"Exactly."

Inside the study room of the side hall of the carrier hall.

Xu Yi's face was as usual, and he admitted directly.

Hear this.

Fan Chongxian and Song Yuanfu invariably flashed a look of relief on their faces.

is different from Yang Xian'an, Zhu Zongting, and Wang Wenqing.

Fan and Song are neither Xu Yi's in-laws nor Xu Yi's childhood playmates.

So.

Fan Chongxian and Song Yuanfu are congenitally a little deficient.

That's why.

Fan Chongxian and Song Yuanfu never worried about Xu Yi's way.

On the contrary, he was worried about Xu Yi's going to be 'how', but when he was secretive to the two.

Now.

Xu Yi said lightly, 'Exactly,'.

It is tantamount to officially announcing that Fan and Song have officially entered the real core of Yanwangfu.

Inside the study room of the side hall of the carrier hall.

Xu Yi quietly took in the expressions of Fan and Song.

Then he said with a face as usual: "To be precise, the construction of the new official road is paving the way for Yan merchants."

"And the Yan merchants are paving the way for the collection of commercial taxes."

Hearing this, Wang Wenqing couldn't help frowning and said, "The prince wants to overthrow the national policy of heavy agriculture and suppression of business, which has been implemented in all dynasties?"

"If that's the case."

"Please also ask the prince to forgive the ministers for speaking bluntly, this move will do more harm than good."

The words fell.

Yang Xian'an, Zhu Zongting, Fan Chongxian, and Song Yuanfu all held their breath.

Wait for Xu Yi to follow.

As Wang Wenqing said.

In the long history of thousands of years, all dynasties have implemented the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business.

Ultimately.

The essence of business is to sell from east to west.

This can certainly make the city or the country more prosperous in the short term.

But in the long run.

Overly prosperous commerce is not conducive to the stability of the country.

First, the businessmen do not produce, and they go around without a fixed place.

It is extremely unfavorable for the conscription of conscription.

Second, overly prosperous commerce will inevitably attract a large number of people to abandon agriculture and invest in business.

As a result, it is not only difficult for the state to recruit and conscript.

Even productive land is at high risk of being abandoned on a large scale.

Just ask.

If there is no land to produce, where can there be food? Where did mulberry come from?

Where did the goods come from?

At that time.

The whole country will go from prosperity to devastation and even destruction.

Third, businessmen are profit-seeking, most fond of hoarding, and greedy.

An overly prosperous business will inevitably breed many wealthy businessmen.

When the wealth in the hands of the great businessmen accumulates to a certain extent.

The greed of the big businessmen will certainly not be satisfied with the status quo.

It will inevitably change from the pursuit of 'money' to the pursuit of 'power'.

What will happen then is naturally self-evident.

Besides.

In the process of changing from a dealer to a businessman, and then from a businessman to a wealthy businessman.

There's a topic that you can never get around.

i.e. official. Business. Hook. knots, woe to the people.

That's why it's all in between.

So.

In the long history of thousands of years.

The rulers of all dynasties often invariably implemented the basic national policy of 'emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce.'

And in the era in which Xu Yi was originally lived.

Such as sweeping Liuhe, the first emperor of the four returnees. ….

When Han Fei's theory of 'emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, he ordered the 'Jia people' to be compared with the 'prison officials, the unruly ones, the dead people, and the sons-in-law,

and other lowly people are classified as the same kind.

Later

Levy them or take them to the edge.

For example, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, once ordered that 'Jia people are not allowed to ride in a car.

and himself, and his descendants, 'shall not be eunuchs. ，

And the calculation is double that of ordinary people.

During the Western Jin Dynasty, it promulgated a cheap merchant order.

Merchants were ordered to wear shoes that were white and black.

The rulers of the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty also brought up the issue of lowly merchants and forbade industrialists and businessmen from becoming officials.

When Tang Taizong first determined the official character, he said: 'Set up this official to treat the Magi.' ，

'The miscellaneous people of industry and commerce must not exceed the official rank, stand side by side with the sages and gentlemen, and sit and eat together. ，

Later, Tang Gaozong imitated the law of Han Gaozu to ban work. Business. You are not allowed to ride a horse, you are only allowed to wear white clothes, you are not allowed to wear yellow, and so on.

Ming Taizu issued an edict in the twelfth year of Hongwu: 'Farmers are allowed to wear silk yarn and silk cloth, and merchants' families are allowed to wear silk cloth. ，

'Like a peasant's house, but one of them is a merchant, he is not allowed to wear moslin. ，

And so on.

Ultimately.

All of them are anti-business.

Inside the study room of the side hall of the carrier hall.

Xu Yi's face did not change in the slightest when he heard this.

He was a blessed and dead.

How can you not understand the harm of businessmen becoming bigger?

However.

There are two sides to everything.

How can a man choke and give up eating?

Xu Yi looked at Yang Xian'an, Zhu Zongting and the other four as usual.

Then he asked, "What do you and the other four think?"

"Go back to the prince." Yang Xian'an calmed down for a moment, got up and bowed and said, "The minister seconded the proposal."

Xu Yi nodded noncommittally.

immediately looked at Zhu Zongting, Fan Chongxian, and Song Yuanfu.

It was previously outside the study in the side hall.

Zhu, Fan, and Song had the opposite attitude to Wang and Yang.

Zhu Zongting, Fan Chongxian, and Song Yuanfu glanced at each other silently.

Immediately, Zhu Zongting got up and bowed and said, "Go back to the prince."

"I think that special things should be done in special times."

"Now I only have two counties and a million people."

"Self-production is extremely limited."

"Cotton, grain, herbs, etc., all need to be purchased from other sources."

"And the purchase is inseparable from the merchants."

"So."

"The minister thinks that he should be the first to prosper commerce."

"When the time is ripe, we will return to agriculture and business."

The words fell.

Fan Chongxian and Song Yuanfu invariably got up and arched their hands and said, "The minister seconded the proposal."

Don't wait for Xu Yi to speak.

Wang Wenqing immediately retorted: "It is certainly right to do special things in special times."

"But I'm afraid that the order will change overnight, and it will be difficult to collect it."

"If that day really comes, I'm afraid that the reputation of the prince will be unfavorable."

When Zhu Zongting heard this, his brows tightened and he said, "If according to what Wang Juren said, where can I find the things that I urgently need in Yandi, such as grain, grass, cotton, and herbs?"

"For example, where are the six materials needed to make a bow and crossbow, such as dryness, horns, tendons, glue, silk, lacquer, etc.?"

"Where will you find the cotton needed to make cotton nails?"

"There are some things that I don't have to produce in my land!"

"If there is no businessman, what shall it be?" ….

Wang Wenqing did not back down when he heard this: "Special Envoy Zhu is exaggerating."

"Now Yandi is in urgent need of supplies from all over the world."

"But this does not mean that all kinds of preferential treatment should be given to merchants from all over the world in an urgent need for supplies."

"Merchants seek profit, and they only need to let them know that it is profitable."

"He will bring the goods to the swallow."

When Zhu Zongting heard this, he asked rhetorically, "If you follow what Wang Juren said, you only need to let the merchants know that it is profitable immediately."

"Then if it is in the interests of other places

What's bigger?"

"Where will those merchants go?"

"Can't I raise the price of the land with the other, and the one with the highest price will get it?"

Wang Wenqing frowned and asked, "It's the nature of businessmen to pursue profit."

"Could it be that if I give them certain preferential treatment, I will be able to make them give up huge benefits?"

"What's the good of that and whimsy?"

......

......

Inside the study room of the side hall of the carrier hall.

Xu Yi calmly looked at Wang Wenqing and Zhu Zongting, who were arguing.

From time to time, a look of attentive listening flashed across his face.

See here.

Yang Xian'an, Fan Chongxian, and Song Yuanfu couldn't help but express their opinions one after another.

Time passed quietly in the dispute between the two sides.

Until dusk falls.

The dispute and the anti-reversal have been dry and dry-mouthed, and they are powerless to fight again.

But even so.

Yang Xian'an, Zhu Zongting and other five people still failed to reach a complete agreement on this matter.

And the reason why the dispute is so strong.

It's just a different starting point.

Alternatively, it can be understood that the parties to the dispute represent different interest groups.

In a nutshell.

Such as Yang Xian'an and Wang Wenqing.

The two came from Chang'an City.

There is nothing left in the swallow land.

So.

The duo just had to consider whether the benefits outweighed the disadvantages.

And Zhu Zongting, Fan Chongxian, and Song Yuanfu are different.

These three people are either local families in Yandi, or they are businessmen themselves.

And the merchants themselves are inseparable from the family.

So.

The three of them will subconsciously strive for certain interests for the family and businessmen.

Even if these benefits are short-lived.

This is human nature, and there is no way to avoid it.

Inside the study room of the side hall of the carrier hall.

Seeing that the five of them were all out of breath and powerless to fight anymore.

Xu Yi poured five cups of tea unhurriedly.

"Sit."

"Thank you, Lord Xie."

After the five of them sat down again and their breathing gradually stabilized.

Xu Yi chuckled and said, "It's all over?"

Yang Xian'an and Zhu Zongting all lowered their heads when they heard this.

Make an open listen.

"Now that you're done."

"Then Lone also talks about Lone's thoughts."

Xu Yi chuckled and glanced at Yang Xian'an, Zhu Zongting and others.

The words fell.

Xu Yi's face gradually turned straight and said, "In my lonely view."

"All dynasties have taken emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce as the most basic national policy."

"This is conducive to the long-term stability of the country."

Specifically.

Emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce refers to the fact that the ruler emphasizes agriculture-oriented, industrial. Business. Karma is the end.

Advocating a small-scale peasant economy under natural economic conditions, the state's finances are naturally based on the small-scale peasant economy.

In short, agriculture is planting, breeding and other industries. ….

It is commonly known as 'digging in the soil,'.

Farmers work on the land, sweat and harvest the food, clothing, shelter and transportation that people need.

It's a production process from scratch.

And the core of this process is 'people, 'and' things.

i.e. people and land.

During this period, there was also collaboration between people.

But at the end of the day.

The relationship between people is secondary in the production process.

This characteristic of agricultural production has directly created the temperament of peasants.

That is, sensitive to deeds and acceptance of words, diligent and simple, advocating hard work, etc.

And this is undoubtedly more beneficial to those in power

Rule.

Business, on the other hand.

Is business necessarily inconveniently cunning?

Based on Xu Yi's experience, the answer to this question is undoubtedly yes.

And those who can stick to their original intentions and remain unchanged from business are rare after all.

Ultimately.

It is impossible for business to create wealth from nothing.

Unlike agricultural production, which mainly takes place in people and things.

Business activities are mainly between people.

If it's a bit harsh.

That's the mutual calculation between people.

It is different from what the peasants are facing, 'how to use labor to create new wealth?'

What businessmen are faced with is always the existing wealth in various forms.

And the businessman's thinking is naturally 'how to keep the wealth in front of him for himself.'

So.

Agriculture can be a stabilizing factor for a country.

Business, on the other hand, tends to be a destabilizing factor for the country.

If you don't interfere.

More and more people will abandon agriculture and business in pursuit of more wealth and a better life.

The foundations of the state will gradually loosen and shake.

In the end, it will completely disintegrate and fall apart.

In another time and space where Xu Yi lives.

Often, many people only see that the suppression of business in the heavy agriculture and suppression of business has affected the prosperity of the market.

But there is no long-term historical trend.

In Xu Yi's opinion.

The reason why Middle-earth is the only civilization in human society that has continued since ancient times and has been inherited in the same line.

The role played by the emphasis on agriculture and the suppression of business in this area should never be underestimated.

That is, even though the fall of the last dynasty caused the country to fall into an extremely deep valley.

As long as the new dynasty restores order and re-establishes unity.

A country based on agriculture does not need to depend on any external conditions.

Such as trade routes.

Such as the prosperity of other regions,

With only one husband, one cow and one land, men and women weave, work at sunrise and rest at sunset.

It won't be long before the country will come out of the doldrums and become strong again.

......

......

Carry the side hall of the study.

accompanied by Xu Yi's voice to the ground.

Yang Xian'an and Wang Wenqing couldn't help but raise their heads slightly.

And Zhu Zongting, Fan Chongxian, and Song Yuanfu couldn't help but hang their heads lower.

Xu Yi ignored the diametrically opposed actions of the five people.

He turned around and continued, "But in Lone's opinion."

"The essence of valuing agriculture and suppressing business should be to build the foundation of the state on agriculture."

"At the same time, control the vicious expansion of commerce."

"It does not mean that there is no commerce, nor does it mean that agriculture is only."

As soon as this statement came out. ….

Yang Xian'an, Zhu Zongting, Wang Wenqing, Fan Chongxian, and Song Yuanfu raised their heads in unison.

looked at Xu Yi with a puzzled face.

Seeing this, Xu Yi chuckled and shook his head.

Then he took out a slightly thick blue account book from under the bookcase.

On the blue account book was written 'New Official Road, three big characters.'

Xu Yi placed the brand-new book with the three big characters of the new official road in front of the five people.

Then he said with a straight face: "Gu has already said it before."

"The construction of the new official road is paving the way for Yan merchants."

"And the Yan merchants are paving the way for the collection of commercial taxes."

The words fell.

Xu Yi picked up the teacup next to him and said no more.

Seeing this, Yang Xian'an and Zhu Zongting all stared thoughtfully at the book in front of them that read "New Official Road, three big characters."

I don't know how long it took.

Xu is a tael

hours.

Maybe a quarter of an hour or two.

Wang Wenqing was the first to come back to his senses from his contemplation.

'Shhhh

Wang Wenqingfang came back to his senses, looked at Xu Yi with a shocked face, and gasped.

However, it does not wait for his words to be confirmed.

In the study room of the side hall of the carrier hall, the sound of gasping suddenly sounded one after another.

"Figured it out?"

Xu Yi asked with a chuckle when he saw this.

"Figured it out."

Yang Xian'an and Zhu Zongting nodded in horror and replied.

"Now that you've figured it out."

"Then you know how to do it, right?"

Xu Yi chuckled and asked again.

"Go back to the prince."

"Build a new official road and unite the family merchants to create Yan Shang."

"Recruit foreign businessmen to join Yan."

"Paving the way for the introduction of commercial taxes in the future."

Yang Xian'an, Zhu Zongting and the other five people magically replied in unison.

In fact.

Xu Yi has already given the best choice in two account books, one thick and one thin.

The purpose of vigorously building a new official road is to integrate the families and powerful businessmen in Yandi.

Make it condense into a strand of rope and use it for its use.

And the name of this rope is 'Yan Shang,'.

And every family and powerful businessman has its own channels and networks.

Once the 'Yan Shang, completely landed.

These channels and networks will inevitably be used by Xu Yi.

At that time.

The merchants in these channels and networks are bound to enter the Yan in a steady stream.

As for business tax?

The collection of new official roads began as soon as they were officially put into use.

The silver taels paid by the merchant to enter the new official road.

and the convenience provided by the new post stations along the way can be understood as a copy of the commercial tax.

In a nutshell.

One of the meanings of the existence of the new official road is to solve the problem that it is extremely difficult to collect commercial tax today.

As for the unfavorable factors that are very likely to arise after the businessman becomes bigger?

Yang Xian'an, Zhu Zongting, Wang Wenqing, Fan Chongxian, Song Yuanfu and Lu Zaizhong, who was far away in Guanzhong.

The objection of these six people is to inhibit a certain businessman from becoming bigger and stronger.

As the saying goes, 'When money stands up and speaks, all truth is silent.'" ，

When the right stands up and speaks, money will become worthless. ，

And Xu Yi's three merchants and three powers have a total of six network executives.

It is the 'web of money' and 'the net of power.'

Iced tea is always there