abnabooks Chapter 264 The Role Of The Merchant
Chapter 264 The Role Of The Merchant
"Master Shen Han, we still don't understand your method, can you explain it a little bit more clearly?" Daqin Left Prime Minister Li Si asked with some doubts, although Shen Han's words sound outrageous, but you know, Shen Han This person has always been very stable, he will not say something unreliable, and this time the basic national policy he mentioned may really bring about miraculous results!
Of course, Li Si didn't dare to make a judgment about the final result. After all, Shen Han's words were indeed sensational.
Shen Han took a deep breath, he knew that his idea was really shocking to Ying Zheng people!
You must know that the Great Qin Empire is a large agricultural country that mainly lives on farming. The reason why they have been emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business is also because of this reason. As long as agriculture is continuously developed, the common people will have food to eat. If business is developed If so, everyone will go to business, so who will go to farm?
In the eyes of these people, doing business is crooked, because they can get something for nothing. People like this are looked down upon by others, which is why Li Si proposed a policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business!
And it's not just Li Si who has such an idea. Historically, in ancient times, there was a basic national policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce, and it was the same in every dynasty (acdf). Because China is a big agricultural country, they must encourage development Farming can realize the eternal grand occasion of the people living and working in peace and contentment.
However, these people don't know that there are some disadvantages in such an approach. In addition, the Great Qin Empire has undergone earth-shaking changes, and they can no longer look at the current Great Qin Empire from the perspective of the past!
"Great Qin Di is a large agricultural country, so there is nothing wrong with developing agriculture. Have you ever thought that if you restrain commerce, it may restrain the development of our country?"
"Because we have built railways now. Although the railway network has not yet spread all over the country, as time goes by, railways are built all over the country, and the transportation will become very convenient! The common people grow a lot of food, but they They can’t finish it at all, if so, are they going to sell the food?”
"However, every household grows food, and other people are not short of food, so who should they sell this food to? Naturally, they have to sell it to merchants! With merchants, these things can be circulated!"
"The common people sell food to the merchants, and the merchants hand over the money to the common people, and the common people can use the money to buy what they need. This is the role of the merchants, and this is the importance of currency circulation!"
Shen Han uttered his theory, and everyone half understood it, but they also knew that the development of commerce was not as bad as they imagined, and even the development of commerce could bring recovery to the empire's economy.
Today's Great Qin Empire is already exhausted due to successive years of fighting, the reason why it has not collapsed is entirely because of the huge output of sweet potatoes and potatoes, which feeds all the people, so that they have food to eat, so that they will not starve to death .
After all, in the past, all the people of the Great Qin Empire could only eat two meals a day, and after having sweet potatoes and potatoes, they could even eat three meals and four meals. For them, this kind of life is already very happy. .