"Oh!" When Lu Chen, who was studying the carved beams and painted buildings, heard Chang Bao's words, he turned around and walked towards the Nuan Pavilion.
"Ouch! My Lord Lu!" Chang Bao hurriedly stopped in front of Lu Chen.
"What's wrong?" Lu Chen looked at Chang Bao strangely. Li Yuan had already let him in, so why was Chang Bao stopping him?
"My Lord Lu! You have to shake your crown and clothes before you can enter!" Chang Bao looked at Lu Chen helplessly.
"It's really troublesome!" Although Lu Chen muttered impatiently, he still followed Chang Bao's words.
For Lu Chen's words, Chang Bao was already somewhat immune to this journey, because Chang Bao didn't know how to evaluate this Lu County Duke. Baozhen didn't know what else would come out of this guy's mouth if he answered.
After Lu Chen complied, Chang Bao led Lu Chen into Nuan Pavilion.
"Such a big house, so empty!" Along the way, Lu Chen could see what the Chang'an Imperial Palace, which was destroyed in later generations, looked like. Although it cannot be compared with the Forbidden City in Beijing, it is still magnificent, with carved beams and painted buildings. , but Lu Chen went to the Tai Chi Hall a few times before. There were so many civil and military officials there, so the Tai Chi Hall did not feel empty. But now that Lu Chen came to this Nuan Pavilion alone, he suddenly felt that the house was a little empty.
"Be careful what you say! Be careful what you say!" Chang Bao reminded Lu Chen helplessly, what a good guy, he actually started to criticize the emperor's residence.
"I, Lu Chen, have met Your Majesty!" Lu Chen saluted Li Yuan and said.
"Lu Aiqing, excuse me. I heard that Lu Aiqing brought me two baskets of green vegetables?" Li Yuan asked impatiently.
"Yes!" Lu Chen responded simply.
"Quick! Move in and let me take a look!" Li Yuan ordered Chang Bao.
Chang Bao took the order and turned around and left the Nuan Pavilion. In a short time, four young eunuchs carried two baskets of green vegetables directly into the Nuan Pavilion.
When the two baskets of green vegetables were placed on the floor of Nuan Pavilion, Li Yuan directly greeted Chang Bao, helped himself to stand up, and came to the two baskets of green vegetables. At this time, the oil paper covering the green vegetables had been removed.
"I haven't seen so much greenery in a long time!" Li Yuan stretched out his hand to grab a few wok leaves, put them under his nose and smelled them, with an intoxicated expression on his face, "I, the emperor, am not as happy as you, the county magistrate." Feel free!" Li Yuan looked at Lu Chen and shook his head with a bitter smile.
When the surrounding palace eunuchs heard what Li Yuan said, they quickly lowered their heads and pretended that they had not heard what the emperor had just said.
"Your Majesty, I have just successfully tested the seeds!" Lu Chen looked at Li Yuan and said with a smile, "Isn't this a successful test, so I will send it to Your Majesty for a try!"
Chang Bao on the side lowered his head and curled his lips when he heard Lu Chen's words.
"Very good! Very good!" Li Yuan looked at the green vegetables in the two baskets with a look of satisfaction on his face. He didn't know whether he was satisfied with the green vegetables in the basket or with Lu Chen's words.
"It must be difficult to grow green vegetables in this season, right? There are not as many green vegetables grown in the Forestry Department in the imperial court as there are in Lu County!" Li Yuan said with some emotion, "Chang Bao, put these Send the green vegetables to Guanglu Temple, and pick some to send to both the prince and the King of Qin!" Li Yuan directly ordered Chang Bao.
Chang Bao was about to turn around to do this. At this moment, Lu Chen unexpectedly said something to stop Li Yuan from doing this: "Your Majesty, I thought that these green vegetables were presented to your Majesty. Your Majesty, Just enjoy it by yourself!" Lu Chen said, cupping his hands towards Li Yuan.
Although Lu Chen's words were not very clear, Li Yuan still understood the meaning of Lu Chen's words. If he only gave these green vegetables to Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, then would Li Xiuning give some? I am afraid that those who have contributed to the Tang Dynasty will not say anything on the surface, but they will definitely feel uncomfortable in their hearts.
After hearing that Lu Chen actually stopped Li Yuan, the palace eunuchs buried their heads lower. As for Chang Bao, he also looked at Lu Chen with a surprised look on his face. How did the emperor arrange these things? How dare this Lu County Duke face him. Object and question!
"Of course, I am currently popularizing the cultivation of this kind of green vegetables in Lujiazhuang. If it succeeds, I can let them buy it at my Lujiazhuang!" Lu Chen looked at Li Yuan and continued.
"You guys don't want to say that when I want to eat green vegetables, I have to go to your Lujiazhuang to buy them, right?" Li Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at Lu Chen and asked, "You also have a title. How can a person do such a thing as a merchant?" Li Yuan scolded Lu Chen with a stern expression.
"I am not a merchant. When the time comes, they want to buy green vegetables from the farmers in my Lujiazhuang. How can they say that I am a merchant?" Lu Chen smiled at Li Yuan and said, " Of course, how dare your Majesty’s Green Vegetable Minister accept money? Of course he has to send it to Guanglu Temple every day!”
"You still have some conscience!" Li Yuan glared at Lu Chen and scolded Lu Chen with a smile.
At this time, Chang Bao had waved all the palace eunuchs to leave Nuange. The scene of the dialogue between the monarch and his ministers was really eye-catching. At this time, Li Yuan still had no airs of an emperor. It was just an elder talking to a junior. scene.
"Your Majesty, I actually think this merchant is not a bad person!" Lu Chen looked at Li Yuan and said.
"Huh?" Li Yuan frowned when he heard what Lu Chen said. "Businessmen are mostly profit-seeking people who buy low and sell high. How can you say that merchants are not bad things?" Li Yuan said, somewhat disagreeing with Lu Chen's opinion. .
"Your Majesty, although this merchant buys low and sells high, has your Majesty ever thought about the reason?" Lu Chen looked at Li Yuan and asked. After all, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty only respected Confucianism, the status of merchants has always been the lowest and most important. They are unpopular, but in fact, a country's economy really needs the existence of these businessmen, so Lu Chen is ready to brainwash Li Yuan.
"What could be the reason? It's just to gain profits!" Li Yuan said with disdain. Obviously, Li Yuan didn't have a good impression of businessmen.
"Your Majesty, if something from Jiangsu and Zhejiang is shipped to Chang'an, will there be any loss or damage along the way?" Lu Chen looked at Li Yuan and asked.
"This..." Lu Chen's words directly made Li Yuan fall into deep thought.
"Your Majesty only sees that merchants make profits, but if there are no merchants, how can goods be circulated? Without merchants, how can goods from the north be transported to the south? Not to mention the distance, there are many unproductive products in Chang'an alone Things, but there are people selling them in Chang'an, isn't this all the credit of the merchants?" Lu Chen continued, "The merchants transport the goods, and people eat and feed the horses. Isn't this all money? The merchants naturally want to make this money. of!"
"Lu Aiqing, what you said makes sense, but is it possible for all the people to abandon farming and engage in business?" Li Yuan continued to express his doubts.
"How come your Majesty has such an idea?" Lu Chen looked at Li Yuan and said in surprise, "Earth is the foundation of a country, and the most important thing for a country is its territory. So why do the Turks always go south? Is it because they don't produce? Coveting the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty? And the people of the Tang Dynasty are ancestral farming people. If they have land, they will naturally not abandon farming and engage in business! Moreover, businessmen can create tax revenue for us!" Lu Chen said with a smile. .
"Of course, it's too early to talk about commercial tax, but I believe your majesty will soon discover that this commercial tax is much more than the salt and iron tax!" Lu Chen sold it out with a smile, and Lu Chen's first step It was glass for sale, followed by iron stoves and anthracite coal, followed by green vegetables. Lu Chen couldn't believe that he couldn't afford the money from the aristocratic family.
"Then I'll wait and see!" Although Li Yuan was still a little doubtful about Lu Chen's words, after a short conversation with Lu Chen, he also gained a little understanding of the businessman. At this time, he also had a hint of the concept of the businessman's baseness. loose.
After hearing Li Yuan's words, Lu Chen knew that the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty in front of him had a slight change in his views on businessmen, but it would take time to completely reverse it. After all, Confucianism was now somewhat deeply ingrained, and he wanted to change his mind all of a sudden. , it is still difficult, and the only way to reverse these thoughts is to boil the frog in warm water.
"Then I will resign!" Lu Chen saluted Li Yuan and said.
"Yeah! Go!" Li Yuan stroked his beard and nodded, obviously still thinking about Lu Chen's remarks about businessmen.
"That's right! Your Majesty, I have one more thing to ask for!" Lu Chen was about to walk out, but suddenly he seemed to remember something and turned back.
"What's the matter?" Li Yuan looked at Lu Chen and asked in surprise.
"Well..." Lu Chen thought for a while and said, "I want to ask two masters of the cleansing room to go to Lujiazhuang!" Lu Chen looked at Li Yuan and said.
"Who do you want to purify?" When he heard that Lu Chen was looking for two masters in the purification rooms, his first thought was who Lu Chen wanted to purify.
"Your Majesty, I don't want these two masters to purify people!" Upon hearing Li Yuan's question, Lu Chen said with a bit of laughter and tears, why do you want two clean people to give them to? What about castration? Li Yuan’s brain is like no one else!
"Then what use do you want them for?" Li Yuan asked curiously.
"Fan the pig!" Lu Chen answered simply.
"Cough! Cough!" Upon hearing these two words said by Lu Chen, Li Yuan seemed to be stimulated by Lu Chen and coughed twice in succession. Chang Bao hurried over and gave Li Yuan a light thump on the back.
"What did you say?" Li Yuan still looked at Lu Chen in disbelief and asked.
"Inciting pigs!" Lu Chen answered simply, and his serious attitude showed that he was not joking at this time.
"You..." Li Yuan suddenly felt defeated.
