In ancient times, when there was a lack of mechanical power, oxen, as an important source of power, were equivalent to agricultural tractors in later generations. Not only can it be used to plough the land when the farm is busy, but as long as it is put on a board car, it will become what later generations call the poor man's car.

And it has a greater advantage over the poor running cars of later generations, that is, the cars of later generations have become a money-losing goods from the day they have it. But not only is it not a money-losing commodity, but it is also theoretically infinitely capable of reproduction.

That is to say, it will change from a poor man's car to countless poor people's car, and what is really eaten is grass, but what is squeezed out is money.

Therefore, all dynasties and dynasties will use the form of law to protect the ploughing cattle, and in order to make the people can afford to drive this kind of poor running. The price of it was also set according to the income of the people at that time.

Normally, it is a cow, and a farmer family can buy one cow with the money they have saved for three to five years.

Such a humane law was actually very rare in ancient times.

With such a law, it is possible to ensure that the majority of hard-working people can own their own family car.

It's a pity that such a humane law was completely destroyed by Wen Qihang, a traveler from the next generation.

According to the concept of later generations, it is sufficient to do it without prohibition in the law. In the deformed commercial society of later generations, everyone hoped to find loopholes in the law and make a fortune. Because everyone's perception is the same, if you don't walk on the edge of the law, it will be difficult to make huge profits.

To use another phrase, that is, all the primitive accumulation is bloody.

The great leader of the proletariat once said that if they could make more than three times the profit, they would dare to trample on everything in the world.

Now Wen Qihang has set a bad precedent for them, and the price of cattle has been sold to more than ten times. And this kind of hype is the worst kind of hype, because cattle are not ordinary goods, and at the same time they are a kind of food.

In other words, as a cow, it sells for only 60 kan, but as a beef, it can be sold for 600 kan.

Whether it is the ancients or the present, as long as they are human, they will have the heart of comparison.

In those powerful families, some people will show that they have eaten beef offal soup today, then the other family will show that they have eaten beef whip soup today, and other nobles will show that they have eaten a whole beef feast today.

If the goods cannot be consumed, at most the price is inflated, but the total amount of goods will not change, at most it is just a change of owner. However, as a consumable product, the overall number of cattle will continue to decrease.

This is also where Zhao Lao Er is worried.

Because once the cattle are consumed in large quantities, then when it is time for autumn planting, it will inevitably affect the sowing of the fields, and the reduction of grain production in the coming year will become a foregone conclusion.

This was simply fatal in the ancient times of the grain standard. Because when the price of food rises, the number of people in the world who are starving will increase.

And the ancient nobles, they didn't eat pork, thinking that it was dirty meat, so they ate more mutton. Don't say it's mutton, no matter what kind of delicacies from the mountains and seas, if you eat it all year round, it will become tasteless.

Now that there is an example set by Wen Qihang, there is suddenly a lot more beef on the market. Originally, because of the protection of the law, it was necessary to kill cattle for 3,000 miles, so beef has always been in short supply, but now Wen Qihang has invented various ways to kill cattle such as drowned cows, suicide cows, and missing cows.

With this way of death as a pretense, people are surprised to find that this is not making money at all, but picking up money.

"Your Majesty, it is precisely because of the grim situation now, in order to protect the interests of the people, that we must contain the situation as soon as possible." Wen Qihang persuaded him.

I have to say that both ancient and modern people are very interested in making money, and once they find that there are huge profits in an industry, they will ignore it and rush in. Otherwise, there will not be so many so-called bubble economies in the future, just like the so-called e-commerce that is still popular at the same time.

"Protect the interests of the people? How dare you say it! If you hadn't set a precedent, you wouldn't be where we are now. Zhao Lao Er snorted.

"Your Majesty, Weichen didn't notice it for a while, but now it's being used by the little people. Don't you know, Wechen just invented three ways to die cattle, but now there are dozens of ways to die cattlemen on the market, Wechen is really wronged. Wen Qihang shouted injustice.

If it weren't for Mei Yiqi's constant search for the sick cow that cured the sore, Wen Qihang would not have noticed this. In just over a month, the price of cattle has risen wildly, and a complete industrial chain has been formed.

When Mei Yiqi told Wen Qihang about this as a joke, Wen Qihang was stunned at the time, if it continued like this, when the cattle in the whole country were dead, if Zhao Lao Er didn't pick his own skin, it would be a strange thing to be angry with the people.

"Hmph, you actually have the face to shout injustice?" Zhao Lao Er said with disdain: "Even if you were wronged, aren't you helping to abuse it even more now." ”

"Your Majesty, in order to save the cattle of the people, we must lift the restriction on sales." Smell the sail is the right color road.

"If the sales restriction is lifted, the people's cattle will be saved?" Zhao Lao Er didn't believe it.

"At least it will reduce the losses of the people, Your Majesty, you must know the laws of our dynasty, even if it is the same crime, it is completely different from the nobles and the people. Take this cow as an example, the people committed suicide for 3,000 li, of course, this is inherited from the law of the former Tang Dynasty, and it is not suitable for use in our dynasty, because the area of my dynasty does not exceed 3,000 li, if it is really 3,000 li, it is equivalent to giving our people to other countries........"

Zhao Lao Er interrupted Wen Qihang's gushing with a dark face and said, "Let's get down to business!" ”

Wen Qihang coughed lightly and said, "........ Na Weichen continued, I just talked about the people, but what about the nobles, if the cattle are killed, they will be fined at most 100 catties of copper. Your Majesty! 100 catties of copper, but it's only 50 pounds! And what is even more odious is that some nobles who have lost their conscience directly use their dying servants or beggars to describe them as cattle killers, and then without paying a penny, they can get beef worth 600 guan.

And Your Majesty, do you know how their cattle came from?

If the people do not agree to sell their cattle, those nobles will not give the people land to cultivate, and they will use loans to coerce, hire and threaten, anyway, all kinds of means, just to snatch cattle from the people, and the people have nothing to say, because those nobles have paid.

Sixty times! Not a single cent, not a single cent, is absolutely in accordance with the laws of our dynasty. Then as soon as it was handed over, it was six hundred.

Your Majesty, do you still think that this law should not be abolished? ”

"........" After listening to Wen Qihang's analysis, Zhao Lao Er was stupid, he also knew that there were some problems, but he definitely didn't expect that things would be so serious.

This is no longer making money for the sake of making money, this is simply a harbinger of official coercion and civil rebellion.

(End of chapter)