Uncle Li didn't tick it, but was touching his beard and laughing at me. How could he not understand Uncle Li's meaning? He laughed dryly and said, "My father-in-law is wise. Of course, there are other things, such as various workshops. Dad-in-law, don't underestimate these workshops. The profits obtained by these workshops alone have exceeded the tax revenue of Shangzhou. There is no such thing as the people's various circular ecological breeding farms.

Speaking of which, it was His Majesty’s contribution to business. Moreover, after donating money to build a school, the merchants in Weinan also built 17 stone bridges and 375 miles of cement roads in Weinan. In addition, they also set up Weinan Nursing Home in accordance with the situation of the Beginning of the Beginning and the Pujian Surgery House in Chang'an to take care of the elderly who are unsupported."

"Oh? Is this actually happening?" Uncle Li's eyes lit up and looked at Li Zhi next to him. Li Zhi nodded: "Father, Master, there is no false statement. Just at the end of last year, the son and minister accompanied the master to attend the opening ceremony of the Weinan Nursing Home. Currently, thirteen elderly people in Weinan County are all lonely and widowed. Two elderly people are arranged in each room, and full-time people are provided to take care of them. In addition, some books, chess and cards are stored in the nursing home to facilitate the elderly to be lonely in the courtyard..."

In fact, the country has been doing these things for a long time. The Tang Dynasty law stipulated a special "supply service stewardship" system, which is about the elderly over 80 years old. The government arranges a person to take care of him, two people over 90 years old, and five people over 100 years old. The government arranges these service stewards without labor service, so that they can concentrate on caring for the elderly.

Now that corvee service has been abolished, I naturally cannot take the initiative to provide for the servants. After consulting with the local gentry, I also obtained their approval, so the government supervised it. The local gentry paid for it and specially built the nursing home in Weinan. The orphans stayed in one piece, and some people could talk, and they could play cards and other things. After concentration, it was easier to save manpower. In addition, local gentry and businessmen contributed, which greatly increased their favor among local people and scholars. At least in the eyes of more than 100,000 people in Weinan, they all gave thumbs up at all what the merchants in Weinan did. Unlike other places, when they heard about merchants, they still had a shame and a gang.

We are not bragging, this is the benefit that the gentry and businessmen in Weinan themselves realize. In addition, through this series of actions, businessmen themselves realize that investment with small profits can reap richer returns. Whether it is in the cultivation of talents or the acquisition of reputation, they understand that businessmen are also part of society. Giving themselves confidence and giving others confidence to trust them.

Uncle Li nodded frequently when he heard this: "Very good. Great good! My Tang Dynasty governed the world with benevolence and filial piety. I have always mentioned benevolence and filial piety since the historical records of China. The Book of Rites. King System also records: The Xia Hou family raised the country's old age in the East and the common people's old age in the West; the Yin people raised the country's old age in the Right School, and the common people's old age in the Left School. In order to ensure that the elderly have descendants to support their elderly and see their children, the Northern Wei pioneered the system of raising their parents, and our Tang Dynasty has always used it. These merchants can share the worries of the country and benefit the local area with good virtue, which makes me very happy."

"Well, now I am like a businessman, and I have been pursuing profits all day long, hahaha..." Uncle Li laughed. Li Zhi next to him was also laughing apologized. I poked him with my finger. Li Zhi suddenly woke up and said with a righteous thought: "The profits my father pursued are for my Tang Empire, and for the people of the world. It is his father's wisdom that has created the current Zhenguan prosperous era, expanding the territory for thousands of miles, and the national football team is prosperous..."

Uncle Li smiled, very happy, and looked at Li Zhi with a very kind look. Because Li Zhi's words just scratched his itch, and promoted Uncle Li from a moral corrupt, and from an old profiteer who was excellent and time traveling through time all day, he was to a sage model who was crying for the people and the country. How could Uncle Li not be happy?

Uncle Li took a deep breath and stood up: "I advocated business and business and promoted reforms, but I am not just for the people of the Tang Dynasty and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty forever. No farming is unstable, no work is rich, no business is alive. But some people always think that I am digging their life roots, and always think that I am pumping their backbone..."

Uncle Li complained that it was not without cause. At least in the eyes of aristocratic families, suppressing the industrial and commercial class was in line with their fundamental interests. However, Uncle Li now needs to weaken the literati class and attack the power of the clan family. Therefore, Uncle Li strongly promoted a series of actions such as promoting industrial and commercial, imperial examination reform, military reform, and tax reform.

Merchants are profit-seeking, merchants are shameless, merchants are vulgar, and merchants are despicable. In short, in the long evolution of feudal history, feudal landlords and states have relied on rent and taxes and corvee, and the small peasant economy is very suitable for their exploitation form. The characteristic of this "focus on the foundation and suppress the end" policy is to emphasize the small peasant economy under feudal production relations. In other words, it is to lower the status of merchants to prevent the outflow of agricultural labor and resolve the contradiction between natural economy and commodity economy. The above can be said to be the first reason for the emergence of the "focus on the foundation and suppress the end" policy. Merchants have always been under the dual suppression and blows of politics and economy, and thus have produced a complex anti-business idea.

However, they had to admit the realistic meaning of the existence of merchants, because they did not want to run around the streets with their butts naked. They also hoped to wear gorgeous silk, drink fine wine, eat Shanghai food, or use exotic spices. Moreover, they could also obtain material benefits that could not be obtained by collusion with merchants by their mouths and articles in their hands, which in turn made the ruling class and scholars' attitude towards merchants: both hatred and love.

So since the Qin and Han dynasties, what businessmen represent is the darkest side of the world. What is the reality? In the darkness, there are a group of nobles who are responsible for their own family interests, officials who care whether their own power can be further improved, and those scumbags with human skin and blood sucking people's mouths full of benevolence, righteousness and morality!

However, they are those in power. When the people in power control public opinion, the people will listen to whatever they say. Over time, they will form a vicious discrimination against merchants.

To be honest, most businessmen just hoped to support their families or have rich families at the beginning. However, the status of the literati and bureaucratic class undoubtedly surpassed the merchant class, and their exploitation and exploitation of merchants is a real record in history. This social background naturally intervened and influenced the behavior of the merchant class.

This adverse effect of external factors always causes the psychology of businessmen to be disturbed by unsafe expectations. They do not know what actions the bureaucracy above them will do that are unfavorable to their own operations, which leads to their own behavior adjustments. Perhaps this impact will not immediately deviate from businessmen's compliance with integrity, but they are no longer optimistic about the prospects of their careers.

Therefore, what I have to do in Weinan is to improve the reputation of merchants, control the excessive exploitation and exploitation of merchants by officials and scholars, so that they can correctly recognize their own value, and make the entire society realize the role of merchants in national factors, and thus affect the country's view on industry and commerce.

After all, people seek benefits and avoid harm, and moral integrity that transcends their own interests will not be permanently vital. The insecurity impact caused by the external environment on the actors will destroy the consolidation and maintenance of integrity. This is irresistible by the power of culture.

So, in my opinion, just being honest and willing to contribute to society is not enough to make them trust society and the country.

Because external factors are also at work, either making people abide by their own moral beliefs or making people deviate from them. The merchants in later generations are not the same as the combination of officials and businessmen? Isn’t it also the same as the collusion between officials and businessmen? What is the XX mining accident, the XX masses attack government agencies, why? Isn’t it because the interest groups colluded with officials and businessmen that harm the interests of most people?

Therefore, some people in later generations always say that the ancient social system was backward, the legal system was not fully established, and collusion between officials and businessmen caused trouble for the people's livelihood... In the eyes of me, an excellent time traveler who has experienced later and previous lives, he is just a 50-step laughter and a hundred-step man.

To make the people honest and businessmen honest, first of all, the country must be honest, and officials must also be honest. The upper beams are not upright, but they just ask the lower beams to be upright. This is a joke that is not funny, and it really makes people laugh at it.
Chapter completed!