A moment later, a gust of autumn wind swayed at the camp on the banks of the Wei River, causing the fire to crackle.

Li Shimin sat cross-legged next to the fire, still barefoot.

The emperor also reached out to touch his hands twice, and said with a complacent expression: "No wonder the Baiqisi reported that you were picking your feet at the head of Luoyang City. This foot is really comfortable to pick. I have received education from a gentry since I was a child and became an emperor after becoming an adult. I have been regular, strict and serious all my life. I have never tried picking my feet and it is so fun. Ah hahaha, Guanyin maid doesn't need to glare me, you glare me too today, it's so refreshing..."

Han Yue sat next to Li Shimin, the father and son were almost shoulder to shoulder together, and Han Yue also sat cross-legged with barefoot, but instead of picking his feet, he used his toes to scatter the loose soil from time to time.

My thumb arched into the soil, and the itchy feeling was so pleasant.

A piece of earth trash suddenly came over from behind, but Empress Changsun was full of anger. The queen said in a tone: "There are no good things for both men and women, they are all big stinky feet sweating in winter and summer. Let's see if you are the emperor and the king of Zhao, can you still have a positive appearance in front of your ministers?"

As the queen said that, she bent down and picked up a Tu Kezi, and smashed it at the two men and sons. Li Shimin was still motionless. Han Yue yelled, and Li Chengqian and Li Tai were smirking beside her, and suddenly stretched out their feet to kick the flying Tu Kezi away.

Changsun almost fainted when he saw this. It turned out that the two boys had taken off their shoes and imitated Li Shimin and Han Yue. The queen only felt blushing and vaguely heard a group of noble ladies laughing.

She suddenly held Tian Doudou, who was busy beside the pot, and shouted to the three women who were helping around, "Doudou, Haitang, Yan Wan, you three are ready for me. No one is allowed to qualify for your husband to climb into bed tonight. Aren't they going to learn from the people that they are showing their big stinky feet? Let them find a stinky private woman to go to bed."

The three women who were ordered by her were Han Yue's wife, Li Chengqian's wife, and the last Yan Wan was Li Tai's wife.

The queen and her three daughters-in-law issued strict orders, and she gritted her teeth and said fiercely: "I will do it too, not let Your Majesty go to bed, make them shameless, make them shameless..."

The three daughters-in-law looked at each other, Doudou smiled gently, Haitang laughed softly, only Yan Wan was elegant and luxurious, and carefully reminded the queen: "My mother's trick is useless. The four of them don't care at all. We don't let them go to bed, and the young people just happened to be picked up by the young people. The little girl in my house is not sure how smart she is, and she has been watching this kind of thing for a long time."

The queen was suddenly a little discouraged and said angrily: "Wan'er, after you say this, I found that the same is true in my palace. It's hateful, it's really hateful. I can't cure the four of these masters."

Doudou laughed and picked up a green fish to scrape the scales to clean it. She said softly: "Don't be angry, my mother, let them play with her. My husband loves sex and makes fun of it, and his daughter-in-law is not willing to make things difficult for him in this matter."

Changsun snorted, sucked Doudou's butt with a pampering sound, and cursed: "One of the daughters-in-law, you have had something wrong with Yue'er. Now you have also brought your father-in-law and two younger brothers to pieces. Doudou, you are really..."

Doudou stuck out her tongue and started cooking neatly.

She was born into a poor farmer's family and her skills were very good. Hou Haitang and Yan Wan could only fight a little, which was obviously worse than Doudou.

The women were busy cooking, while the men gathered next to the fire. Today, there were many court ministers, including Dukes and nobles, generals and civil officials, and hundreds of people in the court were chatting around several fires.

Although it seems to be idle, everyone is actually careful and can clearly see it carefully. These ministers are all focused on the side of the royal fire.

Everyone was waiting to listen to Han Yue’s explanation!

Li Shimin touched his feet with one hand, looked at the fire with half-squinted eyes, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and said lightly: "Let's start, it's getting late, I'll finish the business early, and the meal will be ready later..."

This is said without any brainstorm, but everyone knows who it is. Li Chengqian and Li Tai subconsciously moved their butts away from the place where the emperor and Han Yue sat cross-legged.

Han Yue smiled and swept the fire with his eyes. He suddenly coughed lightly and cleared his throat, saying loudly: "The poverty in the world is rich..."

"Huh?" Countless sounds of surprise and suspicion suddenly sounded around, and many ministers frowned in an instant.

Han Yue only used one sentence and four words to directly aroused everyone's infinite curiosity.

The poverty in the world should be in the poor people, how can it be in the wealthy family? I have never heard of this in ancient times. Could it be that His Highness, King Zhao, pretended to be a madman?

Han Yue smiled. Since he said this, he naturally knew that the ministers would question it. He spoke directly and said: "Since ancient times, there have been countless sages, some who have been sad and pity for heaven and man, some who have worked hard to cultivate territory, and some who have educated the people. All sages were busy all their lives and did it for one thing, that is, they wanted to make the people rich and the world no longer become poor..."

He stopped here and continued: "The sages worked hard all their lives. Although they did countless great things, they still couldn't change the world. The people were still poor, and poverty still happened. Therefore, ancient sayings were passed down, saying that the poverty in the world lies in the people."

These words are the orthodox remarks in the world. All the ministers nodded secretly. Fang Xuanling suddenly bowed and asked with a smile: "But your highness, you just said that the world is poor, the poverty lies in the wealth. This statement is completely contrary to the sages. The old minister asks you to solve your doubts..."

Han Yue laughed and nodded, "I don't ask about the house, I want to say it too."

Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at Li Shimin, pretending to be slick and said, "Father, I am about to start. If you don't listen to it, just pretend that my minister has never said it."

Li Shimin laughed and scolded, saying, "Tell me, my father is not stupid yet. I have counted the emperors throughout the ages and the present. I am the one who has received the most advice. Besides, why should you and my father be restrained? Just say anything directly."

Han Yue yelled, coughed twice and began to organize his language.

His eyes became obviously deeper, and he picked up a piece of wood to pull the fire, and said in a deep voice: "The poverty in the world is rich, and this is the realization of my king's trip to Luoyang. I went deep into the streets and talked to the pawns and peddlers. Suddenly, one day I had an sudden enlightenment. The reason why the people are poor is not because we have not made enough efforts, but because our efforts have been occupied by the rich."

"Huh?" A sound of surprise sounded again around, but this time the surprise was filled with some thoughts. Those who can become the boss of the court are elites, and many people will think deeply with just a little guidance.

Han Yue suddenly stood up slowly, looking into the distance, and said, "This is Tianjiazhuang. From here, since the ninth year of Wude, I first built mosquito coils and water trucks, made Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, studied sweet potato varieties, and brewed high-altitude wine. After that, he led 100,000 people out of the customs, established the mutual market outside the customs to make money, and then went to the land of Baishan and Black Water, and started from scratch to build a giant city. All of them could enrich the people. However, twelve years have passed, why are the people of the Tang Dynasty still poor? Where did the wealth I created go?"

"Where has the wealth gone?" This sentence aroused deep thoughts from many people, and they couldn't help but whisper and start discussing.

Han Yue ignored everyone and made a conclusion: "The answer is very simple, it was intercepted by the rich."

He raised his foot and took two steps, and said in a slow tone: "For example, those ten industries are clearly intended to enrich the people, but the poor people cannot take over directly because they have no strength in large-scale industries. I will take an example as an example, let's talk about the iron industry in the Tang Dynasty."

Liu Hongji stood up in the crowd and explained hurriedly: "I, Old Liu, have been involved in this industry. Since I started working, I have always remembered Your Highness's teachings. No matter whether you lose or make a profit, you will never increase the price. The same is true for the other eleven participating families in the iron industry. No one dares to disobey Your Highness's orders..."

"You didn't add it, but someone added it!"

Han Yue waved his hand slightly to signal Liu Hongji to sit down, and smiled and said, "Duke Kui, sit down, I am not accusing you."

Liu Hongji breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a little relieved.

Since Liu Hongji came out to explain, Han Yue happened to take him as an example and then said: "All the officials have heard that Kui Guogong said that they had never increased the price of participating in the iron industry. My king shipped in the mines and smelters in the Northeast at a cheap price. This was a deliberate act of benefiting the people. Why did he still not see the people rich after persisting for so many years?"

"We don't know, Your Highness, please speak." The ministers bowed, and everyone wanted to know the answer.

Han Yue suddenly sighed and said helplessly: "The reason is that the wealthy family is the wealthy family in the Tang Dynasty..."

He looked up at the sky with his hands behind his back and said in a deep voice: "I am doing industry to save the people, but the people have the strength to take over this. For example, the Northeast Iron Smelting Plant will cost hundreds of thousands of trump cards at a time, and it will be distributed to twelve agents. Each company will have to pay more than 100,000 yuan of funds. Then they will distribute it to the sale, and the problem lies in this sale."

Some of the ministers understood, and saw Fang Xuanling slowly stood up, frowned and pondered: "Once the goods were sold separately, they would inevitably take advantage of each other, because the people did not have the strength to accept more than 100,000 iron tools, and only the rich households had the money to buy them in large quantities. After they purchased them, they would distribute them to smaller wealthy households again. After this layer by layer, His Highness's cheap things had already lost their effectiveness in helping the people's wealth."

Han Yue nodded and sighed with emotion: "That is why I said that the poor in the world, the poverty lies in the wealthy. The profits that my iron mining industry intercepted by the wealthy have not achieved the desired opening purpose. The same is true for other industries. No matter how I give benefits to the people, the people will never be able to get benefits."

The ministers present were thinking, and the scene became silent for a moment, only the autumn wind blew, making the fire crackle.

Li Shimin suddenly sighed in a deep voice and asked Han Yue: "Is this what you and your party in Luoyang have realized?"

Han Yue nodded and said solemnly: "Yes!"

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