readx;?“ Xu Qing's method, I think it is feasible. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info That's it, Xu Qing will go back, sort it out into a rule, and then submit it to me for review. After I have read it, it will be handed over to Dali Temple and the Criminal Department for approval, whether it conflicts with the "Dashun Law". If not, then the "Great Shun Law" will become a new law and proclaim the world. Lu Chengqi is also resolute, although the previously relaxed political environment has given businessmen a lot of convenience. Some businessmen also seized the loophole, made some marginal balls, and did some illegal things. This trend is gradually spreading.

Lu Chengqi wants to revitalize business, but not all businesses are revitalized. The salt merchants who had previously taken action to rectify the hoarding of salt and severely cracked down on the human trafficking case gave the world a wake-up call. There is a limit to the patience of the imperial court, and once it is more serious, it is still you who is unlucky. These hints unleashed by politics suggest that many shrewd businessmen have sensed a hint of danger and have stopped in time. But there are still some who fall into the eye of money, just make money, what is conscience, can you eat?

Lu Chengqi suddenly remembered the first story in Xu Chongguang's recital, and felt that it made sense. Xu Chongguang was born as a Jinshi, and he didn't have to say anything about his writing, but the original text was too obscure, and Lu Chengqi's ancient literacy level of half a bucket of water could only be roughly stated. The story is to the effect that there was a merchant in Huizhou who went out to do a small business with only a thousand dollars at first, and later became a rich man. When he returned to his hometown, he boasted that he had the thaumaturgy to get rich, so he quickly accumulated a million.

So, the villagers rushed to the door to ask him about the thaumaturgy of getting rich. When the merchant was seated, he said, "It is not difficult to get rich, but you must first cure the thief outside, and then the thief inside." Then, the way to get rich is already half learned. The crowd hurriedly asked, "What is a thief?" The merchant said, "There are five thieves: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body." Those who heard it were shocked, but they thought that they must have a high opinion, but listened carefully to him and said the mystery: "The eyes are greedy for beauty, and the wife and concubine are like that, how can you hide the beauty without a golden house?" I paid a lot of money to buy an ugly woman, and I didn't care whether I liked it or not, and I could still pass it on to the next generation and continue the incense. The ears like to listen to pleasant sounds, and the sheng song club and the like are big items that cost money. If you don't take money to make offerings, where can you get the church singing and keep the home class? I ran to the ridge of the field and listened to Yangge, and the right was taken as a clear sound of silk and bamboo. The problem of the nose is nothing more than to put on the Baoding, buy ambergris, and the fragrance fills the room, which is a burden of decoration. I don't want to smell it. I was happy to lie in the pile of horse manure all day long. As for the collection of delicacies from the mountains and seas, it is nothing more than being deceived by the tongue. I don't care about the taste of food, and I don't care about the delicious taste of the tongue. Drink sour vegetable porridge every day, and I am not full. Finally, let's talk about this clumsy and heavy body, which is really stinky skin, but it is also the one that causes the most trouble. In the summer, you have to wear fine arrowroot, and in winter, you have to wrap it in a heavy fur, but in fact, it is just beautiful for others to see, but it is your own hard-earned money that you have worked hard to accumulate. I respect the ancient system of the emperor, cut the leaves for clothes, knot grass for the crown, from head to toe, no money. This is how I cure these 'five thieves'. "The listener either bows his head, or is dazed, or he is in a contemplative state.

After a while, he hurriedly asked, "What is a thief?" He replied, "There are also five thieves: benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith." "Those who hear change color, and they listen more to it." Benevolence is the first evil. The so-called Bo Shi Guangji, if you really do that, Yao Shun can't stand it. I have sworn before God that I will never do a good deed. In this way, a lot of wasted money is saved. The horseman is a righteous man, and his majesty is a temporary success, but he is bankrupt, and in the end he suffers from it. I think about it simply, forget what is righteous, and end up enjoying it for the rest of my life. As for the exchange of courtesies, the ancients were too afraid of trouble. My aim is to come and go, and to take advantage of others. Such a thing as wisdom is the most taboo of the Creator. A wise man will be empty and poor, so I only seek confusion and chaos all my life, so that I can always keep the middle and keep the pure and blessed. If the credit is really fulfilled, it is even more useless. You might as well be very generous in your words, and clever in your heart, so that everyone in the world knows that I am a person without credit, and then no one will ever come to your door and ask for trouble. These five are my key to getting rid of these five thieves. shrewd, not loving face, not good tongue, not hesitating to be honest, regardless of laughter and scolding. In the long run, it will be easy to become million-rich. "Everyone who hears it is endless.

Lu Chengqi knew that Xu Chongguang told this story, in fact, he only wanted to illustrate one problem, if he indulged the merchants, then the merchants would be all evil, and those who destroyed Confucianism would not be there. This is somewhat similar to the later "Capital", and it is the same.

But what is Lu Chengqi's governing philosophy? No agriculture is unstable, no work is not rich, and no business is not alive. Lu Chengqi went to work without work and wealth, just to lay out factories and workshops, and wanted to intensify production. It's mass-produced, so you have to sell it! If you don't sell it, what will you pay the workers?

These three concepts are indispensable. Agricultural production, in this day and age, is too precarious. Once there is a natural disaster**, it is common for the particles to be harvested. If the imperial court wants disaster relief, it also needs money and silver, and it needs food, doesn't it?

Agriculture is unstable, and workshops are also affected. Except for the factories opened by Huangzhuang, the rest are small workshops. The largest, it is estimated that the printing workshop outside Chang'an City, employing more than 100 workers, can be regarded as the "germ of capitalism", right? Although there is no steam engine or anything, Dashun has a large spinning wheel, which seems to be no worse than any Jenny loom. The cotton spinning mill in Youzhou also uses this kind of water to turn a large spinning wheel, which only needs two people to take care of, and can spin 100 catties of cotton in one day and one night, and the efficiency is still good. Lu Chengqi remembered that the Jenny machine in the textbooks of later generations was not just eight spindles, and it was also hand-cranked. This water-to-large spinning wheel has now increased to fifty spindles, and it is still hydraulic, Jenny machine or something, and it is already scum in front of this.

As for business, it was previously extensively managed and dominated by the market. But Lu Chengqi is a person from the past, and he knows that such an economy is easy to go to extremes, and he needs to be guided. Lu Chengqi also conformed to the laws of the market, first improving the confidence of businessmen, and then standardizing it. Otherwise, in a country where ethics are always predominant, it is very difficult for business to develop.

"It seems that we still have to respect Duanmu's relics......" Lu Chengqi muttered in his heart.

Even Sima Qian commended Zigong, a business tycoon, with considerable pen and ink in the "Historical Records and Biography of the Goods and Colonies", affirming his role in economic development and his cultivation of benevolence, righteousness and integrity. The surname of Factor Gongfu is Duanmu, and the full name is Duanmu Ci, so this honest business style is called "Duanmu Legacy". The style of "a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way" has been respected by honest businessmen throughout the ages.

Among Confucius's disciples, Zigong was not only intelligent, studious, benevolent, righteous and filial, but also a business wizard, whom Confucius once called "the instrument of Hulian". Zigong is very good at doing business, once did business between Cao and Lu, rich and rich, is the richest man among Confucius's disciples, Zigong used his wealth to fund his teacher Confucius, it can be said that Confucius can travel around the seven countries, Zigong contributed the most. "Duanmu Legacy" was summarized by Sima Qian as: "The gentleman loves money, and takes it in the right way" The concept of wealth.

From the pre-Qin period, Confucianism had a very dialectical understanding of wealth and benevolence. Although "benevolence and righteousness" are of paramount importance to Confucianism, Confucianism does not oppose the pursuit of "profit", believing that "righteousness" and "benefit" do not conflict, but the acquisition of "benefit" should conform to the principle of "righteousness". In the Analects, Confucius said: "Wealth and nobility are what people want; If you don't get it by its way, you can't get it anywhere. Poverty and cheapness are the evil of people; If you don't get it by its way, you won't go. "Rich and noble, people want to do what they want", "unrighteous and rich and expensive, to me like floating clouds", "rich and can be sought, although the whip is a person, I will also do it" and so on, all of which illustrate these eight words "A gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way". These are not the rejection of "profit", but only advocate righteousness before profit, emphasizing "righteousness and benefit at the same time".

It's just that the rulers of all dynasties were tired of the poor management of the merchants who went south and north, so they had to deliberately suppress the merchants. During the Qin Dynasty, merchants could not wear silk clothes, and in the Han Dynasty, merchants made false declarations and confiscated their family property. It is true that there are profiteers among merchants, but there are also good merchants, which cannot be generalized. If Lu Chengqi wants to revitalize the "Duanmu Legacy", he naturally has to start with his best weapon -- newspapers. (To be continued.) )