Chapter 925

"Hasty, misleading?" Merton raised his head and stared at Yu Zhining. "Getting rich is a summary of the successful experience of Mojia village and a practical strategy to enrich the people. How did it become misleading among the Royal population."

Yu Zhining sneered: "for thousands of years, all dynasties have focused on agriculture and restrained commerce. How did it become impossible to live without commerce in the mouth of mohou? It was the first to do business in Yazhou. The low-cost tribute oranges in Yazhou have multiplied several times through the hands of Mohism. If everyone in the world does business, pursues profits and forgets righteousness at the sight of profits, is it not etiquette corruption? This atmosphere is caused by Mohism taking the lead."

Merton retorted with a sneer: "since Lord Yu thinks businessmen are good for nothing, why not play your majesty and prohibit the people all over the world from doing business."

"Eh!" Yu Zhining choked. Although he agreed to emphasize agriculture and suppress business, if he banned business in the world, he would certainly be laughed off.

"Since ancient times, the emphasis on agriculture and suppression of commerce is based on the fact that the world's products are not abundant, and the people are still short of clothes and food. Paying attention to agriculture is the foundation of the country. Only sufficient food can stabilize the society. At the end of successive dynasties, the people were unable to live. It was the people who did not have enough food and could not live that caused social unrest. This is what I said about the instability without agriculture." Merton Lang said.

All officials could not help nodding. They had experienced the turmoil in the late Sui Dynasty. Naturally, they knew that the reason for the unrest was that the people could not live, so they rose one after another.

"As for being rich without work, a bucket of grain is only three or five Wen. If it is ground into flour, the price can be increased by 30%. If it is made into cake, it can make profits several times; an egg is only one Wen, and the price of hatching chicken is doubled; a kilogram of iron is only ten Wen, and a kilogram of good steel is more than 100 Wen. As for the reason why the price of tribute oranges has increased several times, do you know that Mojia village transports them from Yazhou to Chang How much manpower and material resources does an City need, coupled with the secret preservation skills of Mohism, to make tribute oranges fresh as before. Such a price is also extremely reasonable. The people of Chang'an City buy them one after another. The so-called work is to double the value of agricultural products through the processing of Mohism, which is the reason why all workers are rich, and also the reason why Mohist village is rich. "Merton said proudly.

"That's the so-called no business without living?" Yu Zhining asked. The Tang Dynasty also emphasized agriculture and restrained commerce, while mojiazi's "getting rich" openly supported businessmen. He looked at how Merton justified himself.

Merton said proudly: "Businessmen don't work in production, but they travel between the two places to exchange needed goods. Now Datang is booming. Through the progress of ink technology in Datang, Quyuan plow and pesticides can increase grain production year after year. Artificial incubation technology makes chickens, ducks and geese everywhere, and grafting technology makes melons and fruits all over the mountains. At this time, people who grow grain want to eat meat, while those who raise chickens and ducks want to eat fruits and grow fruits Trees want food. All these need merchants to transport goods and exchange needed goods. People can exchange the surplus harvest for money so that everyone can get the material they want. This is no business. Yazhou does not produce food, but it is rich in tribute oranges. If no merchants bring food and buy tribute oranges, I'm afraid the tribute oranges all over the mountains will rot on the trees , how can people in Chang'an city taste such delicious food? "

All officials nodded one after another. Although everyone said that agriculture was important and business was restrained, privately, which family did not do business secretly, otherwise how to maintain a decent life in Chang'an City.

"All the people in the world are indispensable. Businessmen are also an indispensable link in the world. Of course, there are many illegal businessmen who hoard strange goods and shoddy goods, which requires the supervision of the imperial court," Merton added.

Yu Zhining said with a smile: "mohou's words fight lotus, but it can't cover up the fact that the world's wealth is just a bowl of water. If one takes more, one will take less. The so-called prosperity of Mojia village and Yazhou is just to take the wealth of the world to enrich the two places."

As soon as Yu Zhining said this, many civil servants immediately nodded. Since ancient times, the theory that the world's wealth is a bowl of water has been recognized all over the world. As soon as Yu Zhining's theory came out, it immediately aroused widespread support.

Merton angrily denounced: "it's ridiculous. A bowl of water in the world's wealth is a great fallacy. Wealth is not quantitative, but created by tens of thousands of people in the Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, the taxes in the Tang Dynasty have increased year after year. Where did the extra money come from? Did the imperial court search the people again?"

"Mo family, don't talk nonsense." Yu Zhining said with embarrassment. If the taxes were roughly the same every year before, Yu Zhining seemed very correct. However, since the wide application of Mo family's ink technology, the tax revenue of Datang increased sharply year after year, which immediately made this sentence full of loopholes. As soon as Merton shot, he hit his key point directly.

"I'm not talking nonsense. The world's wealth is a bowl of water, which may be so in a short time. However, in a long time, the world's wealth is growing. Take the taxes of Datang, the 10% tax increase every year is the wealth created by the people of Datang in the past year.

"This is only the data of recent years. If you compare it with the previous dynasties, you will find that the wealth of the Tang Dynasty will be much higher than that of the previous dynasties. Where did these wealth come from?" Merton asked.

Yan shigu nodded and stood out and said, "however, take the most powerful Han Wu period for example, its one-year tax is not less than 50% of that in the Tang Dynasty."

"In the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Chinese land was desolate, and the people all over the world built cities and opened up farmland. These are the wealth created by the people. It is the hard work of our Chinese people from generation to generation that makes us rich now. Let alone that the output of one mu of farmland was only three loads, now the farmland in the world has been generally four loads, the original two loads The wagon can carry only a kilo of cargo, while the four wheeled wagon generally carries three or five thousand kilos of forage, which is almost the same. Originally, there were few melons and fruits, and the grafting technology can make melons and fruits everywhere. The increased production comes from adults. I don't know if you can explain where it comes from. "Merton forced me to look at it.

Yu Zhining immediately blushed and was speechless. The production increase effect brought by Mohist ink technology was very significant. These naked data directly hit his face, which made him unable to refute.

Merton said proudly: "What a fallacy is that wealth in the world is a bowl of water. Wealth is created by the hands of all people in the world and accumulated from generation to generation. According to the current momentum, the tax of Datang will increase at the rate of 10% per year. You can calculate that the tax of Datang will double on the existing basis in ten years, double again in twenty years, and double every ten years, such as In a hundred years, the annual tax of Datang will reach such a huge figure. "

"Hoo!"

The people of the Manchu Dynasty could not help a stir. Many ministers with excellent arithmetic had even calculated the unimaginable astronomical figures.

"If the existing wealth of Datang is a bowl of water, over time, it will accumulate a bucket of water, a jar of water, or even a lake until it accumulates into an endless sea." Merton threw it on the ground.

So far, Datang's first wealth debate has officially ended. With the support of iron data, Yu Zhining's defeat is incomplete. Merton's wealth creation theory has appeared in Datang for the first time.