"Both of you are businessmen. You should know that businessmen value profits over the country.”
"They will not care about any law. What is the royal family in their eyes? What could Big Ming be compared to them?”
"As long as the price is right, let alone Big Ming, these people can even sell themselves.”
Zhu Gaoye looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di with burning eyes and said,
When Zhu Di heard Zhu Gaoye's words, he could not help but exclaim,
"This is impossible. These people actually dared to betray the imperial court. Aren't they afraid that His Majesty will confiscate their homes and destroy their clans?!”
Zhu Gaoye smiled and asked,"
"I'm not exaggerating. Do you know what capital is?”
Capital? What was this thing? Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di shook their heads and said to Zhu Gaoye,
"We have never heard of what little friend said. Please tell us the truth.”
Zhu Gaoye naturally knew that Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yuanzhang had never heard of the word capital. After sitting down again, Zhu Gaoye's hand gently swept the hot glass cup, but he said,"
" When capital comes to the world, blood and filth are dripping from every pore from head to toe.”
"Capital will be restless when there is a 20% profit.”
"If there is a 50% profit, the capital will take risks.”
"If there's double the profit, the capital will dare to take the risk of being killed.”
"If there are three times the profits, the capital will dare to trample on all the laws of the human world.”
Although Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di couldn't understand what Zhu Gaoye was talking about, the coldness in his words made their hearts palpitate.
Zhu Gaoye's words were also not alarmist words, but something from the famous Capital of later generations.
The so-called capital was not personal. Many people thought that many businesses had high profits, or even ten times the profit, and felt that Capital Theory was an alarmist.
But the truth was far from that.
Any business with high profits was not a big business.
Once a business accumulated to the extent of capital, it would be a huge amount.
At this level, it was as difficult as ascending to the heavens for capital to advance further.
If there was a business that could double or even multiply the capital, the capital would dare to trample on everything.
In fact, these things did not only exist in the later generations. In the Great Tang, Great Song, Great Ming, and all the eras and places where human civilization had existed, they existed.
Otherwise, those foreign barbarians who did not even have the most basic iron-smelting technology would not have so many ironware to use.
Could it have grown out of thin air?
In ancient times, salt, iron, and wine were all owned by the government.
Especially salt and iron. During the golden age, wine would occasionally be released, but salt and iron had always been banned. If they were caught, they would easily commit the crime of extermination.
But even so, it still couldn't stop the people from secretly smuggling salt and iron to the foreigners. The reason was that the profits of these things were too high.
It was so high that these people risked their lives to sell it on the grasslands. After all, who could resist the temptation of a small kitchen knife in exchange for a large herd of sheep?
"If Great Ming is completely controlled by the capital, not only the royal family, but also the people of the world will have to rely on these merchants.”
Zhu Gaoye paused for a moment and smiled at Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di."
"I have a small question that I would like to ask the two of you. I hope the two of you can try to answer my question.”
When Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di heard Zhu Gaoye's words, they immediately sat up straight and said,
"Young friend, please speak."
Zhu Gaoye said,"
"If the Ming Dynasty encountered a famine year, the grain in a grain store was only enough for 80 people to eat, but there were 100 people waiting outside to buy rice with money.”
"Guess what will happen?”
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di looked at each other. Although they didn't know what Zhu Gaoye meant, they still followed his words and said,"
"The price of grain will increase by 20%? And then those merchants would take the opportunity to make a fortune?”
Zhu Di tried to voice his thoughts.
Zhu Gaoye shook his head and said,"
"That's not right. How much money can we earn by raising the price by 20%? This bit of money is far from enough to satisfy the greed of the capital.”
"If the imperial court doesn't control it, or if the imperial court is controlled by the capital, then the price of this grain will eventually rise until 20% of the people can't afford it!”
"And these 20% who can't afford it are the 20% who are sacrificed by the capital! They didn't have to die, but they had to die because of the greed of capital!”
Zhu Gaoye's words shocked Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di. In Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di's understanding, even if there was a shortage of food, even if those merchants hoarded it, at most, it would only increase the price of food by a portion.
He had never thought that these people would be so ruthless. They actually wanted to starve 20% of them to death to satisfy their selfish desires.
"This is the harm of capital, and the harm of capital goes far beyond this.”
Zhu Gaoye continued. Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were already numb. The capital was already so cruel and greedy, but it was still far from enough. If it really reached the limit that Zhu Gaoye mentioned, what would happen?
"Let's not talk about the distant ones. Let's take our Great Ming as an example.”
"Once the Great Ming Dynasty is controlled by the capital, as long as these merchants are willing, they can let the enemies outside the pass enter and plunder the people at any time.”
"Then they will take the opportunity to raise prices and reap benefits from it.”
"As for the lives of the people, it has nothing to do with them. They even hope that the people will live a little worse. Only then can they earn more money.”
"Moreover, there are still remnants of Northern Yuan in the north who have been eyeing Great Ming covetously.”
"You should know that when the remnants of Northern Yuan fled from the Central Plains, they took away a lot of property. As long as these people of Northern Yuan are willing to pay enough money, do you think these merchants will open the border and let these Yuan people come back?”
"The answer is yes!"
"Capital will cause people to lose their most basic conscience, turning the entire dynasty into profit-seeking people from top to bottom. There will no longer be gentleness, courtesy, frugality, loyalty, rationality, and faith.”
"It's full of deception everywhere. For the sake of benefits, they do whatever it takes, even disregarding their own flesh and blood.”
Zhu Gaoye's words seemed to carry some kind of magic. Every time he said it, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di's hearts trembled.
Zhu Yuanzhang felt extremely uncomfortable when he pointed at his most valued kinship.
By the time Zhu Gaoye finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were completely stunned.
After saying that, Zhu Gaoye kept silent and started to drink the tea on the table leisurely, preparing to let the two people digest his words.
As the ruler of a country, Zhu Yuanzhang broke out in a cold sweat after hearing Zhu Gaoye's words. He was terrified.
So he looked at Zhu Gaoye, who was drinking tea leisurely, and asked,"
"Then according to what little friend said, how should we solve this problem?”
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