Chapter 94 Breakthrough of the market

Author: Yang's Good Son

Chapter 94 Breakthrough of the market

Faced with the commercial tax collection method set by He Kui, Sun Ce asked curiously: "How could he collect urban commercial tax in Wu County alone? The people are not worried about the lack of money, but the unevenness. Wouldn't such a setting lead to public resentment?"

People do not worry about lack of people, but about inequality.

Never underestimate this sentence.

The Central Plains scholars and officials knew thousands of years ago that no one can be rich without labour and no one can live without business.

However, they still chose to emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce and advocate small-scale agricultural production. The main reason was that the scholars and officials advocated the concept of not worrying about the lack of fear and unevenness.

If you don’t worry about being a weak person, you are a commoner. As long as you don’t starve to death, you can’t get so many requirements? Therefore, suppressing industry and commerce and allowing all people to stay in dozens of acres of farmland as self-cultivated farmers is the most praised by many feudal rulers.

Of course, they are all cultural imprints that are inherited. Ordinary people in later generations are no better than feudal literati and officials, so don’t laugh at them.

Because many modern people in industrialized societies in later generations also had three-piece sets in their minds when they thought of feudal order.

One is to grant land equally, two is to prohibit land circulation, and three is to suppress mergers.

Sun Ce could almost memorize these three points, and even reverse the order of these two and three points without any effect. The core is the literati and official style, which is not worried about the lack of people but the unevenness.

What he advocates is that every household is guarding its dozens of acres of land, and the chickens and dogs are heard from each other, and never interacts with each other until they die.

If they let their country govern, their economic level will stop in the Spring and Autumn Period. At most, some technological inventions will be added, and they will barely reach the level of Qin.

The economic level of the Western Han Dynasty was something they could never imagine or understand. Because there was a bug in the Western Han Dynasty that their theory was completely unsolvable.

That is how to maintain the Silk Road?

All the people are observing the average production of dozens of acres of fertile land. Where can we find thousands of caravans to explore the Western Regions?

Even though he racked his brains, he barely found a solution, that is, he completely gave up the development of the Western Regions, and let the Hu people take away all the wealth on the Silk Road, and the Hu people completely occupied the operating rights of the trade route and organized caravans to and from the Central Plains. The Central Plains were only responsible for providing goods.

But the problem is still impossible to solve. Another more difficult problem is how to continuously provide these caravans with a large amount of porcelain and silk?

The people are observing the average production of dozens of acres of farmland, and it is impossible for hundreds of thousands of people to engage in industrial and commercial production.

Of course, when we arrived at the Maritime Silk Road, we were even more shocked. A merchant ship could carry more than 600,000 pieces of porcelain, and thousands of merchant ships were transporting goods at the port every day. In just one port city, the scale of industrial products needed in a year was hundreds of millions. The entire country could produce handmade products in a year, which may have tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of pieces.

At this point, it is a completely fantasy for the small peasant economy. Anyway, according to the small peasant economy concept of equal field production, this economic level is unimaginable.

But in fact, this is just the first dynasty in the Central Plains to confirm that the land system was not established, and the economic level of the Song Dynasty.

Sun Ce actually had a passionate hope that Jiangnan would have the industrial and commercial standards of the Song Dynasty. If Jiangnan's agriculture, industry and commerce could have one-tenth of that of the Song Dynasty, Sun Ce could even beat the north with his eyes closed. One percent of the Song Dynasty, he would dare to fight against Boss Cao in the north to compete with Boss Cao.

Even if it was one ten thousandth of the Song Dynasty, he could still hold the position of the Lord of Jiangdong with millions of pieces of porcelain and silk per year, and even live a more comfortable life than most of the princes in the world. He could use cloth to go to the north to harvest grain and war horses casually. Anyway, Cao Wei's currency was cloth, and he was slaughtered by Sun Ce while lying down.

So Sun Ce was extremely concerned about the government order set up by He Kui, worried about whether he would destroy the commercial atmosphere that had just been revitalized by Guan Zhong and Zhang Zhao.

Yes, there is only a commercial atmosphere. All industries in Jiangdong are waiting to be renovated, and now they are not qualified to talk about the revival of handicrafts. The greatest achievement now is to restore public order and successfully encourage the powerful. The people have embarked on the road again and restored the urban commodity economy caused by war and Dong Zhuo's chaos. Even this newly emerging commercial atmosphere is limited to Wuxian.

Obviously, how can you care for this only seedling? How could you impose a city gate tax on Wuxian alone?

Zhu Zhi smiled and explained: "This is not unfair, but it is a unique generous treatment for Wu County."

"Oh? What's the solution?"

Zhu Zhi said: "This is also the result of the inspection of the city's inspection after taking office. Wu County had a city in the city before. The commercial tax was collected before the entrance of the city. However, "Guanzi" said that businessmen must go to the market. With the prosperity of Wu County, the powerful caravans and the heads of Guizhou all used carriages and horses to trade in the city's city, so the market was congested and it was impossible to squeeze out so many trading caravans, and it was difficult to walk."

Sun Ce's eyes suddenly flashed with his eyes, and he looked at Zhu Zhi with an extremely eager expectation. Could it be...

Zhu Zhi was completely unaware of Sun Ce's surprise and expectations, and still said calmly: "After inspecting, He Duwei ordered the relaxation of restrictions and allowed the powerful to continue trading near the city walls. The vendors allowed them to continue to extend from the inside and out and sell along the streets. He Duwei discussed with the county government yesterday to push down the high walls of the city and expand it outward. Therefore, the commercial tax could not be collected by the city, but instead collected by the city gate."

"But I thought about it all night and felt that it was still inappropriate. With the prosperity of business, should I be demolished and rebuilt every year? It is better to start another city in the city and become the East City and the West City. In the future, it is possible to build South City and North City again."

Sun Ce laughed excitedly in an instant, and it turned out! The transaction broke through the market and appeared outside the market.

This is indeed a unique and generous treatment for Wuxian.

It is obvious that these ministers all think that breaking through the market is just a temporary measure. In the future, high walls must be built and commercial transactions must be restricted to this high wall.

Sun Ce waved his hand and said directly: "I think this expedient method is the best policy. Didn't Zhu Fujun think about using the entire city wall as a high wall in the city? Within the high wall, merchants can trade in any place."

Zhu Zhi was also a capable minister after all, and immediately reacted and asked, "Is the general who said he would completely knock down the market walls? Let the merchants sell along the street?"

"It doesn't necessarily mean selling along the street. They can be allowed to open shops along the street and expand their operations."

While the two were talking, the minor official reported: "General, the lieutenant He Du has arrived at the county government."

Sun Ce immediately said, "Person He Du came in and then invite Guxianjun."

Opening shops along the street is a very ordinary thing in later generations, but it is never easy at present, and it is even shocking.

Because this involves a complete change of the market system. The market system means separating commercial areas from residential areas, fencing each district with high walls, and banning business in residential areas.

To be honest, this system is still useful in the north where the people escaped severely. However, in the south where people are constantly receiving refugees from the north, especially in Wuxian, a city where order has been restored and it is almost impossible to revive, building square markets like small cities within the city walls is a waste of land.

What is the meaning of him? There is also a point that is to substantially separate the people, and at night it is like prisons, forming a situation that does not interfere with each other, which essentially facilitates the rulers to manage the people.

But there are many shortcomings, which not only cause great trouble to the people's daily lives, but also seriously hinder the development of industry and commerce.

Sun Ce was extremely tired of the idea that rulers always wanted the people not to interfere with each other and not to intersect each other. The greatest achievement of mankind is to be able to unite and cooperate and communicate. The concepts progress in the collision of ideas, exchanges enhance understanding, and only collisions can spark!

So after He Kui saw the ceremony, Sun Ce smiled and said, "Prince He Du, please take your seat. When I entered the city today, I heard about your expedient method. It is a great breakthrough to allow the people to trade near the market."

He Kui was eight feet and three inches tall, and his great-grandfather He Xi was eight feet and five inches, which was more than two meters long. They were all typical northern men.

Therefore, he was stern and brave. After hearing Sun Ce’s praise, he solemnly bowed to Sun Ce and replied: “I heard for a long time that General Sun was willing to save the world and restoration the dangers, Kui only did his little efforts to help the general restore the peace and tranquility of Wu County.”

Sun Ce couldn't help but laugh. This really shows one thing, that is, the qualities that the princes in troubled times are to be low-key and do things in a high-profile manner.

I won’t mention being a low-key person. A corporal corporal is a quality that every prince or even hero must do.

But doing things at a high profile will have a great impact.

At least it was because of this that He Kui changed his historical trajectory and fled directly from Qianshan to Jiangdong.

The most important thing Sun Ce has undoubtedly declared since the day he founded the army and Jianye, he has always claimed that he wanted to save the same people, that is, Chen Gang Liji, and save the people.

No matter how others think about saving the world and maintaining the country, even ridiculing Sun Ce, a small captain, dares to say such crazy words, but as long as it is spread, it will make people stand out.

There will always be people who are particularly eye-catching or even looking at Jiangdong because of these four words.

Because as long as it is a political program and ideology claims, there must be a group of people who pursue such ideals willing to fight for it.

Just because of the slogan "Work with fields, eat with food, and wear with clothes" can attract hundreds of thousands of people to follow.

Sun Ce boasted that "Chen Gang established the law and helped the people", so naturally there were many heroes who were eager to end the troubled times and restore order.

All these princes who can ultimately achieve great achievements in this troubled times, such as Liu Bei's slogan was to revive the Han Dynasty.

In fact, Cao Cao was the same in theory, but he did not understand it himself, but indirectly achieved the same effect by obeying the emperor and ordering the emperor to refuse to be a minister. Many people chose to vote for him because of Xu Du's Han court.

The victory of the Guandu Battle was a critical impact, Zhang He, the decisive general, had an extremely critical impact, but Zhang He surrendered so quickly that he didn't even struggle or hesitate, probably at least half of it was because of the emperor.

Sun Ce was sure that he and the Emperor of Han would never be able to stand in the same camp, so if he wanted to succeed, he had to have the courage to break through, contrary to the Han Dynasty, and even strengthened the concept of being contrary to the Han Dynasty under his rule.

He simply said to He Kui: "But I thought your breakthrough was far from enough. I had made three rules with the elders of Jiangdong. The Han Dynasty suppressed its development, but I was the opposite of that. Since the high walls of the market caused merchants and powerful people to want business exchanges and could not enter the wall, why not directly demolish the walls and allow the merchants to continue to develop outside? I even planned to demolish the walls of each store, allowing restaurants, cloth shops, grain shops and other shops to be opened along the street."

If Sun Ce had a firm attitude, he would have been able to do it.

As an official of the Municipal Weishi Office, He Kui naturally supported expanding the market, but he had to ask: "Will Guxianjun have any doubts?"

The county government office was next to the government office. Sun Ce asked the minor official to call the county magistrate over, and Gu Yong quickly arrived in the hall.

When Gu Yong heard that Sun Ce was going to demolish the market, he hesitated for a moment and asked: "Will this lead to banning theft and incomplete fire prevention? I'm afraid that the people will be uneasy and resentful."

Sun Ce was decisive and said, "If someone feels uneasy, then move from the city to the countryside to see if it is a city protected by the city walls that makes people feel at ease, or is it safe for all the villages outside the city."

Sun Ce actually planned to impose taxes on the people in the city, that is, property tax.

This tax is difficult to collect in the future, but it was relatively simple in ancient times. The people in the city enjoyed the sense of security provided by the city wall and enjoyed the protection of the army, so they should provide housing tax. It is okay if they don’t want to pay it. If they move out of the city, they will manage the land like farmers, and they will definitely not collect taxes.

Of course, this kind of thing may have to be thought about in at least ten or even twenty years later.

Everything now makes way for a business revival.

Seeing that Sun Ce's attitude was firm, it was indeed difficult for Gu Yong, a small county magistrate, to object. He had to give a compromise method and said: "Wu County lacks manpower and cannot demolish all high walls of the market at the same time. It is better to demolish the walls around the market and along the streets first. This is how people can stay or leave. If they are moved to the market area where the walls are demolished, the rest of the yards will be demolished in the future. If the people move to the yards where the walls have not been demolished, the matter of demolishing the walls will be temporarily suspended."

Sun Ce smiled and nodded: "This is a steady method, very good, so he implemented it according to what Guxianjun said."

Sun Ce naturally had absolute confidence that the people would spontaneously relocate to this area, which is the law and attraction of economic development.

Then Gu Yong said, "I also heard that the Municipal Weisi used the four walls as walls to collect taxes at the city gates. However, such a setting would probably seriously delay the people's entry and exit inside and outside."

He Kui asked, "What suggestions does County Magistrate Gu have?"

Gu Yong said: "Since the walls along the streets have been removed, the Shiweisi can set up the Shiweisi tax officers along the streets, and tax collectors will be stationed there. In this way, the caravans will go to Shiweisi to pay taxes. The people can take various roads and go to other places to avoid blocking the city gates."

This issue obviously involves the renovation and even expansion of the city!

Wu County has a population of tens of thousands of households, and it attracts powerful people from all over the world. Among them, merchants are so small.

Sun Ce asked: "How many people are there in the towns of Wu County now?"

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!