After Nangong Shouzhong and others thanked them respectfully, they sat back one by one.
They were said to be sitting, but all of them were still very reserved and only dared to touch half of their buttocks to the chairs. Although the small table in front of them was filled with delicacies produced by the imperial kitchen, no matter in terms of color, aroma or taste, they must be the best.
It's the best food, but no one pays attention to it.
They knew that the Crown Princess would definitely have to lecture her.
Sure enough, after they all sat down, Su Jinpa continued: "Scholars, farmers, and merchants, merchants have always been the lowest, second only to slaves."
Su Jinpa's first words after his opening remarks made all the wealthy people present look pale.
But then, Su Jinpa said: "Actually, this sentence is biased."
"Businessmen pursue profit. Although the philistines are only interested in profit, we must admit that if a country and society do not have the existence of a group of businessmen, it will be incomplete and even cannot be established."
"The four major strata of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce all have their own significance for survival. They are indispensable for a complete country and society."
"Take the most common silk weaving as an example. The merchants pay for the peasant women to raise silkworms. Or the peasant women can raise the silkworms themselves, and then the merchants buy the silk after they are drawn. In this way, the merchants feed the first group of people, the peasant women who raise silkworms.
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"After purchasing the silk, the merchants hire workers to process the silk fabrics. In this way, the merchants support a second group of people, the processing workers."
"After the silk was processed, the merchants still needed to find people to weave, so the merchants supported the third group of people, the weavers."
"Silk is turned into silk, which is dyed and turned into brocade. The merchants support a fourth group of people, the dyeing workshop."
"This brocade has come out, and merchants have brought it to the market to sell it, so that the people of our Qin Dynasty can wear gorgeous clothes, show the deportment of a great country, and show the prosperity of people's livelihood."
"This is just one industry. Others go to the fields to purchase fruits and grains, and then transport them to bustling towns for sale. Although the prices for farmers have been lowered, the merchants have successfully avoided a large amount of fruits and grains rotting in the fields. If
There are no merchants to purchase in a centralized manner. Even if ordinary people find farmers' fields and buy at market prices, how much can they buy?"
"So merchants lower prices, conduct concentrated purchases and then transport them to other areas for sale. Although it seems that they are bullying farmers, the fact is exactly the opposite. It is precisely because of the existence of merchants that farmers dare to plant crops on a large scale, because farmers
Don’t worry about not being able to sell it, there are always merchants willing to bid for it and bear the cost risk and transportation and loss risk to gain greater profits.”
Speaking of this, Su Jinpa's phoenix eyes swept across the excited rich people present, and said calmly: "Businessmen, benefit the world, provide what people need and ask for, buy stones from Nanshan to fill the ravines of the North Sea,
Use money to trade kingdoms."
Finally, Su Jinpa ended with Shen Wansan's famous sentence.
This sentence was actually an unintentional remark made by Shen Wansan after summarizing the nature and experience of businessmen. However, it was precisely because these words that should have been regarded as a bible by businessmen all over the world that Shen Wansan personally gave it to Emperor Taizu to slaughter his entire family.
of a knife.
Use money to trade kingdoms.
Shen Wansan's original intention was that all things in the world, the needs of others, the desires of others, the rocks of the Southern Mountains, the ravines of the North Sea, all of these are things that can be traded, but the literal ambiguity of this sentence is too great.
