Although Xu Xing, the patriarch of the farmer's sect, came to join him before, Yang Zhu came to join him, which still shocked Dai Yan!

The reason is very simple: the Yang Zhu school is a real big school, it is a prominent school, and its influence is not known how many times more than that of the peasants! Compared with the influence of Xu Xing and Yang Zhu, it is like comparing the president of an agricultural and technical school and the president of Harvard University in later generations, how many times the difference between the two?

Who is the founder of the famous school among the hundreds of sons? Those are all arrogant characters who will willingly defect to others?

Take Confucius and Mozi, for example. The pen is interesting and the pavilion www.biquge.info Confucius traveled around the world, but he has never been reused. Could it be that Confucius was incompetent? There are so many outstanding figures among the disciples of Confucius, not to mention Zigong, who is rich in the world and can compete with the princes. Even figures like Zai Yu and Ran You, who were loudly criticized by Confucius, were all figures who made outstanding contributions to politics and military affairs. Is the teacher who can teach these excellent disciples a mediocre talent?

Confucius was certainly not incapable, but he had arrogance in his heart! If the princes cannot implement his political ideas, then he would rather float on the sea! And he finally traveled around the world, panicking like a lost dog, which was actually the inevitable result of his arrogance.

Mozi and Confucius were similar, traveling around the world in order to realize their political ambitions. His talents are even better than those of Confucius! The city-defending equipment it built is even better in the battle with the siege equipment built by Luban! Such a talent is a highly valued engineer in any country, but he has never served any prince or nobleman in his life. In order to invite him to be an official, King Yue directly opened a fief of 500 miles at the cost, just like that, Mozi still directly refused, because King Yue could not realize his political ideas, then he would rather become an ordinary commoner!

Moreover, Mozi, as the leader of the Mo family, has stricter requirements for his disciples to serve the princes than Confucianism! Among Confucius's disciples, there are also "traitors" like Ran You and Zai Yu, and Mozi's requirements for his disciples are much stricter! His disciple Sheng Xuan followed Xiang Ziniu to invade the Lu State three times, and was considered by Mozi to have violated the Mo family's concept of "non-attack", so he personally wrote to Xiang Ziniu to ask for the dismissal of Sheng Xuan!

The more famous the patriarch of the school, the more important he is to implement his own political ideas!

For Yang Zhu, the patriarch of the school with a similar status to Confucius and Mozi, he would rather live in seclusion all the time than come out, and the arrogance in his heart is probably no less than that of Kong Mo and the others!

So why did he take the initiative to go out of the mountain and come to Dai Yan's side? In fact, this is nothing more than Dai Yan's administrative height in Taoqiu, which is highly in line with Yang Zhu's thoughts.

In the Yang-Zhu school, the most important idea is to advocate rebirth and self-esteem. That is to say, it advocates loving one's own life, and not wasting one's life casually for the so-called loyalty, filial piety, righteousness, and so on. Noble self means that people should protect their own interests and not allow others to infringe on them at will. It's an egoistic school!

After a careful analysis of Dai Yan's governance, the doctrines put forward by the Yang Zhu school, the concepts of self-esteem and rebirth have been well implemented by him. Like fighting the rangers, stabilizing the order of the entire Taoqiu, it is "reborn" in the whole city. And the property protection law, the patent law, this kind of law to protect private property and creation exist in Taoqiu, isn't this "noble self"?

Upon closer examination, this Yang-Zhu school is actually a school that represents the interests of the merchant class!

Later, Lü Buwei, the Wenxin Marquis of Qin, quoted Yang Zhu's thoughts extensively in his compilation of Lü's Spring and Autumn Period. Would a big businessman like Lü Buwei, who dared to speculate on politics as a business and regard strangers as strange goods, choose a doctrine that was unfavorable to him?

And if a doctrine wants to develop for a real and long-term time, the most important thing is that it needs to be backed by a strong interest group! Why was Confucianism able to rule the whole of China for 2,000 years? In addition to being more pragmatic, advocating loyalty to the monarch and suitable for the emperor's rule, the more important thing is that it really represents the interests of the landlord class! Backed by a powerful landlord group, no matter which dynasty rises, the emperor has to invite it out to calm the hearts of the people in the world!

And Yang Zhu, as a generation of patriarchs, is naturally able to see this problem clearly. He knew very well that his thoughts were in line with the interests of the merchant class, and was there anyone in the world who could protect and represent the interests of the merchants better than Tao Qiujun today?

The Yang-Zhu school and today's Tao Qiujun are highly unified in terms of ideology and even interests. Dai Yan needs the other party to provide a truly unassailable ideology as an "orthodox" ideology to stabilize the entire city! And the Yang Zhu School now needs the support of the entire Taoqiu merchant class in order to truly develop and grow and endure!

The two sides simply hit it off!

Subsequently, Dai Yan and Yang Zhu began to have a real academic exchange. As a time-traveler from later generations and a person who also founded a school, his insight is too much beyond that of this era, which has given Yang Zhu great inspiration!

When Dai Yan mentioned the concept of freedom and the theory of free trade, Yang Zhu couldn't help but applaud: "Cao Gong's statement is really too subtle!" Who doesn't want to be free? Free trade without restricting commerce can truly make the country prosperous! The old man has lived for so long, and he hasn't really figured this out, and he has really lived to a dog in this half of his life! ”

Dai Yan, of course, immediately expressed self-humility. However, he also has pride in his heart: the theory of free trade has created the entire industrial civilization in later generations, and it exists as the idea of industrial civilization, and the idea precipitated by hundreds of years of accumulation is of course exquisite!

After an in-depth exchange with Dai Yan, this patriarch-level figure of the founding faction immediately expressed his willingness to follow Dai Yan and swear allegiance to him!

Although the Yang-Zhu school did not have advanced skills in handicrafts and agriculture like the Mo family and the peasant family, Dai Yan did not despise them in the slightest! In his heart, this school is even more important than the Mo and Nong! Because it directly determines Dai Yan's governance thoughts and ideology in the future!

The Mo family and the peasant family are like the sword in Dai Yan's hand, and the Yang Zhu school is like the person holding the sword! The sharpness of the sword is important, but the thoughts and sober actions of the person are even more important!

Only by forming a perfect idea can the cause created by Dai Yan not really perish!

And when Yang Zhu arrived at Taoqiu, he immediately solved the big problem he was having a headache. The buzz in the newspaper caused chaos in Dai Yan and the entire Taoqiu, but after the Yang Zhu School was stationed, with the prestige of a group of patriarchs and logical debates, they immediately dealt a severe blow to those who lost in the futures and tried to influence Dai Yan's governance!

And the chaos in the newspaper was so easily pacified by the Yang Zhu School. As the editor-in-chief of Taoqiu Daily and several major business newspapers, Yang Zhu's famous disciples began to blow the horn for free trade!

At this point, linked by the ideas of the Yang-Zhu school, a bourgeoisie in the true sense of the word began to take shape and will gradually rise in the future!

Seven days later, near a small island in the depths of Heze, several ships were approaching, and they came straight to this island and began to go straight to a palace built on the island!

The people who came down from the boat, one after another, if it were in Taoqiu, everyone would definitely be extremely surprised: when did so many big people come together?

Bailong, Puyangxing, and Tian Bu, the helmsmen of the Taoqiu Commercial Bank, all arrived here one by one, and everyone greeted each other, and then echoed together. In the process of moving forward together, everyone is also discussing business matters with each other, and the food price crash seven days ago is obviously the most important of them!

"Brother Bai, your Bai family firm has performed the best in this business, presumably it has gained a lot this time, right?" Pu Yangxing asked Bailong Dao as he walked.

"Hehe, I did well this time, is it possible that Brother Puyang is acting badly? Everyone can have such a rich harvest this time, thanks to Cao Gong! If Cao hadn't made this exchange public, and then took the lead in organizing this event, where would everyone have such a huge profit? While enjoying the beautiful scenery of this small island, the white dragon responded to Pu Yangxing's words.

"Brother Bai, this time the price of food has collapsed, except for Cao Gong, you have earned the most. In fact, what I envy the most is not the resources that Brother Bai has now, but the Piaoxiangju that owns the opposite door of the exchange. Tian Bu on the side said to the white dragon.

At this time, Bai Long smiled bitterly and said, "This Piaoxiangju is really sad to me now!" Since Cao Gong executed all the rangers of Taoqiu there last year, the entire Piaoxiangju has become eerie. Nowadays, there are failed speculative businessmen who commit suicide at the door of Piaoxiangju every day, and this business is too unlucky! ”

Tian Bu rolled his eyes and said, "If Brother Bai feels that there is a trouble in his hand, then why don't you transfer Piaoxiangju to me?" In terms of price, rest assured, it will definitely satisfy Brother Bai! ”

As soon as Bai Long heard this suggestion, he immediately refused: "This Piaoxiangju is the place where Cao Gong first came to Taoqiu to stay, how can he transfer it to others?" Even if someone commits suicide at the door of Piaoxiangju every day, I won't transfer it to others! "The actual reason is that the geographical location occupied by Piaoxiangju is too good, how can Bailong be sold!

This cunning fellow! Tian Bu scolded secretly, and when he saw that the other party was unwilling, he had no choice but to give up.

The merchants walked and chatted here, and entered the palace on the island.

Located in the most scenic part of the island, with the mountains behind and the water nearby, this palace is truly picturesque. And this palace, the real part of the construction is actually only a small half, and most of the other palace buildings are still under construction.

This palace was not built by Dai Yan at his own expense. But after Dai Yan governed Taoqiu for half a year, the big businessmen of Taoqiu fought for money and must be built with filial piety to him! After all, it is not easy to meet a lord like him who loves businessmen and leads them to make a fortune!

Another reason is that businessmen want to dispel their fears through such gifts. Although Dai Yan issued a corresponding edict in Taoqiu, the merchant had always been in a weak position, and they were even a little afraid if the lord did not accept the gift. Dai Yan also took into account the need to unite the big businessmen of Taoqiu and plan for his plan, so he accepted the palace smoothly.

As soon as he accepted this palace, he classified this small island in Heze as a forbidden area and established the Heze Club. The members of the Heze Club will meet from time to time, and hold fishing and hunting activities near this Heze. And the members of the club, except for Dai Yan, are all big businessmen in Taoqiu!

The club occasionally invites some big businessmen from other places to join, but this power is only possessed by Dai Yan.