Fei Qian suddenly memorized a passage from the book.

Pang Tong seemed to have gained something and began to think deeply.

Emperor Xiaowu went out to the fortress five times to attack the Xiongnu. He lost many soldiers and ten war horses. Because of the lack of military expenditure, he punished merchants heavily and tricked the wealthy. Nine out of ten families were ruined and people died, which eventually backfired on him.

He said, what's more, the number of people who guarded Luntai in the Western Regions was only a few thousand, but they needed a large supply from the Han Dynasty and traveled thousands of miles to finance it?

Why? There is no business.

Sometimes Fei Qian finds it funny when he sees some documents and archives of the Han Dynasty. The Western Region is so big that it can't support thousands of soldiers locally. It also needs to transport food and wages all the way from the Han Dynasty?

Then the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty treated the emperor like a monkey?

Begging for food with the golden rice bowl of the Silk Road?

Are you really that poor, or are you just pretending to be so poor?

Before Feiqian, no one of the upper political figures of the Han Dynasty really wanted to completely ban all commercial activities, but at the same time few people paid attention to business. In the eyes of these people, businessmen were like slaves to the country.

Without such slaves, the house may be dirty and there will be no one to wash and cook, but no one really thinks that such slaves are so important that they must be encouraged and rewarded.

In addition, gentry children also have a natural hostility towards merchants.

On the one hand, he studied hard, recited history and scriptures, and used connections to win favors. He finally became an official and had to start from a small place. Even if he scraped land, he had to give it to his colleagues as tribute to his superiors. How long did it take to build up some wealth? On the other hand,

On the other hand, they watched the merchants take the caravans for several trips, and they became extremely rich.

How can I bear this?

Fuck him!

But if we put aside the resentment of the gentry children against the merchants, what effect did the merchants have on the small peasant economy?

For example, there is a poor mountain valley with no merchants, and its residents only know how to farm to feed themselves and weave hemp to keep out the cold. Then the fruits of their work are enough for their own family, and the rest of their free time can only be used for indolence or making people.

Because even if we produce more crops, it is of no use. We can only eat so much, and we don’t have enough storage technology and equipment. In the end, we will just let the extra crops rot in the fields.

One day a merchant came and brought them ironware, pottery, and new production tools, allowing them to get more output with less energy, but farmers had to produce more than usual.

More products can be purchased. So some farmers want a more comfortable future, so they start to work harder and produce more crops during this period.

After a while, another merchant arrived, bringing livestock and silk fabrics. In a sense, it was considered a large amount of consumption for the farmers in this valley, or a luxury product. Although the farmer's

Savings, but after the transaction, the farmer's life has become more comfortable, more fulfilling, and more meaningful. With the oxen, the farmer no longer needs to use his own shoulders to pull the plow, which alleviates the pain and even does not use his own children.

You have to go to the fields before you grow up

There were also merchants who brought information from distant places, which caused these farmers or their children to start walking out of the mountains.

Like sesame seeds.

At the beginning, flax was obtained from the Western Regions, and then stored in the imperial garden to stop the king's selfish desires. Fei Qian said slowly, and now it is spread widely and used to make cakes.

Pang Tong pondered for a moment, does the lord now want to plant a plant in Shandong?

Fei Qian nodded slightly.

Planting is not just about planting flax.

Among the people in Shandong, there have been no merchants for too long, and all information is closed. Just like Fei Qian used coins to open the way to educate the barbarians, merchants are also needed to cultivate the market in Shandong.

Just like the express lockers of later generations killed the last mile, free Autobots killed the animation industry, free games killed some people, and free pirated texts killed writers.

The free little hands were very pleasant when they were touched at first, but when the little hands grasped the vital point and started to change their expressions and exert force, just kneeling down and calling daddy could no longer satisfy these free little hands before, they had to be called daddy!

When Shandong's markets, Shandong's merchants, and Shandong's handicrafts all changed into the shape of Guanzhong,

Foolish people only focus on immediate interests, while far-sighted people focus on the future.

Pang Tong frowned and thought for a while, then sighed, or maybe he was a little anxious.

China's products are relatively rich, and you can buy everything from outside. At the same time, the vision of the nobles is generally limited, so the Silk Road has not received much attention. However, the people in Central Asia are different, focusing on China's silk tea.

, his eyes were spitting out fire. Now that Fei Qian has reopened the Western Region, his influence is not wide enough. If it really spreads, wouldn't those guys come to the east like crazy?

Pang Tong was thinking and suddenly said: I suddenly remembered something about Marquis Wen's place.

Wen Hou Mo Feiqian nodded, saying that he knew, so he would let it go for the time being.

Recovering the Western Regions and reopening the Silk Road was indeed Lu Bu's contribution. However, as the shape of the Western Regions changed, from the initial war model to the current trade model, a new model gradually emerged.

New question.

The Chinese tradition regards merchants as a lowly profession, and most of them neglect to manage business activities, let alone conduct in-depth research. They basically let it go. As the Protector of the Western Regions, Lu Bu would probably not consider these issues, so here

Within a period of time, Fei Qian received a lot of feedback about the problem of Lu Bu's subordinates setting up checkpoints privately, taxing them arbitrarily, and making them fat.

There are records from Zhiyin Prison, private secret reports, and descriptions of some situations in the Western Regions by Gao Wutong and others, all showing that this problem has arisen and spread.

And Lu Bu didn't seem to be aware of this problem, or maybe he didn't take it seriously?

At this stage, let's just let the bullets fly for a while.
Chapter completed!