He is not from Handan, he is completely unfamiliar with the name Guo Zong, and he has no idea that behind this pile of dried corpses is the struggle of industrialists and businessmen in the Handan area.

The essence of this struggle is about the struggle for the spoils after the civil war in Zhao: the struggle between the emerging industrial and commercial forces dominated by the Mo family against the large industrial and commercial forces that were originally close to the aristocracy in the Zhao state.

Winner takes all, including the entire Zhao State's iron smelting market, grassland trading market, salt industry and other industries.

The gallows, which shook like a wind chime, silently read out who was the winner and who was the loser.

It was originally just a simple and common coup d'état, but it was made by the Mo family into a major reshuffle of Zhao's monopoly of industry and commerce.

Those who cooperate are more prosperous.

If you don't cooperate, send you to death and force you to go bankrupt.

Under the surface of the fiefdom, among the industrialists and businessmen, the Mo family is the uncrowned king and the uncrowned king.

This invisible crown is the huge wealth and principal accumulated by Sishang for twenty years, which can crush any wealthy merchant or even prince today.

Compared with those students who have studied economics in the academy for several years, they can only see the appearance of "this big family named Guo Zong colluded with Gongzi to make chaos and was killed".

Soon, the crowd of people gathered from all directions, and the prisoners began to do their duty, patrolling the neighborhood on horseback to maintain order.

The whole morning was full of speeches about "victory," "liberation," "defeating the army," and "non-attacking," and from time to time the people went up and shouted a few times, which sounded quite enthusiastic.

However, everything is afraid of contrast.

When the inkman on the wooden platform began to talk about the "grassland trade franchise", the whole venue began to be enthusiastic, and even frightened the prisoners.

He felt that his previous speech was like heating a pot of oil, just like the hot oil that the village community made croquettes together on the New Year's Day, whether it was a churn with some bubbles.

Now, it's like suddenly adding a spoonful of water to the hot oil, which makes the oil splash everywhere, and I can't wait for the whole pot of oil to jump.

Many people shouted below: "Yes! That's the real thing! What are we fighting for? Why did we lend money to Gongzizhang? Not for profit? ”

"I say, "Tell me, how much profit will you get?"

"Gongzizhang can't pay back the money!"

"Is he going to pay it back...... Why do we support him? Debt repayment, this is the principle of heaven and earth! ”

The crowd kept asking such questions, and when he saw a person outside the crowd, he shook his head and said, "The city without virtue, the city without virtue." Disloyalty, unrighteousness, and only knowing profit, how can such a world last? In this world, I'm afraid it's going to end......"

Shu Prisoner couldn't help but pout and smile, and said in his heart, this is about to end? Then didn't you go to Sishang to see, those caravans that invested in trading in Chuyue and even further south, I heard that more than 100 retired technical fighters went to Tie Lou to get down a city for money and robbed a large number of jade and gold from the nobles there, and I don't know whether it is true or not. Anyway, it was said that it was the trade income from Sishang, and there was no bitter lord to sue him, so that a large group of people sold the land they had retired and followed this group of people south to make a fortune......

He didn't bother to take care of the man, and rode around the side from the outside.

On the stage, the ink man said: "How can I repay this loaned money?" You say that if you pay it by taxes, then it is not the wool that comes from the sheep? It was not good to levy a tax of ten denarii now, but now it levies a tax of twenty denias and pays you ten. ”

"So we discussed it and there were two options."

"One, is to use this money to buy a trade concession for the entire grassland. Let's raise some more money to transport iron, spirits, silk, Xuanlin, and exchange cattle, sheep, horses, and alkali from the Hu people. You also know that alkali has been sold expensive in recent years, and the Mo family said that there is a alkali lake near the north of Gaoliu, which can be burned and ...... can also be invested."

"Then, according to the interest, the money you originally invested will be returned annually......"

As soon as he finished speaking, many people who looked rich and noble shouted: "Okay, this method is good!" ”

"I'll see it!"

But most of the people shouted, "No! How can we have so much money? Their big businessmen took out some money before, that is, the hair on the cow. If we invest money again, we will be skinning ourselves. Although it is beneficial, in addition to the original profit, we also want to regenerate money. ”

"That is, you can't listen to them. This is not worth it for us small households! ”

Shu Prisoner Mi understood this time, he had come into contact with this kind of trade business chamber of commerce when he was in Sishang, and it involved the matter of future profits.

This method, after a little thought, must be beneficial to the rich, because although the rich have invested a lot of money before, it is still less than their net worth, and they can continue to add it later, so as to get annual dividends.

However, some small industrialists and businessmen or peasant households, who do not have much of their own savings, first lent Gongzizhang to make war loans, and used these war loans in exchange for franchise rights, they have seen the Mo family's ability to make money in the iron-smelting industry here, and they are very sure that they can recover the principal and interest originally promised, but the benefits after that have nothing to do with them, and they will definitely not agree to it in the long run.

The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the love of the world is for profit, which is probably what it means.

The ink man on the stage said: "Then there is a second way." ”

"The Mo family paid for the right to invest in the grassland franchise, and then the money and grain and grass that everyone originally lent to Gongzizhang, as well as the grain collected by the city, were calculated and counted as the principal."

"After that, according to the principal and interest dividends every year, we will pay back the money advanced by the Mo family. By the way, since it is said to be a franchise, then we have to strictly investigate and patrol, if there is no money, you can't raise soldiers, if you don't have money to raise soldiers, some people will secretly take goods to the grassland, and some people will secretly take goods to the grassland, not to mention whether this will bring swords and gunpowder to the grassland in the future to murder us, that is, our franchise sells a lot less things, and sells a lot less, so we make less money, right? ”

"Originally, we wanted to collect taxes at the border gates, but then we thought that it would not be good to tax our own things. The Hu people also have nothing to transport in, and the taxes collected are their own, and they originally wanted to rely on taxes to support the border inspectors, but now that they think about it, this is also converted into a principal dividend. ”

"What do you think?"

Before this, they had already taken advantage of the opportunity of the besieging people to be organized, and rallied dozens of times, and who knew the huge profits in them?

Calculate a little, as long as you can achieve a franchise, it will not be a problem to spend 100,000 yuan a year, especially when I heard that Zhao Guo is also going to reform the cavalry, this is another big progress, wouldn't it be profitable?

It sounds like it's extremely beneficial to the population.

When it comes to the essence, that is, the development of the Mo family in the north cannot follow the same path as the development in Sishang, and the Mo family is in power over Si, and some means cannot be used here.

Here, this franchise chamber of commerce is used as the second government of Zhao Guo's industry and commerce and Handan's region; The interests were used to tie the people of Handan to the industrialists and businessmen of the Zhao State.

The development of this kind of monopoly to the later stage is certainly not conducive to social development, such as hindering more advanced technology, using the public for private purposes within the chamber of commerce, carrying private goods more than public goods, etc., but now there is no need to think about it so far, and the progress of technology Mohists do not expect natural development and natural accumulation, it is completely a seedling promotion of command research, which is the best model for people who clearly guide those who can "see the future and know the future" without detours.

When the time comes, the order of the Zhao government will be considered a fart within the Chamber of Commerce. Dare to take back the franchise, and the people involved in it will blow up the dog head of the "tyrant" in minutes, and take people's interests like killing their parents, even if the monarch kills his parents, he has to take revenge, this is a very simple way of thinking in the Yanzhao region.

The uncrowned king and uncrowned king of industrialists and businessmen, the real government of Handan, this is the purpose of the Mo family.

In fact, the real wealthy businessman who stood in the right direction had already made an agreement with the Mo family.

What the Mo family wants to do is to pull the bottom to contain the middle level, so that the Mo family occupies an absolute dominance in the franchise.

Nowadays, the steppe trade must be extremely profitable.

Wars are frequent, leather armor needs leather, cavalry needs horses, new farming technology urgently needs cattle and horses, Xuanlin firing needs a large number of grassland lake alkali in Zhangjiakou and Datong areas in later generations, and the emerging woolen textile industry needs a lot of wool, after all, the Handan area is not very suitable for planting cotton further north.

On the Zhao side, and with the new technologies brought by the Mohists, such as ironware, Xuanlin, silk, cotton, woolen, spirits, and tea, they have cultivated a certain market, and at the same time, the pricing power is on the Mohists' side.

At the same time, new crops and the land changes demanded by the Handan region can increase food production and support more non-agricultural people engaged in industry and commerce.

The military reform of gunpowder, iron swords, stirrups, car formations, and star-shaped border forts also made the Hu people completely lose their tactical advantages, and the enemy countries of the steppe that had not yet formed a unified grassland could pull one faction to fight another, and they could maintain the balance by relying on 10,000 people, and by the way, they could get the land that was extremely suitable for farming under the precipitation line at this time, such as Yunzhong and Jiuyuan, and naturalize the population.

Some Hu people who are close to the border and within the farming line can also use the method of "class struggle" to pull the Hu people to fight against the leaders of the nobles, which is the fastest means of naturalization, and it is also a means that the feudal dynasty and the feudal warring states cannot use.

It is not wrong for the people to seek profit.

Seeking too much profit, in this era, is also a natural rebellion against the oppression and overcorrection of the times.

The real society of "agriculture is not as good as work, industry is not as good as business, and embroidery is not as good as leaning on the door and smiling", and now the leader of the Mo family is not unseen, and even thinks that it would be good if he could really do this now.

The reason why Handan is now evaluated as a "city without virtue" is mainly due to the reason why the people bargained with Gongzizhang, and after being organized by the Mo family and using the external environment to pit the nobles of Zhao and cause a civil war, this kind of bargaining can be done.

However, judging from the current "virtue", the practice of the people of Handan is indeed immoral - Qiu Jiafu is a nationality tax, and the monarch has the right to collect it, how can the monarch pay it back? Gongzizhang's fief Handan, if it weren't for Gongzizhang's fiefdom, wouldn't the people of Handan eat and starve to death? How can you let Gongzizhang give away his interests?

Moreover, the people of the country forced the king to reach a treaty, which was not only immoral, but also had no king and no father. The Mo family doesn't matter, the evaluation of no monarch and no father has been memorized for more than 40 years, long before Shi joined the Mo family, he and Confucianism sprayed as fatherless and beasts, which is not bad, but the people of Handan were somewhat innocently seduced and bewitched, and they were saddled with this infamy.