Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian calmly, but simply felt that Li Chengqian was innocently caught in the attack.
After all, Li Chengqian is still obediently studying in the Eastern Palace, and he has no obvious power.
The most important thing is that others don’t know, don’t you know Ma Zhou yet?
He was almost promoted by Li Tai from the end of the world, and this kind of person would not betray him under normal circumstances.
Otherwise, you will lose your foundation in the court, and people with normal IQs will not do this.
Li Shimin took a look at Dai Zhou, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs who handed over the "On the Canal Transportation" and said:
"Since this "On the Container of the Canal Transport" comes from Gaoling, then wait until the court meeting and let the magistrate of Xuangaoling County come over to analyze it.
When they come, we will discuss the canal transportation. Now we will discuss the next agenda first!”
"Abide by the order." Fang Xuanling came out and said, "General Manager Li Jing has rectified his troops and will return to Chang'an after receiving the order.
General Manager Li stated that after defeating the Turks, he rescued the people captured by the Eastern Turks and those who were attached to him after hearing the Turks were defeated.
Now there are more than 100,000 people in Shuozhou, and even tribes from the Eastern Turks take the initiative to join in. How should these people be placed?"
"Put it..." Li Shimin originally wanted to resettle it nearby, but when he thought of his plan to fight Goguryeo in the future, he asked Fang Xuanling:
"What do you think of me?"
"I think I can listen to the opinions of the ministers!" Fang Xuanling said with a smile.
Soon some ministers came out to express their opinions, but most court officials suggested that they be divided into their species, migrate to the north and south of the Yellow River, scattered in prefectures and counties, and each made them farmland, change their customs, and make them "turn into Han", and use the power of Chineseization to turn them.
Give it a little bit of digestion.
However, just as the topic just passed, Wen Yanbo walked out and spoke:
"I think that when the Han Jianwu period was imitated, the surrendered Xiongnu were placed under the Wuyuan Pass and placed in Fengzhou Shengzhou. All of its tribes were protected and not separated from the customs of the land, so they were comforted, and they were actually empty.
The earth, the second one shows that there is no guesswork."
"No! Please report!" Wei Zheng hurriedly came out and said,
"The Turks have been suffering from troubles since ancient times and are difficult to manage. Resetting the mainland is equivalent to a disease of the heart and a disaster for raising animals. It is a good idea to let them stay in the border and live in their old land!"
"We teach our etiquette and law, choose our chief leader, and send our residence in Huaide, what are the concerns?" Wen Yanbo couldn't help but say.
"The barbarians are not of our race, and their hearts must be different. The strong will be bandits. The weak will be humble and the underestimated, and they will ignore their kindness. It is their nature." Wei Zheng looked at Wen Yanbo and shouted angrily, "Do you forget the incident of the Five Barbarians turmoil in China?
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Seeing Wen Yanbo and Wei Zheng constantly quarreling, Li Shimin was somewhat helpless and said:
"In this way, the people of our Han area can first move to Jinkou, Youzhou to settle the place, and let the pharmacist make proper arrangements.
As for the Turkic tribes’ submission, there is still some time to discuss it first and then properly resolve it.”
"Next topic!" Li Shimin pressed his temple and said.
Dou Lukuan walked out and said, "Spring plowing is about to be around, so I'll ask the saint to decide the time of this year's spring plowing ceremony."
In short, Li Shimin didn't breathe much one morning, and he arranged things one by one.
At this time, Li Tai was following Ma Zhou and the others to drink Zhu Yeqing. Ma Zhou Xiaoxiao tasted it and said:
"Three Spring Bamboo Leaf Wine, a song of Kun Bird Chicken Strings. This Bamboo Leaf Green is truly famous!"
"You can still be so comfortable and contented. If you hand over that memorial, the court will come to you later!" Li Tai joked as he looked at Ma Zhou's complacent look.
"It's not only me, but even King Yue is afraid, he will inevitably go there!" Ma Zhou sighed to Li Tai, "If you hand over this memorial, as long as you don't object, the court will definitely follow the flow of tax payments and suffer losses at that time.
But you!"
"I had expected it long ago!" Li Tai sat down and wanted to take Ma Zhou's bamboo leaf green to pour it for him.
However, Ma Zhou grabbed the wine pot with Zhu Yeqing first, smiled proudly at Li Tai, and said:
"King of Yue, you haven't performed the crown ritual yet. Drinking alcohol is a very harmful person. How much do you want to drink? I'll drink it for you!"
"Haha! I'll take a look, who said I'm going to drink!" Li Tai smiled awkwardly, always feeling that Ma Zhou had a lot of things.
Bai He, who was beside him, smiled and took out some dried fruits and put them on the tables of the two, and came to Li Tai consciously.
Li Tai has always been approachable, so he has become somewhat free and presumptuous about this King of Yue over time.
Ma Zhou is somewhat careless, so after the two of them finish their work, they will occasionally drink together.
To be more precise, Ma Zhou was drinking, while Li Tai was watching Ma Zhou drink and eating dried fruits himself.
However, this pleasant time was quickly interrupted. The eunuch came over and saw Li Tai and said:
"I have met King Yue, and the saint has given the order. King Xuanyue, you and Ma Zhoujin, the magistrate of Gaoling County!"
The eunuch hesitated for a moment, spoke, and said, "Ma Zhou submitted a copy of "The Theory of the Canal Transportation" and caused discussions between the court and the country. This matter is one of the most lively events in the court meeting today!"
"Oh..." Li Tai glanced at Bai He. Bai He immediately understood Li Tai's meaning, grabbed a handful of golden leaves and placed them in the eunuch's hand, which made the eunuch smile.
Li Tai asked, "I don't know what else is there to discuss except this matter today, and it's been discussed by the ministers?"
The eunuch smiled and said, "It's about the Turkic people's ties. The secretary-general Wei Zheng County Duke and the secretary-general Yu Duke were quarreling with each other. As such, the quarrel has not yet come to an end!
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So that's it! Li Tai suddenly realized when he heard the eunuch's words.
Li Tai said, "Don't let my father-in-law wait for me for a while. I'll go to change my clothes and go back to Chang'an with my father-in-law."
"You are so polite, King Yue!" The eunuch said respectfully, "This is the duty of a servant. Unlike some people, they are so devoured even the word "duty"!"
As he said that, he glanced at Ma Zhou, which was full of contempt.
Well...relatively speaking, although the eunuchs are basically incomplete, it is precisely because of their physical condition that they look down on those guys who are sting in the world the most.
In this eunuch, Ma Zhou, a guy who got up step by step with Li Tai, actually wrote a book called "Theory of Canal Transportation" to reduce the income of Li Tai Wharf. This is not to be scammers, what is it to repay kindness and revenge!
Although this eunuch was just a eunuch, he also revered for people like Ma Zhou.
Ma Zhou took a sip of wine and felt inexplicably at the eunuch's contempt for him.
Of course, even if you know, you will only sigh that the summer insects cannot speak of ice.
After all, Ma Zhou and Li Tai have a preference for rules and regulations, and this eunuch sees Li Tai's personal interests.
Both sides have no common vision at all, let alone other ones.
Li Tai changed his clothes and headed to Chang'an in an ox cart, while Ma Zhou followed behind the ox cart on a horse.
When he arrived in Chang'an, he was waiting in the side hall, but this time, Li Tai was having a refreshment, but Ma Zhou was not even qualified to sit down.
It was Li Tai who saw him pitiful and asked someone to bring a chair over and wait slowly.
Finally, from noon to the sun was about to set, the guys from Tai Chi Palace finally thought of themselves.
After the people announced the edict, the two of them came to Tai Chi Hall. Li Tai looked at the atmosphere in Tai Chi Hall, and always felt that something was wrong.
The others were easy to say, but Wei Zheng and Wen Yanbo looked at each other angrily, and the lightning shot out from their eyes was at least much hotter than the sightings between Li Tai and Li Chengqian.
"See Aye!" "See the saint!" The two of them came to the back of Tai Chi Hall and quickly saluted Li Shimin.
As the two of them said, the stagnant atmosphere in the hall pressed towards them together as if there was a catharsis port.
Even though Li Tai is the prince and Ma Zhou is extraordinary, he was somewhat breathless in the face of the collective attention of the court bosses. However, Li Chengqian, who was watching the show, showed some expectations when he saw Li Tai's arrival.
There was no way. Wei Zheng and Wen Yanbo had been arguing about the issue of resettlement of the Turkic tribes since the court meeting.
The first time Li Chengqian felt that even the omnipotent Aya had troubles, what the two ministers said made sense.
"I really want to cut them off. Can't I choose any method?" Li Chengqian thought helplessly.
Of course, this is just a thought. If he says it, Li Chengqian feels that he will definitely be scolded.
"Qingque, you are here!" Li Shimin saw Li Tai and Ma Zhou coming, and he really saw the savior coming.
After all, no matter who it is, after listening to Wei Zheng and Wen Yanbo quarreling for so long, he was tired of eating melons.
Li Shimin glanced at Ma Zhou beside Li Tai and said directly to Li Tai, "Have you read Ma County Ma's "On the Canal Transport"?"
"Of course I have seen this!" Li Tai said with his fists, "Qingque believes that what Ma County Ma said is a true and sensible word!"
Hearing Li Tai admit it, the important officials present couldn't help but look at each other.
They originally thought that Li Chengqian had done this, but they didn't expect that Li Tai knew about it from beginning to end.
Fang Xuanling glanced at him and met Wen Yanbo who had been arguing with Wei Zheng for a long time. "The King of Yue actually knew."
"It seems that the king's plan has gone from beginning to end. I still have some expectations for the prince!" Wen Yanbo couldn't help but look back.
"What do you expect from the prince!" Fang Xuanling's eyes narrowed slightly, looking a little sharp.
"What! As the Secretary of the Central Committee, I can't expect anything from the prince!" Wen Yanbo glared angrily without showing any timidity.
"It's a pity that it's not the prince!" Fang Xuanling's eyes pressed down slightly, and a little regret appeared in his eyes.
"Yes! It's a pity that it's not the prince!" Wen Yanbo also understood the meaning, and looked at Li Chengqian with a bit of a pity.
"I said... Isn't Qingque coming to ask now? What do you mean by looking at me one by one!"
Li Chengqian's original gaze was still on Li Tai, but after glanced around, he felt that the ministers were all leaving their gaze on him, as if he had lost something invisibly.
"Since you've seen it, why don't you tell me!" Li Shimin looked around.
The ministers finally projected all their eyes on Li Tai, as if they were not looking at Li Chengqian just now.
"Let Binwang say this, after all, I have only read this "Theory of Canal Transportation" and he is the one who really wrote this thing!"
Li Tai pointed at Ma Zhoudao beside him calmly with a little bit of his face.
When Li Tai gave up this matter to Ma Zhou, Li Shimin nodded secretly.
The ministers around him looked at each other and saw a few shadows of Li Shimin from Li Tai.
Li Shimin said at this time, "Then let County Ma report back!"
Hearing this, Ma Zhou took two steps forward and said:
"I wrote "On the Container Transportation" because since this year, Gaoling has built a wharf and used the advantages of the Wei River to communicate with Guanzhong, ships traveling, bustling business traveling, prosperous Gaoling, and enriching Guanzhong.
I have witnessed Gaoling growing rapidly after the construction of the wharf and consuming a lot of labor in the canal transport, which is a huge crowd.
Because people regard food as the most important thing, I believe that heavy taxes should be imposed on matters that are not farming.
Although the Tang Dynasty had many restrictions on merchant affairs, there was no real way to collect taxes.
So I wrote the book "On the Canal Transport" as a supplement to taxes, which is specially used for merchant ships using Gaoling Wharf!"
"You mean, this "Cao Transportation Theory" is only aimed at Gaoling Wharf?" Dai Zhou said after hearing this.
"Yes, right?" Ma Zhou answered in response to Dai Zhou's inquiry.
"Wei River is born and raised in nature, so people can naturally use it. Our dynasty has never forbidden mountains and forests. Now, can we still have to ban rivers and rivers?
Therefore, "On the Canal Transport" is indeed a tax proposal written with Gaoling as an example.
But at the same time, I also hope to take Gaoling as an example to collect shipping costs for the entire world!”
"The shipping costs have never been collected since ancient times. If they are not implemented properly, they may cause irreversible disasters."
At this time, Wei Zheng looked a little solemn and persuaded Li Shimin.
Dai Zhou was dissatisfied when he heard this. He was just kidding. Nowadays, as long as he is the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, would he still dislike the less tax he could collect?
In a few years, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs will be renamed the Minister of Revenue, which will specialize in managing tax matters.
Now, an official finally offered a suggestion that it would not arouse public anger, but could increase taxes. If he refused, he would probably be nailed to the pillar of shame of the stupidest minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in history, and even forever.
Thinking about it!
"Secretary Wei, you are in the Secretary-General's Supervisory Office and do not know the difficulties of our civil affairs department.
The imperial court suffered many disasters over the years, and last year there was another Northern Expedition to the Turks, which cost a lot of money and food.
Now that the national treasury is empty, all wastes are flourishing, don’t cut off the national destiny of my Tang Dynasty!”
Dai Zhou jumped out decisively and almost pointed at Wei Zheng and scolded the scholar for ruining the country!
Li Tai saw Dai Zhou coming forward to support him and couldn't help but smile. Sure enough, interests are the purest alliance!
Li Tai stepped forward and said, "Father, what Weijun Gong said is not unreasonable.
But even though the love changes, the Tang Dynasty today is essentially different from the Sui Dynasty and even the dynasties before.
Because we have the greatest legacy left by the demise of the Great Sui Dynasty, we communicated with the entire Grand Canal from the north and south!
So sooner or later, shipping taxes will be brought up."