Back then, Liu Bang sat in the world and implemented the same policy as Qin Shihuang towards businessmen.

All the merchants are put into the other, even the household registration book, and the merchants are set up a separate book, called 'city registration'.

Not only that, Liu Bang also laid down heavy restraints and constraints through laws and orders.

When Liu Bang was alive, the social and political status of Shangjia was only higher than that of the prisoners, and even inferior to his son-in-law.

At that time, if there was no way to do it, no one would want to embark on the road of doing business.

Liu Bang plays like this, of course he is happy.

But it left the country with a mess.

Because the merchants were forcefully suppressed, the peddlers and pawns who did business in the world were almost extinct.

As a result, the circulation of goods in society is almost zero, and the country's economy is facing collapse.

By the time of Emperor Hui, under the rule of Empress Lü, the Han dynasty abolished the 'law of merchants' and no longer strictly controlled and restrained the flow of population.

However, the Han family still has the unspoken rule that 'the descendants of the market are not allowed to be eunuchs'.

To put it simply, that is, businessmen and their descendants are not allowed to become officials.

It's just that time flies, and the vicissitudes of life.

Today, decades later, Liu Bang's harsh punishment of businessmen has disappeared without a trace.

Now, even the last remaining unspoken rule of 'the descendants of the market shall not be eunuchs' has long been riddled with holes and crumbling.

Not to mention, in Liu Che's Shangshutai, the bunch of officials are basically all businessmen's nephews.

And among the thousands of stones and even two thousand stones above the court, and among the ministers of Jiuqing, the shadows of the children of merchants have long begun to appear.

Therefore, Zhang Shizhi, the court captain, was born as a typical son of a businessman.

And in the folk. After having money in their pockets, the merchants have long been dissatisfied that they are 'people of the city'. The reality of being despised was much.

So, the rich businessmen. Started to buy a knight.

Chao Cuo's introduction of the 'corn donation' system is simply aimed at the appetite of these guys.

Six hundred stones of corn were made, four thousand stones were made for five doctors, and twelve thousand stones were long for the great house. The price is clearly marked, and there is no bullying for children!

In the face of such a price, the merchants are powerless to resist.

On the earth in the future generations, rich and willful presidents will donate millions of dollars to exchange for a prestigious school graduation certificate. Isn't it a common thing?

As a result, the tight spell that was originally tightly tied to Shang Jia's head was shattered in an instant.

For the real big businessmen, such a world is really heaven for them.

In later generations, Taishi Gong used a "Biography of the Colony of Goods" to depict the bits and pieces of their golden age in front of the world.

This is the time of the day. From Chang'an to Jiangdu, from Xinhua to Yunzhong, from mountains to plains, from coastal to desert.

Where there are people. There is a market, there are merchants, and there are giants who are famous.

Even. The merchants of the Han dynasty showed signs of division of labor and cooperation and the development of industrialization.

The merchants of the county of the world. Adapt to local conditions and local characteristics. All types of commodities that can be traded have been developed.

Even, there are monopoly businessmen like Shi Shi in Luoyang, who only rely on logistics and transit to earn profits.

And Handan's characteristic singer business has even endured for the rest of the Han Dynasty.

In that year, Li Kui Xiang Wei, presided over the Wei State Reform, and depicted the image of Wei Wenhou: The place is 100 miles, and 90,000 hectares are sealed, except for the mountains and rivers, and the three points are divided into one, which is 6 million mu of land. The increase and decrease of 100 miles in the local area is 1.8 million millet.

Through the data, Li Kui told Wei Wenhou how the country's national strength would be enhanced after the teaching of the best of the earth's strength.

Wei Wenhou was greatly moved by these words, and since then he has strongly supported Li Kui's reform policy.

And Liu Che always remembered that in later generations, Taishi Gong also used numbers to describe the commercial needs of a city in detail in "The Biography of the Value of Goods": Tongyi Dadu, a thousand brews for one year, a thousand pots of sauce, and a thousand tons of pulp......

Tai Shi Gong even said: If the profit of a certain industry is less than 20%, then, I think, this is not the industry I call to get rich (if the miscellaneous industry is not tithe, it is not my wealth)

With such detailed records and descriptions, it is difficult for people to be convinced that Taishi Gong himself has indeed dealt with merchants for a long time and has dealings with the market.

Thinking of this, Liu Che raised his head, greeted Fan Xun, patted his chest, and made a solemn promise: "Rest assured, I will not change the ancestral system, the descendants of the merchants and the market, no eunuchs, where the prestige of this Han official is!" ”

Actually, it's not nonsense.

It is true that people who are registered in the city, and the descendants of their families, are indeed not allowed to serve as eunuchs.

But what if the other party leaves the city?

There are so many smart people in the world, and something as simple as stuffing some money and changing the household registration book has long been discovered!

What's more, the imperial court has also issued edicts many times, allowing the people to sell their lords.

Now, after the world's big names get rich, who doesn't have a legal status as a lord?

The head of the Tian family in Guanzhong, can there be a man and half a woman who are from the city?

Ziqian's family has no salt clan, but he is a person from the city?

Therefore, this unspoken rule of the Han family is actually blocking the road of those businessmen who have no money, no power and no background.

The real rich people, people can even enter and leave the mansions of the marquis, and even become the guests of the three princes and the nine kings, will they be afraid that they will not be officials?

Tai Shi Gong said, if you are ten times less than the other party's wealth, then you are lower than him, a hundred times you will be afraid of him, a thousand times, you will be enslaved by him, ten thousand times, you are his slave.

Liu Che thought so.

In this world, many times, wealth is indeed a measure of status.

Who can live without money?

If the emperor has no money, the emperor is a puppet!

In Liu Che's heart, he has almost touched the situation of the world's businessmen.

He already knew the weaknesses and weaknesses of these guys, and understood how they operated and how they built wealth.

Liu Che deeply understands that businessmen should be treated separately.

It is necessary to crack down on and weaken big businessmen, especially monopoly big businessmen, usury and other businessmen who are not directly engaged in production and manufacturing.

Otherwise, God knows, what the hell these guys will come up with.

On the other hand, Liu Che wanted to support small and medium-sized businessmen and heavy industry and labor-intensive workshops and workshops.

Because, with a developed business, on the one hand, it can bring finance and taxes, and on the other hand, it can digest the excess population.

In the past two years, the Han family has ushered in a wave of fertility peaks because of Liu Che's encouragement and reward for childbirth.

In Guanzhong counties alone, in two years, there have been hundreds of thousands of more people, and each couple has given birth to an average of two or a few children in the past two years.

In the world, it is equivalent to an increase of at least two or three million people.

And that number will continue to snowball.

Twenty years from now, the Han population will double, reaching the dreaded threshold of 100 million.

Now, the number of humans on the entire planet, on all the continents and islands and in the deep valleys except China, may add up, and it is no more than that!

This level of population is the source of evolution, the engine for China.

But it's also a heavy burden.

To put it bluntly, if China can successfully break through the limitations of civilization and enter the industrial age within a hundred years, then this huge population is enough to ensure that China will inevitably dominate the world in the future, reign over the world, and become a real heavenly kingdom.

Even if the whole world unites, with China's physique and population base, it will be easy to beat and enslave them.

On the contrary, this will be the fuse for the collapse and destruction of the Han dynasty.

It was this unprecedented pressure that made Liu Che have to choose to start the commercial layout before the completion of the heavy industry base in Nanyang. (To be continued.) )

PS: Recently, I have low blood pressure ~ I will go to measure my blood pressure 80/60 today, no wonder I have been dizzy and weak ~ I have to continue to hang the needle tomorrow, and the doctor I seem to be able to only take my time~