Since meeting Liu De, this is the first time she has seen something that Liu De doesn't understand.
She leaned lightly against Liu De and whispered in Liu De's ear: "Your Highness, Pingjia is the person responsible for arbitrating conflicts between merchants and people due to price issues in all markets today.
Raise people!”
"Huh?" Liu De asked doubtfully, "It's a government servant? Why haven't I heard of such a kind of servant?"
After hearing this, Yi Nu explained with a smile: "Your Highness, you don't know. Ping Jia is not an official, let alone a member of the government. On the contrary, Ping Jia is also a businessman!"
"When the late emperor was in power, he was deeply aware that local officials often harmed the people, and even corrupt officials used public power to buy and sell goods by force, but the people could only swallow the bitter fruit. Therefore, the late emperor ordered that all cities
In the market, there is a person who is responsible for "authorizing power", and the person who is responsible for "authorizing power" is called Ping Jia, who is usually elected by the merchants in the market..."
"Pingjia has no official position, no salary, no title, and not much power, but he can decide whether the prices of transactions are reasonable. The late emperor established the authority, mainly responsible for coordinating the price determination of transactions with market merchants and the government.
, to prevent officials from buying and selling by force, and at the same time to prevent unscrupulous merchants from cheating and abducting in the market. Therefore, Pingjia is very respected by people, and is generally held by the most impartial person in the market!"
After listening to Yi Nu’s explanation.
Liu De felt that this indeed looked like the hand tail of his late imperial grandfather.
It's just that Ping Jia's settings made Liu De's face twitch.
Ping Jia was not appointed by the government but elected by the people?
It seems that such free elections could not have occurred in the feudal era before the Christian era.
But thinking about it carefully, Liu De felt that Ping Jia's appearance was not unexpected.
At this time, the Huang-Lao school of thought became popular and governed the world.
And what does Huang Lao’s thoughts pursue?
In a small country with few people, chickens and dogs hear each other.
In short, it means that the government only needs to take care of strategy, law, and maintaining order, and the people will handle the rest by themselves. Simply put, it advocates civil autonomy. For example, the establishment of village elders is proof of this.
Moreover, this Pingjia does not have much power and can only be responsible for arbitrating whether prices are reasonable.
And because it is elected, if this Pingjia does things unfairly, he can be kicked out immediately and replaced by a fair person.
Moreover, when Jing Yinuo said this, Liu De also remembered it.
In his previous life, didn't Liu Pengzu rely on this to make a fortune?
"The king of Zhao was so powerful that he sent the county to consult with the Jia people, and the revenue was more than the national economic tax." Liu De remembered that in his previous life, Liu Pengzu was sued to the court, and then Liu Che issued an edict to investigate thoroughly.
When Liu De heard about it, he thought that Liu Pengzu had taken advantage of the privileges of princes and kings and engaged in forced buying and selling.
Now hearing Yi Nu say this, Liu De suddenly realized.
How could his younger brother be so stupid as to do something as unskilled as buying and selling by force?
Control prices. Set prices and stipulate prices.
The income gained is much greater than that of forced buying and selling of certain things. Moreover, you don’t have to worry about being pointed at your spine and scolded.
After all, buying and selling by force was too shameless for a prince. He would not be able to see anyone when he went out, and he could easily be sued to Chang'an.
As for taking control of the power and using his own people as ministers, there will be no worries in this regard. Even if he is reported, the most he will do is to be scolded by the emperor's brother. Could it be that the emperor's brother can appoint several companies without permission because of him?
Ping Jia, who doesn't even have a salary, is going to kill his younger brother?
"How smart!" Liu De sighed.
There is no doubt that there are loopholes in the Pingjia system, and Liu Pengzu took advantage of that loophole and successfully replaced all the Pingjias in all counties and counties of Zhao with his people, and then gained huge wealth by manipulating prices.
"The Pingjia system is very good!" Liu De thought in his heart.
He knew that he had found the balance point and valve between attacking big businessmen, big landowners and powerful people while protecting small and medium-sized businessmen and small and medium-sized landowners.
"What I'm thinking about now is still very immature. I need to think about it carefully, and then find a place to test it, make a pilot, improve it through practice, and then promote it to the world!" Liu De thought to himself.
There is no doubt that the four markets in Chang'an that he now manages and this year's autumn harvest grain price war are good opportunities for him to practice.
"Even if it fails, it doesn't matter. I don't have to take any risks by doing this..." Liu De became more and more excited as he thought about it. Unexpectedly, the knot he couldn't find a solution to after thinking hard for a long time was actually established by his imperial grandfather.
A system inspired me and I found a way to break the situation.
"There is no one more meritorious than Emperor Gao, and no one more virtuous than Emperor Taizong!" Liu De sighed: "This is indeed true!"
More than fake!
In fact, Liu Xiu was able to recreate the Han Dynasty, and his imperial grandfather was one of the reasons.
Even at the end of Wang Mang's new dynasty, when the Red Eyebrow Army invaded Chang'an and excavated Maoling, they respected Ba Ling like a god and did not dare to move rashly.
A man who has been dead for more than a hundred years can still make rebellious peasants dare not attack his tomb.
To be an emperor is to do this.
Liu De feels that this is real success!
"I don't know if I can have such great achievements in the future..." At this moment, Liu De finally understood why his father was so anxious to cut off the feudal clan.
The late emperor's shadow above his head was really too big.
Everyone will unconsciously compare dad with the late emperor.
The ministers in the court always did whatever the late emperor did.
As an emperor, as an emperor, Liu De felt that as time went by, even he might become mentally unbalanced, and vowed in his heart that he would do something that surpassed the late emperor.
"It's not easy for me, dad..." Liu De sighed in his heart, then took Yi Nu's little hand and walked out of the shop.
For Liu De, today is undoubtedly a fruitful day.
"Well, the otaku really can't do it!" Liu De led Yinuo and walked on the street, mocking himself: "If I had been living in the palace, how would I know so many things? How would I know the current situation of this society?
, I’m afraid I will do a lot of crazy things like some foolish kings in later generations!”
Apart from anything else, without this trip to the market, Liu De would never have imagined that the system of Pingjia existed in his life. Even if a minister told him in the future and even mentioned Pingjia in the memorial, as an emperor, he
We have to read countless memorials and listen to the advice of countless ministers every day. How can we possibly pay attention to everything?
What's more, this trip to the market also allowed Liu De to clarify the basic context of his financial policy.
Cotton and copper will be the economic foundation for his future governance.
Coal and iron are his military industrial base.
With cotton, iron, coal, and copper, the rest is to push the world flat! (To be continued...)
ps:-0-Basically, it took me three days to understand the basic operation of the Pinjia system, but I still didn’t understand many things.
It seems that the VIP chapter cannot upload pictures. Tomorrow I will post an operation diagram of the Pinja system in the public chapter explaining gold.
