The ancient Chinese had four major joys: one was a long drought and a sweet rain; the second is to meet the old acquaintance in another country; the third is the candle night in the cave room; Fourth, when nominated for the Gold List. Among the four joys, the joy of "meeting old acquaintances in other places" ranks second. Five days after leaving the paint garden, Zhao Jie arrived in Shenyi. In Shenyi, Zhao Jie personally felt the joy of meeting his hometown in a foreign country.

At the gate of Shenyi City, Zhao Ying, Fei Jin, Lin Shouyi, and Integrity were already waiting under the city, and several people pointed out the country, talking and laughing, completely immersed in their own world, and completely did not notice that Zhao Jie had come to their side.

"Brother Ying, Brother Jin, Brother Shouyi, Brother Zheng, don't come unharmed." Zhao Jie secretly walked in front of them and suddenly shouted loudly.

"Scared (he), Brother Jie, when did you come, there was no movement at all, it scared me to death." As Zhao Jie's cousin, he can also be regarded as Zhao Jie's elder, Zhao Ying taught Zhao Jie a lesson.

"Meet Your Highness." Integrity, Lin Shouyi, and Fei Jin were also taken aback, and after recovering from the fright, they looked at it and found that it was Zhao Jie, so they hurriedly bowed their hands.

"Didn't I say that we brothers don't have to be so close to each other, just call each other brothers." Zhao Jie said with a smile on his face while holding the honest and others who wanted to worship.

"Your Highness Xie looks up to us, so thank you, Your Highness." Lin Shouyi also said with a smile, which can be regarded as a thank you.

"Brother Shouyi, Brother Jin, you seem to have turned black, I'm afraid you won't be able to attract little girls anymore after returning to China" Zhao Jie quipped: "And Brother Zheng, you seem to have lost a lot of weight, isn't it that my brother Ying didn't let you eat enough along the way!." ”

Zhao Ying cleared her throat when she heard this, and then interjected and said to Zhao Jie: "Brother Jie, you have said their changes, so you can see what changes I have." ”

Zhao Jie pretended to walk around Zhao Ying, and then pretended to be very serious and said, "Brother Ying, I see that the smell of copper coins on your body is getting stronger and stronger. ”

"Boy, dare to tease me, see if I don't beat you." Zhao Ying feigned anger when she heard this, and made a gesture to hit Zhao Jie.

"Brother Ying is going to beat someone, Brother Zheng, save me." Behind Zhao Jie's honest runway, he pretended to be afraid of asking for help.

"Brother, get out of the way, this kid is getting more and more wild, don't care about it, after I go back, how will I face my uncle." Zhao Ying said in an adult's tone.

Lian Zheng laughed when he saw this scene, and he said: "Brother Jie is not wrong, you have indeed made a lot of money along the way!" "Zhao Ying is particularly good at running the industry and is very proficient in business management. Along the way, he started to resell, that is, he bought low-priced goods in one place, and took them with him to sell them at a place where the goods were sold at a higher price, earning the difference in price.

Lin Shouyi, Fei Jin, and Yan also laughed when they heard the words, and Zhao Jie also took the opportunity to ask with a smile: "Brother Ying, how much money did you make!" ”

Zhao Ying said proudly when she heard this: "It's a full hundred and fifty taels of silver." Zhao Jie, Lin Shouyi, and Fei Jin couldn't help but praise when they heard this: "Good ability." Zhao Ying also laughed when she heard the praise of Zhao Jie and others, and her laughter was full of pride.

"Alright, stop making any more trouble, let's go into the city!" After frolicking for a while, he said honestly: "Brother Jie, you just came to Shenyi, let us lead you around for a while!" After speaking, everyone walked into Shenyi.

Shenyi, in the Spring and Autumn Period, belonged to the Song Dynasty, and during the Warring States Period, it belonged to the Chu State. In 719 B.C., a generation of strange people Guan Zhong landed here and began his legendary life.

Guan Zhong, Ji surname, Guan Shi, name Yiwu, word Zhong, Zhen Jing, people are called Guanzi, Guan Yiwu, Guan Jingzhong. Its ancestor was a generation of Ming monarch Zhou Mu Wang. He is a "pioneer of legalism", a "teacher of saints", a "protector of Chinese civilization", and the "first minister of China", all of which show his unusual life.

Guan Zhong's father, Guan Zhuang Zeng Shiqi, later declined in the middle of the family, and when Guan Zhong grew up, the housekeeper was already very poor. In order to make a living, Guan Zhong has traveled to many places, has come into contact with all kinds of people, has seen many worlds, he has been a humble businessman, a deserter, and life has allowed him to accumulate rich social experience.

During his tenure as Qi Xiang, Guan Zhong vigorously carried out reforms. Politically, he rectified the administrative system of Qi State, so that the residual influence of Qi tribes was completely eradicated, and the organizational structure of the administrative region was more refined, effectively maintaining the social stability of Qi State; Militarily, he reformed the military system of the Qi State, "sent military orders for internal affairs," and pioneered a combat system that combined society and military affairs, thus preparing for large-scale wars in the future. Economically, Guan Zhong's reform is the most thorough, significant, influential, and highly praised by future generations. Perhaps it was because Guan Zhong was engaged in business as a young man, and during his reign he placed a special emphasis on business, creating many policies that were inherited by later generations. His economic policy was to "enrich the people and not have money", and his method was to "use the power of the important and the industry of the mountains and seas", and even "accumulate wealth through currency, enrich the country and strengthen the army"; He opposed the taxation of "trees", "six animals" and the population, and advocated that "only the official mountains and seas are acceptable", and that "mountains and seas" are iron and salt; He pioneered the policy of "quasi-leveling" of food; He believes that the amount of tax should be determined according to the quality of the soil and the level of production; He set up a special institution in charge of currency in Qi State, announced that the government would mint currency in a unified manner, and standardized the currency in the shape of a knife; He was the first to systematically elaborate on the role of consumption in promoting production.

Guan Zhong's reform envoys, farmers, industrialists, and merchants each had their own businesses, and the national strength of Qi was greatly boosted. After the victory of the Qi State, Guan Zhong put forward the nationalist ideas of "Huayi's Distinction" and "Respect for the King", and he assisted the Duke of Qi Heng to respect the King and the princes of Jiuhe, and pushed the Qi State to the status of overlord. Confucius once praised Guan Zhong: "Micro Guan Zhong, I have been sent to the left." Later, he praised it: "The princes of Huan Gong Jiuhe, not with military vehicles, the power of Guan Zhong is also, such as its benevolence, such as its benevolence!"

As soon as he stepped into Shenyi, Zhao Jie saw a deer statue standing in the middle of a wide road, dividing the people into two parts in and out of the city. The crowd is more than chaotic under the diversion of the stone statues, implying order.

"This stone statue is called the Deer Police Station, and his construction has a different story, I'm afraid Brother Jie doesn't know it yet." Zhao Ying saw Zhao Jie's gaze fall on the stone statue, so he introduced.

''I would like to hear about it.'' Zhao Jie responded, so Zhao Ying talked eloquently.

''Since the Duke of Qi Huan dominated the north, only the southern state of Chu was left above Kyushu to compete with the state of Qi. So Qi Henggong regarded the state of Chu as an obstacle and an imaginary enemy in his cause of dominating Kyushu, and spent his days thinking about how to weaken the state of Chu.

The state of Chu has a vast territory, sufficient soldiers and food, and very strong military strength, and if the war is used to conquer him, it will inevitably lead to the defeat of both Qi and Chu, so the method of war is absolutely not feasible. How to conquer the tiger of Chu State, this question gave Qi Huan Gong a headache.

So one day he asked Guan Zhong for advice: "The state of Chu is also a strong country, its people are good at fighting, and the king of Chu dominates the southern country with the strength of his three armies." The widow wants to do everything he can to destroy my people, and I am afraid that he will not be able to do so. The prime minister is a wise man, how can he teach the widow? ”

Guan Zhong said: "Don't worry, the king, this matter can be entrusted to the ministers, and the ministers will go here for the king." Guan Zhong didn't tell Heng Gong the specific method, and left Heng Gong's palace as soon as the words fell.

A few days later, on the border where the state of Qi and the state of Chu met, a small city was erected. Soon after, a large number of merchants poured out of the city, and these merchants entered the territory of Chu on a large scale to buy live deer. The price of a live deer in Chu was originally 100,000 yuan a head, but under the wanton robbery of Shangyi, the price skyrocketed.

The fact that Qi built a city on the border worried the king of Chu at first, and he thought that Qi built a city to attack him. Later, when he heard that the city was a transit point for merchants from Qi to Chu to buy deer, the king of Chu was happy and said to his Lingyi: "Money, loved by people, is also an indispensable thing for the country." Deer, birds and beasts, there are many in our country, and the lack of them will not harm the country. Today, the Qi country buys deer with thick coins, which is the blessing of my Chu country! The ancestors blessed our country with great wealth, and I could not accept it! Lingyi, you immediately issued an order to the whole country, so that the people immediately capture the live deer, and use it to seize the wealth of the people! ”

The king of Chu happily gave an order, but he didn't know that those merchants were actually people sent by Guan Zhong, led by Wang Yi, a doctor in the state of Qi, who brought 20 million yuan to the state of Chu to buy deer.

In order to add another fire to this matter, Guan Zhong also personally took the trouble to sell and explain to the officials and businessmen from Chu State: "You give me twenty live deer, and I give you one hundred catties of gold; Thou shalt give me two hundred, and I will give thee a thousand pounds of gold. In this way, the state of Chu does not have to tax the people, and the wealth is already used. ”

Under Guan Zhong's flickering, there was a sensation in the state of Chu: both official and non-governmental, men, women and children, all became excited, and the common people put down their farm work and went all over the mountains to catch live deer.

At this time, Guan Zhong asked his minister Xi Peng to quietly buy and hoard grain in the private sector of Qi and Chu: Chu made several times more money by selling live deer than usual; The surplus grain purchased and hoarded by the Qi State was also several times more than usual.

After everything was dealt with, Guan Zhong returned to the court and said to Qi Huan Gong: "You can attack Chu!" Qi Huan Gong asked suspiciously: "Why?" Guan Zhong replied confidently: "When the state of Chu gets several times the money and hurts the peasants, if our country attacks Chu, Chu will use the money to buy grain everywhere, and at this time order all countries to block the border." The king of Chu has no food, the three armies have no combat power, and the people of Chu are also hungry, how can there be no reason to be invincible. Duke Qi Huan was stunned, so he ordered the border with Chu to be closed.

As a result, the price of rice in Chu rose wildly, and the king of Chu sent people to buy rice everywhere, but they were all cut off by Qi, and the refugees of Chu who fled to Qi were as many as four-tenths of his own population, and the vitality of Chu was greatly damaged. Subsequently, Qi repeatedly attacked Chu, Chu was repeatedly defeated, and after a few years, no one was allowed to submit to the Qi State, so that the Qi State dominated the world. ‘’

Zhao Ying's speech was colorful, and Zhao Jie was completely attracted. After listening to the whole story, Zhao Jie couldn't help but wonder if Guan Zhong was also from the later generations. Because this story can be called a classic case of economic warfare.