This question is not groundless, or someone is deliberately causing trouble to spread anxiety everywhere.
But it started from the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
The most familiar political routines for scholars in China are various conspiracies and conspiracy, usurping the throne and rioting.
In other words, the people of China have been around since the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Wei and Jin, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings.
Not to mention the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
In this series of you seizing power, me seizing power, and others seizing power... the people have no sense of security at all.
The criterion for gaining fame and power is directly based on who has more money, who is cunning, who is shameless, and who has connections, rather than how much real merit he or she has.
In Li Sheng's memory of his previous life, this situation occurred when Li Er moved out of the imperial examination system and reorganized a large number of intellectuals from poor families who had nowhere to go and could only become knight-errants to cooperate with careerists in troubles, and reorganized them into new scholar-bureaucrats.
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The chaos that lasted for hundreds of years finally lost the soil from which it was born and gradually calmed down.
However, when such deep-seated changes occur, grassroots intellectuals do not have reliable enough information channels to know about them. Intuitively, of course, they are more inclined to perpetuate insecurity.
After all...being prepared for danger in times of peace is the long-term solution.
Therefore, although these scholars usually work very hard, they were really nervous this time and visited many places in private.
Unfortunately, no valuable information was found.
After all, information sources are limited, and...
The five surnames and seven hopes have so much energy.
What's more, today is different from before. Now Wang Jing and others have turned countless fields into huge amounts of liquidity.
The power of liquidity is that if they don't want you to find out, you will always find something else.
In the end... naturally no results were obtained.
This incident soon became known to Li Sheng, because in addition to Wu Meiniang, Ma Zhou naturally also expressed concerns to Li Sheng.
After Li Sheng listened to everyone's investigation, he couldn't help laughing.
This smile made Ma Yiyi stunned,
"Holy Lord, why are you laughing... I'm afraid this shouldn't be taken lightly!"
"Why can't we take it lightly? Isn't it just that someone took pictures of a few extra luxury items, and this needs to be put online?"
In the office, Li Sheng glanced at Ma Zhou with a teasing smile.
Seeing Li Sheng's expression, Ma Zhou was also stunned for a moment.
Damn it, this young man of ours is too ambitious...
If there is a pit behind the scenes and the shipbuilding industry is ruined, wouldn't it be a big disaster?
Ma Zhou thought that Li Sheng didn't understand what he meant, and then had to explain the logic behind it again.
However, Li Sheng interrupted him with a wave of his hand.
"You really don't have to worry about this."
"Even if there are people with evil intentions, let me ask you... Last year, the Turks plotted against the Central Plains. If the Tang Dynasty sent envoys to Mobei with treasures and toys. And the Turks offered high prices to buy these treasures, what do you think..."
"What harm can such a strange trick do to our country, the Tang Dynasty?"
Li Sheng asked rhetorically.
Ma Zhou was startled and his mind fell into deep thought.
Thinking about it this way...it doesn't really seem like a big deal.
After all... if someone pays a high price to buy their own things, isn't that for free?
Not only can it not be considered a big bad thing, it can even be considered a good thing...
this……
Ma Zhou thought about it, but he became confused. He raised his head and looked at Li Sheng in confusion.
"But Holy Marquis, there is something abnormal behind this after all. We should investigate it anyway?"
"What if...the other party is not planning to destroy our shipbuilding business, but is planning to get a share of the pie? Wouldn't this be a loss of favor?"
Ma Zhou felt that this matter was still not that simple.
but……
When Li Sheng heard this, he still only smiled slightly.
"This is a big deal. After all, seven or eight consecutive clocks have been sold for more than 200,000 guan in copper coins. This is not a small amount. But..."
"After all, this money is the legitimate auction income of the auction house."
"Since it is legitimate income, it doesn't matter whether the person behind him is simply collecting to show off his wealth, or he has other plans. What does this have to do with us? If he wants a share of the pie, we just won't agree to it. If we are selling things at this auction, should we still do it?
Are you forcing people to pay?"
"I have to say, we paid two hundred dollars for the tickets. Not only were we not forced to do so, we were actually trying to persuade them to give up."
"ah?"
Ma Zhou was stunned when he heard this, "Is this... so simple?"
Yes, is it that simple?
But there is obviously something behind it... Is it really good to just ignore possible conspiracies?
Li Sheng seemed to see Ma Zhou's thoughts, shrugged and smiled easily.
"Things in this world can be said to be complicated, but said to be simple...how can they not be simple?"
"Remember, business behavior is just business behavior, nothing more."
After Li Sheng finished speaking, Ma Zhou suddenly woke up.
indeed……
What is the use of buying a clock this time to the people who may exist behind the scenes?
First of all, it might just be to spy on the information about the shipbuilding industrial zone.
Secondly, don’t you just want to get a share of the pie in the name of purchasing based on this favor?
but……
As Li Sheng said.
Is this matter so important?
Thinking about it carefully, it seems like it's really not that important...
In business, in the final analysis, no one is forcing anyone to buy this clock.
What else is there to say? There really is nothing to say!
Ma Zhou suddenly had a clear idea and was speechless for a while.
This... is probably what is said in the Art of War.
Ten groups are surrounded, and one force can defeat ten groups??
At this moment, Li Sheng's eyes suddenly lit up and he looked at Ma Zhou.
"But I think the investigation process you just mentioned is quite interesting. In this case..."
Li Sheng pondered for a moment and suddenly laughed.
"Then let's open a newspaper. In addition to news, it can also publish some novels and the like."
"Novel? Newspaper?"
Li Sheng's thinking jumped too fast, and this time, "Good Guy" came up with a series of new words.
Regarding these new words, Ma Zhou knew everything from seven to six, but he didn't understand any of them...
Immediately confused.
But Li Sheng immediately explained it to Ma Zhou.
"This newspaper office is actually..."
"And 'publish' means to put the article in the newspaper..."
"As for the newspaper, as the name suggests..."
After an explanation, Ma Zhou finally understood what Li Sheng meant.
This newspaper... sounds very interesting!
There used to be a proverb that a scholar can know everything about the world without going out. However, this proverb is actually not entirely true in many cases.
The reason is very simple. Most of the poor scholars can only read some sage classics at home, or old books from two, three, four, five, six, seven or eight hands.
Even now there is new papermaking technology, papermaking factories, and movable type printing...
