Chapter 1,177 Monopoly

Sima Guang sighed: "Indeed, only this statement can be considered accurate."

Su You smiled meaningfully and said: "Only by expressing it like this, no one can find fault. The achievement of discovering Shangdu is enough for the bachelor's name to go down in history, so why leave flaws for future generations to question?"

Sima Guang shook his head: "Mingrun, you... you are doing academic work with a political attitude."

Su You cupped his hands and smiled: "I hope that one day... bachelors will not engage in politics with an academic attitude."

A scholar behind Sima Guang showed an angry look, seeming quite unfair.

Su You asked Sima Guang: "This brother is quite unfamiliar."

Sima Guang said: "This is Liu Anshi and Liu Qizhi. He was promoted to Jinshi in the sixth year of Xining, but he was not selected. He came to Luoyang to learn from me. There is nothing to say about his knowledge. You are similar in age, and you will be academically better in the future.

We can communicate more.”

Su You bowed to Liu Anshi and said, "Brother Shi saw me arguing with my master just now, and he had a look of displeasure on his face..."

Sima Guang's face darkened: "Is this the case with Qi Zhi?"

Su You sued him, but now he acted like a peacemaker: "Bachelor, don't blame him."

Then he said to Liu Anshi: "Brother Qi, the Guanluo School and the Sichuan School are actually connected and integrated."

"The fact that Neo-Confucianism has become a prominent discipline today is the result of being inclusive and seeking truth."

"Ke Zhentang has some works translated by two masters of Western philosophy, Courot and Alp. One of them, Aristotle, said something - 'I love my teacher, and I love the truth even more.'"

"I think this sentence is very good. For example, I once thought that the friction of an object is related to the area of ​​action, but Chen Zhaoming proved that it was actually wrong."

"If we can't even accept this, how can Neo-Confucianism develop to this day?"

"My friendship with the bachelor dates back more than ten years ago, when we were in Hebei to investigate the possibility of returning to the river. The quarrel was much more intense than it is today."

"But this does not affect my respect for the bachelor. I don't think the bachelor's point of view is necessarily right. Likewise, I don't think my point of view is necessarily right."

"What we just discussed is academic. This is called sharpening and discussing. Pointing out the theoretical flaws of the other party is not slander, but help."

Sima Guang said to Liu Anshi: "What worries me the most is you. The Duke is right. There were many role models in the previous dynasty. Everyone argued fiercely in the court during the day and met happily in private homes at night. No one thought anything different."

"Why is it that today, there is no room for even a little dissent?"

Today's Sima Guang is still a victim of dissent under the new law, so it is not surprising that he can say this.

Su You allowed him to show his face in the court in this way because he was afraid that he would become a pervert in the study and eventually turn into another stubborn husband, "Sima Niu".

Su You felt relieved for the time being that these words could come out of Sima Guang's mouth.

Although Liu Anshi was the same age as Su You, when it was his turn to become a Jinshi, it was a full round later than Su You. It was only then that he remembered that Su You was a political figure of the same generation as Sima Guang and Wang Anshi. The discussion among the masters

He said, just listen honestly. If you act like this, you will make others look down on your master.

He quickly bowed and apologized: "It was the recklessness of the weapon that offended the Duke of the country. Please forgive me."

Su You smiled and said: "To put it seriously, we are in the same spirit."

"There are not just one or two people in Beijing who have prejudices against bachelors. I'm just giving you a heads up."

Sima Guang cupped his hands and said, "I appreciate Mingrun's kindness, and I also understand the underlying meaning."

"But I also have my own persistence. If I go to the palace this time, I am afraid that I will still live up to Mingrun's good intentions. After the court meeting, I will probably go back to Luoyang."

Su You sighed: "Actually, the new laws in the DPRK and An Shi's reign have greatly improved. Cai Que and Zhang Dun have made great achievements in governance; now Shen Kuo and Lu Huiqing are in Shaanxi, and their political achievements should also be

Known.”

"Let's not talk about loyal and traitorous people, gentlemen and villains for now. Let's first see if they have benefited the common people. Now that Shaanxi is prosperous, with Qingtang in the west and Xia in the north, don't they have a share of the credit?"

Sima Guang was not moved: "I think this is because there are decent people in the court. Their achievements are not the foundation laid by you Mingrun? It's just that you are magnanimous and magnanimous, and the world often sees Cao Shen's rule of peace.

, but forgot that Xiao He left a uniform contribution."

This damn thing makes sense, but if word spreads, I'm afraid more people in the court will be uneasy.

He raised his hands and said with a smile: "Scholar's words are exaggerated. Besides, I just recommended the bachelor to His Majesty. Could it be that the bachelor is going to recommend me in turn after he comes to Beijing? What's going on? Is this business flattery?"

The term "commercial mutual blow" is a new word. It is a joke made by the Gao family who controlled the wool spinning and woolen craftsmanship in the northwest.

A Times reporter interviewed the owner of a woolen yarn shop and asked how is your woolen yarn? The owner said of course it is good. The wool used in our woolen yarn shop is all authentic wool from Minzhou Gaojia Woolen Mill.

So the reporter went to ask the wool mill again, how is the wool produced by your family? The mill owner said that of course it is good. The wool produced by our mill is used by Gaojia Thread Mill.

The reporter published this story in the newspaper and expressed concern about the wool industry in the Song Dynasty.

So the Song Dynasty also had two new words - industry monopoly and business mutual flattery.

This incident made Gao Taotao so angry that he called Zhao Xu to the harem. The Bianjing Times really dared to say anything. The new Kaifeng Governor is Wang Anli, right? What does he do for food?! It doesn't matter?

Zhao Xu smiled bitterly, "It's really hard for us to control the mother's matter. As soon as the newspaper came out, I questioned Wang Anli, but Wang Anli said that what the newspaper published was all true. He also said that Gaojia Woolen's woolen industry accounted for 80% of the Bianjing market."

, now Xiangzhou has just started to rise, and its share is only just 20%.

Wang Anli said that the Times did not disclose the specific figures, and writing the article in such a joking way was already taboo for His Holiness.

Gao babbled, what do they mean by mocking my Gao family like this? Is it because the wool products of my Gao family are not of good quality? Is it because the Gao family prevents other workshops from engaging in the wool industry? There is a blue-eyed Qiu in Bianjing City.

Mom, her sweaters are selling very well, don’t they just use the wool thread from her own workshop? Why does my Gao family have a monopoly on just that?

Zhao Xu was also speechless.

The word monopoly comes from Mencius.

"In ancient times, it was a city. If you change everything you have and lose it, there are managers who can manage it.

If there is a mean husband, he will seek a monopoly and gain access to it, looking to the left and right, but not profiting from the market.

Everyone thought he was humble, so he conscripted him. From then on, he began to conscript his husband into a humble husband."

A mean husband refers to a private businessman. The meaning of this sentence is that ancient market transactions were originally nothing more than exchanging something for nothing, and were managed by relevant departments.

But there is such a despicable man who must find an independent high ground to climb on, look around, and wish he could make all the profits in the market by himself.

Everyone thought this man was despicable, so they levied taxes on him. The collection of commercial taxes began with this despicable man.

The key point of Mencius is that the government should restrict the behavior of eating alone, and the free market management should be loose. Once monopolistic behavior occurs, it must be suppressed through taxation measures.

In the end, Zhao Xu and Xi Ni, the Times didn’t make any big fuss anyway, so why not just leave it like this?

I know one thing. In the past, the government was discussing tea, wine, salt, and copper. As a result, not only was the output not high, but the quality continued to decline.

At that time, Prime Minister Anshi ordered people to build tea in Shu, but the result was a big basket. Wang Shao did not have enough tea to appease the Yi people, but the tea was piled up with a large amount of low-grade tea that could not be sold and was left to rot.

After working for a year, the Transshipment Department lost 200,000 yuan, and finally had to give up.
Chapter completed!