Chapter 379: The Birth of a Gluttonous Beast (I)

Shi Bufan saw that everyone seemed to be very satisfied with this, and even seemed to be very satisfied with the current situation. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe businessmen want to make money together, and the farmers increase their income, and even the next step is to start working hard to develop. Even many government officials are dreaming of continuing to be promoted. Everyone is very satisfied with the current turntable, and they have predicted that it will continue to develop in the future, and they can continue to develop with this huge organizational system.

"Are you all very happy now? But if one day, someone wants to break this situation, they want to break our situation, how are you going to deal with it? How do you plan to deal with more risks in the future, and what should we do if someone doesn't like us? At that time, people will have the power of the imperial court, and even all kinds of power, and if they give an order, then our current situation will also collapse, what do you think? Shi Bufan took the initiative to pour cold water and asked.

Shi Bufan's words made everyone suddenly feel shocked, and they realized that everyone's cooperation was not stable at present, and it was even completely very loose. Wanqian is a conventional alliance, not a truly integrated group. This alliance is very loose, and even if there is any trouble, it will disperse. So this is an outcome that they are not willing to accept, especially since many people have seized power. What happens when they use their power to suppress?

Many businessmen are like this, if they start out they don't think differently, but once they start to get rich, they have a sense of crisis. That is, their wealth is not secure, and once a businessman reaches a certain level, they find that wealth does not bring security, but rather greater anxiety. Especially those who hold power, those who hold the state apparatus, they can actually send some violent people of the state at any time, such as the army or the judiciary, they can swallow up all your wealth with any excuse.

The higher the level of businessmen, the more they will be very uneasy about such a situation. Because power is uncontrolled, power is almost uncontrolled in front of those who are really in power, especially in this era. In the future, power will become more and more centralized, which will be enough to make more people feel the danger.

These businessmen are all nouveau riche, and they don't have any say in politics. Even this unrestricted power is in the hands of others, which makes them very uneasy. This can also explain why many merchants in ancient times were obviously very wealthy, but they had to squeeze into the government. For example, Lü Buwei, who is the most famous and strange goods, to some later merchants. Don't talk about it far away, let's just say that the current empress Wu Zetian's father, Wu Shi Tong. Wu Shi Tong was a timber merchant back then, and he was even very famous in Taiyuan, but he took the initiative to make friends with various officials, and he also made friends with Li Yuan, the future Tang Dynasty.

But he was not satisfied, and he didn't even know how to operate and become a small Jiupin team. If it is said that people should choose, future generations would rather choose to be a rich man than a small platoon commander. But in this situation where power is almost invincible, the samurai Tong would rather be a squad leader than a rich man. And Li Yuan raised an army against the Sui, and the warrior Tong not only contributed money, but even personally joined in. Although he is a founding hero, he uses which one shows that once a businessman reaches a certain level, they will have a sense of crisis, thinking that no matter how rich they are, they are not as good as those who have power, especially in this era, power is not controlled at all, especially in this era.

When Shi Bufan said these words, everyone immediately felt silence, and the scene fell silent. Shi Bufan's words are very unkind, these businessmen don't have any support at all, and even most of them can't get support in the officialdom, so they are very insecure.

"Shi Langzhong, what do you say...... Aren't you also a court official? Someone asked.

Shi Bufan took the initiative to explain: "Although I am also an official of the imperial court, I am even a member of the five grades. But do you know how much I've paid to get to where I am today? If it were an ordinary person, it would not be possible to get to my position at all. And I'm just a 'phenomenon' and can't be seen by everyone. Anyone who knows a little bit knows that there was an ancient saying in the Wei and Jin dynasties, there is no cold family in the upper grade, and there is no scholar in the lower grade. I have come to this day, and I don't need to say how many scholars have been offended in this, and how many irreproducible coincidences I have experienced have led to today. ”

"So I think many good officials will also have these feelings, right?"

Zhu Chunlin first vomited bitterness and said: "Yes! We, the pastoral eunuchs, are all on the fringes of the imperial court, and we hardly have any real power, and we even want to jump out. We are just doing some rough work, and we don't have much real power. ”

There are also many officials in charge of production such as smelter supervisors who have vented their bitterness, these official positions are actually very marginal official positions, and these official positions in charge of production are actually the lowest status, and they are also the lowest status in the government. Even the official positions in the government are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and these pastoral supervisors who are responsible for raising horses, and even various places responsible for production and manufacturing, are the lowest status.

It is difficult for them to jump out of this system, and if they can't jump out of this system, it will inevitably lead to the inability to keep up with the big development. It is not possible to change from an official in charge of production to an official position in charge of managing the affairs of the state. The officials in charge of production have little influence on the overall situation of the country, and they cannot influence the development trend of the country at all.

In later generations, the vast majority of state-owned enterprises were unable to influence the development trend of the country, and their real power was not large. Even in this thoroughly agrarian society, they breed horses and smelt steel, and they are naturally some socially marginalized figures. According to Shi Bufan's academic perspective of Chinese political science, the government is actually a manifestation of the social division of labor, and one is responsible for coordination? Production sector. In the end, however, it became inverted, but the nature of his responsibility for coordinating production would not change. What is the socio-economic basis and what kind of forces determine the main power in this government department.

At present, this society is still an agriculture-based structure, which naturally represents the mainstream of the agricultural estate economy, which represents the absolute influence of the scholars in the officialdom. However, these people are indeed engaged in smelting, raising horses and even producing some daily necessities, and their real power is certainly not too great, and they even belong to the kind of official positions that are marginalized in society. In fact, it is difficult for this kind of official position to have real development, and it is almost zero to want to mix to the top. Because the system they are in is congenitally insufficient, just like a government department and some companies, some positions are promising, and some are working hard and cannot achieve great development. Even if you are also in the government, a civil servant and a cleaner, the gap is naturally very large.

The size of a platform often determines the development potential, but those who are in charge of smelting, husbandry, and herding have very little real power. They themselves were born in a poor family, and the scholars disdained to be such "turbid officials", and their future was very slim, and their influence on the national strategy was almost zero, and they were not even as good as the unqualified scribes in a large department.

"Did you see that? In fact, we merchants, poor families, and even though we are nominally court officials, we are naturally suppressed by the scholars, and even blocked by the scholars. To me, it is not copiable. Even I have to walk on thin ice every day, and if I am not careful, I will lose everything today. We are doing well now, but what about the future? What will happen to us in the future is something that no one knows. Once the thunder is over, then how do we solve it? Are we here to be tied? Shi Bufan asked.

Everyone is silent, this problem is not easy to solve. Now that Shi Bufan has put this problem on the table, they will also face this problem, how can they solve it? If this is how they will solve these things, people have power, then such people will let all their efforts drift away at any time with a word, can they be willing?

Just like Shi Bufan's feelings, this sense of security is seriously lacking, and even since Shi Bufan was involved in the Xuanwumen Revolution in this Tang Dynasty, his sense of security has been seriously lacking. Even he is often fiddled with by Li Shimin, and he will do whatever he wants him to do, without much free space. Even the feudal morality that a monarch and a minister has to die can be pointed out by Li Shimin as a matter of course. Let Shi Bufan be unwilling, so he naturally has to start preparing to take control of his own destiny and prepare.

Shi Bufan's sense of security is seriously lacking, he doesn't believe in the discipline of any feudal emperor, even if Li Shimin seems to be good, he doesn't believe it. The same is true of these merchants, how can they not worry about the fact that those who have the power to do so can easily take away the things they have fought for all their lives or even generations at any time?

When Shi Bufan studied Ma Zhe, he knew very well the lyrics in the Internationale, there is no savior in this world, let alone relying on the immortal emperor. Shi Bufan believes in only himself, and then he controls his own destiny and is the real himself.

Shi Bufan saw that the atmosphere had brewed enough, and the atmosphere on the scene was already very depressing. This oppressive atmosphere was deliberately created by him, the so-called harder the suppression, the stronger the final rebound, through the depressed atmosphere, the final forced them to rebound more violently and impulsively. took the initiative to dig the corner of the table with the teacup he had drunk, and immediately someone saw this "code".

"Ladies and gentlemen, what Shi Langzhong said is right, I think we should unite and fight the crisis together. In fact, why were we so exploited by those government people before, isn't it actually because we ourselves are not united? We ourselves are not united, and even when we are robbing business, we will abuse the influence of the government to steal business. There is even collusion between the government and the government. And the government treated us like fattened pigs, ready to eat meat. And why can't we try to think differently? As long as we can unite, then even if we can't fight, the government will definitely be even more afraid. We might as well simply work together to protect ourselves and each other. As long as all of us here are united, we actually have a lot of influence power. If we can stop being scattered like the past and even trying to curry favor with the government to gain benefits, then we can truly unite, then we can not achieve more stability? ”

"When the time comes, the government will not dare to attack us easily. At that time, we will be both prosperous and lossy, and we will definitely be able to get better. Zhang Peng said.

Zhang Peng, that is, the Simen Lingshi under Shi Bufan at that time, has now become Zhang Dongjia, who is responsible for the production of Chinese patent medicines. He helped Shi Bufan to speak, and when he said it at this time, they all almost went crazy.

"Fighting with the government, this is too ......"

For a long time, there has always been a saying in China, which is called the people do not fight with the officials. However, it is precisely because of this so-called "ancient precept" that many corrupt officials and corrupt officials do whatever they want and wantonly infringe on the interests of the people. In fact, if every citizen knows how to protect their legitimate interests, then corrupt officials and corrupt officials will not exploit them. The history of many dynasties can prove that once the people are united, the power that erupts is enough to destroy the world and destroy a dynasty.

In fact, the people and the government are like this, in fact, politicians also have their weakness, not necessarily absolutely powerful. Many times the arrogance of officials is habitual, you compete to be able to give him gifts or even bribes when you are doing things, and when he extorts money from you, you choose to break the wealth and eliminate disasters. And his appetite will grow bigger and bigger, and eventually even crazier. However, if everyone does not eliminate disasters through bankruptcy, even if they want to bankrupt wealth, they will unite and safeguard their own interests together, and the direction of this bankrupt and bankrupt wealth is different.

If you choose to bribe those corrupt officials and corrupt officials by breaking the bank, it will only encourage their arrogance. But even if he breaks his fortune to fight a lawsuit with them, even if he does not use violence, as long as he is restrained by various means and breaks his wealth in this regard, then this will actually be a deterrent to him, and there will be less and less extortion and extortion.

The public power of officials is not as invincible as imagined, especially those civilian officials who do not control the army, in fact, they are very weak. If you choose to bribe him or even curry favor, then his appetite will grow. But once the merchants are united, they will be deterred and will not dare to mess around.

(To be continued.) )