Wang Anshi was angry at Shen Jin, but Su Shi did not have the energy to persuade him again, in fact, Su Shi as an intellectual, deeply influenced by Confucianism, Mencius said: "Why bother to say profit, it is also (only) benevolence and righteousness!" He was quite disgusted by the Zhigong school's view that it was necessary to speak for profit and seek profit.

Although Lin Tian was disappointed in Shen Jin for a while, he knew the role of businessmen, and it can be said that the protagonists of the world's capitalist revolutionary wave were such a group of mercenary businessmen.

Tangible benefits are always more tangible than empty benevolence and morality. Therefore, Confucius and Mencius were all undesirable in their lives, and it turned out that the Rothschild family, the largest capitalist in the West, in its heyday, once surpassed the European countries.

He has countless technological inventions in his head, and these inventions are not intended to have a crushing impact on a specific industry, of course, at the same time, endless profits, and these are not possible for one person to achieve.

A person can't make all the money in the world, he needs a community of interests as a helper, and this Shen Jin has a lot to do with wealthy businessmen, although he is just a grass people, but in Lin Tian's eyes, it is like a golden mountain, Fujian and Zhejiang and other places are rich and rich, not to mention ordinary people, even princes and nobles are unimaginable, if only the amount of money, they are by no means under the scholars like Han Lu, and even more superior.

There is a richest man surnamed Shi on Fujian Road, called Shi Chongshan, with a family fortune of hundreds of millions, and is a maritime merchant, with nearly 300 large and small large and small ships under his name, selling tea, silk, porcelain and other special products to the countries of the South China Sea, and then transporting all kinds of novelties back from other countries, going back and forth, and earning huge profits.

There is heaven, there is Suzhou and Hangzhou, Hangzhou girls are gentle and gentle, this Shi Chongshan went to patronize the fireworks in Yuhang a few years ago, he is a person who naturally goes in and out of the top brothel, unfortunately and another rich man in Hangzhou fell in love with a girl at the same time, the two are each other heard of their names, but they did not have a chance to meet, this chance encounter rubbed out a spark.

This ancient rich man has a low social status, and the joy of life can probably only be put on squandering money, and he is richer than Kuodou, and the old bustard of the brothel is also very smart, and both sides are not offended, and he came up with a rather overdue means, that is, to let the two rich men bid for each other.

As a result, it doesn't matter if this fight, for a girl, although the posture is excellent, the two actually fought a big high, and the richest man in Fujian bid 1.27 million taels of silver, beating the rich man in Hangzhou.

This incident once caused a sensation in the Great Song Dynasty, and the wealth of maritime merchants was that the emperor on the dragon chair would be red when he saw it.

However, these maritime merchants had their own sea vessels, and it was extremely difficult for the imperial court to control them, they went to sea far and wide, and their familiarity with the sea conditions even exceeded that of the Fujian sailors, and they often had temporary havens on small islands overseas.

There was a Song Dynasty, the main military threat of the imperial court was in the northwest and north, so the naval divisions in various places did not pay much attention, and the combat power could not be said to be on the table.

However, because of this, the ability to control the maritime business is poor, but it has promoted the prosperity of maritime trade, and also promoted the prosperity and development of the shipbuilding industry of the Great Song Dynasty, the southeastern provinces, there are a large number of official and private shipbuilding workshops, the official is mainly to build military warships and inland waterways, and the civilian ones are mostly biased towards ocean-going sea ships, and Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou and the three places built the most famous, once built a Dafu ship with a load of 10,000 stone (500 tons), which can carry thousands of people, of course, this ship is not built to carry people, but to transport goods.

These rich people, whether in the eyes of the old school or in the eyes of the law changers, are rich "fat pigs", but this pig is not stupid, on the contrary, the sea is not like the land, there is a set of laws covered, at every turn on the sea will meet the same big fish eat small fish, or pirates robbed, in this endless sea, sink a few ships, die a few people, no one knows at all, and no one cares, this is a place without law, everything depends on strength, Therefore, in order to secure shipping and earn profits, maritime merchants from all over the world gradually united and formed merchant gangs.

Shen Jin obviously had a very high status among these maritime merchants, because the disciples around him had many sons of maritime merchants. When Lin Tian saw Wang Anshi burning Shen Jin, he immediately laughed, shook his head and said, "Jiefu seems to look down on businessmen? ”

Lin Tian was extremely powerful and had a very high status at this time, even he had to have some scruples, and when he heard this, he said with disdain: "The merchant is vulgar and greedy...... " He said with squinted eyes and despised Shen Jin and his party, "...... The smell of copper all over my body! It stinks! ”

Although Shen Jin was afraid of Wang Anshi's official position, he couldn't help but turn red with anger when he heard him ridicule him like this, and his disciples were also angry.

Lin Tian frowned, Wang Anshi has the spirit of change, and his changes take financial management as the core, I thought that he would pay attention to businessmen, but he didn't want to look down on businessmen like other literati in this era, sighed, glanced at Shen Jin and his party, and said to Wang Anshi and others: "Don't underestimate businessmen, just like blood vessels send blood to all parts of our body, businessmen also send goods needed by people there to various places, without businessmen, we will also have problems with food and clothing!" ”

Seeing that Wang Anshi, Su Shi, Sima Guang and the others all showed disapproving expressions, they smiled slightly, and continued: "Think about the life without merchants, the people need to use bowls to eat, do they want to build a kiln to burn at home?" He pointed to their clothes and said, "Do we have to plant two acres of mulberry trees ourselves, pick mulberry leaves to feed silkworms, and harvest silk to spin and weave cloth to make clothes for the sake of clothing?" ”

He asked two questions in a row, and directly asked Wang Anshi and others speechless, wanting to refute something, but couldn't find any reason, he couldn't help frowning and secretly contradicting himself, Wang Anshi was indignant, and snorted coldly and held back a sentence: "Businessmen are mercenary, and they are not benevolent for the rich!" ”

Lin Tian stroked his palms and laughed loudly, and when Wang Anshi's old face was a little unbearable, he said: "The world is bustling for profit, the world is bustling, all for profit, the people open the door seven things, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, think about the current price of rice and salt, alas, they are naturally full of thoughts about how to make more money, mercenary, not just businessmen?" As for saying that businessmen are not benevolent to the rich, hum, if they donate tens of millions of taels, hehe, I'm afraid they will fall to the ground!! ”

Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, and private money to do good deeds is a very taboo thing in ancient times, of course, if there is really a lot of money, it has to be donated, then the money can only be donated to the government, and then the government will do it.

However, not to mention that it was in a feudal society at this time, that is, in the 21st century, it is said that the Celestial Empire, which has the most advanced social system, had a major earthquake, and celebrities, businessmen, and ordinary people donated enthusiastically, and as a result, 80% of the 76 billion donations raised by the Red Cross and Charity Federation went into government accounts......

The government is unreliable!

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