The official road of the farmer

"I'm afraid we don't have so much silver to buy grain from the common people." There are many places where the imperial court needs to use silver.

Moreover, the transaction of money and goods is too low-level in their opinion, how can their court do business with merchants?Not to mention that it is easy to drive up prices or be greedy for ink.

Ye Junshu thought for a while, and then said, "Maybe there is another way."

Although they didn't give much advice on the second method, Ye Junshu knew that in their minds, the second method was even less desirable.

Wu Jiyun was a little disappointed at first, he had high expectations for Ye Junshu, but the two opinions that Ye Junshu raised were only sublimated on the basis of what other people said, and they didn't surprise him.

Although the operability is strong, the risks it bears are not small.

Hearing from Ye Junshu that there are other ways, Wu Jiyun unconsciously cheered up.

Ye Junshu said: "My dynasty has a vast land and abundant resources, and there are many capable people in all walks of life. Although the merchants are low-level, there are a lot of them.

When a businessman has money, he naturally pursues the approval of the court and the respect of others.

I think it is possible to propose to His Majesty to solicit donations from merchants, aristocratic families, etc. in the name of the imperial court, and those who donate the most can be rewarded by His Majesty..."

But before Ye Junshu finished speaking, Sheng Wenbai, the servant on the right, frowned and said: "Nonsense! I am in a great summer, and I still have to bow my head to merchants? Where does this put the face of my court?"

Ye Junshu has always known that even if there is no emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, there are distinct classes of scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen. Even if their own family has a shop business, perhaps a large part of their family's income comes from the rent of the shop, but they themselves disdain to do business in person , Basically, they are either managed by their own relatives, or managed by their confidantes.

Ye Junshu did not expect that the idea of ​​soliciting donations from businessmen, in Sheng Wenbai's view, was a bow to them, which aroused such intense emotions in him.

Compared with Sheng Wenbai's reaction, Wu Jiyun was a bit more insipid, but he didn't quite agree with Ye Junshu's idea.

It's not just about the integrity of the imperial court. He thinks that Ye Junshu's suggestion is not to announce to the world that their imperial treasury is short of money, which cannot be described by a simple word 'poor'?

Outsiders will inevitably guess that they can't even give out the supplies to relieve the people?Otherwise, why do you need donations?

Wu Jiyun frowned, but didn't stop Sheng Wenbai's words.

After Sheng Wenbai finished speaking, Ye Junshu said in a deep voice: "I understand your concerns, everyone, just listen to me."

"The matter of fundraising, of course, is not to be said clearly, but we find someone to disclose some information in private, and those who are interested will naturally understand what they want and take the initiative to stand up..."

Merchants can't get ahead without profit. For them, it is a very cost-effective thing to buy the court's affirmation for them.

As long as they find a suitable businessman to speak out, and someone takes the lead, someone will naturally do it consciously.

Although Ye Junshu and the others had a caravan to cooperate with, they were too far away from them, and the far water could not save the nearby fire. However, there were many capable people in the imperial court, and there were always people in contact with those representatives of the rich merchants.

Ye Junshu felt that his method was much better than the previous two proposals.

But their ideas are different, and they are more accepting of the first two methods.

In general, it is to save face and suffer.

Of course, no matter how much Ye Junshu slandered in his heart, he remained calm on the face.

In addition to taking care of the court's face, it is necessary to find ways to solve the problem.

Ye Junshu explained his thoughts in detail.

In short, the imperial court still has to act as if it is active in disaster relief, giving as much food and silver as it needs, and everything is based on the safety of the people.

On the other hand, at the same time, find a few more influential figures in the business world, and reveal a little bit that the imperial court will reward the top few who have contributed the most to actively participating in the disaster relief activities.

Ye Junshu believed that even Emperor Tai'an had confidantes who did business to enrich his private treasury.If someone pushes it, it will definitely be done.

At that time, the scene will be that the wealthy businessmen will also care about the world, empathize with the suffering people of Daxia, and actively contribute their meager strength to tide over the difficulties with Daxia.

Emperor Tai'an was deeply moved by the dedication of the rich people, and selected the wealthy businessmen who contributed the most to reward and encourage them.

At that time, the people of the imperial court will be united, so why worry about not being able to tide over the difficulties?

After this incident, I am afraid that Daxia will be more united, and the cohesion will be unprecedentedly high.

The more people listened to Ye Junshu's words, they changed their minds one after another, thinking that this plan would work.

Although the final result is to ask others to raise donations to tide over the difficulties, but in a different way, it becomes that others take the initiative to raise donations to save the court's face.

And it doesn't need to involve the common people whose life is not easy, and the court doesn't need to pay anything, only His Majesty's praise is needed.

In the end everyone thought it was a good idea.

After Sheng Wenbai listened to it, he realized Ye Junshu's final thoughts. He felt that he had misunderstood, and felt quite embarrassed.

Ye Junshu didn't mind. Originally, things were discussed and discussed, and it wasn't just his words. It's nothing to have a little quarrel. After talking about it, the relationship is still very good.

With a way to deal with the matter, they all breathed a sigh of relief, and felt that it was Ye Junshu.

Young people are brains. After this meeting, no matter how big the problem is, it is not a problem.

Right now, it is only necessary to sort out the core content of this meeting, and then hand it over to Shangshu Wu Jiyun to listen to Datian.

As long as Emperor Tai'an nods, someone below will naturally do things.

What happened next had nothing to do with Ye Junshu.

This meeting lasted all morning, and when they adjourned, it was lunch time.

The court's treatment is very good, they have to work all day on business, and the meal at noon is provided by the court, and there is also a lunch break.

Noon to midnight is the time for lunch and lunch break.

Basically every department is the same, Ye Junshu went directly to the dining room with a group of colleagues.Dispersed after lunch.

Ye Junshu went straight back to his office. Instead of resting for a while as usual, he began to straighten out the work he had accumulated during his absence.

When he was on business in the afternoon, he summoned the secretary of his branch, held an internal meeting, and dealt with the work again, and he didn't go home until it was getting dark.

Ye Junshu relaxed his mind. After a busy day, his whole body felt extremely stiff.

Sure enough, if you relax for too long, your body will not adapt to high-intensity work as soon as you come back.

When Ye Junshu returned home, Li Yu didn't go to the barracks right away, he stayed at home.

When he came back, it was completely dark.

The children had already had dinner and a comfortable bath under Li Yu's decision.

It wasn't until seeing Ye Junshu came back that they all greeted Ye Junshu and made out for a while before going back to the room to sleep.

It's bedtime for the kids, and they can't be kept up late.

Ye Junshu and Li Yu returned to their yard, and the servants brought up hot meals and dishes.

Seeing the two bowls of rice served, and the other bowl still placed in front of Ye Junshu, he couldn't help but ask, "Have you eaten yet?" Are you waiting for him to come back together?

Ye Junshu's heart was warm, Ah Yu really loved him, worried that he would lose his appetite to eat alone, and even waited for him to come back.

But Ye Junshu was also a little angry that Li Yu didn't care about his body. He came back too late, and the normal meal time was already past. If he often eats irregularly, it is easy to cause stomach problems.

Ye Junshu was about to tell Li Yu not to wait for him in the future.

Li Yu paused, looked down at the high pile of rice in front of him, "I'm hungry again." The meal he ate earlier was a bit small, and he digested it in a while.

Just happened to be with Ye Junshu... Well, he had supper, Ye Junshu's dinner.

Ye Junshu: "..." Well, he's the one who pretended to be sentimental.

Li Yu's appetite increased dramatically during this time, and Ye Junshu had gotten used to it. He really thought that Li Yu might be pregnant, but apart from this, there was no other reaction.

Moreover, he touched Li Yu's abdomen a few times, and they were all tight and flat. Presumably he misunderstood.

Fortunately, he didn't ask another doctor, otherwise, if Li Yu misunderstood that he wanted a child, he would be very wronged.

Maybe it's just that Ah Yu's food intake has increased. Even if he sleeps more at night, it's just that his body is relatively weak. In addition, he travels long distances every day, and now he can't bear it.

Ye Junshu scooped up a bowl of soup for Li Yu and himself.

He drank a few sips before he felt relieved and had an appetite to eat.

The two finished their meal quietly, and after being asked to leave, Ye Junshu went directly to wash up.

Li Yu had also washed up, and the two of them lay down in bed, and they had time to talk quietly for a while.

Li Yu asked Ye Junshu: "Is the situation serious?"

Ye Junshu knew what Li Yu was asking about, so he replied, "I haven't seen it myself, but it should be serious."

They just came back, and the whole court was noisy, but the matter had not yet started to be resolved.

Only an imperial envoy was appointed to take some people from the Ministry of Industry to the disaster area.

"You also know that the imperial court's autumn tax has not yet been collected, and so much money has been used up front. For this disaster relief, the Ministry of Households can't provide too many supplies for a while..."

Then Ye Junshu briefly explained the method he thought of to Li Yu.

Li Yu nodded in agreement, turned his head to look at Ye Junshu's chiseled profile, and was unconsciously filled with pride.

His Zizhou is really amazing!

There are really few people in the world who can match this ingenuity.

At least before Ye Junshu mentioned these methods, no one would have thought of them.

It's not that they can't think of it, but that they don't think about it.

Li Yu feels that if there is no last method proposed by Ye Junshu, I am afraid that the attitude of those officials will be to procrastinate or pass the buck to each other. Give as many people as you want.

The final solution is nothing more than forcing tax increases in some areas, and it is the common people who will be exploited in the end.

Ye Junshu's method is very good. Although it is unethical to ask the merchants to take out things for nothing, it does not hurt them, and it is even a good thing for mutual benefit. It is also an opportunity for the merchants.

In fact, what Ye Junshu thought was that if possible, Emperor Tai'an could give the first few merchant families with the most contributions a place in the imperial examination, so that the children of merchants would have a chance to obtain fame.

However, considering the lofty literati of his colleagues, if he proposed this award at that time, I am afraid that it would make his colleagues even more dissatisfied, so he did not say this, but said that Emperor Tai'an should give honorary awards, so that the status of businessmen in the business world will be greatly improved. Invisibly it will be higher.

After all, being famous in front of Emperor Tai'an, this intangible benefit is huge, who wouldn't want Emperor Tai'an to be familiar with him?

In the future, if anyone wants to think about their share of property, they have to weigh it first.

But Ye Junshu felt that he could still fight for the merchants.

The class of scholars, farmers, businessmen and commerce is distinct. Otherwise, why would Ye Junshu desperately want to get ahead, just to get fame and become an official, instead of being a businessman to make money?

The business status is low-end, even poor people look down on them, no matter how rich they are.

People from businessman background and their descendants are not qualified to obtain fame and fame. No matter how rich they are, it is difficult for them to obtain power.

In fact, this is what the situation requires.

Ye Junshu would not be so stupid as to change the status of a businessman.

Because he knew it wouldn't work.

How about saying that the imperial court does not encourage officials to conduct business by themselves?Even Ye Junshu himself, in the Chaoyang Caravan, only received dividends and did not directly participate in it.

Even his eldest brother, Li Changchuan, they all knew that his eldest brother was going to do business to make money for Tai'an Emperor, but in reality, the name of his departure was not that.

These are private, no one is so blatant.

Even if everyone knows it well, the law does not blame everyone.

Moreover, this is the thinking and practice of the people of the scholar-class class. They participate from top to bottom.

But if the status of the lowly people in the eyes of most of the gentry class is directly changed from bottom to top, in their view, it will undoubtedly violate their taboos and interests.

The two things seem to be similar, but the actual nature is completely different.

Ye Junshu felt that if class antagonisms were really broken in the future, it would basically be time for the movement to emancipate the mind and transition from feudalism to capitalism.

But Daxia is far from reaching this time, and forcibly changing the course of history may cause a backlash.

However, Ye Junshu felt that if he really made a great contribution at that time, he would just let go and give a few places to participate in the imperial examination, and the officials should not have much opinion at that time, which can be regarded as the return of those businessmen bleeding.

Ye Junshu thought so, so he told Li Yu about it.

After his analysis, Li Yu also felt that what Ye Junshu said was very reasonable.

Ye Junshu proposed to focus on those wealthy businessmen. Although the intention is good, both parties will get what they need in the end, but after all, it will harm the interests of others.

If you can win a few places, it can be regarded as a little compensation for those businessmen. The businessmen can only be grateful to Ye Junshu and will never complain. Moreover, for these few places, I am afraid that they will fight to the death. .

However, this matter should not be brought up at the beginning, but after all the dust has settled, if there are businessmen who are really generous, and then they propose to Emperor Tai'an at that time, there is at least a [-]% chance that this matter will be successful.

Li Yu's idea was to talk about it after the matter was resolved, and the two had the same idea, so they didn't mention it for the time being.

Ye Junshu pondered for a while, and then said to Li Yu: "Ah Yu, don't go to the military camp for the time being, if you have time these two days, you can go to the palace, and you can propose to the empress, let him take the lead and do his best with the family members of the harem. , to share worries for His Majesty."

In this way, the Empress Empress can gain a wave of fame in front of Emperor Tai'an, civil and military officials, and the common people, and the Empress Empress' position will be more stable.

This is also beneficial to the Li family and the Seventh Prince.

Ye Junshu talked for a long time, but didn't hear Li Yu's response, turned his head to look over in doubt, couldn't help laughing, it turned out that Li Yu had fallen asleep.

Ye Junshu reached out and gently tucked the corner of the quilt, stopped talking, and closed his eyes to sleep.

He thought to himself, let's talk to Ah Yu tomorrow.