Chapter 30 Let Me Tell You About the Emperor and the Prime Minister

"What are you busy with?" Li Longji was interested. He wanted to know everything Li Yi wanted to do.

"Natural disasters and man-made disasters." Li Yi handed over the sheep kidney again.

Queen Wang lowered her head to eat. She found that there was a little more white stuff in today's ingredients, which made it taste delicious.

Li Longji's hair grew cold, and the matter of eating was instantly forgotten.

"Where is the natural disaster? Where is the man-made disaster?" Li Longji grabbed Li Yi's hand and asked anxiously.

Li Yi hesitated and shook his head: "Don't say it, don't say it."

"Why can't you say it?" Li Longji's hands were strong.

"Alas!" Li Yi sighed and said, "If you reveal the secret of heaven, you will be punished by heaven."

"Ah!" Li Longji let go, his face suddenly turned pale, and he looked at Li Yi blankly.

"How could this happen? How could this happen?" Li Longji murmured.

He already regarded Li Yi as some special being. When he heard Li Yi say that there were natural and man-made disasters, he still wanted to know.

When Li Yi talked about heaven's secret and heaven's punishment again, he was even more sure that his brother Yi had other abilities.

After asking, Brother Yi is probably done.

Regardless, how to deal with natural disasters and man-made disasters.

"Third brother, there is no need to be anxious. If you don't end up in Chang'an, the emperor and the prime minister will naturally find a way. If some people die, you and I can still live our lives as usual."

Li Yi comforted Li Longji.

It would be better if he didn't comfort him, but when he comforted him, Li Longji became even more anxious.

As for the emperor and prime minister in the court, I am the emperor.

The current three prime ministers don't even know how to thresh grains. Do you expect them to be able to easily eliminate natural and man-made disasters?

Some people died, and the death of people was a big deal.

Li Yi took the wine and stopped before he put it on his lips: "Speaking of which, Wei Zhigu has now gone to the Ministry of Industry to serve as minister? How pitiful."

"I guess he is not in good health now. He will get typhoid fever in the winter. He is old and cannot be cured by the skills of the people at the Provincial Pharmacy Bureau in the palace."

Li Yi changed the topic and talked about Wei Zhigu, who had just been appointed as Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

"Brother Yi knows?" Li Longji recalled Wei Zhigu's situation and felt that he was indeed not in a good state.

"Of course, but you can't say it." Li Yi sighed after finishing speaking.

"Brother Yi can heal?" Li Longji felt compassion. He punished Wei Zhigu not because he wanted to see Wei Zhigu die.

"It can be cured but cannot be cured. The emperor asked him to die. How can I dare to save him?" Li Yi said.

"I...are really going to get sick? Why did the emperor tell him to die?" Li Longji almost said the wrong thing.

"Third brother, don't you know? It's obviously Yao Chong's son who came to him and asked him to do something he shouldn't do."

"After he refused, he was afraid of Yao Chong's revenge, so he told the emperor."

"As a result, His Majesty insisted on asking Yao Chong for questioning. Yao Chong admitted it and said that there was something wrong with the child."

"Your Majesty felt that Wei Zhigu was a bad person and that Yao Chong was kind to Wei Zhigu, so he punished Wei Zhigu."

"Of course, these are not important. What is important is that Yao Chong is important."

"Yao Chong's disciples are all over the place. Your Majesty has just finished dealing with Princess Taiping's matter, and there are still some people who have not been killed."

"With Yao Chong here, many people's minds will be calm. Your Majesty dismissed Wei Zhigu just to vent his anger on Yao Chong."

Li Yi analyzed to Li Longji why His Majesty had driven Wei Zhigu to the Ministry of Industry.

Queen Wang stopped eating at this time and looked at Li Yi with Li Longji, nodding from time to time.

It means: Yes, Brother Yi, you are right, that’s it.

"Where is Lu Huaishen?" Li Longji was very curious and asked another person.

"Lu Huaishen is smarter. He knows how much His Majesty values ​​Yao Chong, so he has changed from his previous office demeanor and has become less talkative."

"If Yao Chong doesn't handle any copywriting, Lu Huaishen promises not to take over. His talent will not be suppressed by Yao Chong, but by His Majesty."

Li Yi told Lu Huaishen's situation.

"What did Zhang say?" Li Longji asked another person.

"Zhang said that his desire for power is the same as that of Yao Chong, so there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. Before he prevented Yao Chong from becoming prime minister, he will definitely be punished later."

"What I hate most about the two of them is that they use power for personal gain. They are lenient to themselves and strict to others."

"When one of my own has done something wrong, I try to cover it up in every possible way, but I prefer to find others to do wrong and punish them."

"As for the administration, there is nothing to say. Since His Majesty uses them, they will naturally show their ability."

"And the methods they came up with, hey! That's it."

Li Yi humiliated Zhang, and Yao Chong didn't let him go either.

There is no way, it is clearly recorded in the history books.

Li Longji and his wife were stunned for a while.

This is Zhang Shuo and Yao Chong in the eyes of Brother Yi. They are famous and prime ministers, but they have nothing to say about administration?

"Brother Yi, I think the decrees of these two people are pretty good." Li Longji's own prime minister spoke.

Queen Wang nodded to express her support for her husband. Yes, both prime ministers are very powerful.

"Third brother, their decrees are more harmful to scholars. Next year and the year after, Yao Chong will handle the natural and man-made disasters fairly well under normal circumstances."

"Although a lot of people died, Yao Chong was very responsible at the critical moment."

"It's a pity that he is not grounded and cannot bend down."

"I don't know much about work, agriculture, business, or education."

"Education is fundamental. A one-year plan is better than planting a valley; a ten-year plan is better than trees; a lifelong plan is better than cultivating people."

“Without farming, there is no stability, without work, there is no wealth, and without business, there is no life.”

"People in the world are seeking profit, so they should be driven away by profit."

"Only those who are good at business, agriculture and industry can make the Tang Dynasty prosperous."

Li Yi put forward his own point of view, and those who have good inventions in farming and fortification should be rewarded.

Li Longji took a sip of wine to moisten his throat and listened to others talking, which made his own mouth dry.

Queen Wang had her own ideas and said: "If you are good to the workers and peasants, what should the scholars do?"

"My sister-in-law pitted the scholars against the workers, peasants, and merchants. The scholars led the workers, peasants, merchants, officials, and students to guide other industries, and then they were promoted. The scholars were happy."

Li Yi said with a smile, the matter is simple, lift the soldier up and let him think of ways to promote the other three.

Li Longji asked: "Where is Shang?"

"Collect taxes, exempt people from paying mediocre rents, and use commercial taxes to hire people to work. Nowadays, aren't the extra craftsmen divided into short-term, medium-term and long-term workers? The court gives them silk."

"People can't plant so much land now, especially if they have to plant mulberry trees, hemp, and jujube trees. If they have to work, the fields will be too busy."

"If they are too busy, they will have less income. It looks like a lot of land was given to them and they were asked to pay rent, but in fact, once they were transferred, they couldn't get anything out of them."

"If silk is used instead of tune, UU read www.uukanshu.net there will still be people weaving, or selling grain, mulberry and flax for money."

"Among them, merchants lowered prices when people were harvesting, and then raised prices when people were short."

Li Yi analyzed the bad qualities of businessmen to Li Longji.

As for good, whether a businessman is good or not depends on whether the law is strong or not.

There are loopholes in the law, and those who take advantage of it the most are businessmen, followed by others.

The things he said were understood by everyone in his time, and they even thought about them more deeply than he did.

But if you switch to Datang, it will be different.

Li Longji was really shocked. How could he know so many things?

He was born in the royal family and did not go to live in any poor village for a year or two.

There are limitations to the things he can access, and the mediocrity is based on the previous dynasty.

He was dumbfounded when he heard people from countless dynasties talking to him about scholarship, agriculture, industry and commerce.

So simple? The scholar disagreed, so he raised the scholar again.

Whoever can make farmers work well will be rewarded.

"Brother Yi, what do you want from Zhuangzi?" Li Longji changed the topic. He was too shocked and had to go back and think about it.

"I'm going to set an example and tell others what a Zhuangzi can manage like."

"If you want to bring virtue to the world, you must first govern your country; if you want to govern your country, you must first regulate your family."

"I can't even manage a village, how can I be an official?"

"I can't even keep farmers fed and clothed, how dare I become an official?"

"If you don't sweep one house, why sweep the world?"

Li Yi sat up straight, raised his chin slightly and said.

He has his own pride, which is the accumulation of experience and knowledge.

This is a look down upon this era from the experience of thousands of years later.