Chen Yuan took a sip of tea without any panic and said to Tian Feng and Jushu: "Second Duke, you know the four people of the country."
Chen Yuan's question is very simple, as anyone who has studied Guan Zhong will know.
Although Jushou didn't know what Chen Yuan asked, he still replied: "Guan Ziyun said: 'The four people, scholars, farmers, industry and merchants, are the stone people of the country.' The four people of the country are scholars, farmers, industry and merchants."
Chen Yuan nodded: "Of course, can the public and the public think that the four people are superior or inferior?"
Jushou didn't even think about it: "Of course there is a distinction between superior and inferior. Scholars are responsible for the emperor's court at the top, and are the parents of the people at the bottom. They mediate nature and sort out the yin and yang. They are the capital of the four peoples. Businessmen pursue profit and follow profit.
However, if you move, it is easy to make the people feel disloyal and disrespectful, so you are at the bottom of the four peoples."
"Based on this, do you think business should be banned?"
"It is not prohibited, but it should be restricted so as not to upset people's hearts and disrupt order."
Chen Yuan asked back: "During the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Huan of Qi took Guan Zhong as his prime minister and united all the armies to achieve the status of overlord. Guan Zhong was just a merchant. Qi State did not suppress merchants, but instead became the first of the five hegemons. What did it do?
explain?"
I have something to teach you.
"Of course, the final outcome of the Qi State is to be replaced by the Tian family. In fact, the Qi State was bought by the Tian family."
Chen Yuan glanced at Ju Shou thoughtfully, "You really dare to say it."
You must know that the Tian family is the ancestor of the Sima family and the Chen family.
Do you dare to tell this kind of secret history without fear of offending others?
Then I thought about it, yes, Jushuo, the Sima family and the Chen family are not from the same group. They are from the Hebei group, and the Sima family and the Chen family are from the Yingchuan powerful group. They are so scared.
I wish I could put more black on it.
Chen Yuan shook his head: "I thought otherwise. In my opinion, business is the way to make a country rich."
"Therefore, those who are good will follow them, then guide them, teach them, organize them, and compete with them. As long as there are no restrictions on businessmen, commerce will naturally develop rapidly. Rich merchants will travel all over the world, and everything they trade will be accessible.
, only when it circulates, can the country become rich. If a country is rich, its army will be strong, and if a country is rich, its people will be strong."
Jushou directly retorted: "If there are no restrictions on businessmen, luxury will become common, people's hearts will be unstable, and everyone will pursue profit, how can the fields be cultivated and how can officials be allowed to do anything?"
Chen Yuan pawed his hands and sighed: "Isn't this exactly what we want to see?"
Jushou was stunned.
What does it mean?
With no one farming and no one serving as an official, wouldn’t the country be in chaos?
Are you, Chen Zichu, dizzy?
Chen Yuan saw that Ju Shou was confused, and then explained: "Have you ever thought about it, even if everyone is pursuing profit, wouldn't there be no one to cultivate the fields, wouldn't there be no one to be an official? This is definitely
Impossible."
"Why?"
"Because there is a pair of invisible hands controlling the entire operation of the country."
"Invisible hand?"
"Yes, I call this hand the market."
"What's the explanation?"
"Young Master, think about it, if there is not enough food, with the characteristics of businessmen seeking profit, once food becomes a scarce thing, will they grow it? If officials become a scarce thing, will they take the initiative to become officials?
As long as there is a profit, businessmen are everywhere."
"If there is a 20% profit, the businessman will be ready to take risks; if there is a 50% profit, the businessman will take risks; if there is a 100% profit, the businessman will dare to risk beheading;
If there is a 300% profit, businessmen will dare to trample all laws in the world."
"A typical example is Lu Buwei's rare goods."
Jushou was even more confused: "In this case, shouldn't merchants be restricted?"
Chen Yuan waved his hand: "Restrictions are useless.
Human nature is driven by profit, and restrictions will only lead businessmen to go astray, distort business, and weaken the country."
"Businessmen should be guided to make business one of the powerful driving forces of the country."
To be honest, this has touched upon the blind spots of Jushou and Tianfeng, and what does this have to do with the policies you implemented in Jingzhou?
The purpose of Chen Yuan's circle was to guide them to no longer limit their sights to the land, and no longer only look at the small world within Kyushu.
We must have a sense of pioneering and a sense of expansion and aggression.
To be honest, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did have this kind of consciousness and beat the Huns into dogs.
But Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not manage it well. The war with the Xiongnu was more for his personal ambitions and did not actually benefit the country.
After the Han-Hungarian War was over, the wealth accumulated by Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing was almost spent by him.
This just didn't work well.
In fact, if you use sheep to eat people to defeat the Xiongnu, not only will it not weaken the Han, but it will make the Han stronger.
Let the merchants go to the Huns to buy wool and exchange it for grain, tea and wine.
Wool can be used to weave clothes to keep out the cold.
The tens of millions of people in the entire Han Dynasty need a huge amount of wool. In this way, the Huns will become the wool slaves of my Han Dynasty.
Well, you said the Huns robbed it?
Are so many troops raised by the country just for the sake of food?
At this time, one man is acting as a five-barrel, and he will be killed if he comes to rob him.uuReading www.uukanshu.com
Once the Huns found that they didn't need to rob them, they could just quietly raise sheep and provide wool to the Han people and they could live a good life. Only the devils would rob them.
If things go on like this, the Huns will slowly lose their wolf nature and truly become the shepherds of the Han Dynasty.
Of course, this policy is not only suitable for the Huns, but also for all ethnic groups on the grassland.
This is also one of the sharp weapons Chen Yuan will prepare to deal with the grassland barbarians in the future.
Of course, during this process, there will definitely be some shrewd people among the barbarians who can see through the power and will definitely resist.
However, this kind of resistance may not require the help of big men, and their own people will kill these people.
Because it affects their ability to live a good life.
Therefore, in order to open up territory and expand territory, the entire Han Dynasty must benefit from it, so that there is motivation. As long as a fixed pattern can be formed, it can snowball like a snowball, and eventually expand the territory of the Han Dynasty to the whole world.
At that time, it was truly an empire on which the sun never sets.
Wherever the sun and moon shine, and where rivers reach, they are all Han lands.
To realize this policy, the powerful eyes of the aristocratic families must be liberated from the land and Kyushu, and look beyond the vast Kyushu.
In this policy, businessmen are an indispensable force.
Chen Yuan implemented these three policies to force more people to engage in business and not just think about land and being an official. This kind of thinking is unacceptable.
To achieve this goal, we need a stick and a carrot.
The three policies are big sticks, but as for the carrots, Chen Yuan has already planned them.
It’s time for the Jingzhou Chamber of Commerce to come out.