It is very expensive to inquire about news.

But if you have money, there is no secret in this world.

Chen Zhengtai quickly returned and saw that Li Shimin was standing on the river bank with his hands behind his back, so he went forward and said, "My teacher, I have found out that the canal here had rained heavily in a few years ago, and the river bank collapsed. Because the terrain is low-lying, it is easy to cause disasters when the river floods. Therefore, this area... is a land without a border, so a large number of people live here."

"It turned out to be a land without a border." Li Shimin immediately understood.

He told Zhang Qian: "Please give these steamed cakes to this person."

Zhang Qian knew it, so he took the steamed cake to the hut and said something to the boy.

The boy looked unbelievable and dared not take the steamed cakes.

Zhang Qian simply put the steamed cake on the ground and came back.

After the boy was convinced, he struggled to carry the steamed cake into the hut, so the woman holding the child chased after him, but there was no one who could see the steamed cake.

The boy was already swallowing his saliva, his eyes kept looking at the steamed cake.

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Li Shimin returned to the long street, which was still dark and humid, and people enthusiastically clamored.

After finding a street stall-like teahouse, Li Shimin sat down, and Chen Zhengtai sat opposite him.

Li Shimin seemed a little low and glanced at Chen Zhengtai: "The harm of rising prices is as fierce as a tiger. Alas... these are my fault."

Li Chengqian couldn't help but say, "Father, isn't this Dai Zhou's fault?"

Chen Zhengtai laughed.

Li Chengqian glared at him: "Why are you laughing at?"

Li Shimin also stared at Chen Zhengtai meaningfully.

Chen Zhengtai said: "The prince thought it was Dai Zhou's fault. This is right, but it is not right. Dai Zhou is the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and it is certain that it is not good for him to do things. But from another perspective, is Dai Zhou wrong?"

Li Chengqian couldn't help but say angrily: "Why isn't it wrong? He does things randomly..."

Chen Zhengtai said, "He did not do anything wrong. His Majesty wants to calm prices, what can Dai Zhou do? What measures can he take? At least... he is honest, right, at least... he is decisive and decisive? Is this also wrong? Setting up a mayor and a trading secretary to suppress prices has actually been the same since ancient times. Dai Zhou just imitated the old ways of the ancients. Is this also wrong?"

Li Chengqian never expected that Chen Zhengtai would sell himself after he changed hands. It was obvious that everyone stood together and stood opposite Dai Zhou.

You are actually talking to the opposite person now? What do you mean?

Li Chengqian wanted to say something, but Li Shimin encouraged Chen Zhengtai and said, "You keep talking."

"But...this is the terrible thing." Chen Zhengtai continued: "The most terrifying thing is that it is clear that the Ministry of Civil Affairs is not wrong, and Dai Zhou is not wrong. Dai Zhou is already one of the few famous officials in the world today. He is not greedy for money and has not taken this opportunity to corruption and abuse the law. He is not only doing things, but it is even more serious."

Chen Zhengtai paused here, looked at Li Shimin carefully, and plucked up the courage, "So... my teacher said that this was my teacher's mistake. Because... the result of this today is no longer Dai Zhou's problem. Even if the teacher changed to Li Zhou and Zhang Zhou, he still had to make a bad thing. And this is exactly the problem."

When Li Shimin heard this, he couldn't help but feel depressed. He was once full of energy, but in fact he was vaguely thinking about this problem, but now it was exposed by Chen Zhengtai.

He did not hide it and said, "What Zhengtai said is exactly what I think."

Li Chengqian frowned, and he couldn't help but say, "If you say this, isn't everyone wrong?" His face changed: "It's not that we were wrong, we dug so much copper, which led to the price increase."

Chen Zhengtai despises this guy in his heart.

He said with gaze: "How is it wrong to mine more copper ore and increase the supply of money? In fact... it is a good thing to rise in prices."

Chen Zhengtai's eyes fell on Li Shimin, with a serious expression: "My teacher think about it, since the Qin and Han dynasties, how has the world changed? Even Emperor Wen of Sui said that Kaihuang's prosperous era, and even his mentor remembered that time. But... under Emperor Wen of Sui, there were no hunger, and there were no people like the boy today? Students dared to guarantee that under the Kaihuang's prosperous era, there were so many such people, and countless people, what his mentor remembered was actually just the prosperous Chang'an and Luoyang under the appearance of Kaihuang's prosperous era!"

"People like that boy have never changed their lifestyles and destinies since the Qin and Han Dynasties. The most terrifying thing is that even if their mentors create a prosperous era in the future, they will only have more grain fields to be reclaimed, and there are more money and grain in the treasury. In this world... there are still many extremely poor people, and there are countless."

When Li Shimin heard this, his heart was cold and his eyes suddenly dimmed.

Because he knew that Chen Zhengtai was right.

What he saw today was still the peaceful season. The Tang Dynasty ushered in a long-lost peace, and there was almost no war in the world, but what he saw today... was sensational.

What if it was another time?

Or...what really created a scene like the prosperous era of Kaihuang?

This is obviously completely different from the prosperous times I imagined.

At this time, Chen Zhengtai said again: "In the past, copper coins were always in a tight state. The rich people in the world hid the money one after another. Is this money... still useful to hide it? It is useless to hide it. This is dead money. Apart from being rich, it has continuously increased their wealth and has no use."

Chen Zhengtai kept looking at Li Shimin, he was very worried... In order to stabilize prices, Li Shimin was so crazy that he directly blocked the copper mine in Najun County.

He believed that Li Shimin could do such a thing.

Chen Zhengtai continued: "Only when money flows, can it be beneficial to the national economy and people's livelihood. As long as it flows, the more it flows, it will inevitably lead to a rise in prices. If it weren't for the more money, who would be willing to take out the money in his hands to consume? So the fundamental problem now is how the court should guide these money flowing on the market, rather than cut off the flow of money."

In fact, Li Shimin was not very enthusiastic about this in the past.

To be honest, if Chen Zhengtai hadn't been competing in his ears every day in the past, he wouldn't even want to listen.

But today... he actually listened very seriously: "It is beneficial and harmful to flow, right?"

Chen Zhengtai said: "Yes, it is beneficial and harmful. Look, my teacher... If there is a foot of cloth in this world, but the money that flows on the market is consistent, and people need this foot of cloth very much, then this foot of cloth is worth a foot of cloth. If the money that flows is 500 yuan, people still need this foot of cloth urgently, and this foot of cloth is worth a foot of 500 yuan."

Li Shimin nodded after hearing this: "In this way, the more flowing, the more valuable the cloth will be. If it flows less, the less valuable the cloth will be."

Chen Zhengtai said: "That's true. The previous method was that copper coins were unwilling to flow, so the supply of copper coins in the market was very small, so the cloth price has been maintained at an extremely low level. But now, due to the depreciation of copper coins, the market is flooding with money, and the cloth price has risen wildly. This is the root of the problem."

Li Shimin frowned and said with a tangled look on his face: "So... this problem... neither I nor the court will ever be able to solve it?"

"Who said that it cannot?" Chen Zhengtai said seriously: "Everyone is just thinking about the question of the increase in money. Didn't the mentor think about... increasing the output of cloth? With more money, what if the supply of cloth is increased? It turns out that there is only one foot of cloth on the market, so if the production is increased, the cloth on the market will become three feet, five feet or even ten feet?"

Li Shimin was stunned and his eyes lit up.

He woke up with a word and felt that he had almost entered a dead end just now.

Yes... everyone only thinks about money, but almost no one thinks about it... Start with the cloth problem.

Chen Zhengtai saw Li Shimin's heart and continued to work hard: "Mr. Teacher, the student repeatedly said that inflation is a good thing, and more money is also a good thing. But the problem is how to guide the money to a more favorable direction. The money is now idle in the market. What is idle? idle means that although the money is flooded, the cloth is still the original output, so the price of cloth rises. But what if we guide the money... to produce cloth? Once it is mass-produced, then

With enough supply of cloth, no matter how much money is, the price can be maintained. In addition, production requires a lot of labor, which can give these extremely poor people an extra place to make a living. In addition, the court collects taxes in this process, so that the supply of cloth will increase, so that more people can have cloth available. A large amount of labor will earn wages so that they can support themselves without having to beg for food on the streets. The tax burden of the government increases... wouldn't this be a three-killing victory?"

"That is why students think that... more money is a good thing, and the more money, the better. If there is no stimulation that more copper coins on the market, the world is probably only for another thousand years, and it is still the same. But to solve today's problem... it is not Dai Zhou, nor the old method in the past, but a new method must be used. This method... Students call it innovation. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the world has been using old methods, but now it is not a new method to solve the current problem."

If it weren't near Chongyi Temple, Li Shimin would never be able to seriously think about the questions raised by Chen Zhengtai.
Chapter completed!