New Shun 1730

Shi Shiyong knew what this meant, but he cursed in his heart: How is this gambling? According to you, if you have a gun in your hand, you can just grab it. Why are you betting?

After the emperor floated for a moment, he gave the dice cup and the like to Shi Shiyong.

"Since you have won, you might as well go and bet a few hands with Mr. Xingguo. By the way, tell him my understanding that you must win every time you gamble, so as to save him from stressing out and getting flustered."

"Bet him a few times and ask him to relax and talk to you. It will also be helpful for you to go to Hankou in a few days and find out how to do things."

Shi Shiyong thanked him, left the forbidden city, and took the dice cup to find Liu Yu.

Since the emperor had the order, he could only gamble a few games with Liu Yulai.

The two of them obeyed the emperor's order and after throwing a few games, Shi Shiyong asked: "My lord, your majesty said that we will definitely win this time, so you can rest assured. I am both the betting party and the banker, so I can't." I’ve heard of people losing like this.”

With a flick of his wrist, he threw out the number one pick and said with a smile: "In the market, this is the biggest. But if you have the ability, if you have to say this is the smallest, then you won't lose."

"We gamble, and if we want to make others happy, we will naturally be a little worse. After all, the rules are the most important."

"Now that I think about it, this is not my skill. What I am really capable of is that after opening the dice cup, I cast a first pick, but I cast a No. 1 pick. Then I said that the rules were changed and the first pick is greater than the No. 1 pick. One show wins. This Fang is called the master."

Liu Yu held up the dice cup and rattled it for a long time, without even making a single throw. He put the dice cup on the table and said with a smile: "Brother Shi, what you said is absolutely right. This is the old rule now. To change or not to change? Of course, it is the dealer who has the final say.”

"But, there is a difference between setting the rules before the dice is thrown and setting the rules after the dice are thrown."

"When you say 'willing to accept defeat', which word is the most important?"

Shi Shiyong didn't even think about it. He took the dice cup and shook it lightly, and replied casually: "It's the word 'convinced'. If I lose the bet, I will naturally be convinced. But if he turns out to be a cheat, he will naturally be chopped into pieces." Fingers.”

Liu Yu laughed and said: "That's right. So, rules are still very important. Only when the rules are set can you be the banker. People come to your place to bet every day, so you can win steadily. But if you break the rules, then you will be able to win. If you win once, it’s hard to say if there’s no one next time, right?”

The clattering dice cup stopped, and Shi Shiyong stopped his hand and said: "My lord, how can I say this... In my humble opinion, take the Salt Law as an example, since the Gang Salt Law has been abolished, this in itself is Change the rules. It’s just that you think it’s more fun under the new rules; but they think it’s still fun under the old rules.”

"In other words, you think that under the new rules, you have a better chance of winning; they think that under the old rules, they have a better chance of winning."

"Being the banker, of course, requires setting down the rules so that you can win steadily, not just once. But the key is who the rules should be directed towards. This is the big deal."

"There is a saying that may be a serious sin if you say it. However, the rules of the world are here. Whoever supports this rule will be allowed to take the throne. Therefore, before this dynasty, we had to equalize the land and avoid grain. Later, we had to protect the world. ”

"What is the world? I don't have much education, but I also know that the old master said, follow your heart and do not go beyond the rules. The world is the rules."

"To protect the world is to protect the rules. The rules of the body, hair and skin, the rules of the imperial examination, the rules of clothes, the rules of the land, the rules of salt. This dynasty protects the rules, so the people of the world let this dynasty take the throne."

"Under this rule, I am willing to accept defeat. The salt merchant has changed things back and forth many times, but the rules have not changed. No one is resentful, so I am willing to accept defeat."

"Now we have to change the rules...so things will be difficult."

What Shi Shiyong said is correct.

But Shi Shiyong was from Dashun, so he felt that it was the rule of the world. Dashun was the only one who had the ability to maintain this rule at that time, so he took the throne.

However, Liu Yu was not from Dashun.

Therefore, in his opinion, the rules in this world are actually not that complicated.

At least, what Shi Shiyong said, the rules of body hair and skin, this was obviously mentioned in a very important position by Leng Shengsheng after Dashun won, and this created a person who felt that these rules were very, very important.

However, in fact, Liu Yu knew that in another period of history, this rule did not actually have much power. At least the scholar-bureaucrats and landlords did not pay much attention to this rule.

Otherwise, many things will not make sense.

In fact, Dashun had no chance to engage in moral humiliation at all and hung a plaque saying "Weiguanzhong" in the enshrinement of the Hou Mansion.

Liu Yu took the dice cup with a smile, took out only one dice from it, and then said: "Brother Shi, follow the big rules and follow the small rules."

"Now, I will decide how to play. I said, with this dice, the one with a higher number will win, the one with a smaller number will lose, and the same number will be considered a draw."

"Then I just need to make sure I can throw a six, and I need to protect this big rule."

"Without this big rule, it would be a bit troublesome."

"I rolled a six here, and you rolled a five. I said six was bigger than me."

"My next roll was a six, but you rolled a three. I'll say six is ​​better than three."

"Then do you think the person next to you who is watching and hasn't made any bets yet likes to directly establish clear and clear rules?"

"I still like bits and pieces of small rules. Even if I gamble too much, these small rules can be summarized into a big rule. But in the end, this big rule was not established, which made many people murmur in their hearts."

"I thought, it seems like you win if you click the big one. But the dealer didn't say this. Who knows what the rules will be next time?"

Liu Yu picked up another dice and said: "In addition to the opening on my side, there is also a round on the side, but the rules on the side are very clear. There are big rules, there are small rules, and all the rules are clear. "

"Then tell me, are you going to gamble there? Or come to my place to gamble?"

Shi Shiyong looked at the two dice and said with a smile: "Of course I'll go there to gamble."

Liu Yu held his hand and said: "So, the key issue in this salt policy reform in Hubei is not whether I throw a six or they throw a five."

"Let's put it this way, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a six. And I'm pretty sure they're going to get a three."

"So, the key this time is to establish a big rule. This big rule is not for winning this time, but for more people to come to this table and place bets."

"This time in Hubei, Shang Yang of industry and commerce is standing up. It's about establishing big rules."

"Never play like Zhang Yi and bully Chu."

When Shang Yang mentioned the difference between Li Mu and Zhang Yi Chu, Shi Shiyong thought of Liu Yu's attitude all the time and suddenly said: "What the Duke means is that the table next to the table with clear rules is land? And this table of industry and commerce , the rules have never been clear, so the rich people go to that table to gamble, and very few people come to the industrial and commercial table to gamble.”

"As long as you sit on the bank and open the table, you are guaranteed to win. Therefore, setting rules and ensuring these rules are the only way for those who play the bank to win. Winning or losing as a banker has nothing to do with gambling skills or gambling capital?"

Liu Yu smiled and said: "Brother Shi, let me ask you something. You also know about the reform of the salt law that I want to carry out. But now the rules are crude and there are many loopholes."

"For example, there is a very obvious loophole. If I have money, I will buy all the salt. I won't eat it, and I won't sell it. I will make it impossible for others to buy salt. After all, Hubei does not produce salt, even if There are enough iron oxen in Huaibei to extract brine, and mountains of salt are produced, but it cannot be transported to Hankou for a while. "

"Of course, this loophole can be closed, and there are rules that don't allow it. But now, I deliberately didn't close this loophole, and they took advantage of this loophole and tried their best to buy salt and not let others buy salt. It leads to a lack of salt. I don’t care, so do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing?”

Shi Shiyong had read many books and knew that this matter was related to the famous controversy in the sixth year of Zhaogong.

If the punishment cannot be known, the power cannot be measured.

If the law is clearly written, then there must be people who are always trying to find loopholes in the law. According to that debate, this encourages everyone to be a bad person.

But Shi Shiyong knew that what Liu Yu said today had nothing to do with such a big topic.

In his opinion, Liu Yu didn't care about such a big matter at all, but had been thinking about letting capital go to industry and commerce instead of going to the land.

Although it is actually similar to the argument about the unknowable punishment, it is different.

Liu Yu said that Hubei's salt policy reform was a stepping stone for industry and commerce.

When it comes to casino operators and dealers who want to win money, they don’t need to gamble a lot or have good gambling skills. They only need to have a rule in place. If the dealer maintains this rule, they will win.

The fundamental logic of favoring agriculture and suppressing commerce must be viewed in conjunction with the long-standing idea of ​​“forbidding commerce and maintaining land.”

Businessmen accumulate capital too quickly, much faster than farming. Since land is privately owned and land is allowed to be bought and sold, how quickly can businessmen annex land?

This problem cannot be solved by Liu Yu.

He is very clear-headed. If he does not solve this problem, he will just tinker with it. He has tried his best and used hundreds of years of experience to ensure that at most he can guarantee a few industrial and commercial projects with higher returns than land investment.

And we must use all possible means to make use of the high profits gained by industry and commerce, instead of investing in annexing land to earn rent, which will lead to hanging street lights, and use all possible means to go out.

When Shi Shiyong was still thinking about it, Liu Yu said again: "There are some things that cannot be cured. The disadvantages of land annexation were discussed by many great scholars in the late Ming Dynasty. There is no need to talk about them again. After that, Yan and Li Zhixue also talked about equalization. field."

"However, there is a saying in "Huainanzi" that the way can be greatly beautiful and prosperous, but it is difficult to calculate and implement it. Therefore, the daily plan is insufficient, but the annual plan is more than enough."

"Land is just such a thing. Sometimes the income may not be high, and you may lose money this year, but on average, you will make money after all, which is so-called more than enough."

"And the rules on the land are very clear. There is nothing wrong with it. Even if you want to annex the land, you have to follow these rules."

"Under this general rule, buying land, lending money and retrieving land in disaster years... also includes setting fire to someone's land in autumn to make him borrow the land as collateral; digging water canals in drought days, leaving him with no harvest, and then Borrowing money to buy land. Wait, wait, no matter what method you use, let me ask you, do you have to recognize this land deed even after the founding of this dynasty? "

Shi Shiyong nodded, this was true.

There are many means of land annexation.

However, everyone recognizes the rules of land deeds. Even if Dashun rebelled back then, after Jiugong Mountain, this rule was still maintained. Although there were many slightly biased policies, this basic rule was absolutely recognized.

Only by recognizing this rule can we be qualified to talk to the gentry and landlords about the world and the Han people.

If you don't recognize this general rule, the result will be like the Fujian Tianbing soldiers who shouted "reduce rent and interest, and never change the tenancy" in history. The Han landlords and the Qing Tatar soldiers jointly encircled and suppressed them all, killing them all.

Under this rule, investing in land became the first choice.

So-called:

When the world's goods and wealth are accumulated, there will always be worries about water, fire, and thieves. The most precious and rare things are especially easy to cause disasters. Even if a commoner has ten gold coins, he cannot sleep soundly.

If you have land alone, you don't have to worry about water, fire, or thieves.

Even if there are strong and cruel people, they cannot compete for a single inch; even if you have a force of ten thousand kilograms, you cannot carry it.

Tens of millions of hectares can be worth ten thousand gold coins, and no one needs to guard it.

Even if there is war and chaos, people leave their hometowns, and when things are settled, they return home, and their houses and livestock gather, and nothing needs to be asked.

Only this piece of land, the surname Zhang still belongs to Zhang, and the surname Li still belongs to Li...

Is such a profound awareness unique to this place?

Not really.

After the bubble burst in 1720, some people in France also thought about it, and concluded that investing in industry and commerce is not as good as investing in land to preserve value. Industrial and commercial investment may explode, but land will not, and there will still be a piece of land in the end.

Of course, there are more reasons for Dashun to buy land, not just this one, but many other reasons, which are very complicated.

However, the land law and land deed are the relatively strictest laws and relatively most recognized deed, which is no problem.

With the great cause of "making the people permanent property", Funing County Land Reform did not dare to use the great cause of "making the people permanent property" to make fantasies such as thirty-year redemption.

Instead, Liu Yu set a trap and killed people with the serious crime of "withholding river workers' money". The land was distributed to the people after the house was confiscated.

Small farmers are petty bourgeoisie, they will not betray their class, and what they recognize is the legal rights under private ownership in the end, but they just hope that someone will pull down the people above them, but they absolutely do not support the change of the economic foundation and legal system under their feet.

Such an economic foundation has forged the most stable superstructure and moral law of Dashun.

That is, the most stable land deed and the relatively strictest land rules.

It's like two casinos.

On one side is land.

On the other side is industry and commerce.

The rules on the land side are very stable and very clear, so gamblers like to go there.

Although there are many problems for the development of Dashun's industry and commerce. However, a stable rule, a rule of willing to accept defeat, can also attract a little capital to industry and commerce.

Now Liu Yu really thinks that no matter how small a mosquito is, it is meat. He must do everything possible to pull capital to industry and commerce without daring to and being able to change the Dashun land system.

The bankruptcy of the big salt merchants will not make industry and commerce sad. Be willing to accept defeat.

The big salt merchants went bankrupt under the blows of the Dashun court's unwarranted seizure of property, and industry and commerce will be sad.

The general contractor of the salt guide is not a good bird, and Liu Yu did not think of talking to them about the rules. If he really messed up, he would not mind directly using the army.

But as long as he has not completely messed up, he needs to create an illusion: under the set rules, it is just willing to accept defeat, and I did not overturn the table.

If this illusion can no longer be created, he doesn't mind turning the table over and letting them taste the iron fist of the feudal empire. Because the transformation of Huainan industry is more important.

This is the same as the "open tickets and secret introductions" and "letting the right people get the right tickets" he did during the Huaibei salt reform.

He just created an illusion, as if there were clear rules, with the purpose of deceiving people to invest their money in industry and commerce.

As the saying goes, piled up soil makes a mountain. If you dare not touch the fundamental land issue, you can only use anything that is beneficial to industry and commerce, and this is not a mosquito meat.

If you really mess up and have to use the feudal iron fist, the capital accumulated by the Lianghuai salt merchants for more than a hundred years may not necessarily run to the emerging industry and commerce, but it is more likely to be scared and buried in the cellar and buy land if you can.