Chapter 406: Merchant circumstances!

"Hehe~! Boss Cao doesn't need to be polite~!"
Li Zexuan gave a imaginary hand, smiled courteously, and then said: "Boss Cao previously threw two thousand pennies to cheer for Qiquge's new-style carriage, and the day before yesterday he threw a thousand pennies and gave him hundreds of pennies at my wedding banquet. Luoyang Hong, hasn't this Lord thanked Boss Cao for his righteous deeds yet? What's the blame?"
Hearing this, Cao Wendong felt a little loose in his heart, secretly saying that the previous money was finally not in vain. With a good atmosphere at the beginning of the conversation, the rest of the matter will be easy to talk about.
"Lord Sir Don’t want to kill Cao, just a few thousand, to Sir Sir, I’m afraid it’s just a drop in the bucket. Besides, Cao really likes the new style carriage of the Strange Fun Pavilion, so he won’t hesitate to increase the price and put it in his pocket. , So I really can't deserve this thanks from Sir Alex Ferguson."
Cao Wendong bowed his hand and was polite to Li Zexuan. The ranks of the scholars, farmers, industry and commerce were strict, so he couldn't help but be rude.
Previously, he did intentionally "raise a hand" for Li Zexuan's new carriage in Qiqu Pavilion, but this kind of thing can't be said, otherwise the effect of "gift-giving" will be greatly reduced, and even counterproductive!
Cao Wendong, who has been at the bottom of society for so many years, still knows the officialdom very well.
Sure enough, Li Zexuan showed an unmarked smile on his face. Previously, he used to retreat as an advance, which really meant to test Cao Wendong.
Whether it is the initiative to raise the price of the new-style carriage of Qiquge or the extravagant act of giving thousands of peonies at the wedding, it is Cao Wendong's volition, not his Li Zexuan's insistence. If Cao Wendong "brings a good picture" because of this , Then Li Zexuan can only send off guests!
He is unwilling to make friends with this kind of people who are all scheming.
Fortunately, Cao Wendong's response made Li Zexuan quite satisfied, knowing how to advance and retreat, knowing the truth, knowing the current affairs, and he should be a handsome!
"Haha~! Boss Cao is really an open-minded person! However, in any case, Boss Cao did a great job at the wedding of the Lord. I am still grateful in my heart, but I don't know that Boss Cao came today. What's the matter?"
After a little bit of trial and error, after feeling that Cao Wendong was a pretty good person, Li Zexuan stopped bluffing and said straightforwardly.
"Uh~!"
Cao Wendong was stunned. Li Zexuan got to the subject faster than the officials he had contacted in the past. This is quite different from the current officialdom's general "subtle and euphemistic" conversation style!
"Going back to Sir Alex, I’m not telling you anything. The old man is here for one thing only, thinking that Sir Sir Alex can come forward and organize a chamber of commerce. The members of the chamber can cooperate with each other first. Sir Sir Alex’s scooters, drunk gods, Cao always wanted to cooperate with Sir Alex Ferguson with Wenrou Township, "Datang Daily" and all the books of Bizarre Culture, but he had no way to go, so he could only be anxious at home."
Now that Li Zexuan didn't make any rounds, Cao Wendong also decided not to chirp anymore, and he went straight to the subject and replied.
Li Zexuan raised his eyebrows in surprise. Cao Wendong asked him to cooperate. He could understand. After all, his business is monopolistic. Many people want to come in and get a share of the pie, but certainly not everyone is qualified to come in. . What surprised him was that Cao Wendong actually wanted to let himself come forward to organize a chamber of commerce. Does this guy want to do something?
"Why does Boss Cao think about forming a chamber of commerce~?"
Cao Wendong struggled for a while, and said, "Cao had had several business dealings with his father Li, but he didn't expect that there would be a young hero like Sir Alex in the Li family. In just a few months, he became my big brother. The man of the founding county of the Tang Dynasty, and he took on the important position of superintendent of the country, broke the iron rule that "merchants and businessmen cannot enter the DPRK as officials" all along!
"Cao and other businessmen have all worshipped, thinking that Sir Alex is the hope of our merchants, so Cao today boldly asked Sir Alex to lead us merchants to do something important to eliminate the dignity of the court and the people of the world. The prejudice of the businessman~!"
After Cao Wendong said, he held his fists and bowed to Li Zexuan. He kept his upper body in a 90-degree bend posture without getting up.
Li Zexuan was speechless. It was the first time that he had heard that merchants in the Tang Dynasty could not be officials. He had heard of the low status of ancient merchants before, but he didn't expect to be so low that it was owned by the entire world. The class is crowded out together!
According to historical records, the division of the four classes of scholars, agriculture, industry, and business came from the Spring and Autumn Period, when the state minister of Qi ruled the middle. He advocated dividing the people into four classes of scholars, agriculture, industry, and business, and living in fixed areas according to their respective professions. This specialized commodity economic model has been respected as the basic form and guiding principle since the Han Dynasty.
"Four people division of industry" on the surface is the inheritance of the ancient Yin and Zhou system, but in fact there is a big difference. The fundamental difference is that the "business" and "senior farmers" are placed side by side, and both are regarded as the "stone of the country". people". Therefore, Guan Zhong did not distinguish between superior and inferior, superior or inferior, at the beginning of the division of scholars, peasants, and business class ~EbookFREE.me~.
The ancient Chinese did not seem to be light businessmen. The Shang people who founded the Shang Dynasty in the Xia Dynasty were actually the earliest merchants. This is also the root of what we call businessmen merchants. During the Yin and Shang Dynasty, people were willing and good at doing business and engaged in manual manufacturing.
Later, when the founders of the Zhou Dynasty reflected on the lessons of the demise of the Shang Dynasty, they believed that the demise of the Yin and Shang Dynasty was because the people were keen on industry and commerce and the agriculture was deserted, causing the people to be impetuous and the national foundation unstable. policy. In the weekly system, the status of industrial and commercial workers became very low, and "baigong" was often juxtaposed with concubines (male and female slaves) in the status of slaves.
In the subsequent dynasties, as the rulers continued to suppress the merchants, the status of the merchants became lower and lower.
In the Qin Dynasty, merchants were not allowed to wear silk clothes even if they were rich and wealthy. In the Han Dynasty, merchants were not allowed to be officials, and handicraftsmen were "untouchables". Their property had to be declared to the court. If the declaration was false, the property would be confiscated. In the Tang Dynasty, merchants could not enter the dynasty as officials. It was not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties that the status of merchants changed. The Chinese businessman Xianyu succeeded.
Therefore, Li Zexuan's ability to obtain official status as the son of a businessman is really an unprecedented fluke. The main reason is that he has done enough credit, and Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin have always treated him as juniors, and are constantly promoting that. The second award, plus that he was a close disciple of the current superior Lingxu Zhenren, this identity almost completely cleared his identity as a businessman, and added a lot of impression points to Li Er, so he can have the present Baronship.
It can be said that his success cannot be replicated by the thousands of businessmen in Datang, and Cao Wendong is envious and envious~!
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