They had also speculated before about what Li Ke called these aristocratic families to do. To be honest, the powerful aristocratic families in the world have become more powerful, but since ancient times, emperors of all dynasties have never said that they can absolutely control these aristocratic families.
In other words, give it an absolute grasp.
Take Li Shimin as an example. Li Shimin was already strong enough before, right? But after taking the throne, Li Shimin didn't have much to do with the wealthy families. Although he wanted to reduce the power of the wealthy families, it was difficult to do so.
There is no way. The Tang royal family comes from the Li family in Longxi, which can be regarded as a wealthy family. It is not impossible to create one's own. The problem is that if the Li family of the Tang royal family only comes from ordinary people, it will be easier to rebel.
But they were not. They were from aristocratic families themselves, so they had already received the support of a large number of aristocratic families before the Sui Dynasty's rebellion, and this support had almost been integrated with the Tang royal family.
It's okay if you target one family within the rules, but if you want to reduce the power of the world's most powerful families at the same time, that's impossible. They have to oppose it collectively.
In this era, or in any era of rebellion, none of the organizers at the beginning were purely born in vain, not even the famous Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.
None of these people are from pure common people. In other words, no matter what his achievements are since ancient times, you only need to see whether he is literate and has read a book to know his origin.
As long as they are literate and have read books, no one is a pure ordinary citizen.
There may be people from ordinary people who can eventually become leaders, but it is absolutely impossible for the organizers at the beginning to be ordinary people.
So it can be seen how powerful these powerful families are, but His Highness alone has made it possible for the powerful families in the world to do nothing, even without His Majesty's support at first.
And I'm afraid they have never seen this kind of method from anyone in history.
In other words, His Highness has fundamentally understood the nature of the aristocratic family, and after seeing the nature of the aristocratic family clearly, he has enough methods and methods to deal with them.
They can become the biggest obstacle to Datang's progress, and they can also become the biggest arm for Datang's rapid development and progress.
And it all depends on how you use it. From a certain perspective, His Highness's methods are also very clever now.
Obviously His Highness sees it very clearly. Isn't their family pursuing development and inheriting the family for thousands of years? I give you this opportunity. At the same time, when I throw out this opportunity, I also want to tell you that you can only get on my boat. What is this called?
Those who follow me will prosper, and those who follow me will die.
The power of wealthy families is indeed very powerful, but if you can find a way to make them have no choice, you will find that their support for you is also the strongest.
On the contrary, some barefoot people are far more difficult to control than wealthy families.
Over the course of thousands of years, following the trend has been deeply ingrained in their bones and education. Although they also have a gambling nature, their gambling nature always leaves a way out.
But everyone who has played cards knows that when gambling, sometimes you just have to risk your life and survive, leaving a backup plan, which is never possible.
"Your Highness, didn't you say that the railway is unprofitable and you are not going to cheat them?" Fang Xuanling asked generously, not afraid that Li Ke would have other ideas. What stands out about Your Highness is his magnanimity.
"Yeah, I'm not going to let them invest in railways, but I didn't say not to let them invest in construction. State-owned construction firms alone cannot meet all the construction tasks."
"In fact, there are not enough manpower. Organizing such a large-scale project requires a large number of manpower, and it is not easy to organize these manpower. We cannot continuously and endlessly recruit talents for construction. Such a market is unhealthy. "
"The Tang Dynasty court does not care about profits, so we can appropriate part of the profits. The court is not afraid of losing money. What the court wants is the circulation of money, so whether it is through aristocratic families or state-owned commercial banks, as long as it can be circulated It’s a good thing if it gets into the hands of ordinary people.”
"So, these construction projects can be handed over to them, so that Datang's construction team can mobilize a large number of supervision and construction talents to direct these construction teams, and the organizers of these teams let these aristocratic families find it themselves." Li Ke said.
"I understand."
"At that time, we can organize a bidding meeting to see who has better conditions, and let them be responsible. Of course, if there are not many choices in the early stage, they can also directly win it themselves."
"I believe that the first batch of private construction firms have far higher requirements for construction quality, speed, and quality than we do." Li Ke said with a smile.
"Why is this?" Yan Lide asked with some confusion.
Yan Lide was a craftsman, and he didn't know much about this. He didn't even look at the other ministers and didn't even ask.
"Because of integrity." Li Ke said with some emotion when he said these two words.
It has to be said that some things are progressing with the development of the times, and some things are regressing with the development of the times. Take the integrity of this businessman for example.
In the Tang Dynasty, let’s not talk about the small traders, because these small traders cannot be said to be real businessmen. Many of them did business once or twice and then stopped doing business.
And those real businessmen are based on integrity. In this era, they truly regard integrity as the lifeblood of doing business.
Because in this era, information exchange is extremely slow, and the common people and all those who buy things are accustomed to buying what they already know. The brand needs integrity to maintain.
In addition, if you have integrity, you really can't do business in this era, because many times the other party takes your money and then you don't hear anything from it for a month or two. This is what you can do with integrity.
Therefore, for the current trading houses of these aristocratic families, they will certainly maintain this habit.
"Indeed, without integrity, they won't be able to get the project next time." Yan Lide nodded.
While Li Ke was chatting with everyone, the time quickly approached noon, and at this time, someone next to him brought out a set of individual soldier rations for them.
Of course, these ministers could not see it, because when they ate, it had been heated on a special plate before being served.
No way, there are too many of these things in Li Ke's warehouse. It's useless to keep them. Why not take them out and give them a taste. Hehe, think about how these top people in the Tang Dynasty actually eat individual soldier rations. There is an inexplicable evil taste.
Although to them, the taste of this individual soldier ration is not bad.
