"What are you busy with?" Li Longji was interested. As long as it was something Li Yi wanted to do, he would want to know about it.
"Natural disasters and man-made disasters." Li Yi handed over another lamb kidney.
Empress Wang lowered her head and ate. She discovered that there was a white substance in the seasoning today, and it tasted delicious.
Li Longji's hair stood on end, and the matter of eating was immediately forgotten.
"What natural disaster? What man-made disaster? "Li Longji grabbed Li Yi's hand and asked anxiously.
Li Yi hesitated for a moment before shaking his head. "I can't say, I can't say."
"Why can't you say?" Li Longji's grip tightened.
"Sigh!" Li Yi sighed. "Divulging heavenly secrets will lead to the wrath of the heavens."
"Ah!" Li Longji let go. His face immediately turned pale as he stared blankly at Li Yi.
"How could this be? How could this be? "Li Longji muttered.
He had already regarded Li Yi as a special existence. When he heard Li Yi mention natural and man-made disasters, he wanted to know more.
When Li Yi mentioned heavenly secrets and wrath, he was even more certain that his little brother Yi had other abilities.
If he asked, little brother Yi would probably be finished.
If he didn't ask, how would natural and man-made disasters be dealt with?
"Third brother, there's no need to worry. If it doesn't fall into Chang 'an, the emperor and prime minister will naturally think of a way. If a few people die, you and I can still live as usual. "
Li Yi comforted Li Longji.
It would have been better if he didn't comfort him. Once he did, Li Longji became even more anxious.
What emperor and prime minister of the imperial court? I'm the emperor.
The current three prime ministers don't even know how to deal with natural and man-made disasters. How can they easily deal with natural and man-made disasters?
And if a few people die, it's a big deal.
Li Yi raised his wine cup to his lips and paused. "Speaking of which, Wei Zhigu has gone to the Ministry of Works to become a minister, right? How pitiful. "
"I reckon that his health is not good now. He will catch typhoid fever in the winter. Based on the abilities of the people in the Department of Medicine in the Department of Household Affairs, it will not be able to cure him."
Li Yi changed the topic and talked about Wei Zhigu, who had just been promoted to the Ministry of Works.
"Brother Yi, do you know?" Li Longji recalled Wei Zhigu's condition and felt that he was indeed not in a good state.
"Of course, but I can't tell you." Li Yi sighed after saying that.
"Brother Yi, you can cure him?" Li Longji's heart was moved. He did not teach Wei Zhigu a lesson just to see him die.
"It can be cured, but it can't be cured. Your Majesty wants him to die, how can I dare to save him?" Li Yi said.
"Am I … really going to fall ill? When did His Majesty tell him to die? "Li Longji almost said the wrong thing.
"Third Brother, you don't know? It was Yao Chong's son who asked him to do something he shouldn't have done. "
"After he refused, he was afraid that Yao Chong would take revenge, so he told His Majesty."
"In the end, His Majesty insisted on asking Yao Chong. Yao Chong admitted it and said that the child was wrong."
"His Majesty felt that Wei Zhigu was not a good person. Yao Chong had helped Wei Zhigu before, so he dealt with Wei Zhigu."
"Of course, this is not important. The important thing is that Yao Chong is important."
"Yao Chong's students and old friends are all over the place. His Majesty has just finished dealing with Princess Taiping's matter, so there are still some people he hasn't killed."
"With Yao Chong around, many people's minds are not in chaos. His Majesty got rid of Wei Zhigu to vent Yao Chong's anger. "
Li Yi explained to Li Longji why His Majesty wanted to send Wei Zhigu to the Ministry of Works.
Empress Wang stopped eating and looked at Li Yi with Li Longji, nodding from time to time.
She meant: Yes, Brother Yi, you're right. That's how it should be.
"What about 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 changed his attitude and became a man of few words."
"If Yao Chong doesn't deal with any documents, Lu Huaishen guarantees that he won't take over. His talent is not suppressed by Yao Chong, but by His Majesty."
Li Yi explained Lu Huaishen's situation.
"What about Zhang Shuo?" Li Longji asked another person.
"Zhang Shuo. His desire for power is the same as Yao Chong's, so there can't be two tigers on one mountain. Previously, he stopped Yao Chong from becoming Prime Minister, so he will be dealt with later."
"What I hate the most about the two of them is that they use their power for personal gain. They are lenient to themselves and strict to others. "
"When one of their own makes a mistake, they try to cover it up, but they love to punish others for their mistakes."
"As for the administration, there's nothing much to say. Since His Majesty uses them, they naturally have to show their abilities."
"And the methods they come up with, sigh! It's just so-so. "
Li Yi criticized Zhang Shuo, but he also didn't let Yao Chong go.
There was no other way. The history books recorded it clearly.
Li Longji and his wife listened in a daze.
These were Zhang Shuo and Yao Chong in Brother Yi's eyes. What was there to say about their administration?
"Brother Yi, I think the decrees of these two people are not bad." Li Longji said about his own Prime Minister.
Empress Wang nodded, expressing her support for her husband. Yes, the two Prime Ministers were very impressive.
"Third Brother, their government decrees are more for scholars. Next year and the year after, Yao Chong handled the natural and man-made disasters quite well under normal circumstances."
"Although a lot of people died, at the critical moment, Yao Chong was quite responsible."
"Unfortunately, he's not down-to-earth and can't bend his back."
"He doesn't know how to work, agriculture, business, and education."
"Education is the foundation. A year's plan is better than a valley of trees; a decade's plan is better than trees; a lifetime's plan is better than nurturing people."
"Without agriculture, you won't be stable; without industry, you won't be rich; without business, you won't live."
"People pursue profit, so we should use profit to drive them away."
"Merchants, farmers, and workers can make the Tang dynasty prosperous."
Li Yi put forward his own opinion. People who had good inventions in agriculture and construction should be rewarded.
Li Longji drank a mouthful of wine to moisten his throat. Listening to others speak made his mouth dry.
Empress Wang had her own ideas. She said, "What should the scholars do if it's good for the workers and farmers?"
"Sister-in-law, you're pitting the scholars against the workers, farmers, and merchants. The scholars lead the workers, farmers, merchants, officials, and scholars. They guide the other industries and then get promoted. The scholars are happy. "
Li Yi said with a smile. The matter was simple. Lift the scholars up and let the scholars think of ways to promote the other three.
Li Longji asked, "What about the merchants?"
"Collect taxes. Exempt the people from renting and use the tax to hire people to work. Nowadays, the extra craftsmen are also divided into short, medium, and long-term workers. The imperial court gives them silk. "
"Nowadays, people can't plant so much land, especially mulberry trees, hemp, and jujube trees. If they go to work, the land will be too busy."
"If they're too busy, their income will be less. They seem to be given a lot of land and let them pay rent. In fact, once they're transferred, they can't pay anything."
"If silk is used instead of rent, there will be people weaving or selling grain and mulberry hemp for money."
"Among them, the merchants will lower the price when the people are harvesting. When the people are short, they will raise the price."
Li Yi analyzed the merchants' bad for Li Longji.
As for whether the merchants were good or not, it depended on whether the law was strong or not.
There were loopholes in the law. The merchants took advantage of them the most, followed by others.
The things he said, if it was in his era, everyone would understand. Some even thought deeper than him.
But in the Tang dynasty, it was different.
Li Longji was shocked. How could he know so many things?
He was born in the royal family and didn't live in a poor village for a year or two.
The things he could come into contact with were limited. The rent was based on the previous dynasty.
When he heard people across countless dynasties talking to him about the scholars, agriculture, industry, and commerce, he was dumbfounded.
So simple? If the scholars don't agree, they will be promoted again.
Whoever can make the farmers work well will be rewarded.
"Brother Yi, what else do you want to do in Zhuangzi?" Li Longji changed the topic. The shock was too great. He had to go back and think about it.
"Me? I'm going to set an example and tell others how a manor can be managed."
"If you want to show virtue to the world, you must first govern the country; if you want to govern the country, you must first unify the family."
"I can't even manage a Zhuangzi. How can I be an official?"
"I can't even let the villagers eat and wear warm clothes. How can I be an official?"
"If you don't sweep a house, how can you sweep the world?"
Li Yi sat up straight and raised his chin slightly.
He had his own pride. This was the accumulation of experience and knowledge.
This was the experience of a thousand years later and looking down on this era.
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