Chapter 526: On Business

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Li Chenan looked at Wang Zhenghaoxuan, how many dogs had this kid been bitten by in his previous life!

Su Yi'an and Liu Xiayin were also taken aback, but they saw the young man grinning and said:

"Pretty fat...... Where's your pot? ”

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A bonfire was lit in the small courtyard in the backyard of the Three Flavors Library.

An iron pot hangs from the campfire.

Wang Zhenghao Xuan had already put it in the iron pot, and he took care of the dog after dividing it by two in three times.

Su Yi'an swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and did not forget his business, he looked at Li Chen'an again: "Regent, if you don't let the peasants do business, how can you increase their income?" ”

"Capital is always profit-seeking!"

Li Chenan also retracted his gaze, looked at the two of them, and said:

"Shinong, industry and commerce, this is a class concept that has gradually formed under Confucianism for thousands of years."

"Among them, the merchant has the lowest status."

"In society, businessmen are looked down upon by almost everyone, but there are many people who are actually very envious of those businessmen."

"Why is that?"

"Because the merchant has silver!"

"Merchants have a low status, but they live in the best houses, wear the best clothes, and eat the best food!"

"Let's take a closer look, most of the world's scholars are the children of merchants."

"Why? As Mr. Su said, reading costs money! Farmers with a high status have no money to let their children study, resulting in farmers always being farmers, and even their children and grandchildren are farmers! ”

"But businessmen are different, their children receive the best education, their children are successful in studying, and they become scholars when they become officials in the court!"

"If there is a merchant in the family, he will no longer be a pure businessman, he will become a family!"

"Like you, Su!"

"The Su family started in business, accumulating a lot of wealth, and cultivating many talented children."

"The children of the Su family have produced many officials, which has made the Su family a century-old family in the south of the Yangtze River, and thus entered the ranks of the wealthy families of Ningguo."

"So, in your opinion, is it wrong to pursue that copper smell?"

Su Yi'an was stunned for a moment, he himself is not a businessman, he is the great Confucian of Ningguo!

But after listening to Li Chenan's words, he suddenly understood a problem-

If it weren't for the fact that the Su family in Jiangnan had silver, if the Su family was a farmer, would he be able to read so many books without hindrance?

It's simply impossible!

Not only can I not open the school of Sanwei Book House here, but the life I live is also facing the loess day after day, year after year!

That pursues copper smell...... This doesn't seem wrong.

"If you think there is nothing wrong with that, then there is nothing wrong with the state opening up commerce, boosting commerce, giving confidence to businessmen, and gradually changing the low status of businessmen, so that they can be bold, open, and law-abiding in business and make money!"

Su Yi'an was speechless.

Yanagi Yin's heart shook -

He couldn't argue with it, because the regent's analysis was right!

Didn't the peasants toil to serve the land for the two taels of silver?

They are also seeking the most profit, but their profit can only be produced from the field, which becomes insignificant, and this cannot be compared with the profit obtained by the merchants.

is also the pursuit of profits, that suppresses businessmen to pursue profits, which is unreasonable!

He knew that a huge change in Ningguo was coming!

This is not only a change in social class, if the whole court really implements the regent's view of governing the country, the entire Ning country will be swept away by this huge wave.

Those who can conform to this point of view, who can keenly grasp this opportunity, will stand on the top of the wave!

And those who are old-fashioned...... will be swallowed up by this wave in an instant.

"If you want all children in the world to receive a fair education, there are only two things."

Li Chenan spoke again, and the two immediately restrained their minds and listened carefully.

"First, everyone is rich, especially the farmers with the largest number are also rich, and they are not stupid, of course they will let their children go to school and go to work!"

"Second, the world is rich, which is deceitful and harmful......"

Li Chenan did not explain this sentence, he added:

"So how do you get children who still can't afford to go to school?"

"This requires the country to be rich!"

"When the country is rich, it will have the money to start a free school, so that the children of those families who are still poor can study in the free school...... No silver! ”

"The country's current tax revenue mainly comes from agricultural taxes."

"It's not because of how high the output value of agriculture can be, it's just that the most people are farming!"

"The most moneyless peasants bear a large amount of taxes in a country, in fact, this tax is not much, once there is a war, the imperial court will inevitably increase taxes, or put them on the heads of farmers, making their lives even worse."

"But if commerce develops, and the merchants earn more silver, the main body of the state's tax revenue will change from the peasants to the merchants......"

Li Chenan looked at the two, and the two of them once again showed extremely shocked looks.

This is another huge change beyond their imagination!

The success of this change depended on whether the merchants were able to earn more money to cover the tax that was transferred to them.

If successful, the agricultural tax, which has existed for thousands of years, may be greatly reduced, and the farmers' harvest from the fields will naturally increase.

But how can you ensure that the merchant will be able to earn more money?

This is the law proposed by the Lord Regent to promote industry and commerce!

It turned out that he had already had a mature idea from the time he became the regent, and this idea was a great feat that had never been done before!

No wonder Hua Lao Daru said that those officials in the court were all his followers.

No wonder Hua Lao Ru would say that he might be the light of hope for Ning Guo.

The reason why the word may be used is whether this change can be successfully realized.

Of course, Su Yi'an knows the difficulty of this, but it is precisely because of its difficulty that it is like a bitter cold plum and a proud snow pine...... Cheng, then Ningguo jumped away, splendid and splendid.

Fail...... If the country is not a country, all the forerunners will go down in history and become sinners in history.

Will it fail?

In Su Yi'an's view, only if Li Chenan controls the rudder of the ship Ningguo, he will not fail.

Because only he knew what kind of shore the ship was going to.

No wonder Hua Manting said that he must be the emperor of Ningguo!

Just when Su Yi'an was thinking about this, Li Chenan spoke again:

"Taxes on farmers alone are not enough to make them resilient...... It is also necessary to allow them to increase their wealth while reaping the benefits of the merchants. ”

"What does this need to do?"

"This is the need for a huge development of the handicraft industry!"

"If a businessman wants to increase the efficiency of his products, he must expand the scale and improve the equipment, and his workshop needs a large number of workers!"

"When farming equipment has made great progress, farming does not need so many people!"

"Some of the peasants could go to the fields and go to the merchants' workshops to earn silver."

"They go to the fields and kill two birds with one stone."

"As for how to do it...... Mr. Su, if you go to Kyoto and talk to Wen Zhuyu, you will know. ”

"Let's eat dog meat first."

Xiao Baozi looked up at the night sky, approaching.

How much gold is wasted?

Xiao Baozi's heart hurts.

Hurry up and go back to the inn after eating the dog meat!

If a farmer wants to go to the field, he has to drive the oxen down the field!