say that the warrior was a businessman, he would definitely be angry. But today, Li Yuanjing had summoned him in private. Could it be said that he valued business?
"I think the problem with merchants is how to make use of them.”
Samurai Shura said after thinking about it. He was a businessman and naturally knew that businessmen were very powerful. Money could make the world go around.
"Then what do you think?" Li Yuanjing asked.
"I think that we should let the Imperial Court show their attitude and make a statement to give the merchants confidence. Perhaps the merchants will contribute money to the national treasury.”Samurai said his thoughts.
It had to be known that merchants had always had a low status since ancient times.
Qin Dynasty merchants could not wear silk, Han Dynasty merchants could not ride horses, and Tang Dynasty merchants could not take the imperial examination.
No businessman would feel that they had face and social status. After all, what else did they lack when they had money?
Respect!
Li Yuanjing thought for a moment and said," I want to encourage the people to do business. I want to increase the support for industry and commerce, eliminate discrimination against businessmen, and strengthen the laws of industry and commerce. This way, we can open up business and not restrict business. Instead, we can collect taxes!”
"What are the specific implementation requirements?" samurai asked.
"Set up horse markets in Youzhou, Jinyang, and other places. Those places are closest to the Turks, Liaodong, and Khitans. They trade with the ethnic minorities in the north." For example, tea leaves, spices, wine, jewelry, silk, medicine, and daily necessities could all be opened to the public. He had to make a lot of money from them and weaken their national strength.”
"When they get used to using the things of the Central Plains, they'll have no choice but to be controlled by us." Li Yuanjing smiled wickedly. Of course, we also have to spend money to buy their elite horses to prepare for the war in the future.”
The warrior suppressed the excitement in his heart and said,"This plan will definitely weaken the barbarians in the north and make the Great Tang rich and powerful!”
"Other than salt, iron, mines, and weapons, everything else will be opened up to let the market participate in competition. This will stimulate the people's business vitality!”
"If the common people run off to do business, who will farm?" Your Highness! After all, agriculture was an important source of tax collection for the Great Tang.”
"You can collect taxes for agriculture, but can't you collect taxes for commerce? We opened up commerce to collect taxes. If merchants make money, our imperial court can also make money.”Li Yuanjing smiled.
"As for farming? Xiao Mai and Xiao Mi are so weak!"
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