Nine hundred and fifty-sixth chapter I come to teach you exploitation (2)
In today's world, there are no schools of thought.
The attitude towards businessmen is - untouchable!
Disaster for the country and the people!
Harm the people!
Especially Legalists and Confucians have the most determined attitudes!
The two schools of Confucianism and Legalism are simply telling the world nakedly: If I want to take power, I will kill all those damn businessmen and restore peace to the world!
Only the Huang Lao sect can accommodate and tolerate their existence to a certain extent.
But tolerance is also very limited.
Huang Laopai just said: If you don't break the law, I won't care about you.
But if you break the law...
hehe!
In terms of the execution of the law, the Huang-Lao Sect, like the Legalists, upholds the principle that "punishment has no hierarchy".
Even if a prince breaks the law, he must comply with the law.
Just kill all the merchants.
It’s no different than killing a dog!
Of course, more importantly, the power of merchants is too weak.
This is true even if they become landlords, powerful men, and collude with the government.
A ruthless official can hang up a county's powerful men and beat them.
Not to mention, now, the person in front of them is the emperor.
He is the supreme ruler of this country!
If four years ago, they were asked to choose to be merchants or landlords.
At least 90% of the people will definitely choose the local owner.
How cool it is to be a landlord!
You can sit at home and wait for the mud-legged man to come to your door to deliver money and food.
but now?
Landlords in Guanzhong are not made by humans!
Mudlegs have a very bad temper!
Feeling a little dissatisfied, I decided to go to Shanglinyuan.
Moreover, due to the prosperity and development of industry and commerce in Guanzhong, a large number of people have actually shifted from pure agriculture to semi-agriculture and semi-workshops.
Ordinary people, they farm when they are busy.
When there is slack time in farming, he leaves the work in the fields to the children and the elderly at home, and goes to work in the workshop himself.
The workshop is hard work.
But the best thing is giving money!
In one month, the number can range from three to five hundred to six or seven hundred.
The boss also provides food and lodging!
If you are willing to work hard, you are also willing to endure hardship and take risks.
You can even go to Baoxie Road or Kunming Pond to work.
Get more money!
Two or three months can equal the income of more than half a year of hard work!
And the profits of industry and commerce are far greater than those of agriculture.
An acre of land can only produce three or four stones per year, and its value is only two or three hundred cash.
The landowner receives half of it.
A family of tenant farmers cultivates thirty to fifty acres a year, and the profit it creates for the landlord is only three to five thousand dollars.
And what about the workshop?
A single workshop can produce hundreds of thousands or even millions of products a year.
It’s much faster to make money than relying on the land for a living!
A landowner, even if he has thousands of hectares of fertile land, may only have a few million in his family's money during his lifetime.
But, if you do business, you can easily make millions a year!
There is no doubt about which one to choose.
Liu Che looked at these people and continued: "In addition, the second thing is that I visited those workshops in Hongguyuan this afternoon..."
Everyone's hearts were raised to their throats.
Of course they themselves know what's going on in their own family.
Anyone who is not a fool in the Hongguyuan workshop knows what will happen to them once they are stabbed in the court?
To be honest, the imperial court deserved it even if they killed their whole family.
But Liu Che didn't mention the pollution at all, and completely treated it as if it didn't exist.
"What I mean is that everyone should move their workshops!" Liu Che said, "Move them to Qishan and Fengxiang!"
The emperor gave an order, and everyone naturally had no choice but to obey.
However, after everyone heard the place names Qishan and Fengxiang, they all felt a little sick.
Because these two counties are now two counties under the control of the Mohists.
Most of the local officials, from top to bottom, are from the Mohist family.
The local Mohist community is very powerful.
The Mohist family has always been famous for speaking for Mudlegzi.
Once there, how can workers be exploited? This is a problem!
Liu Che looked at the expressions of these guys and knew what was going on.
And the main purpose of his trip is to teach these guys how to be capitalists!
Are any of them capitalists like that?
Their actions are of no use other than making people hate them.
In the end, you may not make any money, but you will lose your life!
"I asked the Lord Commander to write a pamphlet. Please take it back, read it carefully, and understand it carefully!" Liu Che said, "What I mean is: from now on, the system and rules of the workshop must be in accordance with the Lord Commander's instructions."
As requested, I have authorized the lord and captain to shut down and punish all those who do not abide by the law!"
Following Liu Che's words.
More than a dozen pamphlets were thrust into the hands of these people.
"That's all for now. I'm tired too. You all can go back..." Liu Che waved his hand and stood up.
As an emperor, he disregarded his status and dignity and handled this matter personally, which was very disgraceful.
If there was nothing else he could do, Liu Che would probably just send a eunuch to handle it.
Now, the attitude has been clear and the rules have been drawn for these guys.
Who wants to stop listening?
That would be provoking him, the emperor.
Killing him would not be considered as execution without teaching.
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The heads of each family were escorted out of the Guantao Mansion by their attendants.
Then, everyone was warned: Anyone who dares to leak what happened today!
Even when they got into their own carriage, the heads of these families still looked in disbelief.
Then, they each eagerly picked up the pamphlet sent by the emperor and started reading it directly.
"All workshops must obey the orders of the lord and captain. If they don't comply with the orders, they will be dismissed!" If this was the case before today, I am afraid no one would take it seriously, let alone implement it.
However, after the emperor personally came forward.
Everyone knows that it will not work if it is not implemented.
On the contrary, Anling was very happy.
Because their family has a son-in-law, Zuo Zhujue Duwei Zhufu Yan. With this relationship, his family is almost secure in Diaoyutai.
But the next one, even An Ling said, was too harsh.
"All workers' salaries must be calculated based on their workload and paid on a piece-rate basis..." Looking at the words on the brochure, everyone immediately understood.
Piece rate salary?
Is this feasible?
What if someone is so powerful that his daily production output is several times that of others, wouldn't that be...
The owners of the house all feel a little sore.
But, this is the emperor’s order!
If you understand, you must implement it, if you don’t understand, you must implement it!
Otherwise, the destruction of the family and the entire family is just around the corner!
But that's okay.
Soon some smart people came up with a solution: since the emperor requires us to calculate pieces, the method of calculating pieces is in our hands!
What's more, Mudlegs can't read or understand mathematics at all.
If you just keep the account books, you can justifiably swallow their money?
Little did he know that Liu Che had already been on guard against their move.
Letting them go to Qishan and Fengxiang is a clear plan to use the private power controlled by the Mohist family to deal with them.
A single worker is definitely not a good person.
But a group of organized workers can definitely make these guys understand the powerful relationship!
Of course, for these primitive capitalists before the Christian era, there was still another way they could go: slave trading!
And this is exactly what Liu Che wants them to go and do!
Only by making capitalists understand that internal exploitation is an evil and a dead end can they shift their attention to the outside world.
Only in this way can the resulting social conflicts be alleviated as much as possible.
Of course, they can exploit the inside if they want!
Piece rate system, more work, more reward.
Although exploitation is still cruel, it is at least more humane and workers are more willing.
