Yu Shuxin guessed Li Ze's thoughts in general.

Since taking power, Li Ze has been committed to defeating the clan system of the past and fundamentally eliminating the vicious circle of land annexation that led to countless reincarnations in history. Now, he feels that he has basically achieved the goal of the first stage.

But in the current Tang Dynasty, in addition to the emerging hero class, another emerging group is also playing an increasingly important role.

That's the business tycoon.

They have huge wealth. To a certain extent, the current economic lifeline of the Tang Dynasty is in the hands of these people. More than 40% of the tax revenue of the court comes from business every year. After this level, the court's policies will naturally be more tilted towards business, and formulate systems that are beneficial to business development in order to promote the further development of business and thus receive more taxes.

This also received support from almost everyone in the court.

As commercial taxes are too much, the taxes collected from farmers can naturally be reduced, thereby reducing the burden on these people. In a society like the Tang Dynasty, which is still dominated by agriculture, such a structure can stabilize the society and thus make the dynasty as stable as Mount Tai.

In the eyes of all the well-educated officials or senior intellectuals, the change of dynasties in China's history often began with peasant uprisings. Although farmers never picked the last fruit in the end, the beginning of the troubled times always started with the farmers' inability to survive.

In history, I have never seen that merchant commit rebellion.

So in their opinion, this structure is very good.

But Li Ze was very clear that there were indeed no merchants in history who had risen up or had succeeded in rebelling. However, when the merchants were strong to a certain extent, their influence on the court could shake the rule of the entire court. When they developed to a certain extent, the court would even become their puppets.

But this is the wheel of history. Li Ze didn't think he could change it, but he could mix sand into it, cultivate more big businessmen, cultivate people from all kinds of immovable systems, and then sit firmly on the Diaoyutai in the midst of their struggles, get along well with each other, mediate, and then put them all into the established track of the court.

Business must not allow them to develop in disorderly manner.

They must also be under a macro plan? Follow the steps of the court and move forward step by step.

Li Ze didn't want to see that at some point a certain business group affected the formulation of court policies because of their own interests and so as to gain more wealth for themselves.

This is not allowed.

There are still too few such chaebols in the Tang Dynasty now? He needs more large consortiums to come out. Everyone has different industries? Different business scope? Different concepts, it is naturally difficult to unify interests. The role of the court will be reflected to the greatest extent at this time.

Li Ze hopes that all this is within a peaceful framework, discussing and compromising each other.

He didn't expect that one day the court found out that something was wrong but was unable to resolve these contradictions with normal means? He then used the violent organs in his hands to resolve them by force.

If things come to this point? Then the order you have worked hard to establish will disappear? Everything will return to the starting point.

The establishment of the imperial court's credit takes years? But the loss of credit? Maybe it was one time when he waved the knife? One time when you forced someone to do something.

Although these merchants in the hall were only second-rate merchants in the Tang Dynasty, and the strength of a certain person was enough to be mentioned, when they united, they were enough to compete with any major chaebol.

And these people were also carefully selected by the inner guard after a long period of screening.

Yu Shuxin was right? From the beginning, this was a planned situation.

The above ideas or goals are just Li Ze's long-term goals. To this day, the purpose of the court is to stabilize western Hunan, develop western Hunan, and completely strangle a large number of bandits entrenched in western Hunan.

Although Shi Zhuang won one game, the situation there was not optimistic. According to the rough estimate of the Neiwei, in the western Hunan region, hundreds of thousands of people occupied the mountains and became kings or became bandits. These people were widely distributed among the mountains and ridges. They were bandits when they picked up the sword, and when they put them down, they became villagers.

The news was blocked and the rule of the tribe heads for a long time, they knew nothing about the outside world and were subjectively hostile to the newly entered Tang army. Defending their hometowns and homes was a banner that Ding and those tribe heads, and this banner could undoubtedly bewitched many people.

Therefore, in western Hunan, military strikes alone cannot achieve the goal. Large-scale military attacks will not be worth the effort or even suffer great defeat if they are not careful. Such risks are unwilling to accept that no one is willing to accept. Although the small-scale bandit suppression has significant effect, the results are too slow.

Therefore, in the face of the western Hunan region, in addition to strong military oppression, economic strangulation is also another way.

First, the bandits were imposed to the greatest extent economic blockade, preventing a piece of cloth or a grain of salt from flowing into the mountains, making these bandits increasingly poor and unable to survive.

On the other hand, in other areas, we vigorously develop the economy, build roads, build factories, recruit workers, and at the same time induce or force these mountain people to go down the mountain and join this system.

Li Ze believed that as long as these people left the mountain, put down their knives, picked up hoes and hammers, and learned a technique that could support their families, they would never want to go into the mountain to live the day of being in danger, wandering, and fearful.

Stabilization is a person's simplest idea.

To do this, a lot of money is needed.

The court really has no money to do these things.

With limited budgets, you have to invest in infrastructure, such as building roads and water conservancy, and maintaining a strong military presence in those places and continuously attacking bandits. If you want to invest a lot of money to develop the economy and build factories, you are really willing but not able to do it.

Organizing Yu Shuxin and others is enough to fulfill this second mission.

Now the territory of the Tang Dynasty under Li Ze has reached an unprecedented level. The Western Regions and Qinghai-Tibet have been actually controlled by the Tang army. The powerful navy of the Tang Dynasty is planning to enter the Malacca waters. Once the control of this place is completed, the Tang Dynasty will actually become a closure of the local area. The Tang Dynasty is truly contained in a safe.

As long as this situation can be maintained, it can be said that in the next hundreds or thousands of years, the Tang Dynasty will never have any external troubles. Therefore, what it is done is to develop stably and focus on resolving domestic conflicts.

But this all requires money, a lot of money.

Not to mention the Western Regions, Qinghai-Tibet is still in a semi-primitive state and needs vigorous development. Even the list of needs listed by Li Hao's expeditionary fleet is enough to make all the senior officials of the court worried.

But Li Ze insisted on doing this.

The court could not afford to pay the money, so it could only tap the potential within.

Therefore, businesses such as mines that were previously controlled by the imperial court will be released step by step. Xiangxi is just a pilot.

The court wanted to find a complete set of methods here, which not only liberates businesses such as mineral deposits, but also achieves effective control.

The group of people represented by Yu Shuxin is undoubtedly the most suitable group.

Even if there is any chaos, the court has enough power to handle the final work well when the impact is minimized.

"Do you do it?" Li Ze looked at Yu Shuxin and also at all the other businessmen in the hall.

"Do!" Without any hesitation, almost all the merchants said loudly in unison. Knowing that this matter was definitely not easy, the court would not easily stuff a large piece of fat into their mouths for free, but this was still the tempting opportunity they had dreamed of moving forward one more step forward.

These people have reached a bottleneck since their development. They need an opportunity to take themselves to a higher level. Now that the opportunity has emerged, how can they not seize it?

Everyone firmly believes that they will definitely become the trendsetter in this wave of turmoil.

There will definitely be losers, but not necessarily themselves.

"I am willing to share your worries for Your Majesty and the court!" Yu Shuxin, a higher political level, still did not forget to express her loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor.

"Great!" Li Ze clapped his hands and laughed: "This cake is big, but there are many people here. You guys, in Xiangxi, I am not only you who are going to mine, but the industries I mentioned above must also develop. How to do business and what kind of charter it is? That is your business. I will give you ten days. I believe you can discuss a specific charter and method yourself. Mingyi, Sun Lei, you two will also participate and make this plan with the shopkeepers. After it is done, then show it to me. Is there any problem?"

Wang Mingyi and Sun Lei bowed together and said, "Yes."

"These two, one is a business genius and the other is a financial tycoon. With the two of them involved, if you have any problems, they may be able to make a decision on the spot to solve them for you. How about you?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Yu Shuxin nodded repeatedly, bowed to the two of them with fists: "I'm sorry, you two."

"What you have to do, what you have to do!" Wang Mingyi and Sun Lei returned with a smile.
Chapter completed!