"Brother Yanjian thinks that if the officials are clear, they will be able to solve all problems, but they are really wrong." Xiao Quzhi smiled and began to speak: "Let's make an analogy, in a closed place, there are ten people who have a pot of porridge to drink every day, and this pot of porridge is enough for fifteen people to drink enough, so we divide the porridge into fifteen portions.

At the beginning, there were two people who were powerful and powerful, and when they had weapons, the two of them were responsible for dividing the porridge. And they divided it like this, so that the strongest one had three portions, the other man had two portions, and the other eight had ten equal portions.

In this way, although the eight points are relatively small, they can still drink enough, and the other party has weapons, and they are powerful, and they can only accept it, so the world is peaceful, and this is the so-called time when the officials rule Qingming. ”

Li Xian frowned and thought about it, and felt that this ratio was appropriate, two powerful and armed, one represented the emperor or imperial power, the other represented ministers and officials, and the other eight represented ordinary people.

Xiao Quzhi continued: "When the officials are not clear, it is like this, the strongest person is divided into five parts, the other person is divided into four parts, and the remaining eight people are divided into six parts. Although these eight people couldn't drink enough, they wouldn't starve to death, and the other two were powerful and had knives in their hands, so they endured it. And among these eight people, the strength is also big and small, so there will be people who are full, and a few people who are half starved to death or starved to death. But in general, the situation has managed to hold on.

Then there is another situation, where the strongest person gets seven parts, the other person gets six points, and the remaining eight people get two parts. At this time, these eight people will not be afraid of the strength of the two people and the swords in their hands. They think to themselves that they should fight with them instead of starving to death. And then there will be a rebellion. It's like the end of Qin. Late Han Dynasty. Like the peasant uprising at the end of the Jin Dynasty, the situation completely collapsed at this time. ”

Li Xian nodded: "So, it is very important for the officials to rule Qingming, if you can let those two people go back to the way before, one person will divide three shares, one person will share two shares, and the remaining eight people will be divided into ten parts, so that the world will be peaceful." ”

Xiao Quzhi smiled and nodded: "But this is only the most ideal state, you have ignored two problems." First, human nature is greedy, at the beginning, for various reasons, the two learned the lessons of their predecessors, or their own moral character, and the two only divided five parts.

But when the two or their descendants find out that even if one of them gets five and the other gets four, the other eight will still accept it. Slowly, they think, why not?

After reaping the benefits, people will want to continue to get more benefits. It's human nature, it's human nature. Everyone will strive for the greatest good. In the end, these two people will test the bottom line of the eight people little by little, and want to score more points little by little, and finally it will become the last situation, and the situation will completely collapse. ”

The two were silent, Li Xian knew that what Xiao Quzhi said was right, human nature is extremely greedy, and most people are not wise and short-sighted, and in the end, it will slowly evolve into the latter situation.

Li Qi's brows also furrowed into a Sichuan character, he did not doubt the correctness of Xiao Qu's words, and now he was just thinking about a solution.

Xiao Quzhi continued: "There is still a question, even if it is assumed that these two people who share porridge have always been clear. But the population will grow. The porridge was still fifteen servings, but later the number of people increased to twenty. If you divide these porridges equally, although you can't eat enough, you won't starve to death.

But is it possible? Let's also go to the previous ratio, assuming that each person has one offspring, the strongest two have three parts, a slight surplus, and the other two have two parts, just right. The other sixteen people are divided into ten parts, but the strength of these sixteen people is also large, so there may be two or three people who can just eat enough, some people who are half full, and some who are hungry every day, and eventually rebel and the situation collapses. ”

Seeing that the two of them did not speak, Xiao Qubing began to make up a story again, telling that further east of the Japanese slave country, on the other side of the ocean, there was once a great sun and moon country, because the privileged vassal kings and the gentry class occupied too many resources and money, and hollowed out the country, and finally the people rebelled and foreign invasions led to destruction. Hearing this, the two of them sighed and were heartbroken, but they didn't ask Xiao how he knew about his illness.

After half the salary, Li Xian said: "Then I don't know what the solution is for the auxiliary ministers?" Is this the cure for your cause? ”

"It's not that I don't know, but I think it is." Xiao Quzhi smiled and said, "I think there are only two solutions.

One is to rob the rich and help the poor, and return the wealth to the people. It's like a certain high-ranking official, who monopolizes a lot of money by himself through various means, and all of this money is snatched from hundreds or thousands of Chen Dahai.

Then we, the Four Seas Trading Company, produced all kinds of good things, organized all kinds of good games, and earned so much money that he monopolized, and then distributed it to Chen Dahai who was robbed of the money by this big official.

Of course, you can't divide it directly, and we can't ask this official who you robbed. My solution is to recruit workers and improve the treatment of workers, so that we can not only get rich but also get a career for ourselves as these poor people who have been robbed of their money. ”

Li Xian and Li Qi nodded, Xiao Qu's illness means that it is better for the officials to govern the Qingming, and even if the officials are not clear, but we have redistributed these porridges through another method, and we can also achieve the effect of the officials governing the Qingming in disguise, and we have also gained the cause and the gratitude of these people.

Xiao Quzhi continued: "The second is to find a way to make the porridge more, and here it is divided into two methods, one is to use resources efficiently.

For example, there is only so much land, but we find a way to increase the yield, so that the amount of porridge can be more?

Another example is the division of labor and cooperation, dedicated to special personnel, just like the Four Seas Trading Company, before the women in the family were tied to children and housework. Now we gather the children together and let a few women take care of them, and the other women are free.

We build pig farms, sheep farms, and ask professional people to teach them the best way to raise pigs and sheep, as long as a few people can raise pigs and sheep that can only be raised by hundreds of people.

In the same way, suppose we have a way for a hundred people to plant a field that would have been planted by a thousand people before, so that the farmer can be freed to do other things.

In this way of division of labor and cooperation, professional people do professional things, not only greatly improve efficiency, but also free up more manpower, in addition to raising pigs and sheep. It is also possible to raise cattle. Brick. Iron smelting and steelmaking. These pigs, cattle and sheep can be worth a lot of porridge, and the rest of the work can make our lives better and make our army stronger.

There is another way, that is, we get out of this closed place and go to other places to get food back, so that the amount of porridge will be greatly increased.

And then let's go back to the analogy, where the population is now twenty people. But the porridge is not only fifteen portions as it used to be, but has become forty servings, isn't it still difficult to divide? Coupled with the first solution of robbing the rich and helping the poor, how can we ensure that everyone can get enough porridge and be rich, wouldn't the world always be peaceful? ”

Li Xian is also a very smart person, he can understand it at one point, and his eyes lit up: "So the auxiliary minister went to the South China Sea to make money." ”

"Yes, this trip to the South China Sea, on the one hand, is to bring back a lot of wealth for our four seas trading company. to keep us running efficiently; On the other hand, I also want to tell these powerful families not to always think about annexing land to obtain benefits. In fact, there is money everywhere outside. Our eyes should not only stare at the existing one-third of an acre of land, but should look at the sea of stars outside! ”

This is not something that Xiao Qubing came up with, in another time and space, he heard a saying: it is a historical cycle, the world is in chaos, the strong unify the world, and distribute the land (resources) equally, and then gradually, the land is annexed, the resources are controlled by a few people, and most people can't survive, so they rebel; So the world was in chaos again, and then a strong man came out to unify the world, distribute the land equally, and then the land was slowly annexed and concentrated in the hands of a few people, and so on.

For example, the economic crisis of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in another time and space, it is also because of this that a small number of people control the vast majority of resources, and these people pursue the maximum profit excessively, which is almost natural, and finally the end of the collapse.

The majority of workers work hard and get very low pay, and then they have no money to spend, and the manufacturers can't sell their things, and then they go bankrupt, and then the more these people have no money to spend, the more bankrupt they become, and then the economic crisis breaks out.

This shows that the continuous concentration of resources in the hands of a few is almost an inevitable law.

Therefore, in order to solve this problem, the common method adopted by people was to raise the wages of workers, raise the basic welfare of the majority of the people, and so on, in order to offset the evil consequences of the continuous concentration of interests in a small number of people, and return some of the benefits to the majority of the people, so as not to collapse.

Xiao Quzhi's so-called theory of robbing the rich and helping the poor is just copying. Of course, some of the stronger countries have also adopted another approach......

"Haha, that's why Master named Chen Goudan Chen Dahai!"

"Yes, next time I'm going to name another person Xingchen." Xiao Quzhi said with a smile.

Li Xian thought more complicatedly, he frowned and said, "There is a problem here. Although this method can fundamentally solve this problem. But it's also too difficult to do, and it takes too much money.

Although the Four Seas Trading Company made a lot of money from these powerful people by selling crystals, glassware, soaps, sofas, and rock candy. But compared to the strength of the money amassed by this powerful family, it is still too far behind. On the other hand, the auxiliary ministers scattered a large amount of money, like robbing the rich for a hundred times, but helping the poor for one hundred and fifty times, once the money chain is broken, our cause will not be able to continue, and even the end of the collapse. ”

In fact, what Li Xian said is not entirely correct, to improve the wages and benefits of workers, the final income is definitely greater than the pay, but now he is paving the way, the income is not yet visible, and the cash in his hand is getting less and less, so Li Xian is worried.

Xiao Quzhi smiled and said, "So I'm going to the South China Sea, you don't really think that I will honestly go to the South China Sea to do business, right?" Let's be honest, I'm going to lead the troops all the way over, all the way through.

The people of these places have accumulated wealth for hundreds of years, and I am ready to bring them all back in one pot, precious stones, gold and silver, all kinds of treasures, and precious wood. Then we had the local people dig for us, grow food, collect precious wood, and I even thought about catching some people to dig for coal......"

Li Xian and Li Qi were a little stunned with their mouths half-open.

Then Xiao Quzhi asked: "Our business needs a lot of money, a lot of materials, and a lot of cheap labor. Their places are full of gold and silver treasures, everywhere we need supplies, everywhere cheap labor, and very backward.

As long as we fight them, we can get so many benefits, and we can solve the problem that the capital chain that we encountered at the beginning of our business may be broken.

You two don't say you don't want these benefits for the sake of some false fame, do you? ”

Li Qi reacted immediately: "The one who beat him will deceive us with some rags every year!" ”

Li Xian's eyes also shone brightly: "The lord has thought everything clearly, he should follow the left and right, be the chief manager of the lord, and make our business bigger and better!" ”

"Well, okay, let's work together to make the hungry people in Datang become fewer and fewer, and there are fewer and fewer hungry and poorly clothed children like Chen Dahai! At the same time, train an invincible and strong army to come out and sweep away all foreign enemies around Datang! ”

"No regrets and heroes, repay the peace of all the people." (To be continued.) )