Fusu sat on the seat.

Ji Heng's words kept thinking about in his mind.

Now he feels that what Ji Heng said is similar to what the first emperor mentioned, 'Jundao industry and art do not take personal likes and dislikes as a choice'.

The other side.

Hu Hai blinked, not understanding at all.

After being quiet for a while, Hu Hai coughed lightly, breaking the silence around him, and he spoke: "Didn't you talk about salt and iron business earlier?" Why did it suddenly turn to Shangjia? And this is not detailed, why didn't I hear that this method is better than the 'government monopoly'? ”

Ji Heng glanced at Hu Hai deeply, and there was a strange look in his eyes.

However, it was not revealed.

Side.

Fusu also followed: "I actually don't seem to understand, I only understand a general idea, but I have no clue how to implement it." ”

"Please elaborate on that, sir."

Fusu's posture was very low.

Ji Heng nodded.

He did say something very rudimentary.

And he temporarily remembered that this time was the day of the last count, and the government was afraid that it would not be able to spare the manpower to study, so he also decided to say more.

He took a deep breath, organized it in his mind, and said slowly: "Briefly speaking, in the operation of salt and iron, the production is mainly by the people, supplemented by the government, and the sales are mainly by the merchants, supplemented by the government. ”

"At the same time, it did not advocate that the government should set up special institutions and equip merchants to engage in the transportation and marketing of salt and iron, but took advantage of the merchants' ready-made sales capacity to hand over the monopoly of salt and iron to merchants for distribution."

"The imperial court is taking advantage of this to collect high commercial taxes!"

"Merchants must obtain the right to distribute in order to sell salt and iron, and there is a certain limit on the number of merchants who can obtain the right to distribute, but the restriction is not too small.

"In addition."

"The monopoly price of salt and iron must be limited by the imperial court."

"It can't be too high, it's not too low."

"Then avoid the emergence of businessmen in the world who are rich and rival the country!"

"By controlling the production process, the imperial court adjusted the price of salt and iron sold, and effectively stabilized the price of salt and iron, so as to realize that most of the profits of salt and iron were owned by the state."

Hearing Ji Heng speak carefully, Fusu had roughly figured it out.

It's just that I still have some doubts in my heart.

He spoke: "Sir's idea is naturally excellent, but I have some uncertainty, and I ask Mr. to explain my doubts." ”

"According to Mr. Gentleman's suggestion, it is clear that the functions of the government are divided into three, some officials are responsible for supervising the production of the people, some are responsible for allocation and distribution, and some are responsible for collecting taxes.

"Waste?" Ji Heng's eyes were serious, and he said in a deep voice: "You haven't realized how big the benefits of the salt and iron business are, this is an item related to the lives and production of the vast majority of people in the world, and there is no room for any difference. ”

"A government office can do these things."

"But have you ever wondered how much power the official in charge of salt/iron has in control of when salt/iron is placed under a single bureau? And how much stake is in place? ”

"The benefits are moving."

"As long as one person is selfish, how many interests can they be involved in a casual word?"

"They even dare to take risks for the sake of profit."

"When the time comes, they will find some excuses, detain some salt and iron, and sell them to merchants, and they will make a lot of money back and forth."

"Even they don't need to sell to outside businessmen, they can cultivate their own businessmen, and then borrow the hands of these businessmen to make profits for themselves, and the entire government office will become a place of greed."

"Everyone is greedy, that is, they are not greedy."

"It's just that there was an accident at the bottom of the production, so you can just make up some reasons and prevaricate the top."

"I have to suffer at the bottom, and I am poor and poor."

Hear the words.

Fusu only felt creepy.

He hadn't thought about the corruption of officials before, but he just wanted to concentrate the functions of the official office.

But after Ji Heng's awakening, he suddenly reacted.

The stakes are too great for salt and iron.

I have to guard against it.

It's just that he was still a little incredulous, and said in a trembling voice: "The officials of Great Qin really dare to be so mad? How dare you be so lawless? Is there no law in their eyes? ”

Ji Heng sneered and said, "Law? ”

"How much is the law worth?"

"How much money does salt and iron bring them?"

"And why do you think the law governs them?"

"They're officials!"

"Daqin's current law, even Xiang Liang and the others can't control it, and they still want to control the officials?"

"You underestimate the allure of money."

"What's more, these people don't think that they will be found, and even if they are found, they will not think that they have really made a mistake, they will only think that they are too careless and have been caught by the court."

"That's all."

"This is also the main reason why I oppose the monopoly of salt and iron."

"The harm of officials doing business is too great for the imperial court, and today there are still 'officials are officials' and 'rich are rich', once the precedent of officials doing business is opened, officials are no longer just officials, but 'powerful people', these people are powerful, rich and expensive."

"When these people become completely powerful in the place, do you think they will still take the imperial court in their eyes?"

"How much money can the imperial court collect then?"

"As I said before, don't test your humanity."

"Human nature does not stand the test."

""Shang Junshu" and "Han Feizi" have clearly told you that once interests are involved, let alone fathers and sons, husbands and wives, relatives and friends, these can't be trusted."

"You can't even trust your relatives, let alone an official who has nothing to do with you?"

"The only thing that can be done is to use containment."

"Torture to punishment!"

"In addition, it can only decentralize its functions as much as possible, and then achieve multi-party supervision, so that people dare not easily corrupt."

"But it's hard to really solve the problem."

"But now we can only do prevention."

"If you want to take further precautions, it's not very possible."

"Unless." Ji Heng's eyes were slightly closed, and a different color appeared in his eyes.

"Unless what?" Fusu said hurriedly.

Ji Heng chuckled lightly and said: "Unless the productivity is greatly improved, and a few liters of salt cannot be sold for a penny, the profit is extremely low, so low that the officials think it is not worth being corrupt." ”

"But it is not destined to be possible at the moment."

Fusu's expression darkened.

He thought there was a way to put an end to it, but it turned out to be just an unrealistic fantasy.

But soon.

And he adjusted his mind.

It is unrealistic to think about eradicating all corruption at the moment, and it is good to be able to effectively prevent it.

At least he knew what the problem was by now.

Avoid getting headlong into it.

He couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I really didn't expect that there are so many ways to operate salt and iron, if it weren't for Mr. Guidance, otherwise Daqin would not be able to escape this catastrophe." ”

"The functions of salt officials and iron officials should indeed be dispersed."

"It's dangerous."

Ji Heng said lightly: "Don't worry too much for the time being, after all, the eight characters have not been skimmed yet, and when the salt and iron system under the supervision of the government is officially established, it is not too late for you to worry." ”

Fusu nodded.

He continued to ask: "According to what Mr. said, Daqin wants to hire a group of people to produce salt and iron, can it directly requisition the personnel who originally produced in Yanjing Yanchi?" ”

Ji Heng pondered for a moment, nodded, and said, "Yes." ”

"But only salt workers and slaves."

"Anyone who has a close relationship with the merchant must be kicked out."

"Huh?" Fusu was stunned for a moment, and wondered: "Can't you leave a few people?" These people were more familiar with the salt production in the salt ponds, which was also convenient for the auxiliary officials to supervise, and also conducive to future contact with merchants. ”

"None of them?"

"None of them will be left." Ji Heng's voice was very cold, and he said in a deep voice: "I know what you think, with these people who manage on a daily basis, the officials can save a lot of trouble in their daily lives, and the imperial court can also control the salt ponds and salt wells in various places as soon as possible." ”

"There's one thing to remember."

"Don't give businessmen any chance to taint themselves with power."

"Try your best to avoid the possibility of corruption in the middle."

"Merchants are a group of mercenary existences, these people are very good at climbing up the pole, as long as they are given a chance to climb up, they will spare no effort to seize it."

"With the help of businessmen, you can save a lot of trouble."

"But once the businessmen hook up with the low-level officials, it will inevitably form a confluence of officials and businessmen, and in the long run, it will definitely breed a lot of corruption.

"And then take control of the country's economy."

"Merchants seek profit."

"Eventually corruption will only continue to spread and eventually flood the entire empire."

"A businessman's job is to do business."

"The duty of a ruler is to oversee."

"The salt worker's job is to produce."

"Do your job and don't try to mix things up."

"Once it is mixed, it will breed a lot of unexpected things, and salt and iron are widely involved in interests, which will only lead to rampant corruption in the end."

"You can't be greedy for a moment and shake the whole rule."

Ji Heng's face was solemn.

He wasn't alarmist.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once tried to appoint merchants from all over the country as salt officials and salt officials for a while, and these merchants only took more than ten years to completely corrupt the rule of the Han officials, and then in the name of being willing to suffer for the people, the salt and iron business was restored to private operation, resulting in the imperial court's 'insufficient use'.

It was also from this time that the merchants began to merge with the aristocracy.

Merchants are incomparably greedy.

Once they find an opportunity, they will use various ways and means to seek competition for the country's resources, so as to make huge profits, so as to achieve their own wealth and rival the country, and then threaten the centralized power.

Now, under the guidance of the Great Qin policy, the status of merchants is very low, and officials and nobles look down on merchants at all

But in the environment of great unification, businessmen are destined to grow up, and what Ji Heng has to do is to put a pair of shackles on the businessmen as much as possible, and then put them in a cage, even if the businessmen break free from the cage in the future, they will still have to wear shackles.

I feel that 20,000 words can't work, it's too tiring.

I'm working hard!

Whining.

(End of chapter)