The Bureau of Statistics should not only pay attention to confidentiality, but also pay attention to social surveys, but also use these materials to implement various progressive tax policies and monetary adjustment policies for wealthy households to stabilize prices.

He even used some very extreme means to manipulate prices and absorb wealth.

For example, when controlling the grain and ensuring that the treasury's grain can fight an economic war, it is forced to order money from the rich and usury's loan, and at the same time cut off official sales of food, causing the grain prices to rise in a certain place. After borrowing the money from the rich and usury's money, the grain prices also rose rapidly under the control of the national treasury. At this time, it was announced that there was no money to pay it back, and the grain would be paid according to the price at that time.

It’s not okay to not have the rich, and I think the rich did not suffer any losses because the food prices were indeed very high at that time.

After paying back the grain, the grain was quickly released to stabilize the price of goods, so that the price of grain was reduced. This was equivalent to asking the rich households to borrow 10,000 yuan. This 10,000 yuan could have bought 2,000 jin of grain, but when paying back the money, the price of grain increased by 10,000 yuan and only bought 200 jin of grain. At this time, 300 jin of grain was used to return the interest to the rich and usury, including 50% of the interest. Then the treasury's stored grain was sold, which was equivalent to asking the rich and borrowed 10,000 yuan but only paid back 3,000 yuan...

Whether the means are available does not depend on the truth, but it is thought that the country regulates and manipulates prices. The economic school of Qi has become extremely advanced.

In fact, the economic theory of the Qi State School is to make the king the largest merchant in the country, with the right to mint coins and taxes, and sufficient funds and complete goods.

When Tian He learned that Duke Huan of Qi was very excited when he heard the idea of ​​"national trajectory", he asked: "I want to establish a statistical bureau and want to manipulate prices, but what should I do?"

Guan Zhong finally answered the first "official mountain and sea" question in the system and said: "This requires the use of the official mountain and sea policy, and the monarch's natural resources and salt goods specialized in the mountains and seas owned by the monarch as reserves to establish a special financial institution and support the National Bureau of Statistics."

This set of institutions uses the money from the official and sea policies, and uses the information from the National Bureau of Statistics to lend to support industry and commerce, regulate prices and collect progressive taxes, and use money and taxes to build money.

For example, lending in wealthy places and eating interest; lending to support horses in places where horses are raised has increased, so that the number of horses in Qi can increase; purchasing grain in times of bumper grain harvest to regulate prices; selling grain in places with developed textile industries can reduce prices to purchase textiles to promote industry and commerce, etc.

For example, when using price control methods, the manipulated prices can be used to exchange for relatively depreciated horses from the rich after the price rises, etc., and after payment, the treasury has sufficient reserves of other goods, allocate horses to the border areas, and use loans to allow people in the border areas to purchase national horses. This can not only collect interest, but also make the chariots in the border areas sufficiently reserve, and exempt the "chulla fu" in the border areas.

There are so many things, in short, just a few points.

"Dividing the goods with it" and differential rent replace labor rent, promote agricultural development, impose in-kind taxes, and change the land system.

Relying on taxation policies to rob the rich and help the poor, and using tax regulation to promote regional economic development and industrial inclination.

The "National Track" Statistics Bureau and the "bank" supported by supporting the official and sea policies and national taxes were established to support loans to support industry and commerce and lend for profits. Relying on moderate monetary taxes to promote currency circulation and suppress usury, the "National Track" became the largest lending institution in the country. Indirect tax manipulation of salt and other indirect taxes was achieved, so that "pulling the goose feathers and making the goose feel pain" was achieved, making the Duke of Qi the country's largest asset controller and enough to manipulate prices.

The strategy of official mountains and seas is not a state-owned business. In essence, it is actually that the state collects land rent, such as boiling salt and smelting, which can be contracted to private people, and then the lord collects land rent and dividends, or it may be considered as a share capital of the mountain forest and seashore that belongs to the lord as the capital, which can expand production and make management easier.

Because the class behind the economic school of Qi State was some aristocrats who carried out industry and commerce, they needed a theory of standing up.

All of this seems to have many similarities with the policies of the Mohist family in Si. Tian He believes that this method is enough to enrich the country, but he forgot to consider how many economically-based officials and cadres are needed to form such a system. The Mohist family has invested 20 years in education to barely do it in Si. Qi State will definitely not be able to do it, and it is easy to cause chaos.

And this just looks the same, but in fact the core is completely different from that of the Mohist school.

This huge difference stems from the article "Extraordinary" written by Tuan Guan Zhong, which focuses on economic activities to promote consumption and production. However, because it is inconsistent with the Mohist theory of "The Rich Country", it will inevitably lead to many problems.

The problems of core ownership and labor acquisition of wealth are difficult to solve, and at the macroeconomic level, the strategies of the Qi State Economic School also have great differences with the Mohist school.

Consumption, investment, and exports are the three carriages of the macro economy.

The economic foundation of the Mohist school is "Sales and Applications". After completing the transformation, it expands the external market and uses the tax-free treaties of Yue and Chu, and dumps in large quantities.

At the same time, internal land reforms have created a large number of self-cultivated farmers with low-level handicraft consumption capacity. Without greatly harming their interests - for example, the Si Shang Dispute is now discussing whether to impose taxes on imported grains outside Si Shang to protect the interests of Si Shang farmers, even if it harms the interests of Si Shang self-cultivated farmers - the theory of "Saving and Use" as a high investment, and the use of "Tian Zhi" as the principle to conduct technological monopoly and upgrades, and while exporting a large amount of money, the consumption market of internal self-cultivated farmers is expanded.

Ensure the basic stability of self-cultivated farmers internally to provide sufficient troops and internal markets, and rely on duty-free exports to exchange for precious metals such as currency and copper, and continue to invest and develop again.

The Qi State Economic School attaches too much importance to the anti-promotion effect of consumption, and also hopes to rebalance the regulatory policies that cannot be seen.

The issue of investment and export is not important, and the official mountain and sea policy mainly uses the monarch's ownership of mountain and sea, and the charge is essentially land rent. Most of the means of profiting from the "national track" are actually either land rent or interest, which looks beautiful, but it will inevitably lead to big problems when implemented, similar to the "Qing Miao Law" that caused great chaos in later generations. The core of the Qi School is "the people do not increase taxes but the country uses its feet."

This issue is also a major difference between the Qi Economic School and the Mohist Economic School.

For example, in the issue of "Festival Burial" and "Festival Use", the Mohist idea was to accumulate capital and reinvest in production, so that horses, cattle, sheep, cloth, grain and even population could double within 20 years. Using land reform, there were no great nobles in Si Shang, and the reproduction products were invested into the external market, constantly eroding the world.

However, the Economic School of Qi believes that "the funeral is to raise money, and when one comes, one comes together, it is to get along. This is called a convoy. The huge burial is the reason why the poor are the people; the beautiful ridges and tombs are the reason why the carpenters are the reason why the carpenters are the reason why the carpenters are the reason why the carpenters are the reason. There are many clothes and quilts, so the women are the reason. Therefore, there are times, there are differences and burials. This is the way to eat together, and then the people will benefit each other and the preparations for the war will be in harmony."

In other words, not only should we have to be rich in burial, but we should also vigorously promote it as a custom.

Not only should we vigorously promote it, we should also dig huge tombs so that the poor can have work; decorate grand cemeteries and give carvings and painting craftsmen to do work; create huge coffins to make the carpenters make their fortune; use more clothes and quilts to make women profitable. This is not enough, there are also various memorial bags, various ceremonial guards and various burial items. Use these methods to keep the poor and then make the people benefit.

By the same token, the Qi State Economic School encourages consumption and luxury, and believes that consumption can promote investment and development.

For example, the economic school of Qi believes that it is necessary to advocate eating the best diet, listening to the best music, carving the eggs, cooking them, carving the firewood and burning them. The holes of the cinnabar minerals should not be blocked, so that merchants should not be dull. Let the nobles spend extravagantly and let the poor work and find employment. In this way, the people will live and work in peace and feel excited and have food to eat.

For example, in the years of famine, nobles should be encouraged to build palaces. Why? Because the more famine the more troubles it is, the more you are, the nobles should build palaces so that refugees can work and promote the redistribution of wealth. When can the rich eat and drink eggs, they have to carve the eggs with flowers, and even burn a piece of wood, so that there will be no crisis in the world.

These are all differences between the Qi School and the Mohist School on economic issues. It sounds like the Qi Economic School’s statement is very reasonable, but in fact there is a huge problem hidden.

The economic school of Qi actually recognized the existence of the "eating class" such as the aristocracy, and greatly recognized the importance of the educating aristocracy to the national economy.

In the model of the Qi State Economic School, it is like this: industrial and commercial development, capital investment, and product production, but the underlying purchasing power is insufficient, and there will definitely be a problem of relatively oversupply of goods. This requires a "third class" as the main consumer force.

This "third class" is aristocrat who mainly relies on land rent. Their existence is not only reasonable in terms of "ethics and laws", but also in terms of "economics". If they do not exist, then who will consumer goods be sold to? If consumer goods cannot be sold, where will the lower-level people have money to work for?

Therefore, in the theory of the Qi State Economic School, capital is invested in production, the bottom sells labor, and the aristocrats as consumers form a stable triangular structure.

Industry and businessmen hired the bottom-level production, and sold the products to the nobles of Shili to recover funds and stabilize production.

In this stable triangular structure, the nobles of the savage not only can exist, but must exist. Without them, the entire economy will collapse, which will lead to insufficient consumption and the inability to redistribute wealth, and the unemployment of the lower class people.

In the theoretical model of the Mohist school, there are no nobles who have benefited, or they are going to be eliminated.

The theory of the Mohist school has basically taken shape, namely, investment, production, looking for a market to sell things and exchange them for money, invest and re-production.

What should I do if the market is insufficient? Internal land reform creates a large number of self-cultivated farmers with consumption capacity.

What should I do if the land cost is too high? Get rid of the land aristocrats, reduce costs, or directly collect state rent. Otherwise, if the land aristocrats exist, they need to pay the land rent to the aristocrats to expand production, resulting in an increase in costs, and the increased costs are added to the commodity.

What should I do if internal consumption is still saturated? Instead of creating a third class, I look for a market outside. Chu and Yue dump it; the capital I returned is invested and reproductive, and the market is not enough. I continue to look out, and I will go out to start a war for the market, sail, and go deep into the territory of those natives who are still eating raw and drinking blood today.

Not only do we go deeper, but we also need to transform the world according to the will of capital. For example, we continue to carry out bourgeois land reform in controlled areas, expand the number of people with consumption capacity, expand capital, expand the number of employees, continue to expand the market, and then continue to invest and continue to produce such a snowball after feedback.

Until one day... when the snowballs were so hard that I couldn't continue... that was not what the Mohist family now had to take care of.

The Mohist school recognized the consumption promotion and balance theory of the Qi economic school, but there was no room for the "third class" to exist in the Mohist school.

This leads to the fact that the Mohist system is not stable, but needs to constantly move outward and transform the entire world according to the will of capital, otherwise he will be crushed to death by the snowballs that are getting bigger and bigger.

The theory of the Qi State School is internally stable, which is also in line with the characteristics of the era when there were a large number of nobles at this time. They had to consider the existence of nobles and believed that they had created a perfect and self-consistent "stable structure" to rely on the third-class food and benefit aristocrats as consumers and promote economic development.

In the view of the Qi school, the Mohist system is unstable, because one day the infinitely expanded capital will cause trouble due to insufficient markets and will never be stable. Therefore, it seems that the Mohist system has great flaws.

In the previous debate between the Mohist school and Yang Zhu and Lie Yuko, the Qi school also refuted the issues of "Festival and Funeral" from the perspective of "ritual" but from the economic perspective.

The Qi school believes that the Mohist school will inevitably lead to insufficient consumption. The Mohist school will one day explode with reinvestment, which will lead to too many commodities but cannot be sold. When the funeral and funeral use is only accumulated but not consumed, frugal and abandon gifts, and make so many commodities that cannot be sold, what should you do? Without the nobles of food and profit, who will buy your Chinglin? Relying on the rich businessmen? How many rich businessmen are there in the world now? The richest ones are the nobles with a lot of fiefs, and they are the cornerstones for economic stability. Your Mohist school will do the world like this, and it will be like you. A war for profit is inevitable, so you can't do it like the Mohist school.

The era of debate has begun, and the theories of various schools are constantly forming systems, transcending the original germination and enlightenment, and still thinking about more profound content.

Qi State has its own doctrine.

So Tian He was convinced that he found another path different from Wei, Qin, Chu and Mo families.

A path to enrich the country that can maintain the stability of the nobles and promote economic development, and can also explain the perfect path of the Tian family's dynasty in terms of legitimacy.
Chapter completed!