warring states careerist

Chapter 796
Merchants have always been like this. When their country's industry and commerce are strong, they are enthusiastic about expanding the market; when their country's industry and commerce is weak, they are the main force of comprador smuggling.

The biggest businessman wants to make a profit because of rare goods, and being linked to politics is also the highest return for a gamble.

In the troubled times of the Warring States period in history, there were Lu Buwei’s rare goods to live in, and Luoyi merchants invested in the war bonds of Zhou Tianzi. During the rebellion of the Seven Kings of Wu and Chu in the Han Dynasty, there were also merchants who invested in the central government of Han Dynasty or the rebellious princes and kings.

War can be profitable.

Horses, land, grain, pearls and jade...these are all convertible, and the biggest reason why later generations of Zhou emperors were in high debts was that there was no loot to repay the war bonds after losing.

The reason why Zhongshan Kingdom has been successfully restored and temporarily stabilized is that the Mohists have made great efforts to make Zhongshan Jun restore the country successfully and have the ability to repay the loans of those merchants.

The same is true for the state of Song.

Businessmen from all over the world gathered on Sishang, and there were many businessmen who gave loans to the emperor's father Yueling and the nobles of the Song Dynasty. Today, I mentioned the businessmen, hoping to use this matter to teach those businessmen a lesson.

Some merchants are sober-minded. Even if they lend money to those nobles or the royal family, they still use intermediaries to fulfill Sishang’s decrees and have IOUs that have paid stamp duty: this IOU that has paid stamp duty means that tens of thousands of troops in Sishang Debt collection can be armed for this.

Another part of the businessmen played a little clever, bypassing the economic control on Sishang side, and directly borrowing money, only the contract with each other and no stamp duty deed.

Now that the imperial father Yueling was captured, and many nobles were captured or fled or died in battle, except for a part of the land to be distributed, the money owed still had to be repaid.

Even if there is no cash, then the mountains and rivers of the fiefs still have to be paid back.

Song State is different from Sishang. It is doomed that Sishang's set of "natural law and morality" of "natural things belong to the world" cannot be fully implemented in Song State for the time being. Song State's attitude is more like hoping that Song State will become a buffer, vassal state and economic colony.

In other words, the legal principle of the land reform in Sishang is that natural things belong to the people of the world, and laborers have the priority to occupy the land after labor improvement. The fiefdom of the nobles has no legal meaning and is unreasonable. Why is this land your fiefdom? up?
The legal principle of land reform in the Song Dynasty is that "the nobles fled and rebelled, and the fiefs were revoked. The Duke of Song and the Da Yin of the Consulting Yuan gathered public opinion and decided to auction or distribute to the people." The same set, it's just that the people who enfeoffed have descended from the scholar class to the common people.

Part of it is because Sishang is different from that of Song State, the second is that Song State’s economic development has sprouted in recent years, and many small nobles have transformed into operating landlords, and the third is that this matter involves the attitudes of various countries.

Based on this situation, and in order to win the hearts of the world's industrial and commercial people, Shi is ready to recognize the IOUs of stamp duty stamps, and will use the land of those nobles to repay.

However, if there is no IOU for the stamp duty on Sishang, it will not be recognized and will not be repaid.

This can be regarded as deliberate. Even if the Mo family and Qi Wei Han go to war in the future, merchants who want to lend to them have to go through Sishang.At that time, whether to control or not, to punish or not to punish, that is a matter of passing a decree by the National Assembly, but if you give them a loan in private without going through Sishang, in the future they will lose or the ancestral temple they lost will collapse, Sishang The above does not recognize this IOU.

The end of the Song Dynasty itself, Sishang’s plan is to mix sand and form a loose self-government alliance, use the Song Dynasty as an experimental field, and tie hundreds of families to Sishang to compete with the princes. Things need action.

Closer to Sishang, the economy of the Song Dynasty is already very strong: the land that should be merged has been annexed, and those who have no land go to Sishang to become farmers or workshop workers. In this case, there is no need to move for the time being.

Away from Sishang, where the aristocrats are heavily exploited and the utopias of the so-called "true egalitarians" of the peasant family can use the most violent means to sweep away those remnants.

For the future planning of the Song State, it is divided into several large regions, each school governs in the area, there is the central government of the Song Dynasty and the Consulting Yuan in Shangqiu, but the Song State’s ability to centralize power should be weakened as much as possible. The Mohists want to control the Song State’s military power And the standing army, each autonomous region pays a certain amount of military taxes and taxes according to the population and land conditions, and the rest is tossed around at will.

Notes with stamp duty stamps are mainly concentrated in some aristocratic fiefdoms in the middle and west of the Song Dynasty, and the number is not very large. The Mohists can lend a sum of money to the farmers to repay the debts in places where they want "true equality", and then slowly repay the Mohists with agricultural products.

For the remaining places, because apart from the real equalizers of the peasant family, other families do not have such fantasy, so they can use part of the confiscated land to repay the debt, and let the Song Dynasty complete the transformation as soon as possible: a combination of self-cultivating farmers and large-scale commercial farms, Force more people to go to Sishang, and let Song State become the origin of raw materials and agricultural products in Sishang, as well as an emerging market for industrial and commercial products.

As long as this can be done well, Song State can maintain its current stability, and Sishang can devote more thoughts, troops, energy, and cadres to Chu State.

Song State is located in the world, and the world is determined by Song State. It does not matter whether Song State has Song Gong for the time being. If there is no emperor in the world, Song will not have Song Gong;

Since Sishang is the largest capital owner in the world today, he has educated businessmen what is "reasonable competition" in the past few years. The means of "complying with market competition" have ruined the family, and the rest have opened their eyes to know which things can't be moved and which things can be moved.

Nowadays, Sishang's methods are more refined, and the attitudes of businessmen are becoming more and more clear. At least the laws on Sishang are mainly based on people, and there are laws to follow, which are better than those of other princes.

Shi Jiatun understood what Shi meant, and also understood what Shi asked about the merchant's attitude. It was nothing more than to see the merchant's attitude. This was a rehearsal.

The current situation is that the state of Wei is waving its flag in the distance, and it has the meaning of calling on the princes to interfere with the joint alliance of the state of Song; Sishang has also mobilized once like never before, shouting that if all countries interfere with the Mohists of the state of Song, they will sacrifice for righteousness. The slogan of a Mohist.

There are not many people who really understand the situation, and what most people see is the prospect of an imminent war. In this situation, as long as businessmen still have confidence in Sishang, and they still have the idea of ​​support and desire to make profits, then this is a good thing for Sishang. It is the greatest victory.

The basic base of Sishang soldiers is a large number of new self-cultivating farmers in Sishang. The anti-aristocratic call of the Shunong Industrial and Commercial Alliance can be implemented only because of the attitude of the merchants, not only the merchants in Sishang, but also the merchants from Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qin countries.

The world of farmers is within a hundred miles unless they join the army; the world of merchants is Nanchu and Beiyan. They are a great help that the Mohists can rely on besides Sishang.

If the merchants temporarily support the current situation, it is foreseeable that even if there is a real fight in the future, the merchants will choose to stand on Sishang's side.

As for whether it lasts, it does not lie in how desirable Sishang's morality is, but only in whether Sishang can bring the dawn of victory.

Yu Shishi said: "I think so, gather those IOU holders who have paid stamp duty through Si, and let Shi Jiatun come forward to talk to them. Let us talk about Song Guo, their debts are to be repaid."

"Sort out the location of the specific borrower's fief. It should be noted that the fief cannot repay the debt and can only be divided. It can only use the private land of those nobles."

"The rest can be discussed slowly. Song's affairs can also be resolved slowly. It mainly depends on the attitudes of other countries."

"If the princes are determined to interfere, it will be simple. The direct law will naturally benefit the world. Song and Sishang treat each other equally, so there is no need for two systems."

Speaking of the attitudes of the countries, someone got up and said, "The news from Chu State that some of our people have been detained in Chu State and placed under house arrest."

"It's okay in Chencaiyingdu and other places. The king of Chu didn't give an order. But in some fiefdoms of Chu nobles, the comrades we sent for surveying and mapping and public activities were detained."

"How to solve this matter?"

Shi sighed and said: "The state of Chu is undercurrents. The reform of the king of Chu has touched the interests of the nobles. The nobles actually hope that the king of Chu will start a war with us. If we want to start a war, we need internal stability. The nobles conferred on the king to compromise."

"I'm not afraid of anything else, but I'm afraid that the king of Chu doesn't want to fight, and the king wants to fight. When the time comes, those who kill us will try their best to prevent us from reconciling with the king of Chu."

"It's not impossible to push forward and start a war. This matter really needs to be resolved as soon as possible."

Under the enfeoffment system, the prototypes and variants above and below always exist, which is exactly what Shi is worried about.

As soon as the words fell, the leader of the self-sufficiency faction who was in charge of the inspection department after Gao Sunzi laughed and said: "The giant is worrying too much, it's simple."

"To benefit the terror of the world, against the terror that harms the world."

"Which nobleman dares to do something, then we will make a big move. Children, women and children are innocent, and the whole family will not be killed, but the person who did it and the person who ordered it will not survive."

"Kill one person to benefit the world, of course you can. If he makes a move, we will have to compromise for the overall situation. It will make the world's princes forget that my Mo family used to use martial arts to break the forbidden chivalrous warriors, and also forget that we used to assassinate behind our backs. If the reputation of King Chu Shengheng has been ruined, he will have no scruples about killing us when the time comes."

"Of course, this matter still depends on the attitude of the King of Chu. No matter whether the King of Chu is hesitant, or he cannot directly say not to interfere due to the pressure of the aristocrats and lords, as far as the matter of detaining our people is concerned, The king of Chu must express his opinion."

(End of this chapter)