In the Chongwen Museum,

At this moment, it was recess, and the princes gathered in a circle curiously, inexplicably watching Merton place one domino after another on the ground.

"It's finally set!"

Morton Morton wiped a handful of sweat, solemnly put the last red domino away, and looked at the colorful dominoes on the ground with satisfaction, he tried many times, this time was the most successful, and the number of dominoes placed was the largest.

"Merton, what's the fun of this, why don't we go and play Keju together!" Li Zhi pouted and said. At his young age, there was no better game for him.

"It's like, what's so funny about a few erected signs." Li You, the king of Qi, also said with disdain.

Only the older prince looked a little interested, knowing that Merton often flowed out of Merton's hands some unheard of new things, and these new things often had incredible surprises.

A few days ago, the Mo family's new wine sold 300,000 yuan in one day, which simply shocked Chang'an City, and even the princes were speechless.

Morton smiled slightly: "This is an experiment of the Mo family, as long as the first wooden card is knocked down, then something unexpected will happen." ”

"Really?" Li Zhihu said suspiciously.

"I don't know which prince wants to come and experience it for himself." Merton finished his work and asked, turning his head.

"I'm coming!"

Li Zhi was the most excited and said enthusiastically.

"His Royal Highness King Jin, please!" Merton nodded, stretched out his hand to invite.

Li Zhi stepped forward and carefully pushed down the first red domino in front of him.

With a "click", the two dominoes collided, making a crisp sound, and the first domino collapsed, knocking down the second domino under the action of gravity.

Suddenly the second domino collapsed, and then smashed on the third red domino, the fourth, and the fifth......

"Ahh

Watching the dominoes fall one by one, Li Zhi was startled and took a few steps back.

"Merton, don't blame me, I just knocked one down." Li Zhi waved his hand again and again to show his innocence.

Li Tai shook his head again and again, secretly saying in his heart that he was really stupid, the miracle that Merton said, maybe that's it!

However, Li Tai's guess was not entirely accurate, and the real miracle was yet to come, as Merton painted the dominoes in different colors, and Li Zhi pushed down only the red column.

This column of red dominoes is poured directly into the center of the dominoes, and then spreads from the center to all sides.

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple.

The seven colored dominoes collapsed in an orderly arrangement, taking on different colors in turn, blooming like flowers.

"Wow!"

The princes were amazed, where had they ever seen such a miraculous thing? I couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

Especially Li Zhi was even more excited, this was only done by his hands.

"If you don't go to school, how can you play here?"

Li Shimin's stern voice sounded from behind everyone.

"See Father!"

"See the emperor!"

Merton and the princes hurriedly saluted.

"Enlighten the Emperor, this is what Merton did." Li Zhi did not hesitate to betray Merton completely.

"Hmm!" Li Shimin's eyes sharpened and swept towards Merton.

"Back to the emperor, this is a domino experiment of the Mo family, a method to exercise people's patience and willpower, and a puzzle game." Merton hurriedly argued.

"Father Emperor Mingjian, this game uses the simplest dominoes, but it also involves the magic of moving the whole body, as long as you push a domino, you can fall all of them." Li Chengqian stepped forward to help Morton speak.

"Knock down one, the whole body is upside down, and the whole body is moved, which is really wonderful, what is the reason?" Wei Zheng, who was following behind Li Shimin, spoke up.

"Back to Lord Wei's words, this is based on the war between Wu and Chu, and the creation of this domino game, which requires the same spacing, and must have super high patience and carefulness, and if you accidentally destroy the whole plate, it is indeed able to exercise people's minds." Merton explained.

"Wu Chu is coming from the war, come quickly." Wei Zheng couldn't wait to say that he was a master of historiography himself, so he naturally had an unusual interest in historical allusions.

"Lord Wei, have you ever learned that in the late Spring and Autumn Period, Wu and Chu were at war one after another." The original cause is known. Merton asked.

Wei Zheng nodded and said without hesitation: "It is said that the people of Chu were the first to attack the Wu State, and the Wu State counterattacked, and finally the war was repeated.

Merton shook his head and said: "Back then, Mo Sheng thought the same, so he took the initiative to mediate with Wu and Chu to resolve the contradictions between the two countries, but after learning the original reason for the evil between the two countries, he was dumbfounded.

"Oh, what's the reason? Li Shimin also asked with great interest.

Merton said: "Maybe the emperor doesn't believe it, the initial reason is just that there was a conflict between two girls on the border of Wu and Chu. ”

"What?"

Suddenly everyone was shocked, why didn't they believe that this was the reason? In particular, Wei Zheng couldn't accept that the overlords of the two countries were at war because of the conflict between the two girls.

"I know, it must be two women as beautiful as Xi Shi Zheng Dan to make the two countries so bad." Li You, the king of Qi, suddenly said with great interest.

Suddenly, everyone stared at Li You, the king of Qi, with surprised eyes, which immediately made Li You, the king of Qi, blush.

However, everyone muttered to themselves in their hearts, if this is really the case, it is indeed somewhat possible.

Merton shook his head and said, "It's two ordinary mulberry pickers. ”

Everyone was immediately disappointed, but a strong interest immediately rose.

Merton explained: "Legend has it that during the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu and Chu had good relations with each other, and even women from the two countries could cross the border to pick mulberry leaves together.

Once the girl of Wu accidentally stepped on the foot of the girl who went abroad when playing a game, the people of Chu took the injured girl to blame the people of Wu, the people of Wu were disrespectful, the people of Chu were very annoyed, and left after killing five people, the Wu people retaliated and killed the family of the girl who went abroad, the doctor of Shouyi of Chu was furious, and sent troops to counterattack the Wu people, and the two countries of Wu and Chu fought against each other, and finally the prince of Wu Guo Guang attacked the capital of Chu Yingdu. ”

"Wechen has indeed seen such records in some historical materials." Wei Zheng nodded.

Merton sighed with emotion: "From stepping on the game to attacking the capital of Chu, there seems to be an invisible force in this series of events that has pushed the incident step by step to the point of no return. Mozi was very emotional when he heard this, and used this domino to explain the matter, calling it the domino effect.

"When the first domino falls, everything else is already doomed." Li Shimin's eyes froze, and he said thoughtfully.

"Not bad! Maybe there was a contradiction between the two countries, but the contradiction between the two mulberry pickers was the first domino to fall, which led to a series of things that followed. Merton nodded.

Everyone thought carefully about the story that Merton was telling at this moment, and couldn't help but sigh, if an event was a domino, it was exactly the same.

Wei Zheng suddenly sighed and said: "Mo Sheng's wisdom is really extraordinary, such a cumbersome dispute between the two countries is perfectly copied using dominoes, it is simply a miracle to turn decay into magic."

"So, this time the matter of the Grain Merchants Alliance, that is, the reappearance of this domino effect?" Li Shimin asked suddenly.

Merton nodded solemnly and said, "When Zhangjiazhuang began to harvest grain, the first domino had fallen, and other things were already doomed. ”

Li Shimin's face suddenly froze, and the information he got was much more detailed, not only around Chang'an City, but also in the entire Guanzhong region, where the grain merchants had fallen dominoes.

Of course, an example of thousands of years can not convince Li Shimin, and Merton actually reproduced the power of the domino effect in front of Li Shimin's eyes, and defeated the grain merchant alliance in the entire Guanzhong region with his own strength, Li Shimin knows that the power behind these grain merchants represents the major families, even in the face of such a terrifying gathering of forces, even Li Shimin does not dare to act rashly,

Such a seemingly impossible thing was actually done by Merton, and it was all under control, which made Li Shimin intuitively feel the power of Mohist knowledge for the first time.

According to the agitation in his patience, Li Shimin turned back to the princes and said sternly: Today's homework is over, everyone writes an article with the domino effect as a perception and submits it, and I will check it myself.

"It's Father!" The princes replied in unison,

Many princes glanced at Merton with resentment, if it weren't for this guy himself, why did he add another homework.

Now Li Shimin likes to summon Morton into the palace more and more to get along with the princes, this kid is simply the perfect child of someone else's family.

And Merton always has some strange knowledge, especially in arithmetic, which no one can match.

Li Shimin waved his hand and drove the other princes back to the school in the Chongwen Pavilion, and Merton also wanted to slip away, but he was glared at by Li Shimin's eyes, and immediately stiffened and stopped there,

"I heard you've made a lot of money lately." Li Shimin gritted his teeth and said, Morton's income of 100,000 yuan in half a month was already incredible to him, but he didn't expect that not long after, this kid actually made another move against the sky, earning 300,000 yuan a day.

Wei Zheng on the side also looked at Merton in surprise, and what surprised Wei Zheng the most was that Merton earned 300,000 yuan, but he paid very little.

"Back to Your Majesty, it's all a deposit in advance, and the goods will be given in the future, which are all big expenses, and in the end it's just some hard-earned money." Merton said with a sad face.

"If you work hard for money, the old man will live in vain for the rest of his life, and the old man will work hard all his life, and he can be regarded as a very good minister, and the amount of money in his life is not as much as you have for a day." Wei Zheng mends the knife.

"That's your old man's breeze, just right." Merton hurriedly said.

"Hehe, that's a nice thing to say, do you know how many people in the DPRK and China have come to visit you, saying that your move is too food-consuming, of course, it will shake the country's capital and cause a food crisis in Guanzhong." Li Shimin sneered.

Winemaking is originally a very food-consuming industry, and the food consumed to relieve thousands of sorrows is several times that of ordinary wine.

Merton was really about to cry this time, and hurriedly defended: "Your Majesty, the price of solving thousands of sorrows is high, and its real output is not much!" ”

"The price is high? Didn't you just say that you were making hard-earned money? Li Shimin looked at Merton with a smile and said.

Merton suddenly opened his mouth, it turned out that Li Shimin was waiting for him here, so he had to hang his head and say: "The kid knows his mistake and is willing to be punished." ”

"Then how do you say I should punish you!" Li Shimin continued to "chase and kill".

Mo Dun gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "The stuffy horses in Mojia Village and the settlement of thousands of sorrows are indeed extremely expensive, and Mojia Village is willing to pay two kinds of heavy taxes on wine to block everyone's mouths. ”

"Heavy taxes?" Li Shimin and Wei Zheng's hearts moved, but they looked at Merton silently on their faces.

"Mojia Village is willing to pay four taxes and one." Merton said proudly.

Li Shimin was shocked in his heart, Datang's commercial tax was only thirty taxes and one, and Merton suddenly raised it to four taxes and one.

According to this rate, the Ministry of Civil Affairs could earn seventy-five thousand yuan at once, and in the future, Merton would have to hand over one for every four horses he bought from the prairie. This is probably the heaviest commercial tax in history.

"Are you really willing to do that?" Li Shimin said solemnly, this is not a small amount.

"Your Majesty, if other projects Weichen is naturally unwilling, but this wine is indeed too food-intensive, and since this wine has already appeared, I believe that the method of wine purification will definitely spread out, and when the time comes, all the wineries in Datang will be able to brew such a high-grade wine, which will of course cause a food crisis. Since it was the trouble caused by Wechen, it would naturally be solved from Wechen. Merton said.

Taxation is the most important lever of regulation, and heavy taxation is indeed the most effective method.

"Your Majesty, what Mo Xiaozi said is very true, rather than causing a big disaster in the future, it is better to control it from the source today." Wei Zheng also said.

Li Shimin couldn't help but sigh for a while, although this kid often causes trouble, but there is a better first, that is, he causes his own trouble, and he handles it by himself, the previous grain price protection order incident, this time the incident of high alcohol, are all the same. It's love-hate at the same time.

However, Merton did not suffer a loss, the high price of these two wines, even if it is to pay four taxes and one, is enough to make Mojia Village make a lot of money.