Chapter 98:

Yi Fan, who had never attended court, was pulled to the court by Li Shimin early in the morning.

Yi Fan was curious at first and wanted to see what it was like to attend court in ancient times. The result was completely different from what Yi Fan imagined. He neither bowed down or shouted long live. It was completely different from what he performed in the TV series.

The ministers bowed to Li Shimin solemnly. Li Shimin shouted, "Don't give up the court and calm down, and the morning court officially began. The ministers began to repay Li Shimin's daily work one by one in order.

Each of them said that the poem says, citing scriptures and classics, I heard that Yi Fan was drowsy and sleepy.

After nearly two hours of discussion, the group of tycoons finally finalized their work today. Yi Fan, who was about to fall asleep, thought he would go to court. Unexpectedly, Li Shimin cleared his throat and said.

"My dear friends, I want to set up a new bank to keep money for the people. I wonder what you think?"

When Yi Fan heard this, he secretly despised Li Shimin in his heart. He clearly discussed the matter with Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others, and he had to take it to the court for a formality.

As expected, Wei Zheng, who has always been outspoken, also played a drama with Li Shimin today.

Wei Zheng came out and said, "Master, this money is only at ease when you have the control of it. How can the people entrust the money to the court for custody? If the emperor wants to force the people to hand over the money to the court for custody, I am opposed to establishing the money to the court for custody."

Li Shimin was confident and said with a smile: "Wei Aiqing has been worried too much. I always say that water can carry a boat and can also overturn it. How could he do the people's hearts and confrontation?

As for the people who refuse to entrust money to the court for safekeeping, I have already thought of a countermeasure. That is, the court only needs to pay the people a certain amount of interest."

When an official from the Ministry of Revenue heard this, he suddenly became anxious and said, "Master, this matter must not be done. The court has spent manpower and material resources to help the people keep their money and pay the money. Then the court has to pay a lot of money, I think this matter is inappropriate."

The reason why this Ministry of Revenue official is so anxious is that the Ministry of Revenue manages the finances.

For example, just a few years after the peace, the Tang Dynasty's treasury was not very full. It could only maintain the operation of the entire empire. If the people were given more profits, then these officials of the Ministry of Revenue could only contribute their salaries.

Yi Fan looked at the official of the Ministry of Revenue who jumped out and thought to himself that since Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty abolished all schools of thought and respected Confucianism, scholars in the world have almost forgotten all the methods of Tao Zhugong. The most profitable bank in the world has been said to have lost money.

Looking at the Ministry of Revenue official, Li Shimin, who was on the dragon throne, fell into recollection.

On the dragon bed, Li Shimin looked at Yi Fan who was sleeping in confusion and asked, "Ping An, will you help me? Help me create an unprecedented prosperity."

Yi Fan closed his eyes and said in a daze: "I won't help you."

Hearing this, Li Shimin frowned and looked at Yi Fan with complicated eyes.

In a daze, Yi Fan said again: "But I will help the people of the world, I will help this nation, make them stronger, and let them learn to open their eyes to the world."

The originally gloomy Li Shimin smiled. Helping the people is equivalent to helping him! Isn’t what Li Shimin does now just to make the people rich and strong?

Li Shimin thought to himself: "It seems that Yi Fan has a deep resentment towards him. He is obviously willing to help him, but he has to change his name."

Li Shimin thought of the most important question and asked: "Ping An, can you create those flying magic weapons in the fairy world?"

"No, planes are not that easy to build. If Emperor Wu of Han did not abolish all schools of thought and respect Confucianism, but instead used hundreds of schools to govern the country, maybe you would have already been able to fly now, and maybe the Han Dynasty would not have perished."

Li Shimin's mood was also ups and downs as Yi Fan said. When Yi Fan said that he could not build flying magic weapons, Li Shimin felt lost. When Yi Fan mentioned that using a hundred schools of thought to govern the country, it not only allowed people to fly, but also allowed the country to survive forever, Li Shimin was in a state of spirit.

"Peace, how can I fly with a hundred schools of thought to govern the country? Only then can my Tang Dynasty last forever."

"It's not simple. Let the Mohist or Public Losers be officials of the Works Department, so that they will gather the whole country to create the various tools and items they need for the world."

Yi Fan seemed to have opened up his conversation, and he said again: "The Mohist and the Gongshu can be officials of the Works Department. The Zongheng family is in charge of diplomacy. The Tao Zhu Gongshu can be in charge of property. The military can be in charge of war. The Confucians can be in charge of education..."

As he spoke, Yi Fan fell asleep deeply and lost his words. A scent of incense burned out in the bedroom.

Li Shimin, who was on the dragon throne, came back to his senses, and his eyes were still looking at the official of the Ministry of Revenue. Thinking that if the Minister of Revenue was a subordinate of Mr. Tao Zhu, he would definitely not say anything that would lead to a loss of money.

Li Shimin no longer paid attention to the minister of the Ministry of Revenue, but turned his attention to Changsun Wuji.

Changsun Wuji understood the truth and said, "Sir, I agree to open this money store. As for the Ministry of Revenue, I am worried that the court will lose money, this is not necessary. The court can lend the money entrusted by the people to the money store to those merchants who need money with higher profits, so that it can be solved."

After Changsun Wuji finished speaking, another official from the Ministry of Rites came out and said, "Sage, I am against the act of this money. If it is true as Lord Changsun said and acted, then what is the difference between the court and the thief? The people entrusted the money to the court for safekeeping. This is a good thing, which shows that the people trust the court. If the court embezzled the people's money and borrowed it to merchants, this matter will harm the country's constitution."

Yi Fan couldn't bear to listen anymore and went out to work and said to the official of the Ministry of Rites: "This is a bad word for this."

When the officials of the Ministry of Rites saw that it was Yi Fan, they said, "Please ask the King of Peace to correct me."

"This adult does not have to raise everything to a moral level. Let me ask you, the people store money in the money store opened by the court, so as to save the trouble of always worrying about losing money, and there is still profit to take. Are the people happy or unhappy?"

The official of the Ministry of Rites looked hot and said shyly: "In this way, the people are naturally happy. But..."

Yi Fan interrupted: "There is nothing. The people are concerned about the profits given to them by the court. As long as the court can withdraw money to the people with principal and interest when the people urgently need money, the people will not care whether the court will embezzle the money."

An official from the Ministry of Rites seized the loophole in Yi Fan's words and said, "What if you lend money to merchants and the people urgently need money and come to collect it?"

The official thought that this question would stump Yi Fan, but Yi Fan said without rushing and slowing down: "This matter is Yi Er. If the people withdraw money for this money, there will naturally be people saving money. You only need to pay the new money from other people to the people withdrawing money.

Even if the people who withdraw money one day have more than the people who save money, there is no need to panic. The money we lent out before will naturally have to be recovered. Just take back the money and you can pay it to the people.

In fact, there are many ways to solve this problem. For example, some big investors buried their money underground, and once they buried it, they would take several years, or even decades. For those who compete for such people, the money only needs to pay more money and store the money that they cannot use for a long time in the money market, and stipulate that the money can only be withdrawn for a certain period of time. For example, it takes half a year, one year, or even ten years.

Even if you are borrowing money and withdrawing money at a certain period of time, you can rely on these temporary dead money to deal with it. In fact, there are many ways to solve these things, so I won’t give you an example.”

(End of this chapter)
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