Taking the information sent in his hand, Li Ke was not surprised. He probably guessed what these wealthy families were discussing at the gathering, but he didn't know what they were discussing. These people were quite alert. The teahouse was Xingyang Zheng When talking about the family's property, even the waiter in the teahouse was not allowed to come near.
There were people from these families around, so Li Ke didn't know what they said, but it was just for this school establishment incident. As for what methods they could use, Li Ke was not worried at all. It was very simple. It was illegal. They dare not use any means, they can only use formal channels.
But the formal way, the joke, in the Tang Dynasty, that is, clothes without pockets, otherwise Li Ke would have to let them know what it means to have no opponent.
However, Li Ke shook his head after looking at the information in his hand. Among the seventeen families participating in the meeting this time, the five surnames and Qi Wang gathered together again after the meeting was disbanded. Obviously these seven families had other ideas, and the remaining people also gathered together in twos and threes.
It is estimated that there are dozens of groups for seventeen families.
In other words, they are not of the same mind at all. They may be consistent in some actions, but it is easy to separate their camps from each other.
Tsk tsk, everyone in the world is here for profit, win over some people, suppress some people, and eliminate some people. Isn't this just right?
Putting down the information in his hand, Li Ke didn't worry. No matter what methods they had, as long as they were within the scope of the law of the Tang Dynasty, Li Ke didn't mind playing business war with them, but thinking about it carefully, they seemed to be able to play The best method is to kill the chicken to scare the monkey.
After all, what Li Ke used this time was just these businessmen, and they could definitely see the combined power of these businessmen.
In fact, these things are the same. Li Ke, who has experience in later generations, knows very well that businessmen are not good people, or this class is not a good class.
The reason why they seem so well-behaved now is because they have their biggest enemies, the powerful families! The wealthy family restricted the expansion of businessmen's power, so they hugged Li Ke's thigh tightly when they had this opportunity.
For a long time, these businessmen can be used, but similarly, the wealthy families can also be used. After the merchants expand, the wealthy families will be retained for the time being, which will be a wake-up call on their heads.
The alarm bells are ringing for businessmen. Anyway, the current situation of Datang has adapted to the existence of powerful families. When the school has cultivated enough talents, it can be solved completely and completely at that time.
Before the school can cultivate enough talents, as long as the two parties continue to control their strength, both parties can use it.
After thinking for a while, Li Ke asked: "When is the next publication of "Datang Weekly"?"
"Your Highness, the "Datang Weekly" will be released at a later date." Tian Meng said.
"Well, I'll write an article and you send it over, and it will be published directly on the front page of Datang Weekly the next day." Li Ke said.
"Yes!" Tian Meng bowed and saluted.
Li Ke put down his homework, then wrote an article directly and handed it to Tian Meng.
Tian Meng immediately sent the article to the printing plant of Datang Weekly. Now the daily sales figures of Datang Weekly have basically stabilized, and at the current printing speed, it can be printed in basically one day, so "Datang Weekly" 》Sufficient time will be reserved to avoid the need to add articles temporarily.
On the second day, His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty held his first court meeting after the New Year, and Li Ke was absent from work. Anyway, his work of supervising the country was over.
Li Shimin had already had a premonition that Li Ke didn't come to the court, so he didn't care. It's just that... after coming down from the court, Li Shimin felt a sore back for some reason. Sitting there, he felt extremely uncomfortable.
And there are too many things going on in this court meeting. Quite a lot of the things in it are things that Li Ke has recently arranged. These things have almost kept the six departments busy. Now that Li Ke’s supervision of the country is over, there are still many things that have been piled up. It can't be completed so quickly.
Therefore, there are much more things going on in this court than when Li Shimin held his own court meeting before.
"Your Majesty, the current investigation of animal power in Guannai Road, Hedong Road and other places has been completed..." Duan Lun reported in the court.
"There's no need to do this." Li Shimin stopped Duan Lun angrily.
"Ah? This was not His Highness the King of Qin before..." Duan Lun was a little stunned.
"At the beginning, Li Ke asked your Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Industry to investigate why the relevant land across the country was not cultivated, as well as the donkeys and draft horses in the livestock sector. You said that it would take July to complete the nationwide investigation, but in fact Li Ke was there before The nationwide investigation has been completed in a few days." Li Shimin said calmly.
He waved his hand, and Chang Lin directly gave several prepared and relevant information that Li Ke had investigated to Huangfulin, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Duan Lun, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, as well as Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji. Waiting for some important ministers.
After these people got the information in their hands, they immediately started reading it.
After they read it, everyone was a little unbelievable. This information was not general information, but very detailed. For example, one of the reasons why about 30% of the country's cultivated land cannot be cultivated is due to the uneven distribution of animal power and agricultural tools such as turn-column plows and columbuses across the country.
The Daozhous that lack the most animal power and farm tools are those that are often hit by disasters. On the contrary, places such as Jiangnan Road, Huainan Road, Lingnan Road, and Jiannan Road do not have such a shortage of animal power.
In places where there is a shortage of livestock power and farm tools, except for some villages, everyone can only share a few oxen, and each family can plant part of the crop on average. Then, when there are no oxen, each household relies on manpower to pull the plow and barely plant part of the crop.
However, one hundred acres of cultivated land will definitely not be fully cultivated, which will result in some land not harvesting at all. But without harvesting, these farmers still have to pay taxes.
Therefore, after paying taxes, the food that was originally enough to eat was burdened with land that did not grow food. This resulted in almost all the farmers here being in a state of starvation and living hungry.
If there were no natural disasters, such a period of time would be barely manageable, and it would be possible once the animal power slowly recovers.
But as long as there is a slight natural or man-made disaster, these places will collapse immediately, and then a large number of disaster victims will appear again.
Compared with these, the distribution of donkeys and draft horses is just statistical data, and then mules can be promoted locally.
After reading this, Duan Lun and Doulu Kuan were stunned.
