Ye Xiangdong's words shocked the government and the people. Everyone was amazed, even fearing.

Who is Ye Xiangdong? Ye Xiangdong is the assistant to the cabinet of the current dynasty, an old minister of the three dynasties, and a seniority of Wen Guanhou and Wu Guanhou are of the same level. If he says something, the whole beam will shake. No one can directly refute his words, even the emperor does not have this authority! This is Ye Xiangdong!

At this time, what Ye Xiangdong said was incomprehensible to everyone, and even the emperor, the chief director, could not understand. Why? Because Emperor Tianqi believed that Ye Xiangdong should support Confucianism and should be the one who firmly opposed the person who allowed merchants to take the imperial examination. Such behavior would be like destroying the foundation of the entire Confucian dominance and also changing the biggest variable of the scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. Once merchants can also start the imperial examination, will merchants become the lowest-ranking person? It is impossible. Those children from aristocratic merchants will block and even change such a society.

This is the bad habit of people. At that time, when there are more and more imperial examination candidates and even officials in the merchant family, the officials from merchant families in the court will not be satisfied with the status quo. They will feel why their family is from merchants, so they have to be humble? Why?

No, because at that time, the four classes of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce had been completely destroyed. The ideas of merchants and the thoughts of officials from merchant families would change without a basis. They just rely on instinctive behavior. As long as those officials from merchants came out with a particularly capable person, the entire class would completely change.

Could Ye Xiangdong have thought of this? How could it be! Since other people can think of it, then Ye Xiangdong can naturally think of it. Ye Xiangdong is smarter than everyone in the court, and he is even much smarter than Zhao Rong. Otherwise, it would not have been established in this court for nearly decades, spanning three dynasties, and now he is still a cabinet assistant.

So, why did Ye Xiangdong support it? Can't he see this future change? Of course he saw it, but it was precisely because he saw it that he needed to do this. Why? Because Ye Xiangdong wanted the court to grasp the lifeline of all this in advance. He knew that there was a country called England, where it was because the old dynasty opposed merchants and allowed the status of merchants to continue to be low. So, they were overthrown. Ye Xiangdong was always looking for a suitable opportunity. What was this suitable opportunity? It was able to reasonably propose to improve the status of merchants, and even lay the groundwork for the complete equality of merchants in the future.

And today's opportunity is the best opportunity. Ye Xiangdong knew that as long as he seized this opportunity, the dynasty would completely control the lifeline of these merchants in the future.

As long as there is a carrot in front of you, the merchants will fight to the death to eat this carrot, and the court holding this carrot will be able to benefit the fisherman. This time can last at least for hundreds of years. In this case, why did Ye Xiangdong oppose it? The current emperor obviously has noticed this point, and of course he cannot oppose it, and he even supports it very much.

The only thing indifferent in the entire court was Zhao Rong, because Zhao Rong had known this long ago, and Zhao Rong still controlled this point and negotiated this matter with Ye Xiangdong in advance. Then, he reached a high degree of unity with Ye Xiangdong. Now, Daliang has great opportunities to develop, and this opportunity comes from Zhao Rong. However, to complete this extraordinary transformation, you must have something, that is money. If you don’t have money, even if the opportunity brought by Zhao Rong is great, Daliang will not be able to complete the transformation.

This is certain and fixed. Everyone knows it, including the emperor and Ye Xiangdong.

The emperor knew that everything he wanted to do was to look at the white money, and Ye Xiangdong knew that the changes that Daliang wanted to make, whether it was the courts that opened all over the country, the procuratorate, or even the so-called research on the so-called Tiangong Kaifa Bureau, or the universities, middle schools, or primary schools that the little emperor Zhao Rong wanted to do, all needed money, and this money could only be produced by the state and the court.

In this way, the country and the court must have a very large source of income, otherwise, even if it is barely supported, it will be a little difficult. This is also the reason why the emperor agreed to open a ban on sea, or even agreed to go overseas with the Wang family and Zhao Rong. It is also the reason why the emperor knew that the effect of the poppy flowers was effective, but he still agreed to plant them in the deep mountains and forests, or even to sell them to other countries. This is also the reason why the young emperor knew that it was wrong to capture other countries and other lands, but it was still the reason why the four kings in the southeast, west and northeast went to attack.

A country cannot be without money.

Emperor Tianqi laughed loudly. He had not been so happy for a long time. His life was very frustrating and uncomfortable. However, Ye Xiangdong's support showed an attitude, that is, the country was slowly getting better, and it also showed that not only did he and Zhao Rong turn the tide in this country, but other officials were working hard. Those pedantic old ministers were changing their attitudes and their ideas.

And they only have one idea, which is to make the beam stronger and stronger.

He looked at Ye Xiangdong and said, "Old Ye, you said it well, we can do it step by step." After saying that, he looked at the ministers in the audience with a smile and said, "My dear friends, who has any opinions?"

When Liu Xizhi was about to say something, Ye Xiangdong pulled his sleeve. His face was wrinkled, but he didn't say anything. He knew that he could not say anything at this time. Prince Yan had agreed, because this idea was originally thought of, and Ye Xiangdong had agreed, and even the auxiliary minister and Qing who left the former emperor were silent. He was unable to turn things around.

He stood there, silently expressing his helplessness and at a loss. Ye Xiangdong looked at him and smiled. After that, he whispered in a low voice, "I will take you to a place later. I think you will know why I agree."

Liu Xizhi nodded and no longer resisted. He knew that Ye Xiangdong would not lie to him.

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