As for Han Yi's own personality, he is actually a perfect person who combines principles and flexibility, which is also one of the reasons for his success.

He is a person who strictly implements the plan. Even if he hits the wall, he will never change his plan. However, within the plan, he is very flexible in his work and can change everything.

At the beginning, he never considered Liu Rengui because Liu Rengui was too principled and inconvenient to control. Almost after the war, he decided to fool Liu Rengui to take over the mess.

Because the situation in Goguryeo was even more complicated than he thought, he underestimated the hatred of the people of Goguryeo and Silla's ambitions. Those who stay here must be both civil and military. He hopes to gain benefits here, so he must be stable. If he doesn't do one thing every day, it is to suppress the people here, and he also needs to add red dates.

But after thinking about it, he really doesn’t have talents in this area, so he can only use Liu Rengui.

But he would try hard to convince Liu Rengui to accept his philosophy because he knew whether he was his person or not. Whether he was loyal to him was actually not very important. What mattered was that everyone had the same philosophy, as the saying goes, the same aspirations and harmony.

Since he chose Liu Rengui, he had to work hard to fool him and strive to make him fully accept his ideas, that is, mercantilism.

On this day, Han Yi and Liu In-guk came to the suburbs to inspect. Although it had already snowed heavily in Pyongyang, it could not stop the merchants from chasing interests. Businessmen could be seen everywhere outside Pyongyang's suburbs of Pyongyang.

"It is said that businessmen are profit-oriented, and it is not bad at all. Such a cold day cannot stop their enthusiasm at all."

Han Yi smiled.

Liu Rengui looked strange when he heard this and said, "I once heard that Shangshu Han was proud of being a businessman."

Han Yi nodded and said, "It's the same now."

"Why?"

Liu Rengui looked at him curiously.

Han Yi said: "Businessmen are profit-oriented. In order to compete for power, ministers are willing to sacrifice their lives and shed their blood and do everything they can. The gentry cherishes their fame as the bird cherishes their feathers. I don't know what the difference between these three, so I don't think there is anything wrong with merchants' profit-oriented, as long as they don't break the law."

Liu Rengui thought for a moment and nodded embarrassedly. In fact, the most shameless person in the world is their group of politicians, including many gentry. They cannot do anything immoral to protect their own interests. As a politician, do you have the nerve to say businessmen? Even if you are honest and upright, there is still a businessman named Zheng Shanxing.

Han Yi smiled again and said, "Governor Liu grew up reading the books of sages, so he naturally has a bad impression of businessmen."

Liu Rengui nodded, and he could not deny it either. This is a deeply rooted concept. Businessmen are cunning people and cannot be trusted. Standing with them is an insult to himself.

Han Yi said: "But everything has two sides, and businessmen actually have a cute side."

Liu Renguidao: "I hope to hear the details."

Han Yi said: "Let's talk about this war. In ancient times, many merchants made money by war, which made people very angry. Therefore, they ignored that merchants also hate war very much. They like that wars happen in other people's homes. In this way, they can take advantage of the situation. But if they happen in their own homes, their wealth will be wiped out. It can be seen that for local managers, merchants are actually a very good helper, because they have invested a lot of money here. If a war occurs here, they are likely to lose all their money. They will try their best to avoid the war's recurrence and maintain stability here. Does this coincide with the current plan of the court?

Also, merchants can promote the integration of nations well. The policy of restraint is actually just a temporary measure. However, the Tang Dynasty had garrisons in the local area, and there were not many. However, in terms of system and culture, they still had their own ways, so the purpose of integration cannot be achieved. However, merchants need to communicate and communicate continuously. Just say that in Goguryeo, the Han people and the Goguryeo people were not in tune with each other. So do you think that the workers were accommodating the boss, or the boss came to accommodating the workers?”

Liu Renguidao: "Of course, the workers accommodated the boss."

“That’s the truth.”

Han Yi said: "Businessmen represent wealth and nobleness. So whoever wants to be rich, naturally, everyone will learn from them, imitate them, and take them as examples, including language, writing, clothing, habits, etc. In the future, in Goguryeo, Chinese will become the language they are rushing to learn, because only if you understand Chinese can you stand together and talk to the rich, and sooner or later, Goguryeo's own language will be thrown into the ravine.

However, once they are the same as these merchants, they will become us Han people, not Goguryeo. War is just a down-to-earth strategy, cultural civilization is the strongest weapon of our Tang Dynasty, and merchants are the best messengers to spread civilization and culture."

Liu Rengui was thinking and lived a long time ago, and then he nodded slightly and said, "Shangshu Han's opinion is indeed very novel and unique. Maybe I really have prejudice against merchants. But I always feel that scholars, farmers, industrial and commercial enterprises are not wrong. This land will not grow bigger. We can only grow so much grain in a year. Can the merchants take care of it? Can the grain be doubled?"

Han Yi said: "Of course!"

Seeing Han Yi's answer so righteously, Liu In-gui couldn't help but say, "I hope I can give you advice."

Han Yi smiled and said, "Who got the second-season rice? It was a merchant, who paid for the research and development of those advanced farm tools, and it was also a merchant. Why are merchants, not experienced farmers? Because merchants have money and resources, they have the ability to do these things. This principle is actually very simple. If you only have dozens of acres of land, you can only keep yourself from hungry at most. You don't have free money to do other things, and you don't have free time, but if you have thousands of acres of land, you can do a lot of things."

Liu Renguidao: "Many landlords in this world also own thousands of acres of land."

Han Yi said: "This is the difference between a landlord and a merchant. A landlord wants more land. If he owns more land, it means that others will have less land, so he can maintain his own status. The merchant wants more food, because the merchant pursues interests. If you give the landlord one acre of land or one thousand acres of land, they will grow grain without hesitation. But if the merchant is given one acre of land or one thousand acres of land, he will first think about what is the most profitable thing to plant. If it succeeds, they will think about how to plant more. Otherwise, the merchant will be no different from the landlord."

Liu Rengui nodded slightly when he heard this. His views on scholars, farmers, industry and commerce came entirely from books, and Han Yi's insights were something he had never thought of.

Han Yi said again: "If you want to manage the place well, you must let go of your prejudice against merchants and live in harmony with them, because they are your helpers, not enemies. Haven't you been curious about how to manage the place well with the intervention of merchants?"

Liu Renguidao: "I hope Secretary Han will inform you."

Han Yi said: "Actually, as long as you do something, you can develop business and vigorously promote business. Put everything else aside, and everything is working hard for business development."

Liu Rengui looked confused when he heard this.

Han Yi said: "Governor Liu can't even understand this? Business brings wealth. The more developed the business, the more wealth you accumulate. Businessmen are profit-oriented. As long as they can make money, they certainly don't mind listening to the government, and even give more money to the workers. When workers become rich, they are naturally willing to obey the government. When they become rich, they naturally pay more taxes, and the government is naturally rich."

Liu Rengui was stunned for a while and said, "Everyone understands this principle, and everyone wants to be richer. Even if the saints say that a gentleman loves money and takes it with his own way, our prefectures and county magistrates in the Central Plains hope that this is the case, but it is easy to say but difficult to do."

"It's hard to say it's hard, it's easy to say it's easy to say it."

"How do you say this?"

Han Yi said: "Encourage production and increase trade. In fact, Goguryeo is very good to develop, it depends on whether you are willing to do your best to promote it. Because there are not many people in Goguryeo anymore, because many people have been transported to the Central Plains. As long as you vigorously develop production and improve productivity here, the materials produced will be far higher than the needs of local people. The extra materials can be sold. However, there is a huge market beside Goguryeo, namely Shandong, Central Plains, Jiangnan, and the north. It is conceivable that so many people need it. Let's put it this way, as long as Goguryeo has a unique commodity that is loved by the people of the Central Plains, it will be enough to support this people."

Liu Renguidao: "Then how to encourage production and increase trade?"

Han Yi smiled and said, "This businessman will give you advice. After all, you represent the government. If they have any needs, they will naturally discuss it. They will give you enough reasons to convince you. You just need to listen humbly and communicate with them, and you will naturally know how to do it.

This plan is very different from the Central Plains. In the Central Plains, officials and the people generally do not communicate. Here, officials need to communicate frequently with merchants and the people, because doing business is not farming. If farming, the government only needs to insist on persuading agriculture and sericulture, without any care. And buying and selling things are changing, involving many aspects, which require communication and face challenges.

I think this is a little tired, but it will make you more like an official, because you are performing your duties every moment, rather than kissing me and me to your concubine every day.”

Liu Rengui smiled and said, "I have some expectations after hearing what Han Shangshu said."

Han Yi said: "If one day a businessman comes to you, he will only be respectful, polite, not fear, humility, then scatter."

When Liu Rengui saw Han Yi suddenly laughing, he couldn't help but look at Han Yi with a little curiosity.

"Uh, then you will succeed." Han Yi said, and smiled again.

When Liu Rengui saw Han Yi laughing from time to time, he was even more curious. He followed his gaze and found a big fat man rolling in the snow not far away. There was a thin boy standing next to the big fat man. They were all on wooden boards and holding two sticks in their hands.

These two are Ono and Hun.

"Haha!" Han Yi looked at Xiaopang's clumsy body, so happy that he couldn't stop talking. He suddenly turned to Liu Rengui: "Governor Liu, you can go there to communicate with the merchants, I'll go there first to take a look."

Liu Rengui was stunned for a moment and hurriedly said, "Shangshu Han, please give me some advice."

"Lost your companion!"

Han Yi bowed his hand and hurriedly walked towards Xiaopang and the others.

"Brother Han, why are you here?"

When Brother Xiong saw Han Yi coming, he said in a daze.

Han Yi laughed and said, "You know, I have always been strongly supportive of your sports career. Come on, I will teach you skiing together ono."

"No - no, Brother Han, you can go there, just have Ono here." Brother Xiong shook his head.

Han Yi said in surprise: "Why?"

Brother Xiong snorted: "Because you like to laugh at me."

Han Yi tskated, "What kind of ridicule, I'm just inspiring you. Ono, do you think so?"

Ono laughed and didn't answer this

Liu Rengui looked at the scene of the three of them playing, with confusion in his eyes. They were just talking about the serious matters, but Han Yi suddenly ran to play with his two younger brothers. This was incredible.
Chapter completed!