Chapter Ninety-fifth: Economic Lessons for the Big Brothers
Chapter 95:
After nearly two hours of bumpy ride, Yi Fan finally came from Ping'an County to the palace. It was already dark.
As Li An walked into Liangyi Hall, there were already three people in the hall seated in Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng.
Ang Lee quickly stepped forward and reported to Li Shimin on the throne: "Sage, King Peace is here."
Li Shimin nodded to show his understanding.
As Yi Fan entered the hall, Li Shimin stood up to greet him, and the three civil officials also stood up.
Yi Fan stepped forward, bowed slightly, and said, "Ping An has seen the second brother."
Li Shimin smiled and said gently: "Peace is useless and polite." Then, Li Shimin shouted again: "Come on, sit down for King Ping'an."
The three civil officials also bowed to Yi Fan and said in unison: "I have met King Ping'an."
Yi Fan returned the gift.
At this time, the two little eunuchs had placed a solid wood chair in the position where Li Shimin started.
Li Shimin said, "Don't be polite if you wait." He said to Yi Fan again, "Peace, sit quickly, and call you into the palace today, and there are important things to discuss."
Waiting for Yi Fan to sit firmly, Li Shimin coughed and said, "I just discussed with my beloved ministers that if the court comes forward to open a money deal, it will be dedicated to managing money for the people. However, my beloved ministers are not very good at this businessman's way. I wonder what can I teach me about peace?"
Upon hearing this, Yi Fan thought that no one was a fool. Li Shimin was not surprised at all from the operation model of the escort agency to open a bank or a bank.
After all, things like banks can not only make profits for the country, but also increase the cohesion of the country and indirectly control and understand the current situation of the people. As the emperor of the ages, Li Shimin could not use it without making any use.
In fact, Yi Fan had long wanted to separate a banking system from the escort agency, and then began to gradually accept the savings and lending of the people and merchants.
Yi Fan expressed this idea during a family meeting, but was dissuaded by Wu Meiniang. The reason was that doing so would arouse suspicion from the court, especially Yi Fan also had a royal title.
Yi Fan thought about it carefully. If he had controlled most of the people in the world, Li Shimin would probably not be able to sleep even. By then, he would not be far from death.
When Yi Fan came to ancient times, he always wanted to live a free and easy life, while Li Shimin was always a knife or a rope hanging on Yi Fan's head, which bound Yi Fan and made him unable to let go.
Yi Fan estimated that he would not be able to stay in Guanzhong for long. After three years of development, he should have prepared almost the same place.
Yi Fan sorted out his thoughts. Although he didn't like Li Shimin very much, as an emperor, Yi Fan still recognized it. Therefore, Yi Fan decided to help Li Shimin. It can be regarded as making some contribution to his nation!
"The second brother wants to start this money business, which is the best strategy. We Chinese people all have the obsession with saving money and hiding money. We always feel at ease when we put copper coins in a pot, bury them in a cellar, or in some unknown place.
In fact, this is wrong. Only the money spent is money. The copper coins buried in geography are just a pile of copper. It cannot produce any value."
Speaking of this, Yi Fan was confused when he saw several big bosses. It was difficult for him to understand Yi Fan's words for a while.
Wei Zheng was a straight-hearted person and could not have doubts in his heart, so he said to Yi Fan: "I would like to ask King Ping'an to solve his doubts. Why is it wrong to store money? The salary I received every time was stored by my wife in the family, hoping to save more for my children and grandchildren, so that they could live a better life in the future. This has been the case for generations, why is King Ping'an saying this wrong?"
Yi Fan thought about it and it was really hard to explain to these ancients, because Yi Fan himself was an economics illiterate. Although he understood some truths and asked him to explain it so that the ancients could understand it, it was really a bit embarrassing.
Inadvertently, Yi Fan saw a jade pendant on Fang Xuanling's waist, and his heart moved. He thought of an economics story and said to Fang Xuanling.
"Fang Xiang, I will lend you a jade pendant for you."
Although Fang Xuanling did not understand the intention, he still took off the jade pendant on his waist and handed it to Yi Fan.
After taking the jade pendant, Yi Fan said to everyone: "Second brother, three ministers, let's play a small game, and you will understand why I said that only the money spent is money."
Yi Fan weighed the jade pendant and said, "As we all know, I run a restaurant, we compare this jade pendant to Yi Guan, and Fang Xiang used this money to have a meal in my restaurant. Now this money belongs to me."
After saying that, Yi Fan walked up to Wei Zheng and said, "Mr. Wei is like a pork seller now. Now I use this money to buy some pork."
After saying that, Yi Fan stuffed the jade pendant into Wei Zheng's hands.
Wei Zheng, known as Wei Heizi, turned darker when he heard that he was a pork seller.
Yi Fan looked at Changsun Wuji again and said, "Lord Changsun is a pig farmer now. Lord Wei has sold out the pork, so he naturally has to go to Lord Changsun to buy a pig and go back to kill it."
Changsun Wuji heard that he was a pig farmer and his face looked even worse than Wei Zheng.
Yi Fan took the jade pendant from Wei Zheng and said, "Today is exactly the day when Lord Changsun pays the tax."
As he said that, Yi Fan took out the jade pendant in Changsun Wuji's hand, walked towards Li Shimin, and handed it to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin took the jade pendant thoughtfully.
After Li Shimin took the jade pendant, Yi Fan looked at Fang Xuanling again and said, "Because Fang Xiang worked hard for the country, my second brother worked hard on Fang Xiang, so he rewarded Fang Xiang with this money."
The jade pendant returned to Fang Xuanling from Li Shimin. After this round, all the people here were extremely talented, and they all closed their eyes and started to think.
After a while, the few people opened their eyes and sighed, as if they all understood something.
Li Shimin said: "As Ping An said, only the money spent is money. Only by allowing the copper coins to flow in the hands of various merchants can I receive more taxes."
Wei Zheng also said, "I'm wrong, I'm wrong. It turns out that the wealth in the world is not fixed, but countless."
Changsun Wuji also muttered to himself: "It turns out that all kinds of materials produced are wealth, and copper coins are just a tool to measure wealth."
Fang Xuanling looked at Yi Fan and asked, "What King Ping'an means is that the real purpose of this money deal is to let all the dead money in the world flow again and make them generate value?"
Upon hearing this, Yi Fan couldn't help but praise: "The Fang Xiang is worthy of being the Fang Xiang, which hits the word. When the people store the remaining money in their hands in the money store, the court only needs to pay the people some interest, so that the people will be happy to store the remaining money in the money store.
In this way, the court can use these copper coins. The easiest way is to lend them to merchants who need money. But I hope you can use money to help the people become rich.
In fact, money trading is of great benefit to the state. For example, it can increase the cohesion of the people. When foreign enemies invade, because the people store money in money trading, they will inevitably strive to resist foreign enemies.
For example, can you judge the income of local people based on the savings of people in a certain place?"
Yi Fan taught a lesson to several big guys today, which made them worry a lot when they left.
However, Yi Fan was left in the palace by Li Shimin, saying that he wanted to sleep with him. This made Yi Fan feel chilled. When Yi Fan read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he knew that Liu Bei liked to play with this hanging, but he didn't expect that Li Shimin also...
(End of this chapter)
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Thank you, three.
Chapter completed!