Chapter 2936: Who is the businessman in each company?
These merchants in Wancheng were frightened and anxious. They thought they had met another autumn settlement.
The merchant was trembling, but the Wancheng officials above the merchant were not too panicked.
Even a little excited...
Because this means you can take advantage of the troubled waters.
Eat big fish on the top and shrimp on the bottom, and have fun together.
So in Wancheng, some innocent people inevitably appeared. Some merchants were arrested, and some unlucky guys who were not clear were also arrested.
It is better to have that kind than that kind of thing, it is not the motto of bald strongman alone.
Blood spread, and the crying sounds also enveloped the sky above Wancheng with the smell of blood.
Zhang Shiping walked out of the government office, his back was already wet with sweat. He sighed deeply and held the token in his hand tightly.
At this moment, he felt more and more the difference between money and authority.
Money is like sand. Although it is like a tower, the tighter it is, the faster it leaks.
Power is like a stone like iron...
Hold it, it is biting cold.
Zhang Shiping held the token tightly, then hurriedly called his followers, then went to the top of Wancheng City to find Huang Zhong.
He wants to save some people.
Some businessmen may deserve to die, but so, some businessmen should not deserve to die.
Not everyone is good, not everyone is bad, and businessmen are also humans, so the same applies to this principle. Some are damn, but some are innocently affected.
Zhang Shiping exchanged a token with his friend's Zilubu, and now he wants to exchange the token for the lives of more ordinary merchants.
This may be a loss-making deal, but Zhang Shiping felt that he could take this risk.
Perhaps it was because of Wancheng, perhaps it was because of the cavalry, and perhaps there were other factors.
Merchants appeared in China very early, but intentionally or unintentionally, they were very backward in the jurisdiction and governance of merchants, even to a somewhat outrageous level.
Can China have no businessmen?
Obviously not.
Although merchants are also four people, they are excluded from the people in daily life.
The emphasis on agriculture and commerce in the feudal dynasty did not mean that there was no soil for commercial operations, but that there was a very shortage of merchants. After all, China is so large and the resource distribution is very uneven. If there were no merchants' exchanges, the people in many areas would have to barely live and not be able to develop, and it would be impossible to condense into a huge empire.
The word "Shang" was originally the name of the Shang Dynasty. It is said that the Shang Dynasty embarked on the road of conquest because it was the king of Chinese during business.
Wang Hai coughed twice, saying that this matter was too shameless.
Of course, this matter is true and false, and it is difficult to verify as time goes by, but it proves that businessmen are actually easily targeted by various people because they have a lot of wealth at a very early age.
There are not many businessmen who have achieved a good death.
In addition to the Shang Dynasty, which was established by merchants, perhaps it was also because of the Shang Dynasty's actions of establishing the country by merchants that the subsequent feudal dynasties were very uneasy. Therefore, in many cases, they suppressed merchants intentionally or unintentionally, and even in the process of thousands of years of evolution, the management methods of commercial activities were always behind. In many cases, they could not obtain any taxes from merchants. Therefore, they excluded merchants, and the protector of the local small peasant economy, and the landlord class attempted to control all profits of monopoly production and consumption, and advocated agriculture first, which led to the thoughts of the entire feudal society being generally jealous of merchants.
Most of the people follow blindly. Perhaps some people know that some of the businessmen around them are not bad people, but when the sword is raised, these people often either keep silent or take advantage of the situation to rob. Those who can resist the injustice are already considered to have a very moral concept.
Most of the brainless people will be distorted by the theory of uselessness advocated by local tyrants of the gentry. Just as later generations often advocated the theory of uselessness of knowledge from time to time, happiness must be first, etc. In addition, merchants often have more wealth, but those people themselves do not, so they become more dissatisfied and vent their resentment on all merchants, but do not think about why and why this is the case.
If you say that you are rich and unkind, then you will have amazing wealth in the families of aristocratic families and powerful families in the countryside...
Even there are many "traitors" among the merchant class, such as Sang Hongyang in the era of Emperor Wu of Han. He came from a merchant family, but betrayed his own class and helped Emperor Wu implement "calculating the sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial
Even Sima Laoer could not bear to see this. Of course, it is not ruled out that Sima Laoer felt that many measures of Emperor Wu of Han were slapping his forehead and slapping his butt, so he recorded this history sarcastically, saying that under such a policy, most merchants went bankrupt and business development suffered a severe blow. Merchants and businesses had their own hard work and returned to the country overnight. The so-called perseverance of those who have constant property have perseverance, and the people's enthusiasm for production was greatly damaged. People began to not want to produce, but were "willing to eat and clothing" instead of developing their own industries. Finally, Sima Qian commented, "The increase in calculations is more profitable."
Because there were "wise and magical martial arts" like Emperor Wu of Han, since the Han Dynasty, merchants, well, of course, refer to such pure merchants among the four people, and their status was very low. Officials and businessmen were not in such a tragic ranks, which led to the risk-bearing ability of private commercial activities. Once they encountered wars, they first shrank and instantly returned to the solution...uh, a hundred years ago.
The large-scale shrinkage of this kind of private merchants has in turn stimulated the vigorous development of the small peasant economic system of the landlord class and the unscrupulousness of officials and businessmen.
In a manor, there are farming and weaving, and there are all kinds of craftsmen. Every daily necessities are not for outsiders. What is the use of merchants?
Everything seems perfect, but it is like the old saying that all gifts given by fate have long been marked with prices.
The suppression of business has indeed made the feudal dynasty in China, which is mainly farming, which can be more stable, the region is more stable, the people are more honest, and the management is more convenient, etc. It seems that everything is the best, but in fact, the legacy brought by it is still like a resentful soul on the land of China, and it is always unavailable.
The simplest point is, where the small peasant economy is prosperous, there is no government authority and unified government orders? The pace of China's great unification is to stop forever in counties and counties, and the road downward will be cut off invisibly.
The three outstanding kings of Qin King succeeded in changing the feudal states that had been severed from the land and turned into counties. The Han Dynasty inherited the county system, but could no longer move. The subsequent feudal dynasties also stopped here one by one. It was not that no one wanted to change, but because they were all born from this landlord class, they were the beneficiaries of the small peasant economic system in the manor, and it was difficult to cultivate themselves...
This principle is obviously not something that Zhang Shiping can deeply understand. He just vaguely felt that Wancheng's current situation seemed to be something wrong. And he couldn't say that he closed his eyes completely and blocked his ears, just pretending that he had seen nothing and heard nothing.
Even Fei Qian had only had some vague ideas about the reform of the commercial system in the feudal dynasty, and he also asked Zhen Mi to experiment and adjust in Chang'an, a commercially developed area, so the Pang Shanmin in Wancheng naturally had no high opinions.
However, because of Wancheng's geographical location and the continuous rising commercial activities, Wancheng focuses more on commerce than Chang'an, so Pang Shanmin is also unwilling to lead to the direct decline of Wancheng's business during this large-scale cleaning process, so Zhang Shiping was given a chance, which can also be regarded as a chance for Wancheng's civil and commercial business.
And the one who acted as a bridge was the dead Su Shuang.
Su Shuang proved with his good deeds that businessmen still have good things...
No matter what Su Shuang was trying to do at that time, he did rescue many refugees at that time. This is understandable, and it cannot be said that Su Shuang might have had some selfish intentions at that time and deny everything Su Shuang did.
It’s like being unable to make the brave and brave men become defendants at any time.
Such dirty things should not be established in themselves. This is the lack of the function of social government management and the dereliction of duty of the main person in charge.
Either to not take responsibility, to trigger traffic, or to fill in some of your political achievements, even though you know that there is something wrong with this kind of prosecution, you still accept it, then arouse public opinion, and then pretend to say that you have adhered to it. Finally, you hypocritically stated that you maintained the so-called fairness and justice, but you didn't know that in fact, those who act bravely, after giving more courage and taking on greater responsibilities, you have to stand in the dock in shame. This itself has hurt the fairness and justice of the entire society.
Zhang Shiping rushed forward, and the more he walked, the more he became more and more intense the bloody smell became.
From afar, he saw some soldiers wearing red and black battle robes below the inner side of the city wall.
The red and black battle robe is the unified robe of the Han soldiers, but Zhang Shiping heard that in the early Han Dynasty, the robe worn by the soldiers was yellow, and now the red and black color of the Han soldiers was stained with blood...
Zhang Shiping originally thought that the Han soldiers were contaminated with the enemy's blood, but after he reached a certain age, he realized that it might not be all the enemy's blood.
Of course, this is just a legend. When Zhang Shiping had never seen the yellow battle robe of the Han soldiers, he was not sure whether it was true or not. But what he could be sure about was that not all the enemies who were captured and killed by these Han soldiers.
"Knife, keep someone under the knife..."
Zhang Shiping shouted, lifting the token high, like holding a heavy life, or like a light sentence.
Huang Zhong narrowed his eyes and then signaled the soldiers to pause.
Zhang Shiping came to Huang Zhong, bowed his head to pay his respects, and then roughly described what he said to Pang Shanmin in the government office, "The general clearly understands and the envoy has something to say. If he is guilty of ignorance, he should not die."
Huang Zhong pointed to the various prohibited items searched aside, as well as spies who had been arrested or cut down, "What do you say about these?"
Zhang Shiping looked at it and sighed, "You can kill the head of the company, but most of the friends are innocent. I hope the general will understand it."
『Ha...』 Huang Zhong narrowed his eyes and nodded and said, 『That's it."
Huang Zhong waved his hand.
The soldiers began to select merchant shopkeepers and ordinary friends.
For most of the guys, they acted as orders. Perhaps they knew the illegal behavior of some shopkeepers, but they might not know it. So after catching these banned merchants, they killed the ordinary guys together, which may be a way to eliminate the roots, but it is undoubtedly a bit too cruel.
Zhang Shiping gave these friends involved a chance to survive, but the merchants in charge stopped doing it. They thought the friends' lives were nothing...
『Ah!! Brother Zhang, Brother Zhang! It's me, it's me... I don't know anything! I'm wronged, wronged!" Someone tried to break free from the soldiers' pulling, shouting loudly to attract Zhang Shiping's attention, 『I don't know anything! I just called a guy temporarily, but he hurt me! I don't know him at all! I don't know him! I'm wronged...』
Perhaps he really felt wronged, so when he shouted the word "unfair", the merchant opened his mouth very much, and his little tongue was trembling.
Huang Zhong narrowed his eyes, as if he was watching and listening, but seemed to not care at all.
Zhang Shiping sighed again and took a step forward, "Since he is the person in charge, he will naturally bear the harm! He knows people without knowing it, he should suffer it! How can he be exempted from being guilty without knowing it?!"
The person who was crying for justice was stunned for a moment, "Brother Zhang! I really don't know! I'm also from Zhongshan... I've had wine with you before..." The man shouted, and then other merchants also shouted, "Those who are in love, those who are in contact, those who are in contact, and even promised how to repay, how much money to pay, or those who are vaguely threatening, are really just to survive, and they have to try any way."
Huang Zhong stroked his beard slightly, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
Zhang Shiping shook his head and said, "The friendship between fellow countrymen cannot be a reason to avoid death! Everyone! Let me listen to my words!"
Everyone was struggling and shouting as loudly as possible, as if they were going to use all their strength in this last life, and it was a mess.
These merchants were originally consciously dying, so they had nothing to struggle with. But now when they saw Zhang Shiping, they immediately felt unwilling to accept it. Why can Zhang Shiping be alive and jump out, and they have to face death?
The desire to survive made these fish that were originally waiting to die, but suddenly seemed to be thrown to the shore, jumping around and trying to return to the water.
Huang Zhong stood on one side, watching Zhang Shiping shouting hard, but mixed with the shouts of a group of people. He could not hear what he was shouting, and naturally he could not calm down the group of merchants who had fallen into the crazy.
『…』 Huang Zhong’s eyes moved slightly and he signaled to the guard beside him.
The guard nodded and stepped forward, pulled out the battle knife, walked to the merchant who shouted the loudest, and beheaded with one knife.
Suddenly, it was like everyone was pinched to the throat. I suddenly felt so quiet that I could only hear the gurgling sound of blood gushing out of my broken neck...
Huang Zhong looked at Zhang Shiping with his eyes squinted.
Zhang Shiping quickly took the opportunity to shout: "Envoy Pang has a good order! Listen quietly!"
"One, those who have the merits of living the people and have clear evidence can avoid death! For example, those who have won the Lubu of the cavalry..."
Most of the people were confused. Suddenly, in the corner, one of them shouted with joy of survival after a disaster: "I have Zilubu! I have!"
Huang Zhong waved his hand and asked the soldiers to come forward, then pulled one out.
The man choked and said, "At the beginning of the fifth year, I, I, I... I bought a batch of herbs and transported them from Nanyang to Chang'an, and near Lantian, there were refugees in the wild, and epidemics occurred frequently. I... I was dispersed medicine in the wild, and some people survived... The cavalry gave me Zilu cloth...
Zhang Shiping nodded and said, "Where is the road today?"
"At... at home, not by my side..." The man's face changed a little. He obviously realized something was wrong, so he hurriedly said, "I have a witness, someone is a witness!"
"Who?" Zhang Shiping asked.
The man said: "Nanyang Deng's name is Li Changming. The medicine I brought to save him at that time! Later, he passed the imperial examination in Chang'an and was appointed as the Lantian follower. I later met him in the city! He can testify for me!"
The Deng family in Nanyang was originally a big family, but later it was involved in court disputes and was almost slaughtered, and the remaining people were declining.
Zhang Shiping looked at Huang Zhong, Huang Zhong nodded slightly, then waved his hand, "Take it to the detention first, and then discuss it after verification."
The man cried with joy, burst into tears, his legs and feet became weak, and he was carried down by soldiers.
"But there is still someone who has Zilubu?" Zhang Shiping asked again.
But this time everyone stared at each other, no one responded.
『Second," Zhang Shiping raised his second finger, 『A man who settled in Wancheng and five people who protect him can be exempted from death! However, if the person who is protected is guilty afterwards, the guarantor will also be punished by the same crime!』
This is actually a deformed Baojia continuation system.
The Baojia system was not only in the feudal era, but also in other words, it was not that this system represented ignorance and backwardness, because even in later generations, variants of such systems were often seen. For example, "one person was born and ligated in the whole village", and "a large amount of objects thrown away, and the whole building was punished", etc., are actually deformation states of the Baojia system.
Using the merchants who settled in Wancheng as guarantors has invisibly stabilized the status of the merchants who settled in Wancheng, making more and more merchants settled in Wancheng. This will undoubtedly reflect the value of the merchants in Wancheng and will also allow more merchants to settle in Wancheng.
Similarly, even the system of seating will make Wancheng merchants more cautious and will not promise to protect them at will. This is the same nature as the nature of the borrower in later generations. The law of joint and several liability has never been outdated.
Zhang Shiping did not care about the urgent thinking of these merchants, nor did he wait for them to think about it all, so he directly stated the third law, "Third! If he reports the first to report other people's crimes, he can be rewarded and exempted!"
After Zhang Shiping finished his third article, everyone was in an uproar.
『I want to report! I report Pang to engage in...』 Among the crowd, someone suddenly shouted loudly, 『I report him for extortion, accept bribes, and use inferior products as good ones...』
『I want to report it too!』
『I...I want to...
Suddenly there was chaos.
Some people were eager to report, while others shouted indignantly, "Wouldn't you be afraid of death and extermination of the clan by using Sang Hongyang to tell the truth?"
Zhang Shiping showed some indescribable expressions on his face, "If you can't tell me the law, can you be the right person to hide his crime?"
Although some people were opposed, they closed their mouths and refused to report them, feeling that this was contrary to their conscience and loyalty, more merchants were rushing to report and report, trying to use this to exempt some of their own guilt...
For a moment, the scene was chaotic.
What no one expected was that even greater chaos was still behind.