Hearing Li Shiming's sincere words, Qin Chuan's eyes were filled with gratitude.
"I really didn't misjudge you. Old Li, just based on what you said today, you will be my best brother in the future!”
"Don't worry, no matter how far I, Qin Chuan, go in the future, as long as I have a piece of meat, I will never let you, Li Jun, drink soup! We brothers will be rich together!”
"Let's not talk too much. It's all in the wine!"
As he spoke, Qin Chuan poured himself a full glass of wine. He downed three glasses in a row and drank to his heart's content.
"Good! Good brother!"
Li Shi Min also poured three glasses of wine and drank with pride.
"Hiss! This wine is really strong!"
Li Shiming sighed and smiled embarrassedly.
"Look at you. If you can't drink, don't be in such a hurry. Eat more food. Eat more food to suppress the alcohol!”
Qin Chuan also laughed and gave Li Shimin a few pieces of mutton.
"Good!"
Li Shi Min happily ate and laughed,"So you don't want to sell wine anymore?”
"Yes, why not? Didn't I say just now that the two of us brothers will be rich and noble together? Old Li, I'll bring you to make a fortune together!”
Qin Chuan said confidently.
Li Shimin was anxious.？Why are you still doing it? Brother Qin, why are you so…"
Qin Chuan smiled and waved his hand, interrupting,"Old Li, don't be anxious. Listen to me first.”
"Of course I know the law that a family that eats salary cannot compete with servants for profit. But I'm just a candidate and haven't entered the court as an official yet.”
Before he could finish his sentence, Li Shiming said loudly,"But it's only a matter of time before you enter the court as an official!”
"There are so many high officials in the current dynasty who admire you. It's a foregone conclusion that you'll become an official in the dynasty!”
"Brother Qin, listen to this old brother's advice. Don't do this wine business, don't ruin your bright future!”
Looking at Li Shiming's concerned expression, Qin Chuan smiled and shook his head.
"Old Li, look at you. You're anxious again! I haven't finished my sentence yet. Let me finish first.”
"Do you really think that those officials of the Imperial Court don't engage in business?”
Li Shi Min was stunned and asked,""How do you know that the officials of the court are doing business?”
Qin Chuan glared at Li Shiming." Are you stupid?!" Which of the officials in the court did not come from a noble family? Which family did not have tens of thousands of acres of land? Even my family has thousands of acres of land! Old Li, your family is even more than that, right?”
"With so much land, we can produce a few thousand dans of grain a year! Can your family finish it? What about the endless food?”
"Put it in the warehouse? If the warehouse couldn't be filled up, they could just sell it to the market.”
"Take a look at the grain stores in Chang 'an City. Which one of them doesn't have a gentry clan backing them up?”
In the Tang Dynasty, one mu of land could produce about one stone of grain, which was four juns, ten buckets, and one hundred and twenty catties.
Thousands of acres of land, tens of thousands of catties of grain, who could finish so much grain!
The food that could not be eaten was either piled up in the warehouse or sold on the market.
This was why in ancient times, the gentry were the largest grain merchants.
Because the gentry had too much land, the grain produced by the land of ordinary people could only make a living, while the gentry had so much food that they could not finish it.
Of course, these grains could not be wasted. They looked moldy and rotten, and many of them would be sold in the market.
Or they would open some taverns to consume the food.
Although since the Han Dynasty, successive dynasties had issued laws that prohibited officials from doing business, the private business of ancient officials had never stopped.
Grain merchants, taverns, silk, usury, and many other industries had officials involved.
This was because the aristocrats had plenty of grain fields and mulberry fields, and they also had a lot of spare money to use for usury or to invest in other industries.
In ancient times, the truly wealthy were never merchants, but the gentry.
Li Shimin was silent for a while. He knew that the grain merchants in Chang 'an had the background of aristocratic officials.
He turned a blind eye to all of this. After all, he couldn't just let these grains rot in the families of the aristocrats.
If he sold it, he could at least feed a lot of people.
Li Shimin pursed his lips and said earnestly,""But you're different from them. You're a person with a great future. You're different from them!”
Qin Chuan shook his head." Let's not talk about the officials in the court. The Emperor himself does business.”
" The emperor still does business?!"
Li Shi Min stiffened and questioned loudly.
"The emperor is rich in the four seas. How can he engage in business and compete with the people for profit!”
F * ck, who the f * ck spread this rumor!
He, Li Shiming, was upright and upright, but he had never done anything to compete with the people for profit, let alone degenerating himself and doing cheap business!
Qin Chuan lightly curled his lips." Isn't the Shao Fu an official organization that helps the Emperor manage his private businesses?”
"You also know about the government money, right? This was the usury that the government placed on the people. Was this considered a business?”
"Besides, don't the border provinces have business dealings with the Turks? Tea, silk, and porcelain from the Central Plains are sold to the northern grasslands in exchange for their cattle, sheep, and horses.”
Qin Chuan spoke with confidence.
This was the reason why the government of ancient China had issued laws that strictly prohibited officials from doing business and emphasized agriculture to suppress commerce. However, officials 'private business was still banned repeatedly, and commerce was still developing vigorously.
It was because the emperor and the government took the lead in doing business!
The emperor and the government were both doing business. How could their subordinates not do business? How could business be suppressed?
In fact, the emphasis on agriculture and suppression of commerce in ancient China was not too harsh. They only hoped that the country could stabilize the local taxes.
With agriculture as the foundation, they could develop commerce.
At the same time, the country firmly grasped the lifeline of commerce. For example, the benefits of the mountains and swamps belonged to the country. The country controlled the mining industry, rivers, salt, iron, and other necessities of the people.
Li Shi Min was speechless and fell silent awkwardly.
Although he didn't personally participate in the business, what Qin Chuan said was indeed the truth.
These official business activities in the name of the imperial court were, in the end, Li Shimin's business, and the final winner was always him.
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