The rise of the prince

Chapter 381 Two Troubles
Li Xingzhou smiled: "That's right, didn't I say that there is me in the two of us, and you in me. Annoying you is annoying myself. There is nothing to be embarrassed about, hahaha."

Shiyu nudged him with an elbow and smiled, which was very nice, "Then let me tell you, what troubles do you have?"

"Small troubles are Jiangzhou's business, I'm afraid it will be much more difficult." Li Xingzhou said.

As he spoke, he slowly told Shi Yu about the meeting with Wang Tong these few days, as well as the previous conflict and bet with Wang Tong.

Shiyu also frowned after hearing this: "You old man is really difficult to deal with, but you have to see clearly that he is the prefect of Ningjiang, and his father is the prime minister of the dynasty. A royal family is much more important than your prince."

"Yes, yes, you are the smartest and see the most clearly." Li Xingzhou smiled and touched her shoulder with his chin.

"Get away, don't make trouble." Shiyu blushed, and then asked him seriously: "You said you can solve the Jiangzhou matter, but are you sure?"

Li Xingzhou thought about it seriously: "[-]% sure."

Shiyu turned her head and stared at him dumbfounded: "You dare to agree if you are [-]% sure! You can just say that you have no idea."

Li Xingzhou spread his hands, and said honestly: "Calm down and think about it now, I really shouldn't agree, but at that time, the old man was so angry that he said something quickly."

Shiyu rolled his eyes: "You, you are just too casual! Sometimes you are careful and plan, and sometimes you are like a vindictive child, who dares to do anything with his temper, and is not afraid of heaven and earth."

She shook her head and said: "But after all, this is a matter between Weng and his son-in-law. Whether it succeeds or not is a matter of one's own family, not a big deal. The big deal is that if you say a few soft words at that time, your father-in-law will probably not hold on to it." put."

Li Xingzhou hugged her, and kept nodding. He nodded whenever Shiyu said anything.

Shiyu asked again: "This is a small trouble, what about the big trouble?"

Li Xingzhou smiled and said, "It's a big worry."

He was lying on the grass, and he also lay down with a poem: "The big worry is that someone is going to do something to me."

Shiyu looked anxious: "What's the matter, have you offended anyone? You are the prince, the champion general, who dares to touch you?"

Li Xingzhou touched her beautiful cheeks, which were warm and smooth, like beautiful jade. The more this happened, the more he felt the burden on his shoulders became heavier, "If they only offended one or two, they would not dare, but if there are many people, they will be more courageous." It just got bigger."

Although Li Xingzhou is not familiar with history, he knows the outline of history and has his own opinions.

Many dynasties in history died because of bureaucratic expansion and land annexation, which shows the great power of bureaucracy.

If it violates the fundamental interests of the majority of bureaucrats, not to mention him as a prince, even the emperor and the others dare to fight against it, and not only can they fight against the emperor, but also make the emperor notorious in the history books for thousands of years.

For example, the Wanli Emperor who was demonized, maybe he was really not a good emperor, but there were so many emperors who did nothing and even harmed the state. Why was he demonized in the history books? How to consume consumption, as long as the tax is paid.

The most important point is that he opened the door to collect business taxes in the Ming Dynasty, which attracted opposition from all officials.Why would the officials object?Because officials are merchants, and officials control merchants, there was no rule in the Ming Dynasty that civil servants were not allowed to do business.

Because of the power in hand, it is easy for bureaucrats to control business. At the same time, it also damages the fairness of the market and imprisons the development of business.

In this way, Emperor Wanli's collection of business taxes can be said to have released the blood of the bureaucrats. He was scolded by all the officials and said that he did not practice virtue, so that God sent disaster to punish the people, as long as he practiced virtue (no business tax ), the situation will improve.

Not only when they were alive, but also when they were dead, they were scolded and demonized.

There is also Cao Cao, one of the most demonized characters in history, why is he always scolded in various ways, and is still a bad face in Peking Opera?Throughout Cao Cao's life, there may be evil, but there are countless people who are worse than him throughout the ages. Why don't you scold others, just drag him to scold?
In fact, the most important point is that Cao Cao proposed "only talent", which was very different from the fundamental interests of the aristocratic families and the families of officials and officials at that time.

The Han Dynasty implemented the "examination system" in the selection of officials, which means that celebrities and their likes were inspected and elected to decide who should be officials.

To put it bluntly, after a long time, the aristocratic family will control the official career, which is also the fundamental interest of those official families and celebrity aristocrats.

However, Cao Cao was a meritocracy, that is, he didn’t look at his background, he didn’t look at the virtuous gentleman, and he didn’t look at who recommended talents. In the eyes of the gentry at that time, Cao Cao just didn’t want them to be officials. All the officials in the world should be the children of the gentry. Yes, this violates the fundamental interests of the gentry.

So once Cao Cao died, his son Cao Pi couldn't stand it, so he hurriedly stopped engaging in meritocracy, compromised with the gentry, and implemented the nine-rank system to ensure that the children of the gentry could be officials.

And Cao Cao, who proposed meritocracy, was scolded by the gentry who were in power at the time in different ways, such as telling stories and writing books. After all, who told you to touch Laozi's cake?

It shows that things are not as simple as superficial benevolence, righteousness and morality, right and wrong, black and white, but in the final analysis, it is interests.

"Tai Shigong said that the prosperity of the world is for profit, and the prosperity of the world is for profit." Li Xingzhou said to Shiyu seriously: "Have you ever thought that the palace has so much money and such a powerful capital now, supporting me to You can buy firearms, build large ships, and raise new troops without fear of loss, but where does the money come from?"

Shiyu looked at him puzzled.

Li Xingzhou said earnestly: "Currently, social productivity has not made great progress, but the palace has accumulated a large amount of capital. Perhaps some of it was obtained by opening up new markets, but most of it was snatched from others."

"Snatched?" Shiyu was puzzled.

"For example, the wealth of the world is a big bucket of water, which comes in and goes out, and many people take a scoop from it every year.

And suddenly we scooped two scoops out of it, and the balance was broken at this time. There are more of us, and there are fewer people. It’s just that we scooped less at first, so they can bear it, but once there are too many, all the scoopers will be angry. . "Li Xingzhou said.

"But this is a business matter. They are incompetent, so they should scoop less." Shiyu said.

Li Xingzhou smiled: "You are right, but you are a commercial competition under the condition of social fairness.

Some people scoop less, so they will naturally think of other ways, such as making a big scoop, or finding ways to scoop more times a year, etc., which is the logic of businessmen.

But some people don’t, they rely on their own strength and domineering, and when they see you scooping up too much, they don’t think of a way to scoop up more, but want to come directly to beat you, this is the logic of the officials. "

Shiyu was taken aback for a moment, and seemed to understand: "You mean?"

Li Xingzhou nodded: "I've long thought that the palace would come to this point.

After all, no matter how high-sounding it is, in the end it is a conflict of interests. As long as you see it thoroughly, you can predict the future. The more the palace earns, the more they lose.But they are not businessmen, they don't want to compete with us fairly, they only want to use despicable political means to suppress them. "

"Do you know who they are?"

"I don't know, but I guess it will be soon, and we will see the result after autumn.

Food is an indispensable thing for the generals of the Wangfu. If they don't take action, so that the Wangfu can receive enough food after the autumn harvest, they will not be able to do business next year, and the loss will be even greater. "Li Xingzhou said that human beings have had a unique preference for alcohol since ancient times, and this is a big business.

Especially in terms of food and drink, many people think that food and drink are not so profitable, but in fact this is one of the biggest industries.

For example, China has a lot of movie box office a year, but in terms of food, the income of the crayfish industry alone is four times that of the movie industry.

People depend on food, this sentence is not a joke, this is a huge cake, and now in terms of drinks, the palace has swallowed most of the market, naturally the interests of many people have been damaged.

Shiyu grasped his big hand tightly: "No matter what, I will stand by your side."

Li Xingzhou nodded. Once business involves politics, it will become extremely complicated and unreasonable.

There aren't many people he can trust completely, but Shi Yujue can be counted as one.

Even Gillian, he didn't dare, because he didn't know if the Wang family would get involved. The Wang family was also a big businessman in Jiangzhou. If they had their share, Gillian might have no intentions, but it was easy to be used by those who wanted to.

(End of this chapter)