If you don't spend it, you may die on the way next time you go to sea.
It became a tragedy that people died and the money was not spent.
Therefore, most sailors will spend all their money as much as possible.
Eat, drink, have fun, and have women.
Then they will have more motivation to make money, or should I say, loot...
The more they spend, the more they earn and the more they spend next time.
This is the formation of an economic cycle.
They were the civilian class with the most spending power in the early days of the commodity economy.
And the wealthy class alone cannot maintain the great development of the commodity economy.
Because a person's consumption is always limited.
Therefore, the largest companies are in the people's livelihood industry, with wide sales and low prices, rather than in the luxury goods industry.
In other words, sailors acted as one of the main consumers in the ancient commodity market. No one in the middle or lower class had more spending power than sailors.
At this time, the school was quiet.
Many students were thinking about what their master just said.
Some nodded, some shook their heads.
Some people feel pain, others feel embarrassed.
In short, not many people think that going to sea is a good thing.
After all, this is an almost completely unfamiliar thing to them, and it is also a huge challenge.
Wen Rensheng scanned it once and said: "There is endless wealth on the sea, endless treasures on the other side of the sea, and endless land. These lands can solve the problem of refugees that are flooding everywhere in the Han Dynasty."
"Let me ask you a simple question, why do refugees appear?"
The faces of all the students became relaxed.
Compared to the matter of navigation, this seemingly huge question actually has a very simple answer.
Xun You stood up and said: "Master, it is naturally due to land annexation. Eunuchs and dignitaries, noble families, local powerful people, state and county officials... relied on their own advantages and took advantage of the years of famine to occupy the common people's land."
"Even without these annexations, if a family grows to five people, as long as a few generations pass, the family head will have no land to divide, unless he goes outside to cultivate wasteland, so some people go to the mountains and some to the islands."
"But the latter two are like small pipes that release water, and the front is covered by floods. As a result, the dam will still collapse."
Everyone nodded one after another: "Wen Ruo is right."
"If a man is a man of great talent, no one else can match him."
"Then from Wen Ruo's point of view, how should this matter be resolved?" Wen Rensheng said with a smile.
"Of course it is a matter of redistributing the land. Before Wang Mang reorganized the system, each family was given an average of 100 acres, but he did not have the ability to divide it equally. If it could be divided equally, Wang Mang might really be able to succeed." Xun You said firmly.
"Divide the land equally?" Everyone was in an uproar.
Wen Rensheng smiled and did not deny the other party's answer.
After the founding of each dynasty, wasteland could be allocated to the landless refugees. The more allocated, the longer the life of the dynasty.
This is also why there is the so-called "great chaos follows great chaos", which seems to be a philosophical statement, but behind it is the bloody killing of cultivators, and the cycle repeats.
So much so that after Wen Rensheng entered the modern era from his previous life, many historians hated him and harshly said that there was no history, only repetition.
They have forgotten that after cultivating Gu, the large plates and Gu pots left over are the best wealth that history has left to today's people.
What others want and cannot have, they throw away like worn-out shoes.
How many ancient civilizations have left such large pots to our descendants?
Next door, next door and next door are essentially envious.
The bigger the pot, the more you can do a lot of things.
In a closed terrain, there are huge losses and huge gains.
Nature is fair.
But at this time, Xun You shook his head and said: "Redistribution is not the fundamental solution. Why?"
He looked at everyone and said quietly: "This time it was evenly distributed. What about the next time? It will take a few hundred years, no, just a hundred years, because the level of effort and wisdom between people are different.
People have different backgrounds, and people have different opportunities... Even if we establish a very fair system,
"There will still be superior people and superior tribes that will occupy more land."
"How should we solve it then?"
Everyone was silent.
Then Xun Chen stood up and said: "This method, the teacher has said a long time ago, is to use businessmen as the leader, so that the poor and those with insufficient intelligence can sell their physical strength to make a living."
"Then trade it for food from the rich."
"How to make more products, how to get food and other wealth from the rich to circulate into society, this is what we have to do."
"We have to solve this problem to truly solve the cycle of chaos."
Everyone nodded.
"That's what Youruo said."
"That's right, that's what Master said."
"But this process takes a long time."
"It takes a long time. Among the powerful landowners, there are many who are thrifty and thrifty. The majority are those who are unwilling to spend money. There are also the majority who want to annex land. From this point of view, those extravagant people buy all kinds of novelty things from the market.
, Those who engage in large-scale construction and consumption are benefiting the poor, while those who are thrifty and thrifty, who store grain, cloth, and copper coins to buy land to propagate their families, are harming the poor..."
"This sounds very contrary to our common sense. On the contrary, a powerful man who spends money is beneficial to the court, while a powerful man who protects his family is a silverfish to the court." Someone said.
Wen Rensheng smiled and looked at everyone.
They are right. This method was used by the famous minister Fan Zhongyan in later generations.
Fan Zhongyan went to the local state capital to provide disaster relief. He organized local wealthy people to spend a lot of money, build garden houses, and recruit a large number of migrant workers. He was initially impeached. However, after doing so, the victims had work, and the powerful people also enjoyed it, and built many
Beautiful gardens.
The local powerful people did not oppose Fan Zhongyan because of the disaster relief, but instead praised him greatly.
How else could he have the title of famous minister Fan Wenzheng?
Although he was criticized by some people for changing his surname because of his stepson's birth, his wisdom was indeed ahead of his time.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Therefore, it is hateful and regrettable that the Song Dynasty sent such a coward.
It's a pity that here, many officials have learned to use modern business methods to solve some ancient classic disaster victims' problems.
However, the external environment did not allow enough development time, and the barbarians directly pushed it away.
And this method cannot last long, after all, the entire court is still a feudal court.
It is impossible to maintain a fair business environment. This kind of business behavior can only occur under the governance of famous ministers.
If you change to a cowardly king and a cowardly minister, it will be over.
"I understand," Guo Jia said suddenly, "Master said that acquiring land overseas is a way to buy time."
"Yes, there is land overseas, which can continuously relocate landless refugees. It can buy us time to establish a market environment that allows powerful people to spend a lot of money." Xun Chen nodded heavily.
"Great, if we can solve the eternal problem of controlling the cycle of chaos, then we want everyone to become a saint!" Xun You said suddenly.
"Everyone becomes a saint?" Everyone suddenly took a deep breath.
Sage Confucius, Sage Meng, and they are Sage Xun, Sage Guo, Sage Shu, Sage Ji...
Everyone has a chance.
Xun You was definitely not joking, nor was he talking big words.
If they can really solve this problem in this era, they will be more than just saints. Their status will definitely surpass that of Confucius, Laozi, and Mencius.
Wen Rensheng smiled, these extraordinary resourceful people have the ambition to change the situation.
Just like Zhuge Liang, he knew that the time was gone, but he still wanted to forcefully create a Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms.
It's a pity that the background is still poor.
Can't afford too many mistakes.
"That's right, we want everyone to be sanctified!"
"Then what are you waiting for? Let us think about how to make the powerful spend money?"
"We must first break their stronghold economy so that their products can enter our big market."
"But how can we achieve this? They are self-sufficient and do not need to purchase from outside or use force? That is not the law of nature, and sooner or later they will be resisted."
"I understand, we can build factories. Why does Master want equality between scholars, farmers, industry and commerce? Factories can accommodate a large number of ordinary people who have lost their land, and the items they produce, such as cloth, are much cheaper than those produced by the powerful themselves."
"Yes, in this way, the powerful will be able to give up their production of cloth, wine, delicacies, silk, beef and mutton,... In short, it will make the powerful discover that their land can only be used to produce food.
and raw materials.”
"For other things, it is most cost-effective to exchange grain and raw materials in factories. In this way, the people will also get food."
"But there is a problem. There are only hundreds of thousands of powerful people. There are too many cloths and fine wines produced in the factories. How can a few powerful people consume them all? So these things cannot be exchanged for food, and the workers still starve to death."
Everyone was talking, one problem after another appeared in their minds, and one problem after another found a solution in the collision.
Wen Rensheng was very happy that the problems raised by these people actually exist in modern times.
Insufficient consumption and insufficient exchange are the biggest headaches for any modern organization.
"Yes, yes!" Xun You said suddenly, "I have it, I have it!"
"How many months has it been?" Guo Jia said suddenly.
"Just now." Xun You didn't understand yet, Wen Rensheng burst out laughing.
This Guo Jia is really informal and bohemian.
But in front of Cao Cao, he was still solemn. After all, Cao Cao was a feudal monarch, but he was an equal teacher.
"Thank you for your filial piety. I won't argue with you. My method is to use our newly built government of all people to tax food to a certain extent, buy the food from the rich, and then put it on the market. In other words,
Use the imperial court to force consumption!" Xun You said calmly.
"Papa!" Wen Rensheng clapped and laughed, "Okay, what Gongda said is exactly what I want to teach you. It seems that you have obtained one ten thousandth of my true inheritance."
No one was surprised, and no one thought that Master was bragging.
"Congratulations to Gongda, congratulations to Gongda."
"That's right, why have we forgotten the imperial court? The imperial court is a king elected by the whole people, and of course it must serve the people of the whole people. If the powerful have food, we will collect one or two. Of course, we will not collect it in vain. We can just give him other things in exchange.
."
"But what if the powerful don't sell food?" Someone sighed.
"So there must be official fields. If the output of official fields is put on the market, if the powerful don't sell it, they will lose money, it will rot, and the food cannot be stored for a long time. But as long as official fields are managed properly, they will not lose money, unlike the common people.
It will be possessed by powerful people..." said a wise man.
At this point, the wise man also stopped and said, "No, even the official fields will be invaded in the end."
"Then what should we do?" Everyone asked in distress.
Wen Rensheng smiled, these people still have typical agricultural thinking.
I always feel that food is more important than anything else, and food is the most important.
That's right. Without food, the court would be doomed.
Isn't it too big?
That's because they didn't occupy enough rich land, and the produce of the land wasn't rich enough.
If there is enough land and enough yield per unit area, the powerful will be worried about selling food because they will not be able to finish the food.
If there is not enough food to eat, there will be a series of industrial revolutions.
The Industrial Revolution could never be built on famine.
Agriculture in later generations requires massive subsidies to survive, which shows its inherent weakness.
This is because the production is far more than what people can eat.
At this time, people thought that the population would multiply indefinitely, but food could not increase indefinitely.
They don't know that with the development of various technologies and the realization of industrialization, the population will balance out and become smaller and smaller.
In this case, how could powerful people hoard food?
If this thing is no longer scarce, how can we sell it at a high price if we hoard it?
Seeing Wen Rensheng smiling, everyone asked: "Master, what should we do?"
"Gongda, what do you think?"
When Xun You heard this, he thought for a long time and said: "It still has to be solved from overseas land. The powerful people hoard food because it is profitable and food is scarce. If there is a lot of food and there is a large amount of land overseas to produce food, they will only worry about how to sell it.
When they go out to worry, they will never hoard food, or even hoard land, because they will find that it is much easier to make money in factories than in land."
Wen Rensheng smiled.
"Yes, Gongda, you have completely understood it. This is why I said that we should open up overseas lands and find more land. The fundamental reason is to create a great abundance of food. Only with a great abundance of food can all changes be achieved.
arise, otherwise it is a tree without roots.”
"Master, Holy Ming." Everyone said in unison.
Wen Rensheng nodded. It's a pity that Zhuge Liang is only 3 years old these days. Otherwise, he could understand better.
But where is Sima Yi?
He was born in 179, so he should be five or six years old this year.
This guy was two years older than Zhuge Liang, and he still managed to outlast him, which shows that the longevity gene is powerful.
"Okay, I'll go down and write it down carefully. I'll summarize it based on what I said today so that everyone in the world will know about it."
"Yes, Master."
Everyone sincerely worshiped him.
Master never keeps secrets, but always makes things public. This is the heart of a saint.
He never worried about others learning to defeat him.
