After the unauthorized authorities sat down, Liu Che instructed Ji Di: "Shang Shuling, go and take out the prepared "Ping Lu" and distribute it to the courtiers above 1,000 stones, as well as the princes and nobles, doctors and officials with more than 600 stones, and the elders of the Special Advancement!" ”

"No!" Ji Di bowed and slowly retreated.

The so-called "Ping Law" is actually the "Business Law" with a new vest.

No!

More precisely, this law is not just a commercial law.

It is also a law that regulates and guides businessmen.

Taxation is only a secondary purpose, and its main purpose is hidden in the terms and regulations.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Ji Huang walked into the hall with dozens of Shang Shulang and attendants, holding a bound and printed booklet, and then, according to the rank of status, position and title, they were distributed to the noble ministers present in turn.

Prime Minister Zhou Yafu was the first minister to receive the "Pinglu".

Although, as the prime minister, Zhou Yafu has long known that Shang Shutai is busy with this matter, and he has also read some drafts and opinions sent to him for review.

However, the whole picture of this new law, Zhou Yafu is still the first time to get a glimpse.

So he sat upright in his seat and gently opened the booklet in front of him.

The bound book was thin, about three or five pages, but it was quite wide.

It is the standard width of the Han Dynasty law tradition - the three-foot specification.

Therefore, when you gently open the pages of the book, you will see a neat and vertical row.

"There is actually a preamble...... Zhou Yafu glanced at it and smiled.

Since modern times, literati and inkmen. It has become popular to write a preface to his own articles and writings, explaining why he wrote this book (Fu). and the results you want to see.

But, as a state. For the first time, 'preface' has been applied to the formulation of laws and policies.

This is undoubtedly a huge step forward!

can let the people of the world know why the country, the Son of Heaven and the court are doing this.

"Hong Fan" said: The Son of Heaven is the parent of the people and thinks he is the king of the world. Honestly! Han Xing, Gaozu bowed to the martial material, the line of generosity and benevolence, and the heroes were taken care of to punish Qin and Xiang. Ren Xiao and Cao Zhiwen use good and peaceful strategies. The debate between Cheng Lu and Li, the ritual of Ming Uncle Sun Tong, the civil and military matching, and the general example.

The world is established, and the people are safe, but the world is allowed to rest and recuperate, so that the people can be convenient.

Since Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, the country has prospered and the people have been peaceful. The world has been healthy, and the great virtue of this emperor and Taizong is also!

However, in recent years, the imperial history doctor has sent poems to collect imperial history. Yu Junguo reported: The world is healthy, the businessmen are prosperous, and the rich are in the wilderness. Travelers who are comparable to princes abound.

Scholars and princesses. All of them are heartbroken.

In the past, Emperor Taizong of Jia Changsha said: Unfortunately, there is a drought of two or three thousand miles. The country is sympathetic; However, there was an emergency at the border, and tens of millions of people were fed by the country.

The Imperial Historian also played Taizong's mistake and said: If the people are poor, they will be treacherous. Poverty is born from insufficiency, lack is born from non-farming, non-farming is not land, and if not land, it is leaving the hometown and light-hearted, and the people are like birds and beasts. Although there are high cities and deep pools, strict laws and heavy punishments, it is still impossible to prohibit it.

He also said: Today, the law is a cheap businessman, and the merchant has become rich and noble, and he respects the farmer, and the farmer has become poor and lowly.

Since his accession to the throne, he has always cherished the world, had mercy on the people, and grieved all the people, and decreed the world: never give more, and give out the inner treasury money to revitalize the yuanyuan.

Ordered the internal history, the big farmers, and the Shaofu, to carry out the policy of food protection, and to determine the policy of salt and iron official camps.

This ancient holy king is beyond the reach, and the three emperors and five emperors cannot be the holy government.

However, today, in the county, the wealthy businessmen are merging.

The rich have no place to stand, and the small people howl and cry, from the east to the south, and there is no county.

The local county and the country, putting the cart before the horse, and the wind of the noble and the low are reversed, and the day is flourishing.

The Chinese and Korean scholars have repeatedly recited: Please Your Majesty punish businessmen, system mergers, calm the difficulties of the world, and solve the difficulties of the people.

The ministers and scholars are ordered by His Majesty, and the court commanders and ministers, the imperial historians and the ministers of the young mansions, etc., to take the laws and decrees since the three kings, and to collect the voices of the people of the local counties and countries, and to set the hundred and seventeen orders of the "Ping Law", and I am willing to use this law to make an appointment with the merchants, to determine the order of the book and the end, and to win people and ......"

Reading this preface softly, a smile appeared on Zhou Yafu's face.

Not to mention, this preface is really a strong flavor of today.

It seems that this Ji Di and Yan are different, and they really know their preferences today, so they are sprinkled and write so much.

Judging from this preface, Ji Di and Yan Yi also know the proportion and importance.

Therefore, in this preamble, the merchants are really threatened, induced, and intimidated by all means.

Just tell the world's businessmen: You must obey the "Laws of Peace", this is the bottom line of the Son of Heaven, the court and the world to tolerate you. Otherwise, let you know how powerful the state violence apparatus is!

Taking his eyes off the preamble, what caught Zhou Yafu's eyes was the first law of this flat law: the profits obtained by the city and the Xingjia shall not be purchased from the people, and the land rent shall be five times that of the order.

Then, there is the second article: Jia people should be redeemed for their crimes, and their families should pay more than 100,000 yuan, and on top of Zang He's order, add two taels of gold, more than one million, add two gold, more than 10 million, and 200 gold, less than 100,000, and do not need this order.

Just looking at these two, Zhou Yafu immediately stroked his beard and nodded with satisfaction.

This is the attitude that the country should have towards businessmen!

After seeing these two items, the other ministers also nodded one after another, feeling that this is exactly what they should do!

Let you have money, let you show off your wealth, let you rely on your money to grab land with Lao Tzu, now it's time to put pen to paper!

The five-fold land tax and stricter legal discrimination against merchants have made countless business-haters laugh heartily.

Legalists and Confucians are simply rolling on the ground laughing.

The old Huang school is an indifferent attitude.

Only some people who have been deeply involved with businessmen feel a little headache.

But since they have close contacts with businessmen, naturally, they will not be the mainstream.

The next dozen or so are also murderous restrictions on merchants and merchants.

For example, there is a rule: The land of the Jia people is more than 100 acres. The land tax is doubled, 1,000 acres. Three times, a hundred acres and ten times. 100 acres and less than 100 acres do not need this order.

There is also a provision that if there are more than ten slaves and maids of the Jia people, then on the basis of the original five calculations, one more is levied, more than fifty, three are added to each person, and more than 100 people are taxed by five counts, but if they are Yidi or barbarian slaves and maids. This order is not required.

Looking at these rules, the merchants have almost been bound hand and foot by these laws, and their mouths are gagged.

Soon, everyone found that the current merchants seemed to be doing other things besides continuing to do business, such as wanting to be a full-time manor or slave owner, then these laws would immediately be like a mantra. Stop them from doing that.

No one can afford to pay double or even several times the amount of tax paid by others and still continue to make a living.

Even if this person has hands and eyes, he can't do it!

He could only continue on the road of Shangjia.

Of course, he can also choose to pay for the official or let his descendants participate in the examination. Get rid of the identity of a businessman.

These terms are all tailor-made by Liu Che for the current merchant class.

Its fundamental purpose was to bind merchants, artisans, and factory owners to industry and commerce.

The ultimate goal. It is to give birth to the bourgeoisie of the Han family.

If you don't play like this, with the deep-rooted desire and hysterical pursuit of the land by the Chinese.

Liu Che was worried. Eventually, merchants, craftsmen, workshops, and workshop owners would make money from industry and commerce, just like their predecessors and juniors. Then they went to the countryside to buy and hoard land, and finally completed the degradation from industrial and commercial owners to manor owners and slave owners.

This is unacceptable to Liu Che!

Because, if the businessmen make a fortune, they will go home to buy land and buy houses, and buy houses on a large scale.

First of all, they will cause the deterioration of land annexation, intensify social contradictions, and at the same time turn back the clock of history.

In Chinese history, there were germs of capitalism in the Song and Ming dynasties, but why is it always a sprout and cannot take root?

Meng Yuan and the Manchu Qing were naturally responsible.

But the responsibility of those 'sprouts' is greater.

Almost all of the 'sprouts' are under the guise of making money in business and going home to buy land.

The vast majority of the profits generated by industry and commerce have not been invested in further expansion and research and development, but have returned to the land, to the countryside, and to the hot pit head of wives and children.

If these 'sprouts' can grow, then hell.

And the vast majority of the Han businessmen can't catch up with the 'sprouts' of the Song and Ming dynasties, and their ideological realm is even more backward, and their enthusiasm and love for the land are even more incomparable.

Even Liu Che's two fathers-in-law, the Zhuo family and the Cheng Zheng family in Linqiong, are the same, and almost all of them with a lot of land and slaves can become a separate village and town.

Since they couldn't hatch by themselves, Liu Che had no choice but to go into battle by himself and take on the job of hatching eggs.

Through legal and administrative measures, the merchants were forced to devote all their wealth and profits and energy to their own work, so as to catalyze and accelerate the emergence of the Han bourgeoisie.

Only the bourgeoisie can take on the responsibility of industrialization.

Anyway, Liu Che himself couldn't imagine that letting a group of landlords and people from the aristocracy play industrialization, it would probably be even funnier than the Westernization Movement of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

As for the social and ideological problems that will inevitably arise after the emergence of the bourgeoisie?

Then let's talk about it then!

Of course, in the court, all the courtiers and nobles and lords can't think of this.

Most of them were immersed in the ecstasy and excitement of 'finally sanctioning the nouveau riche'.

At this moment, the businessmen paid for their arrogance and arrogance in the past two or three decades.

However, the following clauses have puzzled many people.

For example, Article 27 of the Ping Law stipulates that those who belong to iron smelting, casting, and all kinds of wood and gold, who can benefit the people's livelihood, can live in Lu Li with a family of more than 100,000 yuan, and can live in Luli, one million, and give five doctors, 10 million, can enter and leave the official office, and write to discuss politics.

Article 41 stipulates: All the craftsmen belong to the craftsman's book, according to their skills, their rank, the county has a division, when the age of tribute gold, wood, copper and lead and all miscellaneous industry famous teachers to at least the government, not as ordered, class hall.

Article 46 stipulates: Those who belong to the craftsmen and can make good use of their skills and cast in the pavilion can be exempted from old age at the age of forty.

Article 55 stipulates: Those who are doctors in the pavilion are not guilty and are exempt from old age.

Article 61 stipulates: Those who do other things can teach people skills, and those who come out of five are older than three.

Article 62 stipulates: If a teacher or a teacher can teach a son to pass the examination, three old people will be exempted, and ten people will be awarded a cane.

Article 75 stipulates: The genus of all craftsmen and masters, who can make their utensils and benefit the country, shall be reported by the Shaofu, and the age shall be given to three people, and the title of the left chief shall be given to one person, and the marquis of Guannei shall be given.

Except for Article 62, no one has any opinion on these articles, and the criticism of other articles is relatively loud.

Many ministers did not understand what the Son of Heaven meant?

I just shouted and shouted at the merchants in front of me, and in the blink of an eye, I turned my face and cared for the craftsmen and those who were engaged in smelting, casting and production.

In particular, Articles 27, 41 and 75, the opinions of the ministers, are not ordinary.

At this time, "Pinglu" was also sent to the hands of unauthorized powers.

If you can be arbitrary, you are naturally not illiterate.

When I opened the "Flat Law" without permission, I was immediately frightened by the murderous intimidating preface and the restrictions and regulations on it.

Many people are really terrified in their hearts, and they even feel that someone is sharpening a knife in their ears.

But they knew very well that they were meat on the chopping block, to be slaughtered, they could not even raise any objections, and the only thing they could do was to applaud the laws......

It wasn't until they saw Article 27 that their hearts began to warm up and they began to have some vitality.

The meaning of this article is simply a natural sound for businessmen!

In the past, it was simply unimaginable that the owners of iron smelting, casting, and various production workshops with a family income of more than 100,000 yuan could enter Luli and live next to the people.

Municipal residents were not allowed to live in residential and aristocratic quarters, and they could only live in the most remote and dilapidated designated areas, and were subject to the administration of the government.

But now, they are no longer bound by the rules of the past, isolated from the public. As long as they can earn a net worth of 100,000!

This is the greatest fairness and justice for businessmen.

No one wants to be categorized as an outlier and forced to isolate from others.

And millions of families can be awarded the five masters, which is nothing.

People with millions of family fortunes have long tried their best to get out of the city, and through various means, they have already obtained titles close to or more than those of the five doctors.

After all, where is the system of donating corn, 4,000 stone corn, at the current price, is only about 200,000 yuan.

But at the level of 10 million, there has been a qualitative change.

Being able to enter and leave the official office and write books to discuss politics was a power that only scholars and nobles could have in the past.

And now, this power can also be enjoyed by tens of millions of people.

For businessmen, this is tantamount to giving them a dream - no longer have to worry about their identity and status, work hard to make money, earn enough net worth of tens of millions, you can also be a scholar and nobleman, and you don't have to be looked down upon by others.

As for the preferential terms of those craftsmen, these unauthorized powers have sniffed out certain smells.

"Your Majesty, this is beating and pulling, clearly telling me and waiting, how to buy and sell, what to do and what to do......" Everyone glanced at each other, and their livers were jumping with caution.

What does this mean?

I've always been quick-witted, think a lot, and be very smart in power, don't you know? (To be continued.) )