King of Liao at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 17

When such a big incident happened in the barracks, Wu Mu, the captain, came immediately to stop the incident, and even notified several elders. Such a large-scale disturbance in the barracks made Wu Mu think it was a mutiny in the barracks at first. But when looking for Li Lin, when he found out that Li Lin hadn't been in the barracks for half a month, Wu Mu immediately became furious, but in consideration of Bing Yuan's face, he reported the matter to Bing Yuan early in the morning, and he didn't deal with it directly.

After hearing Wumu's report, Bing Yuan straightened his beard. He immediately went to investigate and found out that Li Lin had been tossing around in the garden on the back hill outside the city. The soap shop, who is Bing Yuan, Li Lin can hide it from him with such a small mind, he immediately guessed all Li Lin's plans, he was so angry that the little bastard dared to use such a bad trick to prevaricate me, Immediately send someone to call Li Lin to his house.

When Li Lin heard it, he felt bitter, "This is bad!"I knew that my uncle would discover this trick sooner or later, but I didn't expect it to be so soon. If my business grew later, my uncle would not be ashamed to let me close the business. Anyway, the soap business has already separated from the Li family. Now, the Li family is just a helper now. Although this crappy method can be understood by anyone with a discerning eye, what Li Lin wants is to let Bing Yuan go down the stairs, but he has just started, and now his uncle will definitely let him close the door.Hi!Why did I forget about my five hundred people? This group of boys will cause trouble for me. You can cause trouble if you say so. If you cause such a big trouble, I can’t even cover it. I will be miserable. It seems I can't stay in the army anymore, how should I live after this, my beautiful life...'

Li Lin came to the prefect's mansion tremblingly, and happened to run into Wu Mu who had just been scolded by Bing Yuan, and it was because of his ineffective supervision that such a big incident happened in the barracks. Wu Mu looked at Li Lin who came in, stepped forward, Looking at Li Lin's military uniform with the Bochang mark, he was still surprised. Isn't this the recruit who asked himself about the toilet?
Li Lin looked at Wu Mu with an embarrassed look. Wu Mu patted Li Lin on the shoulder and left quickly. In fact, Wu Mu still admired Li Lin a little. They all looked like lunatics, and their physical strength was astonishing. They all had the strength of a calf. A military camp is a military camp. In that year, recruits would always fight. Hundreds of people were killed.

Wumu inquired about their usual training methods. It was very strange, and it was invented by Li Lin. It must be a great talent to use these seemingly simple and strange methods to train recruits to become such awesome people. He put all the responsibility on himself, but he didn't know that Li Lin was the most angry about Bing Yuan's business, so Wu Mu's one-person resistance had nothing to do with how Bing Yuan should punish Li Lin, so Wu Mu felt sorry He patted Li Lin on the shoulder to express his helplessness.

Li Lin asked his servants, and came to Bing Yuan's study room, knocked on the door, but there was no sound at first, and suddenly he heard a shout from inside the room, "Nizi, come in quickly!"

Li Lin stuck out his tongue in fright, lowered his head and slowly approached the study room, before Bing Yuan could speak, Li Lin went in and knelt down.

"Uncle, my nephew knew it was wrong, don't be angry, I shouldn't have neglected my duty and caused such a big incident in the barracks."

Bing Yuan stared, "Nizi, look at the soldiers you brought out, all of them are as stubborn as you. Fortunately, Captain Wu arrived in time, otherwise, if the situation gets serious, you and I will be punished!"

"Yes, yes, I will definitely discipline you in the future, and I will definitely not do it next time."

"You still want to have a next time! If you weren't in the barracks, would such a thing happen? What did you say you didn't come to the barracks for so many days?"

Hearing what Bing Yuan said, Li Lin thought to himself, 'Damn it!I knew it a long time ago and still keep me close, isn't it just not letting me go into business?You are willing to do it for me. I am as tired as a grandson all day. I haven’t had sex with my wife for a month. I want to cross time and become a prince or marquis.

Although he was blaming Bing Yuan to death in his heart, there was still a perplexed expression on his face, "Uncle, this..."

"You still pretend to be here with me! Your soap workshop has been out of production for half a month, and then you changed the brand, and asked your family to register a Zhao's business name with Shangcao. Do you think I I don’t know, the owner of the Zhao family business is Mr. Zhao who has been in the Li family for nearly 20 years, he is more familiar with him than you, and you still want to hide it from me?”

"Uncle, my nephew didn't lie to you, my nephew knows that you don't want my nephew to do business, but the soap my nephew invented can really bring convenience to many people, and you can see that many people have already liked it The soap produced by my nephew is sure to make a lot of money if my nephew can produce it stably."

"I don't have a nephew like you, and the Li family doesn't have a kid like you. Your family's ancestors have been scholars for several generations, and there have been many officials. Why did you become a merchant's house when you came here? Although you used to You are dull, you are very indifferent to anyone, and you don't have the spirit of a man, and your speech and body are very feminine, but you are also a scholar, and you are good at Confucianism, how come you are so mercenary now!"

When Li Lin heard it, 'Damn it!Hearing what Bing Yuan said, I turned out to be a fake mother, why didn't my wife tell me, it's too bad that this kid has such a beautiful wife, and he has never touched him before. Do you think this kid..." Thinking of this, Li Lin felt his chrysanthemum tighten up, 'Don't! '

"Did you hear what I said, are you still thinking about your Zhao family business name?"

Li Lin has been in a daze, and Bing Yuan found out that Li Lin said in a confused way, "Uncle, nephew doesn't know why you dislike my nephew's business so much, even my nephew has already disowned the soap business, you still Don't let your nephew get in touch with him for the first time"

"You, you dare to talk back! Do you know what your ancestors said about 'merchant slaves'? Being a merchant is like being a slave. How can we scholars be in the company of merchants!"

As soon as Li Lin heard what this guy said, I eat with my craft, I don’t know what to do, I don’t want to steal it, so I’m just a merchant, and you don’t even say that I’m a slave. In modern society, most of the wealth is gathered in the hands of merchants. People who have money can buy whatever they want, and they can find any girl they want. My former girlfriend was snatched by a rich second generation of a big businessman.

"Uncle, nephew still doesn't understand!" Li Lin couldn't figure out why his old man looked down on the businessman so much.

"You!" Bing Yuan also choked up, and it seemed that the reprimand he thought was unacceptable, and his tone softened.

"Yuan Jie, don't you understand? Businessmen are an unstable group in our society. They go for profit, and they will go wherever the place is profitable for them, just like I am the prefect of the county. , what we want is stability in the county, but the merchants are floating population, selling high and selling low to earn the difference. This is not in line with the Confucianism we have been reading! There is also taxation, your father originally wanted to train you If you are an adult so that you can become an official in the court, you should know that our Han Dynasty is mainly concerned with agricultural taxation, and commercial taxation is very unstable, so merchants will also be the court's heart disease..."

Li Lin thought for a while and retorted, "No, what's wrong with the businessman, uncle? You can’t even wear clothes. Uncle, you said that the shoes and socks on your body and the things you use in daily life are not what you can get with your own hard work. The knowledge you learn from reading can make people flourish, but if you don’t have businessmen, you have ten thousand stones. What's the use of your salary?"

After hearing Li Lin's words, Bing Yuan was so shocked that he had no way to refute, because Li Lin's words were indeed reasonable, and Li Lin's words were too modern, so it was difficult for Bing Yuan to understand clearly for a while.

Li Lin said again, "Uncle, the merchants are the ones who push this time. The food produced by the farms, the cloth made by the workers, and even the salaries and silver that the imperial court distributes to officials can only be circulated through the hands of the merchants. Before I came to Lelang, I had heard that this place was very dilapidated, just a small down-and-out county on the border of the Han Dynasty, but as soon as I came to the city and walked on the street, I could feel that Uncle, you managed well. You have kept everything in order within a few years. Uncle, do you know why?"

When Bing Yuan heard that Li Lin did not forget to praise himself, he lowered his head and shook his head mockingly.

"It's because I saw crowds of people in the street market and few merchants. Sometimes you can judge whether a place is really well managed by looking at the number of merchants in this place. Because there are merchants in places where there are customers, and the people only have money. back as a guest."

After Li Lin finished speaking, Bing Yuan was stunned and did not speak. Li Lin's horrifying remarks violated the shackles of Confucianism on businessmen for thousands of years.

Bing Yuan thought for a long time, raised his head in a daze, closed his eyes, opened them again, and looked at Li Lin.

"Yuan Jie, what you said makes sense, maybe my understanding of business was too one-sided before..."

"Uncle, since you said I was right, can I stand up, I'm so tired from kneeling!" It turned out that Li Lin was still kneeling in front of Bing Yuan after talking about this long speech.

Bing Yuan waved his hand, "Get up quickly, Uncle really needs to think about what you said."

"Uncle, I don't blame you. My great man has been based on agriculture for 400 years. That's right, but we can't look at the world too one-sidedly. When my great ancestor first established the great man, the world was not stable, and the people urgently needed to recuperate. One family ruled by doing nothing, and Emperor Wu of Han took advantage of the general trend of the world to depose a hundred schools of thought and only respect Confucianism. This is why we should pay attention to the changes in current affairs. Now we must first deal with chaos, and we can no longer remain unchanged. Someone must stand firm to stabilize the world. The current situation..."

(End of this chapter)