Chapter 229: Emotion
The accident in Qianzhuang even postponed the court meeting, which shows how much Li Er attaches importance to this matter.
The envoys of Fanbang who came to participate in the Great Dynasty Meeting did not feel anything wrong with the postponement of the Great Dynasty Meeting, and they would have stayed in Chang'an for a period of time after the end of the Great Dynasty Meeting for five consecutive days, and they were very curious about the newly established Qian Zhuang in the Tang Dynasty. Takatayan, Lu Dongzan and others even smelled a hint of unusual smell from the affairs of Qian Zhuang.
On this day, the genius is slightly bright, Chang'an money village has been in a commotion, yesterday many people failed to exchange cash from the money bank, panicked very much, the people of the money village said that there will be cash money transferred over today, how can they not stay here early.
Wang Xiang and Tie Dan sat in a teahouse in Qianzhuang, drinking tea while looking at the people sitting outside Qianzhuang.
The people shrunk in their clothes, shivering in the cold wind, and Wang Xiang's thoughts suddenly became complicated.
Poor and miserable people, they are the creators of wealth, but they are not the beneficiaries of wealth.
No matter what time the people's sense of crisis is always very easy to be aroused, the blind herd mentality will expand this sense of crisis infinitely, and the final result is to turn something that is not a crisis into a crisis. More than a thousand years of wisdom can't avoid this blind sense of crisis, let alone the current people of the Tang Dynasty.
In later generations, it was not uncommon for such examples to erupt in a frenzy of rushing to buy something, masks, table salt, because of a sensational statement that was actually baseless. Mung bean. These are living examples. If one day 10,000 people believe that the bank is going to go bankrupt and queue up to withdraw money. Soon those 10,000 people will become 20,000, 100,000...... The end result is that the bank that would not have gone bankrupt is really bankrupt, of course, the bank cannot go bankrupt, because it has the art of resurrecting the dead, and it is only the people who suffer.
Wang Xiang is not worried about such a thing happening in Qianzhuang, because his requirement for Qianzhuang is how much cash and how many silver tickets are issued, and this requirement is set as the most basic and core requirement of Qianzhuang. Such requirements must be followed at all times.
Economic means are actually worse than robbery, for example, everyone understands.
Originally, there were a total of 10,000 banknotes in the country, which was equivalent to 10,000 purchasing power, and the people and the banks each had 5,000 banknotes, which means that the people and the banks each had 5,000 purchasing power.
At this time, the bank printed 90,000 banknotes, and the 90,000 banknotes were naturally not in the hands of the people, and at this time there were 100,000 banknotes in the whole country, so it became 100,000 banknotes with 10,000 faces, and the 5,000 banknotes in the hands of the people became 500 purchasing power, and the bank's original 5,000 purchasing power suddenly became 9,500 purchasing power.
That's what inflation is. Every time there is inflation, someone loses and someone gains, because inflation will not lead to a sudden reduction in the original social wealth. It is nothing more than redistribution, and in the process of redistribution, the people will always be the loser, and they do not even know that the wealth of society has undergone a redistribution.
In this way, the banks unwittingly scraped away 90 percent of the people's interests, but the vast majority of the people will not understand how their interests are scraped away, because the banks neither steal nor rob, they will only complain about the soaring prices, but they will not know why the prices are soaring.
As the productive forces become stronger and stronger, the prices should be lower and lower, because one acre of land can only produce one stone of grain, but now one acre of land can produce two stones of grain, and the money in the hands of the people should be able to live a little more comfortable, but the fact is the opposite, because the productivity has doubled and the national banknotes have increased tenfold, and the people have never received a penny when the money is printed.
In later generations, there was a historical period when the windows were pasted with banknotes, and when you went out to buy vegetables, a pound of banknotes could not buy back a pound of vegetables. Before that, the country was poor and the people were poor, but after that, the country was not poor all of a sudden, and there was sufficient funds to develop rapidly, and the people in that period were even poorer......
When talking about economics, it often gives people a sense of superiority, but in fact, in Wang Xiang's view, the so-called economics is just a whitewashed robbery method.
Any economic means detached from the productive forces is robbery in essence. The original paper money was to facilitate the trading of the common people, but the meaning of the paper money in later generations was completely different, and the wise rulers turned it into a gentle means of looting, which was no less than the feudal dynasty's expropriation and extortion, but the means were much more sophisticated. The people can feel the expropriation and will rise up to resist, but the vast majority of the people in this kind of moderate economic means do not realize that they have been "expropriated and expropriated", and plunder has been whitewashed as wealth distribution.
And the so-called economics is a means of fooling the people. Economics, no matter how tall things are, those who can play are smart people, so they have become rich, and the little people can't play because you are not smart enough, so the wealth you create deserves to be distributed by us with economics.
Bullshit!
It's like saying that the robbery is because they are stronger than others, so they have money, and the wealth created by the thin and weak people deserves to be robbed, who makes you not strong enough.
The two are actually the same bandit logic, and the so-called civilization is nothing more than a civilized skin, and the essence inside is also bloody and despicable.
You are smart, you are strong, you should create more wealth, not use your intelligence and your strength to "distribute" the wealth created by others.
Not to mention that economics promotes the development of society and is conducive to the distribution of social resources and wealth.
The most obvious effect of so-called economics is that the creators of wealth lose the right to distribute wealth, and the "smart people" who never create wealth enjoy the right to distribute wealth openly.
The people who create wealth are also the people who create wealth, but the original "strong barbarian bandits" have become "intelligent civilized robbers", and the two do not create wealth, and they also have more wealth than the people who create wealth.
Playing with economy will not play out of thin air with a stone of grain, nor will it play with a stone per mu into two stones per mu, and the tricks that can be played are nothing more than playing with the wealth created by others into their own hands, and then proudly showing off that they are smart people, and economics has promoted the development of society.
There are two kinds of smart people, one is the smart people who put their wisdom on improving the level of productivity, such smart people Wang Xiang admires, they are also the creators of wealth, because they can turn one stone per mu into two stones per mu, or even ten stones! For example, Yuan Longping. Another kind of smart people are the so-called economic investors (speculators), who do not create wealth, do not increase the level of productivity, and do not even need to run errands like businessmen who transport goods from south to north to supply their needs, they only need to use high economic means to harvest wealth after the people have created wealth, such as the "great economist and philanthropist" Soros.
However, in the later generations of advocating economics, people like Soros have become the object of worship of many people, and his popularity is obviously many times higher than Yuan Longping. Instead of production, the means of speculating and grabbing profits have been highly respected, stocks and funds are in vogue, and smart people who could have created more wealth have instead engaged in production, but have thrown themselves into the army of economic speculation.
Ordinary people who enjoy very little social resources bury their heads in creating wealth, and high-quality people who enjoy a lot of social resources but do not do anything about production, is this social progress or regression.
The most ridiculous thing is a new industry that appeared in later generations, the financial management industry, which has given those economists a new place to use.
What's ridiculous?
Thousands of years ago, as long as the people were not born in troubled times or the emperor was mediocre, they could still steal a winter leisure after a year of hard work, and they would not have no place to live. However, the productivity of later generations has increased by dozens or hundreds of times compared with a thousand years ago, but the people find that the wealth they have created in a year is not enough for their daily expenses, so they need to manage their finances. In fact, most people have no money to deal with in the face of soaring prices, and the so-called financial management is also an economic game played by rich people. And what about the majority of the people? After a year of hard work, I found that there was nothing left......
Looking at the people who were still huddled in the cold wind, Wang Xiang couldn't help but sigh. (To be continued.) )
PS: This chapter is really emotional, Khan......