I think back then, when Liu Bang ruled the world, he implemented the same policy towards merchants as Qin Shihuang.
All merchants were classified into a different category, and even their household registration books were kept in a separate book, titled "city registration".
Not only that, Liu Bang also passed laws and orders to impose numerous restrictions and restrictions.
When Liu Bang was alive, the social and political status of merchants was only higher than that of prisoners, and even lower than that of a son-in-law.
In the world at that time, if there was no other way out, no one would be willing to embark on the path of doing business.
Of course Liu Bang was happy when he played like this.
But it left the country in a mess.
Because merchants were severely suppressed, all the traders and lackeys doing business in the world were almost extinct.
Therefore, the circulation of social goods is almost zero, and the national economy is facing collapse.
By the time of Emperor Hui, under the rule of Empress Lu, the Han Dynasty abolished the "law of merchants" and no longer strictly controlled and restricted population mobility.
However, the Han Dynasty still had the unspoken rule that "descendants of the common people are not allowed to serve in official positions".
To put it simply, merchants and their descendants are not allowed to serve as officials.
It’s just that time flies and the world changes.
Today, decades later, Liu Bang's harsh punishment on businessmen has disappeared without a trace.
Now, even the last remaining unspoken rule that "descendants of the common people are not allowed to serve in official positions" has long been riddled with holes and is on the verge of collapse.
Apart from other things, the bunch of official officials in Liu Che's Shangtai were basically the nephews of merchants.
As for the thousand or even two thousand stones above the court, the shadows of merchants' children had already begun to appear among the nine ministers.
Zhang Shizhi, the emperor of the imperial court, was born as a typical merchant son.
And among the people, after they have money in their pockets, merchants have long been dissatisfied with the fact that they are "citizens of the city" and are being looked down upon.
As a result, wealthy merchants began to buy noble houses.
The "losing millet and donating nobles" system introduced by Chao Cuo was simply aimed at the appetite of these guys.
Six hundred stones of corn were made, four thousand stones for five doctors, and twelve thousand stones for common people. The price was clearly marked, so no one can be deceived!
Faced with such prices, merchants have no ability to resist.
In the future world, wouldn't it be common for a wealthy and willful CEO to donate hundreds or even tens of millions in exchange for a diploma from a prestigious school?
As a result, the curse that was originally tightly tied to the merchant's head was shattered in an instant.
For real big businessmen, this kind of world is really like paradise.
In later generations, Tai Shigong wrote a biography of Huo Shi Gong to describe every detail of their golden age to the world.
In this world, from Chang'an to Jiangdu, from Xinhua to Yunzhong, from the mountains to the plains, from the coast to the desert.
Wherever there are people, there are markets, merchants, and wealthy businessmen who are famous all over the world.
Even the merchants of the Han Dynasty showed signs of division of labor, cooperation and industrialization.
Merchants from all over the world, adapted to local conditions and local characteristics, exhibited all types of commodities that could be traded.
There are even monopoly merchants like Shi in Luoyang who only rely on logistics and transshipment to make profits.
Handan's unique singer business continued to flourish even throughout the Han Dynasty.
At that time, Li Kui was Prime Minister of Wei and presided over the reform of Wei State. He described the image of Marquis Wen of Wei as follows: The land is hundreds of miles away. Ninety thousand hectares are granted. In addition to mountains and rivers, 30% of the city is divided into 6 million acres of farmland. Diligent management of the land will yield three liters of land.
, if you are not diligent, you will suffer the same damage. An increase or decrease of a hundred miles in a place can easily amount to one hundred and eighty thousand grains.
Through data, Li Kui told Wei Wenhou how the country's national strength would be enhanced after practicing the teachings of earth power.
Marquis Wen of Wei was greatly moved by these words, and from then on he strongly supported Li Kui's reform policy.
And Liu Che always remembered that in later generations, Tai Shigong also used numbers to describe the commercial needs of a city in detail in his biography of goods: Tongyi Dadu, Fenjiangqianjiang, Jijiangqianquan, Jiangqianjiang.
Tai Shigong even said: If the profit of a certain business is less than 20%, then, I think, this is not what I call a wealth-making industry.
With such detailed records and descriptions, it is difficult to believe that Tai Shigong himself had indeed dealt with merchants and the market for a long time.
Thinking of this, Liu Che raised his head, faced Fan Xun, patted his chest, and made a solemn promise: "Don't worry, sir, I will not change the ancestral system. The descendants of merchants and merchants are not allowed to be officials. This is where the dignity of Han officials lies!"
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Actually, this is not nonsense.
People with municipal registration and their family descendants are indeed not allowed to hold official positions.
But what if the other party leaves the city?
There are so many smart people in the world, so something as simple as putting some money in and changing the household registration book would have been discovered long ago!
What's more, the imperial court issued edicts many times to allow people to sell their titles.
Nowadays, among all the big businessmen in the world, after getting rich, who doesn’t have the legal title of noble noble?
In the Tian family in Guanzhong, is there a man and a half women who are registered as citizens?
There is no Yan clan in Zi Qian's family, but he is from the city?
Therefore, this unspoken rule of the Han Dynasty actually blocked the path of those merchants who had no money, no power and no background.
A truly wealthy person, who can even enter and leave the residences of princes, and even become guests of the three nobles and nine ministers, would still be afraid of losing his official position?
Tai Shigong said, if your wealth is ten times less than that of the other person, then your status is lower than his. If it is a hundred times less, you will be afraid of him; if it is a thousand times less, you will be enslaved by him; if it is ten thousand times less, you will be his slave.
Liu Che deeply agreed with this statement.
In this world, many times, wealth is indeed the standard for measuring status.
Who can live without money?
If the emperor has no money, the emperor is just a puppet!
In Liu Che's heart, he had a pretty good grasp of the situation of merchants all over the world.
He already knew the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of these guys, how they operated and how they accumulated wealth.
Liu Che deeply understood that businessmen should be treated differently.
It is necessary to crack down on and weaken large businessmen, especially large monopolistic businessmen and businessmen engaged in usury and other businessmen not directly engaged in production and manufacturing.
Otherwise, God knows what mischief these guys will do.
On the other hand, Liu Che wanted to support small and medium-sized businessmen and heavy industry and labor-intensive workshops and factories.
Because, on the one hand, commercial development can bring fiscal revenue, and on the other hand, it can absorb excess population.
In the past two years, the Han Dynasty has experienced a baby boom because Liu Che encouraged and rewarded fertility.
The counties in Guanzhong alone have added hundreds of thousands of people to their population in two years. On average, each couple has given birth to a few children in the past two years.
Putting it in the world, it means that the population has increased by at least two to three million.
Moreover, this number will continue to snowball.
Maybe twenty years later, the population of the Han Dynasty will double, reaching the terrifying threshold of 100 million people.
Now, the entire earth, except China, the number of human beings in all other continents, islands and deep valleys may be added together, but it is no more than this!
This level of population is the driving force and engine of evolution for China.
But it is 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 will be enough to ensure that China will dominate the world in the future, dominate the world, and become a true heavenly country.
Even if the whole world unites, with China's size and population base, they can easily defeat and enslave them.
On the contrary, this will be the trigger for the collapse and destruction of the Han Dynasty.
It was this unprecedented pressure that forced Liu Che to make the choice to start commercial layout before the heavy industry base in Nanyang was completed. (To be continued.)
ps: I have low blood pressure recently
My blood pressure today was 8o/6o
I'll go, no wonder I feel dizzy and weak all the time
I have to continue the injection tomorrow, doctor, it seems I can only do this slowly.
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