Zhang Yue is currently in Bianjing. He has sorted out the manuscripts he wrote in Xishan Temple these days and divided them into two volumes.
The general outline of this book is that farming is the basis for making money, businessmen are the basis for dividing wealth, and gold, silver and salt banknotes are the basis for hoarding wealth.
Translated into modern terms, this means using technology to create wealth, finance to distribute wealth, and real estate to precipitate wealth.
The most important thing is to divide the wealth with the merchants.
What is the definition of the essence of finance?
This sentence has actually been debated for a long time.
For example, the mercantile school believes that finance creates wealth, and it is gold and silver currency that gives the value of all items, while the physiocratic school believes that only productivity creates wealth, and finance, as a first-class surplus value, does not deserve to exist.
Anyway, up to now, the two factions have not come up with a reason.
But Zhang Yue has defined it as the essence of finance lies in the distribution of wealth.
As for putting agriculture first and commerce at the end, it means emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce. This is the basic national policy of feudalism for two thousand years. This must be clearly stated.
As for currency, in addition to exchange value, it also has storage value, and like real estate, it can accumulate wealth.
When a farmer grows food, it is impossible to store it for several years without spoiling, so he has to convert it into currency and use another method to store it. The accumulated wealth belongs not only to himself but also to the court.
For example, the imperial court replaced copper coins with iron coins, issued coins indiscriminately, and devalued salt banknotes, which were all first-class ways to harvest private wealth.
Zhang Yue originally wrote more than 100,000 words, but he felt it was a bit too complicated, so he added and deleted some and streamlined it to tens of thousands of words.
The second volume was relatively advanced, so he took the first volume to Bianjing to prepare for publication.
Before publishing it, he had to give the bibliography to Han Jiang for review.
After all, the other party will be my backer in the future, and the draft must be shown to the boss first.
Zhang Yue and his family went to Beijing together, while Shi Qi Niang went back to her parents' home.
Zhang Yue first visited Su Shi and Su Che. He exchanged letters with the two and learned that Su Xun was seriously ill, so he went to visit him with some medicinal materials.
When he met Su Shi, he told himself that Su Xun was probably not going to die soon. His younger brother Su Che was now in charge of Damingfu Road in Gou to appease the driver Yi Wenwen, and he could not return to Beijing to see his father Su Xun for the last time.
Zhang Yue heard this and went to visit Su Xun, but he saw Su Xun lying on the sick bed, his cheeks were extremely thin, and he could tell at a glance that he was exhausted.
Zhang Yue called Su Xun uncle, uncle.
Su Xun slowly opened his eyes on the hospital bed and said, "Yes, save it?"
Seeing that Su Xun still recognized him, Zhang Yue said hurriedly: "It's my nephew."
Su Xun held Zhang Yue's hand, and Zhang Yue felt that Su Xun held it very firmly, even though he was so ill.
Su Xun said to Zhang Yue: "Du Zhi... I have something to tell you."
After Su Shi retreated outside the room, Zhang Yue said: "Uncle, my nephew is listening."
Su Xun said: "Duzhi, you and my two sons have a very good relationship, and we are as close as brothers. I am very pleased. To be honest, when I first met you, I was very jealous of you, for fear that you would take away Quuzi's fame.
Now it seems that I really judge a gentleman with a villain's heart, so don't take it to the bottom of your heart."
Zhang Yue said: "Uncle, where did these words come from? You have always been very good to me."
Su Xun laughed twice and said, "You are a kind-hearted person. Now that I am about to die, you are also kind-hearted. My two sons, A Zhe, are forbearing and can be careful with their words and deeds. There is no need to worry about him at all."
On the other hand, A Shi doesn't have any scheming in his interactions with others. He just says whatever he wants. If he is just mediocre, that's fine. But he is a great talent. This is a recipe for disaster."
"Can I ask you to help take care of A Shi more in the future? In this way, I will be grateful for your great kindness."
Zhang Yue said: "Uncle, I am also living at home now. I am afraid that I have more than enough ambition but not enough energy."
Su Xun suddenly remembered and said: "I almost forgot that you have resigned. But as far as I know, you are a kind and loyal person. I have been thinking about it for a long time. What trouble will A Shi face in the future? With so many of his friends, I can only
You can help."
Zhang Yue said: "If I can, I will try my best."
Su Xun said gratefully: "Then I'll feel relieved."
After Su Xun finished speaking, he turned around from the couch, then a tear fell from the corner of his eye and murmured: "I can't worry about Shi... The officials want to use Wang Jiefu to make imperial edicts, but now that I think about it, I am really short-sighted.
He has laid the foundation for disaster for his descendants..."
Zhang Yue knew in his heart that Su Xun wanted to humiliate Wang Anshi when he saw Ding You writing a confession of adultery due to his mother's death. He also felt that it would be difficult for him to return to the court in the future. But he didn't know that Wang Anshi was still in Jiangning and his influence was still there.
Officials summoned him several times to know how to make imperial edicts, but Wang Anshi didn't even go. He just studied and taught in Jiangning. Such an act of not attaching importance to power only made his reputation even greater.
Zhang Yue quietly retreated and saw Su Shi squatting on the wall wiping tears.
Su Shi stood up immediately when he saw him and asked, "How is daddy?"
Zhang Yue said to Su Shi: "Uncle, he doesn't trust you and has said something to me."
When Su Shi heard this, he shed tears and said, "It is unfilial as a son for me to make my father worry about this."
After Zhang Yue left Su Mansion, he went to Sansi.
After arriving at Sansi, he learned that Han Jiang had not returned to the Yamen yet, so he went to the Salt and Iron Hall of Sansi to find his teacher Chen Xiang. Chen Xiang was now sentenced to prison, but he was not here today.
Then Zhang Yue went to the Du Branch Office to find his father-in-law, but it turned out that his father-in-law was not in the Third Division either.
When Zhang Yue left the Du branch hall, he happened to pass by the east wall of the hall.
There is a stone tablet carved on the east wall, and engraved on the tablet is an inscription. The inscription contains the names of the successive deputy envoys of Duzhi Office. The person who carved the inscription was Wang Anshi, who was the judge of Duzhi at that time. The time was Jiayou Wu.
year, the year before Zhang Yuezhong became a Jinshi.
One of the sentences is "The one who unites the world's wealth is the one who manages the world's wealth; the one who manages the world's wealth is the law; the one who abides by the world's law is the official..."
Seeing this sentence, Zhang Yue couldn't help but sigh, Wang Anshi is really a genius through the ages!
Combine the wealth of the world and manage it in a certain way, so that the power of opening, closing, collecting and dispersing wealth belongs to the central government. Otherwise, if the court does not take care of the money, then the sluts in the streets and alleys will be able to take advantage of it privately.
, good at the benefits of all things, so as to compete with the master of Guizhou.'
Wang Anshi’s view coincides with his own view that finance is the redistribution of wealth.
But my own point of view comes from modern times. It took hundreds of years of debate to reach a conclusion that was accepted by many people. However, Wang Anshi had already pointed him out a thousand years ago and engraved it on the stone tablet in the Du Branch Hall.
superior.
But the difference is that Wang Anshi used the imperial court for financial purposes.
Zhang Yue, on the other hand, handed it over to a third party, that is, a "court-owned enterprise" like the Exchange.
Zhang Yue stopped in front of this stone tablet for a long time. While admiring Wang Anshi who was far away in Jiangning, he thought about the difficulties of the country and the hardships of financial management. What stands in front of Zhang Yue and Wang Anshi now is the system that a country has followed for thousands of years, and most of the
Officials’ cognition.
Success is difficult.
Zhang Yue stopped here and was lost in thought for a long time, while the clerk on the side was too embarrassed to urge him, so he could only stand aside.
