"Haha."
Facing Zhangsun Wuji's counterattack, Wei Zheng also sneered coldly.
He sneered and looked at Zhangsun Wuji.""This official has naturally considered the problem that Lord Zhangsun mentioned.”
Wei Zheng looked at Li Shimin and said,""Your Majesty, this lowly subject remembers that Your Majesty once told this lowly subject that you wanted to create a prosperous Great Tang.
I'm willing to do everything I can to assist Your Majesty.”
Wei Zheng took out a memorial and looked at Li Shimin,"I heard that the previous emperor that Your Majesty admired the most was the Qin Emperor and Han Wu.
Scholars, farmers, merchants, and businessmen were established during the Pre-Qin period and have been passed down to the Great Tang for more than a thousand years.
Is it not worthy of His Majesty's quote?
A scholar-bureaucrat must be a moral scholar. If a moral scholar-bureaucrat was in a lower position, the national atmosphere would be bad!
Because virtue was the solid foundation to protect the country, it could derive excellent national policies in all aspects.
If a virtuous scholar-bureaucrat were to take up a suitable official position in the court, it would allow agriculture, industry, and commerce to develop reasonably. Therefore, scholar-bureaucrats were ranked first!
Secondly, in order to ensure the survival of the people, they had to pay attention to agriculture. The reason why agriculture was more important than industry and commerce was because people could do without the crafts of industry and commerce, but they could not do without agricultural food. Agriculture was based on nature and had an inexhaustible foundation. Therefore, agriculture was ranked second.
The tools and other things that the craftsmen made were necessities for daily life, so the craftsmen were the third.
As for Shang?
The abundance of all kinds of interests is the root of accumulation and hypocrisy.”
As soon as Wei Zheng finished speaking, the entire court fell silent!
Li Shi Min's eyes were filled with gratification!
Who was Wei Zheng's subordinate?
He was the former Crown Prince Li Jiancheng's subordinate!
Li Shimin succeeded in the Xuanwu Gate incident and once sent people to capture Wei Zheng. He even asked Wei Zheng,"
"Why do you want to drive a wedge between us brothers?”
Why did Li Shimin ask Wei Zheng this question?
When Wei Zheng was by Li Jiancheng's side, he had suggested Li Jiancheng to kill Li Shimin more than once.
Even if he didn't kill him, he would have to find a way to transfer Li Shiming to another place.
However, Li Jiancheng never listened to Wei Zheng's suggestion.
When Wei Zheng heard Li Shimin's question, he replied without thinking,""If the Crown Prince had done as I said, there wouldn't have been today's disaster!”
Li Shimin saw that Wei Zheng spoke bluntly and did not hide anything, so he pardoned Wei Zheng and used him as the main book of Zhan Shi.
Now, Wei Zheng had been promoted to Minister Zuo Cheng.
When Li Shimin appointed Wei Zheng as Minister Zuo Cheng, Zhangsun Wuji and the others did not object.
This was because they admired Wei Zheng when they were his opponents.
Wei Zheng was talented.
Just like what Wei Zheng said at this moment, every word was reasonable!
Wei Zheng looked at Zhangsun Wuji and said,""When merchants are in court, goods and wealth are in the upper class!
With the collusion of officials and merchants, the wealth of the Great Tang could only be gathered in the hands of a small number of people, and the corruption of the country was born from this.
Who was Li Hao?
Other than being a relative of the royal family, he had another identity. Surely Lord Zhangsun knew about his relationship with the Cui family?
If Li Hao were to take up a position in the court, the Cui Corporation would continue to expand.
Has Lord Zhangsun ever thought about it?
Why was the situation in the Great Tang so difficult?
This was because the majority of the Great Tang's wealth was in the hands of the clans!
The Great Tang doesn't even have the right to operate its own salt mines?
The management rights of the salt mine were in the hands of the Cui family. Did Lord Zhangsun not take this as a warning and continue to let Li Hao serve in the imperial court?”
It was so quiet!
After Wei Zheng said this, no one in the court made a sound.
This was because these words could not be discussed in the morning court.
Especially when it involved the clan!
Because to put it bluntly, wasn't the person sitting on the dragon throne also from the Li Clan?
But this was Wei Zheng!
He would not care about this.
He said whatever he wanted to say.
And the key was that no matter what Wei Zheng said, he could always say something.
Li Shi Min was even retreating.
He didn't want Li Hao to come to the court.
However, just as Li Shiming had this thought, he immediately thought of what Empress Zhangsun had said to him.
Li Hao was in the Imperial Court, and the Cui Clan was the Cui Clan of the Li Clan!
Li Shiming immediately looked at Zhangsun Wuji and asked,""Ancestors, what do you think? What do you think of Wei Zheng's proposal?"
Zhangsun Wuji immediately understood what Li Shiming meant.
He looked at Wei Zheng and said to Li Shimin,""Your Majesty, I feel that what Lord Wei Zheng said is reasonable.
However, Lord Wei Zheng had neglected the most crucial point.
There was nothing wrong with scholars, farmers, merchants, and businessmen.
The young prince had a deep relationship with the Cui Clan.
The young prince had indeed come to Chang 'an to sell wild vegetables.
However, I want to remind Lord Wei Zheng that scholars, farmers, businessmen, and scholar-bureaucrats are always ranked first, but why are scholar-bureaucrats ranked first?
Lord Wei Zheng himself also said that it was because of virtue!
Since they were virtuous, would the scholar-bureaucrats watch the people starve?
I think that if the famous officials of the Pre-Qin Dynasty were still alive, they would not have watched the people of the world starve. They would have also placed the people first and would have placed the food and clothing of the people first!”
Zhangsun Wuji looked at Wei Zheng and asked again,""Lord Wei Zheng, the young prince does have a deep relationship with the Cui Clan, but I want to ask you, what does it mean that General Cheng is the husband of the Cui Clan?
What could it mean that the young prince came to Chang 'an to sell wild vegetables?
Who had ever seen the young prince selling wild vegetables?
No?"
Zhangsun Wuji looked at Fang Xuanling and asked,""Lord Fang, what do you think? Should we invite the young prince over?”
"Yes!"
It was concise and clear!
Wei Zheng was about to continue when someone said,"If you don't make a decision, you'll be in chaos!"
"Your Majesty, it's almost time for you to make a decision!”
When this person spoke, Wei Zheng opened his mouth and snorted coldly.
Because in the entire court, if there was anyone who could shut Wei Zheng up, it was him.
Du Ruhui!
The Minister of War of the Great Tang!
Together with Fang Xuanling, they were called 'The plot of a house is cut off!
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