"Hehe~! Boss Cao doesn't have to be polite~! ”

Li Zexuan gave a handful of hands, smiled politely, and then said: "Boss Cao previously threw two thousand yuan to support the new carriage of Qiqu Pavilion, and the day before yesterday, he threw thousands of dollars to send hundreds of pots of Luoyang red at Benjue's wedding banquet, but Benjue hasn't thanked Boss Cao for his righteous act?" What to blame~? ”

When Cao Wendong heard this, his heart was slightly relieved, and he secretly said that the money before was finally not spent in vain, and with a good atmosphere at the beginning of the conversation, the rest of the matter will be easily negotiated.

"Don't bother Cao, just a few thousand, for the lord, I'm afraid it's just a drop in the bucket, besides, the new carriage of the Wonder Pavilion, Cao really likes it, so he doesn't hesitate to increase the price to take it into his pocket, so I really can't deserve the lord's thanks."

Cao Wendong arched his hand and said politely to Li Zexuan, Shinong is a businessman and a strict hierarchy, so he can't be polite.

Previously, he was in the Wonder Pavilion, and he did intend to "raise a hand" for Li Zexuan's new-style carriage, but this kind of thing can not be said, otherwise the effect of "gift-giving" will be greatly reduced, and it will even have the opposite effect!

Cao Wendong, who has been mixed at the bottom of society for so many years, still knows a lot about officialdom.

Sure enough, Li Zexuan showed a smile without a trace on his face, he had already taken retreat as advance, and he did have the intention of testing Cao Wendong.

Whether it is the initiative to raise the price of the new carriage of the Wonder Pavilion, or the extravagant act of taking the initiative to send thousands of peonies at the wedding, it is all Cao Wendong's voluntariness, not what he Li Zexuan forced.

This kind of person who is all scheming, he is unwilling to make friends.

Fortunately, Cao Wendong's response made Li Zexuan quite satisfied, knowing advance and retreat, being sensible, knowing current affairs, and being a junjie!

"Hehe~! Boss Cao is really an open-minded person! However, in any case, at Benjue's wedding, Boss Cao also made a contribution, and Benjue is still grateful in his heart, but I don't know, why did Boss Cao come here today? ”

After a little temptation and felt that Cao Wendong was not bad, Li Zexuan stopped beating around the bush and said bluntly.

"Uh~!"

Cao Wendong paused for a moment, Li Zexuan cut to the chase faster than the officials he had contacted in the past, which is somewhat different from the general "subtle and euphemistic" conversation style in the current officialdom!

"Back to the lord, I can't hide it, the old man is only here for one thing, is thinking that the lord can come forward and organize a chamber of commerce, and the members of the chamber of commerce can give priority to cooperating with each other, the scooter under the lord, the fairy drunk, the gentle township, the "Datang Daily" and all the books of the strange culture, Cao has always wanted to seek cooperation with the lord, but there is no way, so he can only do it at home."

Since Li Zexuan didn't beat around the bush, Cao Wendong also decided not to grind and chirp anymore, and he went straight to the point and replied.

Li Zexuan raised his eyebrows in surprise, Cao Wendong wanted to cooperate with him, he could understand, after all, the businesses under his command were all monopolistic, and many people wanted to come in and get a piece of the pie, but definitely not everyone was qualified to come in. What surprised him was that Cao Wendong actually wanted to let himself come forward to organize the Chamber of Commerce, did this thing want to do something?

"Why did Boss Cao think about forming a chamber of commerce~?"

Cao Wendong struggled for a moment, and said: "Cao Mou had several business dealings with Master Li of Lingzun before, but he didn't expect that the Li family would have a young hero like the lord, and in just a few months, he became the founding county man of my Tang Dynasty, and took on the important position of the national superintendent, breaking the iron law that "businessmen and businessmen's children cannot enter the court as officials" in our dynasty! ”

"Cao and other businessmen are all worshipping, thinking that the lord is the hope of our businessmen, so Cao has the courage to ask the lord to lead us businessmen to do something big to eliminate the prejudice of the court and the people of the world against businessmen~!"

Cao Wendong said, hugged his fists, gave a deep salute to Li Zexuan, and kept his upper body bent at 90 degrees, and did not get up.

Li Zexuan was silent, to be reasonable, it was the first time he had heard that businessmen in the Tang Dynasty could not be officials, and he had heard that ancient merchants had a low status, but he didn't expect it to be so low, this was squeezed out by all classes in the whole world!

According to historical records, the division of the four classes of scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants came from the Spring and Autumn Period, when the state ministers of Qi were in charge of Zhongzhong. He advocated dividing the people into four classes: scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants, and living in fixed areas according to their respective specialties. This specialized commodity economic model has been revered as the basic form and guiding principle since the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty.

On the surface, the "division of industry of the four people" is the inheritance of the ancient system of the Yin and Zhou dynasties, but in fact there is a big difference, and its fundamental difference is that the "industry and commerce" and "Shinong" are juxtaposed, and they are regarded as "the stone people of the country". Therefore, at the beginning of Guan Zhong's division of the Shinong industrial and commercial class, there was no distinction between superior and inferior, noble and inferior.

The ancient Chinese also did not seem to be light on business. The Shang people who established the Shang Dynasty in the Xia Dynasty were actually the earliest merchants, which is also the root of our call merchants merchants, in the Yin Shang period, people were willing and good at doing business and engaged in handicraft manufacturing.

Later, when reflecting on the lessons of the fall of the Shang Dynasty, the founders of the Zhou Dynasty believed that the fall of the Yin Shang Dynasty was due to the people's enthusiasm for industry and commerce and the barren agriculture, which caused the people's impetuousness and the instability of the national foundation, so they turned to implement the policy of heavy agriculture that despised industry and commerce. In the Zhou system, the status of industrialists and merchants became very low, and the "hundred workers" were often placed alongside the concubines (male and female slaves) who were in the status of slaves.

In later dynasties, as the rulers continued to suppress the merchants, the status of the merchants became lower and lower.

During the Qin Dynasty, merchants were not allowed to wear silk clothes even if they were rich, and in the Han Dynasty, merchants could not be officials, and handicraftsmen were "untouchables", and their family property had to be declared to the imperial court, and their wealth would be confiscated if they were not declared. During the Tang Dynasty, merchants could not enter the court as officials, and it was not until the Ming and Qing dynasties that the status of merchants changed. The Chinese businessman Salted Fish turned over successfully.

Therefore, Li Zexuan's ability to obtain an official status as the son of a businessman can really be regarded as an unprecedented fluke, mainly because he has made enough contributions, and Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin have always treated him as a junior, and they are constantly contributing to that reward, plus he is a closed disciple of the world's master Lingxu Zhenren, this identity has almost completely cleared his identity as a businessman, and has added a lot of impression points to Li Er, so he can have the current baron status.

It can be said that his success is irreproducible for thousands of businessmen in Datang, and Cao Wendong can't envy it~!

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(End of chapter)