"Wudongmen, please sit down."

The Confucian scholar who was revered as a "son" by later generations was of course very gentlemanly. Even though he hated the unscrupulous businessman in his heart, he was still very thoughtful in his etiquette before the Tao. He greeted Wu Haogu with a respectful greeting and smiled, and asked his disciples to serve incense tea.

Wu Haogu returned the courtesy and sat opposite Hou Zi Hou Zhongliang. The new Jinshi present, except Wu Haowen, all showed a surprised expression. Most of those who came to listen to Hou Zhongliang's lectures were Confucian scholars from Guanzhong, Hedong and Henan (Henan Prefecture). Hou Zhongliang, who was well-versed in Guanluo and founded the Hedong School, was a great scholar in their minds! Wu Haogu was just a clerk, a businessman. What qualifications are there to discuss with Hou Master?

However, Wu Haowen, the sixth Jinshi who came from Kaifeng metropolis, looked down on Hou Zhongliang more than two years ago, and he really looked down on the brother who sold calligraphy and paintings on Panlou Street, but the situation is completely different now.

Wu Haogu is already a confidant of the official family, and he is a seventh-rank rampant official. It is hard to say whether he can be recommended to two governments in the future, but it seems that there is no problem to become a military officer in the third yamen to create a Wu family general. Such people are capable in the eyes of Bianliangzi. Even if they rely on flattery, they are envious and respectful in Kaifeng Mansion, which is a poor man who does not laugh at prostitutes.

Flattering is also a skill!

Besides, Wu Haogu also worked on the marriage between Wu Haowen and Han Shiqijie, and also guessed the current affairs and policy questions of this imperial examination... Wu Haowen would not look down on his brother anymore, and so many years of Confucian principles have been learned in vain.

So when Wu Haogu and Hou Zhongliang sat down separately, Wu Haowen stood behind Wu Haogu without hesitation, instead of standing behind Hou Zhongliang like the other Jinshi in Zhengxin Hall.

Wu Haogu glanced at Hou Zhongliang, who had a faint smile on his face. He looked at the frown of the new Jinshi standing behind him. He didn't know any of them. He was obviously a low-ranking Jinshi. He had never appeared in the magazine "Wenquxing". He was probably the "unlucky guy" who ranked fifth and was still in the election period. He probably wouldn't get a job by the end of the year. Even if he got it, he would still be a county lieutenant in the test title... I don't know when to last? Compared with the five-level Jinshi who got the exam, his close friends are so proud.

In addition, these new Jinshi looked rustic and a little older, and they were obviously all "jinshi" from the countryside.

Among the Jinshi masters of the Song Dynasty today, there are actually differences between urban and rural areas and gaps between rich and poor! To put it bluntly, there are two or several interest groups...

"Dongmen, my master went out to meet friends and had to go back in the afternoon. Why not discuss the previous discussion first?"

Hou Zhongliang's words interrupted Wu Haogu's thoughts. Wu Haogu looked at the great scholar in front of him and smiled modestly: "How dare I discuss the argument with the teacher, but I have a few questions to ask the teacher."

Wu Haogu really does not have the qualifications to discuss Taoism with Hou Zhongliang... Level is one thing, qualifications are another. If Wu Haogu successfully joined Shu to study Su Jun and became Su Dongpo's disciple, then he would be qualified to discuss Taoism with Cheng Yi's beloved disciple.

"Please."

Hou Zhongliang did not insist. He and Wu Haogu's arguments were self-destructive. However, Wu Haogu was able to create the "Republic and Shang Deed", which means that he was also a Confucian scholar who could leave his name in history... but he was an evil Confucian scholar!

"Does the sir think the "Republic Agreement" can really work for the world?"

After hearing Wu Haogu's question, Hou Zhongliang couldn't help but frown. Should he ask this question yourself? Isn't it about the "Lüshi Township Agreement" and the "Republic and Commercial Agreement" today? I support the "Lüshi Township Agreement". It is only by myself that I can tell whether the "Lüshi Township Agreement" can be carried out in the world! And whether the "Changwen Agreement" can be carried out in the world is what Wu Haogu wants to answer. Why is it the opposite now?

"Yes!" Hou Zhongliang did not hide his views.

When talking about the truth, you must be honest. What is the meaning of nonsense?

Hou Zhongliang said: "Taigong said: A large farmer and a large craftsman, and a large commerce company is called the three treasures. A farmer with a township means sufficient grain; a crafter with a township means sufficient goods; a businessman with a township means sufficient goods. How can those who can enter the Three Treasures be ordinary? Jiehe Shangshi gathers big merchants and big craftsmen to govern themselves. The so-called elders are all national treasures, but how can the villagers of the Lü family be compared with the villagers. The villagers of the Lü family can still govern one township, so how can the two treasures of the country not manage a commercial market? Once a commercial market rises, most of the other commercial cities in the world will follow the example sooner or later. At that time, the "Republic Shang Deed" will be in the world!"

This Hou Zhongliang is a really great scholar! After listening to his analysis, Wu Haogu thought to himself: People don’t regard industry and commerce as bitches at all, but as second treasures. Now those who can go to Jiehe Shangshi City to be veterans are treasures! Articles may not be as good as Jinshi masters, but their ability to do things is countless times more than ordinary Jinshi.

How could it be impossible to manage a market if multiple "treasures" come together and open a senate to manage a market? If a market is "greatly governed", other markets will certainly follow suit.

"Teacher, businessmen are profit-oriented and short-sighted. How can they govern one side?"

Someone immediately refuted Hou Zi, not Wu Haogu, but a new Jinshi in his forties standing behind Hou Zi.

"Scholars, farmers, industry and businessmen are all gentlemen and villains, not only merchants are greedy for profit. Even if they are greedy for profit, they are not necessarily short-sighted and unable to enter politics. Among the former saints and disciples, Zigong was a big merchant. Who dares to say that we are younger generations of later generations will surpass Zigong?"

Yes! I am the contemporary Zigong! Wu Haogu deeply agrees with Hou Zhongliang's statement and feels that he has met a confidant. He thought: Go back and recommend Hou Zhongliang to the official family to be an official... It would be a waste to not be an official with such political talents!

"But didn't Fuzi just say that the "Republic and Commercial Agreement" is a bad policy?"

Someone asked another question immediately.

Hou Zhongliang said: "Oranges grow in the south of Huai, and those grow in the north of Huai, are tangerines. The leaves are similar, but they actually taste different. What is the reason? The water and soil are different. This principle is just used in the "Shangfu Agreement". The "Republic and Shangfu Agreement" is a great good policy for the market and city, and a great evil method for the rural and rural areas."

Wu Haogu asked at this time: "Isn't it great to use commercial agreements for cities and village agreements for village agreements?"

Wu Haogu was not an opponent of the "Lüshi Township Treaty" and rural autonomy. In fact, he lacked interest in the rural areas and peasants issues of the Song Dynasty and did not understand it.

"Hahaha." Hou Zhongliang laughed loudly when he heard this, "I forgot about Da Shang and Da Gong. Is there a big farmer besides Da Gong?"

What is a big farmer?

Wu Haogu has only heard of small peasant economy, but never large peasant economy.

"The so-called big merchants, big craftsmen, big farmers are actually the same type of people in today's world." Hou Zhongliang said, "Now, within the Kaifeng Prefecture, small farmers have long disappeared. The fertile land and fertile soil belong to big merchants and big craftsmen. Ordinary small farmers have to endure heavy rent and high profits, and evil merchants have to abolish their business (speculation is strange). Now they have to survive, and they are still saying that they have a good deal?

If the "Republic Commercial Agreement" was implemented in the world's large cities, I am afraid that the fields in the world will eventually be the industrial and commercial nobles, and the industrial and commercial nobles will hand over the land to large farmers for their management. Ordinary small farmers will have no tiles on top and no inch of land on the ground, and become refugees!"

There are not no small farmers in Kaifeng Prefecture. There are many small farmers who grow vegetables and raise chickens around Kaifeng Prefecture City. They are actually very rich in life. After all, Kaifeng Prefecture is at the foot of the emperor, and even wealthy families are relatively regular and dare not force the small farmers to seize the vegetable fields.

However, these small farmers who grow vegetables and chickens have actually become industrial and commercial. They do whatever they make money, and most of them also operate industry and commerce. During the slack season, most of them go to the city to work and do business. Some vegetable farmers even build greenhouses and can grow vegetables and flowers in winter. This kind of financial resources is not a bitter farmers at all, but a total of farmers who operate agriculture... Once these agricultural merchants become big farmers, the impact on the rural areas of the Song Dynasty will be no less than the impact brought by textile industrialization!

Hou Zhongliang looked at Wu Haogu and said, "The "Lüshi Township Agreement" is a promise to raise the people, and the "Republic and Shang Gong Agreement" is a promise to persevere the tiger! Persevere the tiger... will inevitably hurt people!"

The great scholar is indeed knowledgeable!

Although Wu Haogu had no idea about the rural areas of the Song Dynasty, he had heard some stories about "sheep eat people" and "silks eat people".

Moreover, small farmers who grow twenty or thirty acres of land each have no competitiveness in farming issues, and those with minor disasters will collapse. They cannot be compared with capitalist farms that own hundreds or thousands of acres of land...

Hou Zhongliang also said: "If there are still places that can implement the 'township agreement' today, it is because the 'trade agreement' has not been implemented throughout the world. Otherwise, large farmers will inevitably replace small farmers, and the 'township agreement' will inevitably be destroyed by the 'trade agreement'."

This is a true insight! Wu Haogu really met a confidant who could discuss the truth this time... because Hou Zhongliang has seen through the essence of the "Republic Party Agreement".

The "Republic and Mercantile Treaty" is a constitution used to protect the interests of the bourgeoisie! And the bourgeoisie is not only a great craftsman, a great commerce company, but also a great peddler!

There are great craftsmen and merchants in the Song Dynasty, but there are no big farmers. The reason is that the farmers can't beat the rural literati. Whoever wants to do big farming is suppressed, and all kinds of tyrants and miscellaneous taxes are overwhelmed. Therefore, a powerful man like the Ximen family in Yanggu did not manage agriculture, but used the tenant rent system and the baojia system to control the tenant's personal body, turning them into a force that depends on themselves. Then he used this power to rampant and smuggle and tax resistance. But once the "Republic Merchant Agreement" was implemented in the world's big cities, there would be strong industrial and commercial support behind the big farmers. How could the literati and literati fight with others?

"But the "Republic Trade Agreement" is only implemented in Jiehe Commercial Market and has not been promoted to the world."

Wu Haogu actually knew the power of capitalism, so he never thought of holding the "Republic Trade Agreement" all over the world.

Hou Zhongliang laughed and said, "If the tiger raises the tiger in the boundary river today, the tiger will surely travel around the world... The tiger will travel around the world, and it will be impossible for others to do so!"

Yes, the bourgeois Pandora's box has been opened by Wu Haogu! Dagong and Dashang, who were originally well-controlled, now have a home that can be developed freely and belongs to them.
Chapter completed!