The concept of the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Husbandry, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Punishment has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people from ancient times to the present. Scholars, peasants, industry, and commerce are divided into four groups. The first three civilians, peasants, and workers can all find their corresponding subordinate institutions, but merchants are left behind. On the other hand, this disguise also reflects the low status of businessmen.
Xiao Letian established the Ministry of Commerce. Let’s not talk about what this department does. Just the word commerce can make all the Chinese businessmen in the world cry. This is a very obvious signal. There is a business council first. Later there was the Ministry of Commerce.
One is a forum for discussing current affairs, while the other is a powerful government department. This shows that Xiao Letian's policy of attaching importance to businessmen will never change.
How can we not be excited by such good news? The political status that generations of businessmen have dreamed of has finally been granted. A country and a nation have finally opened their eyes and opened their hearts to recognize the contribution of businessmen to society. How can we not cry with joy?
China's misunderstanding of businessmen has been too deep for thousands of years. You can find 10,000 stories of businessmen who are unkind because of their wealth, but you can only find a few examples of businessmen who value love and justice. The people hate the rich so much that they want to kill businessmen when they see them eating meat. His whole family, but no one ever thought about how much effort the businessman put in.
Merchants in ancient times were very hard-working, because in the past commercial activities were mostly in the form of merchants selling goods. Salt from the coast was sent to the grasslands and to the hinterland of the Central Plains, while the gold and iron deposits in the Mianmian Mountains had to be transported across the country. Transportation from ridge to city.
No one wants to understand how dangerous and painful it is, and no one wants to count how many businessmen have been killed by bandits. Under the long-term suppression and smearing of the traditional scholar-official class, the people can no longer see the hard work and efforts of this class. Risky, just see how greedy they look when eating meat.
The goods can be exchanged all over the world, and what is needed can be exchanged! This is the most important contribution that businessmen have brought to the human world. Even exchanges between civilizations are completed by businessmen. We can eat watermelons, walnuts, sesames, tomatoes, potatoes... These brand-new species have been introduced to China. The credit of the businessman.
In the era when there were no barriers on the Silk Road, it often took two or three years for merchants from the East and the West to travel for goods. If a merchant could travel the Silk Road more than ten times in his lifetime, that would be the limit.
Most businessmen cannot travel that many times, and either die in the desert halfway, or die in the hands of bandits, or go bankrupt and live in a foreign land. Only a small number of people can make money and enjoy their old age.
The survival of human society cannot be separated from the work of businessmen, but this group bears the most moral condemnation.
In fact, this is the typical mentality of a commoner who only sees thieves eating meat but does not see thieves being beaten. They just see the businessman's darling wife and beautiful concubine in the big house, the popular and spicy drinkers and the fat pigs.
But no one thought that without the businessman, his life would have been impossible to maintain. Without salt merchants to transport salt to you, what will the people in the inland areas where salt does not produce eat? There are no iron merchants to trade iron materials. Where do people go to buy kitchen knives and farm tools?
Not to mention the oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, pots and pans that are necessary in life. Not every area is as self-sufficient as Peach Blossom Land. In areas without merchants, people's living standards will rapidly collapse.
You can't do without businessmen, but you still have to scold them. This is actually a manifestation of human beings' darker and dirty psychology. Those who scold the most fiercely are often the least capable.
Because they know very well that they will never be able to enjoy that kind of wealthy life in their lifetime, because if they were given a chance to go into business, they would not do it at all.
They are illiterate, don't know the road, don't know how to negotiate the price of goods, let alone how to deal with the government. When they encounter bandits and bandits, they can't say anything except kowtow... In other words, they criticize the most vicious business Behavior, in fact, is an unfamiliar realm that is out of reach for them.
It is precisely because he knows very well that he will never be able to eat the meat in his life, but the pink eye disease still stimulates the poisonous snakes of jealousy in their hearts, so they work hard to spread those true and false businessmen's shameless stories, and put them to shameless stories. The dirty water of fantasy was poured out in basins.
And there is the literati class adding fuel to the flames!
The gods of wealth present have long understood these truths. Businessmen are the easiest to come into contact with the dark side of human nature. Outsiders have no way of knowing how much grievances big businessmen have.
Xiao Letian once said that when a class has been oppressed for too long, it must have accumulated enough explosive energy. Smart people must be good at using this energy to accomplish great things.
The Qing government does not want these businessmen, but I, Xiao Letian, do! Confucians despise and smear these businessmen, but we Chinese support them!
Now Xiao Letian's reform plan has gone a step further. The emergence of the Ministry of Commerce has given businessmen the power to participate in and discuss politics. This is how people's hearts are drawn in. The most feared thing in everything is comparison. People always go to a brighter place.
Seeing a room full of people sighing, the old shopkeeper also remembered the injustice he had suffered in doing business over the years. His eyes turned red and he quickly pressed the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief.
Liu Hengzhen next to him was the most popular person in the whole scene. At the critical moment, he had to push into the city. Seeing how everyone's emotions were released, the man put down his tea bowl and said with a smile.
"Okay, okay, why are you crying on this big day! With the Ministry of Commerce in the future, it will be easier to communicate with other departments. If our business is bullied, we can all complain directly to the Military Ministry. It's all one-sided. Official Shen, maybe our warships will come to rescue us by then..."
"There are still many business disputes, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will not sit idly by. These ministers sit together to communicate, and we businessmen have a backstage!"
Shopkeeper Niu's eyes narrowed as he cried, and he could only nod his head in excitement.
Liu Yunzhen's expression darkened as soon as he spoke, "But everyone, you also have to think about it. The Ministry of Commerce was expanded from the structure of Lotte Matheson. To put it bluntly, it was an upgrade of the services of Lotte Matheson..."
"But this Lotte Company is the Prime Minister's private property! Are we going to let the Chinese people get paid for it? The Prime Minister is talking about upgrading directly without asking for a penny. This means giving in vain!"
"The Prime Minister is so upright and upright, do we have to pretend to be stupid? If that's the case, you really have to touch your conscience!"
Shopkeeper Niu and Boss Mi suddenly understood like lightning. They both said in unison, "That's impossible! You can't let the Prime Minister suffer, right? Besides, there are rules in doing business, and brothers have to settle accounts clearly. !”
"Mr. Hesitation, please point out a way. As long as we are the same, we can make the decision now!"
