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The ice on the road finally melted. Although it was a little muddy, the horse no longer slipped. Xu Ping rode on the horse, leisurely looking at the scenery on the roadside, and heading south slowly.

Inspection is a routine matter. As long as Li Di's attitude is settled, there will be no trouble. In just three days, Xu Ping ended his itinerary in Mengzhou and completed the task of inspecting the prefectures and counties this year. After this worry, Xu Ping felt relaxed and felt particularly good.

Li Di supported Xu Ping's approach, and the officials of Jingxi Road united within the West, and the opinions of some ordinary prefectures and counties were irrelevant. As for Zhang Qi, he was originally a military official and had no reputation or reputation, so he could not interfere in such matters.

As long as internal unity is unified, why should Xu Ping be afraid of Lu Yijian? No matter what the final outcome is, a ideological change has begun, and Xu Ping will officially come to the forefront of this era. Reform is the voice of the times and has already had a deep soil. Xu Ping is just following the trend. The trend is vast and it is impossible to stop it.

Looking at the frozen Luo River not far away, Xu Ping remembered what Li Di said to him when he left Mengzhou. Things in the officialdom are not about winning or losing based on right or wrong. If Xu Ping only wants to explain the truth and rely on the truth to convince others, he will probably lose this time. The truth naturally needs to be explained. Only by explaining the truth can you earn more people to stand on your side. But while explaining the truth, don’t ignore the strategy of struggle, otherwise it will be a waste of money.

What impressed Xu Ping the most was that Li Di said that these principles could convince him Li Di, but the tenth ** cannot convince the key figure Yan Shu. I want to read a book. If I want Yan Shu to stand on my side, Xu Ping still needs to make more efforts in other aspects.

What other aspects are there? Li Di did not say it, Xu Ping did not ask, and it would be meaningless if you say something thoroughly.

Yan Shu had seen many things in the world, and was cautious. The truth could convince him, but he could not act. In Xu Ping's mind, Li Di was probably just saying that he was saying this. Even if he felt that everything Xu Ping did was right and did not give him a reassurance, Yan Shu was afraid that he would still not be able to raise the courage to oppose Lu Yijian. Otherwise, if Lu Yijian found an opportunity to be demoted from the court again, Yan Shu would not want to accept this result.

What kind of reassurance can give Yan Shu to calm his heart? Xu Ping could only shake his head helplessly. He had no idea at all. Zhao Zhen in history particularly liked to change the prime minister, but at this time, Lu Yijian was not included in the people who were often replaced. In fact, Zhao Zhen rarely changed the prime minister who actually did practical things.

Looking up at the white sun in the sky, Xu Ping suddenly sneezes loudly, which scared the people around him.

The winter month passed and the twelfth month. The New Year is approaching, and the city of Luoyang is gradually starting to have the atmosphere of the New Year. Although this year has suffered a drought that has not been encountered for many years, Henan Prefecture has timely and effective relief, and people's livelihood has not been greatly affected. On the contrary, the people in the city benefited from the newly opened business and cotton cloth business, and the money in their hands is much more than in previous years, so this year it seems particularly lively.

This New Year and Spring Festival just happened to meet the beginning of the Spring Festival. The beginning of the year and the beginning of spring is a rare auspicious omen, which is more grand than in previous years.

In the Transportation Office, Xu Ping's chief official office was still busy. Zhao, Li Shen, Lu Ge, Wang Yaochen and others gathered here to nervously organize and study the economic data of Jingxi Road this year.

Prepare for the next step.

A large blackboard was hung in the small study next to it, almost covering half of the wall. Xu Ping sat in front of the blackboard, leaned against the chair, and watched quietly, motionless.

Li Wei, Wang Gongchen and the two explained the contents on the blackboard to Xu Ping, one left and one right in front of the blackboard.

The question of what wealth is solved by Li Yue. He has already had a rough draft, but it is only a detailed polishing. Now the three of them are focusing on discussing how wealth was created and how it was realized. In other words, they are discussing the issues of production and exchange.

Only in the social sense can wealth be discussed. For individual people, there is no meaning to items that only meet their various needs. Wealth has no meaning. The core of all this is exchange, or in this era, it is business. In the past, when it comes to merchants, the positive statement was to communicate with the existence and whether there is any existence and whether there is no such thing as business, but the negative statement was to not be a product, but to buy low and sell high, and to make profits for nothing, it is not beneficial to society. Because it is necessary to communicate with the existence and whether there is no product, there are merchants, and not production, which is like a sworm in society, so restrictions must be required.

The natural economy with the small peasant economy as the main body emphasizes self-sufficiency, and merchants are redundant, which is also the basis of the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce. Of course, the habits inherited from the Five Dynasties did not particularly discriminate against merchants after entering the Song Dynasty, but some restrictive policies still exist. For example, as an official and participating in the imperial examination, there are actually restrictions. However, this is not so much a conclusion drawn from the economic basis of the natural economy, but rather an influence of the traditional concept of merchants that value profit but neglect righteousness.

When a businessman is rich in business, he is easy to become an official. He does not pay attention to the construction of spiritual civilization. After becoming an official, he must seek benefits for himself, affect the fairness of policies, and form a vicious cycle. This is the idea of ​​this era. In a sense, the mainstream view of businessmen on him is somewhat similar to his views on military generals, that is, they all value profit over righteousness.

The important core of the commodity economy is exchange. Exchange is the most important way to gain wealth and expand production. Therefore, it is necessary to theoretically emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce, so that the chain of commodity economy can continue. The theory in this must be solid. Just equality is useless to the policies of merchants and may be turned over at any time.

"My farming business produces cotton, and I send it to the business and weave it into cotton cloth. When the cotton cloth is sold, it will be paid. To be honest, from me, I really can't tell what the merchants need to do."

Wang Gongchen finished talking about his field affairs, spread his hands and looked at Xu Ping.

Xu Ping smiled and said, "However, you don't get money after selling cotton cloth. The merchants mentioned here are not the merchants we usually talk about before. Whenever goods come from one person to another, the transaction between them is the merchant. If you give cotton to the field business, you collect money. Jun Zhu, remember clearly that it is not for nothing, but for money! At this time, your farming business is a merchant, and the business is a buyer. The cotton cloth produced in the field business is not sold by itself, but is sold by Sansi's shop. I don't need to say anything about Sansi shops. It's just a shop. Doing businessman's business is just an official businessman!"
Chapter completed!