Chapter 456: On Business (Part 2)
"It's unreasonable. I'm a child with Huangkou. I've read all the classics of hundreds of schools. Even Mr. Kong doesn't dare to say such words to me. You! You..." Chu Suiliang's hands were trembling with anger.
I still looked at this famous calligrapher and Confucian master kindly and said, "Mencius did not talk about profit. It was not that there was no profit to speak of. It did not talk about the benefits of villains. But what was great profit?" I held my head up and glanced at the ministers on the venue, and continued to whisper: "Great profits are: the benefits of the country, the benefits of the people, the benefits of the people, the benefits of the country, the benefits of the country, benevolence and righteousness? What is benevolence and righteousness? Benevolence and righteousness are for the benefits of the world, otherwise, why did Mencius say: the people are the most important, the country is the second, and the king is the least? What are businessmen? Is it the king? No, is it the country? They are both the people, the four people of heaven, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, seek benefits for business, and gain benefits for the world. This is not benevolence and righteousness. What is it? Rich the country and strengthen the people, this is the great benefit of the world. Benevolence and righteousness lies."
OK! I couldn't help but almost shouted for myself. Now no one dared to jump with me and hang it crookedly, right? The sound of handboards, jade boards and slap in the court, and even Uncle Li couldn't help but stand up from the dragon chaise: "Hahahaha. OK, you Fang Jun, you really deserve your self-righteousness and talent, and you are so talented and so humble. Hahaha..."
Damn! Uncle Li is indeed not a good bird. He always likes to whisper my wine words back then, almost making my nose sniff. The original cheers almost turned into laughter. Even the old man smiled bitterly and shook his head as if helpless. There were few smiles beside him, Uncle Wei Zheng and Wei were grinning with a big mouth.
"Okay. Is it reasonable to say that my son-in-law is right? Do you think there is something wrong with my son-in-law discussing business?" Uncle Li glanced at the ministers and it was quiet at this moment.
Angry. Why do these so-called Confucian masters always like to misinterpret the meaning of past classics and have nothing to do when they are full? No, they choose to attack their opponents and political enemies in favor of themselves, and try to rule the other party to death. This is the struggle of literati, which is far more cruel than the struggle between military generals.
Finally, I explained to Uncle Li my views on the four peoples, why are there four people in the world? It is because one is indispensable. What are scholars? That is, people who read and read, are both direct participants in the country’s politics, and are also creators and inheritors of my Chinese culture and art. Without them, how can we know the past? How can we accumulate past experiences and promote social development?
And farmers refer to those who cultivate land, pick mulberry and silkworms without them. What do you eat and wear? Are you talking about being gentle every day with your butts naked?
As for workers, it means those who create and build the country and land. Without them, would there be Chang'an City? Will soldiers have excellent equipment and defend the country? Where does the ground, ink, paper and inkstone in the hands of scholars come from? Where does the jade ornaments for showing the ground, come from?
As for merchants, without merchants, there will be no circulation, and all things in the world will not be able to be circulated at all. Without circulation, where can trade come from? Without trade, what else does it need money? Without money, the country will get taxes from?
"...This farming is of course the way of all industries and the source of industry and commerce. Without the production of millet, wheat, mulberry and maltese, what are the merchants selling, and who are the tools of the production sites of hundreds of labor? Therefore, the ministers think that the four people in the world have their own duties. None of them is indispensable, and whether or not is equal. This is not the final say, but the final say."
"It's not just the final word, but the final word. OK, it's good. Compared to some people, my son-in-law has to look farther away. People come to reward Fangqing's family with a hundred pieces of silk and a goldfish bag." Uncle Li smiled and raised his hand, smiled at me and said loudly.
For a moment, when I heard the goldfish bag, I suddenly heard a sucking sound, and I couldn't help but gasp. The goldfish bag is the thing worn by the third-grade officials. I, a third-grade or above official in the Tang Dynasty, was wearing purple-wearing fish. The third-grade goldfish.
And I, a young man, is now a fourth-rank lower-level official, and I have to give this gift, just like a braided dynasty, a kind of honor. Uncle Li is clearly telling everyone, all court officials, I, the second man in the Fang Mansion, Fang Jun and Fang’s love, are very favored by His Majesty.
This is different from the rewards in the past. The goldfish bag is not given to those officials who do not belong to this category. Well, I was overjoyed and almost wanted to bite the real gold land with my teeth. I thought about it and let it go. If I did this in the court, it would be strange if the old man was peeled off and salted when I went home.
"I thank Your Majesty for the reward. I will never repay Your Majesty for your grace." I happily provoked Uncle Li, well, it was very pleasant.
After the court was dispersed, Uncle Li kept me and sat respectfully on Uncle Li's bottom head, his hands kept holding the goldfish bag, and his mouth was almost smiling.
Uncle Li said angry and amused: "Son-in-law, how about this thing!
"It's worth more than a hundred coins, at least." I said complacently.
As soon as he said this, Uncle Li almost flipped from the couch to the ground with a smile. Standing behind Uncle Li, Zhao Kun stared at me with a black look on his face, as if he was watching a vendor who specializes in selling counterfeit and shoddy products, which was short of weight and damages people.
"No, the son-in-law actually doesn't mean this, son-in-law..." After a long time of grunting, I couldn't think of a reason to fool him. Forget it, I admit it. Anyway, who told you to ask me this on purpose?
Uncle Li smiled for a while before standing up with his waist and said, "Okay, I won't smile anymore. Oh, every time I see a good son-in-law, I smile more than usual in a month. By the way, the land annexation you mentioned last time was just a reversal, and it was inevitable that it would be regular. I thought about it carefully for many days. After careful consideration, it was indeed true. Whether it was the Han, Jin, Northern Dynasties, or the previous dynasty, there were such worries, which made me unable to sleep every night for several days."
"In fact, Your Majesty, this is related to the population. Why do every dynasty always get a stable period of recuperation in the early stage? It is because of the decline of the population land, which leads to a relatively increase in the land and the people have good land to live. Who is willing to rebel? And every dynasty. After a long period of rest and recuperation, the population will double. With a series of land factors such as land annexation, your Majesty thinks. Every time the disaster occurs, the people have no food and can only sell the land. The land will naturally reach the wealthy family. Over time, the rich will become richer and the poor will become poorer. In this way, it will be the end of the dynasty."
"Then what do you mean?" Uncle Li looked at me for a while before speaking.
"Actually, I don't know if the son-in-law is superficial. However, the son-in-law at least thinks that the people are the kindest land in the world. As long as they can have a full meal, who is willing to do this kind of work of losing their heads and destroying the land of the nine clans? So the son-in-law thinks that if the farmers are rich, they don't need to sell acres of land to cover their belly. First, they must increase the yield of grain land in our court. Improve farming equipment and improve the breeding of good seeds. In this way, the people's land and land will increase their income and can eat... In short, in one sentence, the four people in the world will be the first priority."
Uncle Li frowned and thought bitterly: "I understand the truth about the wise son-in-law. However, as soon as the famine comes, people will always lose their land. This is the responsibility of the court. Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, more Yizhuang warehouses have been built, but they are still not enough to help the victims. Transporting from other places, but they often eat the land, which is more than transported to the land. Five of the ten places are considered to be less land."
I touched my forehead and frowned and thought for a long time. There are too many issues involving the rise and fall of the country. The farming problem is too complicated. It cannot be achieved by just talking about it. Let’s put it aside. Since Uncle Li mentioned disaster relief, let’s start from this point and say something practical: “The son-in-law thinks this has to be fundamentally mentioned. The most important thing is to build roads. To get rich and to be stable in the country, you have to build roads. The roads are getting better and the transportation time will be shorter. Just like the roads built from Chang'an to Luoyang, the roads have been built now, from Chang'an to Shanzhou. If it were the past,
It takes at least one day and one night, and now we use prisoners to build the cement avenue. The time has been reduced by half. Moreover, driving on such a road is not only shortened, but we can also transform vehicles. In the past, due to roads, the vehicles were loaded only a few hundred kilograms. If we used a four-wheeled cart, we could also get a weight of a thousand kilograms at a time. What's more, if we used this kind of cement avenue to connect between the various prefectures of our Tang Dynasty, it would not only be more convenient for trade and trade, but also bring more taxes to the country. Moreover, if there is something wrong with that place, my army in Chang'an can also..."
"...Build a road?" Uncle Li pondered for a while, raised his head and shouted loudly: "Come here, I'll send me the Minister of Works to see me quickly."
Yan Lide arrived soon, and Uncle Li asked about the cement straight road from Xinchang'an to Luoyang. After asking, as I said, Yan Lide was very kind: "In the past, building roads not only required the people to work, but also sent money and silk in the court, and also took into account the farming time. It was not said that it was to build such a road that was nearly two meters wide. Even if it was a mud road in the past, it would take several years. Now, in less than a year, it is almost time to build Luoyang, and the iron and silk consumed less than 50% of the straight roads in the past."
Chapter completed!