"In this way, even if the matter is exposed in the future, those who buy colored glaze at high prices will only go to the merchants who sell them colored glaze! Instead of going to Xiao Han who produces these things... Hey, it is really a good plan.
."
Changsun sighed quietly. Although Changsun felt that this idea was indeed brilliant, it seemed a bit disgraceful. After all, those businessmen were ignorant and had to suffer such unreasonable disasters.
"Don't blame Xiao Han, he did this for the Tang Dynasty and for us! If you have to say it, it is only credit and no fault! Moreover, even if those people were tricked to death by Xiao Han, I will not feel any pity.
"
Li Shimin was the person who knew his eldest grandson best. He could tell what she was thinking just by looking at her. He said something lightly, picked up a black memorial with no name from the table, and pushed it in front of his eldest grandson.
"If you look at this, you will know that there is nothing wrong with what Xiao Han did."
"This is this?" Changsun looked at the black memorial on the table with some strangeness. Regardless of the prohibition against political interference in the harem, he changed his position and hugged the sleeping Li Zhi, freed one hand and picked it up from the table.
The memorial turned blue
"This is unreasonable! Erlang, these people! They deserve to be killed!"
"Shh, keep your voice down, you're scaring the child."
Li Shimin watched with a wry smile as his eldest grandson turned from dignified and elegant to furious in an instant, and hurriedly whispered to dissuade him.
However, even so, Li Zhi in the arms of his eldest grandson was still awakened and cried "Wow".
"Oh, I'm not afraid of you, my mother is here..."
Hearing the cry of his son in his arms, the eldest grandson reacted and quickly put down the memorial, got up and coaxed him back to sleep, and then handed him over to his personal maid to carry him out.
"These businessmen are so presumptuous! We have set business taxes so low, but they still want to evade taxes, so they do not hesitate to bribe tax officials and rely on the nobles!"
After the palace maid left, the eldest grandson returned to his desk and picked up the black memorial again. Every time he glanced at it, he felt the anger in his heart getting stronger!
Today’s Tang Dynasty is so poor!
In order to save money, she and her husband spent every day scrupulously, and they wanted to break a coin in half! Most of the servants in the palace were laid off, and many palaces that needed to be repaired were just put on hold.
Even if the ministers in the court are not paid a salary, they have no regrets! They are diligent and diligent.
Among them, those from wealthy families like Changsun Wuji and Xiao Han are fine, but those like Wei Zheng who were already poor have to sell off their annual gifts to make ends meet! All the specialties of the Xiao family that are in abundance in the East City are these people.
Sold off.
They live such a miserable life here, but those businessmen are better off!
Spending a lot of money on a prostitute in a brothel! For this reason, a new profession has been derived. What is Yangzhou Shou Ma? From cultivation to sale, there is a complete process!
"The business tax is set low! Too low! Businessmen do not produce, but rely on buying low and selling high to make profits. In the end, they live better than anyone else. This is unfair!"
The eldest grandson gnashed his teeth in hatred, but Li Shimin watched his queen show off her power with great interest. It wasn't until the eldest grandson glared at him dissatisfied that he touched his nose and said:
"The commercial tax rate is a bit low, but now is not the time to make changes. After all, one thing affects the whole body. We need to wait until the situation becomes more peaceful before we think about it.
As for those businessmen, I think there is no need to beat them to death with a stick. Xiao Han once said: There is no stability without farmers, no life without work, and no wealth without business.
If we want to build the Tang Dynasty well, these three things are indispensable! So what we need to think about is how to guide and manage them, rather than holding grudges against them and killing them!"
"Okay... you are the emperor anyway, and it is your responsibility to educate all people!" Upon hearing this, the eldest grandson snorted angrily.
Although he said that he no longer cares about it, when he thinks about the debauched life of those people, who are all poaching the Tang Dynasty and poaching their own money, it is still hard to calm down the petty nature of women!
"Hey, let's do it and see! When I solve the serious problem, these scabies will be dealt with one by one."
"Well, this day is not far away!"
From the palace, return to Yangzhou.
After running around for a whole day, Xiao Han returned to the house in the evening and was already very tired.
Xiao Ai washed his feet, and before they were completely dry, Xiao Han rolled onto the bed, not even bothering to move his fingers.
"How is the construction of the workshop going?"
Xue Pan came to the bedside with a bowl of tea and asked Xiao Han with a smile.
Xiao Han opened his eyes and glanced at Xue Pan, but was too lazy to get up to drink tea. He continued to close his eyes and muttered: "It's almost done. The furnace in the glass shop has been erected, and the soap and perfume workshop has also been capped.
It’s just that the water-powered spinning machine is not very easy to operate. Chief Cao has led people to debug it many times, but it still doesn’t work as expected. It seems that it will take some time.”
"Hydraulic spinning?" Xue Pan had never heard of this new name, so he put down the tea bowl, sat on the bed and looked at Xiao Han strangely and asked, "What is that?"
"Spinning on behalf of others." Xiao Han explained without raising his head or eyes.
"Better than others?" Xue Pan asked again.
"Absolutely." Xiao Han was a little impatient.
"Then what do you want it for?" Xue Pan refused.
"It's fast!"
"Quickly? Can't we just find a few more spinners?"
"..."
Okay, Xiao Han's eyes rolled to the sky again.
Even if he is not good at studying, he still knows how to replace labor with machines. This is the most important trigger of the industrial revolution!
But how come such an extremely significant thing, when it came to Xue Pan, turned into recruiting a few more people to work together?
After looking at Xue Pan for a long time, Xiao Han suddenly didn't want to educate her about the basics of industry, and he didn't bother to calculate labor and costs for her. He simply turned his head and tried to be out of sight and out of mind.
Xiao Han was too lazy to talk anymore, but Xue Pan didn't want to let him go so soon.
In the past few days, Xiao Han went out early and came back late, and saw no one at all, which made her extremely bored at home. If Xiao Ai hadn't been with her, she would have developed a problem long ago.
Lying on the bedside and struggling to pull Xiao Han's head back, Xue Pan continued to ask curiously: "Ms. sir, if we make money, do we still have to give it to the court?"
Xiao Han replied like a dead fish: "Well..."
Xue Pan was dissatisfied: "But we bought this land! The people are ours! Even the things belong to our family..."
"Hey, this is state-owned, do you understand state-owned?" Xiao Han finally opened his eyes and sighed.
Xue Pan blinked: "State-owned, it means the state does business! But when the state does business, why does it require us to pay?"
Xiao Han continued to roll his eyes: "Because it doesn't sound good! So you can only let me do it in the early stage! Do you believe that if His Majesty dares to say that he is doing business, the next day there will be a bunch of old stubborns hanging themselves on southeast branches with a broken rope? I don't know the reasons.
You guessed it: A great country is competing for profits with its people, but they have no face to face the common people in the world!"
