"Wu Dongmen, please sit down."

Confucianism, who can be respected as a "son" by later generations, is of course very gentlemanly, even if he is very disgusted with martial arts profiteers in his heart, the etiquette before talking about the Tao is still very thoughtful. Saluted respectfully, smiled and invited Wu Haogu to sit down, and let the disciple offer fragrant tea.

Wu Haogu returned the favor and sat opposite Hou Zhongliang. The new science and technology scholars present, except for Wu Haowen, all showed surprised expressions. Most of those who would come to listen to Hou Zhongliang's lectures were Confucian scholars from the countryside of Guanzhong, Hedong and Henan (Henan Prefecture). Hou Zhongliang, who learned Guan Luo and founded the Hedong School, is a dignified Confucian in their minds! And Wu Haogu is just a businessman, what qualifications do you have to sit and discuss with Hou Fuzi?

However, Wu Haowen, the sixth Jinshi who was born in the metropolis of Kaifeng, looked down on Hou Zhongliang at this time - he really didn't look down on the brother who sold calligraphy and paintings on Panlou Street more than two years ago, but now the situation is completely different.

Wu Haogu is already a henchman of the official family, and he is a rampant official from the seventh grade, and it is difficult to say whether he can recommend the two mansions in the future, but it seems that there is no problem in becoming a martial artist in the Sanyaguan army. Such a person is capable in the eyes of Bianliangzi, even if he climbs up by flattery, in Kaifeng Mansion, where he laughs at poverty and does not laugh at prostitution, he is also envied and admired.

It's also a skill!

Moreover, Wu Haogu also single-handedly managed the marriage between Wu Haowen and Han Seventeen Sisters, and also guessed the current policy topic of this imperial examination...... Wu Haowen wants to look down on his brother anymore, so many years of Confucian principles have really been learned in vain.

So when Wu Haogu and Hou Zhongliang sat down separately, Wu Haowen stood behind Wu Haogu without hesitation, instead of standing behind Hou Zhongliang like several other Jinshi in Zhengxin Hall.

Wu Haogu glanced at Hou Zhongliang, who had a faint smile on his face and had a gentleman's style, and then looked at the new branch jinshi standing behind him with frowning brows - Wu Haogu didn't know any of them, obviously they were low-ranking jinshi, and they had not yet appeared in the "Wenqu Xing" magazine, most of them were "unlucky eggs" who were among the top five, and they were still in the election period, and it was estimated that they would not be sent by the end of the year, and even if they did, they would be a trial county lieutenant...... I don't know how long I have to survive? Compared with these of them, the top five jinshi who have passed the exam, their own fortunate villain is really proud.

In addition, these new science and technology scholars all look earthy, and they are all a little old, and they are obviously all "local jinshi" from the countryside.

Among the Jinshi masters of the Great Song Dynasty today, there are actually differences between urban and rural areas and the gap between the rich and the poor! At best, there are two or more interest groups......

"Dongmen, the family teacher went out to meet friends, and I want to come back in the afternoon, why don't you and I discuss it first."

Hou Zhongliang's words interrupted Wu Haogu's thoughts, Wu Haogu looked at the big Confucian in front of him, and smiled modestly: "How dare I discuss with Mr. in the future, but there are a few questions I want to ask Mr. ”

Wu Haogu really did not have the qualifications to discuss with Hou Zhongliang...... Proficiency is one thing, qualifications are another. If Wu Haogu successfully entered Shu to learn from Sumen and became Su Dongpo's disciple, then he would be qualified to discuss with Cheng Yi's beloved disciple.

"Please."

Hou Zhongliang didn't insist, he and Wu Haogu argued that it was a self-surrendering identity. However, Wu Haogu was able to make the "Republic of Commerce", which shows that he is also a Confucian who can leave a name in history...... But he's a wicked man!

"Sir, do you think the "Republic of Commerce" can really be implemented in the world?"

Listening to Wu Haogu's question, Hou Zhongliang couldn't help frowning, this question should be asked by himself, right? Isn't it about the "Lu Township Covenant" and the "Republic Commercial Covenant" today? I support the "Lu Family Township Covenant", and whether the "Township Covenant" can be used in the world should be said by myself! And whether the "business covenant" can be carried out in the world is something that Wu Haogu has to answer. How is it the other way around now?

"Yes!" Hou Zhongliang did not hide his opinion.

If you sit and talk about the Tao, you must be honest, what is the point of talking nonsense?

Hou Zhongliang said: "Taigong said: Great farmers, big workers, and big businessmen are called the three treasures. Farmers and their townships are full of grain; Work is sufficient; The business is full of goods. And those who can be among the Three Jewels, how can they be ordinary people? Jiehe Commercial City is a gathering of big merchants and big workers to self-govern. The so-called elders are all national treasures, how can they be compared with the villagers of the Lu family. The villagers of the Lu family can still govern a township, how can the two treasures of the country not manage a commercial market? When a commercial market rises, most of the other commercial markets in the world will follow suit sooner or later. At that time, the "Republic Treaty" will be implemented in the world! ”

This Hou Zhongliang is really a great Confucian! Wu Haogu listened to his analysis, and said in his heart: People don't regard industry and commerce as sluts at all, but as two treasures. Now those who can go to Jiehe Commercial City to be a patriarch are all treasures! The article may not be as good as the Jinshi master, but the ability to do things is not known to be many times more than the ordinary Jinshi.

How can it be impossible to manage a commercial market with so many "treasures" coming together and opening a senate to manage a commercial market? If a commercial market is "greatly governed", other commercial markets will of course follow suit.

"Master, a businessman is mercenary and short-sighted, how can he govern one side?"

Immediately, someone refuted Hou Zi, not Wu Haogu, but a new science and technology scholar in his forties standing behind Hou Zi.

"There are gentlemen and villains in the farmers, and not only the businessmen are greedy. Even if they are greedy for profit, they are not necessarily short-sighted and cannot enter politics. Among the disciples of the saints in the past, Zigong was a great businessman. I wait for the younger generation, who dares to say that it surpasses Zigong? ”

That's right! I am the contemporary Zigong! Wu Haogu deeply believed Hou Zhongliang's statement, felt that he had met a confidant, and thought: I will recommend Hou Zhongliang to the official family when I turn back...... What a waste of such a political talent not to be an official!

"Didn't Master just say that the "Republican Commercial Treaty" is a bad government?"

Someone asked again.

Hou Zhongliang said: "Orange is orange born in Huainan, and orange is born in Huaibei, and the leaves are similar, but the taste is different." So what? The water and soil are also different. This principle is precisely applied to 'business contracts'. The "Republic of Commerce" is a great good government for the commercial city, and a great evil law for the rural countryside. ”

Wu Haogu asked at this time: "Isn't it wonderful that the business contract is used for the city and the township contract is used for the village?" ”

Wu Haogu was not an opponent of the Lü Township Covenant and rural autonomy, and in fact he lacked interest in and understood the problems of the countryside and peasants in the Great Song Dynasty.

"Hahaha." Hou Zhongliang laughed when he heard this, "Has the East Gate forgotten that there is a big farmer in addition to the big merchants and big workers?" ”

What is a big farmer?

Wu Haogu had only heard of the small-scale peasant economy, but had never heard of the large-scale peasant economy.

"The so-called big businessmen, big workers, and big farmers are actually the same kind of people in today's world." Hou Zhongliang said, "Today, within the boundaries of Kaifeng Prefecture, small farmers have long been extinct. The fertile land is not returned to the noble family, but belongs to the great merchants and workers. Ordinary small peasants have to endure heavy rents and high profits, and evil businessmen are abandoning (speculative Juqi), and now they have to survive, and what kind of township covenant is they talking about?

If the "Republic of Commerce" is implemented in the largest commercial markets in the world, I am afraid that the fields of the world will eventually belong to the industrial and commercial dignitaries, and the industrial and commercial dignitaries will hand over the land to the big farmers to manage. Ordinary small farmers will have no tiles on the top and no land on the bottom, and they will become homeless! ”

It is not that there are no small farmers who have cultivated themselves in the boundaries of Kaifeng Prefecture, and there are many small farmers who grow vegetables and raise chickens around Kaifeng Prefecture, and their lives are actually very rich. After all, Kaifeng Mansion is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and even wealthy families are relatively well-behaved, and they dare not forcibly seize the vegetable fields of small farmers.

But these small-scale farmers who grow vegetables and chickens have actually become industrialized. Do whatever you want to make money, and most of them are also engaged in industry and commerce, and most of them go to the city to work and do business when they are not working, and some vegetable farmers even have greenhouses to grow vegetables and flowers in winter. With this kind of financial resources, he is not a bitter farmer at all, but a businessman who runs agriculture...... Once these agricultural merchants become big farmers, the impact on the countryside of the Song Dynasty will be no less than the impact of textile industrialization!

Hou Zhongliang looked at Wu Hao Gu and said: "The "Lu Family Township Covenant" is a covenant to raise the people, and the "Republic and Business Covenant" is a covenant of the tiger!" Tiger ...... It's bound to hurt! ”

Da Confucian is really insightful!

Although Wu Haogu didn't know much about the countryside of the Great Song Dynasty, he had heard some stories of "sheep eating people" and "silkworms eating people".

Moreover, small farmers who plant twenty or thirty acres of land one by one are not very competitive in farming, and those who have a little disaster will collapse. It simply cannot be compared with a capitalist farm with hundreds or thousands of acres of land......

Hou Zhongliang said: "For example, there are still places where the 'township covenant' can be implemented today, because the 'business covenant' has not yet been implemented in the whole world. Otherwise, the big peasants will inevitably replace the small peasants, and the 'township contract' will inevitably be destroyed by the 'commercial contract'. ”

That's insight! Wu Haogu really met a confidant who could talk about the Tao this time...... Because Hou Zhongliang has already seen through the essence of the "Republic Commercial Covenant".

The "Republican Commercial Treaty" is a treaty used to protect the interests of the bourgeoisie! And the bourgeoisie is not only the big workers, big businessmen, but also big peasants!

Now there are big workers and big businessmen in the Great Song Dynasty, but there are no big farmers, the reason is that the big farmers can't fight the village scholars at all, and whoever wants to be a big farmer will be pressed on all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and it will be crushed to death. Therefore, such as the Yanggu Ximen family, they did not go to agriculture, but used the tenant rent system and the armor protection system to control the tenants' people, turning them into a force dependent on themselves. Then use this power to run rampant on one side and engage in smuggling and tax resistance. But once the "Republic and Commercial Treaty" was implemented in the names of the big cities in the world, and the big farmers had strong industrial and commercial support behind them, how could the local scholars and doctors fight with others?

"However, the "Republic Commercial Covenant" was only implemented in Jiehe Commercial City, and it was not promoted to the world."

Wu Haogu actually knew the power of the capitalist flood beast, so he never thought of engaging in the "Republic Commercial Covenant" all over the world.

Hou Zhongliang laughed and said: "Today, the tiger raises the tiger in the boundary river, and the tiger will definitely travel the world in the future...... The tiger walks the world, not by others! ”

Yes, the bourgeois Pandora's box has been opened by Wu Haogu! The big workers and businessmen who were originally well managed now have a home of their own that they can develop freely.

They will grow in this homeland and become beasts of the Flood......