Chapter 26: On Business
Businessmen, a professional classification in the human race, in ancient times, merchants were a group of people with low status, because of the particularity of their merchants, so it led to the discrimination of merchants, but in modern times, even with the advent of the new era, as well as the impact of external civilization, merchants have gradually become the mainstream of society, and gradually become a profession that everyone rushes to.
However, the promotion of the status of businessmen has not changed the essential weakness of businessmen, and there are fatal loopholes of businessmen, so when choosing to engage in business, you must see the essence of businessmen!
During the Han Dynasty, since the Han Gaozu ordered that people who were engaged in the merchant profession did not have the right to wear luxurious clothes, they could only wear coarse linen clothes!
During the Sui Dynasty, merchants could only wear black!
Merchants in various dynasties are at the bottom, until the Ming Taizu period of the farmer's clothes can be made of silk, yarn, silk, cloth, merchants can only use silk, cloth, but not silk, yarn clothes, if there is a person in the farmer's family to do business, the whole family's clothing will fall into the ranks of merchants, can no longer use silk yarn as material. Peasants can wear hats and hats and go in and out of the market, but no one who is not engaged in agriculture, including merchants, is not allowed to wear them. By the time of the Ming Dynasty, a ban was added that merchants and untouchable servants were not allowed to wear mink coats.
The ancients still talked about buying shoes. A person's left foot is generally slightly longer than the right foot, so when trying on shoes, the left foot is usually stretched first, and as long as the left foot can be worn, the right foot does not need to be tried. Shoes that are not divided into left and right are also called "straight shoes" or "straight shoes". In the eyes of the ancients, two shoes must be exactly the same, and two "mandarin duck shoes" of different colors and styles were considered unclean and only worn by untouchables.
For businessmen who do business, the court of the Western Jin Dynasty stipulated that all philistines must wear white shoes on one foot and black shoes on the other, which is "mandarin duck shoes". This phenomenon of a pair of shoes being divided into black and white was called "black and white" by the ancients. Due to the fact that businessmen have many pigtails, they like the collusion between officials and businessmen, and the relationship is complicated, which in turn derives the modern meaning of "black and white"
Such an act is like ordering a person who has a prostitute in the family to wear a cuckold, wear a red belt, and go off the wrong path, which is embarrassing!
It can be seen that people who engage in merchants have been regarded as low-class untouchables since ancient times, but the reason for this is that the peculiarities of the merchant industry have created their inferiority.
Businessmen are reckless, this nature is not in the profession of businessmen, but in the fact that as long as everyone has wealth and freedom, all they think of is to satisfy their desires, but desire is an abyss that cannot be filled, when there is no restraint to satisfy desires, then this businessman will destroy social stability, and if he has money, he will do mischief, and when he encounters difficulties, he will collude with officials and businessmen, so that he will be even more lawless when he has privileges, which will lead to the people's misery and complaints, when this happens, It will cause social unrest, and all kinds of contradictions and hostility will breed, which will jeopardize stability, be detrimental to the rulers, and conflict with the stability of the ruling class, so every ruler will severely suppress businessmen, and this is the reason.
In fact, it only takes eight words to solve the problems of the merchant industry: rich and proud, and self-blame! If every businessman can understand these eight words, then he will be humble, and modesty is not a kind of cultivation, but more often a perfect means of self-preservation.
Every human being is living in the desire to compare, when the businessman has a desire higher than the people, at this time, even if you don't do anything, it will already cause dissatisfaction and imbalance in the hearts of the people, not everyone can understand and not everyone can live to understand, so at this time, even if you don't do anything, as long as you have money, then you will invisibly offend all the people who are not as good as you.
When you are an ordinary person, no one cares about your every move, no one imitates it, when you are a businessman with superior conditions, your every move is in front of them, even if you forget to reply to the greeting, it will be considered arrogant, so the more superior, the more dangerous your identity is, the more you must be cautious in your words and deeds!
Ordinary people will yearn for and learn, if there is a way in their hearts, there is justice and people who can adhere to the bottom line choose the merchant industry, but there will be no big harm, but the mercenary pursuit of the merchant industry, the supremacy of interests will destroy morality because of interests, and the destruction of morality will make the world chaotic, what the people need is stability and simplicity, and the professional nature of businessmen is scheming and interests first, and stable society and stable people are the direction of conflict, so modern war, chaos, mostly from interest disputes, are caused by businessmen without morality, This is contrary to the wishes of the people and the original intention of the ruling regime, so those who are engaged in the profession of merchants must abide by morality, otherwise every businessman is doomed to be a flash in the pan and cannot last, and those who collude with officials and businessmen will also be severely punished, so that the money will be high.
When the resentment reaches its peak, it only takes one fuse to collapse, and in an instant the anger burns the earth, causing wars to break out and the people to make a living.
The common people are envious of money, desire, and power, and will inevitably give up agriculture and turn to commerce, abandon the land and ancestral homes, and disregard the family property will move at will, and after the money is in the hands of a few people, when the country is in danger, they will fly away because of personal interests, take away important state property, and cause the country to suffer losses.
People yearn for the prosperity and desire of commerce, they will learn to like wit, cunning, like to play tricks will be deceitful, deceitful behavior, when encountering interest disputes, they will play tricks in the law, the right is wrong, the wrong is right, then the law will no longer be a tool for managing a stable society, but become a weapon for businessmen and rich people, so that right and wrong are reversed, seriously affecting social stability!
Therefore, businessmen must strictly abide by business ethics, do not do things that violate morality, rather not engage in business, rather than do things that harm others and benefit themselves, right and wrong never seek special care and special treatment because of their own identity, so as to live forever, otherwise the bigger the business, the more dangerous it is, even if it is barely kept, it is just a flash in the pan, and it cannot be inherited forever!