"I've always wondered why you're so wary of shipping. If there is such a concern, why should it be said and put into practice? Besides, you're also a big supporter of maritime trade, aren't you? Li Erqi looked at Suning's recital and asked a little depressedly.

After the crown, with the official position and power, Suning can go to the court, can be righteous and bright to Li Er Majesty Xià proposed to build yì, instead of hiding in the study as a child to give Li Er Majesty advice, now Suning can play and deal with a series of things under the jurisdiction of the vertical and horizontal department, as long as it is the external and internal affairs that the vertical and horizontal department is responsible for, Suning can intervene and be above board.

Suning also looked at Li Er Majesty depressedly: "Your Majesty, in the end, you still didn't take what the minister said to heart, right?" Even if the Seven Kings go to sea, even if the people go to sea, you still don't have any great expectations for maritime trade, do you? Isn't it true that maritime transport was developed only for the sake of the navy, and that maritime merchants could become great merchants who were rich and rivaled? ”

Li Ermajesty closed Suning's music and said in a deep voice: "In the past six years since you came out, I have attached great importance to what you have said and put forward, and put them into practice, and the effect is basically very good, so as long as it is the opinions and suggestions you put forward, I will attach great importance to it, and study and pay attention to it all the time, no matter what it is, I do this, you are also a courtier with an official position, you must have a minimum responsibility, and you must also have a basic understanding of your current status."

The rank I gave you from the third rank is not too high, but you understand. I understand, everyone understands, what does it mean to be an official in the vertical and horizontal department, what does it mean to be an official in the vertical and horizontal department, and what does your left squire mean, in the past, when you didn't have an official title and only a knighthood, did I despise you? The proposal you put forward can even be put into history books in the future, not to mention that now that you are a third-grade official and a high and powerful position, how can I not attach importance to the first recital that you have given me since your new official took office? ”

Li Ermaxi replied very calmly and gently, such a tone and attitude made Suning feel a little uncomfortable. Before, it was either a bitter squeeze or a casual perfunctory. The basic attitude is like this, but today's gentleness, and even a trace of attention and respect that can be felt, Suning understands. The relationship between himself and Li Ermaxi has changed. Change of status. It means a change in the relationship between the two parties.

He is already an adult official.

"The minister understands, the minister misunderstands His Majesty." Suning admitted his mistake very seriously.

Li Erqi nodded, and then said, "It is precisely because of this. It is impossible for me to despise your opinions, nor to ignore your ideas and advices, but it seems that since you entered the court, you have been very concerned about the development of commerce, and have vigorously promoted the development of commerce, but at the same time, you have been extremely vigilant against commerce and businessmen, and have not hesitated to impose heavy taxes on unscrupulous businessmen and impose severe punishments, fortify them everywhere, and supervise them everywhere. ”

Suning can't tell Li Er why it is, but some words can be said: "Majesty, why, Majesty should also understand something, why Shang Yang promoted the policy of valuing agriculture and suppressing business, why all dynasties and dynasties put agriculture in the first place, commerce at the end, vigorously suppress businessmen, suppress commerce, Shi farmers and industry and commerce, Shang is the last class, Your Majesty, the ancestors of the virtuous people did this, it is not unreasonable."

Is Shang Ying wrong? Is Lee Slang wrong? The First Emperor and Li Si were wrong? Han Gaozu was wrong? Zhang Liangxiao, He Chenping, Cao Shen is wrong? Emperor Guangwu was wrong? Cao Mengde, Sun Zhongmou, and Liu Xuande are all wrong? Zhuge Liang was also wrong? Xun Yu, Xun Yu, Cheng Yu, Jia Xu, Sima Yi, these people are all wrong? Even those emperors in the troubled times of a hundred years, Yang Jian and Yang Guang of the former Sui Dynasty, they have always insisted on emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, and the sages of the past dynasties have always insisted on emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, wrong? Are all the saints wrong?

A mistake is not terrible, but a mistake is a thousand years wrong, my clan has not died out, it is really the emperor and the queen of heaven to bless the land of my Shenzhou, the only reason is that they are not wrong, or rather, they are not completely wrong, just part of the wrong, the other part is right, Your Majesty, have you ever thought about it, before the Shang Dynasty changed the law to implement heavy agriculture and suppress business, what was Huaxia's view of businessmen? ”

Li Er Majesty muttered, "You mean Xia Shang Zhou? ”

Suning nodded: "Exactly." ”

Li Erqi shook his head slowly: "Although I read, I haven't read all those history books, and I don't know a lot, especially the incomplete historical materials of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, which are old and have problems with credibility, what?" Reading history and writing history books have some insights? How's your history going? ”

Suning replied: "The history book written by the minister will be available in the near future, but at present, His Majesty must understand why Shang Ying abandoned the Xia Shang Zhou's encouragement of commercial development, forcibly restricted commercial development, and gained Confucian support as a Legalist, so that the suppression of commerce has been maintained to this day. Why didn't Xia Shang Zhou emphasize agriculture and suppress business, and when he arrived at Shang Ying, he had to suppress it? ”

Li Erxi asked, "Why?" ”

Su Ning said slowly: "What the minister understands is not very complete, but it can be generally understood, and he has also told His Majesty a lot of what the minister understands, such as Li Xian's change of law, is because he thinks that the giant businessman manipulates the market price so that the price of things like rice and grain, which is necessary for life, is too expensive, so that the people can't afford it, which will lead to political instability and threaten the status of the monarch, so he implemented measures to suppress the merchants."

It is also reasonable to think about it, because it is necessary to restrict the merchants from manipulating prices, so as to stabilize the situation, so that everyone can have food, although the land is owned by the farmers, but the grain produced will be purchased, hoarded, and not sold by those who are interested in it, so that the households in the city who are not engaged in agriculture and have no land lose the source of food, and the price of rice in the market will become more and more expensive, and those merchants can obtain huge profits, but the people have limited financial resources, and they cannot afford to buy such expensive rice, and they cannot eat enough, so they can only make trouble.

The national turmoil caused by merchants was not uncommon in the late Zhou period, and even the giant businessmen could become officials and control the country's affairs. For their own benefit, such as Lü Buwei, these merchants are more hateful than simple nobles, the source of aristocratic property is determined, there are fiefs and affairs, no more and no less, but after the merchants are in power, they will use their power to clean up other merchants and annex their business, resulting in the sale of a certain item only supplied by one merchant, and it is still a necessity to buy. And so it goes. They have the final say on the price, can't the people only buy at a high price?

The sages of Shang Ying's contemporaries must have also noticed that in the era before Shang Ying, the second generation of Xia Shang will not talk about it. The land of China is basically a barren and inhabited barbarian land. How the businessman tosses again. Limited to the region, they couldn't toss anything, even if the Shang Dynasty greatly increased the territory. In the era of barter, commerce could not develop, and merchants could not develop until the Zhou Dynasty.

The unification of the country has been stable for hundreds of years, and the princes have been set up to expand the territory, and the territory of China is basically determined in that period, the Zhou royal family is declining, the etiquette is broken, and the princes are vying for hegemony, in order to enhance the national strength, the princes will naturally take a series of measures, from the loss of the national capital by King You, until the king of Ping moved eastward, the Zhou royal family completely lost its authority, the princes have lost their control, and the development is not something that Zhou Tianzi can say, so business is also widely favored in that period because of the fast money and the rapid enhancement of financial resources.

Even rich merchants can do business and become big officials and even be nobles, Lü Buwei is one of the best, and there are many big merchants in the same era, who have mastered the supply of salt, iron and copper in many places, without salt to eat, people will die, without iron and copper, there is no way to build agricultural tools and weapons, that is to say, the storage of these big merchants has limited the country's military strength and agricultural development.

In view of this, Shang Ying implemented the policy of heavy agriculture and suppression of commerce in the Qin State, suppressed merchants, suppressed commerce, and stabilized the situation, laying a good foundation for the Qin State to unify the world, it is not difficult to see that there are not many countries in the same era to suppress the development of commerce, very few, but they are all powerful countries for a while, especially the Qin State, the most thorough, so that they dominate the world.

To the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took the salt and iron into the official office, did not allow big merchants to operate, and put an end to the occurrence of businessmen controlling the lifeline of the country and the people, the Han Dynasty was therefore stable, laying the foundation for Emperor Wu to attack the Xiongnu, and because of this, heavy agriculture and suppressing commerce became a national policy, which was implemented by all dynasties in the future, the original intention of this policy was good, but later it was misinterpreted by Confucianism, and it was changed to discriminate against merchants, and it was later considered that destroying merchants was the right way, bartering was the royal way, and the ministers did not dare to compliment. ”

Li Erma raised his head and said slowly: "All in all, you said this to sue me, if you manage the businessman too hard, it will lead to the decline of the national strength, but if you let the businessman go too loose, it will cause more trouble, so that the businessman can control the national government and cause chaos, is that what you mean?" ”

Suning nodded and said, "Your Majesty." ”

Li Erxi took a sip of tea from the teacup, and asked lightly: "Could it be that my Tang Dynasty is so easy to be controlled by businessmen?" That's an exaggeration, isn't it? ”

Suning said: "It's not controlled by businessmen, it's controlled by money. ”

Li Erma was stunned for a moment, and Suning struck while the iron was hot: "As the old saying goes, the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit; What is the beneficiary? Money goods too. ”

Li Ermajesty put down the teacup and asked with some uncertainty: "Is this really the case, will it really be so strict?" ”

Suning nodded: "If that's not the case?" Why should the minister ask His Majesty to set up an audit department to deal with the situation, the tasks of the vertical and horizontal departments are too heavy, there are too few officials, and now it is difficult to deal with heavy and trivial matters, if you don't set up some special departments at this time in case of emergency, if it really floods, you can't deal with it, the reason why the minister asked His Majesty to rebuild the "Zhenguan Law" is precisely because of this, this is the first thing the minister has done since he took office, no matter what, the minister does not want to see that day! ”

Li Erqi sighed: "In this world, there are always so many things that are not good and have to be done, Suning, I treat you as an official, as a courtier, not a child, you are responsible for what you do, once this department is established, if things are not as you expected, the impeachment of the officials, and the opposition of the other officials, you have to weigh it yourself, of course, I don't want it to be as you expected." ”

Suning bowed very seriously: "Minister Suning, thank you for your trust, the minister will definitely not let that kind of thing happen." ”

Li Erma Xià waved his hand and let Suning retreat, Suning got Li Erma's permission, and he had to go out to the province to get the approval of Wei Zheng's big guy, if this master did not approve, then the audit department still couldn't do it, but this master obviously still supported Suning's regulatory actions for business, and approved it without saying a word, and the establishment of the audit department was officially established.

The rest of the things, Suning will be handed over to Zhang Wuregret, the audit department belongs to the vertical and horizontal department, under the direct leadership of Suning, Suning as the waiter, Zhang Wuregret is called the deputy, in fact, the real person in charge, because although the headquarters of the audit department is set up in Chang'an, but the main office is still in Yangzhou, not in Chang'an, which is convenient for direct supervision.

Zhang Wuregret, you must not let me down! (To be continued......)