Gao Zhizhou and the other three never expected that their careful persuasion would only bring about a more vengeful attack from the crown prince! All the Japanese students sent to Tang Dynasty were sent back!
This... Once such a decree is issued, it will definitely cause a shock in the court, and will definitely make Japan even more hostile towards the Tang Dynasty.
"Your Highness, this is not legal, right? In this way, won't Japan become even more hostile to the Tang Dynasty?" Gao Zhizhou frowned and sighed in his heart. If he had known earlier, he would not have mentioned it to this little ancestor. Now, all the Japanese students were sent back directly.
"Legality? What is legality? I am legality! Talking about legality with Japan? Are you crazy? And your hostility is deepening. Does the Tang Dynasty need to care about the attitude of a tiny country? Gao Zhizhou, I'm going to say this today. You can also tell the Japanese envoys that I, Li Hong, will personally crush Japan sooner or later!"
The three of them were also confused. For some reason, whenever the prince mentioned Japan, Goryeo and other countries, he seemed to be ignited, filled with anger and disgust.
"Then... we'll take our leave." The three of them stood up and said at the same time.
Li Hong waved his hand and asked the three to leave. When the three reached the door, Li Hong called them again.
"Wait a minute, you three sign this first." Li Hong glanced at the document on the corner of the table and pointed to it at them.
Gao Zhizhou had sharp eyes and saw at a glance that it was the execution order of the two Japanese envoys!
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The three of you stood in front of the table, looking at each other, then looking at the sneering face behind the table, and all of you sighed.
The three knew that if they didn't sign this, let alone whether they could take Helan Minzhi and others away today, it would be a question whether they could even walk out of the room.
Just look at that little face and you will know that he has to sign today. If he signs, this matter will be handled according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, and the case will be settled. If he does not sign, the prince can still kill the two Japanese envoys, but he will lose some credibility.
According to the Tang system, general cases were tried by the Menxia Province Jieshi Zhong, the Zhongshu Province Zhongshu Sheren and the Censor of the Censorate, which were called the Small Three Departments.
However, if it is a major case, such as the case that Li Hong personally tried, it involves too many aspects and levels, and it has to be jointly tried by the three big guys: the Minister of Justice, the Minister of the Dali Temple, and the Chief Censor.
In the end, the three men had no choice but to sign their names, stamp their seals, and then take the warrant signed by the prince to go to the restricted area cell to pick up the person.
The smile on Zong Chuke's face has never disappeared in the past few days. Even when he is sleeping, he still has a bright smile on his face.
He watched the three adults leave with their heads down, not even paying attention to them who were greeting him. He didn't care, and after the three people left, he hurried into the building.
"Excuse me, is Your Highness here? I, Zong Chuke, request to see you." Zong Chuke said, looking at the maid at the door.
The maid at the door took his token, took a look at it, and then casually returned it to him. Although this person often appeared in the manor in recent days, his level was obviously too low.
Those who came to the manor to seek an audience with the prince were all heads of a department, officials of the fourth rank or above, or members of the royal family. The smallest of them was from an aristocratic family.
Li Hong lazily basked in the sunlight that came in through the window. He looked at Zong Chuke standing beside him and asked curiously, "What's your happy event? Why are you so beautiful? Are you getting a concubine?"
"No, no, no, Your Highness, you are joking. I followed your method and helped Lantian County sell a lot of jade. I even discussed cooperation with several merchants. They will come to the shop frequently to buy jade in the future. So...so...so I came here today to thank Your Highness."
"You came empty-handed?" Li Hong looked at Zong Chuke's empty hands and asked lightly.
"Uh... this... you know that I'm short of money..." Zong Chuke stood there awkwardly. The maid beside him changed the tea for Li Hong, but did not prepare any for Zong Chuke.
"Then do you really have the nerve to say that you are here to thank me? Forget it, I won't ask you for it. How about this, I will give you a task. If you complete it well, I will recommend you for a promotion. If you don't complete it well, Lingnan is in urgent need of county magistrates right now. How about I reserve a spot for you when the time comes?" Li Hong said, looking out the window at a group of people in a hurry.
"I will sacrifice my life for Your Majesty..."
"Okay, if you don't know how to take pictures, don't take pictures. Do you see those people?" Li Hong said with a headache, pointing at a group of people who were about to come in from outside.
"Yes, Your Highness. These are all members of the royal family. I have often encountered them in Taiyi City these past few days."
"Yes, that's right. So your job is to get rid of them, not for me to get rid of them. Whatever method you use, is it feasible?"
Zong Chuke looked at Li Hong's half-smiling face and wanted to show a sad expression at this moment, but because his face had been showing a bright smile in the past few days, crying now looked like smiling.
Li Hong sighed helplessly. He knew he could not count on her by looking at her virtue. He stood up and said to the maid, "Tell Xia Zhi to open the meeting room and ask them to wait for me there. I will be there soon."
It goes without saying that these people are members of the royal family who have not been issued a permission order, including Princess Qianjin and Prince Cao Li Ming.
What Li Hong did not expect was that Princess Honghua and her husband, the king and wife of Tuyuhun, whose country was destroyed, also came together.
Li Hong didn't know whether they would come to blame him or ask him to give them more places.
He stayed in the room for a full incense stick of time. Just when Xia Zhi could no longer control the dissatisfaction of everyone in the small conference room, Li Hongcai slowly walked in, accompanied by Xiaoxue and Zong Chuke.
"Hong'er meets Grandma Huang, Hong'er meets Aunt Honghua..." The royal family also has their own etiquette, and these people are all people that Li Hong needs to pay respect to.
After he finished the greetings, these royal family members greeted him as subjects. In short, even for the simplest meeting among the royal family, it would be difficult to sit down and get down to business without a cup of tea.
After the host and the guests sat down, Li Hong waved his hand and asked Xiaoxue to distribute the stack of papers in her arms to everyone present.
"You guys read it first, and then ask me if you have any questions and we'll discuss it, how about that?" Li Hong said hurriedly when he saw Princess Qianjin looking up.
Princess Honghua looked at the three simple pieces of paper in her hand and wanted to speak, but seeing that Li Hong said so, she had to lower her head to see what they were.
After Li Hong finished speaking, he saw that everyone was studying with their heads down. Even Suo Yuanli, who had been following Princess Qianjin and Wen Ting, asked Xiaoxue for a copy.
So Li Hong pointed at Suo Yuanli and said, "Get out."
"Your Highness, I..."
"Everyone here is from my royal family. Who do you think you are? Get out." Li Hong said to Suo Yuanli with an unforgiving look in his eyes.
Princess Qianjin glanced at the reluctant Suo Yuanli, then looked at Li Hong who looked determined, raised her head and said to Suo Yuanli who had stood up, "Then you wait outside."
Looking at Suo Yuanli's departing back, Li Hong firmly thought in his heart that he would never let this person get close to the court as long as he was alive.
"What does this agent mean? There is also this level of agent. What is the difference between it and the second level agent?" Cao Wang Li Ming was the first to finish reading, put down the document in his hand and asked.
"It's very simple. Every month you buy goods from Taiyi City at a fair price, and then you can sell them to other shops according to the price I set, and you make money from the difference." Li Hong said simply.
"Then why does it take a year?" Princess Honghua raised her head and asked.
"Because I want to ensure absolute fairness. Otherwise, those merchants who get the same licenses as you within three years will be no different from you."
"So even if three to five years pass, we may never get the semi-finished products, or the recipe to make them ourselves?" Princess Qianjin saw that this was just a temporary and perfunctory strategy of this cunning guy.
In this way, they can be shut up and see huge short-term benefits. However, when the merchants who get the license can produce the products completely independently, they will have an advantage over them in terms of price. Even if they are first-level agents, all their advantages will disappear by then, and they will have to face price competition with other merchants.
In this way, it will be impossible to solve the problem once and for all. You will always have to look at Li Hong's opinion and the contract will be signed one year at a time. That is, if Li Hong is in a good mood this year, he will sign the contract with you. If he is in a bad mood and doesn't like you, you will be deprived of your status as a first-level agent this year, and you will have no autonomy at all.
Because of the expenses of the mansion, you have to obey Li Hong for the sake of this first-level agent. Otherwise, if Li Hong is unhappy, he will stop supplying you with goods, making it impossible for you to resell to other shops.
"Hong'er, in this way, won't we always be unable to compete with those who hold the permit? Don't you really intend to give the royal family a way out?" Cao Wang Li Ming was a little annoyed. As the emperor's uncle, he was treated like this. This made him feel very unbalanced!
He and Princess Qianjin had been depressed for several days because Bai Chun and the Ministry of Revenue had disqualified him for no apparent reason.
Moreover, every day they saw the people coming out of the big house opposite the manor, called the Taiyi City Council Hall. The expressions on everyone's faces were as comfortable and satisfied as if they were bathed in the spring breeze. They felt ashamed to see those people whispering to each other, talking and laughing, or discussing the pros and cons of the permission decree, or discussing the representatives of the Zhou Chamber of Commerce and the Dao Chamber of Commerce.
Especially seeing that other members of the royal family not only obtained permission orders, but also used their reputation in various fiefdoms to be directly elected as presidents of the Chamber of Commerce by other merchants, they could represent the merchants and come to Taiyi City to attend the Chamber of Commerce every year.
Seeing these scenes, I felt as if I had been slapped hard in the face. It was burning painful, but there was nothing I could do.
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