Mind reading, the emperor saw my fist hard

"Oh·······"

Emperor Xuan laughed out of anger.

The censors who were still impeaching suddenly fell silent.

"you·····"

Emperor Xuan pointed to an imperial censor.

"You said that my princess, the guardian of the country, would cause chaos in the market by selling secret recipes at low prices. Yesterday, she sold a tofu secret recipe."

"I know about this tofu. It is made from soybeans. My eldest princess cares about the people and has added a dish to their tables. How can it be considered disrupting the market?"

The censor took a step back, not daring to refute Emperor Xuan.

I can only murmur in my heart,

Is the tofu recipe the point?

The key points are the recipes for rice paper, frosting sugar, and ink.

"And you..."

Emperor Xuan pointed to another censor.

"You said that the people would stop farming in order to make money. Starting next year, we will promote high-yield crops. The grain output of Daqian will naturally double."

"Are you going to let the people keep the uneaten food in the warehouse and let it rot?"

"His Majesty!"

The Minister of Revenue stood up with shining eyes and said: "If we can't finish eating, we must sell it. We can use the money from selling grain to buy cloth, meat, jewelry, furniture... buy everything we can enjoy."

"This way, all the secret recipes prepared by Her Royal Highness can be used. Her Royal Highness is really far-sighted and has a plan for every step."

Emperor Xuan looked at his Minister of Revenue with suspicion. Does Xu Jinyu have the ability to think ten steps ahead?

Or is it that the Minister of Revenue is praising Xu Jinyu against his conscience?

In fact, it’s not that Xu Jinyu has the ability to think ten steps ahead, but that Xu Jinyu is standing on the shoulders of giants.

Modern social textbooks clearly analyze how agricultural civilization transformed a social form based on farming into one based on handicrafts.

Xu Jinyu just needs to copy what others have done.

"Your Majesty! I respectfully request that Your Majesty lift some of the restrictions and allow the people to wear fabrics other than linen."

As he spoke, the Minister of Revenue turned around the room excitedly and said, "This way, Daqian will be able to achieve a prosperous era where everyone has food to eat and clothes to wear, just as Her Royal Highness the Princess said..."

"Your Majesty~~~"

A heartfelt cry interrupted the Minister of Revenue's longing.

"The untouchables are ignorant and don't know how to be satisfied. Even if we give them good things, they still want better. Their greed is insatiable. If this continues, how can my Daqian world be stable?"

A censor with gray beard knelt on the ground, tears in his eyes.

It seems that allowing the people to live a good life will destroy Daqian.

The words of this censor did not enter Emperor Xuan's ears at all. Emperor Xuan thought of what Xu Jinyu had said, and his heart was burning. He slapped the chair and

"Then enlighten the people!"

"Your Majesty! No!"

"Your Majesty! Absolutely not!"

"Your Majesty, the people's wisdom must not be awakened!"

······

This time it was like stirring up a hornet's nest, and more than half of the people in the court knelt down.

Even half of the six ministers knelt down.

After saying this, Emperor Xuan felt a little regretful.

Why did emperors of successive dynasties fail to enlighten the people? One reason is that the cost of enlightening the people is too high and it is difficult to do so with the power of the court. Another reason is that the unenlightened people are easy to fool.

After the people were enlightened, no matter what the emperor wanted to do, the people would ask why.

How can the world be governed if that continues?

Moreover, if he dared to enlighten the people now, the aristocratic families would unite and rebel against Daqian.

He needed to ask Xu Jinyu indirectly about the consequences of awakening the people.

"stop!"

Emperor Xuan raised his hand directly.

"Stop it now!"

The room finally returned to calm.

The kneeling officials stood up one after another.

"Continue with the previous question."

"His Majesty,"

At this time, an official named Wu stood up.

"Your Highness, you can sell other secret recipes, but the secret recipe of my Wu family is the same as that of Qianji Pavilion. In fact, the secret recipe of Qianji Pavilion is even better than that of my Wu family. If this continues, my Wu family will suffer heavy losses."

"I beg your Majesty to order that Her Royal Highness be prohibited from selling the secret recipe that overlaps with that of the other family."

"Hmph!" Emperor Xuan snorted impatiently.

Finally we get to the point.

The reason these officials went to such great lengths to impeach Xu Jinjin was because of those secret recipes that were worth a fortune.

These noble families simply looked down upon the secret recipes that Xu Jinyu sold for a few coins, dozens of coins, or even hundreds of coins. Their focus was on the secret recipes that Xu Jinyu sold for tens or hundreds of thousands of taels.

Some of those secret recipes overlap with those of the aristocratic family. If they were bought by someone, it would definitely cause huge losses to the aristocratic family.

"If you don't have the ability, then go to Qianji Pavilion to buy the secret recipe, or improve the secret recipe yourself, or you want to learn from the Shen family and steal the secret recipe from my princess!"

Emperor Xuan, who was angry, spoke in a particularly impolite tone.

"I dare not!"

"It's just that the princess sells it too expensive!"

"How can it be expensive? The price of one incense pill sold by your Wu family is equivalent to the price of gold of the same area. Don't tell me that your Wu family is not making money from selling incense pills, but doing charity."

"Hahaha······"

Half the court laughed.

But will this official surnamed Wu give up?

will not!

The secret recipe of one kind of incense pill is worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Even if the Wu family were to go bankrupt, they could not afford to buy all the secret recipes of the incense pills.

Therefore, either the princess should be prohibited from selling those secret recipes, or no one should buy the secret recipes of Qianji Pavilion.

"His Majesty,"

The official continued to clasp his fists.

"Many of the spices needed for the incense pills come from..."

There was a fierce argument in the court about the secret recipe sold by Xu Jinyu.

All the officials who have connections with these noble families came forward.

Emperor Xuan was so annoyed by the noise that he finally threw away his sleeves and told these families to talk to Princess Tai'an themselves.

Those officials from the aristocratic families stared at Emperor Xuan even though it was an offense to the emperor.

Let them go to find Xu Jinyu in person, and then be sent to heaven by Xu Jinyu.

This way the court will be much cleaner, and Your Majesty can clean it up without any effort.

Kill two birds with one stone!

Being stared at by so many officials, Emperor Xuan was not angry at all.

Instead, he said sourly, "I want the recipe for drying salt, but I have to pay for it?"

"What makes you feel more noble than me?"

Everyone has to pay, how fair.

And Xu Jinyu said that he would give a discount to the court.

Discount!

Still 20% off!

The noble family does not have such a discount.

Before he knew it, Emperor Xuan was so tortured by Xu Jinyu that he was very happy as long as he was given a discount.

Logically speaking, in a feudal imperial society, shouldn't all good things be presented to the emperor?

In the end, nothing happened in the court.