In the days that followed, the little girl came several more times.

Xiao Fan seemed to have completely forgotten that she had been scratched by the little girl, and every time she stood outside the gate of the Drunken Immortal Building and shrunk and looked inside, Xiao Fan asked the dog to hand her the food that had been prepared, the food was very rich, sometimes it was meatloaf, sometimes it was braised whole chicken, and sometimes it even took some green vegetables that were rare in the winter of this era. - The little girl is too small, too weak, she needs all kinds of nutrients.

Xiao Fan behaved very carefully in front of her, and when facing her, it was like holding a fragile crystal, for fear that the little Tang abruptness would scare her away.

Others feel very strange about Xiao Fan's attitude, there are too many beggars in these years, and it is understandable for Xiao Shopkeeper to be kind, but Xiao Fan shows extraordinary enthusiasm for this little beggar, which is incomprehensible.

Xiao Fan didn't explain to anyone, he only felt that he should do this, he couldn't say why, maybe he saw the shadow of his past life in the little girl's body, in the middle of that rainy night, he was lying alone in the grass on the side of the road, carrying a knife and planning to rob, the night was very cold, and his heart was even colder, if he wasn't cornered, who would want to do that dangerous and illegal thing?

Xiao Fan is sure that if the little girl hadn't met her, she would have followed the same old path as him.

Xiao Fan is not a philanthropist, let alone a good person, there are too many people worthy of sympathy these years, Xiao Fan has no ability to take care of them all, but he just doesn't want to see a girl who has not yet reached the flowering season, and has since embarked on a road of no return.

Xiao Fan's kindness was repaid, the little girl gradually became less wary of him, every time she took food from Xiao Fan's hands, she would always cast a grateful look at him, her eyes never flashed with fierce light, although indifferent was still the same, but than when they first met, they were a little more angry.

One day, when the little girl took the food, she didn't turn around and run as usual, but stood still and looked at Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan smiled warmly: "What's wrong?" ”

The little girl didn't say a word, she took out a green plant from her thin placket, she plucked the leaves off the plant in three or two clicks, and then stuffed it into Xiao Fan's hand.

Xiao Fan looked at her in amazement, puzzled.

The little girl didn't seem to be used to communicating with people, she pointed to Xiao Fan's hand that had been scratched by her, and then said incomprehensibly: "Purple bead grass...... Chew and apply to top to stop bleeding. ”

Xiao Fan's hand scratched by her had already scabbed, but she also gave him herbs to stop bleeding, and when she looked down, there were still a few drops of morning dew on the herbs, which seemed to be picked by her personally, and the little girl apologized to him in this unique way.

Xiao Fan smiled, and a feeling of emotion spread in his heart. Facing the little girl's expectant gaze, Xiao Fan cherished the herbs into his arms and said with a smile: "I'll apply it later, thank you." ”

When the little girl heard this, she also smiled, and quickly restrained herself and returned to indifference. That smile flashed like a meteor, without a trace in an instant, but it was like a spring breeze turning into snow, deeply imprinted in Xiao Fan's heart.

The little girl left again, holding the food that Xiao Fan gave her, and she didn't know where to hide to eat.

The cold wind was howling, blowing through the door of the Drunken Immortal Building, Xiao Fan couldn't help but shiver, thinking of the little girl's thin clothes, he couldn't help but worry a little about her, it was time to get her thicker clothes, such a cold day, I don't know where she slept at night......

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"I heard that you are the son-in-law of the merchant's family?"

As soon as Zhu Yunwen entered the Drunken Immortal Building, he asked, looking a little angry.

Xiao Fan paused, nodded and said: "Correct you, I am the son-in-law of a merchant who has not yet married, theoretically speaking, I am still a bachelor, and I am worth an extraordinary ......."

"Are you really a merchant's son-in-law?" Zhu Yunwen's eyes widened, and then he stomped his feet hatefully: "How can you be the son-in-law of a merchant's family?" ”

Xiao Fan emphasized again: "It is the son-in-law of a merchant who has not yet married...... Hey, Your Highness, it doesn't matter to you who my son-in-law is, right? ”

Zhu Yunwen said angrily: "Why doesn't it have anything to do with me?" I was about to recommend you to be an official, but my court has a law that no merchant is allowed to be an official, and if you are really the son-in-law of a merchant, you will never want to be an official in this life......"

Zhu Yunwen said in a swoop: "...... What did you just say? You are not married yet? ”

Xiao Fan nodded calmly.

Zhu Yunwen thought for a moment, and then his face was full of ecstasy: "It's good if you don't get married, if you don't get married, you won't be a businessman, great!" As long as you are not a merchant, I can help you speak in front of the emperor's grandfather...... You go and return the unreliable family business, don't be this broken shopkeeper, pack up and follow me into Beijing, come on, help Xiao Gongzi pack up his things......"

"Yes!" The brocade-clothed pro-army behind Zhu Yunwen responded with a bang.

Xiao Fan paused for a moment, and then said loudly: "Slow! ”

Turning his head, Xiao Fan looked at Zhu Yunwen and said, "Your Royal Highness, what do you mean?" ”

Zhu Yunwen smiled and said: "You hurry up and retire the relatives of the merchant's family, follow me to Jingshi, I will ask you for an official in front of the imperial grandfather, I can see you every day, and you will talk to me every day in the future, isn't this good?" In the future, you will assist me well, let me be a good emperor, and you will also be a famous minister who governs the world and glorify your ancestors, isn't it much better than you being a merchant son-in-law with self-contempt? ”

Xiao Fan's eyes widened and said, "Your Highness, let's say something else if you are not an official, I am not contemptuous of being a merchant's son-in-law, right?" ”

Zhu Yunwen pursed his lips and said: "Merchants are cheap businesses, and they are not as good as peddlers and pawns, so why is it not self-contemptible?" ”

Xiao Fan was unhappy when he heard it, it didn't matter if others had such thoughts, but this was the future Ming Emperor in front of him, his ideas could influence the affairs of the world, if he despised the businessman so much, wouldn't the businessman be very pitiful?

Although Xiao Fan has a very bad impression of Chen Siliu, the father-in-law of the businessman, objectively speaking, Chen Siliu is just a legitimate businessman who pursues profits, and he has raised himself for four years, Zhu Yunwen commented on the businessman like this, which is too unfair to Chen Siliu.

Xiao Fan decided to reverse the concept of His Royal Highness the Grand Sun, it is not an exaggeration to say that this has a great impact on the businessmen of the world and even on the national fortunes of the Ming Dynasty.

Asking Zhu Yunwen to wave back the brocade-clothed pro-army who was driving, Xiao Fan organized his language in his heart, and then said slowly in a calm tone: "Your Royal Highness, the grass people think that Your Highness's thoughts are ridiculous!" ”

Zhu Yunwen was stunned and said puzzledly: "My idea is ridiculous? Could it be that you are reluctant to give up the young lady of the merchant family and do not want to quit your family? Haha, why do men have no wife, after you become an official, I will help you pull the matchmaker, and order the daughter of the minister's family to marry you, what kind of woman do you like, just tell me ......"

Xiao Fan said happily: "Thank you, Your Highness, grass people like long legs and big breasts...... Yes! No, His Royal Highness Taisun, that's not what the grass people want to say! ”

"What the hell are you trying to say?"

"The grass people think that His Highness's idea of light business is really a big mistake!"

"Oh? What do you mean by that? ”

Xiao Fan asked rhetorically, "What is Your Highness's impression of the merchant in your heart?" ”

Zhu Yunwen pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "Businessmen, profit-seeking and forgetful people, they do not produce, they do not work hard, they enter low and go out to make profits, they have no home and no country, they are full of copper and smelly philistines, they only know greed for profit to enrich themselves, among all industries in the world, businessmen are the lowest!" ”

Xiao Fan shook his head secretly, the ancients were influenced by Confucianism and misunderstood businessmen too deeply, Zhu Yunwen's ideas are probably a typical representative of all ancient people. It will not be easy to change their minds.

For the ignorant ancients, Xiao Fan decided to be patient, and reasoning was his forte.

"Your Highness, you see, merchant, to put it in layman's terms, is a trader, what is a trader? That is the person who buys and sells, from which the difference is taken for profit, there is nothing wrong with this behavior, the so-called line has rules, with the minimum cost, the pursuit of the greatest benefit, is the businessman's rules, they are indeed true to profit, if they forget the righteousness, where does this come from? ”

Zhu Yunwen said with a smile: "It's not nonsense for me to say that businessmen are profit-seeking and forgetting righteousness, Shen Wansan, the richest man in the Ming Dynasty back then, have you heard of it?" He is a businessman, my imperial grandfather led the heavenly soldiers to compete with Zhang Shicheng for the world, so he went around to raise food and salary, my imperial grandfather respected him as a rich businessman and a famous man, and handed it over, but Shen Wansan was exquisite, he donated food and salary to my imperial grandfather in the open, and secretly colluded with Zhang Shicheng, and also funded his army. ”

Xiao Fan sighed and said: "Shen Wansan is actually just a rich commoner, he has no power and no power, and it is also a helpless move to fund the army at both ends, there are hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides of you, and what else does he have in his house besides silver?" Can he not be afraid? Does he dare not give money? You can't expect all the people of the world to be steadfast and die for you, in fact, the people are afraid of death, and whoever has a sharp sword, they can only submit to whom, what does this have to do with forgetfulness? ”

Zhu Yunwen still didn't care, and said with a smile: "This is a bad word! Mencius said: 'Life, what I want, righteousness, also what I want, you can't have both, and those who sacrifice their lives to take righteousness are also.'" 'If you are afraid of death, you are forgetful......

Mencius is right, but he idealized the surname, or rather, this is his personal ideal, from ancient times to the present more than a thousand years, during which countless dynasties have changed, if according to your meaning, which dynasty of the emperor lost the country, the people of the world should follow the martyrdom, but in fact? Everyone is living well, except for the loyal ministers of the old dynasty, few people have really sacrificed their lives for righteousness, this standard is too high, no one else can do it, why do you expect a businessman to do it? ”

"But...... It's true that a businessman can make huge profits without producing, right? ”

"They didn't steal or rob, they made money by their ability, and the business was about your love and my willingness, what's wrong with that?"

"It's unearned! Like a moth in the country, sucking the essence and blood of the people and fattening themselves! ”

Facing the stubborn Zhu Yunwen, Xiao Fan's patience gradually ran out.

Relying on the only little patience, Xiao Fan tried to say calmly: "This is not to absorb the essence and blood of the people, businessmen seek profit from their capital, and they still have to take a lot of risks, they use their own risks to seek returns......"

Zhu Yunwen sneered: "Haha, what risk can they have?" Everything in the world, they buy at a low price, sell it at a high price, and then sell it at a high price, which is clearly a speculative generation......"

Xiao Fan was furious.

"Smack!" The familiar force split Huashan and slapped Zhu Yunwen's head again.

"Unlucky boy, you don't believe what you say, what enmity does the merchant have against you? Did they provoke you? You just don't want to see them? ”

Zhu Yunwen's eyes widened, and he subconsciously covered his red head, and watched Xiao Fan lose his temper in a daze.

After a while, Zhu Yunwen's black eyes were slowly filled with crystal tears, his eyes gradually turned red, and the corners of his mouth were deflated, as if he was about to cry.

Xiao Fan came back to his senses, trembled with fright, hurriedly knelt on the ground with a thud, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Highness, the grass people are out of shape...... Ten thousand deaths, ten thousand deaths! ”

Zhu Yunwen's lips trembled, and his expression was infinitely aggrieved.

"You beat me again......" Zhu Yunwen complained with tears in his eyes.

"Grass People...... Grass people, this is the depth of love, and the responsibility is ......" Xiao Fan said in a sad tone.

"Is there anything you can't say well? Why do you have to hit someone......" Tears swirled in Zhu Yunwen's eyes a few times, and finally fell down and flowed down his face to his chin.

"My Buddha is merciful, and it is inevitable to roar as a lion when purifying sentient beings, His Royal Highness has not had an epiphany for a long time, and the grass people are anxious, so they will follow my Buddha and drink ...... on the head."

"You beat me...... it's reasonable" Zhu Yunwen burst into tears like rain, crying like a complaint about Xiao Fan's atrocities.

"Grass People...... Ten thousand deaths, ten thousand deaths! Xiao Fan knelt down and shouted.

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A pillar of incense time passed, and Zhu Yunwen's mood calmed down.

"Well, tell me carefully why the merchant is not a profit-seeking person."

As soon as Xiao Fan opened his mouth, Zhu Yunwen spoke again.

"Hey, if you have something to say, don't hit people......" Zhu Yunwen repeatedly emphasized with palpitations.

Xiao Fan praised: "The so-called benevolent is invincible, His Royal Highness is kind-hearted and opposes violence, and he is really the future king of my Ming Dynasty......"

Zhu Yunwen still had tears on his face, sniffed hard when he heard the words, and said angrily: "Don't boast, I am against your use of violence on me......"

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"Your Highness, think about it, we don't farm the land, we don't raise silkworms, where do the clothes we wear and the food we eat come from?"

Zhu Yunwen said: "Of course, it is planted by farmers. ”

"How do farmers get to us?"

"I bought it with silver."

Xiao Fan said with a smile: "If there is no merchant in the world, dare to ask Your Highness, where did you buy the silver from?" Is it necessary for His Highness to go out into the fields and buy from the peasants? ”

Zhu Yunwen's eyes widened, but he couldn't speak, and there was a thoughtful look in his eyes.

"Your Highness, it is true that merchants seek profit, but there is no shortage of merchants in this world, and the people's clothing, food, housing and transportation are all closely related to merchants, merchants come and go from south to north, traffic goods, and blend with all people, so that we can live in the south and can eat the wheat of the north, and we can also eat the rice of the south in the north.

"Besides, the merchant does not produce, does not work hard, His Royal Highness can know, the merchant traffics a cart of goods, it is necessary to put the net worth into it in advance, this cart of goods from the south to the north, the road is far away, the trafficking is hard, not to mention, but also to bear the risk that the goods can not be sold, if no one buys his goods, then everything he did before is in vain, and the net worth is also lost, every time the merchant does a business, he is taking risks with their experience and experience, one does not steal and two do not rob, they make money by the experience and vision accumulated by their own business, How can you say that you don't get something for nothing? Taishi Gong said: 'The world is bustling, all for profit, the world is bustling, all for profit', the world is busy for fame and fortune, why is His Highness a thin businessman? ”

Zhu Yunwen's expression became more and more solemn, and the contemplative color in his eyes became stronger and stronger.

Long.

"Xiao Fan, why are you telling me this?"

Xiao Fan said with a smile: "I just want to say a fair word for the businessmen of the world, it doesn't matter how lowly the businessmen are treated, His Royal Highness is the future monarch of the Ming Dynasty, everything he thinks is related to the people's livelihood in the world, the grass people can't see His Highness have a biased view of the businessman, and lose the heart of benevolence, the Ming Jun loves the people like a son, the businessman is also the people of His Highness." ”

After Xiao Fan finished speaking, Zhu Yunwen was silent for a long time and did not say a word.

"Xiao Fan, your words do sound a little reasonable, I ...... I've got to go back and think about what you said......"

Zhu Yunwen got up and walked out.

"Come on, drive back to Beijing." Zhu Yunwen's face was full of contemplation.

The brocade-clothed pro-army guarding outside the door immediately greeted Zhu Yunwen into the car.

Xiao Fan was full of smiles, the status of the businessman seems to have attracted the attention of His Royal Highness the Taisun, then the status of the businessman may be improved in the future, and the future of the businessman may no longer be so lowly in the Ming generation, all of this is because of a conversation with the Taisun today, which quietly changed history.

Butterfly, I'm a beautiful butterfly......

A day later, a transcript called "On the Righteousness and Benefit of Merchants" quietly appeared on Zhu Yuanzhang's dragon case, and the person who signed it at the end of the transcript was the emperor's grandson, Zhu Yunwen.

There was an uproar.

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