Chapter 205: What is a Confucian Merchants?
Looking at Chen Yu, who was kneeling on the ground with an excited face, and the other businessmen around him who were envious, jealous and hated him, Gao Ming once again deeply felt the embarrassment of the Tang Dynasty businessmen. Mobile phone users are invited to browse M. for a better reading experience.
Rich but no status!
At this moment, Gao Ming's grasp of his plan suddenly became greater.
"Everyone, the meal is ready, please take a seat."
"His Royal Highness Prince Xie!"
Under Gao Ming's beckoning, the five of them immediately sat down.
Gao Ming, as the master, naturally sat on the main seat, while Wu Mei and Chen Yu sat on Gao Ming's left and right sides respectively, and after sitting down, everyone once again cast envious eyes on Chen Yu.
Looking at everyone's expressions, Gao Ming suddenly smiled slightly, and then asked the waiter to serve the food, and after the dishes were ready, Gao Ming took the lead in raising the wine glass, and then stood up.
"Everyone, please raise your glass!"
At this moment, everyone present stood up, and after hearing Gao Ming's words, everyone picked up their wine glasses together.
Seeing this scene, Gao Ming suddenly smiled and nodded.
"Ladies and gentlemen, today is a day destined to be remembered, because from today onwards, Datang has one more organization, the name of this organization is called Datang Royal Business Alliance, in order to celebrate the establishment of this organization, everyone drinks this cup!"
After speaking, Gao Ming took the wine glass and drank it all, and when he saw that he had drunk it, the other people present also hurriedly picked up the wine glass and drank the wine.
Seeing that everyone had drunk the wine, Gao Ming nodded with satisfaction again, and then raised his hands and pressed them weakly.
"Alright, let's all sit down!"
"His Royal Highness Prince Xie!"
Everyone bowed to Gao Ming together, and then sat down, and after everyone was seated, Gao Ming immediately grinned.
"I'm afraid you don't know what's going on with this Tang Royal Business Alliance, right? Then I'll explain it to you. ”
As he spoke, Gao Ming raised a finger towards everyone.
"The so-called Datang Royal Business Alliance is actually an organization composed of businessmen, and the main work of this organization is to standardize the business order of Datang and set a benchmark for businessmen, so that other businessmen can understand how to be a qualified businessman!"
Hearing Gao Ming's words, the other businessmen present immediately became puzzled, and in the end, Chen Yu had the courage to arch his hand towards Gao Ming.
"Dare to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, what makes a qualified businessman?"
As soon as Chen Yu's words fell, the other merchants nodded their heads, and it seemed that they were also eager to know the answer to this question.
Seeing everyone's eagerness, Gao Ming smiled and nodded again. Remember [Qianqian w w.x q q x o m] in one second, and provide you with wonderful reading.
"Rites and Clothes" have clouds: words and deeds are qualified, no matter what you do, there must be a standard, there was no before, it does not mean that there is no present and future, from ancient times to the present, why are the merchants of each dynasty of low status? Have you thought about this? ”
Hearing Gao Ming's words, everyone present was silent, some of them really didn't think about this problem, some of them thought about it, but they didn't dare to say it, they couldn't say that the low status of the merchant was because of the emperor's order, right?
Seeing that everyone was silent, Gao Ming's face suddenly became serious.
"Maybe you all think that the reason why the status of merchants is so low is because of the emperor's suppression, but haven't you thought about why the emperor did this?"
Speaking of this, Gao Ming immediately raised a finger again.
"There is only one reason, because there are fewer qualified businessmen in Datang, and such unqualified businessmen are not eligible for preferential treatment!"
As soon as Gao Ming's words fell, everyone present showed surprise, especially Liu Rong, who was next to Chen Yu, who immediately got up and bowed to Gao Ming.
"Please also ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for advice, how to become a qualified businessman?"
As Liu Rong got up, the others present also stood up and bowed to Gao Ming in unison.
"Please also ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for advice!"
Seeing their serious looks, Gao Ming immediately smiled and nodded, and then waved his hand at them again.
"Please sit down, in fact, all of you here are qualified businessmen, otherwise you are not qualified to sit in this hibiscus garden, are you?"
Hearing Gao Ming's little flattery, Chen Yu and the others suddenly felt a sense of comfort in their hearts, and they all had smiles on their faces.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has won the award!"
"I'm ashamed!"
"Ashamed, ashamed......"
Looking at their dark appearances, Gao Ming smiled slightly.
"We Datang advocate gentlemen, and the so-called gentlemen are courtesy, wisdom, righteousness, generosity, faithfulness, and benevolence, which are the six virtues of gentlemen, but the interpretation of these six words is not immutable."
Speaking of this, Gao Ming immediately stretched out his hand and pointed at Chen Yu.
"Chen Yu deals in gold, silver and jade, I once sent someone to dress up, whether it is wearing silk or coarse cloth, he treats each other with courtesy, this is etiquette!"
Hearing Gao Ming's words, Chen Yu immediately knelt down for Gao Ming with a "poof".
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has won the award, Chen Yu is ashamed and dare not take it!"
Looking at Chen Yu with an excited face, Gao Ming suddenly smiled slightly, and then stretched out his hand to Liu Rong next to Chen Yu.
"Liu Rong is in the cloth business, he transports Chang'an's tea and silk to the Western Regions to sell, so as to obtain more profits, but it is commendable that the price he gives is three layers higher than that of other cloth merchants.
After Gao Ming's words fell, Liu Rong also knelt down.
"Thank you, Your Highness the Prince!"
Gao Ming didn't care about him, and stretched out his hand again to point to the next one.
"You, Wu Lao Liu, your friend committed something last month, and you took out five thousand yuan to run for him, this is righteousness!"
At this moment, Wu Lao Liu also knelt down.
"I hope His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will forgive his sins!"
Gao Ming ignored Wu Lao Liu and pointed to Tian Yi again.
"I don't need to say this, everyone can see that one of Tian Yi's feet is lame, but he has the largest carriage and horse shop in Datang in his hands, and he has helped a lot of people, Tianxingjian, the gentleman is self-improving, the terrain is kun, the gentleman is virtuous, this is thick!"
Hearing Gao Ming's words, Tian Yichao knelt down towards him, but he didn't say anything, just the tears rolling in his eyes showed the excitement in his heart at this moment.
After finishing talking about Tian Yi, Gao Ming turned his head to look at the last person, and then laughed.
"Zhao Bo, you are the biggest cloth merchant in Chang'an, but you are an out-and-out profiteer, mean, short catty and less than two, you have all the bad problems of merchants."
Before Gao Ming's words fell, Zhao Bo's cold sweat came out, and he quickly knelt down towards Gao Ming.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince forgives your sins!"
Looking at his panicked appearance, Gao Ming suddenly smiled and shook his head.
"Don't worry, I'm not here to investigate your fault this time, last year your friend Zhao Wu died of illness, and his family was ruined, and his son married your daughter, so he came to the door, but you didn't dislike him, or married your daughter to him, this is a letter, from this point of view, in fact, you are not useless."
Hearing Gao Ming say this, Zhao Bo hurriedly kowtowed to Gao Ming again.
"Thank you, Your Highness the Prince, thank you, Your Highness the Prince!"
Looking at the people kneeling on the ground, Gao Ming suddenly nodded at them.
"You each have your own shortcomings, but you also have your own strengths, and what you have to do is to learn from each other, learn from each other's strengths, and one day you will learn from your own strengths, and you will be considered successful."
Hearing Gao Ming's words, everyone raised their heads to look at him, and when they met everyone's eyes, Gao Ming suddenly grinned.
"When that time comes, you will no longer be ordinary merchants, but gentlemen among merchants - Confucian merchants!"
The Tang Dynasty advocates Confucianism, in everyone's opinion, "Confucianism" is synonymous with elegance, and "Shang" is a representative of utilitarianism and copper smell, but now Gao Ming has combined the two, which makes everyone's eyes wide in surprise.
"Confucian merchants?"
"A gentleman among merchants?"
"Really?"
Seeing their unconfident appearance, Gao Ming immediately nodded.
"Of course you can, and this is also my original intention to establish the Datang Royal Alliance, think about it, if the businessmen all accept this bottom line and don't do those things that make people poke their backbones, who will look down on businessmen at that time?"
With that, Gao Ming raised his hand towards them.
"Okay, we Datang don't want to kneel and talk, you all get up."
"His Royal Highness Prince Xie!"
Hearing Gao Ming's words, everyone first arched their hands towards him, and then returned to their seats.
Chen Yu was the last to sit down, and after he sat down, he arched his hand towards Gao Ming again.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, then how should we join this Datang Royal Business Alliance, and do we also want to buy that pass token like the Datang Royal Club?"
As soon as Chen Yu's words fell, the other people present also looked at Gao Ming.
All of them felt that since the words "Datang Royal" were glued, it was definitely not so easy to join, so there was a sense of worry in each other's eyes.
Looking at their expressions, Gao Ming immediately laughed.
"Haha, you don't need any brand, since I called all five of you, it naturally means that you all have this qualification, but ......"
Speaking of this, Gao Ming immediately frowned, and when he saw his expression, several people present immediately showed nervous expressions.
Seeing the change in the expressions of several people, Gao Ming's heart suddenly blossomed, but on the surface, he sighed.
"Alas, in fact, the Datang Royal Business Alliance is not an ordinary organization, it has the responsibility of formulating and governing Jinzhou commerce, that is to say, as long as you join the Datang Royal Business Alliance, you will go to Jinzhou to take office, and because of the relationship between the official positions, the people of the Datang Royal Alliance are not allowed to run their own industries."
As soon as Gao Ming's words fell, several people around him immediately widened their eyes.
"Responsibilities for formulating and governing Jinju commerce?"
"Go to Jinju to take office?"
"Official?"
For a moment, Gao Ming seemed to see that the expressions of the people in front of him had changed from the same, and each of their eyes seemed to be shining.