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When Su Tongwen got on the train, he was still a little trembling, although the chair was very comfortable, but the tension of taking the train for the first time still made him feel a little awkward, he turned his head from time to time to look at the back carriage, where there were all the goods he went to Qingzhou this time, he was always a little relieved, for fear that the train would lose those things after it ran up, that was all his net worth, if he lost it, it was no less than losing his life.

The train gradually started, the scenery outside the window began to slowly retreat, Su Tongwen nervously held the armrest next to the seat, his eyes fell on the window, and his thoughts gradually returned to the past....

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Su Tongwen, ancestral home of Wuqiao Town, Qingzhou, this year forty two, has reached the age of not confused, at the age of twenty, Su Tongwen followed Tongxiang to Dizhou to be a cloth merchant, by reselling cloth for a living, at that time Dizhou was still the world of the Later Zhou, the Later Zhou Taizu Guo Wei destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty after the implementation of benevolent government in the Later Zhou, the world since the five generations of turmoil finally got a trace of peace.

However, although Guo Wei, the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, advocated frugality, benevolence and love for the people, and was a good emperor, he advocated agriculture and encouraged the whole people to farm, and the merchants were still not good in the Later Zhou Dynasty.

In fact, it has been difficult for merchants since ancient times, and almost all dynasties have formulated policies and laws to suppress merchants, humiliate merchants, and untouchable merchants, and include merchants in the city register and regard them as untouchables. The Qin Dynasty once assigned a large number of merchants with city registration and the descendants of merchants whose parents and grandparents were city registrations, and distributed them to the border areas; When the Han Dynasty was founded, "Gaozu ordered the Jia people not to ride in clothes, and they were humiliated by heavy rent taxes." .... The children and grandchildren of the market shall not be eunuchs"; In the Tang Dynasty, "industry and commerce were forbidden to ride horses"; "The miscellaneous flow of industry and commerce", "must not exceed the official rank, stand side by side with the sages and gentlemen, sit and eat together" and so on.

Su Tongwen actually regretted embarking on the road of a businessman many times, his family was originally wealthy, and his father named him Tongwen, in fact, he hoped that he would be well-read in the future, proficient in arts and sciences, and become an official.

But the young Su Tongwen didn't want to live according to his father's wishes, he quietly brought a sum of money from the family, and went to Dizhou to do business with friends.

That year happened to be when Su Tongwen was twenty-four years old, and he originally planned to give up business and go home to study for a few more years to see if he could get another meritorious name, but a Chenqiao Mutiny instantly caused the Later Zhou regime to disappear, and the new emperor Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, changing the situation.

Zhao Kuangyin is a great Ming monarch, not only love the people like a son, but also have no taboos, the Song Dynasty was founded, he issued a series of "compassionate business" decrees, lenient treatment of businessmen, encourage commerce, edict: "The list of business tax rules in the door, no unauthorized change to increase losses and generate income." Another example is the edict: "From now on, except for the currency of the merchants, the dealers and women shall not be counted in the small transactions." (No tax shall be levied on small transactions) and it is strictly forbidden for officials to extort or make things difficult for merchants, and if officials "stay in merchants for three days, they will be punished by two years' imprisonment." Therefore, whoever begs for money, and stolen a heavy amount, shall be imprisoned for one year."

These policies to appease businessmen are not limited to that. The ban of "industrial and commercial homes must not be pre-emptive" has also been broken, and "the country has opened the door of tribute and collected the road widely...... For example, businessmen, miscellaneous people, etc., there are geniuses who are different, and those who are outstanding are also allowed to be released", which directly announced that businessmen also had the right to engage in politics.

In the process of formulating the commercial law, businessmen were also invited by the government as guests to participate in the revision of the law. In the Song Dynasty, Chen Shu was the third envoy, and when he formulated the tea law, he invited dozens of tea merchants to negotiate and discuss, "various interests". At that time, the controversy was very fierce, and the plan proposed by the tea merchants was that the commercial interests of tea should be owned by the merchants, and the merchants "took too much profit"; The official plan is that the state will monopolize tea, and the profits will go to the government, and the merchants will "destroy the cracks and take nothing". In the end, the imperial court adopted a compromise plan, "both public and private", and for a time the world was in an uproar, and many businessmen sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

Since then, Su Tongwen has really felt the charm of commerce, discrimination is getting less and less, and the money he makes is also increasing, Su Tongwen has become a famous cloth merchant in Dizhou, and also opened two cloth houses in Dizhou, specializing in reselling cloth.

In the next ten years, Su Tongwen has been up and down in the business world, and he has a large amount of worth, which can be regarded as a flurry in and out, a silk and a swagger, a shame, and a house that is too marquis.

But the moon is full and sunny, and people are blessed with misfortune.

Su Tongwen's huge family fortune was gradually targeted, and the son of the Dizhou Governor's Mansion soon noticed that Su Tongwen, a very wealthy businessman without any background.

No matter what society you are in, a businessman who is only rich but has no strength is not a rich man, he is just a fat pig to be slaughtered!

It's a pity that Su Tongwen didn't realize this at that time, he didn't like to make friends with powerful people, he didn't like to climb the power, and he only wanted to do his business well, which directly laid the groundwork for his later catastrophe.

Soon, Su Tongwen's charge of colluding with foreign enemies and spying on the military intelligence in Dizhou was implemented, until he was imprisoned in prison, Su Tongwen didn't know who wanted to harm him.

He has been doing business politely for more than ten years, and his reputation is excellent among many businessmen, and he has no enemies, but I don't know why, someone actually accused him of being a foreign enemy, and it is said that the evidence is conclusive.

No matter how Su Tongwen pleaded in prison, no one sympathized with him, but the last jailer couldn't stand it anymore, so he secretly told him that it was actually the governor of the prefecture who took a fancy to his family property, and if he wanted to save his life, he could only scatter all his family wealth, and maybe he could still have a trace of life.

Hearing the words of the jailer, Su Tongwen suddenly felt that five thunders had hit the top, and after more than ten years of hard work, he was finally coveted by a government and needed to be handed over to people to live, and he couldn't help but feel sad.

But now that he is in prison, he is just surviving, how dare he ask for extravagant family wealth.

So Su Tongwen wrote a deed to repay the debts of the family's wealth, stamped his handprint, pressed the big seal, and asked the jailer to send it to the Yanei of the Zhizhou of Dizhou.

After seeing the deed of the transfer of family property, the Yanei of Dizhou Zhizhou was in a good mood, and after learning that Su Tongwen was honest and did not dare to make a mistake, he waved his hand and announced the release, but ordered Su Tongwen to leave the house with his family within three days, and the valuables at home could not be taken away at all.

Su Tongwen barely picked up a life.

After coming out of prison, Su Tongwen first hurriedly brought his family out, then cleaned up and left the house with a little money......

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