Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1051

Shi Shiyong knew what this meant, but he slandered in his heart: How can this be gambling?According to what you mean, if you have a gun in your hand, you can just grab it if you can't grab it, so what's the bet?

After floating for a while, the emperor gave the dice cup and the like to Shi Shiyong.

"Since you have won, you might as well go and gamble with Xingguo Gong a few times, and tell him my understanding that every bet must win, and it will save him too much pressure and flustered."

"Gamble with him a few times, ask him to relax, and talk to you. After a few days, you go to Hankou, and it will be beneficial to handle things."

Shi Shiyong thanked him, left the Forbidden City, and went to look for Liu Yu with his dice cup.

Since the emperor ordered, he could only gamble with Liu Yulai for a few rounds.

The two were ordered by the emperor, and after tossing a few tosses, Shi Yong asked, "Duke, your Majesty said that you will win this time, so you can rest assured. I am not only the bettor, but also the banker. I’ve heard that there are still losers.”

With a flick of his wrist, he tossed out a champion, and said with a smile: "Among the market, this is the biggest. But if you have the ability, if you say this is the smallest, then you won't lose."

"When we gamble, if we want to make others happy, we will naturally play it worse. After all, the rules are the biggest."

"Thinking about it now, this is not a skill. The real skill is that after the dice cup was opened, since the first pick was cast, I voted for the number one pick. At this time, they said that the rules changed. The first pick is better than the first pick, and the first pick wins. Fang is capable."

Liu Yu held up the dice cup and shook it for a long time without even throwing a single one. He put the dice cup on the table and said with a smile: "Brother Shi, what you said is right. Now it is the old rules. To change or not to change? Of course, it’s up to the dealer to decide.”

"But, it's different to set the rules before the dice are cast, and to set the rules after the dice are thrown."

"You said the four words 'willing to bet and admit defeat', which word is the most important?"

Shi Shiyong didn't even think about it, took the dice cup and shook it lightly, and replied casually: "Naturally, the word 'serve'. If I lose the bet, I will naturally be convinced. But if he cheats, he will naturally be chopped up." fingers."

Liu Yu laughed and said: "That's right. Therefore, the rules are still very important. Only when the rules are set can you sit in the dealership, and people will come to you to gamble every day, so you can win steadily. But if you break the rules yourself, this It’s hard to say if you win the first time and there’s no one next time, right?”

The rattling dice cup stopped, and Shi Shiyong stopped his hands and said, "Duke, how do you say this... In my humble opinion, take the salt law as an example. Since the Gangyan law is abolished, this in itself is a violation of the law. Change the rules. It's just that you think it's more fun under the new rules; but they think it's still fun under the old rules."

"In other words, you think that under the new rules, you have a better chance of winning; they think that under the old rules, they have a better chance of winning."

"Being in the dealership, of course, is to set the rules so that you can win steadily, not just win once. But the key is who the rules should be directed to. This is the big deal."

"There is a saying, it may be a serious crime to say it. However, the rules of the world are here. Whoever supports this rule, everyone will let him sit in the manor. Therefore, before this dynasty, it was necessary to equalize the land and exempt grain, but later it had to protect the world. .”

"What is the world? I don't read much, but I also know that the old master said, do what you want without breaking the rules. The world is the rules."

"To protect the world is to protect the rules. The rules of body and hair, the rules of the imperial examination, the rules of clothes, the rules of the land, the rules of salt, the rules of the dynasty, so the people of the world let the dynasty sit in the manor."

"Under this rule, I am willing to bet and admit defeat. The salt merchants have changed many waves back and forth, but the rules have not changed. No one is resentful, so I am willing to bet and admit defeat."

"Now we have to change the rules... So, things will be difficult."

Shi Shiyong was right in saying this.

But Shi Shiyong was from Dashun, so he felt that it was the rule of the world, and Dashun was the only person who was able to keep this rule at that time, so he became a manor.

However, Liu Yu is not from Dashun.

Therefore, in his opinion, the rules of this world are actually not that complicated.

At least, what Shi Shiyong said, the rules of body, hair and skin, this is obviously a very important position after Dashun won the victory, which created such a very, very important position.

However, in fact, Liu Yu knew that in another period of history, this rule did not have much power, at least the scholar-bureaucrat and landlord class did not pay much attention to this rule.

Otherwise, many things cannot be explained.

Even Dashun had no chance to engage in moral humiliation back then, so he put up a plaque of Wei Guanzhong to enshrine the Hou Mansion.

Liu Yu took the dice cup with a smile, took out only one dice from it, and said, "Brother Shi, the big rules, the small rules."

"Now, I will set a game. I said, just this one dice, the one with the larger number wins, the smaller one loses, and the same number counts as a draw."

"Then I just need to ensure that I can throw a six, and I need to protect this big rule."

"If there is no such big rule, there will be some trouble."

"It rolled me a six, you rolled a five, and I said the six was bigger than me."

"I still rolled a six, but you rolled a three. I'll say six to three."

"Then you said that the eye-catching guy next to you, who hasn't bet yet, likes to set up a clear and clear rule?"

"I still like the little rules. Even if I gamble a lot, these little rules can be summed up into a big rule, but after all, I didn't establish this big rule, which made many people murmur."

"I thought to myself, it seems that the big one wins. But the dealer didn't say this, who knows what the rules will be next time?"

Liu Yu picked up another dice and said: "In addition to the opening game on my side, there is also a game on the side, but the rules next to it are very clear, there are big rules, there are small rules, and all kinds of rules are all clear. "

"Then tell me, are you going to gamble over there? Or come to me to gamble?"

Shi Shiyong looked at the two dice and said with a smile, "Of course I went there to gamble."

Liu Yuzhang said: "So, this time the reform of the salt administration is in Hubei. The key issue is not that I roll a six, but they roll a five."

"Let's just say I'm pretty sure I'll get a six. And I'm sure they'll only get a three."

"So, the key this time is to establish a big rule. This big rule is not for winning this time, but for more people to come to this table to bet."

"This time in Hubei, it is the Shang Yang of industry and commerce. It is a big rule."

"Absolutely don't pretend to be Zhang Yi bullying Chu."

When talking about the difference between Shang Yang Limu and Zhang Yi's bullying Chu, Shi Shiyong thought of Liu Yu's attitude all the time, and suddenly said: "The Duke means that the table next to the table with clear rules is the land? And this table of industry and commerce , The rules have not been clear? So, all the rich go to that table to gamble, and there are very few people who come to the industry and commerce table to gamble."

"As long as you sit on the banker and open the table, you will win for sure. Therefore, setting rules and ensuring this rule is the way for the banker to win. Winning or losing the banker has nothing to do with gambling skills or gambling capital?"

Liu Yu smiled and said, "Brother Shi, I want to ask you something. You know the reform of the salt law that I want to implement. But now the rules are crude and there are many loopholes."

"For example, there is a very obvious loophole. If I have money, I will buy all the salt. I don't eat it, I don't sell it, and I prevent others from buying salt. After all, Hubei does not produce salt, even if Huaibei drove enough iron oxen to extract the brine, and the salt piled up in the sun, but it couldn't be transported to Hankou for a while."

"Of course, this loophole can be patched, and there is a rule that this is not allowed. But now, I deliberately did not patch this loophole, so they took advantage of this loophole and tried their best to buy salt, preventing others from buying salt. It leads to a lack of salt. I don't care, so you say, is this a good thing or a bad thing?"

Shi Shiyong has read books to some extent, and he knows that this matter is getting bigger and bigger, and it involves the famous controversy in the sixth year of Zhao Gong.

If punishment is unknown, power is unpredictable.

If the law is clearly written, then there must be people who are always thinking about loopholes in the law. According to the argument, this is to encourage everyone to be a bad person.

But Shi Shiyong knew that what Liu Yu said today had nothing to do with such a big topic.

In his view, Liu Yu doesn't care about such a big issue at all, but has been thinking about letting capital go to industry and commerce instead of to land.

Although it is actually similar to the debate about the unknowable punishment, it is different.

Liu Yu said that the reform of Hubei's salt administration is a commercial development for industry and commerce.

It is said that those who run a casino or play the game want to win money, neither need to gamble a lot, nor do they need to be good at gambling, they just need a rule to stand there, and the person who plays the house maintains this rule, and then they will win.

The fundamental logic of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business needs to be seen in conjunction with the long-standing idea of ​​"prohibiting business and having land".

Merchants accumulate capital too fast, much faster than farming.And the land is privately owned, and the land is allowed to be bought and sold. How fast are the merchants annexing the land?
This problem cannot be solved by Liu Yu.

He is very clear-headed, and if he does not solve this problem, he just tinkers with it. He has tried his best and brought out hundreds of years of knowledge, and at most he can guarantee a few industrial and commercial projects whose income is higher than that of land investment.

And we must use all means to make the high profits obtained by industry and commerce, not to invest in merging land to earn land rent, which will cause you to hang up street lights, and try your best to go out.

When Shi Shiyong was still thinking about it, Liu Yu said again: "There are some things that cannot be cured at the root. The disadvantages of land annexation, in the late Ming Dynasty, many great scholars talked about it. field."

"However, there is a saying in "Huainanzi" that the way can be greatly beautiful, but it is difficult to calculate. Therefore, the daily calculation is insufficient, but the annual calculation is more than enough."

"Land is such a thing. Sometimes the income may not be high, and it may lose money this year, but on average, it will make money after all, so-called surplus."

"And the rules on the land side are clear and clear. You can't go wrong at all. Even if you want to annex the land, you have to follow these rules."

"Under this general rule, buying land in a disaster year, lending a loan to take over the land... also includes, ah, setting fire to someone's land in autumn to make him owe his debts and use the land as a mortgage; Borrowing debt to buy land. Wait, wait, no matter what method is used, I will ask you, do you have to recognize this land deed even for the founding of the dynasty?"

Shi Shiyong nodded, this is true.

There are many means of land annexation.

However, the rules of land title deeds are recognized by everyone.Even if Dashun rebelled back then, after Jiugong Mountain, this rule was still maintained. Although there were many slightly biased policies, this basic rule was absolutely recognized.

Only by acknowledging this great rule can one be qualified to talk about the world and the Han people with the gentry and landlords.

If you don't recognize this big rule, the result is that like the Fujian Tianbing who shouted "reduce rent and interest, and keep the tenancy unchanged" in history, the Han landlords led the Manchu and Qing soldiers to jointly encircle and suppress and kill them all.

Under this general rule, investing in land has become the first choice.

The so-called:
The accumulation of goods and wealth in the world is always worrying about water, fire and thieves.The most rare things are especially easy to attract disasters.People in the grass and fields can't sit back and relax if they have a product of ten gold.

Unique property, no worries about fire and water, no worries about thieves.

Although there are tyrannical people, they cannot compete for size; although they have great power, they cannot be held back.

Tens of millions of hectares can be worth tens of thousands of gold, and it doesn't take one person to guard them.

That is to say, there are soldiers who are in disorder, leave their homes and go to the countryside, and return when things are settled, and the houses and animals gather together, and there is nothing to ask.

In this ridge alone, those with the surname Zhang still belong to Zhang, and those with the surname Li still belong to Li...

Is such a profound awareness unique to this side?
No.

After the bubble burst in 1720, some people in France also thought about it, and came to the conclusion that investing in industry and commerce is not as good as investing in land to preserve value.Industrial and commercial investment may explode, but the land cannot be exploded. In the end, there will still be a piece of land in hand.

Of course, the reason why Dashun is more willing to buy land is not limited to this one, there are many other reasons, which are very complicated.

However, land laws and land deeds are relatively the strictest laws and most recognized deeds. This is no problem.

The righteousness of "restricting the permanent property of the people" is added, and the land reform in Funing County dare not use the righteousness of "restricting the permanent property of the people" to engage in 30-year redemption and other utopian dreams.

Instead, Liu Yu set out to kill people with the big crime of "withholding river wages".The land was distributed to the common people after the house was confiscated.

Small farmers are petty bourgeois, they will not betray their own class, what they recognize is ultimately private legal rights, they just hope that someone will pull down the people above them, but they absolutely do not support the economic foundation law under their feet The power system has changed.

Such an economic foundation casts Dashun's most stable superstructure, moral laws.

That is to say, the most stable title deed and relatively the strictest land rules.

It's like two casinos.

On one side is the land.

On one side is industry and commerce.

The rules on the other side of the land are very stable and clear, and gamblers like to run there.

Although, Dashun's industrial and commercial needs to develop, there are many, many problems.However, a solid rule, a rule that is willing to bet and admit defeat, can also attract a little bit of capital to run in industry and commerce.

Now Liu Yu is really like a mosquito, no matter how small it is, it is still meat. He wants to do everything possible to attract capital to industry and commerce without daring or being able to touch the Dashun land system.

The bankruptcy of the big salt merchants will not make the industrial and commercial rabbits die and the foxes sad.Willing to gamble and admit defeat.

The big salt merchants went bankrupt under the attack of the Dashun court who couldn't help but ransack their homes, and the industry and commerce will die.

Yanyin's general contractor is not a good bird, and Liu Yu didn't think about talking to them. If he messed up, he didn't mind mobilizing the army directly.

But as long as he hasn't completely messed up, he needs to create an illusion: under the set rules, he is willing to gamble and admit defeat, and I didn't turn the table.

If this illusion can no longer be created, he doesn't mind flipping the table and letting them taste the iron fist of the feudal empire.Because Huainan's industrial transformation is more important.

This is the same as when he was in Huaibei Salt Reform, he made "obvious tickets and implicit quotations" and "let the right people get the right tickets".

He just creates an illusion, as if there are clear rules, the purpose is to trick people into investing money in industry and commerce.

As the saying goes, pile up soil to form a mountain, dare not touch the fundamental land issue, it can only be used for anything that is beneficial to industry and commerce, and this is not mosquito meat.

If it really messed up and had to use the feudal iron fist, the salt merchants in Huaihe River and Huaihe River had accumulated more than [-] years of capital, but they might not run into emerging industries and commerce, but would be more likely to be scared to bury them in the cellar and buy land if they could. .

(End of this chapter)