"What's that!?"

Duan Hongshi asked with red eyes.

Li Shi raised the book in his hand, and five crooked and ugly characters that were completely invisible came into Duan Hongshi's eyes, and after looking at them for a while, Duan Hongshi pointed to the third and fourth words and shook his head blankly: "What is the meaning of this word?" ”

Thinking that there was no such word at this time, or that there was no such solution, Li Xian coughed, threw the book away, and asked another question.

"Teacher, what do you think of industry and commerce?"

Duan Hongshi's mood gradually calmed down, sat down, and after a while of silence, he frowned and said, "Could it be that you have fallen in love with Yang Zhu's learning!?" ”

Li Xian sat firmly on the Diaoyutai platform: "Please ask the teacher for advice." ”

Duan Hongshi shook his head slightly: "Industry and commerce, the "Treatise on Salt and Iron" has been almost debated, and later generations have never exceeded the theory of this book...... Those who established the country in ancient times have the way to open the way to the end and the end, and to use what they have and what they have not...... Therefore, if there is no work, there is a shortage of agriculture; If you can't do it, the treasure will be overwhelming. If agriculture is scarce, the grain will not multiply; If the treasure is gone, the wealth will be scarce. Therefore, salt, iron, and all lose, so the general commission and the urgency are adjusted. ”

Duan Hongshi memorized a large paragraph, and then came a sentence: "But what is the final conclusion?" Otherwise, it's inconvenient! It's just inconvenient, and it's trivial. ”

Li Xian smiled: "Isn't this inconsistent? ”

Duan Hongshi sighed: "It's just that Hengkuan doesn't want the controversy to rise to the dispute between industry and commerce and Confucianism, and reconciles it for Sang Hongyang." It can also be seen that even in the era of being able to speak freely, it is absolutely impossible for industry and commerce to compete for the position of one with Confucianism. Since then, industry and commerce have only been cheap learning, or even not learning, but a first-class branch of soap. ”

He shook his head and said: "It is impossible for industry and commerce to get one, the first Qin Yang and Zhu Xue is a Taoist way, and it has not been able to integrate with merchants and light and heavy families, and it has always been boneless." is either attached to the merchants, harming the world and pursuing profits, or holding the authority and harming the world, just like Wang Anshi. ”

This cheap master is really not the kind of short-sighted scholar who jumps up and gets mad when he hears about business, but directly talks about the key points.

Many travelers go back to ancient times and think about building a country with industry and commerce. But as Duan Hongshi said, in ancient times, industry and commerce were a kind of practice, a practice without an ideological foundation, even if you hold a treasure book such as "The Wealth of Nations", there is no way to connect it with the foundation of the society at that time, that is, the book of birds.

In this era, in China, where Confucianism and law are integrated, industry and commerce are embodied in two aspects, either the simple pursuit of profit by merchants, or the centralized bureaucracy used to suck blood, and it has no reading power surname.

Duan Hongshi added: "All dynasties have valued industry and commerce, but they are all under the law and provide food for the imperial court's wealth." Confucianism closed its eyes and ignored the industrial and commercial policies of the imperial court, focusing on the industry and commerce rooted in the grass people. As a result, the industry and commerce were driven away from the grass people, and they were controlled by the imperial court and officials and businessmen, and the Confucian family could also see clearly on the road of industry and commerce. ”

Then he said something very taboo: "On this business road, this dynasty has a deeper grip than all previous dynasties." There are merchants from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, that is, imperial merchants, officials and merchants below, and people and merchants at the bottom. With the policy of forbidden, the world is raised, and no business can stand on its own. Salt, iron wire, silk, tea, wine, copper, lead, alum, all things that have great profits and grass people depend on their livelihoods, are all forbidden or controlled, including maritime trade, all from this layer of merchants, to the imperial court and the royal family. ”

He smiled and said: "Gongji is in business, copper, iron, salt, sugar, silk weaving and construction, and businessmen are the same, so ah, Li Shi, how can you get one when you say this business?" ”

After listening to Duan Hongshi's critical introduction, Li Xian was not depressed, he thought about all of this very thoroughly. Later generations may not be smarter than the ancients, let alone more knowledgeable than the ancients, but future generations can see the historical trajectory, which is already a thick golden thigh. Relying on this golden thigh, Li Shi, a reporter who is not a professional in economics, that is, a so-called miscellaneous scientist, can also say something about this matter, and the history of three hundred years later has proved that it is one that started from industry and commerce.

"Teacher, industry and commerce are just an appearance, the most active appearance, in fact, agriculture is just like industry and commerce, it is only an appearance. Behind them, there is one more thing. ”

Li Xi turned his book over and pointed to the third and fourth characters on the cover.

"Capital ......"

Duan Hongshi frowned and read, he still didn't quite understand the word.

"It's okay if it's not called capital, it's called ...... Currency...... Well, to put it bluntly, it's copper coins and gold and silver. ”

Li Shi can't say too deeply, after all, what kind of transaction symbol or something, is the interpretation of money that later generations studied on the basis of sociology, and it belongs to metaphysics.

"Money?"

Duan Hongshi glared.

"Yes, money."

Li Xi began to inspire his teachers.

"The teacher often talks about Wang Anshi, so may I ask, what is the significance of his Qingmiao Law and Shiyi Law?"

Duan Hongshi took a cool breath and frowned.

"The Qingmiao Law and the City Yi Law, the imperial court uses money to ...... The original intention of controlling the world may be to benefit the people, but in essence, it has squeezed the people's benefits. ”

This is Duan Hongshi's consistent view, regardless of Wang Anshi's personal motives, at least the result is universally recognized.

The teacher also said that the pursuit of profit by businessmen is their surname, and the imperial court has an unwavering law of industry and commerce. But in the eyes of the disciples, it is not the businessmen themselves and the court itself who have this surname, the businessmen seek profits, after all, there is still the limit of people's hearts, and the court is even more evergreen for the foundation, but why did the money change its face when it was in hand? That's because the money in their hands has a profit-seeking surname. The problem with the green seedlings law market is that they don't see the real surname of this money clearly. ”

"The original surname of money lies in the circulation and circulation, endlessly, just like people foraging for food, it is born to seek profit, to exchange for more money."

"Whether it is the grass people, the merchants, or the court, when they circulate money with each other, the money will go to seek profit, and the desires of the grass people, the merchants, and the court are all led to be fulfilled by this money. The teacher also said that wealth is exchanged for all things, just because it can exchange for all things, and there is such a surname, isn't it not a thing that has its own life, its own learning, and follows its own surname? ”

Capital is a beast, so what percentage of profits will make people that famous words, he doesn't have to squirt out and pretend to be forked anymore, Li Xian made a categorical conclusion: "Money, you can get one!" ”

Duan Hongshi stayed for a while, nodding for a while, shaking his head for a while, calculating the tenant's land rent, and talking to himself about usury, his eyes became brighter and brighter.

"No, even if you can get one money, it is like a beast, it can swallow people to the bone!"

Duan Hongshi's face was slightly red, he found the fatal flaw, and also dug out the words that Li Shi had buried.

"It still has no bones, it is still in the hands of merchants and the imperial court, the green seedling law is the fierce beast released by Wang Anshi with the hands of the imperial court, and the same is true of the city change law, the harm makes future generations hear about it, even the current imperial court, do not dare to repeat the mistakes of the past."

Li Xian smiled: "That's because it hasn't grown up yet, teacher, think about it." In ancient times, people drank blood and exchanged shells for prey pottery, and later, people began to plough the fields, mine, weave, and use copper coins, gold and silver, and the number of exchangeable things increased thousands of times. Later, for example, now, people grow tea in the mountains, sugarcane in the flatlands, weavers in the south of the Yangtze River spin silk on looms, and embroiderers bury their heads in embroidering patterns that have nothing to do with warmth. Looking at the labor of these desires, how did they come about? Isn't it just that he was guided by money step by step, and then pushed money to grow up step by step? ”

Li Shi cited an example of Duan Hong's ignorance, but later generations had some experience: "Can the teacher know that in the past hundred years, in addition to the gold, silver and copper coins produced in China, how much silver has flowed in from overseas? ”

He didn't dare to cite the numbers, otherwise Duan Hongshi, the old cunning, would definitely have to muttered about where he got the numbers. But he just reminded him, but Duan Hongshi understood it clearly.

"From the former Ming Dynasty to the present dynasty, hundreds of millions of porcelain silk tea went to sea, and most of the money was exchanged for silver, which is true."

Li Xian said leisurely: "It is growing up, although Confucianism thinks about it, but in the matter of money, it has never been able to control it freely. Even if there are forbidden and layers of emperors, businessmen, officials and businessmen, they can't knead it like people's hearts. It is said that the silver flowing from overseas is also benefiting from the tranquility of the present day. And the power generated by money during this period also made it difficult for the imperial court and the imperial merchants, officials and businessmen to pinch them all. ”

Duan Hongshi slapped his thigh, and he remembered another thing: "The former Ming Li Chuang had an incident, and the root cause was a shortage of silver in Shaanxi!" It's just a lack of money! It is difficult for grain and goods to pass, and it is difficult for grass people to live! ”

This also talks about the cause of the death of the Ming Dynasty, only from the point of view of economics, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, because of the Liao affairs and the Donglin Party, the circulation of money became a one-way street, in the southeast coast, Jiangnan to Liaobian circulation, can be transferred to the northwest is very few. The rebellion in Shaanxi was ostensibly a natural disaster and a shortage of food, but there was no shortage in the south of the Yangtze River and in the north. The bottom line was a shortage of silver, and the Shanxi Jin merchants happily sold grain to the north, but they were unwilling to circulate to the northwest, because there was no silver there and there was no profit to chase. The imperial court was controlled by a gang of Donglin Party to escort this one-way street, and lost control over the local area, thus causing chaos.

Li Xi continued to deepen the topic: "Actually, it's not just money, money is the body of this beast, and there is ...... on top of the money It should be called the market or business, and the market is the mind of this beast. Now it's that its mind hasn't fully grown yet, and there are still a lot of elements that haven't been generated, so it's just its body moving. Since he has no brains, he will naturally be swayed by merchants or the court. ”

The so-called element, that is technology. This includes not only natural science and technology, but also management technology and basic sciences such as mathematics. And technology is not born naturally, but is led by money. In particular, the germ of technology is like grass, all over the ground, and capital finds the one it considers the most valuable, gives it nutrients, and then grows into a towering tree.

The rough theoretical framework is like this, if you want to spread it out and argue, Li Xi will not retreat for seven days, but seven or even seventy years...... "Doesn't this mean that you, the capital, are only a beast with a body, and the one it can obtain is hopeless in this life, and you have to wait until its head grows up?" ”

Duan Hongshi looked for a question again.

Li Xian nodded, according to the original historical trajectory, the land of China is hopeless, but Europe that has evolved to mercantilism is promising. The British colonized India, and then used India as a pedal to march into China, and one hundred and twenty-eight years later, because the use of opium to extract silver was blocked, they used guns and opened the door to China, and the whole process was driven by this beast.

Before the British, Spain, the Netherlands and even the whole of Europe, before the Great Voyage, had already bred the monster of capital, and was driven by it to move towards the world. After the Industrial Revolution set sail, this beast showed its unstoppable power, and then brought politics, military, and culture all under its claws, wantonly fiddling, and advancing towards the global fertilizer distribution system.

But he shook his head again, for ...... With him came to this era.

"If we can fill in what it lacks and create its mind, why is there no hope in this world?"

Duan Hongshi stared at Li Shi and began to gasp, he thought of the boots under Li Shi's feet, the crystal glass cup in his hand, and the miracle of his twelve cannons in two months, maybe there were more things he didn't know, these are the elements that Li Shi said?

By the way, especially this Qingtian company, although he didn't deliberately observe it in the past three days, he also noticed a lot of abnormalities. For example, the hierarchical division, the unified planning of the fields, everything seems to be following the business workshop.

Li Xian smiled slightly, feeling a little complacent that he could instill this cheap master, but he didn't know that Duan Hongshi was full of thoughts in his mind, this disciple ...... Could it be the embodiment of this beast?

"But it's a beast...... A beast that wants to eat people! It's like the little girl who was forced to death by the Rite Sect! ”

Looking at the white teeth that were slightly exposed in Li Shi's mouth, Duan Hongshi continued to point out the essence of "money" harshly.

"If it can really get one, it is indeed different from one of the Confucian laws, but it is like gluttony, and there is no limit! Wei Shi once remembered that a few years ago in Jiangnan, there were cloth merchants who sold red cloth, and they said that there were bandits who took out children's liver and lungs, and those who wore red cloth did not take it. In the blink of an eye, the price of red cloth rose tenfold, and even thieves really took out children's liver and lungs to find the buyer! Behind the one obtained by this beast is Yang Zhu's learning, and the description of Yang Zhu is difficult to write in the past dynasties! ”

Li Xian nodded, from industry and commerce to capital to market economy, Duan Hongshi already had a vague concept in his mind, and Duan Hongshi's vision of chasing the essence was really good, worthy of a sage who jumped out of Confucianism to find another way.

The essence of this beast is indeed as Duan Hongshi said, it really wants to eat people, even after three hundred years, it is still eating people, and even when it has nothing to eat, it will eat its own body, such as the subprime mortgage crisis of Lao Mei.

"Therefore, we have to put a chew on this beast, saddle it, ride it steadily, and control it at all times, and how to control it is another learning."

Li Xi let out a sigh.

"The teacher's imperial technique divides the current situation into the power of heaven and earth, thinking that nature is heaven and people are earth, and the disciples dare not agree, such as this money ......"

He took out a Kangxi Tongbao, stood in front of him, and said with his eyebrows: "The beast behind this money, do you say it is the power of the sky or the power of the earth?" If people want to control it, is it a matter of doing things, or is they probing into the way of heaven? ”

Duan Hongshi was stunned.

"Heavenly Dao?"

Li Xian nodded: "The disciple believes that the power of heaven is the way of heaven that cannot be moved by human beings, and the power of earth is just a response of people who act according to the power of heaven. Controlling this beast is the same as your imperial technique, which is actually exploring...... Heaven. ”

Duan Hongshi's eyes were in a trance, and he vaguely felt that his roles with Li Shi were reversed.

(To be continued)