"Open border markets to communicate with each other."

The eight big words Xu Xu said echoed in Li Shimin's mind, and he only felt a pain in his brain.

What are these ideas?

Seeing that Li Shimin didn't say anything, Xu Xu continued: "Salt and iron are scarce products in the grassland, but there are many in our Central Plains. They should be welcome to trade cattle, sheep and horses with the grassland, right?"

After hearing this, Li Shimin's face turned extremely gloomy, as if water could be dripped out at any time.

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

Li Shimin's tone was very unfriendly, and he felt that Xu Xu was tempting crazy on the verge of committing suicide.

If he hadn't been Li Ji's nephew, if he hadn't had an unfathomable master behind him, he would have wanted to destroy this guy.

"What am I talking about? Don't you know about your Majesty?"

Xu Xu smiled and then said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, if you don't open a mutual market, where did the salt and iron come from the Turks? Did you robbery south over the years?"

Xu Xu shook his head and continued, "Those aristocratic families stopped you on the surface, but in fact they secretly made transactions with the Turks behind their backs. Do you know? Use salt and iron to exchange for war horses on the grassland, and then trade with you. Do you understand?"

"If you want to open a mutual market, it is to trade directly with the Turks. Without the intermediary, you will make more money. And this move has hurt the interests of the aristocratic families, so they will keep stopping you, do you understand?"

"Why did the Turks go south and rob? Do you know? There is no problem with them not having production, but they can raise horses, cattle, sheep, and the vast grasslands are their pastures. You use salt, iron, grain, silk and pottery, and these things are traded with them so that they can eat and wear warmth. Only the genius is willing to fight you!"

Xu Xu's words made Li Shimin think deeply.

Is this really the case?

The Central Plains have never traded with the Turks, because they are afraid that the Turks will become stronger and they will not be able to defeat them.

But Xu Xu's words now make Li Shimin feel that something is reasonable.

Who is willing to fight if you can eat and wear a good life?

"Can all what you said be fulfilled?"

The expression on Li Shimin's face became solemn.

"I don't say whether it can be realized or not. Practice is the only criterion for testing truth. If you don't do it and others don't do it, how can you know if this method can be realized?"

Xu Xu smiled, and then said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, this transaction is not suitable for you, do you know?"

"What do you mean?"

When Li Shimin heard this, he was stunned. This guy just advised him to make a deal, but now he actually said that he was not suitable for doing it?

What do you want to do?

"You open a border market and then let others trade freely. You are responsible for sending soldiers to guard this border market, then collecting commercial taxes, and sitting there to collect money. Isn't that good?"

Xu Xu said this, then looked at Li Shimin and continued: "There is another point that your commercial tax is too low. If you order a little more, it will be perfect."

"Then, you will issue another imperial edict. Any transactions outside the border market are smuggling. If you catch them, the property will be confiscated directly. If one party reports it, the party reporting it will be innocent and will reward the other party with 10% of the property."

Xu Xu's face showed a treacherous smile. This move was cruel enough.

In this way, both parties to the transaction will be suspicious of each other and the transaction will not be able to proceed.

You can only trade in the border market, so the tax will be quite considerable.

"Did this move raise the status of merchants? If ordinary people go to business one after another, who will plant the land?"

Li Shimin asked in a hint of suspicion.

"A country without agriculture is not stable, a country without labor is not strong, and a country without business is not rich!"

Xu Xu said this and continued: "Traveling business is not that simple. If civilian businessmen are likely to lose money, they will not easily give up their fields."

"Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, why didn't you talk about the Scholars?"

Li Shimin didn't care what Xu Xu said later, but just asked curiously.

"No need to say anything about the scholar."

Xu Xu smiled, not preparing to say this, but said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty must think that why can merchants make the world rich if they don't do anything about production? Right?"

"Tell me first, why are there no scholars?"

Li Er ignored Xu Xu and continued to ask.

"Your Majesty, this is hard to say. If you say it, you will offend all the gentry in the world."

Xu Xu scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "Your Majesty, I will tell you this, don't tell others. My master's original words are: No country is chaotic without scholars, no country is chaotic without farmers, no country is chaotic without labor, no country is strong without business, no country is rich without business!"

Xu Xu quickly threw the blame on his false master.

"What does your master say about the aristocratic family?"

Li Er was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Why are there no scholar in the country not in chaos? If everyone who is an official is dismissed from office, wouldn't the people be in chaos?"

"How many times have the chaos in the world been caused by the gentry? Not to mention the distant future, just take the former Han Dynasty as an example, is Wang Mang a gentry? Are Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao and others a gentry?"

"Chen Sheng and Wu Guang at the end of the Qin Dynasty were not a gentry, right?"

"Have they succeeded? It's just a mob."

Xu Xu smiled and said, "The one who destroyed Qin was Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu. Isn't he a gentry? If you say Liu Bang, although he was just a pavilion chief, Zhang Liang under his command was a serious gentry. Therefore, the chaos in the world mostly originated from the gentry."

After hearing Xu Xu's words, Li Shimin was obviously in silence. Every time the world is in chaos, there must be the shadow of the gentry.

If there is no support from the gentry, the chaos of ordinary people will be suppressed soon, and only the gentry is the source of chaos.

"Your Majesty, let's continue the discussion just now."

Xu Xu wanted to pull Li Er on the right track.

"So what is it that you are not strong without any work?"

Li Shimin frowned, wanting to know what it means to be strong without any work.

The dream of a strong country is his dream, and he wants to build an extremely powerful Tang Dynasty.

Now Xu Xu said that he was strong without any work. He wanted to know how to use craftsmen to make the country stronger.

"The city walls were made by craftsmen, right? The bows and arrows were also made by craftsmen, right? The swords were also made by craftsmen, right?"

Xu Xu said to Li Shimin: "If there were no craftsmen, would the unarmed soldiers fight with each other hand-to-hand? You go back and forth, and you fist and fist?"

Xu Xu's words made Li Shimin feel a little amused.

I have to say that Xu Xu's words are reasonable.

"Your Majesty, okay, let's talk about the Taiyuan Wang family next."

After Xu Xu finished speaking, Li Shimin had not spoken yet.
Chapter completed!