177 Separation (Part II)

Since Tianqi has already said that he will not interfere in the daily affairs of the imperial court, he can now perfunctory interrogate people with a sentence that is inconvenient to know, but he is worried that these people will turn their grief into strength to find losses in the common people after they are unhappy. They are weaker than the emperor, but they are much stronger than the ordinary people, and the current legal system is not perfect, and the common people do not like to be reasonable when they can't bear it, but like to take risks, and it is not good to accidentally provoke a popular uprising. In order not to make a mess, Apocalypse feels that pressure and prevarication are not the best strategies, and the problem should be solved head-on to avoid endless troubles.

Daming is now a typical agricultural society, farmers are the main body but are a vulnerable group, many of them have a very simple wish, just want the wind and rain to be peaceful. However, such simple requests may not always be met, and many people often do not have enough to eat. It is said that the greatest wish of many people who are so hungry that they die is to have a full meal, and as long as they can eat a full meal, they will die without regrets.

Of course, there are also people who have great ambitions and think about how to make a fortune and become well-off, and in order to become people who do not go hungry for themselves and their children and grandchildren, they either engage in politics or business and concentrate on making money. There is nothing inherently wrong with making money for wealth, but the problem is that many people base their wealth on the basis of impoverishing others through exploitation, which is a bit inappropriate.

Everyone is a human being, and you can eat things from plants such as rice, noodles, and vegetables, as well as the meat of animals such as pigs, cows, and sheep, but you can't eat people, and you can't add ruddy to your face by absorbing the blood of others. If you always want to steal my family property and want to occupy your land, then there is no cooperation, only fighting, and what is the difference between human society and the animal world without cooperation? Fighting in the nest will make the people in the country have no sense of trust in the people and no sense of identity with the country, and the country will not have any bright prospects.

The problem is that the exploitation of others and infighting are Chinese cultural traditions that have been around for thousands of years, and they will continue to flourish until the path to common prosperity is found.

The apocalypse's wish is to find a path to common prosperity, which is difficult but must be done. This is the way things are in this world, if you do it, you may not succeed, but if you don't do it, you will definitely not succeed. In the search for a way to achieve common prosperity, Apocalypse found that as long as the gap between the rich and the poor was controlled, the trend of fighting in the nest could be curbed. As the gap between the rich and the poor narrows, people's sense of happiness will increase and they will be more cooperative. The gap between the rich and the poor continues to increase, the number of people who hate the rich and officials will increase, and social contradictions will become more acute.

Of course, the gap is not as small as possible, too small a gap will make people unenterprising and become lazy, and the appropriate gap can make the society move forward quickly and steadily. What Sage Kong said is too much, and this is the truth, and the apocalypse is ready to find this suitable point.

The current social gap in the Ming Dynasty is too large, the dignitaries and dignitaries spend money like singing and dancing to promote peace, the poor people are starving and suffering from cold, hunger and cold, Sichuan, Guizhou, Shandong and other places have had many civil uprisings, if the quality of life of the people at the bottom is not improved, the demise of the Ming Dynasty is just around the corner.

The Apocalypse protected the people in two ways, one was to crack down on the corruption of officials through the economic inspection system and stop them from continuing to harm the people, and the other was to limit the exploitation of the people by merchants with the two-percent profit cap system. The vitality of the peasants is very strong, and as long as they are not exploited by officials and businessmen, they will gradually get better and better. Although pies will not fall from the sky, steamed buns can grow on the ground.

According to Liu Zongzhou's comprehensive theory of governance from the Holy Academy, if you rob someone of a piece of candy, you have to hand someone a piece of fruit. Under the economic inspection system, officials cannot arbitrarily increase the fire consumption to reap benefits, and cannot accept bribes from others at will, so they are allowed to sell their titles and give them cheap silver from the concentrated fire consumption proceeds. The premise of selling a title is that the people under his rule must be rich, and the benefits of selling more silver can prompt officials to find ways to make the people rich, which can be regarded as a win-win situation.

When the businessman's profit does not exceed 20%, it is a mutually beneficial relationship with the people, and the people enrich their lives and the businessmen get profits, which is a win-win situation. If the profit of a merchant exceeds 20%, it is a disservice to the people. In terms of subsidies to businessmen, the method of the Government Council is to attract them from commerce to industry, and the profits of industry are not subject to a two-percent cap, which is what the Government Council has done right. Business is like kneading dough, no matter what shape it is kneaded into, what kind of packaging is wrapped, the total amount of dough does not change, and industry is the only way to turn the old into the new.

The second thing that the Council did right was to lower the interest rate, so as to avoid the psychological imbalance of the people who do things.

The role of money in social production activities should not be underestimated, but it is also necessary to see the actual role of money. When people see silver, they think that silver is wealth, and it is the goal that everyone pursues, but this is actually a wrong view. Silver itself cannot be eaten or worn, it is only a voucher for the withdrawal of goods, and silver can be exchanged for what you need, and at the same time it also prompts people to do things in order to obtain silver, that is, silver can make people more diligent.

There are two distribution systems in labor that are reasonable, one is distribution according to work and the other is distribution according to capital, and other ways such as distribution according to rights are not long-term and distribution according to needs is too illusory to belong to the category of apocalypse considerations. There is a saying that the ratio of distribution according to work and distribution according to capital is that if the contributor shares too much more than the laborer, so that people are willing to contribute but not to contribute, it is wrong, because the silver that should make people industrious makes people lazy.

At this time, the distribution ratio of the investors should be lowered, and it is appropriate for the Government Council to reduce the interest rate of up to two cents to the maximum of one cent. Of course, if you don't do this, you can also fool the people through deception, such as increasing money on the surface, secretly using inflation and other means to make the money in the hands of the people rise as fast as it falls. Although this can succeed for a while, it will eventually make the people realize the hypocrisy of the government and reduce the people's trust and recognition of the country, which will outweigh the losses. If such tactics are aimed at improving the overall strength of the country, it is understandable, but if the purpose of defrauding money through such tactics is to add to the wealth of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, then it is hopeless.

The Government Council is not only doing good deeds, they are also carrying private goods. After surviving the hard days of not being able to get one or two million, the people of the Government Council saw the huge temptation of commercial taxes and fire consumption, and at this time, it was already annoying for others to think of a piece of the pie without their own strength, especially for the people of the North and South Chamber of Commerce, the Government Council kicked them away with a high-sounding sound through this consultation.

It is impossible for the people in the government affairs to not think that among the 10,000 taels of shares, not only the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce and the Huguang Chamber of Commerce have shares, but also involve the ministers of the DPRK and the central government, the royal family, the emperors in the palace, the concubines and eunuchs, and themselves. But they did it without hesitation, and they treated it as a small matter, because they reported it to the apocalypse as a small matter reported every ten days, and not a major event that must be reported every day, which showed that they had complete control over the follow-up means.

Before the follow-up measures of the Government Council were used, other stakeholders had already come to the door. The Government Council did not show the problem of winning and solving the problem like a martial arts master, but showed the problem of procrastination, and finally skillfully kicked the problem to the apocalypse. Apocalypse was looking forward to the follow-up measures of the Government Council and the Holy Academy, but who knew that he had waited for a telegram mixed with high hats and irresponsibility, which made Apocalypse very angry. I had to wipe their butts for them and explain to everyone something useless, while sighing that this brother and the cronies he had picked up were unreliable.

When Old Concubine Zheng personally went to Kunning Palace with a bitter face to find Tianqi and ask about the shares, Tianqi knew that he needed an explanation, otherwise the trust he had worked so hard to accumulate would be ruined by King Xin, Liu Yixi, and Liu Zongzhou. He first patted his chest with Concubine Zheng and made a guarantee, saying that he would never watch the people in the palace suffer, and after Concubine Zheng left, let Tan Jing go to King Xuanxin and the other three to explain the situation immediately.

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