"Hey, have you heard of it? Something happened to Xue Yantuo in the north, something big happened!"

"Ah? Something happened? What big happened? A fight started again? Are the Xueyantuo people looking for death? The Turkic talents were taken away by the Tang Dynasty and they came to commit the crime not long after?"

"Hey, it's not a matter of war. Who dares to fight against the Tang Dynasty now? A Jingguan in Lingzhou stands there, and the Hu people's courage is scared. How dare you go against the Tang Dynasty? This time, I heard that it's not the Xueyantuo people, it's all done by our Tang Dynasty. After all, it's our fault!"

"Oh, this is a new thing. And when our Tang Dynasty made a mistake? Don't talk nonsense!"

"Come on, can I still lie to you? Do you still remember the storm of the prosperous things a few days ago? The Tang Dynasty abolished the marriage bride and then wanted to trade with Xue Yantuo!"

"Oh, I have an impression. It seems that all the merchants in Chang'an have gone to the palace to petition. Didn't Your Majesty agree? Could it be that these merchants have done something? I'll say that every good thing for merchants! A profiteer!"

"Do it, don't do this, haven't I finished talking about it yet? This time, I heard that it's not the business of these Chang'an merchants, I heard that it's the business there!"

"Shandong? Ah? Shandong?! You didn't lie to me, are you a group of scholars!"

"What is lying to you? Is it good for me? Tell you, this time, in order to trade with the Xueyantuo people, there were three caravans in the Tang Dynasty. It seemed to be competing. Compared with each other, it depends on who can take the Xueyantuo people. Just like in the Western Turks, there was also a large caravan in Shandong. As a result, the Shandong caravan used fake goods to deceive the Xueyantuo people. The deeds were discovered. Now everyone has been arrested. Xueyantuo's Khan wants our Majesty to give an explanation!"

"Ah? This, this, a fake?"

"Yes, I heard that the bronze tripod was made of wood, so it was covered with a layer of skin. Oh, look at what you did? It was so embarrassing that he threw it to Xue Yantuo! I heard that His Majesty is now in the thunderous wrath!"

"This. This is too much. They are all scholars. It's fine if they do business. This won't have anything to do with the five surnames and Qi Wangs, right?"

"That's possible, who knows? Those businessmen must be the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are

"By the way, Marquis Su, Marquis Su seems to be an envoy, right?"

"Yes, Marquis Su is an envoy. Didn't there be a 800-mile emergency report from the previous two days? It seems that it's the news from Marquis Su. Marquis Su is still there now, I don't know what the situation is going on!"

"Oh my God..."

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Similar conversations like this, after Suning ordered 800 miles to report the urgent return of the court two days ago, it gradually spread in Chang'an. Since the finger was directed at the merchants, it was spread among merchants particularly widely. All merchants were checking whether there were fakes in their shops. Some of them naturally destroyed their fakes with a blue face, accompanied by these abnormal actions that hurt people. The people gradually began to believe these rumors, even if there was no formal news from the court.

But who knows? Rumors are more powerful than harsh policies. This is a truth. The less news there is, the more market there will be. In less than three days, this news spread throughout Chang'an City. At the same time, with the merchants walking around and the huge flow of people in Chang'an City, this news gradually heading towards the Tang Dynasty, of course, including Shandong.

In fact, since losing all contact several days ago, the Shandong gentry members were uneasy and didn't know what happened. They immediately sent people to check the news north. However, the traffic was backward and they had never been able to get accurate news. However, with the spread of rumors, the Shandong gentry members finally got accurate news.

The reason is that His Majesty Li Er's imperial edict and rumors were simultaneously spread to the territory of the Shandong gentry.

His Majesty Li Er was actually mixed with joy and sorrow. He was happy that he finally found a way to defeat the Shandong gentry. He was worried that the fraud incident proposed by Suning in the memorial on the trust of the Tang Dynasty and the impact on future commercial trade. The credibility of the Tang Dynasty was severely hit. Many Xueyantuo people did not question other caravans in the Tang Dynasty on the surface, but their skeptical expressions cannot be ignored. It is impossible to ignore them when purchasing items.

This is far from the situation in the past when you have no doubts about buying it when you see it. It is also the most direct impact. In order to destroy the Shandong gentry plan, the Tang Dynasty had to pay a lot of money to make up for some of the mistakes made this time. Suning said that he also discovered it by accident. At the beginning, he was just ecstatic and failed to consider this matter. By the time the incident happened, he was already exhausted.

I think this is the price that needs to be paid to destroy the Shandong gentry?

His Majesty Li Er was also in deep thought about this matter. He also thought deeply about the issues Suning said. The provincial party committee was worried that trust is an important force to maintain the current social system. Once the power of trust is frustrated, it will cause unimaginable consequences. Distrust of Shandong merchants will inevitably lead to distrust of other merchants, which may in turn cause mutual distrust among the people. It can be seen from the perspective of the leopard.

His Majesty Li Er fell into deep worries, but fortunately Suning proposed remedies, that is, people only began to doubt merchants, and did not doubt the Tang government and the emperor. Therefore, as the representatives of the last credibility of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang government and the emperor must make a gesture and show their strong determination to maintain the credibility of the Tang Dynasty and social trust.

And nowadays, the trust between people is still very strong. As long as people do not transfer their distrust of merchants to mutual distrust between people, it is success. One of the core of the Confucian ideological system is mutual trust, everyone abides by morality and trusts each other. Once they no longer trust each other, the most direct impact is the complete collapse of the Confucian moral system.

But the most direct problem now is that the representative group of the moral system, Shandong gentry shot themselves in the foot. They destroyed their winning magic weapon, their killer weapon, and the moral commanding heights that have always been troubled by His Majesty Li Er, and pulled them down from the altar to see through the leopard. It can be seen that in this way, the credibility of Shandong gentry will inevitably collapse completely!

At this critical moment, the court should point all the finger at the Shandong gentry, and lead the public opinion to attack the Shandong gentry. In particular, it should pay attention to uniting a group of poor students who do not belong to the gentry, because the representative identity of Shandong gentry is now called scholars. A group of scholars' collective fraud will also cause a serious blow to poor scholars, and will trigger a crisis for poor students. Once the court unites poor students to attack Shandong gentry, it will win the support of students from poor families.

They will support the court and firmly demand the elimination of this dirty group that slandered the sacred title of "scholars".

The gods of the past, the dirty things of the present.

The court's attack and the people's attack alone cannot be considered a killer. The complete disgust of poor students who are also considered second-class scholars will completely ruin the Shandong gentry, and the last straw will no longer exist. At the same time, the court will release all papermaking and printing techniques at this critical moment and sell a large number of printed books. The prices of these books can be reduced to the extent that every scholar can afford it, and disrupt the Tang Dynasty to the greatest extent. In this way, we can take advantage of the troubled waters and make the Shandong gentry completely messy and irresistible!

He completed his contributions in one battle and completely destroyed the Shandong gentry!

His Majesty Li Er was moved by it and convened a large number of ministers for urgent consultation. After confidently promulgated the most serious imperial edict, which was quickly approved by the Ministry of Education. The promulgation of the whole country was also furious in the court and severely rebuked the Shandong caravan for fraud...

"This is an act that deeply hurts the hearts of all races, and it is also an act that deeply hurts the hearts of the people of the Tang Dynasty. The situation is very serious. The behavior is very bad. I am very angry and the consequences are very serious!

Now I have issued an imperial edict to confiscate all the finances of Shandong's merchant regiment this time. No one of the people involved in the case was spared and all were put into prison, waiting for the officials of Dali Temple to come for review, and then make a final judgment. The seven leaders of Shandong merchant regiment died and fled, four were arrested. The leader was the younger brother of the head of the Cui family in Boling, which is enough to show that this matter is inseparable from the Shandong gentry!

Shame! Impression! As a scholar, he actually did such shameless things! As the leader of scholars all over the world, he actually did such a ridiculous thing in the world! Not only did he lose face in Shandong, but he also lost the emperor and the Tang Dynasty! Now almost all foreigners do not trust the merchants in the Tang Dynasty! You have to verify the authenticity of everything you buy, and you no longer trust the merchants in the Tang Dynasty. What impact will this have on the Tang Dynasty?

I don’t say it, you all understand. Thousand-year-old family, scholars, literary leaders, etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shame! The poem says! I forgot them all! I read all the books into the dog’s belly! Half of all the goods are fake! They are all inferior! There is even the matter of filling the copper mat with copper mats on the outside and filling the wood with wood. What is the tripod? That’s the world! It’s the world! You, okay! OK! This is all the things you did!

How many foreign envoys came to the palace to ask if this matter was true, and how many foreign envoys came to question me if this would happen if their country and the Tang Dynasty were in commerce. Do you know what I thought with such an expression and look? I really want to dig a hole in the ground and drill into it! The country of the Celestial Empire, a great country, and a country of etiquette! Such a ugly thing actually happened! Such a ugly thing!

OK, OK, I am very brave, I am very brave! I can wrap the whole heaven for me! I can wrap the Tang Dynasty! I don’t want to do it, I will do it for you, you will be the emperor! I will sell the entire Tang Dynasty! Bastard! Bastard! Bastard! Bastard!" His Majesty Li Er took off the jade pendant at his waist and threw it hard on the ground. With a "bang", the precious jade pendant was broken into powder...

His highness and ministers quickly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please quit the wrath of thunder!"

His Majesty Li Er was even more angry: "Stop the anger? Why stop the anger? How do you calm down? Give me an explanation, give me an explanation! You forced me to go into business with Xue Yantuo. Okay, the matter is done, but you have created a scandal of fake goods! Where can I put my face? Yi Nan asked me to give him an explanation, what should I give him! What should I give him! Do you take your head?

I am too kind to you, too relaxed to you! I obey you and indulge you indifferently, I agree to whatever you say, I will not do whatever you don’t let me do. I think you will take my heart into consideration, and you will also take care of me. Well, now it seems that you are all treating my kindness as a donkey’s liver and lungs! All deserve to die! All deserve to die!"
Chapter completed!