"Do you know that the five taels of silver you just gave out are enough to maintain the livelihood of ordinary people for two or three years, maybe these silver taels are not worth mentioning to you, but for many people, they can't earn by working hard to support their families, can you say that it doesn't matter?"

The gray-robed man seemed a little excited when he said this, perhaps in his opinion, Shao Xi's easy gift of the five taels of silver to others was an act of not knowing the suffering of others.

Although the silver belonged to Shao Xi, he looked heartbroken.

It's not hard to understand why a person struggling to survive will naturally feel a little indignant when he sees that others are completely inappropriate for the money he has worked so hard to earn.

This is like a farmer who sees that someone is wasting food, and maybe the bowl of rice that was thrown away by someone is not grown by himself, but he deeply understands that food is not easy to come by, and he will naturally feel disgusted with waste.

At this time, the gray-robed man was in this mood, it didn't matter if the five taels of silver were his or not, he just felt that Shao Xi didn't know how to cherish everything he had now.

Shao Xi naturally understood what he was thinking, but he still refuted.

"Important, of course important! How can you support your family without money? But do you think the silver itself is the most important thing? I'm not a sage, and I don't talk too much.

"I just want to ask you, the beggar on the side of the road, you gave him a penny, and let him buy five steamed buns or bread enough to feed him for two meals, and then what? He's going to go begging again, he's still a beggar, do you think you're helping him?

"No, you just turned him from a hungry beggar into a well-fed beggar, but then he continues to starve, do you think it makes sense to give him this penny?

"Helping someone solve the current dilemma, maybe the recipient will be grateful to you, but when he faces the dilemma again, he will only hope that there will be another person like you, but he will not think about how to solve the dilemma in front of him himself.

"Just like the five taels of silver I gave out just now, it helped you solve the current predicament, and also helped those soldiers who couldn't pay the silver to solve the current predicament.

"But then you are likely to encounter the same dilemma, if there is no person like me at that time, do you still have to use your previous methods to solve it?

"Teaching people to fish, it is better to teach people to fish, the important thing is not how much you help people, but how you help people, money is important, but more important is how to use money to change the situation of yourself and others.

"If you just make money to eat over and over again, and then make money and eat again, won't people live like pigs and dogs? Money should be something that helps you solve your problems, not let it become your problems.

"That's why I still say that money is only needed but it doesn't matter, otherwise you will go from being the owner of the money to being a slave to the money, and from you controlling the money to controlling you."

The man seemed to have not been able to fully digest what Shao Xi said for a while, looked down at the wine bowl in front of him, and kept turning the bowl with his hand, as if he was slowly understanding the truth in Shao Xi's words.

In fact, what Shao Xi wants him to understand is that although money is important, what is more important is what you can do with the money in your hands? How to make the money in your hands more and more? So much so that you can use it to help others solve their problems.

This is the real purpose of money and the value that should exist!

If it is only to satisfy one's own selfish desires, then one will make oneself a slave to money, and let oneself be swayed by money.

When a person lives only for money, then his life becomes worthless, not even as good as a penny of money in front of him.

Money is only to make a person live better, not for a person to live for money, it is essential in a person's life, but it should not become the most important thing in a person's life.

Many people become blind for the sake of money, and they ignore the important thing, which is that there are many things in a person's life that are more important and beautiful than money.

Therefore, Shao Xi has never been greedy for pleasure because he has wealth in his hands, and he has been trying to find ways to make the wealth in his hands more meaningful.

In addition to using his existing wealth to earn more wealth, he used all the wealth he could not use up to help others.

He understood that the real wealth was not the amount of money in his hands, but the people he helped.

He opened a bookstore in Daliang City, improved the printing and papermaking techniques, and solved the problems of reading and writing for students all over the world.

He opened a school so that those poor and homeless children could have books to read and go to school, which changed their future lives.

He helped the local yarn mills and cloth merchants solve the tax problem in Yujiang County, and helped the surrounding counties to open up the sales channels of mulberry silk.

In the process, he spent a lot of money himself, but he also earned a lot of money, which not only enriched the treasury, but also allowed him to help more people in the future.

This is the meaning of the existence of wealth in his hands.

Some people may say that if they have so much wealth in Shao Xi, who wouldn't do these things?

But Shao Xi didn't have much money in his hands at the beginning, he just knew how to use the money where it should be used.

In Shao Xi's opinion, his real wealth is the people he has helped with spending a lot of money, and these people will bring him more in the future.

So does money matter? Significant! But the most important thing is always how to use the money in hand.

For the same amount of money, some people can use it to achieve great things, while others will only sit and eat nothing, and in the end they will still have nothing.

So does money matter? It's the people who matter, the people who use the money!

The man was silent for a long time, as if he had tasted something from Shao Xi's words, and there was a relieved expression on his face.

Maybe he was once troubled by money, maybe now he is troubled by money, but Shao Xi's words seem to make him see a new direction, that is, money is not only used to spend, but can also be used to do more things.

People often say that money can pass through the gods, so it depends on which way you use money to pass through the gods? What can this path of immortality bring you? Or maybe after you have money, maybe you yourself are the fairy.

The man seemed to understand these truths, so he got up and arched his hand at Shao Xi and said: "I didn't expect that Your Excellency is young but already understands the truth of this world, and you are really superficial, and here you are here to apologize to Your Excellency for your inappropriate words before." ”

Shao Xi also hurriedly got up and bowed back: "Where and where, different personal circumstances naturally have their own opinions on the things in this world, I can't say who is right and who is wrong, I can only say that there are too many helplessness and involuntary feelings, and I have deep feelings below, and I haven't asked Your Excellency for your name?" ”

"In the lower grandson of Poyun, he has been going back and forth inside and outside this Jade Dragon Pass, and what he has done is to offer a reward, because he uses a knife under it, so his friends on the rivers and lakes have sent him to the next nickname 'Cloud Breaking Knife', and he has not yet consulted Your Excellency."

"In Xia Shaoxi, the Xi of Morning Dawn, because he doesn't often walk around the rivers and lakes, he doesn't have any nicknames, just call me by my name."

Sun Poyun picked up the wine jar on the table and poured the wine of the two of them, picked up the wine bowl and saluted Shao Xi: "Thank you Gongzi Shao for relieving the siege today, I respect Gongzi Shao for this bowl." ”

Shao Xi picked up the wine bowl and touched Sun Poyun, the two drank it all, raised each other's hands and sat down.

Shao Xi pointed to the woman sitting next to Sun Poyun with some curiosity, and asked, "Brother Sun's trip this time is a matter of being entrusted to find someone?" ”

Before Sun Poyun could reply, the woman spoke first: "How can I ask him to come to me?" I originally came to the Central Plains to visit the mountains and rivers and see the great mountains and rivers of the Jingyuan Dynasty.

"How did I know that I was caught by him just after passing this Jade Dragon Pass, and he had to forcibly take me home, so that I ran away in vain now, and even got a chain to lock me up."

Although this woman speaks fluent Chinese, she has a strong Western accent, but her voice is clear and beautiful, and if she sings, she must be tactful and melodious, which is intoxicating.

Shao Xi didn't expect this woman to take the initiative to speak, but she was confused when she heard what this woman said, and turned her head to look at Sun Poyun.

At this time, Sun Poyun was also embarrassed, and explained to Shao Xi: "This girl's name is Aliya, she is from Wuhai Country, and I was entrusted by her father to find and send her who ran away from home and sent her back to Wuhai Country.

"His father was a wealthy merchant in Wuhai Kingdom, and he was worried that his daughter would run to the Central Plains alone for fear of encountering any danger, so he sent a reward notice to ask someone to go to the Central Plains to find her daughter, so I took over the business, and then returned to the Central Plains from Wuhai Kingdom.

"I didn't know that I was found just after the Jade Dragon Pass, this girl didn't want to go back with me, so I had to lock her feet in desperation, lest she escape halfway, after all, this trip has a lot of reward, I don't want to miss the opportunity, it's really helpless."

As soon as his words fell, Alia grabbed the confession on the side and said: "I didn't say that I wouldn't go back, I just wanted to go to the Central Plains to have a look, I heard since I was a child that the Central Plains is picturesque, and there are many delicious things, so what's wrong with wanting to see it?"

"I, Atta, always treat me like a child, always want to tie me to his side, I'm seventeen years old and haven't been out of Wuhai Country, is it wrong for the canary in the cage to want to fly into the sky?"

Sun Poyun was told by Aliya and didn't know how to answer for a while, so he had to shake his head helplessly.

Shao Xi finally understood what was going on on the side, and after a long time, Sun Poyun was helping Arya's father bring his daughter back.

However, this shackles on his feet are indeed a bit excessive, no wonder the group of soldiers just now mistakenly thought that Sun Poyun was a human trafficker who abducted people.

Hearing that Aliya is a native of Wuhai Country, and Sun Poyun is also going to bring Alia back to Wuhai Country this time, Shao Xi was interested, so he raised his hand and beckoned to Sun Lichang.

Sun Lichang saw Shao Xi's call, and hurriedly got up and walked over, because he was already in the Jade Dragon Pass at this time, and was about to leave the Central Plains, so Sun Lichang's name for Shao Xi also changed.

"I don't know what Shao Gongzi commands?"

"Shopkeeper Sun, are we going to Wuhai Country this time?"

"Exactly, the destination of the caravan this trip is Wuhai Country."

"So, can we take both of them with us on this trip?"

"It's all up to Childe's arrangement."