Yang Sichang was transferred to the position of Minister of War and entered the cabinet.

After being asked by Zhu Youjian to talk, Yang Sichang did not go to see the chief assistant Zhou Yanru, but visited Li Shimin first.

"Sir, you are much younger than I thought. No wonder Your Majesty keeps praising you. He is such a young hero. Compared to you, I am old!"

Yang Sichang first came to visit Li Shimin because the emperor praised Li Shimin very much and asked him to learn more from Li Shimin.

At first, Yang Sichang was unhappy and felt that a person in his forties had always experienced better than a Li Shimin in his twenties?

Before, Yang Sichang had carefully learned about Li Shimin's situation, but he was just an inconspicuous scholar who was even beaten by his fiancee after being dismissed.

There are rumors that Li Shimin was recommended to the emperor by the laity, as well as Liu Bei from Shaanxi, Zhang Hao from Shanxi and Wu Zetian from Shanxi.

No one knows this master, but he must be deeply trusted by the emperor. Otherwise, the emperor would not reuse these three young people, not to mention that there is a woman under twenty.

Only when a master in the world can he give a seemingly reasonable explanation for such absurd thing.

Yang Sichang is also paying attention to what Liu Bei, Zhang Hao, Wu Zetian, Li Shimin and others have done in the past two years. Not only are many civil and military officials in his court paying attention to them.

Liu Bei killed many people in Shaanxi and was impeached by many officials. However, those who understand know that although Liu Bei was a ruthless person, he was able to do things and was supported by the people of Shaanxi. In the past year, Shaanxi suffered much less soldiers. There were even many rebels or people who were forced to surrender, disbanded, and returned to their lives.

Zhang Hao killed more officials in Shanxi than Liu Bei, but he created many new things. In the eyes of some people in Yang Sichang, these new things came from the West because they had some contact in the late Ming Dynasty.

These new things work very well in Shanxi. If it weren't for Zhang Hao, Shanxi's grain harvest would have begun to starve to death this year. However, if they did not starve to death, they could still use some food to help the people of Shaanxi.

Wu Zetian performed well and managed Pingyang Prefecture very well. She was the best-performing area in Shanxi.

Li Shimin, in charge of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works, started from the overall situation and made great achievements when local governments tried their best to cooperate and those ministers in the cabinet were stumbling. This is the talent!

Although Yang Sichang believes that as long as the emperor trusts himself as Li Shimin, he can do it.

But after talking to Li Shimin, Yang Sichang discovered that Li Shimin did not look like a young man in his twenties at all, like a middle-aged man, and his every move was very sophisticated.

He didn't know, and Li Shimin didn't take him seriously.

However, Li Shimin didn't mind buying people's hearts, so he said something that made Yang Sichang agree with.

Yang Sichang said: "What Master Xu is really what I think. You should open more workshops, especially mining workshops, and recruit a large number of workers, so that many problems can be solved by using labor for relief.

Ordinary people are already suffering and cannot increase taxes. We can only come from other sources. It is a good way to open a large number of workshops by the court itself.

I am concerned about the situation in Shanxi. Governor Zhang Hao did a good job. He recruited a large number of workers by opening workshops such as cement, red bricks, glass, coal, etc., as well as building reservoirs, canals, etc., and solving the problems of many refugees.

Moreover, these workshops can convert city money in the future and earn a lot of income for the national treasury.

In addition, I also think that the merchants should be charged more taxes. They have made a lot of money and should contribute more to the court."

Li Shimin looked at Yang Sichang and asked, "Mr. Yang thought the wealth of the Ming Dynasty was in the hands of those people? Are they the people or merchants? What kind of people can be called merchants? Those who are powerful and powerful have many industries in their families. Are they considered merchants?"

Yang Sichang frowned. He understood what Li Shimin meant, but he did not dare to touch the landlord class, and he was the representative of the landlord class.

The classes in the late Ming Dynasty may be divided into three classes.

The vast majority of poor people!

A businessman who survives on business!

The landlord class (royal family, relatives, nobles, officials, gentry, etc., people with land, power and power).

Most of the wealth is in the landlord class!

Yang Sichang did not dare to target the landlord class. He knew that the people had no money and could only target businessmen who survived through business.

Those who rely on power to obtain resources for business cannot become businessmen. They make money by the resources obtained from power, rather than businessmen who operate business through market operations.

Capitalists are not necessarily businessmen, businessmen can accumulate capital.

Of course, in the late Ming Dynasty, capitalism was in its infancy, and merchants were closely related to the landlord class. Many merchants made money for the landlord class.

The merchants Yang Sichang targeted were basically merchants who had no power to rely on. If the businessmen who had power to rely on could evade taxes, the increase in business tax would not have much impact on them.

Of course, the landlord class has factions, and one side will suppress the merchants of the other side, but in general, the merchants who are not able to rely on are still those who are suffering from power.

It is equivalent to large and small businesses.

Big Boss, the ones who die first are small businesses and those small businessmen.

The large number of small businessmen will affect many ordinary people.

Therefore, blindly increasing the business tax. Although the treasury income has temporarily increased, many small businessmen will not be able to survive. Big businessmen can evade taxes. Over time, the treasury will not be able to collect money.

The main contradiction is the landlord class, who control a large amount of land and many resources.

Faced with Li Shimin's problem, Yang Sichang thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't figure out what to say.

Li Shimin suddenly sighed: "Mr. Yang, the Ming Dynasty has accumulated too many problems for too long. It is not easy to cure it. If you really want to do things for the country and the people, you must be prepared to burn your boats. If you have too many concerns, many things will not be able to do.

The Emperor promotes you and brings you into the cabinet. I hope you don’t let the Emperor down.”

An elder's tone.

Li Shimin is indeed Yang Sichang's elder.

Yang Sichang was silent for a long time, and then said, "I have received the teachings. The master of the second servant is very imaginable. No wonder he has achieved the legendary achievements of today. Please give me some advice in the future!"

When I saw Li Shimin today, after talking, Yang Sichang felt a lot and had some things that he had to think about deeply.

When Yang Sichang returned to the mansion, he saw many people sending gifts and greetings.

Thinking about the deserted Li Shimin's mansion, Yang Sichang sighed in his heart: Since ancient times, he has been so loyal and loneliness!

He thought he could not do what Li Shimin said, and there were other people behind him and could not give up these things for the sake of the so-called people of the country.

Moreover, civil officials have reached a consensus that dynasties will continue to change, and wars are inevitable, but no matter who is in the world, they need their help to do things.

Therefore, increasing their own strength is what they care about most. Moreover, if civil officials want to weaken the imperial power and achieve the result of co-governing the world, they will naturally think that serving the country and the people is helping the emperor, and the emperor is suppressing them, so they will naturally not fight for the emperor.

In the late Ming Dynasty, civil officials and literati had little integrity!

They have even less national sentiment, and they are not as good as women like Qin Liangyu.

But they looked down on Qin Liangyu!

After more than a year since Li Shimin arrived in the late Ming Dynasty, he had basically seen the mentality of these civil servants and literati. It was much worse than that of his Tang Dynasty, so he could not be very considerate of civil servants and literati in the late Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!