"What about Cai Zhan?" Tian Jian looked back at Meng Ao, with a little doubt in his eyes, it shouldn't be! According to the time, Cai Ze should be back by now.

Meng Ao glanced up at Tian Jian and sighed, "Cai Zhanshi passed out because he was not feeling tired and tired. ”

"I'm sorry for him." Tian Jian said with a little remorse.

......

Half a month ago, in Taoyi Prison.

The yellow light shone on Cai Ze's thin, godless face, and there were traces of artemisia grass on his messy sideburns, and he smiled bitterly: "Since Your Highness has put me in prison, you still want me to help you, it's just a joke." ”

"Not a joke." Tian Jian's face was solemn, he leaned over, looked straight at Cai Ze, and said, "This palace put you in prison to protect you, it's ridiculous, you still don't understand." ”

"Protect me?" Cai Ze's sloppy eyes refocused, and he looked at Tian Jian excitedly, but after a while, he laughed and said, "How is this possible?" How can someone guarantee a person and put a person in prison? ”

But Tian Jian's face did not change in the slightest, and he said solemnly to Cai Ze word by word: "How is it impossible, as long as there is a result, why bother with the process." ”

"When the Japanese palace comes out of Taoyi, the business market is depressed, and the merchants go on strike, whether it is wrong or right, you are all wrong."

Cai Ze looked at the oil lamp with a wry smile, the flickering light was very much like his heart now, and he sighed: "I'm guilty, but this kind of situation in Taoyi really doesn't matter to the ministers, I don't know." ”

The corners of Tian Jian's mouth flashed with a sneer: "Incompetence is the biggest culpability for officials!" When this palace sees you, you are not allowed to defend it, because no matter how you explain it, you will not be able to avoid your guilt, and if this palace personally arranges it, it is possible to protect you to the greatest extent. The game of chess has already been played since the time when the main palace is still alive, and you are just an innocent pawn, or just a pawn to be used.

Taoyi Hua's, Fan's, and Cao's three families control the entire Taoyi market, and this time you fell into prison is planned by them, even if there is no palace, the bad situation of Taoyi has been maintained, and when the tax is reduced, you will be punished for your crimes, because you are blocking their way. ”

Cai Ze suddenly became enlightened, and he began to figure out why Tian Jian put him in prison, so that he could block Youyou's mouth, and he could give the three families a false impression of confusion.

"What chess game?" Cai Ze discarded other thoughts and asked.

Tian Jian got up and looked at the afterglow of the window, a little cyan could be seen in the color outside the window, and he whispered: "This chess game is the beginning of the big war, the businessmen are opportunistic, and they want to take advantage of the opportunity of the big war to get a piece of the pie, and the biggest possibility of this cup of soup is the Qi country that they think will be defeated." ”

"Why?" Cai Ze was shocked.

"No, this is the general trend of the world, strong is stronger, weak is weaker. If you can't even pick up your own sword, there's no guarantee that a hungry dog won't bite you. Tian Jian said indifferently, as if all this had nothing to do with him.

Cai Ze pursed his lips that had dried up and had white marks, bowed to Tian Jian, and said respectfully: "Your Highness, what do you need Cai Ze to serve?" ”

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Tian Jian's mouth, and he said, "Do you know Guan Yiwu? ”

"Guan Zhong, who assisted the Duke of Qi Huan and the king? I don't know what His Highness is doing with Guan Zhong? Cai Ze asked.

"Then do you know Hengshan Country?" Tian Jian's eyes slowly deepened, and at this moment, he couldn't help but be impressed by Guan Zhong's far beyond ordinary thoughts, Guan Zhong is a figure through the ages, and those who are prime ministers must respect Guan Yiwu, but it is not to say.

Modern countries continue to put the people first, but how to solve the people-oriented people's livelihood problems? The answer given by Guan Zhong is: vigorously develop commerce and hide wealth from the people.

Guan Zhong realized that the premise of a rich country is to enrich the people first, and his "Wealth of Nations Theory" was 2,300 years earlier than Adam Smith. In addition, Guan Zhong also came up with an outline of the state's intervention in the overall economic situation in his own idea of "light and heavy", and the state controls the direction of the economy, so that the people can obtain wealth according to the rules of the game under the economic policies formulated by the state. Today, Guan Zhong's proposition of "rejuvenating the country through commerce" and achieving prosperity and strength was more than 2,200 years earlier than the "mercantilism" theory put forward by Thomas Meng of Britain in "Britain's Wealth from Foreign Trade".

It is a pity that the Chinese regard Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" as a must-read classic, but forget the huge work "Guanzi", the Chinese have abandoned too many national essences, and various modern ideas have been mentioned in the hundreds of schools of pre-Qin Dynasty, but it is ridiculous to study the works of outsiders, "master Yi long skills to control Yi" is not opposed, but the works of the sons of the pre-Qin Dynasty are not cared for, terrible! {As a side note, the author's earliest book was also "The Wealth of Nations", but he didn't know that there were classics of the sages of Guanzi, and modern education is too "foreign-worshipping", and the author means that these classics can also be used as optional readings, but they have not even been mentioned, which is too much.} }

It's a bit far, let's talk about Hengshan Kingdom!

At that time, the Hengshan country was rich in weapons, Hengshan swords, unparalleled in the world. Guan Zhong had been planning to conquer the Hengshan Kingdom for a long time, but if he wanted to attack the Hengshan Kingdom by force, it would definitely take a lot of effort. Therefore, Guan Zhong sent people to Hengshan State to buy weapons at a high price a year before the army started; 10 months later, Yan, Dai, Qin and other countries followed to Hengshan to buy weapons, which can be described as a competition for purchases in the world. Seeing the situation of making money, the king of Hengshan told the prime minister: "All countries in the world are vying to buy our weapons, which can increase the price by more than 20 times", so the people of Hengshan gave up agriculture and turned to iron.

A year later, Qi sent people to Zhao to buy and transport grain, and the price of grain in Zhao was fifteen yuan per stone, but Qi bought it at fifty yuan per stone. All the countries, including Hengshan, transported grain and sold it to Qi, and just when the countries were cheering for their wealth, Qi suddenly closed the checkpoint and stopped purchasing grain and weapons from Hengshan.

Before the summer harvest, troops were sent to Hengshan Kingdom. At this time, the Hengshan country had no food available, the weapons were almost sold out, and they could not buy food in other countries.

In fact, the "Hengshan scheme" is to induce the enemy to give up his own business at a high price and pursue the deformed profits of a certain industry, which will eventually paralyze the enemy's economy. In any era, a skyrocketing price of a commodity can lead to huge profits. This kind of profit is ridiculously high, unless this kind of profit comes from domestic monopoly technology, then something is bound to happen. High profits will attract a considerable number of people to rush in, and this group of people is often the first to see the business opportunities. When almost all the people of a country do one thing, the profiteering will come to an end, and disaster will come.

In modern society, the United States has transferred low-end manufacturing to China, or third world countries, but why do you have to take back these industries? And Apple's Fujitsu in China is obviously cheap, but in the United States, workers' salaries remain high and the efficiency is not high, and the re-transfer of the manufacturing industry to the United States seems to be a fool's work in developed countries. However, Guan Zhong's Hengshan strategy here illustrates this incident, once the war starts, the seemingly smart approach will be counterattacked.

But I admire him very much, and when others are snickering at his stupidity, the dominant American consciousness knows that such a deformed tertiary industry market will eventually break the hegemony of the United States, and the primary and secondary industries are the pillars of the nation.

"Hengshan Country?" Cai Ze had thoughts in his mind, but he still had some doubts, although these things could be implemented, all the plans were not just talk.

Tian Jian looked at Cai Ze and said slowly: "Back then, Guan Yiwu used commercial warfare to destroy the Hengshan Kingdom, and this palace used commercial warfare to wipe out the three families. ”

"How to do it, please ask Your Highness for advice." Cai Ze said respectfully.

The corners of Tian Jian's mouth flashed with a smile, and he said: "The palace specially went to meet the heads of the three families a few days ago, and discussed that they should make 30,000 armors, which are the armor made for the Tiger Benying camp in the Chu State. ”

"Thirty thousand armor, does His Highness also want to use commercial operations to drag down the three families like Guan Yiwu." Cai Ze guessed.

"How is that possible? They're just a bunch of businessmen! If you want to kill them, Hongu can do it now, but the difficult thing is to block Yuyo's mouth. Tian Jian shook his head, stroked the jade pendant on his waist with his hand, and then said: "The plan of this palace is to let them make 30,000 armor, and when they make it, send troops to destroy them. In this way, not only can the anti-Qi forces up and down Taoyi be eliminated, so that the whole body of Taoyi can be united at the beginning of the war, but the armor made can also be used.

Besides, my father only gave the palace 5,000 gold, where is it enough, and the money obtained by copying the homes of these big businessmen is probably enough. ”

Cai Ze gasped when he heard this, looked at Tian Jian in a daze, and thought to himself: "It seems that even if these three families have no intention of rebelling, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will raid their homes, just because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince lacks money to spend." ”

"Your Highness, these big businessmen are densely armed in Taoyi, and the force of their homes is not ordinary, not to mention that there are many of their clansmen, how can they be uprooted." Cai Ze reminded.

If these businessmen were really like fat sheep, then they would have died long ago by Wei Ran's time, and they could still wait until Tian Jian came?

There is a certain amount of grain in their houses, and the houses are very tightly arranged, if you want to break through, it is difficult to say a word!

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was not uncommon for the city to be besieged for several years, and these houses were turtle shells.

A smile appeared at the corner of Tian Jian's mouth, and he said: "Of course, this palace has taken this into account, the amount of work for 30,000 armors is huge, and this palace will be completed in two months, with their own craftsmen, it is a fool's dream to complete, and this palace promises to send them craftsmen, at this time, they can lurk inside, and the topographic map can be obtained." ”

Cai Ze still had some doubts on his face, as the top talent, he considered things in all aspects, and he asked: "The three family heads are not stupid, how can they not guard against these things." ”

"Of course they will be guarded, but this palace gives them enough benefits, and I don't believe they are not moved. The Huai salt of Qi has always been produced by the people, and the official family operates it, and the palace promised them to open the checkpoint of buying salt, so they could not be moved. Tian Jian snorted coldly.

Greed is a crime, if they can see greed clearly, then Tian Jian's plan this time will not have the slightest possibility to be realized, but business is originally a coexistence of risks and interests, and the three did not expect that what Tian Jian, who swore by that day, said was a lie.

......

On that day, when he was hunting in the autumn of the Chu State, the priest once said a poem for the Chu State: Yin Yin and its people, the fire burns, and the moon is not seen, but only the ghosts and gods are seen. God blesses its people, worships it, the sun and the moon flood the light, how to learn from it.

But I didn't expect that this poem seemed to be prepared for Tian Jian, Yin Yin and his people, alluding to the fact that the Chen family was once a Yin Shang noble. The fire burned, Chen Ying is the Wanqiu of Chen State, Wanqiu was the place where Fuxi built the capital, "Five Emperors" contains: "Emperor Taihao Fuxi, Chengji people also." Yimude succeeded the king of the sky, and all Wanqiu. "The word Jianzi is secretly in harmony with Mude, isn't it just a burning fire!

I don't see the moon, but I see ghosts and gods. This is not seen in the moon, it was daytime, and it was indeed impossible to see the bright moon in the sky, as for only seeing ghosts and gods, when Tian Jianqiu was hunting, he was almost injured by ghosts and gods, and the tiger is the ghost god in the mountains that ordinary people say.

So how to explain the next eight characters?

God blesses its people, according to Tian Jian, he later learned that there is a saying among the people of Chu: "King Xiang has intentions, but the goddess has no intentions." "This King Xiang is the King of Chu, and the goddess is the Queen of Chu, and the woman in the dream of the King of Chu is the appearance of the Queen of Chu. At the time of the Autumn Hunt Assassins, because of the help of the Queen of Chu, Tian Jian turned the danger into safety. This God blesses his people, and it can also be explained.

As for the worship of God bless his people, what does it mean?

荦, according to the literal meaning of variegated cow, the two words together is a distinct, significant meaning, seemingly irrelevant words, what is the meaning?

......

"General Meng, how is the harvest of the destruction of the three families this time?" Tian Jian asked with a smile on his face.

Meng Ao said to Tian Jianyi: "This time, we searched about 18,000 gold from the three houses, and there were countless other silks, furs, bronze utensils, and grain, as well as about 8,000 armor. ”

"Eight thousand armor, good!" Tian Jian nodded and said, you can get so much family wealth without much effort, and sure enough, copying the family is the magic weapon to make a fortune, after all, this is the family wealth that the three families have accumulated for hundreds of years, but this time it is a little early, otherwise it would be better to wait until the three families have finished building 30,000 armor, but for Tian Jian, it will not be long before the city wall will be built, and he can't wait that long.

Wu Anjun is by no means a small role.

The people of the three families can't compare with it, this is just a small episode, and the big stage of the nations is still waiting for him to take the stage.