Regarding Li Shimin's stubbornness, Li Muyun didn't know how to continue the topic, got up and patted the back of his head and turned around in place a few times and said: "Brother Huang, why don't you understand, that money is only money when it flows, and it is a pile of useless copper piled together."
Li Shimin narrowed his eyes in anger: "If I understood that I would have kicked you out a long time ago, I would have let you be presumptuous here." ” Li Muyun sighed helplessly: "No, I'm not presumptuous, I'm in a hurry, brother Huang, think about it, right now, the people of our Datang actually don't have much money left at home, and there are even some people who can't eat enough, right?"
Li Shimin nodded, he had to admit that Li Muyun was not wrong, and he was merciful, because although Datang looks glamorous on the surface, in fact, the people are really poor, except for eating without Yizi, basically half of the population is struggling on the line of life and death, not that some people can't eat.
But it is precisely because of this that he disagrees with Li Muyun's high cost of hiring workers, because this will cause regional conflicts, and those people who can't eat are likely to take risks because of dissatisfaction and embark on the road of no return to rebellion if they know such news.
But Li Muyun has his unique thinking, and when he saw that Li Shimin didn't speak, he continued: "So my brother thinks that we can let some people get rich first, and then through the correct guidance, make those people who are still struggling with food and clothing realize that they can get rid of poverty through their own efforts, so as to stimulate their desire to do their best." ” Although this explanation is a bit nonsense, it is the best explanation that Li Muyun can think of, after all, he did not choose political economy as his major at the beginning, and he can't think of a more intelligent explanation.
And what he wanted to express was not limited to this, there was almost no pause, and he continued: "Brother Huang, this is actually an invisible circle, you want to make the people of the whole country have enough to eat, but you can't achieve your goal at once. ” "To take the simplest example, a family has five children, if the parents want to make them rich at the same time, it is impossible, so they can only come one by one, such as investing in a certain one first, let him go to school, and then when the book is finished, he becomes a big official, and then the parents and the eldest help the second to do business, and when the second is rich, then four people will support the third and fourth children or study or do business, and when the fifth child is also supported, then the family will really be rich."
"It's the same with the state, you need to make some people rich, and then those people will give the country more tax revenues, and the state can use those taxes to reward the people, such as investing in some poor areas, so that the people there can have more jobs in addition to farming, which can be a long process, but it is the only way to solve the problem."
Li Shimin and Empress Changsun glanced at each other, although they did not all agree with Li Muyun's views, but at least in the general direction, what Li Muyun said was not wrong.
Changle was still young, and he didn't understand what Li Muyun was talking about, but at the critical moment, he asked the question that Li Er was more concerned about: "Why do the people definitely provide taxes to the state when they are rich, as far as I know, the biggest hobby of the people is to bury all their money and save it." ” Li Muyun shook his head: "People like to bury their money because they always think that money is not enough, so they will do it."
In fact, a family's consumption is directly proportional to its income, your monthly income of 50 wen may eat rice bran in order to save money, but when you have 500 wen a month, you will replace rice bran with rice, which is a rigid need and has nothing to do with habits. ” "And as long as the people consume, then there will be taxes, although the court does not collect taxes from the people, but it is taxing merchants, the more things they sell, the more taxes they pay, so that the country's taxes will naturally come up."
Changle wrinkled his nose and said in a coquettish voice: "How can you be so sure that the people will definitely consume, if they continue to bury the money?"
Although the little girl's question was a bit nonsense, Li Er didn't stop it, because he also wanted to hear how Li Muyun answered this question.
Li Muyun spread his hands and said: "Because of human nature, after being poor all my life, I suddenly became rich, and revenge consumption is not an impossible thing, not to mention that we Datang people have a subconscious of glorifying their ancestors in their hearts, and for ordinary people, the most direct way to glorify their ancestors is to consume, improve their quality of life, and let the people around them know that they are rich." ” I have to say that what Li Muyun said about human nature is not exaggerated at all, and these are all summed up by him through some observations and experiences in later generations.
If you don't believe it, ask yourself how you would react if you were just an ordinary salaried person and suddenly won 5 million.
You might say I'll save my money and not spend it.
But the reality is definitely not like this, because you have absolute rigid needs that need to be solved, such as buying a house and getting married, such as buying a good car If you say I have all of this, my parents have all of them for me.
Well, do you suddenly have so much money and don't want to repay your parents, as the so-called tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, and the son wants to raise but does not wait, who doesn't want to let the parents comfort the old man after making a fortune, and let the second elder be glorified in front of relatives and friends.
Of course, it is also possible that you say that my house and car are all purchased by myself, if so, then you are a successful person and you can not consider the above consumption.
But in the same way, you won't care about the five million, you will also use it to spend, such as traveling, such as rewarding anchors, in short, if you are a successful person, even if you don't have these five million, you are also paying taxes for the country.
So no matter what, when ordinary people have a lot of money all of a sudden, their lives will definitely change, and this is not something that can be controlled by reason.
It is precisely because Li Muyun knows this that he is so sure that after the people have a lot of money in their hands all of a sudden, it will inevitably stimulate consumption.
Of course, in fact, Li Muyun said it for a long time, but there were still some things he didn't say.
Although he is throwing a lot of money out, the people who have made money do not have more money to spend, because they need to work on the construction site every day, so they generally spend their money near Lishan, such as buying some meat today and some clothes tomorrow.
But the problem is that the shops near Lishan are all opened by Li Muyun himself, which means that the money he sent will only return to his hands after a turn in the hands of the people, although some of them will be missing, but in general they have not lost too much.
Li Shimin felt that his brain was a little messy after listening to it for a long time, so he simply didn't want to do so much, so he sent Li Muyun away, and didn't bother with how much salary he paid.
When Li Muyun left, His Majesty the Great Emperor finally showed a headache expression, and sighed and said: "What this kid said is true or false, could it be that what we did before was wrong" Empress Changsun also frowned and said with some uncertainty: "It seems that there is some truth in what he said, and the concubine can't judge whether it's right or wrong, and this kind of thing is not easy to try, if something goes wrong, it will cause national turmoil." ” "I think what Mu Yun said is very reasonable, at least my expenses are a lot more than before, and I can't control it if I want to."
Changle suddenly interjected on the side and startled the eldest grandson queen, and turned his head to glare at her: "Why are you still here?"
"People are always there" Changle blinked his eyes wide, and his tone was full of grievances of being abandoned.
Li Shimin spoiled Changle like a heart, where did he see his daughter being wronged, and immediately called her to his side, and asked in a harmonious voice: "Good quality, tell your father, do you really believe what the kid said." ” "Of course I do."
Changle nodded heavily and replied in the affirmative.
"Why?"
asked Li Shimin in the image of a loving father.
"No, why."
A trace of confusion flashed in Changle's eyes, and he seemed to not understand why his father, who had always been wise, was so confused today.
Empress Changsun couldn't stand her daughter's stunned look, and nodded on her forehead: "No, then why do you have to believe that stinky boy, you girl shouldn't be stunned by his words." ” "No, it's not."
Changle took a step back and asked with some puzzlement: "Father, mother, haven't you always understood what he said?"
Li Er stopped the wife who was about to count the daughters, and said in a harmonious voice: "What is he talking about, why don't you tell your father about it." ” "Father, mother, in fact, what Li Muyun said is a virtuous circle, for example, if the people have money in their hands, then they will buy clothes, so that the court can take a part of the tax from the merchants who sell clothes, and the merchants who sell clothes have to buy goods after selling the clothes, so the court can take a part of the tax from the cloth merchants, and the cloth merchants need to buy dyes, so" Changle wrenched his hand and counted it around, and then concluded: "It can be seen from this cycle that in fact, all the expenses here are only the money that the people used to buy clothes at the beginning, and this money goes to the garment merchants, then to the cloth merchants, then to the dye merchants, and finally to the treasury of the imperial court.
In order to build city walls and roads, the court will take out the money and redistribute it to the people. ” "The money is actually still the money, but the people have more clothes, more goods for merchants, and more roads in the country, and so on, and so on, and the people will slowly have a lot of things in their homes, such as clothes, such as cattle and sheep, such as jewelry, so that the people will get rich, and the country's road will be longer and longer."
"You, you" Li Er looked at his fourteen-year-old girl dumbfounded, and asked in a tangled manner for a while: "You just heard it from that stinky boy's words" Changle blinked innocently, looked at his father and then at his mother, and finally shook his head: "I heard it when Mu Yun was chatting with the prince's brother before." ”: