When Zhou Yafu's carriage arrived at Weiyang Palace, it happened that Chao Cuo's carriage also arrived.

"Prime Minister!" Chao Cuo bowed slightly.

"Chao Yushi ......" Zhou Yafu returned the salute, and Zhou Yafu couldn't talk about good feelings, nor could he say malicious intentions.

However, he is a minister in the same hall, and Zhou Yafu still needs the cooperation and cooperation of the imperial historian and the yamen in many places.

"His Majesty summoned you and me to the palace today, I don't know if the prime minister knows the reason?" Chao Cuo walked up to Zhou Yafu and asked.

Zhou Yafu shook his head: "The heart of heaven is unpredictable!" However, if you think about it, it should have something to do with the upper count or five baht money! ”

Although today's political thinking sometimes seems to be very jumpy, most of the time, it can still be predicted.

For example, now, there is a sentence that almost overnight, everyone from the princes and ministers to the peddlers and pawns are familiar to everyone.

This sentence is: Hong Fan Bazheng, one is food, and the other is goods.

When today's son is not prominent, he will use this sentence to sparse the first emperor to describe his aspirations.

When he ascends the throne today, this sentence will become a phrase that must be understood and familiar to all people of all classes who want to make progress today.

If you don't even understand the importance and sensitivity of eating and drinking, then don't come out and mix!

Based on what Zhou Yafu has seen and heard, this year's plan, the first sentence of the plan of the 41 counties and 15 countries in the world is: The ministers are dead to hear, Hong Fan is eight politics, one is food, the other is goods, the people are safe if they are full, and the world is peaceful when they are enough.

It's not too crazy to shoot each other.

In Zhou Yafu's view, such a situation is a bit disgraceful. But it is better than when the emperor was first, and the county guards and the princes and kings went toe-to-toe. Antagonism to each other has to come well!

Today's governing ideas, in general. It still continues the tradition of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, suppresses and cracks down on the powerful, supports and protects the small and medium-sized landlord class, and continues to implement the Han family's policy of 'strong and weak'.

Although it is a bit radical in some places, but, the son of Liu, which generation doesn't like to make a fuss?

Even Emperor Hui, who is like a good baby, has not tentatively wanted to implement some of his ideas?

However, the prime minister in power at that time was Cao Shen.

So. Emperor Hui was sprayed with dog blood by Cao Shen without any suspense, and never dared to interfere with the prime minister's governance again.

Zhou Yafu knew that he was not Cao Shen, and he was not Emperor Hui today.

Therefore, for some small problems of Xinjun, he can endure it.

Chao Cuo listened to Zhou Yafu's words and nodded.

Each generation of the Liu family's sons of heaven has actually been studied before they ascended the throne.

For example, the first emperor was not yet on the throne. The ministers almost figured out his temper and temperament.

It's just that when the prince sat for less than a year today, he was put on the throne because of the violent death of the first emperor. Therefore, the courtiers did not know him carefully enough.

This is why there are all kinds of speculations and speculations of today's ministers.

Otherwise. If it was the time of the first emperor, the ministers often had not yet entered the palace, and they already knew what the Son of Heaven was looking for him on the way. Then, the manuscript began. By the time he met the saint, he had basically thought about a flowery recital.

"Prime Minister. Doctor Goshi! Just when Zhou Yafu wanted to communicate more with Chao Cuo, so that he could deal with it when he met with the saint, Sima Gate's palace opened, and the eunuch Wang Dao, a confidant of the Son of Heaven, walked out with a smile, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty orders the slave maid to welcome the second duke here!" ”

"It's hard work!" Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo bowed slightly.

Wang Dao hurriedly smiled and bowed down and said, "The slave doesn't dare to accept the gift of the second prince!" ”

Wang Dao has recently started reading, and after reading, he has understood many truths.

I also saw my position clearly.

He is just a slave of the Son of Heaven, but the two in front of him are the Minister of Social Affairs.

In all fairness, his status is beyond the reach of the soles of these two.

During the period of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, he first favored the eunuch Zhao Tong, and even traveled in the same car with him, but Yuan Ang said a word, and Zhao Tong died without knowing where he died.

Then Taizong favored Deng Tong and gave him countless powers and wealth.

However, once Deng Tong offended the then Prime Minister Shen Tujia, and was swollen by Shen Tujia, and was almost beheaded by Shen Tujia with the power of the prime minister - if it wasn't for Emperor Taizong's arrival, but even so, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen didn't have any reproach for Shen Tujia, and even took off his hat and thanked: This is my courtier, Jun Shizhi!

Today, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen compares himself everywhere.

Wang Dao knew very well that if he offended a Jiuqing-level important minister, I am afraid that the Son of Heaven would not care about the old feelings of the dragon.

Not to mention the two in front of him, one is the prime minister of the dynasty, the minister who took care of his life left by the edict of the first emperor, and the other is the imperial historian who killed people without calculation.

Zhou Yafu ignored Wang Dao's humility, he asked Wang Dao directly, "Do you know why His Majesty summoned us here?" ”

As the prime minister, Zhou Yafu has the right to know everything except the details of the emperor's harem life.

Wang Dao said with a smile: "The slave maid is just a subordinate summoned by His Majesty's side, and she doesn't understand the affairs of the society, but listening to His Majesty's whispers, it seems that this time the two Ming Dukes were summoned into the palace for the sake of salt and iron ......."

"Salt iron?" A hint of surprise flashed in Zhou Yafu's eyes.

And Chao Cuo is happy to be left with his hands and dances.

After the Wu Chu Rebellion, the policy of cutting the feudal domain gradually gave way to the more moderate Tui En Order, especially after the accession to the throne of Jinshang, the policy of Tui En Ling immediately replaced the simple and crude policy of cutting the feudal domain.

For Chao Cuo, this is simply something more difficult for him to accept than Tao Qing betraying him.

For Chao Cuo, his vitality has always been full of a concept, that is: do a big vote!

The Cutting Strategies are a product of this philosophy.

It's a pity that it's now bankrupt.

Therefore, Chao Cuo has been in a state of confusion for the past year.

But the word salt and iron are like meteors piercing the darkness, instantly igniting all Chao Cuo's passion.

Since the loss of the Su Donation, Chao Cuo feels that he has never been so excited and passionate.

He found a new goal: salt and iron!

Sixty percent of the world's big businessmen and big landlords made their fortune on salt and iron.

Even Liu Bi was able to rebel, but it also relied on the salt and iron benefits of Wu State.

Moreover, as a Legalist bureaucrat, Chao Cuo's nose has always been very sharp.

Since the Son of Heaven wants to discuss salt and iron, he still discusses it with the prime minister and the imperial historian, so this shows that when the son of heaven intends to bring salt and iron under the nose of the imperial court, at least it will make salt and iron a project supervised by the government.

There is no doubt that this is the claim of the Legalists.

Centralized power, the Son of Heaven is in charge of the sky, the earth is in charge of the bottom, and the middle is also in charge of the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the small people, all-inclusive.

In the eyes of the Legalists, the whole society should operate according to the laws and steps designed by them.

What's more, in terms of hostility and hatred towards the merchant class, the Legalists say second, and absolutely no one dares to say first.

As far as the Legalists are concerned, such things as merchants are neither legal nor reasonable, and they should be completely eliminated, and the government should still be left to the government to deal with such things as commodity circulation and trade in goods.

It's just a pity that it's no longer Qin Ji now, and it's the Liu family who sits on the royal couch of Weiyang Palace.

Although the old Liu family also looked down on businessmen, they were unwilling to die.

Even when Emperor Taizong Xiaowen was emperor, in order to appease the world, he also loosened the shackles on the two merchants, Guanjin and Shanze Yanchi.

"If the Son of Heaven wants to strictly control or even specialize in salt and iron......" Chao Cuo felt his whole body moan with excitement as long as he thought of this.

But Zhou Yafu next to him was unusually calm.

The foundation of the salt and iron matter lies in the Chishanze Salt Pond Order of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen.

In other words, in fact, as long as the Son of Heaven announces that he will no longer gallop the mountains and salt ponds and let the people benefit, then all salt and iron merchants will hit the streets.

But it can't be!

The Emperor of the Liu clan opened the salt ponds in the mountains that originally belonged to the Son of Heaven and allowed the people to enter the mountains to mine, hunt, cut wood, and boil salt, which was one of the pillars of the Liu regime and the key to the submission of the people of the world to Chang'an.

Besides, for decades, the people have been accustomed to going into the mountains to hunt, logging, and mining, and suddenly forbidding the people to do so, I am afraid, the whole society is in turmoil!

The Han regime could not afford to pay such a high price!

What's more, if the system set by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen wants to be overthrown, I'm afraid the East Palace is the first one who won't agree!

Therefore, Zhou Yafu's mood suddenly became worried. (To be continued......)

ps: I thought about it for a day today, and I spent almost all my time on checking information and sorting out my head.

Allow me to tidy up a bit.

After all, this kind of major national political event is not an answer that can be reached with a pat on the ass, I need to consult the situation of the salt and iron theory, the old Han Dynasty and various papers, and consider it comprehensively.

Although it's a web novel, I still hope to be a little more rigorous~R1292