Prime Minister

Chapter 506

Zhang Yue is in Bianjing at the moment. He sorted out the manuscripts he wrote in Xishan Temple these days and divided them into two volumes.

The general outline of this bibliography is that farming is the basis to generate wealth, merchants are the last to distribute wealth, and gold, silver, salt, and banknotes are used to store wealth.

Translating these words into modern language means creating wealth with technology, distributing wealth with finance, and accumulating wealth with real estate.

The most important thing is to divide the money with merchants as the end.

This is the definition of what is the essence of finance?
This sentence has actually been debated for a long time.

For example, the Mercantile School believes that finance creates wealth, and it is gold and silver currency that endows all objects with value, while the Physiocrats believe that only productivity creates wealth, and finance, as a first-class surplus value, does not deserve to exist.

Anyway, up to now, the two factions have not argued for a reason.

But Zhang Yue has defined it as the essence of finance lies in the distribution of wealth.

As for putting agriculture first and commerce at the end, it means emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce. This was the basic feudal national policy in 2000, and this must be clearly stated.

As for currency, in addition to exchange value, it also has storage value, which can accumulate wealth just like real estate.

A farmer grows grain, and it is impossible to store it for several years without spoiling, so he has to exchange it into currency and store it in another way. The accumulated wealth not only belongs to himself, but also belongs to the court.

For example, the imperial court replaced copper coins with iron coins, issued coins indiscriminately, and devalued salt banknotes are all first-class ways to harvest folk wealth.

Zhang Yue originally wrote more than [-] characters, but felt that it was too complicated, so he added and deleted it and simplified it to tens of thousands of characters.

The words of the second volume are relatively advanced, so he first took the first volume to Bianjing to prepare for printing.

Before printing, he had to hand over the bibliography to Han Jiang for review.

After all, the other party will be his backer in the future, and the draft must be shown to the boss first.

Zhang Yue went to Beijing with his family, and Shi Qi Niang went back to her mother's house by the way.

Zhang Yue first went to visit Su Shi and Su Zhe. He knew that Su Xun was seriously ill through correspondence with the two, so he brought medicinal materials to visit.

When he saw Su Shi, he told himself that Su Xun might be dying soon, and his younger brother Su Zhe was now in charge of Gou Damingfu Road, the appeasement manager, Driver Yiwen, and he couldn't go back to Beijing to see his father Su Xun for the last time.

Zhang Yue heard the words and went to visit Su Xun, but saw Su Xun stepping on the sick bed, his cheeks were extremely thin, and he could tell at a glance that he looked exhausted.

Zhang Yue called Su Xun to Uncle, Uncle.

Su Xun slowly opened his eyes on the sick bed and said, "Yes, save it?"

Seeing that Su Xun still recognized him, Zhang Yue hurriedly said, "It's my nephew."

As soon as Su Xun grasped Zhang Yue's hand, Zhang Yue felt that Su Xun held Zhang Yue's hand very forcefully, even though he was ill.

Su Xun said to Zhang Yue: "Duzhi...I have something to tell you."

After Su Shi retreated outside the room, Zhang Yue said, "Uncle, nephew is listening."

Su Xun said: "Du Zhi, you and my two sons have a very good friendship, as close as brothers, the old man is very pleased. To be honest, when I first saw you, I was very afraid of you, for fear that you would steal the fame of the dog, Now it seems that I really judge the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, don't go to the bottom of your heart."

Zhang Yue said: "Where did uncle come from, you have always been very kind to me."

Su Xun laughed dryly and said: "Duzhi, you are a generous person. Now that I am a dying person, my words are kind. My two sons, Ah Zhe, are patient and can be cautious in words and deeds. You don't need to beware of him at all. On the contrary, Ah Shi has no scheming in dealing with people, he can say what he has to say, if he is mediocre, it is fine, but he is also a great talent, this is the way to bring disaster."

"Can the old man entrust you to help take care of A Shi more in the future, so the old man is grateful for your great kindness."

Zhang Yue said: "Uncle, I am also living at home now, I am afraid that I have more energy than energy."

Su Xun suddenly remembered and said: "I almost forgot that you have already resigned. But you are a kind and affectionate person. After thinking about it, what will A Shi be embarrassed about? He has so many friends and only You can help."

Zhang Yue said: "If possible, I will try my best."

Su Xun said gratefully, "Then I can rest assured."

After Su Xun finished speaking, he turned around from the couch, and then a tear fell from the corner of his eye, and he murmured, "I'm worried about Ashi...the officials want to use Wang Jiefu to make a patent, but now that I think about it, I'm really short-sighted. Sowed misfortune for future generations..."

Zhang Yue knew in his heart that Su Xun wanted to humiliate Wang Anshi when he saw Ding You wrote a record of identifying traitors because of his mother's death, and also felt that it would be difficult for him to return to court in the future.But who knows that Wang Anshi is in Jiangning, and his influence is still there.

Officials summoned him several times to make edicts, but Wang Anshi didn't even go, he just studied and taught in Jiangning, such an act of not emphasizing power and position made him more famous.

Zhang Yue retreated silently, seeing that Su Shi was also squatting on the wall wiping his tears.

Seeing him, Su Shi immediately stood up and asked, "How is Daddy?"

Zhang Yue said to Su Shi: "Uncle, he was worried about you and said something to me."

Su Shi said with tears when he heard the words: "It is my son's unfilial piety to make my father miss this."

After Zhang Yue left Su Mansion, he went to the Third Division.

After arriving at Sansi, he learned that Han Jiang hadn't returned to Yamen, so he went to Sansi Salt and Iron Hall to find his teacher Chen Xiang.Chen Xiang is now sentenced to prison, but she is not here today.

Then Zhang Yue went to the Duzhi Office to find his father-in-law, but his father-in-law was not in the third division either.

When Zhang Yue left the Duzhi hall, he happened to pass by the east wall of the hall.

On the east wall is a stone tablet, engraved on the tablet is a pair of inscriptions, in which are the names of the deputy envoys of the Duzhi Office, and the person who wrote the inscriptions was Wang Anshi, who was the judge of Duzhi at that time. Year, the year before Zhang Yuezhong Jinshi.

One of the sentences is "The husband who joins the people of the world is the one who manages the wealth of the world, the one who manages the world's wealth is the law, and the one who keeps the world's laws is also the official..."

Seeing this sentence, Zhang Yue couldn't help sighing, Wang Anshi is really a genius through the ages!
Combine the wealth of the world, and manage money in a certain way, so that the power of opening, closing, collecting and distributing the wealth belongs to the central government, otherwise, if the imperial court does not take care of the money, it will make the sluts in the fields and lanes all able to take it privately , good at the benefits of all things, to compete with others for the head of Guizhou'.

Wang Anshi's point of view coincides with his own view that finance is the redistribution of wealth.

But my point of view comes from modern times, and it took hundreds of years to come to a conclusion accepted by many people, but Wang Anshi had already pointed him out in 1000, and engraved it on the stone tablet of Duzhi Hall .

But the difference is that Wang Anshi used the court for financial purposes.

But Zhang Yue handed it over to a third party, that is, an "imperial court-owned enterprise" like the Jiaoyin Institute.

Zhang Yue stood in front of this stele for a long time, admiring Wang Anshi who was far away in Jiangning, and thinking of the difficulties of the country and the hardships of financial management. perception of officials.

Success is difficult.

Zhang Yue stopped here for a long time, lost in thought, but the little official at the side was embarrassed to urge him, so he could only stand aside.

(End of this chapter)