The night fell unknowingly, the heat of the day faded away, and the cool breeze came out from nowhere, gently brushing across the earth. In this season, the time when it was just dark was the most comfortable time of the day. The evening breeze blew, the moon was on the willows, and there were many pedestrians on the street, and the yells of vendors were heard one after another.

Xu Ping sat in the study and asked Xiuxiu to light up the kerosene lamp, took out a letter, and read it slowly.

This was a few days ago, he ordered Liu Han, Zheng Jian and Guo Zi to formulate the constitution of the Sansi Farm Service Craftsman Consumer Cooperative, and finally reported it today.

This is a big event, and in Xu Ping's mind, it is as important as the various major industrial and commercial measures of the Sansi. When the primitive economy of feudal society collapsed and the rise of capitalist commodity economy, the suffering and blood and tears brought to the lower class of the first countries, Xu Ping's previous life was very impressive from history textbooks.

Speaking of which, all of them are not brought about by capitalism instead of feudal society, but by the collapse of the natural economy of the commodity economy. It is just that capitalist social capitalists are in power and are desperate to speed up the accumulation of capital, which greatly aggravates this kind of suffering.

There is oppression and resistance. With the struggle of workers, the process of the latecomer countries was relatively eased. When the industry was developing greatly, North American workers lived better than European workers, and later Eastern European workers lived better than North American workers in the early industrialization. When East Asia entered the industrial society, it was no longer necessary to use human bones and blood as nutrients like the first few European countries that entered industrialization. They only had to use blood and sweat to water the roaring machines. A life of bleeding and sweating was not good, but it was a little better than the overcrowding of the bones next to the machine.

The arrival of the commodity economy is inevitable for the development of productivity and will not be transferred by human will. Xu Ping is very clear about this and he is also promoting it step by step in an orderly manner. The new business and shops of Sansi are a chain of industrial and commercial industries. Although it is still very difficult to operate now and whirring, the entire system has begun to operate.

The machine is always the most difficult to start. Once it is running, it will be greatly accelerated and it is even impossible to stop it easily.

At this stage, Xu Ping was very cautious and did not dare to take too much steps. He was afraid that once the machine began to run wildly, he would not be able to control himself and would drag countless people into it and become a flesh and blood mill.

While promoting the slow start of the commodity economy, Xu Ping can only do this. It is a very important thing that Xu Ping wants to do when he promotes the slow start of the commodity economy and takes various measures to prevent the harm brought by the commodity economy. He is a very important thing for him to do. He cannot eliminate poverty, but he can do his best to make the poor live and give them a beautiful hope. As long as he works hard, he can come to the forefront.

What is commodity economy? It is what you like, hate, respect, despise, and seek it but cannot be obtained, what you abandon it, your glory and dignity, your shame and misfortune, your love and hatred, and even every pore and every cell in your body will become a commodity for profit in the hands of merchants. As for blood and life, it is just the last commodity you can take out, the least valuable commodity.

No one wants to live in hell, and such a complete commodity economy will not last long. However, when the commodity economy first begins, everyone will fall into a kind of madness, and no manpower can stop it. Only before this madness is about to drag all people into the abyss will it have to stop.

Hundreds of years later, people may say that the man who started the era of commodity economy is a great man, because blood and bones have gone away from them. But how did Xu Ping face the decades of his life? If he saw that a child under ten years old died in front of the machine because of his release of the commodity economy monster, when he saw that the workers in the factory could not even survive for three years, when he saw the bones behind the glamorous world, how could he be at ease?

Chinese people emphasize that one yin and one yang is called Tao. If you do something, it will bring benefits and will inevitably bring harm.

The reason why saints are saints is that they have promoted the benefits and limited the harm.

For example, when digging river water to irrigate, Chinese people pay attention to opening canals and digging water, so that they can flow according to the channels they want. I have used the benefits of water, and I have prevented the harm of water. This is the benefit of the present and the future. But if I only think about how I want to use water now, dig up the river channel and let the flood rage, this is the harm for thousands of years.

Xu Ping is now carefully evacuating the water of the commodity economy, and digging canals with great effort. When the water is drawn out, it must flow in the digging channel, rather than becoming a major flood disaster that ruins the world.

It is one step for the Sansi to firmly grasp the backbone of the industrial and commercial chain, and it is another step for the people at the bottom to weave a net of self-rescue and self-help. One step is to attract and one defense, which is the canal dug by Xu Ping for this era.

The beautiful Central Plains, this land is too vast, the population is too dense, there are countless wealth here, and there are endless markets to develop. Once the capital class that focuses on profits has to squeeze every drop of blood here, until there is no need to squeeze it, it will expand into the surrounding barren land. There is no reason, it is only because of this that the maximum profit can be obtained and the cost is the smallest.

The moon had already poked its head out before the sun set. It had been half a day at this time. The moonlight that was sprinkled like water covered the earth and covered the stars in the sky.

Xiuxiu, who was doing needlework, occasionally raised her head and looked out of the window, staring blankly, without moving.

Putting down the needle and thread, Xiuxiu whispered: "Official, what are you thinking? Her blank look is a bit scary."

Xu Ping came back to his senses, put down the letter in his hand, and said to Xiuxiu: "Doessing nonsense, not blind thoughts, how can you think so trance? By the way, Xiuxiu, the court has already issued an order to grant Liu Xiaomei the Lady Lingxian. The emperor also wrote the temple to send it to Yongzhou."

"Sister Liu Xiaomei is a miserable person. After living for the rest of her life, she always thinks about others and never enjoys blessings. If she becomes a god and protects her, she will definitely be a good god. People in Yongzhou are blessed."

Xu Ping smiled and said, "I heard from people in Yongzhou that every time she appears, there is a girl following her. She has a golden body in the temple and is also worshipped by incense. Everyone says that the little girl is you."

Xiuxiu also laughed: "It's just a country man who is just a fool. I, the daughter of the Cattle and Sheep Si Muzi, has been with the official for a few years and has no knowledge. How could I get the incense?"

"Liu Xiaomei's background is so higher than you? If there is really a heavenly court, if it is really a god, it will definitely be the least important thing in terms of origin. Alas——”

"How do officials sigh? Gods are gods, how can they pay attention to their origins?"

"It is precisely because of this that you don't care about your origins and you also find good people to be a god. It's simply perfect. How can such a perfect thing exist in heaven and earth? So, the heaven does not exist after all, it's just a good wish of people."

Xu Ping sighed, Yes, based on his own experience, he is not qualified to doubt the existence of gods. But, if gods are so perfect, how can they exist? In the world, only imperfections can be eternal.

Xiuxiu smiled and shook her head, picked up the needle and thread again, and said, "The officials always say these things to me that I don't understand. You know that I have limited knowledge. People from Yongzhou follow me, but I am not because I am with the officials? The officials are ministers in the court, and no one dares to talk randomly, so they have to climb onto me."

Xu Ping looked at Xiuxiu with a smile on his face: "If you have limited knowledge, how could you have the demeanor to laugh it off when facing such a thing? If so, I hope that everyone in the world will have limited knowledge like you."

Xiuxiu smiled and just shook her head. She was already past the age of being ignorant and could really take it indifferently.

Seeing Xiuxiu starting to do needlework again, Xu Ping said: "You don't have to be busy all day long. This is because I'm sick. You came to the mansion to help. No one dares to say you or not, and no one is qualified to say you."

Xiuxiu put down the needle and thread again, looked at Xu Ping, and after a while, she smiled: "If I don't do some work, what can I do when I'm idle? I used to be with officials, I was young and ignorant, and I just played. I'll make up for it."

Xiuxiu was free at this time. This time she came to Xu Ping to think about her old relationship with her master and servant, and came to help. Although the Xu family also calculated her wages and was the highest-ranking one like Xu Chang, she was not hired after all. No matter what she did, no matter Zhang Sanniang or Lin Suniang could not say a harsh word.

For a long time, Xu Ping had never spoken to Xiuxiu like this. After leaving Yongzhou, Xiuxiu became less talkative and always looked full of worries. After living at home for a year, her personality became more cheerful.

Xu Ping looked at Xiuxiu and asked her: "Xiuxiu, do you think the people in Yongzhou are really grateful to me?"

"Of course, even when I was in Yongzhou, when I usually went out, the people were like officials and gods."

Xu Ping shook his head disapprovingly: "At that time, I was an official there, and many people's lives were held in my hands. They were afraid that they would not be able to say bad things about me?"

Xiuxiu laughed: "As an official pretended to be stupid? The imperial court has been established for more than 60 years. When did you hear that when the official left office, the people carried lanterns to shine on the road? For hundreds of years, I am afraid that there is only one official. I heard that when an official left, the elders in the village stopped him and refused to leave, and he was an amazing good official. Like the official, he left in a hurry, and he couldn't stop him and was too late to send you away on a rainy night-"

Speaking of this, Xiuxiu was a little confused when she remembered the past.

The official reputation is so good that when you leave, the elders of the village will stop you from leaving. Generally speaking, the court will take care of you and stay for one more term. Zhang Shixun once had such an experience, which is an extremely important experience in his career.
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