"Not really." Qin Yu said, "Businessmen are of great significance to the country. ”

"What's the point?" Zhu Yuanzhang was like a studious student, and humbly asked Qin Yu for advice.

"Just give me an example." Qin Yu said, "If watermelons are planted in a large area in the north, because there are too many people planting them, tens of thousands of catties of watermelons will rot in the ground and no one will buy them." As a result, the value of that batch of watermelons is equal to zero. Even a negative number, because a rotten watermelon is not easy to deal with. ”

"That's when the merchant appeared."

"Merchants transfer watermelons to the hot south, if a pound of watermelon sells for one tael of silver, I mean that if the price details don't have to be with me, tens of thousands of catties of watermelons can be sold for tens of thousands of taels of silver."

"At this time, the value of the merchants is fully reflected, and through their commercial activities, they transform the original worthless things into the social value of tens of thousands of taels of silver."

"Makes sense!" Zhu Yuanzhang listened and nodded again and again.

"Not bad." Queen Ma said.

The example given by Qin Yu is easy to understand, as long as you are not a fool, you can understand it.

Zhu Yuanzhang was secretly surprised when he heard this: Someone should be able to come up with such a simple truth. But why don't people in all dynasties just don't understand? It's strange that even the saints don't understand.

In ancient times, no one paid attention to commerce, and in the Qing Dynasty, there were emperors who closed off the country.

"What Mr. Qin said is so simple, but the emperors of all dynasties did not see the importance of merchants, could it be that the ancient emperors were stupid? Shengming is like Tang Taizong, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is like this? Zhu Yuanzhang still didn't hold back and asked.

"This question...... I didn't think about it. Qin Yu thought for a moment and said, "Probably because of ......"

"I see." Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly realized when he heard this.

"I see." Queen Ma Road.

"To put it simply, businessmen play a role in resource allocation in society, which can maximize the utilization of social resources and maximize value." Qin Yu said, "Commercial behavior can make the best use of all the things produced by the society, if the things produced cannot be used rationally, production is equivalent to no production, but a waste of social resources." ”

"For example, if there is too much food produced in one place, it cannot be transferred to other places for use, and it rots in the barn, which means that the land does not produce so much food."

"Let's compare a society to the outside world. Farmers are a bit like those plant producers, and the management class that does not produce is the consumer, so the merchant is a bit like the decomposer. ”

"Decomposers are constantly decomposing themselves in the ecosystem, gradually decomposing complex organic matter into inorganic matter that plants can absorb."

"The decomposer is the bridge between the producer and the consumer, and the businessman is also the bridge between the people and the management. Its decomposition enzymes are just one thing – money. ”

Qin Yu's last analogy, neither of them understood,

Their eyes widened: too profound!

Although they didn't understand it, they still understood the importance of merchants.

Businessmen, in fact, do not contribute to society as they thought before.

"It seems that it is wrong for all dynasties to emphasize agriculture and suppress business." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"You don't know until now." Qin Yu said, "It seems that your level of ancient history is not very good." Thinking that the backwardness of Lujia Village led to the backwardness of his cognition, if he found anyone outside, he knew that it was incorrect to emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce in ancient times.

"Contemptible people are not talented, I have to ask Mr. Qin for more advice in the future." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Don't dare to ask for advice, everyone is just talking and playing, passing the time of boredom." Qin Yu said.

"Just now we talked about expanding overseas markets...... Zhu Yuanzhang reminded.

"Yes, in ancient times, expanding overseas markets could greatly alleviate the problem of overpopulation and food shortage." Qin Yu said, "Let merchants buy grain from abroad and sell silk porcelain and other products, so that the society will be revitalized." It not only increases the life and cultural exchanges with other countries in the world, but also introduces high-yield sweet potatoes from Luzon. ”

"Sweet potatoes are a high-yielding and nutritious crop, and with this thing, people are not afraid of not having enough to eat."

"A feudal dynasty that is closed off from the country is a pool of stagnant water, and sooner or later the stagnant water will become moldy and smelly. And the dynasty that opened up trade was the living water, letting the clear spring flow in, and letting the stale water flow out. ”

"Obviously, living water is the only way to feed the fish."

"What Mr. Qin said is so right!" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "It is not simple to be able to explain all historical issues so plainly and understandably. ”

"This should be the so-called Dao Zhi Jian, Mr. Qin has completely done it." Queen Ma sighed, "Although the road is simple, some people don't understand. ”

"But there are also disadvantages to the simplicity of the road." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"What's wrong?" Queen Ma asked strangely.

"That's the people who can't scare those who don't have half a bucket of water. Let them understand it at once, they will subconsciously feel that it is so simple, and I also understand, Mr. Qin is actually nothing remarkable. Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"What are you doing with these second-hand goods?" Queen Ma Road.

"Since ancient times, there have been many people who think they are self-righteous." Qin Yu said surgingly, "They only serve things that sound very lofty and even they don't understand, but they actually don't have much meaning." ”

"In addition, the opening of trade has taken a little bit of a long time to take effect, and it is a little soothing." Qin Yu said, "There is a faster and more direct way than opening up trade. ”

"I want to know the quicker, more direct way." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"That's plundering overseas wealth." Qin Yu said, "Didn't I draw you a world map last time?" You should see, the world is very big. China occupies less than one-tenth of the world's land, and the remaining nine-tenths of the land...... Hehe, that's an incomparably rich resource. If the ancient dynasties of China could come back from plundering a large amount of resources from overseas......"

"You can get rich in an instant."

"Not to mention feeding the population that skyrocketed at that time, it is enough to feed it ten times more."

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up when he heard this, and we like to do things the most. As the founding monarch, basically every one of them was a 'Wu Emperor', not a 'Renzong'.

"Overseas land is rich in gold, silver, iron and copper; Overseas countries have pearls, agate, and coral; And oil, there's gas ......"

"Transporting all these precious metals and important resources to the Central Plains Dynasty and storing them all, accounting for more than 90 percent of the world's stocks, only leave a little bit for them."

"After taking possession of all the wealth of the world, it is used to buy food from neighboring countries and around the world."