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The ice on the road finally melted, and although it was a little muddy, the horses no longer slipped. Xu Ping rode on his horse, leisurely looking at the scenery on the side of the road, and walked south unhurriedly.

Inspections are routine, and as long as Li Di's attitude is settled, there will be no trouble. It only took three days for Xu Ping to end his trip in Mengzhou and complete the task of inspecting the prefectures and counties under his rule this year. went to this heart, Xu Ping's whole person was relaxed, and his mood was exceptionally good.

Li Di supported Xu Ping's approach, and the officials of Jingxi Road were united internally, and the opinions of individual ordinary state and county officials were irrelevant. As for Zhang Qi, he was originally a military minister, and he had no achievements and prestige, so he couldn't talk about this kind of thing.

As long as the internal unity is unified, why should Xu Ping be afraid of Lu Yijian? No matter what the final outcome is, a change of thought has begun, and Xu Ping will officially come to the forefront of this era. Reform is the call of the times, and there is already a deep soil, and Xu Ping is just following the trend. The general trend is mighty, and it can't be stopped.

Looking at the frozen Luohe River not far away, Xu Ping remembered what Li Di said to himself when he left Mengzhou. Things in officialdom are not won or lost by right or wrong, if Xu Ping only thinks about reasoning and convincing others by reasoning, he will probably lose this time. The truth naturally has to be taught, and only when the truth is explained clearly can more people be able to win more people to stand on their side. However, while reasoning, we should not ignore the strategy of struggle, otherwise it will be a waste of water after all.

What impressed Xu Ping the most was that Li Di said that these truths could convince him Li Di, but nine times out of ten they could not convince the key figure Yan Shu. In order for Yan Shu to stand on his side, Xu Ping needs to make more efforts in other aspects.

What are the other aspects? Li Di didn't say it, Xu Ping didn't ask, and some words were meaningless if they were said thoroughly.

Yan Shu has ups and downs in the sea, and he has seen a lot in the world, and he is cautious. The truth can convince his heart, but it can't move his actions, in Xu Ping's mind, Li Di is afraid that this is what he said. Even if he felt that everything Xu Ping did was right and didn't give him reassurance, Yan Shu was afraid that he still wouldn't be able to muster up the courage to oppose Lu Yijian. Otherwise, Lu Yijian found an opportunity to be demoted from the court again, and Yan Shu didn't want to accept this result.

What kind of reassuring pill can give Yan Shu to calm his heart? Xu Ping could only shake his head helplessly, he didn't have the slightest clue in his heart now. Zhao Zhen in history especially likes to change the ruler, but not at this time, Lu Yijian is not included in the people who are often replaced. The prime minister who really does practical things, in fact, Zhao Zhen rarely changes.

Looking up at the white sun in the sky, Xu Ping suddenly sneezed loudly, startling the people around him.

The winter moon is the wax moon, the New Year is approaching, and the city of Luoyang is gradually beginning to have the breath of the New Year. Although this year has suffered from a drought that has not been seen for many years, Henan Prefecture has provided timely and effective relief, and people's livelihood has not been greatly affected. On the contrary, thanks to the newly opened field and cotton business, the people in the city have a lot more money in their hands than in previous years, and this year is very lively.

This New Year's Spring Festival just coincides with the beginning of the Spring Festival, and the beginning of the new year is a rare auspicious omen, which is more grand than in previous years.

In the Yamen of the Transit Envoy Division, Xu Ping's Governor's Hall was still busy, and Zhao Yan, Li Shen, Lu Ge, Wang Yaochen and others all gathered here, nervously sorting out and studying the economic data of Jingxi Road for the year, and preparing for the next step.

In the small study next to it, a large blackboard was hung, almost covering half of the wall. Xu Ping sat in front of the blackboard, leaned back in his chair, and watched quietly, motionless.

Li Ji and Wang Gongchen were in front of the blackboard, one left and one right, explaining the content on the blackboard to Xu Ping.

The question of what wealth is is solved by Li Jing, he already has a rough first draft, only needs to be carefully polished. Now the three of them are concentrating on how wealth is created and how it is realized. In other words, they are discussing the issue of production and exchange.

It is only in a social sense that wealth is necessary to be discussed, and for a single person, there is only a need for items that meet his various needs, and wealth has no meaning. At the heart of all this lies in exchange, or in the words of this era, business. In the past, when talking about businessmen, the positive saying was that they exchanged what they had and what they had, and the negative saying was that they did not produce, but only bought low and sold high, and grabbed profits for nothing, which was not beneficial to society. Because there is a need to communicate with each other, there must be merchants, and if there is no production, it will be like a silverfish in society, so it must be restricted.

The natural economy, with the small-scale peasant economy as the main body, stresses self-sufficiency, and businessmen are superfluous, which is also the basis of the policy of valuing agriculture and suppressing business. Of course, the habits inherited from the Five Dynasties did not particularly discriminate against merchants after entering the Song Dynasty, but some restrictive policies still existed. For example, being an official and participating in the imperial examination is actually still restricted. However, this is not so much a conclusion deduced from the economic basis of the natural economy as it is the influence of the traditional notion that the merchant values profit over righteousness.

Businessmen have money in business, and if they have money, they can be officials. Moreover, they do not pay attention to the building of spiritual civilization, and after becoming an official, they will seek benefits for themselves, affect the fairness of policies, and form a vicious circle. In a sense, the mainstream view of businessmen is somewhat similar to the view of military generals, that is, they all value profit over righteousness.

The important core of the commodity economy is exchange, and exchange is the most important way to obtain wealth and expand production, so it is necessary to theoretically overthrow the heavy agriculture and suppress the merchants, so that the chain of the commodity economy can continue. The theory must be solid, and the policy of equality alone to businessmen is useless and can be reversed at any time.

"I produce cotton in the field, and I send it to the field to weave cotton cloth, and when the cotton cloth is sold, I get money. To be honest, I don't really see what the businessman is going to do. ”

Wang Gongchen finished talking about his field affairs, spread his hands and looked at Xu Ping.

Xu Ping smiled and said, "However, you didn't get any money when the cotton cloth was sold." The merchant here is not the merchant we usually talked about in the past, but whenever the goods are transferred from one person to another, the transaction in the middle is a merchant. You give cotton to the field service, you are collecting money, Jun Zhen, you can remember clearly, it is not for free, it is for money! At this time, you are a merchant in the field, and you are a buyer in the field. The cotton cloth that came out of the field was not sold by itself, but by the shop of the three divisions. I don't need to talk about the three shops, they are simply shops, doing businessmen's business, but they are just officials and businessmen! ”

Li Jing said: "I think Du Cao is reasonable, when discussing business here, you can't just think of it as a merchant and a merchant as before, and all the buying and selling of goods is a business." Only in this way can many things be discussed. If the goods are produced, if they cannot be sold, they are of no use. For example, if cotton cloth is left in the camp and cannot be sold, what is the use even if it is piled up? The silk silk in the state and county warehouse, if it is not sold, it is useless, this year's silk price has fallen, and I don't know how much money is missing. ”