As soon as this remark came out, everyone laughed, and this official looked more carefully, it was indeed "Feng Jing", and he made a big joke, and his face turned red. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, the writing habit at this time was from top to bottom, from right to left, and it was not easy to make a mistake, but the roll call officer really got up too early that day - he got up to prepare before the time came, and he didn't even get up at that time.

is old and old, old eyes are dizzy, and it is normal to be wrong for a while.

is also because of this interesting incident, Feng Jing's reputation has become even greater. The people also coincided with the meeting and compiled a story to satirize the minister Zhang Yaozuo for obstructing the new policy of Yuan Shou, and later Zhang Yaozuo was really relegated to Huangzhou, and it became a beautiful talk to see "Tomorrow's Yellow Flower".

Feng Jing is a cattle man, and the cattle are at the highest place, both in terms of talent and virtue, they are very respected.

But few people know that Feng Jing's family was not born as a farmer, but as a businessman.

Hey, didn't you say that businessmen couldn't be officials before?

This is as long as a piece of cloth, and to make a long story short, it is thanks to the "household registration book" of this era - the household registration system. If the household registration states that you are a "business registration", you are a businessman, or you are a "good citizen".

The policies of the Great Shun Dynasty on merchants can be summarized into guild policy, yaren policy, and merchant policy. In order to set up a shop in a town, one must join a guild. Once a merchant joins a guild, he is listed as a "trader", just like the "craftsman" of the handicraft industry, once a merchant is included in the "guild", not only can he not escape, but also affects his descendants - this is mainly to ensure that there are enough merchants to undertake the official commission, but later the clerk has already existed in name only, but the "clerkship" has always been retained, as if it was labeled.

In fact, in Dashun, it is not only the "pedestrians" who join the guild who are businessmen. Under normal circumstances, the imperial court did not use the guild organization to control foreign merchants, peasants who came to the city to buy and sell, and a large number of small merchants and barnyard peddlers engaged in sporadic trading in the city, and the tax was extremely low, with three hundred taxes in the first and two in the latter one hundred taxes. In later generations, such small traders and hawkers were often called "illegal occupation of roads" and were beaten to death by the chengguan, but in Dashun, the imperial court encouraged them to set up stalls to make a living, and helped them solve the problem of land shortage.

But this is also a matter of the Yuan Shou period, since the New Deal, the agricultural tax has been reduced, but the commercial tax has generally increased, ordinary merchants are thirty taxes one, tariffs are ten taxes one, if you export sugar, it is to go to five taxes one.

Why?

You must know that the Western countries are still licking honey, but Dashun's exquisite white sugar only costs a penny or two. In the south, the cultivation of sugar cane is already widespread. It has also developed to the step of deep processing of sucrose, and if Haimao takes white sugar to the West, it will be robbed almost before it lands, and the price is one or two white sugar and one tael of gold!

In such a lucrative industry, there are naturally more taxes.

During the Yuan Shou period, businessmen who had entered the "line registration" were strictly forbidden to participate in the imperial examination. Fortunately, Feng Jing's great-grandfather Feng Bi moved his family south to Yishan Longshui in western Guangdong, and obtained a peasant nationality. Feng Jing also had a deep affection for Yizhou, and at the Jinshi banquet, Emperor Yuan Shou asked about Feng Jing's hometown. Feng Jing proudly replied: "My hometown wears a flat crown (Tianmen Baixiang Mountain), steps on the Wannian River (Longjiang), climbs Longjiao (Longjiao Mountain) with his left hand, carries a camel (Camel Mountain) with his right hand, and plays in the water from Jiulong in the front yard (Jiulong Mountain), and connects the Tianhe River (Tianhe County) in the backyard. The emperor listened with great interest, laughed and said, "Good hometown! Yishan is really a good place for the best people! ”

That's right, it's the Earth Spirit Master. Why do you say that the earth spirit is a master? Because this is a feng shui term, it is believed that the bones of ancestors can bless their descendants, and there were many burials in ancient times, so the earth spirit is the cause, and the outstanding people are the effect.

Throughout the dynasties, merchants have been the objects of despise, insult, and robbery. Even in Dashun, the habits left over from more than a thousand years still restrict businessmen from obtaining high positions, but Feng Jing is different, he has risen step by step from a businessman, relying on great wisdom.

Feng Jing was playful in his early years, and sometimes did not return late at night. Once detained by street guards who patrolled the night, Wang Su, the then guard of Wuchang County, tried his best to exonerate him and release him. Later, Feng Jing was sent to Guanzhong, and Wang Su was in Weidi to marshal the soldiers, and the two met and had a very happy banquet. Feng Jing wrote a poem for Wang Su, and there is a sentence: "Swallowing charcoal is unforgettable, and I am deeply ashamed to think about it." This means that even if I change my face and voice, I will never forget the detention of the street guards; Even if I come from behind, I am ashamed that I cannot repay your great kindness.

When people are young, they are strong, informal, and tolerant of possibility. After you reach your ancestors, according to ordinary people, if you don't want to listen to your past mistakes, how can you take the initiative to talk about them to the old people and write them into your poems? Feng Jing was so unimpressed, and went around preaching his gratitude and gratitude, and then, what did he gain?

Everyone knows that he is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, then, when he can, no one will embarrass him, and he has more "benefactors" in officialdom than enemies -- can such a person not be promoted step by step?

Most people will regret their youth and frivolity, and by the way, they will hide the absurd years, and they will not pretend not to see the help they helped themselves when they were young.

What's more, some people are promoted above their former benefactors, so they are afraid that others will take advantage of them, so they preemptively attack and exclude those former bosses, thinking that by letting these people obediently bow down to them, they can control their subordinates, and then promote step by step, however, they are wrong......

A businessman can gain the respect of everyone in a discriminatory environment, and become the first merchant prime minister since the Qin Dynasty, Feng Jing relies on this great wisdom, while others, playing some cautious eyes to think that they are smart, but they don't know that they are all small wisdom, even stupid, and eventually become a speck of dust.

Some people always think that the world is too realistic, and the reality is that there is no one to help you when you need it most; There are also people who think that the world is too hypocritical, and that when you need help the most, those who usually "want" to help you have disappeared. But some people know how to keep those who usually "want" to help them from turning away......

Success is as simple as that - be grateful, and let everyone know that you are grateful!

When Sima Guang said this, Lu Chengqi seemed to have an understanding.

No wonder the rest of the cabinet ministers were silent one by one, it turned out that they were all respectful of Feng Jing.

Also, a person who is more talented than them and can convince the public with virtue, even if there are all the ministers here who are bullish and coaxing, there is no one who is not convinced, and he has to obey it!

If it weren't for the fact that he was the emperor and had a vision that exceeded the millennium, Lu Chengqi really thought that Feng Jing had the aura of the protagonist, how could all the good things be taken up by him alone? But this reflects that Feng Jing can be a man, sometimes being a cabinet chief assistant, being a man, is more important than being able to do things. There are many powerful people in the cabinet, so don't worry. But you won't be a man, and you won't stay in the cabinet for long.

Lu Chengqi thought of this, and even said: "Feng Jing is the first assistant, are you not convinced?" ”

"All the subordinates obey!"

Lu Chengqi said in his heart: "With your words, it's done!" He did not shy away from suspicion, and immediately waved a holy decree, so that the cabinet ministers had read it correctly, and asked his personal attendants to immediately announce the decree. (To be continued.) )