The more you wear your sister

Chapter 37 If the tiger doesn't show off its power, you treat me as hellokitty

Of course, since the money has been earned, I have to work hard to spend it. I have chosen a house. Anyway, I have seen several places and I am not satisfied.

When the project started, the newly hired accountant calculated the budget for me, and I ordered someone to bring the remaining 5000 taels of silver in the warehouse to bribe His Highness King Ning.

"Why are you giving me money?" Yang Jue frowned.

"All I can earn now is thanks to the blessing of His Royal Highness Ning. A small thank you is not a respect, and I ask His Highness Ning to take care of you in the future." I said sincerely.

Chu Feng told me that when the prince wanted to ask me out, invite me, and send me things several times, I had to work harder to get rid of the suspicion of collaborating with the enemy and dispel Yang Jue's worries about me, so that I could hold Yang Jue firmly Jue's thigh did not let go.To achieve this effect, in addition to asking him for money and begging to be a rice bug, giving him money can also express the firm will of "I will be your person in life and I will be your dead person in death".

And to be honest, without King Ning covering it, I really dare not continue to make money everywhere in the name of a magic stick with such a big fanfare. Just for the "little thing" of spreading rumors last time, if he didn't take my place After being suppressed, the crimes are enough for me to go to the prison for a seven-day tour.

I had thought about how I should respond if Yang Jue refused to accept, but Yang Jue was Yang Jue after all, he was silent for a while and then smiled softly: "In that case, I will accept it with a smile."

I breathed a sigh of relief, but his next sentence made my heart lift again.

"Since Captain Chu came to your house, you have become much 'sensible'. You have become more and more respected to me." Yang Jue said in a flat tone.

Well, how can I answer this question?He should be able to feel that I am getting more and more defensive towards him, and then put this account on Chu Feng's head?How can that work!

I quickly said: "Nothing, I have always respected His Royal Highness King Ning." If I was alone, I would not be afraid of anyone if I was a bachelor, and I would not give the emperor's face, but now If I can run away, I can't run away from Chu Feng, so I have to deal with it carefully.

"Respect?" Yang Jue smiled helplessly: "I always think that you can be different from others... Anyway, just do what you want."

Why does this sound a bit resentful?

From the very beginning Yang Jue has been playing the card of warmth, trying to approach me as a friend, but ever since Chu Feng reminded me of his tricks several times, I just want to maintain the purest thigh-hugging relationship with him , became one of the countless leg hairs on King Ning's thick thigh.

If you want to use me, just use it, but forget about personal friendship, lest I accidentally trust him too much, and one day I will be sold by him and count the money happily for him.

"I heard that you are starting to build a new mansion now." Yang Jue avoided the unpleasant topic and began to talk about other things with me.

"Yes." I replied respectfully.

"There's one thing I can't figure out." Yang Jue said, "Your mansion is clearly in the west of the city, but you go far and near to dig stones from the hillside outside the north gate. Why?"

"The stone on that mountain has spiritual energy." I lied and said without blinking.

But Yang Jue still kept his gaze bright: "Tell the truth."

I had no choice but to tell the truth: "Because I have a lot of money."

"……how do I say this?"

"I heard that there are many refugees who escaped from the flood outside Luoyang City. Because the land is flooded, there is no harvest this year anyway. Many refugees have not returned to their hometowns and stayed outside the city to receive relief from the government. The government is afraid that the refugees will make trouble. , had to continue to give them porridge. Although it was only a clear soup with little water, it could not bear the large population. It had to eat a lot of food in the official warehouse every day. If it continued like this, the official warehouse would be eaten up. After all, there is not enough to eat, and many people starve to death despite eating relief."

"It's true." Yang Jue nodded. He heard that the prince would also help his father with many political affairs, so he knew everything about what happened at the door of his house.

"Didn't I earn some money? Anyway, I can't spend it all, so I want to use it to do some charity work to help the refugees outside the city. But if I just buy rice and noodles to distribute to them, it won't last long. As the saying goes, emergency relief does not help the poor. If the refugees get into the habit of getting something for nothing and waiting for relief, it will be detrimental to their future livelihood. It happens that my house needs a lot of stone, so I hired the refugees to carry it for me from the north of the city. , In this way, what they get is labor remuneration instead of charity, which is not only enough to feed their whole family, but also save some money and grain to go home for the New Year. From digging to moving, a lot of manpower is needed, even if it is Old and weak women and children who do not have the strength to carry stones, so many workers need to eat, someone must cook, someone must wash dishes and pick vegetables, someone must cut firewood and light the fire. The refugees have jobs and income, so they don’t have to sit and eat all day When you die, you won’t cause trouble. This trick is called work-for-relief.”

"Relief with work...it's really interesting." King Ning nodded slightly.

"In addition, I heard from Chu Feng that the small hill called Mantou Mountain was originally relatively close to the city wall. After an earthquake decades ago, it suddenly rose several feet, and it was already higher than the city wall at the north gate. When the enemy invades the city, it will be taken advantage of by the enemy. The court has long wanted to shovel that mountain, but it has not been able to allocate money. So I let out the word that the mountain is a place where underground spiritual energy gathers, because it cannot be suppressed. The aura of living underground will suddenly rise a few feet, and every rock has aura. If I am the first to take stones from there to build a house, everyone will follow suit. I have hired a group of stonemasons to cut stones for sale there. For those who need it, there is a tendency that the supply is in short supply these days, as long as this head is opened, within a few years, that mountain of steamed buns will be dug into a lake of steamed buns, believe it or not.”

Yang Jue laughed when he heard this: "In that case, I have to ask my father to reward you."

"There is no need for rewards. If His Royal Highness Ning Wang has the heart, it is better to persuade the emperor to invest some money and continue the work-for-relief. After all, even if my house is repaired, the amount of work is very limited. There are a large number of refugees who continue to have no work, and can only live on porridge twice a day. Instead of spending so much money to relieve them, the imperial court should start more projects. I think the roads in Luoyang are also easy to repair. Road repairs After the city wall is finished, it can be repaired, and the moat can be dug deep after the city wall is finished, and a four-lane super wide road from Luoyang to Chang'an..."

I gestured enthusiastically, and Yang Jue couldn't help but smile: "You really have a lot of ideas, but the court has been stretched these years, and it really can't afford such a big project."

I scratched my head in embarrassment: "I can only talk unrealistically. Or it can be like this, borrow money from big households in the name of the court, and when the road is repaired, set up a card on the road to collect money to repay the debt. The debts of the big households. With such a safe and fast channel, I believe the merchants are still willing to spend the money to buy the road.”

"There's some truth in saying that, is there any more?" Yang Jue looked at me humbly asking for advice, the look in his eyes that wanted to dig out all the private goods in my belly was very familiar.

"No, I don't know much." I think I'm showing off a little too much. Labor and management don't study economics. Besides, how to govern the country is your own business, you old foxes. "But there is one thing I always feel It’s very strange, why do you rank merchants at the bottom of the list in terms of social status? Since the Tang Dynasty, there has never been a place where business travel has developed. Although merchants seem to only transport things from one place to another In places, buying low and selling high does not increase the number of things, but actually plays a key role in the circulation of money and goods. With circulation, the economy will develop and the country will be strong."

Yang Jue nodded: "You are right. Countless sages and emperors throughout the ages may not have thought of such a simple truth. But they still insist on the principle of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, and spare no effort to suppress the status of businessmen. Do you know why this is?"

"Yes." I nodded honestly.

"Because businessmen are the most difficult to manage." Yang Jue said, "Farmers only know how to plan food on their own one-third of an acre of land, keep their own place, have a simple mind, and are the easiest to control. Businessmen don't have a long-term vision and only focus on short-term interests. For the sake of visible petty profits, they can do it even if they harm the country and the people, support the enemy's rebellion, or smuggle weapons and horses to the enemy's country. When their wealth and lives are at stake, they still don't realize the crime of coveting small profits and endangering the country. The harm of small businessmen is already like this, and the big businessmen are even richer and richer. They even dare to compete with the government and the court. , not hesitate to interfere in government affairs and bring harm to the country. Therefore, countless monarchs throughout the ages, knowing that supporting commerce and trade can make the country rich, but dare not take the risk of accommodating traitors and watching them grow bigger."

I nodded with half understanding. Could this be the legendary conflict between feudal monarchy and capitalism?For me, who is just a freshman, this question is a little more profound: "Then why did the reign of Zhenguan and the prosperity of Kaiyuan still appear?"

"If the monarch is courageous enough, he will be able to control these people, allowing businessmen to play their role without becoming a hidden danger that will harm the country."

I looked at him: "Then do you have enough courage?"

Yang Jue just laughed: "Since you have told me so much, why do you still ask this question?"