"Ambition is bound to win!"

Shang Zizheng looked at the bid book that had been placed in front of the bidding host, his brows furrowed, the first one was missed, and that was already the second one.

After thinking about it for a while, I weighed the situation again and made up my mind randomly.

"Give you $1.5 billion, and the second bid must be in hand!"

Through encrypted communication, Shang Zizheng gave instructions to Shang Zi Shang.

Although his thinking is a little extreme and his mind is a little narrow-minded, Shang Zishang, as a successful businessman, still sees the situation relatively clearly.

Because the two fields of business politics and economics go hand in hand, although the business government is only interested in profit, it often has to do some loss-making transactions.

These loss-making transactions, of course, will not make money, and not only will they not make money, but they will also lose money.

Therefore, these ironclad money-losing projects are very different from the concept of the merchant and are incompatible with his behavior!

However, it is not him who is in charge of the business, but his eldest brother Shang Zizheng.

There is no way, starting from the ancestor Shang Ying, his family is in charge of politics, if Shang Ying does not engage in politics and only engages in economics, he will not end up with a split body.

The most typical non-profitable project is made by Shang Ying.

It is said that in order to realize his political ideas and give people the image of talking and counting, he made a very unobtrusive move.

When Shang Ying, the ancestor of the merchants, came out, it was during the Warring States Seven Heroes era, and at that time, the Qin State was still a remote country located in a remote area far from the political, cultural and economic center of the Central Plains.

The Qin State was backward in all aspects of politics, economy, and culture compared with the vassal states of the Central Plains, so it did not occupy much space in speaking.

The neighboring Wei State was stronger than the Qin State, and if it was backward, it would be beaten, so of course the Wei State was strong, and the persimmon specially selected the soft pinch drum, sent troops to attack Qin, and took a large area of Hexi from the Qin State. In 361 BC, the new monarch of Qin, Qin Xiaogong, ascended the throne. He was determined to be angry and strong, and first searched for talent.

He issued an order, declaring, "Whoever can find a way to make the Qin State rich and strong, whether it is a Qin State or a foreign guest, will make him an official." ”

Qin Xiaogong's call really attracted many talented people.

At this time, Shang Ying felt that the time had come, and I was born to be useful, when would I not sound at this time?

At that time, he was still called Gongsun Ying, and the place where his family lived was Weiguo at that time, and he was already a small official, that is, he was an official under the uncle of the prime minister of Wei.

This uncle was also a very far-sighted politician, and he recommended Shang Ying to King Wei Hui on his deathbed, but King Wei Hui was relatively mediocre.

He didn't even listen to what his prime minister said while he was alive, let alone the words of a dead man.

Therefore, it stands to reason that Shang Ying's talent was not appreciated, and people were not reused.

It is the biggest tragedy in life, and Shang Ying is also unhappy.

At this moment, the news of Qin Xiaogong's recruitment of talents came.

Recruiting talents is the national policy of every Warring States monarch, the difference is that it is really thirsty for talents, or superficial articles, and even many restrictions.

And Qin Xiaogong's unrestrained background is a very clear signal of real talent seeking.

So Shang Ying definitely responded to the recruitment, and Bo had a future for himself.

His friend revealed to him that the prime minister's advice to the King of Wei had another side, that is, "if you don't use him, you must kill him", which means that no one else should be allowed to have him.

His friend meant to let him leave secretly so as not to invite murder.

However, Shang Ying smiled slightly and said, since the king of Wei did not listen to the prime minister's use to activate me, he would definitely not listen to his persuasion to kill me, so don't worry.

Sure enough, the King of Wei did not move, and Shang Ying left calmly.

Shang Ying came to Qin smoothly, entrusted to the introduction of Qin Xiaogong's favored minister Jing Jian, and was received by Qin Xiaogong.

Shang Ying said to Qin Xiaogong: "If a country wants to be rich and strong, it must pay attention to agriculture and reward soldiers; if it intends to govern the country, it must have rewards and punishments." There are rewards and punishments, and the prestige of the imperial court is gained, and all reforms are easy to carry out. ”

Qin Xiaogong completely agreed with Shang Ying's proposition. However, some nobles and ministers of the Qin State vigorously opposed it.

Qin Xiaogong saw that there were so many people who opposed it, and he had just ascended the throne, so he was afraid that there would be chaos, so he put the reform matter on hold for the time being.

After two years, Qin Xiaogong's throne sat firmly and remembered the reform, so he appointed Shang Ying as the head of the left, and the head of the reform system was all responsible for the head of the left.

So, Shang Ying drafted a reform decree, but he was afraid that the common people would not trust him and did not follow the new decree.

Shang Ying first ordered someone to erect a three-zhang high log at the south gate of the capital, and ordered: "Whoever can carry this wood to the north gate will be rewarded with ten taels of gold." ”

After a while, a large number of people surrounded the south gate, nothing more than Zhang San, Li Si, Wang Wu, Zhao Liu, everyone talked about it, and the basic meaning was that they didn't believe it was true.

Zhang San said: "Anyone can hold this log, where can I use ten taels of bounty?"

Li Si said: "This is probably Zuo Shu's joke." ”

Everyone, look at me, I look at you, at most it is a verbal talk, but there is no one who goes up to carry the wood.

Shang Ying knew that the common people still did not believe his order, so he raised the bounty to fifty taels.

I didn't expect that the higher the bounty, the more unreasonable the people who watched the excitement felt, and still no one dared to carry it.

At this moment, a person in the crowd ran out, this was Zhou Qi, he was a man of action, and said angrily: "I'll try." ”

He said, regardless of the surprise of others, he really picked up the wood and left, all the way to the north gate.

Shang Ying immediately sent someone to spread the word, and rewarded the man who carried the wood with fifty taels of yellow and clear gold, not a penny.

This matter immediately spread, and it caused a sensation in the Qin State at once. The common people believed it, and the order of the chief Zuo was not ambiguous.

Shang Ying knew that his order had worked, so he published the new decree he had drafted.

The new decree clearly distinguishes rewards and punishments, stipulating that the size of official positions and the level of titles should be based on meritorious service in war. Nobles who did not have military merits had no titles, and those who produced more grain and cloth were exempted from official duties, and those who were poor for the sake of trading and because of laziness were punished as slaves and maidservants of the government, along with their wives and children.

Since the Shang Dynasty reformed the law, the Qin State has increased its agricultural production and its military power has also become stronger. Soon, the Qin State attacked the western part of the Wei State, fought from Hexi to Hedong, and defeated the capital of the Wei State, Anyi.

The families that have been handed down since the Shang Dynasty have recorded a secret, that is, the story of the fifty taels of gold.

In fact, at that time, there was no way for the government to pay out fifty taels of gold, which was Shang Ying's own pocket.

It is this expense that has spent all the savings of the merchants for generations.

The family motto left by Shang Ying to future generations is to devote oneself to politics and be willing to be poor.