Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3261 The reason is that the poor don’t work hard

Guan Ning is still a little younger. He was a bit lacking in experience. Faced with a situation like this in Fan Mansion, although he knew something was wrong, he couldn't figure out what the problem was for a while.

After Tian Yu received the news, he came quickly with a few people.

Guan Ning greeted Tian Yu in front of Fan Mansion with some shame.

"I've seen Tasaji. 』

Tian Yu got off his horse, waved his hand, strode towards Fan's house, and asked, "Have you found everything in the barn?" No money or artifact found? 』

Guan Ning said, "I've found them all." I even found the secret way for Fan's escape... I am so incompetent... I am ashamed, I am ashamed..."

"This is not the time to talk about this. Tian Yu said in a deep voice, "The Fan family has long been trading with the Qiang people, Di people, etc., and has made a lot of profits. How can it be possible that they only have old grain, old cloth, and a few coins?" 』

Guan Ning also nodded, "The people from the inspection office also said the same thing. They saw gold and silver moved into Fan Mansion... But now there are only some gold and silver coins, and the quantity is not large. This is different from the previous information..."

Tian Yu snorted, "It must be hidden somewhere." Have you asked the people in Fan Mansion if they have given a confession? 』

Guan Ning said: "I asked...Fan's servants said they had seen money being carried to the inner courtyard, but they could not find it in the inner courtyard...And the people in Fan's inner courtyard either said they didn't know, or they said the money was Those in the warehouse..."

"Haha..." Tian Yu smiled and continued walking inside without saying anything else.

In fact, under severe torture, some people will inevitably be unable to bear it and say something. But in this way, it will inevitably have a flavor similar to the fortune-telling orders during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty...

Suan Min can be said to be a great pioneering work of the Han Dynasty in collecting property tax, but it is a pity that it could not go further.

The key is that at the beginning, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was not looking at Suu Min.

In the wrong direction, what was originally a very good tax rate system that can be said to be the first in the world to regulate wealth and poverty at the national level eventually evolved into a tool for corrupt officials to get rich...

To put it simply, suanmin means levying property taxes on big businessmen and loan sharks. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty stipulated that merchants should pay a tax for every 2,000 yuan of property, which is a verbal calculation. 2,000 yuan will have to pay 120, and the tax rate is 6%. For the property of handicraftsmen, there is a reduction or exemption. If they are merchants, the tax will be aggravated.

This actually has some meaning to tax regulation in later generations.

This tax rate is actually not very high, and it is basically indifferent to ordinary people. It should have been a good attempt, but the key point is that when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Tang, Sang Hongyang and others formulated the Suan Min Order, they must not have been thinking about adjusting the gap between the rich and the poor, but thinking about "telling the Min Order." 』

So the people went crazy.

The fortune-telling orders and the suing-min orders make wealthy businessmen understand that they are also fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered in the face of power.

So the businessman couldn't beat it, so he joined.

Therefore, in China, starting from the Han Dynasty, businessmen, bureaucrats, and landlords gradually merged, intensifying the seizure of power from the people. Officials and businessmen gradually became the routine of the feudal dynasty, and manor enclosures to keep people captive became the mainstream economic model in China. Eventually, a classic and deep-rooted model of collusion between officials and businessmen was formed in the Chinese feudal system.

There is nothing wrong with this bad debt being said to be Liu Che's bad start.

Now, Fei Qian wants to remove this part of the carrion.

To rectify the "four people", we must first rectify the "officials".

In the feudal dynasty, the upper beams were not straight and the lower beams were crooked. They only required those below to be hard and simple. As a result, each superstructure became more greedy than the last.

Fortunately, both Guan Ning and Tian Yu were relatively upright, otherwise they would have directly recorded millions of dollars without any ambiguity just by twisting their mouths or relaxing their hands a little.

Tian Yu said as he walked inside, "My lord has said that the business of merchants is the blood of the country." The way of trade is not only about wealth and goods, but can also safeguard the country and the people. In the past, the Xia Hou clan opened markets, the Yin people focused on commerce and travel, and the Zhou officials established city officials, all of which used merchants as the basis for consolidating the country. 』

"But merchants should be orderly." If its order is lost, the people will be trapped in poverty and disease; if it is advantageous, the country will be peaceful and the people will be safe. Therefore, right laws are as indispensable to merchants as craftsmen are to rules. Nowadays, the Fan family does not take morality as the basis, but only pursues profit, so the disadvantages are also serious. Therefore, we now use clear laws and regulations to regulate merchants, so that trade can be orderly and avoid chaos. 』

"There are businessmen in Guanzhong who are greedy and obscene, but there are also people who are honest and trustworthy." It is your responsibility and my responsibility to use correct guidance and legal restraint to keep Jia in order and on the right track. In this way, the flow of a river is irreversible, and the flow of a hundred grains returns to the barn. If this can be done, then the world's wealth will naturally flow, and the country's wealth and strength, and the people's happiness, will all come from this. 』

Guan Ning cupped his hands and said, "What Zuo Shi said is true." 』

Tian Yu nodded, looked at Guan Ning, and said emphatically: "Fan's family today is following the rules and should be handled properly." 』

Tian Yu obviously has much more to do than Guan Ning.

Guan Ning apologized quickly.

When Mrs. Fan saw Tian Yu coming, she howled again.

Tian Yu didn't lose his temper. He waited until the howling voices of the Fan family subsided, and then said in a deep voice: "If you tell me honestly, you may be able to get a lighter sentence, but if you persist in obsessing, your crime will be increased." 』

Fan Ling smiled miserably and said, "That's nice to say!" It’s nothing more than exploiting good people to use as military resources! 』

Tian Yu laughed and said, "It's okay to use military qualifications, but if you're a kind person, that's not necessarily the case!" 』

Pang Tong and Xun You's strategies always follow one another.

The war with Cao Cao has reached this point, and a winner is about to be decided. So after victory, will a lot of money be needed to repair the damaged areas and restore original production and life? Do you need a lot of money to pay for the soldiers' recuperation, pensions, and rewards for their meritorious service?

Money cannot fall from the sky, so the pigs raised "years ago" are now time to be slaughtered.

Tian Yu did not mince words about this matter, "Take your ill-gotten wealth and use it for the sake of people's livelihood. Only then will you be able to fulfill your righteousness!" 』

Since both the Information Department and the Inspection Office said they found Fan carrying gold and silver, they must be at home, but they don’t know where they are hidden...

"Has the pool gone down yet?" Tian Yu stopped paying attention to Fan Ling. After checking around, he pointed to the ornamental pool in the backyard and asked.

Guan Ning nodded, "I went down and sent someone to touch it. Except for some rocks, flowers, grass and carp, there was nothing else?" 』

"Bring those "stones" up. ” Tian Yu ordered directly.

Guan Ning was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, "Zuo Shi, you mean..."

"That's not all," Tian Yu glanced at Guan Ning, "Have you ever seen these guys hiding their tricks..."

In addition to the open warehouses and warehouses, the methods used by these wealthy households to hide their wealth are actually numerous various types of secret cellars, as well as various unimaginable methods. Hiding silver in the form of pebbles in a pool is just a common trick, and it's far from a big deal.

Entering Fan's barn, some old coins, grains, grains, etc. have all been cleared out. It seems that the barn is empty, as if there is nothing, only a few pillars supporting the beams.

Tian Yu walked from the left to the right, then walked back from the right, walked around the barn, and then stood in front of a pillar, thoughtfully.

Guan Ning also stood beside Tian Yu and looked up at the pillar.

This pillar looks very ordinary, nothing unusual, and it doesn't look much different from the other pillars in the warehouse.

Tian Yu reached out and knocked on the pillar.

The sound is similar to wood.

"snort. Tian Yu smiled, reached out and pulled out the sword from the soldier on the side, and slashed it on the pillar.

Sawdust was flying, but soon some yellow color was revealed.

Everyone groaned and came up to take a closer look. It turned out that the inner core of this pillar was actually made of brass.

"This thing is not easy to make..." Tian Yu pointed at the pillar and said, "It takes a lot of work, including wrapping and painting... But once it is set up like this, even if a thief comes, they can't take it away... So It’s called thief’s sorrow..."

Guan Ning said oh, and then his eyes fell on several other pillars.

"That's right, there are a few pillars here..." Tian Yu smiled, "You also need to know some knowledge about house construction to raid a house... Does such a warehouse need so many pillars?" 』

The soldiers who were watching the inspection immediately turned to other pillars, and began to peel off the outer skin of the pillars, revealing the true face of Lushan one by one. All the copper materials were either brass, red copper, or bronze.

"For four hundred years in the Han Dynasty, coins were minted privately, and they were banned repeatedly. Why?" Tian Yu said with emotion, "These are the guys..."

The young master of the Han Dynasty is equivalent to Yang Ma in later generations.

As soon as the young master released the water, those who drank the milk were not ordinary people, but the gentry, squires, and wealthy businessmen. The common people had to endure the misery of diluting the milk, and even their own blood was poured onto it!

This is a traditional performance of the Chinese feudal dynasty.

With so much copper material, how many copper coins can be cast?

If General Fei Qian of the Hussars had not improved the technology of making copper coins and strictly controlled Huang's workshop, strictly prohibiting the outflow of craftsmanship, many of these copper pillars would have turned back into real wood...

Not only that, Tian Yu also pried up a few square bricks from the ground and used a knife to clean the oxide layer on the surface. The originally black and inconspicuous bricks immediately revealed a silvery light.

Now the soldiers and inspectors were all in high spirits, prying up the bricks one by one from the warehouse.

Some bricks are ordinary bricks, but others are not.

Soon, the silver bricks that had been scraped out of the silver were stacked very high.

There are even a few lacquered gold bricks.

The color of gold and silver is so bright that it makes people dizzy.

It was an eye-opener for everyone. Many soldiers and inspectors were sighing while inspecting. It was really an eye-opener.

"Jia is honest and fair. Business travel, goods circulation, and wealth gathering. The way of merchants can make everything in the four directions get their own places, and it can also make the country rich and the blood flowing. Tian Yu picked up a silver brick, weighed it, and threw it back. There was a clanking sound, and he said with emotion, "Now that I see a thief like Fan, he has accumulated so much money privately, and his wealth is blocked by the land. It's really a state." This is a disaster for the country! 』

"Husband's money should be used for communication. If it is stagnant, it will be blocked. If the country's connections are blocked, how can the people not be trapped?" If this kind of money is blocked in the ground, it means that the blood is not flowing smoothly. How can the country survive? Similar to Fan's case, the money accumulated privately and the wealth blocked by the land are the disasters caused to the people and the country. Now by checking this thief, we can unblock the stagnation and unblock the blockage, so that money can flow freely throughout the world, wealth can flow everywhere, the place can be prosperous, and people's livelihood can be peaceful..."

Tian Yu was very emotional when he said this, but for Fan, seeing the hidden gold, silver and copper being brought out was like tearing out the heart and lungs, tearing out the intestines, and he immediately screamed.

Fan Ling was also kneeling tremblingly, with tears streaming down his face. The first thing he thought about was not that his guilt had been proven, but that it was over, the Fan family was over! The efforts of many generations of Fan family ancestors are now all in vain!

Seeing the gold and silver bricks piled up like a hill, a young man named Fan who was kneeling in the courtyard among the crowd couldn't help but yelled and cursed quickly and quickly, "No!" don't want! This is all my family's money! My family's money! You bastards, these thieves, what are you? How dare you come to rob our family of money! You unfamiliar dogs only know how to rob money and rob..."

"You evil beast!" Shut up! Fan Ling yelled, then turned to Tian Yu and Guan Ning and said, "You two Shangguan, please don't take these evil words to heart...little, little..."

Tian Yu waved his hand, then stared at Fan Ling, "It's useless... You must still have money that hasn't been confiscated, so that's why you let that person deliberately anger and disturb Yu... Where is it hidden?" cellar? 』

Fan Ling was stunned for a moment, then his expression changed.

"Haha," Tian Yu smiled, "As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three holes. There is indeed one in the cellar, but there is at least one place... For example, um... I heard that you started to believe in Buddhism in the fourth year of Taixing? so……"

Guan Ning understood and asked people to go to the Buddhist hall to check carefully.

"No! No no no! ” Fan Ling suddenly jumped up like a fish that had been thrown ashore, his nose and tears suddenly burst out, and he roared angrily, “You are waiting for the bandits! You are poor because your parents are not diligent! Our wealth is due to the diligence of our parents! Now you lazy people are here to steal our wealth. Where is the justice? ! Where is the way of heaven? ! 』

When Tian Yu heard this, he laughed loudly and said, "You are nothing more than that!" Merchants are greedy and always prove that the money they get is reasonable. But they don’t know that the poverty in the world is not equal to diligence, but is uneven! 』

"A husband's wealth is the public weapon of the world." Tian Yu pointed to the gold, silver and copper, "Are these gold and silver utensils all dug in the mountains and refined in the fires by the Fan family?" If there is a penny or a tael that a descendant of the Fan family dug by themselves in the mountains or mines, or who personally refined it in water and fire, I will give it back immediately! 』

The people of the Fan family were stunned. Those who felt moved did not dare to say anything.

Because everyone knows that although there are many people in their family, no one works or digs with their own hands, and is a miner who is half exhausted to death. Instead, he is a pampered miner with skin as delicate and fair as jade.

But those diligent miners, all of whom are clearly in their thirties or forties, look like they are in their fifties or sixties. They suffer from all kinds of illnesses but have no money and have been impoverished all their lives.

More work, more reward, huh?

Slogans alone are not as loud as fart noises.

"Under the old system of the Han Dynasty, wealth was uneven and there was a great disparity between the rich and the poor. This was the source of bad governance. Tian Yu said loudly, "Some people return to their hometowns with riches and fine clothes; some people are in rags and don't have enough to eat." Is this a natural principle? Is this what the great Han wants and where the way of heaven exists? 』

"No!" Tian Yu's voice was like rolling thunder, resounding in the sky above Fan's house, "Since you know there are shortcomings, you should change it!" The Lord wants the diligent to gain more and the lazy to gain more. This is the way of the world, and it is also the virtue of a great man! Those who are obstructing should be killed! 』

Businessmen always have to find a rationale for having a lot of wealth.

Effort theory is a very suitable reason that is common and new among poor people's theories.

Just like after the big bear falls, there are always some scavengers who have acquired huge wealth through various means. At this time, they urgently need to find a reason for the rationality of their wealth. This is the capitalist remedial theory, which believes that social development cannot If they skip one of the links, their wealth is given by the laws of social development.

Listen, this is a reward from God!

It has nothing to do with the seniors.

All the comments made by these big bear children completely deny the reasons for their parents to make trouble.

Later, the privatization of Daxiong has been completed for a long time, the polarization has been very fixed, and the number of wealthy groups has also spread to a small group of bottom people who have taken advantage of opportunities to rise. The theory of wealth legitimation began to adopt this so-called effort theory. Come explain.

After all, if once you are brainwashed and you really accept this theory and think that the poor are poor because they don’t work hard, then it’s really the fault of the seniors who didn’t make a fuss...

As long as you work hard and you can really get rich, then there's really no need to make a fuss, right?

It costs nine thousand a day to set up a stall, and one million a year to buy cakes.

As for those migrant workers who are hungry and full, and have worked hard to eat since they were young, but in their fifties and sixties, they still have to work hard with pain all over their bodies...

Sorry, where are you?

The lens cap is not open.

The reason why these rich people like to laugh at the poor for not working hard is because this theory is very confusing, but they dare not laugh at the poor because they are poor because they are not united, because they all know that if the poor really unite, they will die. …

Fan screamed and said that all this money was earned by their ancestors for generations, but now when Tian Yu asked them to tell them how they earned it and what method they used to obtain it, they just groaned and were speechless.

There are many things that cannot be studied deeply, and it will really kill people if they study deeply!

Fan and others were still trying to quibble, but they saw Guan Ning coming from the backyard with someone, "Come on, this thief actually cast gold and silver into Buddha statues, tables, memorial tablets... It's really amazing..."

Fan Ling felt as if someone had grabbed his throat all of a sudden, his face turned blue and purple, and then he let out a cry and tried to pounce forward, but was held down by the soldiers, who yelled at Tian Yu and Guan Ning. There are endless stories of being raised by non-human servants...

Tian Yu didn't take it seriously, "Everyone is registered... When the time comes, there will be a special session for Fan at Qinglong Temple..."

Guan Ning naturally agreed.

Seeing that things were almost done, Tian Yu took the others and left first, coming in a hurry and leaving in a hurry, without even taking a sip of water.

Guan Ning was very grateful and personally sent Tian Yu out of the door. Then he stood there and watched Tian Yu and his entourage go away. After a while, he suddenly asked someone to bring in pen and ink, took a piece of wood and started writing. , "To gather the people of the world, one must not be without wealth; to gather the wealth of the world, one must not be without righteousness." If you manage the wealth of the world with justice, you must not be unequal in the transfer of work and rest, you must not be unreasonable in the amount of expenses, you must not be uncontrolled in the presence or absence of bribes, and you must not be unscrupulous in the importance of gathering and dispersing power. ...』

The inspectors on the side were stunned...

"What's the business?" Hi, Guan Eng! ” shouted the patrol inspector.

Only then did Guan Ning wake up. Now it was either time to write a summary, or he smiled slightly awkwardly. He habitually put the pen in his mouth and clicked it, then inserted it into the pen holder, grinning with two or three black teeth. , "Yes, yes, let's do business first!" 』

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