"King Wheat!" Li Er's face was very displeased, "It's just a few businessmen, why bother so much, what do you mean?" ”

"What does Your Highness think is the point of making laws?" Wang Mai did not answer Li Er's words, but asked him a rhetorical question. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Nature is used to govern the country." Li Er said without hesitation.

"Your Highness is right, so the meaning of the law is to make the country stable and the people healthy. Although the law did not stipulate guilt for the deeds of these merchants, their actions undermined the social order and caused irreparable consequences, so they were not only guilty, but also extremely evil. ”

"This ......" Everyone fell into thinking for a while, what Wang Mai said was very reasonable, but there has been no precedent for conviction since ancient times, after all, buying and selling is a matter of your will, how can it be considered illegal?

Wang Mai naturally saw everyone's doubts, arched his hand, and then explained: "The law is the enforcement standard of morality, in other words, law and morality are one, and the law is the moral bottom line that people can accept. Take the grain merchant as an example, the price is a little more expensive, it is out of the need for profit, it is understandable, no matter how expensive it is, at most people scold a few people for their lack of morality, but most of them are so expensive that they will starve to death, this is unacceptable, this breaks the bottom line of morality can be tolerated, you think, isn't this illegal? ”

"The law is the bottom line of morality......" Everyone nodded one after another, according to this, those grain merchants who gathered strange goods did deserve it.

"With the development of society, there will inevitably be various problems that were difficult to encounter before that cannot be solved, so the formulation of laws cannot be done once and for all, but must be flexibly adjusted according to the actual needs of society. For example, this monopoly crime cannot be found in the books, but this does not mean that they have not committed crimes, on the contrary, these businessmen are very guilty and have caused heavy losses to the society, and their losses cannot be irreparable at all. If they are not convicted of their crimes, it will be difficult to eliminate the anger of the people, and it will be difficult to explain to the thousands of unjust souls who starved to death in Luoyang City. ”

Wang Mai's voice knocked on everyone's hearts, and Wei Zheng also bowed to Li Er: "Your Highness, Wang Mai is reasonable. If these grave sins are not dealt with, then from now on, everyone will follow suit, and I am afraid that there will be no more benevolent businessmen in the world. ”

"Good!" Li Eryi slapped the table, "These profiteers are indeed extremely hateful, this king will order them to be displayed to the public in Nanshi to vent the anger of the people!" ”

"There's another word down there." Wang Mai said.

"Say!"

"Cut off a few heads, but there are a few more graves outside the city. It is proposed that a commercial law be amended to adjudicate commercial crimes, protect legitimate business and prevent the recurrence of such cases. ”

Li Er smiled when he heard this, this Wang Mai really has a target, it turns out that his intention is here. A few days ago, I inadvertently mentioned to him that the imperial court was negotiating laws and formulating etiquette, but I didn't expect him to be the listener's intention, and he had already heard that he had the ability of Tao Zhugong and had a lot of money, so he actually started this idea.

"Doing business is a trail, so there's no need to make a law for it, right?" Du Yan said.

"Although business is a small road, it is related to people's livelihood and must not be ignored." Wang Mai said, "The people's livelihood is related to the survival of the country, so amending a special law to regulate commerce is a major matter related to the rise and fall of the country." ”

"I have heard that the immortal brew of Luoyang is from the hands of Mr. Wang, and I heard that this wine brewing method is unique, which is unique to Mr. Wang, so didn't Mr. Wang also commit any crime of monopoly?" Du Yan's counterattack was very sharp, and he directly took out Wang Mai's wine shop to talk about things.

Li Er smiled when he heard this: "In Chang'an, I heard that the immortal brew is ten times a bottle, which is comparable to gold, and the chief manager Wang wants to set this monopoly into the law, isn't it embarrassing for himself?" ”

"How can the two be confused?" Wang Mai shook his head, "Immortal Brew itself belongs to the category of alcohol, even if someone can't afford to drink Immortal Brew, they will find other wine to drink, so Immortal Brew has not caused a monopoly on the market." And these grain merchants, they colluded with each other, colluded, advanced and retreated together, controlled the entire grain market, and caused extremely bad consequences, which caused crimes. Therefore, what is unique is not a monopoly, the key is whether it is irreplaceable or necessary. ”

"In detail." Li Er was interested and wanted to hear what Wang Mai had to say.

"People's needs are divided into rigid needs and elastic needs. The people take food as the sky, take the grains as an example, this is what the people must have, and if they don't eat, they will starve to death, which is the rigid demand; Meat is a flexible demand, if there is a condition, you can eat it, and if you don't have the conditions, you can eat less or even no food. Monopoly does not necessarily constitute a crime, for example, if you buy all the rice in Luoyang and then sell it at a high price, this is not considered a crime of monopoly. Because the people of Luoyang can choose to eat other grains even if they don't eat rice, rice can be replaced by other grains, and if they don't eat rice, it will not cause any serious consequences. ”

"There is some truth in what you said, but the formulation of commercial laws is not for this king to decide, I will report to the court, and the court will make a decision." What Li Er said was very frank.

Cultivating a law is not something that can be completed in a short period of time, Wang Mai naturally knows this truth, and put it forward today, the original intention is also to make Li Er pay attention to the importance of commercial law, it seems that the goal has been achieved, even if the imperial court can't really repair a commercial law now, Li Er will be in power in the future, so as to pave the way for the future.

Li Er walked from the first floor of the library to the fifth floor with great interest, almost every book was picked up and read two pages, Ma Zhou was lucky to be sent by Lao Zheng to explain by his side, and it was naturally impossible for him not to seize such an opportunity. Although Ma Zhou was young, he was very knowledgeable and talked extraordinarily, and Li Er quickly fell in love with this young man and asked him where he came from.

"Back to His Royal Highness, in Xia Ma Zhou, King Ma Bin, Bozhou people ......" Ma Zhou dictated his resume.

"I wonder if you are willing to go to Chang'an with this king and work in my shogunate?" Li Er opened his mouth to solicit.

"I am willing to serve the dogs and horses!" Ma Zhou replied excitedly that he had been waiting for this sentence for a long time.

"Good!" Li Er smiled and patted Ma Zhou's shoulder, "I didn't expect that such a talent would be hidden in a small library, and this king will live up to this trip." ”

Ma Zhou looked back at Wang Wheat gratefully, Sai Weng lost his horse and knew that it was not a blessing, he almost starved to death on the street at the beginning, if it wasn't for Wang Mai's help, how could he have today?

"Congratulations!" Wang Mai smiled and congratulated Ma Zhou.