"Easier said than done, and who wants to put money in your hands willingly? It is not taboo to say that the three of us are all families, the Chen family has the most wealth, the Song family is second, your family started late, it is the least, how much money we have in our family, how much industry we don't know, you want to collect taxes from them is undoubtedly to cut their flesh, do you say they will resist, the harshness of the family is the same as the Confucian Three Principles and Five Constants, the choice you can make is to obey. ”

Chen Minqiang said: "What Lord Song said is right, when I first became the magistrate of Shangxian County, I swore that I must let them live a good life when I saw the poor clothes and the poor people who drank porridge a day, and I must let them live a good life, but what was the result?" I went back to ask for help from the family, not only did I not get help but was also kicked out by the head of the family, when I was about the same age as you, I had the same thoughts, and in the end we were in the same league with them, absorbing the hard-earned money of the people, and one person could not change the general trend. ”

Lu Zifei said: "That's because there is a problem with the way you take, and if you want to solve this problem fundamentally, then you first find out the meaning of money, currency, and economy, how money comes from, where is the role of money, why there is a conflict between the farmer and the official, there is no direct connection between them, have you thought about this problem?" ”

Song Qi said: "I can't explain the money, currency, and economy you said, but I can explain to you why there is a conflict between the farmer and the official, and the conflict between them is the land. ”

"Of course, it is to return to the hometown in fine clothes, return to the hometown with honor, and let the faces of the parents have brilliance."

Song Qi said: "What you said is only one aspect, the Han people have an unimaginable obsession with the land in their hearts, in addition to what you just said, the first thing you do when you go home is to buy land for the family, the land comes from there, of course, it is the ordinary people, the people get the money, but how long can the money be spent without the land, it is not enough for you to pay for a meal, the cycle repeats, the cycle repeats, the more and more people read, the common people have less and less land, and the class contradictions you said appeared." ”

Lu Zifei applauded and said: "The adult's analysis is very incisive, the land is equivalent to the root of the people, and the officials also regard the land as a kind of real estate, and there will be a constant income every year if you find some long-term workers, but you reduce the value of the land, so that they feel that buying land is not a cost-effective investment, that is not more people waiting and seeing, which in disguise relieves some of the pressure on the people, what we need to do now is to reduce the population of farming and increase the number of people who farm land." ”

Chen Minqiang said: "Before you came, Cao Patrol admired you very much, you can have this insight at a young age, and you are worthy of the pride of the sky, this method is also a symptom but not a cure, and in the long run, people's attention will regress to the land." ”

"This leads to the next question, where the money comes from, do the two adults know where the money comes from?"

Song Qi and Chen Minqiang both shook their heads, and Song Qi said: "Isn't money just gold, silver and copper processed by craftsmen?" ”

Lu Zifei said with a smile: "In primitive society, people barter, and there is no concept of money, does that mean that money did not exist at that time?" ”

Why does this guy ask all the puzzling questions, these questions are too big to answer, you say! At that time, people did not use gold, silver or copper, but you said no. Then the items they trade don't count as money.

Lu Zifei continued: "Money is the output value of labor, gold, silver and copper are just a unit of value that people give it to represent value, and people think that cloth, silk, silk can replace copper money is a truth, the greater the output value of human beings, the more gold, silver and copper will be produced, if everyone in the world has a copper mine at home, do adults feel that copper money is still valuable?" ”

Song Qi said: "If you have anything to say, you can say it directly, and you will all confuse us all around, a city boss, you talked about land annexation, and then gold, silver and copper, which made you go there." ”

Lu Zifei said: "Don't worry, my lord, this is not to the point right away, the output value of the Great Song Dynasty is a fixed value for the time being, most of them are left in the hands of the rich, a small number of them come into the government, and finally come into the hands of the emperor, the hands of the common people are only a small point, and the Great Song Dynasty has no output value, so we have to find the output value from elsewhere." ”

Chen Minqiang said: "This is the purpose of your visit, starting from the sea?" But there aren't many people who can be driven! ”

Lu Zifei said: "The sea is just a front, and the other output value I am talking about refers to war? ”

Song Qi was furious when he heard the war, and shouted: "You have a fever on a hot day, war is one of the most expensive ways to consume wealth, what nonsense are you talking about here, just the three of us here, say outside if you still want to enter the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty, go and ask those civil officials in the court, who is willing to fight." ”

Lu Zifei said: "Then what can I use war to bring countless wealth? ”

Song Qi looked unreasonable, and the more he talked, the more unremarkable Lu Zifei said: "Let's not talk about the war, why is the Great Song Dynasty's finances so tight every year, that is, military spending occupies a lot of money, and this is still in the absence of a war, the war costs more, the soldier is disabled, the death of the pension, the reward after the war, the war is purely a bottomless pit." ”

Chen Minqiang seemed to understand a little bit what Lu Zifei was talking about, and he said: "Does Hanzhang mean to invade these small countries by the sea? Like the Dangxiang people and the Khitans, they strengthened themselves by plundering. ”

Lu Zifei's first confidant in the idea of aggression! I think that Britain, which was known as the 'empire on which the sun never sets', developed in this way through the invasion of China, and looting is the fastest way to make money in this era, and there is no one.

"There is a slight difference between what Lord Chen said and what I thought, we let them work for us through trading, pressure and some dishonorable means, I know that in that small country of Japan, their amount of silver is about the same as that of the Great Song Dynasty, do you know how big Japan is? It's as big as Fujian Road, and it's useless for them to put it there, so there's nothing wrong with us taking it over and using it first. ”

Song Qi said angrily: "You are a bandit's practice, what is the difference between you and those pirates at sea, we are the Heavenly Empire, we emphasize benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, I will not agree with your approach, the slave society is over, there can be no slaves in this era, and history cannot go backwards." ”

Lu Zifei asked rhetorically: "There are no slaves, so what are those people sold in the Luoyang market, what is the difference between them and slaves, can changing the name cover up the truth of implementation?" Lord Song's idea is really naïve, it's better to enslave foreign races than to enslave us Han people! In this operation, Lord Song has no right to meddle, you can write a letter to the emperor, but you can't obstruct my decision. ”

Song Qi forcibly calmed down, thinking that he couldn't fall for his plan, his style of doing things was to win in chaos, drank saliva, sorted out his thoughts and said: "This is getting farther and farther away from the topic you said, the city ship division will not have such a big right, like the way you said to do things, a small city ship division does not have such a big authority, and there is no Fujian Road transfer yamen." ”

Lu Zifei said: "This is a big cake, only the emperor and the meritorious nobles can be united, this matter is not without a little risk, the emperor needs more people to explore the way for them, countless times the return they have not gone forward, the shift of the ideological focus is not a little more harmonious within the Great Song Dynasty, bringing more adequate preparations for reform." ”

Song Qi said: "Your plan is too huge, almost everyone in the Great Song Dynasty is involved, all living beings are chess pieces, are you sure that you, the chess player, can place the position of each chess piece, are you not afraid that the chess pieces will become chess players?" ”

Lu Zifei said with a smile: "Then we have to set rules for them, they can only play in the circle of rules, and if they exceed the circle, they will abandon him, and the latecomer will prevail, and not everyone has the qualifications to be a chess piece." ”

"Your thinking is too dangerous, I'm afraid that no one will control you in the future, you are the second Wang Mang, a wolf has come in the flock, is there still a way for the lamb to live? Can you tell me what you said about the emperor? ”

Lu Zifei smiled, there was indeed no straw bag who could sit in a high position, and he could think of the crux of the problem at once, and he said: "What did the emperor do when he sent Lord Song, didn't he just look at me and be afraid that I would go on the wrong path?" I am the executor, and the decisions behind will depend on you masters, Lord Song, now rest assured. ”

Song Qi left in despair, he needed time to digest all this, Chen Min said in a shy, "Hanzhang, does the Chen family have the honor to be a chess piece, the Chen family has nothing else, what is in Quanzhou is manpower, you just open your mouth and ask for it." ”

Lu Zifei said: "Not this time, what we are talking about today is all assumptions, if it succeeds, I will find the Chen family, and the problem in front of us is the port, can the Chen family unite with local businessmen to build a decent port." ”

Chen Minqiang said: "Aren't there two ports in Quanzhou? Are you disgusted with being too small or something. ”

"Can that be called a port? As soon as my three warships are put inside, you can see that other ships still have a place to anchor, and the prosperity of Quanzhou will exceed your imagination in the future, and now you have an innate advantage and want to do it, and you can still intervene, and when the imperial court takes over you, you don't even have the capital to speak, think about it. ”

Chen Minqiang said anxiously: "Hanzhang, don't talk half of what you say!" I really can't keep up with your thoughts, you tell me the truth, I go back to discuss with the people in the clan, you know I can't be the master alone. ”

Lu Zifei said: "You are really alive, you are the prefect of a state, you have to go back and ask others about everything, you have never thought about making your own decisions, I can only say that it is a different feeling." ”

"Who doesn't want to feel in power, the head of the family has his difficulties, what am I."

"Is there a kind of coconut chicken in Quanzhou that is particularly famous, you invite me to eat one, and I will give you tips."