Chapter 850: Merchants are indispensable

For farmers to produce crops, workers produce goods is still very understandable.

But the merchant produces wealth, and they don't understand it, but it seems to make some sense that the merchant does have more wealth than the others, and it is much, much more.

If you don't understand, ask.

So Yan Ju opened his mouth and asked, "Emperor, I don't really understand what you mean, can you elaborate on it."

Qin An bowed his head and said, "Yes, my purpose today is to make this matter clear, I want to tell you that in a country, Shinong and industry are indispensable.

Their status is equal, and no one is greater than the other.

The country is people-oriented, and the people are food-oriented. Therefore, a country cannot do without peasants, and when there are peasants, there are workers.

The workers began by making agricultural tools and a range of tools of life, and then by weapons.

Over time, merchants emerged among the workers, who saw the opportunity to sell the tools they made and other daily necessities to those in need.

Even some of the brave workers hired the workers to work for themselves directly with their wages, and when they sold their goods to the peasants, they bought a lot of grain from the peasants and sold them to the workers.

Slowly, the merchant was formed.

Merchants create wealth that everyone sees flowing into the pockets of the people, but they don't know that they also pay taxes.

Because all dynasties and dynasties have had policies of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce, or when the policy of opening up merchants is opened, there are also policies to be taken for merchants.

In fact, those are all stupid policies, including the policies before the imperial court, they are all very stupid, but there is nothing to be done."

The people under the city couldn't help but exclaim, looking at Emperor Qin An incredulously.

Someone dared to say that the policy of the imperial court was stupid, and sure enough, the emperor deserved to be the emperor, and he was really not afraid of heaven and earth.

Gan Luo said softly, "Is the emperor a little too much, and the court also wants to save face."

Zhang Liang sneered: "You know that the imperial court wants to save face, doesn't the emperor know? The emperor is retreating as an advance, so that everyone will know that the court has done something wrong, and then put forward their own views later, and the people will be more convinced."

Gan Luo bowed his head and said, "You're right, the emperor's actions really can't be speculated by common sense."

"Does the emperor mean the merchant or the worker, the peasant's fault?" Yan Ju said in a deep voice,

Qin An shook his head and said, "No, it's not your fault, it's the inevitability of social development, businessmen, it's a product of society.

Without merchants, people would just barter and go back to primitive times.

With merchants, we invented money, knew about transactions, set prices for goods, and reformulated the rules for the original barter, making the world more orderly.

It's just the first benefit after the appearance of merchants, and the second benefit is to let the goods of the world circulate, the south can have the goods of the north, and the north can also have the goods of the south.

Speaking of grain, hybrid rice has been planted in the land of Baiyue now, and hybrid rice with two crops a year has a yield of more than 1,000 catties per acre of land, while the annual yield of your acre of land is only 200 catties at most.

There is so much grain in the land of Baiyue, it is impossible for the imperial court to take it away, and the rest of the grain can only be sold.

Merchants are needed at this time, who will buy the surplus grain from the people, and then they will transport the grain to the north and sell it to you.

This is just an analogy, today I am not talking about merchants, but commerce, a merchant cannot form a business, but requires countless merchants to do business, and then slowly appear commerce.

As for why I say business, it's because business plays a vital role in the development of the country.

For you, you may not understand, but for me, a person in the future, business is an indispensable existence of the country.

Its role in the country is multifaceted, it is an important part of the country's economic activities, and it plays a vital role in the country's economic development and social progress."

Qin settled for a moment, and then looked

He said to the people of the city, "I know that there are many merchants among you who are looked down upon and even oppressed by the officials when you are doing business.

But it doesn't matter, now that I'm here, I'm going to make you look up, and I'm going to make the officials dare not squeeze you."

"The Emperor is wise." A merchant immediately shouted.

"The Emperor is wise." Soon someone chimed in.

Then one after another Emperor Wise appeared, the people who shouted this sentence were all businessmen, Qin An said their hearts, and at the same time, they also gave them confidence, because the Emperor supported them.

"Quiet, please be quiet." Qin An said.

The scene immediately fell silent.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yan Ju spoke again and said, "Emperor, let's talk about the role of commerce, if you don't explain it to you, I'm afraid that the people present don't know why businessmen are on an equal footing with everyone."

"yes." One farmer whispered, "Merchants are a bunch of people who are not producers, so why should they be on an equal footing with us?"

"The ones I don't like the most are these merchants."

"What contribution do the flies and dogs have?"

Although the voices of the people were small, they couldn't stand the crowd, so the voices became louder, and the merchants near them wanted to refute after hearing it, but because the number of the other party was too large, even if they had a three-inch tongue, they couldn't argue with others.

Qin An looked at the voices discussing below, smiled slightly, and said, "Everyone, please be quiet, I'll explain it to you now."

The scene was quiet again.

Qin An explained, "I know people will be curious, so I will talk about businessmen first, then business, and finally about developing business.

Businessman, I've said that, now let's talk about business, its role in the state.

First of all, commerce created abundant material wealth for the country through the exchange of goods and the provision of services, and the so-called material wealth included food, clothing, houses, and so on.

Everything needed for food, clothing, shelter and transportation is material wealth.

If there were no merchants, you would have to make your own clothes, your food and everything you have on you.

This will lead to social regression, and you will only know the things of your own acre and a third of the land, but you will not know the affairs of the world.

If the world, and indeed the whole world, are in such a state, then there will be no kites in the world, and there will be no unity."

"Emperor, are you a little alarmist?" Yan Ju said.

"Am I alarmist?" Qin An sneered, "You go and ask those farmers who are farming, how many times a year can they leave their one-third of an acre of land?

How long have they been aware of the world's major events?

You go and ask those merchants, how many times a year do they leave Handan City? What's new?"