If Shen Chong's words are expressed in a more simple meaning, that is, in terms of his attitude towards money, he is an absolute grandmaster; And Xi Su wants to ask him for advice, but he will not teach him with righteousness and virtue, but will only teach Xi Su how to spend money.

"This million floating wealth, called a gift, is actually a test I gave to Xi Lang, a test of whether you can use it properly, which is also a manifestation of human endowment."

Shen Chong's set of crooked theories is not just taught to Xi Su, so it is also easy to say it now: "In ancient times, there has always been no shortage of people who have been known for their wealth, but there are really few people who can have both virtue and wealth. For example, Shi Chong of the Chinese Dynasty plundered the Xingjia, and Wang Kai was fortunate to have a prosperous room, but he had no sense of prudence and self-discipline, and he competed for luxury and wealth, which was naturally ridiculed by others. Such mediocrities, who are called rich and rich, are in fact servants of wealth, and they are not desirable. ”

Xi Suke has never heard of these theories, but now he has opened his eyes, and he is even more lacking in speculation, and he only nods in response.

"Prospering a family and buying a house, honesty is a good talent. But if you just blindly hoard thick reserves, it will be like a cow wool is abundant, and the guinea dog is fat, which will inevitably cause jealousy and cause trouble. The benefit of wealth is manifested in the calling, not in the hoarding. Only by being good can we obtain financial benefits, benefit others and ourselves, and benefit the world. In this way, although it is not called benevolence, it is undoubtedly more beneficial to the world than those who stand by and talk about the Tao! ”

Speaking of this, Shen Chong is already proud, spending money is very honorable, and it is a kind of virtue, which is a truth that he has often instilled in others recently, especially these current children gathered in Yunyang Village.

When Xi Su heard this, his face was full of admiration: "In the world, there is a reason. As far as the current of the times goes, it is nothing more than the old voice of tooth wisdom, and simplicity is beautiful. Sikong's ability to not be vulgar and understand the truth is really admirable! ”

After Shen Chong heard this, his face also showed a little self-restraint: "People are in the same stream, most of them are covered by nature, even if they have a reasonable heart, how many people can be born in the door of wealth?" Poverty, the long-term affliction of the world, all those who are a little bit in the current situation, all take hoarding as the first, and are despicable without knowing it. But people are human beings, accumulating thousands of bells, the eclipse is not more than a bucket, the silk is full of warehouses, and the clothes are not more than a ruler. All things are born in nature, and they are naturally for the benefit of all people, and they are gathered in the portal for the benefit of all people, and they are not scattered, which is an evil act that goes against the way of heaven, which seems to accumulate wealth, but in fact accumulates disasters. ”

"However, if the only way to avoid disaster is to distribute wealth, then why do any more futile efforts to build a family and buy a house, and it is more reasonable to directly settle in poverty?"

Xi Su frowned and asked, daring to point out the contradictions in Shen Chong's words.

"Being able to perceive this, Xi Lang can also be regarded as a teachable son, which is exactly the mystery of what I want to teach you. In the world of three generations, people are respectful and simple, and the fields are eaten together, why is there a huge disparity between the rich and the poor in the spring and autumn period? Is this really a sin because of the collapse of etiquette and the loss of morality? People have their own difference between virtue and foolishness, diligence and laziness, each of them has established the world, and has been operating for a long time, if it is still just in order, this is the biggest paradox! ”

Shen Chong said again: "The so-called scattered wealth is not to teach people to burn silk and wax, extravagant and wasteful, but to use reason to make up for the flaws of the Heavenly Dao. And this kind of skill, there is really no one in the world who is proficient. The world praises my son Wei Zhouqiang for his strong responsibility, and no one can do it. If we talk about the difference in endowment and talent, this is the point. ”

"My family has been called Fujiang East for a long time, and there are very few people who can reach it. My children have come to support this family business, and they have infinite profits to hone their own goods, and they are familiar with their hands at the beginning, and the equipment is self-contained for a long time. Ordinary people are still hesitant to hesitate about the goods of 100 gold, and my son has already taken it lightly and used it for a long time. The home of the super-rich is not inferior to the country, and when it is moving, it is reasonable, and over time, it can raise the choice of the country's scholars. ”

If Shen Zhezi heard his father's boasting, he would definitely have to snort a few times. His talent is not honed by infinite profits, it is purely because there is a loser father in the family who is forced out to spoil the family business.

However, where are these family secrets that Xi Su, an outsider, can know, hearing this, his eyes are already bright, and his face is filled with a strong look of hope, as if he really got some great understanding from Shen Chong's words, and understood the biggest secret of why Liang Gong Shen Weizhou can be famous in the world!

"There is too much empty talk, and it is inevitable that it will be discerning. If Xi Lang has time, you might as well take a short tour of the garden with me, and also see the style of these times and young people in the village today, complementing each other's short and long. ”

When Shen Chong said this, he stood up from the seat and greeted Xi again.

After hearing this, Xi Yu was also busy standing up, hearing Shen Chong's high-minded comments today, many of the concepts he had cultivated earlier had indeed been greatly impacted, and it was really difficult to digest them all in a short period of time.

Today's Yunyangzhuang has expanded several times from the original basis, and the scenery is different. And between the various parks, there are also many young people lingering in it, and there is a liveliness in the elegance.

Although it is a rare beautiful scenery of lush flowers and trees in the cold winter, even if it is just a combination of strange stones, buildings, covered bridges and clear springs, it also has its own full of craftsmanship and temperament.

Once Shen Chong appeared in the garden, he quickly attracted the young people around him, and they came forward to greet him and ask many questions. Xi Su has been in Xuzhou, Jiangbei for a long time, and he is not very familiar with many of the current children in Jiangdong, although everyone also asked him a little politely because of Shen Chong's relationship, but they are really unfamiliar with each other and lack much common topic, so most of the time he can also be an observer.

There are many questions asked by young people, ranging from clothing, food, housing, transportation, and curiosities to military strategies. In the face of all kinds of problems, Shen Chong also spoke casually and made his own senses, fully showing his knowledge.

After visiting the garden for a long time, Shen Chong took Xi Su to stop between a hill and rockery, and looked at Xi Su and said with a smile: "See this moment, Xi Lang, how do you feel?" ”

"It's very knowledgeable, it's really impressive."

Xi lowered his head and said.

After hearing this, Shen Chong laughed, waved his hand and said: "This is not a skill worth boasting about, I am older than the others, and the accumulation of time is naturally a little more." But erudition is secondary, and it is rare to have your own unique opinions. For example, there are rocks and hills outside this pavilion, what can you see, Xi Lang? ”

Xi Su watched left and right for a long time, but he also felt that this rockery garden was beautiful and interesting, but if he wanted to say any specific aspects, he didn't know how to talk about it.

Shen Chong saw that Xi was embarrassed, so he no longer embarrassed him, so he began to explain with a smile, and commented on the Taihu Lake stones piled up with rockeries from various aspects such as shape, material, dry and wet, plump and thin, and transparency.

Hearing Shen Chong's explanation, Xi was amazed, and he really couldn't imagine that there were so many mysteries in it.

"These gems, standing on the shore of Taihu Lake for a long time, although there are extraordinary materials, but they have always been regarded as ordinary by the villagers. Ya is the favor of the times, starting from the self. Nowadays, around, there is no garden without stones. Does Xi Lang know how much it will cost to build such a landscape? ”

Hearing Shen Chong's question, Xi Su looked at it more seriously, and at the same time he was thinking about it in his heart. In his opinion, although these stones have their own magnificent and strange qualities, in the final analysis, they are just ordinary dead things, but even so, to transport them from the shore of Taihu Lake to Danyang Realm, the freight alone is only an astronomical high.

"The kid is shallow, and he really doesn't dare to be arrogant, but since the elders have asked, they will also dare to respond, and the people used in this park are afraid that there will be more than 10 million!"

After thinking for a while, Xi Su reported a figure that he felt was already a bit exaggerated.

Shen Chong didn't say much after hearing this, but a few young people on the side had already laughed, and one of them said: "Brother Xi Shi knows the bias, not to mention the entire park, just the gemstone on your left, someone offered 200,000 yuan to beg Sikong to cut love." ”

When Xi Chong heard this, he subconsciously turned his head to look, and saw that the appearance of the stone was indeed extraordinary, as Shen Chong said before, it has the characteristics of wrinkles, thinness, exquisiteness, etc., and it is colorful and pleasant.

But even so, it's just a stone, where is it worth 200,000 dollars?

"200,000 yuan is just an old voice, the day before yesterday, Jinling Zhou Jun entered the park, and when he saw it, he loved it to the extreme, and the price was 300,000 yuan, but Sikong just didn't."

At this time, another voice sounded, which shattered Xi's values.

Shen Chong said with a smile: "At my age, the amount of wealth is meaningless, just to be suitable." People may take this as a luxury, but I am self-conscious and do not disturb others, so why should I care about the evaluation of others. ”

Sikong is really too modest, so a happy and make Taihu Lake gems and strange goods to live, the lakeside people in the past had to fish, hunt and cultivate the wood to make a living, and now because of the quarrying and profit. This is the real temperament, benefiting others and oneself! ”

The young people around him were obviously also taught by the views that Shen Chong had taught to Xi Su before, and they spoke in admiration one by one.

Shen Chong smiled and waved his hand and said: "Even if there are thousands of rhetoric to boast about, I only have one word to teach the public, everything is happy, only with money, and not because of power and pretense to bully others, then no one can be hurt." Today's reversal, tomorrow's bane, a moment's want, and a year's infamy. Poor but not strong, rich but not thieves, wealth scattered outside, virtue returned to the inside, whoever gets out of this, is the scum of the common spit, the strong beam will be punished by the public, and the rich will be taken by the public! ”

When everyone heard this, they praised each other again.

Next, Shen Chong instructed several Shen disciples to lead Xi Su to tour the garden instead of him, and he withdrew to rest.

Xi Su took a tour in Yunyang Village, saw more, and felt more profound, and there was a lot of shame in his heart. Originally, he thought that the million money given by Shen Chong was already an astonishing amount of money, but in this Yunyang Village, it was really nothing.

Yunyangzhuang is not only a huge and luxurious manor, but also a thriving luxury goods trading market.

Everything is sold here, from small treasures and playthings, to large manor other businesses, gold and jade jewelry is relatively orthodox, and things such as stone, wood and other things are not uncommon, and even excellent and beautiful artists, craftsmen and servants, only unexpected, no can not be bought.

And the amount of each transaction is extremely amazing, ordinary tens of thousands of dollars are as casual as buying vegetables in the street market, and during the time that Xi Su visited the garden, he heard that three transactions of more than one million yuan have been completed.

What surprised Xi even more was that the participants in these transactions were not wealthy patriarchs, but just children of various families who were about the same age as him. These people are carrying huge goods one by one, spending money like dirt, compared to them, Xi Su feels like a beggar.

"Brother Shi, these people are just as old as you and me, even if they have a lot of assets in their families, is it useless to control them? Will their relatives let them compete in extravagance and unchecked? How deep does it take to have a family business to withstand such waste? ”

After all, Xi Su is still the old concept that is difficult to get rid of, and he really can't adapt to this atmosphere of poverty and luxury, even if he doesn't participate in the buying and selling, although he is just a bystander, he is already frightened.

When the Shen disciple heard this, he couldn't help but laugh: "Brother Xi, you have this confusion, it's because you haven't realized the essence of floating wealth in people." Floating wealth is like flowing water, blocking is not as good as sparse, wealth flows in the world, and everyone who touches it will benefit, but if it is just a sealed treasury, it is just a private fat family. If the world is hungry, whoever has the smell of meat at the door will lead a group of murderers to break down the door and plunder! ”

"Besides, brother, you only see these people competing for money, but you can't see that if they make a move, it must be worth the money!"

Speaking of this, the Shen family's face showed a little smugness: "I might as well give an example, I don't mean to be a light overseas Chinese, but I just tell the world brother the truth of wealth and education." Earlier, Chu Zhongshu sent out a copy of the law, saying that it was the handwriting of Zhang Boying of the Later Han Dynasty, and no one in the city could distinguish the authenticity, and the group competed for this thing. But my family background is good, Ji Shi Changming inquired about the past, and opened my mouth to conclude that this law is false. The masses were in an uproar, no one believed it, and later Zhongshu went to the county government to report to arrest the thief, and later the masses knew that the law was just a temporary copy of the Chinese book. ”

Xi Su had heard little of these anecdotes, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but be curious: "There are very few scholars in the south, since the crowd can't distinguish the authenticity of this, how can Ji Changming be able to see through it at a glance?" ”

At that time, people were also curious and asked, and Ji Changming responded without him, but it was just familiar. Changming's father, Ji Yuanjun, is also elegant and good at ink rhyme, but his pen power is not important, and he often regrets it. Changming is inherited from the father's will, where there are former sages in the ink circulation, it will be a heavy visit, day and night edification, attainment day and day. This is the floating wealth to help students, far more than the inheritance of overseas Chinese! ”

When the children of the Shen family said this, their faces were filled with pride: "If it comes to righteousness and science and technology, we Wu people must be willing to be the last, this is indisputable." But everyone has the heart to be the first, and I am short of things with my abundance, although the cost of ten thousand gold is not a pity! Changming's case is just a trivial matter, Zhongxing so far, there are many people in the north and south to repair the history of the Chinese and Korean dynasties, but there are many omissions and shoddy books, and my family does not care about the consumption of financial resources, and the book is recompiled, and it will be published in a few days. Once this book is completed, the rest of the history can be wasted! ”

As an overseas Chinese, Xi Su naturally felt a little uncomfortable when he heard this Shen family's son boasting about Wu people so much. But when he heard this, he finally understood that these Wu people seemed to be poor and extravagant, but in essence, they wanted to rely on the Wu people's advantages in township resources and financial resources to achieve the goal of catching up with and surpassing overseas Chinese in an all-round way, even in culture!

After realizing this, Xi Su no longer just watched these behaviors with a critical attitude. To be honest, although he does not lack a sense of superiority as an overseas Chinese, he will not completely discriminate against the Wu people, especially Shen Sikong and Liang Gong's father and son, which left a deep impression on his heart.

The truths that Shen Sikong told him before, combined with the seemingly crazy buying and selling behaviors of these Wu people's children at this moment, Xi Su gradually realized that the role of money is not only to satisfy people's survival and desire to enjoy, but its role is far greater than his imagination.

And only by understanding this, money can play a greater role in his hands, that is, what Shen Sikong said is to gain financial benefits and avoid financial disadvantages.

Xi Su thought so, but in fact, he thought Shen Chong's intentions were too noble.

In fact, Shen Chong's original purpose was just to make money. Although the situation in Jiangbei is becoming more and more stable, it has still caused great trouble to the Shen family since Taichung put out the Ming Che Ma to suppress the Shen family.

Although the Shen clan is a well-deserved leader of the Wu people, it does not mean that all Wu people will be reduced to vassals who obey their words. As the situation became more and more severe, naturally a considerable number of Wu people were fighting in their hearts, unwilling to take too much risk of losing their capital to the north, and put all their chips on the Shen family.

Therefore, since the beginning of this year, the business enthusiasm of the Wu people has been greatly suppressed, and a large number of people have chosen to hoard rather than transport them out in terms of the use of goods. In addition, Taichung's clamping on transportation routes and Huainan's own strategy adjustment, so the money and grain put into Jiangbei this year have shrunk significantly.

However, Shen Chong knew that if he wanted to achieve the ultimate success of this game, it was not enough to strengthen the army, and he must have sufficient reserves in terms of money and food. Whether it is to maintain the situation in the early stage, or to have to formally send troops, including the reconstruction after the turmoil, it is indispensable to pave the way for money and food.

But in this situation, if he uses coercion, it will inevitably backfire, and it will make the Shen family even more helpless, so he can only find a way in other aspects.

Therefore, Shen Chongcai and Qian Feng planned for a long time and organized such crooked remarks to incite these backward disciples of the Wu people to compete for floating wealth, and absorb them into reserves through various means.

Of course, this remark is inevitably demagoguery, but it is basically voluntary, and this is also in line with Shen Chong's consistent image, whoever wants to complain because of this, then you have to blame yourself for not educating your children well, and you have nothing to do with others.

Since Shen Chong's remarks were peddled, he himself did not expect to receive a great response, not only a large number of Wu people's children are worshipping Ruo Shenggui, but even some overseas Chinese families have no shortage of supporters.

The main reason why this fallopy is so convincing is not how strong it is, but it should be attributed to the desire and pursuit of the success of the people of the time for a similar in-depth study of world affairs.

It is true that the Shen family has nothing to boast about except for its strong family resources, but it must have its own unique skills to be able to cultivate an outstanding child like Shen Weizhou. If you can spend money, who will be reluctant?

As for the subsequent awakening of the Wu people's self-improvement consciousness and the relatively positive consciousness of catching up with and surpassing the overseas Chinese in an all-round way, it was gradually excavated with the gradual development of things.

Indeed, the act of burning money is to let the Wu people gain a sense of satisfaction and glory in front of the overseas Chinese through their own efforts, and to offset the inferiority caused by the cultural gap through this kind of money worship. And it is true that quality and quality of life need to be based on superior material conditions.

And this awakening of the overall consciousness of the Wu people also made Shen Chong aware that there was more room for manipulation.

Previously, he had been expelled one after another with the Wu people who held real power in Taiwan, which made the power he could control around Gyeonggi weak, but now a large number of young Wu people are directly influenced by his theory, which is a force that can be turned into his own use at a critical moment! Through the influence of these young people, they directly pulled out their respective family forces for use.

"The thieves are training in the township, trying to kill me with the strong, and I am hiding my armor in the wilderness, and when the time comes, I will hit the weakness, and then I will see who will suffer more!"

In the secret room, discussing the preparations of all parties with Qian Feng and other henchmen, Shen Chong was also complacent and expectant.