Thanks to Ningbai Zeya for the monthly pass. It was the best gift I ever received for the holidays.

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Shang Cheng hadn't been able to help Chang Xiu come up with a good idea to solve the problem, and the guards came to report again, and Li Mu brought a female bachelor named Tian Xiu from Hanlin Academy to visit him.

Shang Cheng went to the courtyard and welcomed them into the outer study.

Because Li Tian and Chang Xiu were both familiar with each other, Shang Chengcheng only introduced Yang Heng to them. Li Mu didn't know Yang Heng, but he had heard of this unlucky Tanhualang. Tian Xiu knew Yang Heng. However, Yang Heng was dragged down by her father Tian Wang's involvement at the beginning, and she repeatedly encountered ups and downs in her career, so she was very guilty and uneasy when she met at first sight today......

Li Mu greeted everyone, and he didn't talk much, and he didn't sit down firmly and said straight to the point: "Zida, since Brother Wenshi is here, you must already know our intentions One by one, Qingshan and I are entrusted by colleagues in the Taishi Bureau, and we came to the door to ask for a good plan to solve the current predicament." ”

Shang Cheng pushed the teacup to him, walked over and filled it for Tian Xiu, came back and sat down and said with a wry smile: "Lao Chang and I don't have a good idea." ”

Chang Xiu was very unhappy to see his own year. Wasn't it because of the instigation of Li Mu and Tian Xiu, and the Taishi Bureau forcibly took away 20% of the shares from the mouth of the Ministry of Industry? If the Taishi Bureau didn't take the 20% of the shares out for sale, where would there be today's trouble? But he is always a scholar, and his words are not good at being too intense, and Li Mu is not a person from the Taishi Bureau now, so it is even more difficult for him to argue with him. So he could only stab Li Mu with words around the bush. He shook his head and said to Shang Cheng, "Zida, I really regret it now!" "You should regret it too, right? As for what everyone regrets, it goes without saying.

Li Mu immediately stopped talking. Tian Xiu, the initiator of this incident, blushed even more, bowed his head and pretended to drink water.

Shang Cheng naturally regretted it a little. But what's the use of regretting? Things have come to such a field today that we can only try to find a way to make it develop in a favorable direction. However, this is not military, nor civil affairs, and it is completely outside the scope of his familiarity, and he really can't think of any way to get the best of both worlds. He sat in the chair, holding the half-empty tea cup, staring at the cold tea soup for a long time, without a clue in his head......

While waiting for Shang Cheng to come up with an idea, everyone was also thinking about the solution to the problem in front of them. No one spoke, and the room was silent, except for the occasional "porphyr" sound of charcoal burning in the brazier behind the screen at the foot of the house. The brazier is made of charcoal refined from oak wood, and some spices may have been added to the process, so the room is filled with a faint smell of pine.

Tian Xiu suddenly said, "...... Can we split shares? ”

Chang Xiu, who was looking up at the beams of the house, and Li Mu, who was staring down at his feet, they were all at the same time, and then asked in unison, "What do you say?" ”

"We can subdivide the two shares of the Taishi Bureau, one into ten, ten into hundred, and then take out these shares and sell them. If most people can be taught to get their wishes, the predicament of the Taishi Bureau will naturally be solved. Tian Xiu said. She had heard of this method when she was working as a wind watcher in the southeast. Since the sea route to the west of Zhenla was controlled by the merchants of Dashi and Persia, these geographically advantageous foreign fans vigorously suppressed the price of goods when they did business with the Zhao people; In order to compete with them, there are also maritime merchants in Yangzhou, Quanzhou, who have come forward to take the lead in uniting a group of businessmen to compete with them for profit. Because there are constantly old businessmen withdrawing from new businessmen to join, the capital of these united big shops and big brands is also sometimes more and sometimes less, and relatively their shares are also sometimes large and sometimes small. She felt that the current situation faced by the Taishi Bureau was different from the situation faced by the maritime merchants, and it was completely possible to subdivide the shares and then sell them like the maritime merchants......

Chang Xiu didn't even listen to her words, she just gave her hand and said sarcastically: "Ask Master Tian, the shares of the Taishi Bureau have been subdivided, and our Ministry of Industry has also been subdivided?" ”

Yang Heng said to his servant: "What Lord Tian said is wrong. Twenty percent of the shares of the Taishi Bureau are empty shares made by the Ministry of Industry, and in fact, they did not really take out the capital, and it is absurd to take them out and sell them, and it is even more ridiculous to attract many people to compete! His hometown is Huaiyang, an important town on the Grand Canal, where merchants gather at the intersection of north and south, and he knows a lot about the things that merchants do business, so he can point out Tian Xiu's fallacy more sharply.

But Tian Xiu takes Qingshan as an alias, which shows that her character is extremely resolute and difficult to change, how could a few words from the two Ministry of Industry officials make her shake the ice-breaking way that she finally came up with? But now she is sitting down to discuss rather than making a decision, so when she ran into a wall in front of Chang Xiu Yang Heng, she turned her face to Li Mu, hoping to get support from the teacher. But Li Mu was only an astronomer and mathematician, not an economist, and even though he agreed with Tian Xiu's idea in his heart, he could not convince others with irrefutable theories; He could only bury his head and continue to pretend to ponder. Tian Xiu turned his disappointed gaze to Shang Cheng again. Seeing that Shang Cheng was holding the teacup without saying a word, he asked, "Uncle Ying, what do you think?" She thinks that since Shang Cheng is so fond of "Qingshan Manuscript", he should be able to stand on his side, right?

Shang Cheng shook his head and said, "No." ”

"Why?" Tian Xiu asked disappointedly.

"No matter how you split the subdivided shares, the total capital is only 10,000, which is a fact that cannot be changed!" Shang Cheng said, "The Ministry of Industry has a capital of 5,000 yuan, and the site, craftsmen, and kilns are equivalent to 3,000 yuan, totaling 8,000; The Taishi Bureau doesn't seem to have contributed money, so the paid-in capital is only 8,000. He waved his hand to let Tian Xiu not speak in a hurry, and continued, "Also, let's ignore whether the shares in the hands of the Taishi Bureau are empty shares, and only talk about the two shares themselves. Even if the Taishi Bureau took out the money in exchange for these two shares, it itself was only two thousand; No matter how fine you break it down, it's two thousand, and it can't be an extra penny! As for the market price of one to four or five or one to five seven, this just shows that everyone is optimistic about the prospects of glass, and it is expected that it will be able to bring higher returns than the current market price of the shares in the future, and they are willing to pay more than the value of the shares themselves to buy a future profit. This has nothing to do with the value of the shares themselves. Two thousand or two thousand! ”

Rao is full of high-level intellectuals of the present generation, some of whom are leaders in their respective fields, and their knowledge can be called profound, but none of them can immediately understand this theory. The four of them frowned together, and they were a little confused by the two strange words "price" and "value". From Shang Cheng's tone, they could hear that although the two words were similar, the meanings were definitely very different...... Fortunately, they all heard the gist of Shang Cheng's words clearly. No matter what the market price is, the Taishi Bureau's 2,000 shares are still 2,000 shares, and it is impossible to increase or decrease. If you think about it, this is indeed the truth. Even if the market price reaches one to one hundred, the Taishi Bureau can only account for 20% of the total shares of 10,000 yuan, and it still only represents 2,000 shares......

Shang Cheng's words were not finished yet.

“…… Moreover, the spin-off of shares will greatly increase the total share capital, which in itself will not solve the current problems faced by the Ministry of Industry and the Taishi Bureau. What is the most fundamental problem facing both of you right now? ”

Chang Xiu and Li Mu, who represented the Ministry of Industry and the Taishi Bureau respectively, were silent. They also didn't want to answer Shang Cheng's question. What are the problems they face? Of course, I thought that no one should be offended.

Tian Xiu thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "...... How do you successfully fire glass? ”

Shang Cheng smiled and said, "That's right." Leave the rest of your mind and fire the glass first. First of all, it is proved that this colorless and transparent glass can indeed be fired and industrialized...... It can be produced in a workshop, and there are people in the market who are willing to pay money to buy, and then discuss what to increase capital and shares. ”

Chang Xiu and Li Mu still didn't speak. Shang Cheng didn't really solve the problem after talking for a long time. The key now is not to burn the glass, but how to send the more than 200,000 copper coins piled up outside the two yamen!

Shang Cheng had no choice but to give another idea to the two people: "Let's not talk about the failure of the glass test." If you are fortunate enough to succeed, then the two of you can jointly submit a copy to the Prime Minister's Office, and let Zhang Xiang and them decide whether the glass should be operated by the imperial court or handed over to private firing and trading. "Let Zhang Pu have a headache about this. As an experienced politician, Zhang Pu easily transferred himself back to the capital to recuperate, thinking that there must be a way to deal with the raging officials and clans.

Chang Xiu felt that this method seemed good, so he nodded in agreement. Li Mu is different. He is already a bachelor of Hanlin, and he has been working in the Prime Minister's Mansion for the past few days, and of course he has to think about the Prime Minister's Mansion when he picks up the Prime Minister's Mansion, and as soon as he hears Shang Cheng's words, he knows that this is stumbling on Zhang Pu. Emotionally, he is definitely inclined to Shang Cheng, but in official business, he is on the side of the Prime Minister's office, so he does not expose it, but only looks at Shang Cheng with a smile and is silent.

The "conspiracy" could not succeed, and Shang Cheng was not angry. He was meant to be joking. If Chang Xiu really did this, he would definitely have to stop it. He asked Chang Xiu: "How much living money can you still draw out from the Ministry of Industry temporarily?" ”

Chang Xiu didn't understand what Shang Cheng meant by asking, but he still replied, "There can be two or three hundred thousand yuan this month." He immediately emphasized, "I didn't count the money!" ”

Shang Cheng smiled and said, "I didn't let you really take it out." If you double it, you will tell the people outside that the total investment in the test burning glass is 500,000 yuan. If you can't burn it, all this money will be wasted, and after it is burned, you will renegotiate the distribution of shares with the Taishi Bureau. Let's see if anyone is willing to take money to smash it into the water and listen to the movement. Then he said to Li Mu, "You also say the same to the outside." ”

This time, Li Mu nodded, but Chang Xiu shook his head. Chang Xiu was very embarrassed and said: "This can't be done, Zida." Two of those who want to buy some shares in the Taishi Bureau are Yushi, and I dare to say that the Ministry of Industry is throwing money indiscriminately, and the Yushitai is going to be impeached in a book. They're the ...... of 'listening to the wind'"

Left is not right, Shang Cheng is really scratching his head. He really couldn't think of any way to resolve this troubled matter, so he could only comfort them in an empty way and say that the Prime Minister's Mansion should not watch the two of them fall into an embarrassment and ignore it. He felt that it was impossible for Zhang Pu to let go of this possible financial growth point, but he did not tell Chang Xiu about this consideration. Chang Xiu and they are also sighing vigorously, and no one can come up with a way to do it. In this way, several people kept drinking tea and sighing and drinking tea, and finally Shang Cheng entertained them to have dinner at home before sending the guests away.

He just returned to the small courtyard where he lived, and Huo Shiqi came over. He went to visit the Yangliu Embankment today, and went to see the "Huai Bao Li" and Ganlu Temple, and when he came back, Shang Cheng was accompanying the guests to eat, so he didn't come to disturb.

He asked Shang Cheng: "I just saw the person who was with Chang Wenshi, and he was Pan'er's father in a trance." ”

"That's him." Shang Cheng said.

"Why is he here?"

"It's hard to put it into words......" Shang Cheng sighed.

Seeing that Shang Cheng didn't mean to say, Huo Shiqi didn't ask. He said: "Yang Gongdu is also unlucky......

Shang Cheng was silent for a moment, and said with a smile: "I think Chang Wenshi seems to appreciate him a lot, and he should still have the opportunity to show his strength in the future." ”

After a while, Huo Shiqi sighed again and said, "Pan'er is a hard-working girl. ”

Shang Cheng was silent. Yes, Pan'er's sister's life is really bitter. She has already cancelled her household registration in the official, and she is no longer the Pan'er of Yang Heng's family in Shangjing Plain Mansion, but Yang Pan'er of Yanzhou. Even if she entered the capital this time, she and her parents, grandmothers and brothers could not recognize each other openly. Even if they met, she couldn't make a statement, let alone say that she was the daughter of the Yang family, otherwise, those who pitied her would have to act according to the laws and regulations......

His thoughts didn't stay on Pan'er's affairs for long, and quickly moved to other aspects, and he didn't even pay attention to when Huo Shiqi left. He is still thinking about the Ministry of Industry and the Taishi Bureau. He felt that just trying to burn the glass attracted all kinds of gods and hundreds of thousands of copper coins, and there must be something behind this matter that he hadn't realized yet.

He walked around the room with his head bowed and his arms flailing, trying to find out what was behind the mountains of copper coins.

Obviously, these hundreds of thousands of copper coins are the same as the seven hundred coins in Xue Xun's hand, they are all living money. That is to say, their owners did not use them to buy land, but hoarded them at home, or took them out for interest lending or borrowing, and usury is also a form of private lending. This is only the living money in the hands of some officials and clans. If we zoom in on the entire bureaucracy, the entire capital, and even the whole society, the scale of such living money is very impressive. There is no doubt that this is the fruitful achievement of Da Zhao in implementing the national policy of "rest and recuperation". But this money also comes with hidden dangers. No, he didn't mean that Xue Xunzhenqian, who had living money in his family, had problems with their moral character, on the contrary, these were honest officials with considerable integrity, otherwise, Xue Xun's dignified official Zuo Shilang had been an official for many years, how could he only accumulate seven hundred yuan in his hands? Even those clan princes who forced the Ministry of Industry to give up their shares did not bully others, but expressed their willingness to pay money for shares in the form of white and black letters; Although they also played a little trick on the market price of the shares, they did not hide their flaws, and they could not be accused too much of this article when they could take advantage of the public one by one, how many people could not go to a little light? And these "lights" may also bring several times the profit, who doesn't want to have more money at home and a better life?

He suddenly felt that he had grasped what was behind the money.

This living money is essentially the floating capital of society!

Because this is the capital division, right under the nose of the imperial court, the imperial court also has a strict policy to suppress land annexation, so this living money has been in the hands of the master and has not been exchanged for land. However, people's yearning and pursuit of a better material life is an innate instinct, and everyone is looking for all opportunities in order to have more wealth to create a better life. However, in a feudal society where there was no industry and no tertiary industry, the main means of obtaining wealth was through agricultural production, which meant that it was possible to accumulate more wealth only by owning more land. However, the policy of the imperial court did not allow the Beijing officials to openly gather wealth through land annexation, and doing business conflicted with the life concept of most people's "Shinong Gong and Gonggong", and it was a matter of betraying notoriety and bad personal morality to make profits by others, and using their positions and rights in exchange for improper gains was even more likely to be severely punished by the national law. In fact, it doesn't matter if he said that he didn't say that in the Ministry of War, those words just played a role in fueling the fire, the key is that everyone really needs an open and honest opportunity to make money! What's more important is that the leader of the glass is the Ministry of Industry and the imperial court, and they are consistent with the imperial court with their actions, so no one can use this to make irresponsible remarks against them!

With this in mind, he went a step further and imagined what would happen to these living money, or capital, if they had never been able to get a legitimate investment opportunity. Most of them will choose to lie dormant and wait for a better opportunity. Of course, there may be a small number of them who will recklessly invest in land annexation. It is quite possible that these "pioneers" will fail, and then be punished, but they do not have to worry, after them there will certainly be more people and money to follow. When Zhang Pu couldn't punish more and more land annexation, when land annexation became the norm, it was the turning point for Da Zhao to go from peak to decline. However, now this turning point has been revealed, and the land inventory promoted by Zhang Pu and his colleagues and the sale of shares of the Taishi Bureau this time prove that the social mobile capital that has been bound for a long time has accumulated terrible power, and it is just waiting for the opportunity to break free from the shackles...... This is a terrible thing, which, if not done right, is enough in itself to destroy the weak and unstable economic structure of an agrarian society, and then to quickly spread the destruction throughout society, until it is exhausted and the social and economic structure is re-formed...... He defined this as the destructiveness of feudal capital, and felt that this was probably one of the reasons for the repeated changes of feudal dynasties.

This theory may have been his first creation. However, he regretted that the conclusions he had come up with through his own experience could not have been published in any magazine.

He was lying on the kang with regret, and before he could think clearly about what kind of turmoil Zhang Pu's actions might bring to this society, and what way could he resolve the crisis that Da Zhao would inevitably face, he had already snored heavily......