Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

For a long time, merchants were not treated by scholar-officials. The most critical reason is that these scholar-officials who uphold Confucianism believe that the profit-seeking behavior of businessmen is contrary to their ultimate pursuit of "benevolence." From their point of view, how do these little people who are digging through the eyes of money deserve to be compared with them who read the books of sages?

In addition, since Dong Zhongshu, Confucianism has been respected in all dynasties, and it is these scholars who have the right to speak in politics. Therefore, it is conceivable that business people will have the social status they are today. Not only were businessmen unable to participate in the imperial examinations, they even violated the law by wearing gorgeous clothes made of silk...These were all to humiliate businessmen and help implement the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business.

If Li Xin was a Chinese person from the ground up, perhaps he would also have one or another prejudice against businessmen. But he is not. There are souls from later generations hidden in his body, and liberated thoughts are wrapped in it. He knows how important the economy and people's livelihood is for a country, and what position the businessmen group occupies in a country's economy and people's livelihood. Today, he must speak to the merchants in front of so many self-righteous scholar-officials.

Seeing that no one answered his question just now, Li Xin looked around at will, and continued: "I know that many adults think that businessmen are very profitable and do not produce. They only rely on crooked brains to earn people's hard-earned money. It's the blood-sucking worms on the people..."

"Isn't it?" Han Donghua didn't wait for Li Xin to finish, and then he said again, "Businessmen pay great attention to profit, and there is a lot of treachery. Everyone should criticize them! Why is Lord Chu doing business without shame? Have you read the sage books for so many years for nothing?"

Li Xinren were all stupefied. He really wanted to step forward and hold Han Donghua's hand to express his gratitude.

How could there be such a cooperative person in the world? As soon as you finished hitting his left cheek, he turned his face and forgot, and immediately felt that the weather had cleared and the rain had stopped, and he had done it again, and then he obediently offered his right cheek. For such people, Li Xin can only raise his palms with gratitude and give them a burst of headache with tears. Perhaps only in this way can they learn to remain silent in areas they are not familiar with.

Han Donghua didn't know what Li Xin was thinking. He thought that he was cleverly speaking, with a trace of pride on his face, as if even the shame of being speechless just now was washed away.

Although confident, Li Xin was not in a hurry to respond, but was a little sad. Because he heard some of the officials echoing Han Donghua's remarks in the lowlands. This is Chaotang! The people standing here are all smart people of Datang first-class. If they don't even understand what business and economy are all about, where is Datang's future?

Han Donghua's remarks like a mentally retarded idiot can be echoed. How can people not be sad and desperate?

Li Shimin on the throne has been paying attention to Li Xin's expression. With his eyesight, it is of course not difficult to see the disappointment on Li Xin's face.

Although I didn't understand what Li Xin was disappointed in, at that moment, Li Shimin suddenly felt embarrassed. The gaze that Li Xin looked at the ministers made him feel that these so-called important ministers under him turned out to be as ridiculous as monkeys.

"Xin'er, Xin'er, you are a disciple of immortals, naturally brilliant. After all, these people in the middle of the court are mortals with naked eyes, and you must not demand too much of them." Li Shimin was sitting on the ground, faceless. His expression and no words, just a little self-deprecating talk to himself in his heart, as if to comfort Li Xin.

Of course Li Xin couldn't hear these words. In fact, Li Xin's disappointment just got out of control for a moment.

He quickly calmed down.

Logically speaking, Datang is still a feudal peasant economy, and agriculture is the pillar industry. In this economic context, it is difficult to breed insightful economists. Coupled with the endless exaggeration of Confucianism, scholars who have the ability to delve into the laws of economics disdain to study these things, and no one understands the group of businessmen is justified. Some ideas that seemed ridiculous to Li Xin were justified in the eyes of courtiers. This is not surprising.

For example, many people cannot understand price changes or the added value of commodities. They don't understand why white rice is so cheap, and rice cakes can be sold for a little more money, and if it is made into fried rice, especially the fried rice on the first floor, it will be more expensive. In order to conceal their ignorance, they all labelled this normal profit-making behavior as "sucking the blood of the people"-they clearly understand that rice is grown by farmers! Why did businessmen make more money instead? The money should have been made by farmers!

This also gave birth to the important idea of ​​emphasizing agriculture and restraining business-as long as we suppress business, then the money that should have been earned by farmers but was earned by businessmen can not be returned to the hands of farmers?

It's really great.

Besides applauding, Li Xin really didn't know what to say.

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