Chapter 463 Volume 5 The Story of Wei Zheng

Author: go to drunk people

Chapter 463 Volume 5 The Story of Wei Zheng

"What's the problem?" Dai Zhou asked.

Dai Zhou supports this plan.

After all, in the past two years, as the Minister of Household Affairs, he has really reaped the dividends from commercial taxes. If he can use the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty to build another powerful city in the northwest,

If nothing else, this majestic city in the northwest will definitely be a pearl!

The business tax that can be brought to the Ministry of Household Affairs is definitely not a small amount.

So as soon as Wei Zheng opened his mouth, Dai Zhou immediately asked.

"Not to mention that in the first year of Zhenguan, the ten realms of the world have been demarcated. This is all a trivial matter." Wei Zheng said, "If we now divide Hezhou and Taozhou into one prefecture or a province, we will have full power to deal with the relationship with the Ming Dynasty. business dealings.

What Weichen can predict is that there will indeed be another great city in the northwest, and it may not just be a great city, but a trading capital focusing on commerce.

This will inevitably cause shock to merchants all over the world, and may even gather half of the Tang Dynasty merchants in a short period of time.

Because one thing we have to admit is that for more than a year, everything produced by the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty has been in short supply in the Tang Dynasty.

The benefits contained in this are absolutely astonishing. How could those merchants give up such an opportunity so easily?

Don’t forget, at the beginning, the Ming Dynasty’s imperial court was just a piece of paper, which attracted countless merchants from the Tang Dynasty to rush to the Riyue Mountain in droves.”

"What did Wei Gong want to say?" Li Er asked, "Isn't this a good thing? If it weren't for these merchants, would it be necessary for us, the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Tang Dynasty, to spend our own money to build this great city in the northwest?"

He actually knew what Wei Zheng was going to say, but he wanted to hear the thoughts of his ministers.

When Fang Xuanling proposed this idea, he knew there were problems with this strategy.

He just wanted to see if any of his ministers saw this problem, or in other words, he wanted to see what his ministers thought. This was the most important thing.

Wei Zheng said with a worried look on his face: "Your Majesty, if this comes true, who can take charge of this great city? You know, no matter who it is, they will have money and people.

A hundred thousand troops!

No matter who they are, they all have the hidden worries of separatism."

This is a practical question. No matter who sits in that position, how many people can keep their true intentions in the face of the astonishing wealth every day?

There are a lot of corrupt officials in this world, but if you say that being an official is just for corruption, there are really not many of them.

Who did not go there with the intention of serving the people and leaving a name in history when he first became an official?

But slowly, in that position, facing the temptation of money, I gradually lost myself.

Desire is something that never has an end...

After hearing what Wei Zheng said, everyone fell silent.

Indeed, the biggest problem with this strategy is that there is no suitable candidate to take charge of this future great city in the northwest!

When the time comes, if we really want to succeed, we will really need money and people, plus the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, then we will really become a local emperor in the northwest.

Li Er looked at everyone's reactions and smiled without saying a word.

This problem was actually solved when Fang Xuanling played it right.

What he was most worried about was not this problem.

Now, he didn't know whether Wei Zheng was simply worried that a separatist force would emerge in the Tang Dynasty, or whether he was worried that the Tang Dynasty's move would pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty.

After a long time, when everyone was silent, Li Er said with a disappointed look on his face: "No more?"

Obviously, Wei Zheng did not get to the point of the real problem in this strategy.

However, when Wei Zheng heard what Li Er said, he was stunned and felt something was wrong, but he still said: "Your Majesty, it's not that there is nothing, but if this problem cannot be solved, Wei Chen feels that this strategy should be abandoned.

Raising tigers is a source of trouble, Your Majesty!

It’s not that Wei Chen should think of Wei Chen’s colleagues with the greatest malice.

But even if Weichen is allowed to take charge of this government, Weichen cannot guarantee whether Weichen will be tempted by the huge benefits, thus shaking Weichen's faith since he became an official.

Some of the words may be inappropriate or even shameless, but I think it is more appropriate to put them here."

Hearing what Wei Zheng said, Li Er smiled and said, "Wei Qing just said it."

He would like to hear what Wei Zheng can say.

Wei Zheng heard this and said: "Back to Your Majesty, when I first became an official, I saw a county magistrate capture a small thief.

The official reputation of the county magistrate is very poor, but what is interesting is that the reputation of the little thief among the neighbors is very good. If anyone has a big or small job, he will never refuse if they come to him.

It just so happened that Wei Chen encountered this matter again, and what was even more coincidental was that both the county magistrate and the little thief Wei Chen knew about it.

So when Wei Chen heard about this, he subconsciously felt that the county magistrate had wronged the little thief.

So Wei Chen asked people to investigate the matter secretly.

At that time, Wei Chen even thought that as long as evidence was found, the county magistrate would not be spared.

Because Wei Chen didn't believe that the child who had a good reputation among the neighbors could actually be a thief.

But after the results of the investigation came out, Wei Chen was shocked...

That kid is really a thief!

Such a result made Wei Chen unable to believe it no matter what. Wei Chen even suspected that his subordinates had caused a problem in the investigation, and sent someone to investigate the matter carefully.

At this point, Wei Chen is completely dumbfounded?"

"What happened again?" Li Er liked to hear stories like this most on weekdays, and he immediately became interested.

Others are also wondering, can this story take a turn here?

The key is, does this have anything to do with what they just said?

Wei Zheng shook his head, sighed, and said: "The truth is often unexpected. The thief is still the same thief. Yes, he stole something.

The county magistrate is still the same county magistrate, and he did not decide the wrong case.

It's just that the story is not as simple as we thought. At that time, Wei Chen was just curious about why a child who was usually praised by his neighbors suddenly turned into a thief.

It turns out that this was just a boring move by a businessman."

"The merchant's boring behavior?" Li Xiaogong asked, "Did the merchant ask him to steal something?"

Wei Zheng shook his head and said: "If the matter was so simple, how could I be dumbfounded?

In fact, it was the merchant who had been hearing praises from his neighbors about the boy, who was also a waiter in his restaurant.

He then made a bet with others that within a few months he could make the boy who was praised by the neighbors become a prisoner, because he said that he did not believe that there were any good people in this world.

So, he parked a carriage on a small road where the child was going home, and deliberately dropped a bundle in front of the carriage. Moreover, the bundle was not tightly wrapped, and the goods inside could be seen at a glance.

Then he sent someone to keep an eye on the child. As long as the child would pass that road, he would put the bundle in the most conspicuous place on the carriage, just so that the child could see it.

At first, for several days, the child saw it, but he remained indifferent.

But how could the merchant let the child go so easily?

He knew that the child's mother was ill and had to take medicine every day, so he deliberately found reasons to deduct the child's wages, and even asked the drugstore shopkeeper to add some precious medicinal materials to the child's mother's prescription.

In this instant, the child's years of accumulated likes were used up.

In fact, we all know, how much savings can that kid make by working as a waiter in a restaurant?

The final result must have been guessed by everyone even if I didn’t tell you.

Less than a month later, when the child passed by the carriage on his way home, he actually took the bundle away.

I asked him about it, and he said that he struggled many, many times before taking away the baggage!

But he said something that impressed me the most."

"Damn it!" Dai Zhou cursed angrily after hearing this, "Damn this merchant! He dares to do evil if he has money. Who gave him the courage?"

Isn’t this driving people to death?

The others also cursed in low voices.

Even Li Er had an angry look on his face.

This businessman ruined the life of a good boy just because he made a bet with others. How could he deserve to die?

"What did he say?" Li Er asked.

If Wei Zheng could remember it deeply, he also wanted to know what it was.

Wei Zheng said: "The kid told Wei Chen that if there wasn't that baggage on the carriage, he would never have thought of stealing anything! Definitely not!"

"If you steal it, you just stole it. Nothing will happen to you." Changsun Wuji shook his head and said, "The moment he stretched out his hand, he changed."

He also felt sorry for the child, but what happened had already happened, and there was nothing he could do to change it.

Li Er didn't think so, but looked at Wei Zheng and said, "Could it be that what Wei Qing wants to say is temptation?"

"Some people don't want to reach out," Wei Zheng said, "but they just have the opportunity to reach out.
To be continued...