Chapter 264 The City of No Virtue (Part 2)
The people of Handan’s feelings towards the Mohist school are generally in a very delicate state.
As the heartfelt intention of the Mohists in the north of the Yellow River and the earliest large-scale vertical furnace iron smelting base north of the Yellow River, Handan has had a subtle influence over the past ten years.
However, as the earliest city of the Zhao family, Handan City missed the team in Jianzi and Xiangzi's era, with the tense relationship between Zhao and Wei in recent years, the pressure Ximen Bao put on Zhao in Ye, and the most important hundreds of years of habits and consciousness, many people are still in a somewhat embarrassed stage.
Sorry, this is actually very easy to understand.
Gongzizhang is a good person. Gongzizhang is very nice to us. We even need interest when we lend him money, and even take advantage of the situation to rob him and demand his own rights and interests. This ultimately makes many people feel that it is very bad.
From being ignorant and unwilling to be a bitch with other nobles and lowliness to thinking that a system with other nobles and lowlinesss is unreasonable, this is a long awakening process.
The young master Zhang took Handan as his future capital, and the Mo family had not yet turned against each other and exposed their ambitions, which made this ignorant and unwilling to be a bitch to be a ignorant.
Judging from the current moral standards, the embarrassment in those who feel that lending money to Gongzizhang requires interest and rights can be regarded as an example of Handan not being a completely unvirtuous city.
Although external evaluations, they are no longer virtuous.
But in fact, it is still far from being truly immoral.
The truly unvirtuous people will naturally take back the money they lent to Gongzizhang this time and get a lot of interest, and will naturally take this opportunity of Zhao's domestic chaos as a feast for pursuing their own interests.
It’s a pity that most people are of course still a little far away from being justified. This makes the Mo people who are moving there feel helpless and failed, and feel that the long road is long and arduous.
However, those richer businessmen were the first to be unvirtuous.
After the daytime gathering dispersed, some big businessmen from Handan City gathered together to discuss the future and future.
They had differences with the Mohist school about the grassland franchise, and they were inevitably a little dissatisfied.
"I saw that the Mo family has determined it and has to divide the principal of the specialty. In addition to the Mo family, it is better to lend money to some people and let the people participate."
"Actually, we are enough to take out the poor money, but they are not sure."
The merchant wearing silk muttered his dissatisfaction, not afraid of hiding among them who were close to the Mo family. Anyway, this kind of mumbling had been said explicitly.
Even though he mumbled, the connection with the Mohist school was really broken because of interests.
Without the support of the Mo family's military power, they were not sure that they could make money.
Without the power of the Mo family, they were not sure whether the wealth they managed would become the property of the treasury.
Muttering is just a expression of dissatisfaction in my heart, but it is not a sign of turning against each other.
After waiting for everyone to mutter, a man shook his head and said, "This is impossible. I can see that, is the Mo family short of money? It's not short of money."
"Then it is obvious that it is definitely making money and profits. Why is the Mo family allocated it to everyone? We have to think about this clearly, otherwise something will happen in the future. Only by knowing what the other party wants can we know what we can do."
This is not difficult problem. The merchants of the Mo family have abundant financial resources and do not deny that Si Shang is already a great vassal state that can be supported. Even the industrial and commercial operations in Gaoliu, Handan and other places squeezed out the large families such as the Guo family who had close ties with the nobles from Jinyang, which shows that the Mo family has no shortage of money.
The person who muttered just now hummed, "There is no need to say? The Mo family has money, but most of the Mo family are in Si Shang. In Zhao State, they do not lack money, but people are lacking."
"The people are the Lord of God. The more people there are, the more industries in Zhao, the less Zhao Hou dared to move lightly."
"Just like in a war, you can't rely on soldiers, you have to rely on soldiers, right? We are soldiers."
This metaphor is written from the Mo family that the Mohist master was the pioneer of the four horses and the world's first.
It's not very compatible, but it's easy for people around you to understand.
The man asked the question clapped his hands and said, "That's it, what's the simple truth, so what else can I mumble?"
"Let's say, without the Mo family taking action, the iron smelting business belongs to the Guo clan, and we can't even have the ability to jealous ones."
"If the grassland is really profitable, then Zhao Hou must choose some people who are close to the nobles, and it will not be our turn."
"And how can our industry be our own? Today's a tax on the family, tomorrow's a tax on the property, and the next day, we will have to pay for the war, and the next day, we will be short of military and armor... Where can we do it?"
"Unless the Mohist family stands behind us, if there is no them, we will not be able to make any profits on the grassland. Now you think you will have to make less profits in the future, but don't forget that without them, we will not get benefits..."
"Besides... you and I, the businessmen, also know that farmers are resentful, craftsmen hate, noble people defend, and too much profit. The noble people use the power of farmers, workers, and small merchants to plunder us, but what should we do?"
"Now that more people are involved, we have fewer resentment and more friends. Only profit can make people become best friends. The more people join, the better?"
Everyone present didn't know this truth. They muttered to the person before: "This truth is understandable. It's just that the truth is the truth, but now it looks like the grassland franchise makes profits, and the interest rate is doubled every year. I can invest 100,000 yuan, but I can only invest 50,000 yuan. It is inevitable that I only eat half of the meat in my mouth..."
One of the merchants stood up and said, "Eat half of it is also eating."
"Looking now, I will definitely benefit. In the future, benefit is not a secret. I am afraid that someone will be tempted by it."
"Where can you believe the words of the princes and nobles?"
This can be regarded as a sincere sentence. The king will always change his name and find ways to get money from the peasants, industrial and commercial classes.
Businessmen, especially those who have become rich by various means, hope to rely on a force to protect everything they have gained.
The origin of wealth can be traced back to land, and the first batch of people who own a large amount of land must have used many means, including but not limited to violence, that is, the first batch of nobles.
When it comes to the businessmen sitting here, they actually have more or less aristocratic bloodlines, but their source of wealth is no longer limited to the labor rent on the fiefdom, which makes the identity brought by bloodlines not very important.
Speaking of the future, many people are wondering what if one day Zhao Hou wants to take away their wealth and take away their continuous wealth, such as franchise rights, which they continue to gain wealth, what should they do?
When it comes to this topic, some things have to be faced, but this question is not easy to explain and understand.
Who can represent their interests? Who can have power, violent power and stand on their side in Zhao State?
it goes without saying.
But it is not easy to say it directly.
Someone whispered: "The Mo family is definitely not for money, they have different ideas. Look, if it is for money, the most profitable thing on the grassland is muskets, gunpowder, and swords, but these are strictly prohibited from being sold by the Mo family."
"If we don't sell, there will definitely be someone else who sells it secretly and makes a profit of a hundred times! Even if you catch it and be executed, you can make a profit of a hundred times, and there will always be someone who ignores your life."
"When the Mo family came to Zhao State, if they were just for profit, they would not go to Gaoliu, but sell all the swords, irons and gunpowder to the Hu people. Since they did not sell, they always said that they benefited the world. How could you say that they benefited the world?"
There was something in his words, but someone received it: "Of course, the common people, farmers, industry and commerce benefited the world, and that was called profit from the world."
"We don't understand the righteousness of the Mohist school, but one thing is that if we say that we benefit the world, we have to make profits, that is to benefit the world, right? We are also considered people of the world."
There are inevitably some people among the merchants who are quite popular with the rookie. Listening to these hidden words, he smiled and said, "Aren't we always like this? Gongzi Chao and Gongzi Zhang have nothing to do with us. Why do we support Gongzi Zhang? Isn't it for profit?"
"When the young master rebelled, he had no money. Is it all my business to me if he had money? If the Mo family hadn't talked with him and asked us to borrow money so that we could benefit in the future, why would I have to invest the money on him?"
"Do you know what the price is to transfer a batch of cattle and horses to Si Shang and exchange them for Ji Lin? If there is no higher profit than that, even if the Mo family talks apart, we will not lend money to Gongzizhang. Besides, if it were not for the Mo family as a guarantee, the princes and nobles would not pay back the money, so what can you and me?"
He didn't care whether his words would be heard by people who shouldn't have heard them, and said loudly: "I'm the same thing. Whoever makes us profit will listen to anyone. Whoever can keep our benefits will be the one we recognize!"
This is a truly "unvirtuous" word, which is said with confidence without any hesitation.
But doing "unvirtuous" things first, and now it is just saying these words. Although the crowd is unwilling to get angry, they have not refuted it.
The man expressed his thoughts in his heart and felt relieved. He said, "If Zhao Hou refused to admit it in the future, or wanted to take back the franchise... Humph, we can't blame us. For this matter, we really have to rely on the Mo family, so that the water of this chamber of commerce cannot be poured in. No one can pour in the water of the nobles."
Everyone thought that this should be the case. If one day Zhao Hou wanted to steal their business, he would naturally resist.
I definitely didn't dare because there was no way to resist.
Now it’s different. With the Mo family, there may be a way out once they resist, because someone in the Mo family has guns.
In silence, someone couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity that the Mo family is not short of money. It would be great if they were short of money. When the world is profitable, we can only add icing on the cake and cannot help in time."
Someone said, "Whether it is timely help or icing on the cake, it is all others' success. There is no way, who told the Mo family to say that we industrialists and businessmen are still weak now? Do you think that there are really businessmen like us who can accomplish their own success in this world?"
Chapter completed!