"Your Majesty, your Majesty!" Fan Xun got a clear answer from the emperor and immediately knelt down and said...??`
The ministers also followed suit and worshiped: "Your Majesty is wise!"
This is the biggest confusion or doubt among the Han Dynasty officials about Liu Che's commercial and tax policy.
But it’s not because everyone hates business!
For things like hating businessmen, just shout slogans.
A gentleman is known for his righteousness, and a villain is known for his benefit. When we reach the court, how many people are left who truly believe in it?
Many, many years ago, when Li Kui was reforming the state of Wei, the entire state of Wei shouted at merchants to kill them. What was the result?
In the end, Wei gave birth to the first official businessman in Chinese history - Bai Gui.
Even the current model of Legalism, Chao Cuo, shouts every day, "Go to the countryside and get rid of the poor."
Go and take a look. Every month there is a family dinner at Chao Cuo's house. Among the guests, how many are named Tian and how many are named Yang?
Since Taizong, the old Liu family abolished Empress Lu's "Jin Bu Lv" and abandoned the Guanjin system.
The world's merchants are already prosperous, and the fire is cooking oil.
Businessmen with countless resources and wealth in their hands have already been ready to take action against officialdom and politics.
No one wants to live a precarious and helpless life.
Especially when your wealth has accumulated to a figure that is hard for you to believe, you will definitely not be satisfied with the status quo.
The merchants of the Warring States Period had already taught the merchants of the Han Dynasty a good lesson: what is the highest state of a merchant?
The answer is of course the integration of government and business. I am the master of the market and the master of the government!
Guan Zhongtong wielded great power and handed over mountains and seas, making Qi the first overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period.?.?`
Later, Fan Li moved from being an official to a businessman, writing the first Apocalypse, which pointed the way for those who came after him.
By the time of Bai Gui, it was finally completed, and the merchants knew from then on, 'Wo Cao, it turns out that money can still be made like this!'
Therefore, Guo Zong, Wu Shiluo and Widow Qing studied one after another.
Lu Buwei has even become the idol of all merchants today - a merchant became the prime minister of a country. During this period, he slept with the queen and even asked the king to call him daddy.
Let me ask. With so many idols and role models, who among the world’s businessmen can’t be tempted?
Even if he himself could not think of this level, how could the counselors, accountants and staff he had trained under him not think of this level?
Therefore, businessmen all dream of squeezing into the upper class and becoming the person who controls their own destiny instead of being controlled by others.
They have money, people, and resources.
But there is no way!
A merchant or a member of a merchant family can be an abbot or a local official, and can be a guest in the homes of prime ministers and nine ministers.
However, you can never become a decision-maker, let alone a high-ranking official!
If you want to try this, then there will be an invisible ceiling waiting for you there.`
No matter how capable you are, how talented you are, or even if you are someone like Li Kui and Wu Qi, this invisible ceiling will always be your obstacle.
Liu Che looked at the ministers kneeling in the hall. Threads were connected one by one, and doubts were solved one by one.
Why did Zhang Shizhi remain unknown in the doctor's office for ten years? It was not until Yuan Ang recommended him that he became famous all over the world. In just a few years, he became one of the nine ministers. He held the power of court captain, admonished the kings, and protected the common people.
Using the crown prince as a reputation machine?
Do you really think that except Yuan Ang, everyone else is blind?
Do you really think Zhang Shizhi is brave enough to play tricks on the crown prince?
Yuan Ang's recommendation was a stepping stone, representing the recognition and acceptance of Zhang Shizhi by the scholar-official class as one of their own. However, Zhang Shizhi had to prove to the scholar-official class that he was one of their own. In addition to drawing a clear line with merchants, Zhang Shizhi had to prove to the scholar-official class that he was one of their own.
, what is the best way to show that he is a scholar-bureaucrat?
Of course he is upright and not afraid of the powerful.
What better way to prove it than the Crown Prince?
At the same time, Liu Che also understood why Cheng Zheng and Zhuo Wangsun, two enemies of Linqiong, agreed to his conditions and have fulfilled them conscientiously to this day without any tricks.
Do you really think they have changed their profit-seeking nature?
No!
They just think that with such a sum of money, they can get more.
Including security that money can’t buy.
"Also the enemy..." Liu Che sneered in his heart: "The scholar-bureaucrats and civil servants group can't even tolerate the eunuch group. They want to kill them all. Even the Xungui group can't tolerate them. Whenever there is an opportunity, they will be brought into the political arena. Even the emperor wants to change
They become puppets... If they can tolerate a bunch of nouveau riche coming in to grab the right to speak and make decisions, then they are in trouble!"
Therefore, the so-called hatred of businessmen is an excuse.
Just like eunuchs causing harm to the country, relatives disrupting the government, and the harem interfering in politics, they are purely excuses.
There are so many dynasties in Chinese history. Who is responsible for the fate and end of these dynasties?
Eunuch? Relative? Harem? Emperor?
maybe!
But the civil service group really has no responsibility at all. From the beginning to the end, they are pure and cute little white flowers, true doctors who are loyal to the emperor and patriotic?
The real key to the problem is that the two major forces in Han Dynasty politics, the group of foreign relatives, nobles and heroes, and the group of civil servants and officials, are absolutely not willing to see the rise of a third pole of power, and they definitely do not want to see the game.
On the show floor, there is one more player participating.
For the scholar-bureaucrats and noble ministers.
Emperor, do you want to raise taxes?
Can!
As long as it’s not on us, it doesn’t matter whether it’s on businessmen or farmers!
Don't worry about the matter being your own.
Even if some people are opposed and dissatisfied, it is only a small group of people. The real majority of people are too lazy to confront the emperor for the sake of who knows whose ideas?
There is only one reason that can really make these people stick together and confront the emperor at all costs - the emperor wants to let the merchants enter and compete with them for food.
These guys can't even tolerate the emperor's family of slaves and eunuchs, how can they tolerate untouchables and people from the city to compete with them?
Later generations of Sang Hongyang narrowed the world's wealth and held the lifeline of the military and the country. Some people even said: Please cook Hongyang.
After thinking about these things clearly, Liu Che suddenly felt dumbfounded: "So that's it... I was worried before... but why bother? I had known this..."
But that's what politics is.
Many times when you think what those politicians might be like, reality often tells you that there is no lower limit for politicians. As long as they can still live, be free, and hold on to power, even if the floods are raging, so what?
If politicians really had principles and integrity, then there would be no Jie and Zhou, no Yang Guang and Li Longji, and no Liu Jin who was nine thousand years old!
"It's right to think about it..." Liu Che sighed in his heart: "Even in the heyday of the civil service group, the domestic slaves released by the two emperors Wei Zhongxian and Liu Jin could bite them and roll around on the floor, kneeling and licking them in various ways. In today's world
In this era, my kingship is divinely vested and sacred. As long as I don’t harm their fundamental interests like Wang Mang, I just collect some business taxes to subsidize military expenses, and don’t use them to build gardens and indulge in extravagance. They will be able to support themselves when they are full.
Are you running out to stand up for businessmen?"
Thinking like this, Liu Che couldn't help but jump a little.
Think about how many battles he has waged for today, how many benefits he has promised in private, and how many people he has worked hard to win over.
result……
Liu Che shook his head, but after a second thought, he comforted himself: "But in this way, my image will be much better than simply and crudely implementing policies. Even businessmen, I'm afraid they have nothing to say.
At the very least, it ensures the stability of the political situation and the stability of society, so this wave is not a loss!" (To be continued.)
ps: Tomorrow I will go to a traditional Chinese medicine hospital to find a physiotherapist, and he will prescribe some traditional Chinese medicine. I keep feeling dizzy, probably because of cervical spondylosis~
