Datang: Inheriting the system legacy at the beginning

Baiyun Building, among the most luxurious private rooms!
The members of the three great families gathered again, and each of them had a copy of "Datang Times" in front of them.

The youngest, Lu He, was the most impatient. He picked up the newspaper in front of him and threw it heavily on the table, making a crisp "snap" sound, "Damn it, Li Shimin bullies people too much. How dare he say never?" Add such words."

Although there is no harm on the surface of never adding a tax, it may even be beneficial to their family. At least they don't have to worry about the increase in the land tax in the future!

But at a deeper level, this is not the case. Although the aristocratic family doesn't have to worry about the increase in land taxes, they don't have to worry about the tenants who originally helped them farm.

Since you don’t have to worry about it, why do you need to help the family farm? Not only do you have to pay the court’s taxes, but you also have to be exploited by the family once. In the end, the family may not even be able to fill their stomachs.

There is no need to worry about the court increasing the land tax, so why should they be exploited by the family or the landlord? Isn't it good to increase farming and pay taxes to the court?
Farm for yourself, so that even in a normal disaster year, at least you don't have to worry about someone in your family starving to death!
And those hermits entrusted in their names will definitely choose to leave them, and leave with their families to open up wasteland and farm.

If this is the case, then who should plant the countless fields of the aristocratic family? It is impossible to let them, the elders, plant them!
"Hey! Lu He, calm down, this matter..."

"Calm down! Li Shimin is going to dig the foundation of our family, how can you make me calm down?"

Zheng Yan originally wanted to persuade him to calm down, but in the middle of the conversation, Lu He interrupted him like a madman.

In fact, what Lu He said was not wrong, but this time he wanted to break the foundation of the family, but he mistakenly misunderstood the main messenger behind him. It was not Li Shimin who wanted to break the foundation of the family, but Li Yin, who they always thought was a yellow-mouthed child. .

After Zheng Yan was interrupted, he also remained silent with embarrassment, and the displeasure flashed across his face.

Cui Miao of the Boling Cui Clan sees the performance of both of them. He knows that if they don't come out to speak at this time, maybe their already fragile alliance will collapse without the royal family's action. up.

So he stretched out his hand and patted Lu He's hand lightly, and comforted him: "Okay, Zhiming (Cui Miao's name), don't worry too much, what Old Zheng said is not wrong, it's not There is no solution."

Lu He knew that Cui Miao was always resourceful, and since he said so, he had no choice but to put away his feigned anger and said, "What can I do?"

Cui Miao did not speak directly, but glanced at Zheng Yan, meaning to let Zheng Yan speak first.

Zheng Yan did not refuse either, and directly pointed at the newspaper in front of him and said:
"Actually, the fundamental problem with this matter is the newspaper of Lao Shizi. At present, the influence of the "Datang Times" has not spread from Chang'an. As long as we control this source, even if Li Shimin declares that he will never pay more So what, other than the untouchables in Chang'an, can people in other places know?"

"Second!" Lu He clapped his hands and laughed.

Cui Miao also nodded slowly, expressing his agreement, "Yeah! Brother Zheng and I mean the same thing. To put it bluntly, the newspaper is still on the paper. The source has been cut off, let’s see how they will get this newspaper.”

Lu He suddenly realized, nodded with a mature and prudent look, and said, "Yes! Isn't the technology of papermaking in the hands of your two families? Has it become a joke!"

"No!" "No!"

Who knew that when he said this, Zheng Yan and Cui Miao directly and sternly refused.

Lu He glanced at the serious faces of the two with a puzzled expression, "What do you mean? You want to cut off the royal paper, but you don't want to suspend the sale of paper, so how do you want to cut it off?"

He really didn't understand what these two old things meant. If he meant not to sell paper to the outside world, the newspaper run by the royal family would declare bankruptcy in less than a month.

"Chiming, don't worry, you'll know after listening to us." Cui Miao persuaded again softly.

"Hmph!" Lu He snorted coldly, turning his head away.

Cui Miao and Zheng Yan looked at each other, each showing a wry smile, and then Zheng Yan said: "Actually, what we mean is not to sell paper at the current price, but to increase the price."

"Hmph!" Hearing the explanation, Lu He turned his head and asked again: "What's the use of raising the price? Could it be that the royal family won't buy it after raising the price?"

"Humph! Ignorance..." Zheng Yan snorted angrily, but also turned his head away and stopped talking.

"Hey!" Cui Miao sighed heavily, then took up the conversation and said, "Zhi Ming, do you know the selling price of this "Da Tang Times"?"

"What happened to Shi Wen?" Lu He replied.

"Then what is the selling price of such a large sheet of paper?" Cui Miao asked again.

"It's almost ten words!" Lu He replied unconsciously at first, but after a while, he slapped his hands and laughed:

"Haha! I understand what you mean. What you mean is to raise the price to a level that a royal family can't bear. They originally had three newspapers, which means that they will lose at least two if they don't sell a newspaper now." As much as ten pennies, if the price is raised, they will lose more, and at that time they will choose to stop the newspaper, right!"

"That's what it means!" Cui Miao nodded.

Zheng Yan turned his head, but he didn't continue to speak, but just let out a cold snort.

He was very unwilling to communicate with Lu He, an ignorant person. As Fan Yang Lu's spokesperson in Chang'an City, he couldn't even see such a simple truth.

I don't know what the head of Fan Yang Lu's family thinks!

Just as the three of them were discussing how to deal with the royal family, they were in another private room in Baiyun Tower.

Li Rusong from the Zhao County Li family and Cui Yiwen from the Qinghe Cui family are also sitting together, with a piece of "Datang Times" in front of them!
However, they were not as nervous as they were in the other private room, or they were trying to calculate something.

After all, the family attacked in the newspaper was not their two families, although their family also had quite a few tenants and hermits!

However, the original rent of their family was much lower than that of other families, and after they completely fell to the royal family, they sent a letter to the family to reduce the rent again, so this policy did not have much impact on them.

At most, the original hermits turned into registered tenants, paying an extra tax to the royal family. It is more reasonable that these taxes were not paid by their family.

After the two of them carefully read all the text on the three twelve pages, they both sighed heavily.

Li Rusong was the first to speak: "Brother Cui, whose handwriting do you think this time will be?"

"Such a big handwriting must be only our majesty with great talent and boldness!" Cui Yiwen laughed loudly.

"No, no! I don't think so!" Li Rusong shook his head lightly, expressing his rebuttal.

"Oh! Brother Li thinks so?"

"The old man feels that His Royal Highness King Qin must have done the writing this time!" Li Rusong was unusually sure, and when he mentioned Li Yin, his face became more solemn.

"How do you know?" Cui Yiwen asked in disbelief.

In his heart, only Li Shimin, the master of the Tang Dynasty, can do it if he can use such a large amount of manpower and material resources.

There are indeed many things that are puzzling about Qin Wang Li Yin, but the power and financial resources in his hands are not enough to support this kind of scene.

After all, he is also very aware of the price of paper. Every time a newspaper is sold, he loses more than [-] cents, or even more!
This is not something that Li Yin, the king of Qin who has not officially opened a mansion and government office, can afford.

"Brother Cui, do you really think that the paper for this newspaper was purchased from those two companies?" Li Rusong continued to play tricks.

"Isn't it?" Cui Yiwen picked up the newspaper in his hand and observed it for a while, then looked at Li Rusong suspiciously.

"No!" Li Rusong shook a finger in front of his face, and continued: "Although the paper used in newspapers is not as good as top-grade rice paper, it is much better than ordinary rice paper in terms of quality and ink absorption. It is better than that, and the feel of this kind of paper is obviously very different from the paper sold by those two companies, so I conclude that this paper must be the new method of papermaking invented by King Qin."

"Also, yesterday our spies received a shocking piece of news!"

"What news?" Every super family has its own intelligence department, and Cui Yiwen knows about it, but their family's spies haven't found any news recently!

"Red Blood Guard!" Li Rusong looked very solemn, and repeated again: "King Qin controls the Red Blood Guard, and the entire Red Blood Guard has completely turned from darkness to light, and is now a reporter from the Datang Times!"

"What? King Qin is in control of the Red Blood Guard, and it has turned from darkness to light?" Cui Yiwen couldn't believe it, and after a while he confirmed again: "Brother Li, what you said is true, you know it means ..."

"It means that His Majesty the King of Qin has known about the control of Chixuewei for a long time, and the Datang Times must have participated in His Majesty."

Li Rusong didn't wait for him to finish, and spoke directly.

To be honest, if he hadn't confirmed it a few times like his own spies, he wouldn't believe that Li Shimin would give the power of the Red Blood Guard to Li Yin, and even allow this power to turn from the dark to the bright!
You must know that the meaning of this kind of power on the bright side is completely different from that on the dark side!

"No! Brother Li, we must go to pay our respects to the King of Qin immediately, or else he might attack us after he cleans up the other families this time!"

After Cui Yiwen was stunned for a moment, he immediately stood up and grabbed the "Datang Times" in front of him and said anxiously.

"Hey! Let's go! At present, we can only completely fall to the royal family, or the King of Qin..."

Of course, Li Rusong knew that according to Li Yin's approach, after eliminating the other super families, he would definitely not let the two of them go.

But he is not as short-sighted as the spokespersons of several other families. He is very clear that King Qin cannot be regarded as an ordinary genius!
Everyone who dares to oppose the King of Qin has almost no good fruit to eat, not to mention their aristocratic families, but how many times has His Majesty suffered at the hands of the King of Qin?

The two reached an agreement and went straight out of the Baiyun Tower...