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Chapter 263 The City without Virtue (Part 2)

He is not from Handan, and he is completely unfamiliar with the name Guo Zong, and he has no idea that behind this pile of dried corpses is the struggle between industrial and commercial workers in Handan.

The essence of this struggle is about the dispute over the sharing of spoils after the Zhao civil war: the struggle between the emerging industrial and commercial forces led by the Mohist school to fight against the large industrial and commercial forces originally close to the aristocratic relations in Zhao State.

Winners take all, including the iron smelting market, grassland trading market, salt industry and other industries in the entire Zhao State.

The gallows swaying like wind chimes, silently reading who is the winner and who is the loser.

It was originally just a simple, common coup, but the Mohist school turned into a major reshuffle in the Zhao State's monopoly on industry and commerce.

Cooperate and make more wealth.

If you are not cooperative, I will send you to death and force you to go bankrupt.

Under the surface of the fief, among the industrialists and commerce, the Mohist family is the king without crown and the king without crown.

This invisible crown is the huge wealth and principal accumulated by Si Shang for twenty years, which can crush any wealthy businessman or even king and prince today.

The illegitimate prisoner Mi is no longer the same as those students who have studied economics in school for several years. He can only see the appearance of "this big family named Guo Zong colluded with Gongzi Chao and was killed in chaos."

Soon, the gathering people rushed from all directions, and the gangster Mi began to perform her duties and patrol nearby on horseback to maintain order.

All morning there were speeches about "victory", "rescue", "stop war", "non-attack" and so on. From time to time, people also shouted a few times, which sounded quite enthusiastic.

However, everything is afraid of comparison.

When the Mozhe on the wooden platform began to talk about the "grassland trade franchise", the entire venue began to become enthusiastic, and even scared the gangster Mi.

It gave him the feeling that his previous speech was like heating a pot of oil, just like the hot oil that the village community frys croquettes together during the New Year, did some bubbles churning out?

Now, it was like suddenly adding a spoonful of water to the hot oil, causing the oil to splash everywhere, and the whole pot of oil jumped.

Many people shouted below: "Yes! This is real profit! Why are we fighting for? Why are we lending money to Gongzizhang? Isn't it for profit?"

"I said, just tell me, how much profit can this be achieved?"

"Young Master Zhang won't be fine if you don't pay back the money!"

"If he doesn't pay back the money... why do we support him? It's the ultimate truth of heaven and earth!"

Such questions kept coming out of the crowd. Mi was riding a horse while patrolling, and saw a person outside the crowd shook his head and said, "A city without virtue, a city without virtue. Unfaithfulness, unrighteousness, and only knowing profit. How can such a world last? This world is probably over..."

The sanctioned captain Mi couldn't help but curl her lips and smiled, thinking that this was about to be over? Then you didn't go to Si Shang to see the caravans that invested in trade in Chu Yue and even south. I heard that more than a hundred retired martial artists went to Fulou to get down a city for money and robbed a large number of jade and gold from noble people there. I don't know whether it is true or not. Anyway, I said that Si Shang was the income from the trade, and there was no victim to sue, which made a large group of retired land sold. Following the group of people to make a fortune south...

He was too lazy to pay attention to this man, so he rode his horse around from the outside to the side.

On the stage, the ink master said, "How can I pay back the money I borrowed? If you say that if you pay it back by taxes, then will the wool be born on the sheep? Originally, there was a tax of ten yuan, but now I'm levied twenty yuan and then ten yuan for you. This is not good."

"So we discussed it and there are two ways."

"One, I'm using this money to buy a trade license for the entire grassland. Let's raise some money to transport ironware, liquor, silk, purin, and exchange cattle, sheep, horses and alkali from the Hu people. You also know that alkali has been sold in recent years. The Mohist family said that there is an alkali lake near the north of Gaoliu. It can be burned, or invested in money..."

"Then based on the interest, the money you originally invested will be returned annually..."

As soon as he finished speaking, many people who looked rich and looked more dressed and shouted: "Okay, this method is good!"

"I think it's OK!"

But most people shouted, "No! How can we have so much money in our hands? Their big merchants used to take out some money, that is, the hair on the cow. If we invest money again, we will peel ourselves up. Although it is beneficial, in addition to the original profit, we also want to use it as a renewed money."

"That's right, you can't listen to them. This way, we small households are not worth it!"

The san prisoner Mi understood this time. When he was in Si Shang, he had come into contact with such a trade chamber of commerce, which involved the future profit distribution.

If you think about it a little, this method will definitely be beneficial to the rich, because although the rich have invested a lot of money before, it is still less than their own net worth. You can continue to add it later to get annual dividends.

However, some small industrialists and businessmen or farmers don’t have much savings themselves, so they borrowed money from Gongzizhang to do war loans and used this batch of war loans for franchise rights. They have seen the Mohist family’s ability to make money in the iron smelting industry here, and are very sure that they can recover the original principal and interest, but the subsequent interests have nothing to do with them. If they think a little bit long-term, they will definitely not agree.

The world is prosperous and prosperous for profit, and the world is full of love and giving for profit, which is probably the meaning of this.

The ink master on the stage said again: "Then there is a second way."

"The Mo family paid to advance the grassland to trade rights, and then everyone originally lent to Gongzizhang, as well as the grain collected by the city, and counted it as the principal."

"After that, according to the principal and interest dividends, we were paid in advance by the Mo family. By the way, since it was said to be a franchise, we had to investigate and patrol strictly. If we had no money, we could not raise soldiers. If we had no money, we would secretly take goods to the grassland, and if we had no money, we would secretly take goods to the grassland, and if we had no money, we would secretly take goods to the grassland, not to mention whether this would bring swords and gunpowder to the grassland in the future, even if the things sold in our franchise were much less, and if we sold a lot, we would make less money, right?"

"Originally, we wanted to collect taxes at the border. Later, when we thought, it was not good to collect taxes on our own. There was nothing in the Hu people who could transport them in. The taxes collected were all our own. We originally thought that we could rely on taxes to support border patrol soldiers, but now we think about it, which is also converted into a capital dividend."

"Look at what do you think?"

Before this, we had already taken advantage of the opportunity of the siege of the people who were organized and gathered dozens of times. Who doesn’t know the huge profits?

If you think about it a little bit, as long as you can achieve a franchise, it will not be a problem to be a million yuan a year. Especially since I heard that Zhao State also wants to reform the cavalry, this is another big investment, wouldn’t it be profitable?

It sounds like this is extremely beneficial to the people.

In terms of essence, the Mohist development in the north and the development in Si Shang cannot take the same path. In the Si Shang, the Mohist in power, and some methods cannot be used here.

On this side, this franchise is used as the second government of Zhao's industry and commerce and Handan region; using interests to tie the people in Handan region and the industry and businessmen in Zhao's country together.

This kind of franchise development in the later stage will definitely be unfavorable to social development, such as hindering more advanced technologies, using public interest for personal gain within the Chamber of Commerce, carrying private goods more than public goods, etc., but there is no need to consider that far now, and the advancement of technology, the Mohist school did not expect natural development and natural accumulation. It is completely a command study that encourages growth. This is the best model for those who clearly guide "insight into the future and tell the future" without taking detours.

At that time, the orders of the Zhao government will be within the chamber of commerce, even if they are no longer a big deal. Those who dare to take back the franchise, and those who participate will beat the "tyrant" to their heads in minutes. Taking advantage of others is like killing their parents. Even if the monarch kills their parents, they will have to take revenge. This is a very simple way of thinking in Yanzhao.

The uncrowned king of industry and businessmen, the uncrowned king, and the real government of Handan, is the purpose of the Mohist school.

In fact, the wealthy businessman who has really stood in the right direction has already reached an agreement with Mojia.

What the Mohist family needs to do is to pull the bottom and curb the middle class, so that the Mohist family can occupy absolute dominance in the franchise.

Nowadays, it is definitely extremely profitable.

Wars are frequent, leather armor requires leather, cavalry requires horses, new farming technology urgently requires cattle and horses, and burning of 未分春本 requires a large amount of grassland lake alkali in the Datong area, and the emerging woolen textile industry requires a large amount of hair. After all, Handan area is not very suitable for growing cotton.

The Zhao State and the new technologies brought by the Mohist family, such as ironware, purlin, silk, cotton cloth, wool, liquor, and tea, have developed a certain market, and the pricing power is also on the Mohist family.

At the same time, new crops and land changes required by Handan area can increase grain output and support more non-agricultural population engaged in industry and commerce.

The military reform of gunpowder, iron sword, stirrup, chariot formation, and star-shaped border forts also caused the Hu people to completely lose their tactical advantages. The unified grassland enemy countries that had not yet formed could lead to one faction and fight one faction. With a ten thousand people, they could maintain the balance. By the way, they could get Yunzhong, Jiuyuan and others that were extremely suitable for farming under the precipitation line at this time, and naturalized population.

Some Hu people who are close to the border and within the farming line can also use the "class struggle" method to pull the lower-class maid slaves of the Hu people to fight against noble leaders. This is the fastest way to naturalize and a means that feudal dynasties and feudalizations cannot be used.

It is not wrong for the people to seek profit.

Too much profit is a natural resistance to over-correction of the times.

In a society where "agricultural is not as good as laborers, labor is not as good as businessmen, and tattoos are not as good as smiling as leaning on the door", we have never seen the leader of the Mohist family before, and even think that if we can do this now, that would be great.

The reason why Handan is now regarded as a "city of virtue" is mainly because the people bargained with Gongzizhang. After the Mohist school organized it and used the external environment to trick the Zhao nobles into causing a civil war, this kind of bargaining can be achieved.

However, judging from the current "virtue", the people of Handan are indeed unvirtuous - Qiu Jiafu is a tax, and the monarch has the right to collect it, so how can the monarch repay it? Gongzizhang's fief is Handan. If it weren't for Gongzizhang's fief, wouldn't the people of Handan starve to death? How could they let Gongzizhang give up their benefits?

Moreover, the people of the country forced the king to reach a agreement, which was not only unvirtuous, but also without a king or a father. The Mo family didn't care. The evaluation of the king or a father has been memorizing for more than 40 years. Long before joining the Mo family, they criticized Confucianism for being a fatherless or a beast. This is not bad. However, the people of Handan were innocently lured and bewitched, and were brought to the reputation.
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