After hearing this, Du Yinxi said: "Your Majesty, although there is no need to worry about them actually going on strike and affecting the stability of the country, I think it is better to consider the situation of the merchants who were raided and the employees of their properties. This is to avoid that in the future, when the court punishes profiteers again, profiteers will take advantage of their employees and rebel against the court. So, what do you want me to do, do you want the cabinet and the Ministry of Household Affairs to come to an agreement to lower the required standards and reduce taxes?"
"this is a good idea!"
"Many merchants had their homes confiscated, and the market share they occupied was vacated. Other serious merchants who had not committed any misconduct were naturally willing to occupy this market and absorb their employees. The court increased the scale of loans and Tax cuts will help their expansion, and they will definitely be actively cooperating to restore market order, and they may even say that the government is doing a good job in cracking down on counterfeiting."
Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.
Du Yinxi also laughed and said: "In this case, I'm afraid many merchants will not be willing to go on strike."
"Unless you have a dirty foundation, you won't just watch the opportunity to expand your business scale be missed. Therefore, if you really want to go on strike by then, you have to investigate carefully. Maybe he is not because of the right to I am dissatisfied with such a policy of the imperial court, but I have done something false, so let Dongchang pay attention to it when the time comes."
Zhu Youxiao therefore continued.
Du Yinxi said: "Your Majesty is saying that in my opinion, I am afraid that many businesses will support the court in cracking down on counterfeiting. This will give them more opportunities to expand their business scale and occupy more markets." , no one will refuse the temptation of our Ming Zhongtu, a huge market with mature transportation, technical talent and other supporting facilities and strong per capita purchasing power."
"You are right. The commercialized Ming Dynasty may need new methods to manage it! But the basic core is to establish power first and then show favor. Now it is just about cracking down on counterfeiting. In the future, we will have to guard against antitrust."
“After a series of severe punishments are adopted to punish profiteers who want to make huge profits through deception, those large manufacturers that are serious about technology research and development and technology monopoly will use the rules to become more and more giants in the industry. Then they control the rules of one or even multiple industries, and even pose a threat to the imperial court. These monopoly giants are more difficult to deal with than unscrupulous business owners, because they may not be able to accuse them under the imperial outline and national law. They can only forcefully define that monopoly is If he is guilty, the court must establish anti-monopoly regulations as soon as possible."
Zhu Youxiao said.
After hearing this, Du Yinxi nodded: "I admire your majesty's consideration of long-term fortune. In my opinion, there is still a problem that needs to be paid attention to. That is the phenomenon of merchants bribing officials and scholars to speak for them. There is no need for it at the moment. Almost all newspapers and periodicals have become their mouthpieces, and scholars and officials also speak from their standpoint. However, they are limited to the protection of their opinions and cannot do anything to them. However, it is probably not a good thing to allow these people to guide public opinion. .”
"It all depends on whether the Han people of the Ming Dynasty can be easily deceived. I believe that black can never be washed away from white. The Han people who have received so many years of education should also have their own independent thinking ability! Not a few so-called scholars I'm not afraid that some scholars will become paid tools, and then they themselves will become a joke, and even the title of public scholar, which originally represents wisdom and erudition, will become a joke. A title that is ridiculed and even despised by the whole people."
"But it is inevitable that there are people who are very good at deceiving people. So, if you give me a decree, I will summon a few famous scholars in the world! I want to hear their opinions. The phenomenon of scholars who have no character. Do they want to Guan, and do they have any ideas about how the intellectual world of Ming Dynasty should develop in the future?"
Zhu Youxiao therefore ordered.
"yes!"
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"Haha, more and more large companies are responding to the strike. The reason is to stop operations and conduct internal rectification. Of course, this is just an excuse for the strike. After all, no matter how you say it, it is not easy to openly confront the court."
"What's more, a notice has been issued stating that during the rectification period, wages will be suspended directly. This is to let the workers follow suit and force the court."
"There are also those who directly announced layoffs. The reason is also to change the business strategy, focus on product quality, reduce labor costs, and increase R&D costs. Although the tone is helpless, between the lines, it is obvious that they are also expressing dissatisfaction with the court's current behavior of cracking down on counterfeit merchants. Woolen cloth."
Du Rizhang and the big businessmen who initiated this matter were still feeling proud behind the scenes because there were so many businessmen who responded.
Mo Lixun was doubly happy because of this and said, "I don't know what I think today."
"It must be that Long Yan is furious?"
Sheng Hongyu, a big businessman who was involved in this matter together with Du Rizhang, Mo Lixun and others, asked a question because of this.
Many big businessmen burst out laughing.
On the first day before the strike month, Du Rizhang called his shopkeepers and ordered: "We will continue to operate tomorrow."
Among them, a relatively honest shopkeeper asked: "Sir, isn't the market on strike?"
Du Rizhang glared at him directly and said: "What the hell, that's just a bluff to others, Lao Yue, why are you still so honest! Who the hell is leaving money to make money and let others make it? Don't say that the imperial court will treat counterfeit goods If you want to confiscate your home, even if you destroy the nine tribes, I still have to do business! At worst, I just don’t sell fakes."
Here, Mo Lixun also said to his shopkeepers: "It will be business as usual tomorrow! Only a fool will really start a strike tomorrow! It's just that the pirated books should be sold as genuine books, and it will only make less money, do you understand? "
"clear!"
"It will be open as usual tomorrow! Let's spend more money to charge some shops. Let's see whose shopkeeper or foreman has no place to eat. Please double their salary and invite us to come to our place!"
Sheng Hongyu also gave the same instructions here.
As a result, by the next day, the first day of the strike month, not many businesses were on strike.
There are only a few honest merchants in the market.
Pan Yonggeng was one of them. He had made an appointment with Du Rizhang and Mo Lixun in advance to go fishing at the lake. As soon as he came out, he saw that the Du family's large pharmacy was still open. Therefore, he was shocked: "This is what happened?"
Then, Pan Yonggeng saw the same situation in Mo's big bookstore, and couldn't help but throw the fishing rod to the ground: "These guys! They are too bad, go and call the shopkeepers back!"
"How is it? How is the business situation on the streets of Wuchang?"
Zhu Youxiao, who had come to Wuchang, also asked about Du Yinxi on the night of the strike month.
"As your Majesty expected, as usual, some businesses took the opportunity to carry out crazy promotions, and some even took the opportunity to recruit laid-off workers. These people are not stupid. Under the general environment, Ming's economy is booming, regardless of Whether it’s technical workers or market share, Han Xin’s decision is all about it, the more the merrier, calling it a strike is just deceiving honest people!”
