The statistical bureau should not only pay attention to secrecy and social surveys, but also use these data to carry out various progressive tax policies and monetary adjustment policies for wealthy households to stabilize prices.

even used some very extreme means to manipulate prices and absorb wealth.

For example, when the grain is controlled and the grain in the government treasury can be used to fight an economic war, it is forced to order the borrowing of money from the rich and usurers, and at the same time cut off the official sale of grain, so that the price of grain in a certain place rises. After borrowing money from the rich and usurers, the price of grain also rose rapidly under the control of the state treasury, and at this time it was announced that there was no money to repay, so the grain was repaid according to the price of the time.

The rich don't want to do it, and they think that the rich don't suffer, because the price of food at that time was really high.

After repaying the grain, quickly release the grain, stabilize the price, and bring down the price of the grain, which is equivalent to Qi Hou asking the rich to borrow 10,000 catties, which could have bought 2,000 catties of grain, but when repaying the money, relying on the control of the state, the price of grain rose by 10,000 yuan, and only 200 catties of grain could be bought, and at this time, 300 catties of grain were repaid to the rich and usurers, including 50 percent interest, and then the grain stored in the treasury was sold, which was equivalent to asking the rich man to borrow 10,000 yuan but only repaid 3,000 yuan......

Whether the means are available or not is not just a matter of reason, but if you can think of the state's regulation and control of prices, the economic school of Qi is already extremely advanced.

In fact, the economic theory of the Qi school is to make the monarch the largest merchant in the country, with the right to mint coins and taxes, and to have sufficient funds and goods.

Tian He was very excited when he heard the idea of Qi Huan Gong and asked, "I want to establish a statistical bureau and control prices, but what should I do?" ”

Guan Zhong also finally answered the first question of "Guanshanhai" in the system, saying: "This requires the use of Guanshanhai's policy, with the natural resources such as mountains and seas owned by the monarch and the monopoly of salt goods as reserves, and the establishment of special financial institutions to support the National Rail Statistics Bureau." ”

This set of institutions uses the money of the official mountain and sea policies and the intelligence of the National Rail Statistics Bureau to lend money to support industry and commerce, regulate prices and levy progressive taxes, etc., and use money to generate money, and then use money and taxes to support industries.

For example, lending money in wealthy places and eating interest; lending and supporting in places where horses are raised, which increases the number of horses in Qi State; Buying grain at the time of the harvest to regulate prices; In places where the textile industry is developed, the sale of grain lowers prices, the purchase of textiles, the promotion of industry and commerce, and so on......

Another example is the use of price manipulation means, so that after the price rises, the price of the control is exchanged for relatively depreciated horses from the hands of the rich, etc., pay for the rest of the goods that rise after the manipulation, but the government treasury reserves are sufficient, distribute the horses to the border areas, and use loans to let the people in the border areas buy the country's horses, which can not only collect interest, but also make the chariot reserves in the border areas sufficient, and can exempt the border areas from the "Qiu Jia Fu".

There are so many things, in short, nothing more than a few points.

"Divide the goods" and differential rents instead of labor rents, promote agricultural development, levy taxes in kind, and change the land system.

Relying on the taxation policy to rob the rich and help the poor, and using tax regulation and control to promote regional economic development and industrial tilt.

The establishment of the "National Railway" Bureau of Statistics and the supporting Guanshanhai policy and the "bank" supported by the state taxation were used to provide loans to support industry and commerce and lend for profit, relying on moderate monetary taxes to promote currency circulation, and suppressing usury, making the "National Railway" the largest lending institution in the country. The manipulation of indirect taxes such as salt, so that the goose feathers are plucked and the goose does not feel pain, makes Qi Hou the largest asset controller in the country, and it is enough to control prices.

In essence, the state collects land rent, such as boiling salt and smelting, which can be contracted to private individuals, and then the prince collects land rent and dividends, or it can be regarded as the mountain, forest and seaside belonging to the monarch as share capital, which can expand production and make it easier to manage.

Because the stratum standing behind the economic school of Qi is part of the aristocracy that carries out industry and commerce, they need a platform theory.

All this seems to have a lot of similarities with the policy of the Mo family in Sishang, Tian He thinks that this method is enough to enrich the country, but he forgets to consider how many officials and cadres with economic foundation are needed to form such a system, and the Mo family can only do it in Sishang after 20 years of education, and the Qi country will definitely not be able to do it, and it is easy to make trouble.

And this just looks the same, in fact, the kernel is completely different from the Mo family.

This huge difference stems from the article "Extravagance" written by Trustee Zhong, which focuses on consumption to promote production for economic activities, but because it is inconsistent with the Mohist theory of "Rich Country", it will inevitably lead to many problems.

The problem of ownership of the core and the acquisition of wealth by labor is difficult to solve, and at the macroeconomic level, the strategy of the Qi school of economics is also very different from that of the Mohists.

Consumption, investment, and exports, these are the three carriages of the macroeconomy.

The economic basis of the Mohist school is "economizing", using the method of high accumulation and high investment, after completing the transformation, expanding the external market, and using the duty-free treaties with Yue and Chu to dump a large amount.

At the same time, the internal land reform has created a large number of yeoman farmers with the ability to consume low-grade handicraft products, and on the premise of not greatly harming their interests -- for example, the question of whether to tax grain imported from outside Sishang to protect the interests of Sishang farmers is now being discussed in the Sishang parliamentary government, even if it harms the interests of Sishang yeoman farmers -- to develop the state-owned handicraft industry with the theory of "economizing" as a high input, and to use the "Tianzhi" as a reason to monopolize and upgrade technology, and to export a large number of them while expanding the consumer market of internal yeoman farmers.

Internally, the basic stability of yeoman farmers is guaranteed to provide sufficient troops and an internal market, and externally, they rely on duty-free exports in exchange for currency and precious metals such as copper, and continue to invest in redevelopment.

On the other hand, the Qi school of economics attaches too much importance to the counter-promotion role of consumption, and hopes to rebalance the regulatory policy with an invisible hand.

The issue of investment and export is not important, and the official Shanhai policy mainly uses the monarch's ownership of the mountains and seas, and the essence of the collection is still land rent. Most of the means of profit from the "national track" are actually either land rent or interest, which looks very good, but it will inevitably lead to big problems when implemented, similar to the "Qingmiao Law" that has caused a big mess in later generations, and the core of the Qi school is also "the people do not add endowment and the country uses enough".

This question can also be regarded as a major difference between the Qi school of economics and the Mohist school of economics.

For example, on the issue of "Festival Funeral" and "Festival of Use", the Mohist idea is to bury thinly, accumulate capital and reinvest in production, so that horses, cattle, sheep, cloth, grain and even the population can be doubled within 20 years. The use of land reform means so that there is no big aristocracy in Sishang, but the reproduced products are put into the external market, constantly eroding the world.

However, the economic school of Qi believes that "the funeral is heavy to get rich, one family goes, one family comes, so the relatives are also together." This is called the covenant. the gigantic, so that the poor also; The tomb of the beautiful ridge, so make civilization also; The coffin is a huge coffin, so it is also carpentered; There are many clothes, so the female workers also. It is still endless, so there is a time to float, there is a difference, and there is a stumbling. cannibalism is done, and then the people benefit each other, and the preparations for war are combined. ”

In other words, not only should thick burials be made, but also thick burials should be vigorously promoted as a custom.

Not only should it be vigorously promoted, but huge burial chambers should be excavated so that the poor would have work to do; decorate the palatial cemetery, so that the carving and painting craftsmen have work to do; make huge coffins and make carpenters rich; Use more burial clothes and quilts, and the maid is popular. This is not enough, there are all kinds of sacrificial baggage, all kinds of ceremonial guards and all kinds of funeral items. These methods are used to make the poor sustain themselves, and then to benefit the people.

In the same way, the Qi school of economics encourages consumption and luxury, and believes that consumption can promote investment and development.

For example, the economic school of Qi believes that it is necessary to advocate eating the best food, listening to the best music, carving eggs and then cooking them, and carving firewood and then burning them. Don't block the hole in the dansha minerals, so that the merchants don't get sluggish in trafficking. Let the aristocracy consume luxury, and let the poor work and work. Then the people will live and work in peace and contentment, and they will be uplifted and fed in every way.

For example, in a year of famine, nobles should be encouraged to build palaces. Why? Because the more famine the year, the more tossed, let the nobles build palaces, so that the homeless can work, and then promote the redistribution of wealth, when the rich can eat and drink eggs, they have to carve eggs with flowers, burn wood, and carve patterns, so that there will be no crisis in the world.

This is the difference between the Qi school and the Mohist school on economic issues, and it sounds like the statement of the Qi school of economics is very reasonable, but in fact there is a huge problem lurking.

The economic school of Qi actually recognized the existence of the "rentier class" such as the aristocracy, and greatly recognized the importance of the rentier aristocracy to the national economy.

In the model of the Qi school of economics, it is like this: the development of industry and commerce, the investment of capital, the production of products, but the purchasing power of the bottom is insufficient, there will definitely be a relative surplus of goods. And this requires a "third estate" as the main consumer force.

This "third estate" is the aristocracy that depends mainly on land rent, and their existence is not only reasonable from the point of view of "etiquette", but also from the point of view of "economics". They don't exist, so to whom are consumer goods sold? Consumer goods can't be sold, who does the people at the bottom work for, and where do they have money?

Therefore, in the theory of the economic school of Qi, capital is invested in production, labor is sold at the bottom, and rentier aristocrats are consumers, forming a stable triangular structure.

Industrialists and merchants hired the bottom to produce, sold their products to the rentier aristocracy, and recovered funds to stabilize production.

In this stable triangular structure, the rentier aristocracy can not only exist, but must exist, and even without them, the entire economy will collapse, leading to problems such as insufficient consumption, inability to redistribute wealth, and unemployment among the people at the bottom.

In the theoretical model of the Mohist school, there is no rentier aristocracy, or they are to be eliminated.

The theory of the Mohist school has also been basically formed, that is, investment, production, and finding a market to sell things for money, reinvesting, and reproducing.

What if the market is insufficient? Internal land reform has created a large number of homesteaders with spending power.

What if the cost of land is too high? Get rid of the landed aristocracy, reduce the cost, or directly collect the state rent, otherwise the landed aristocracy exists, and if you want to expand production, you need to pay the aristocratic rent, which leads to an increase in costs, and the increased costs are added to the commodity.

What should I do if internal consumption is still saturated? Instead of creating a third estate, we look outward for the market. dumping in Chu and Vietnam; The capital that came back was reinvested in reproduction, and the market was not enough, so we continued to look outside, and did not hesitate to go to war, sail, and penetrate into the territory of the natives who are still drinking blood for the market.

Not only to go deeper, but also to transform the world according to the will of capital, for example, to carry out bourgeois land reform in the areas under its control, to expand the number of people with spending power, to expand capital, to expand the number of hired workers, to continue to expand the market, and then to continue to invest in production and so on after feedback.

Until one day...... When the snowball is rolling and it really can't go any further...... That's not what the Mo family is in charge of now.

The Mohists acknowledged the consumption promotion role and balance theory of the Qi school of economics, but there was no room for the existence of the "third estate" of the rentier aristocracy in the Mohist school.

This leads to the fact that the Mohist system is not stable, but needs to constantly go outward and transform the whole world according to the will of capital, otherwise you will have to be crushed by the snowball that is getting bigger and bigger.

The theory of the Qi school was internally stable, which was also in line with the characteristics of the times when there were many nobles at this time, and they had to consider the existence of the aristocracy, and they thought that they had created a perfect and self-consistent "stable structure", relying on the third class rentier aristocracy as consumers to promote economic development.

In the eyes of the Qi school, the Mohist system is unstable, because one day the infinitely expanding capital will have an accident due to the lack of the market, and it will never be stable, so it seems that the Mohist system is extremely flawed.

In the previous debate between the Mohists, Yang Zhu and Lie Yukou, the Qi school also refuted the issue of "Festival Funeral" and "Festival Use", not from the perspective of "ceremony", but from the perspective of economy.

The Qi school believes that the Mohists will inevitably cause insufficient consumption, and the Mohist festival will one day explode by reinvestment, which will lead to too many goods but cannot be sold. What do you do when you only accumulate and do not consume, thrift and waste rituals, and make so many goods that cannot be sold? Without rentier aristocrats, who will buy your Xuanlin? Counting on a wealthy businessman? How many wealthy businessmen are there in the world today? The richest are still those nobles with a lot of fiefdoms, they are the cornerstone of maintaining economic stability, your Mo family is so chaotic in the world, like you, a big war for interests is inevitable, so you can't do it like the Mo family.

The era of contention has begun, and the doctrines of each school are constantly forming a system, transcending the original germination and enlightenment, or thinking about more profound content.

The state of Qi has its own doctrine.

So Tian He was sure that he had found another path that was different from Wei Qinchu and the Mo family.

A road to prosperity that could not only maintain the stability of the aristocracy but also promote economic development, but also explain the perfect path of the Tian dynasty in terms of legitimacy.

That's what he thought.