There are still some differences between the booklet on the art of kingship and Machiavelli's "Treatise on the Monarch", such as Machiavelli's emphasis on the role of religion, while Rollo advocates weakening the restrictions of religion on royal power, and Rollo's way of scheming is deeply influenced by the Chinese millennium of vertical and horizontal ways and legalism.Machiavelli is an official fan, while Rollo is a scholar, if he hadn't studied politics, he would never have dealt with officialdom."
Your Majesty, the old man has come to make a fortune for you....."
Luo Luo has been in Broken Leaf for a long time, and he can even say Buddhist terms like Huayuan, "The old man needs a fund, the old man has approached the school finance department before, but they don't give approval, there is no way, the old man can only come to you to turn the yuan....""
Need funding?
Old man Luo, tell me, what do you want money for?
”Li Lu heard Luo Luo ask for money, and felt very strange, he had never deducted the funds of the Broken Leaf University."
Your Majesty, Xenophon said that everything that is useful to its owner is wealth..... but the old man wants to study where this wealth comes from..... and the old man wants to go to the Tang Dynasty to see how the economy over there is different from our broken leaves..... the old man read through Mr.
Sima Qian's "Historical Records" a few days ago and found that Mr.
Sima is also an economist who is not inferior to Xenophon....."
Luo Luo Balababa pulled a lot of money, in short, it means one thing, ask for money, ask for money, ask for money, because for Old Man Luo, this money is very important, and he can't say it three times in a row.The historical records of Li Lu are known, but who is Xenophon?
Li Lu said that he didn't know, but he roughly understood what Luo Luo wanted to do, this is going to conduct an economic census, well, this has to be supported, but Li Lu still asked clearly what the origin of Xenophon is?
When Li Lu told Old Man Luo about his doubts, Old Man Luo took out two pamphlets that he had translated by himself, only to see one with "On Economy" and the other with "On Taxation", "Your Majesty, these two pamphlets are both pamphlets about wealth written by Socrates' disciple Xenophon, and the old man translated them into Chinese....."
Economics?
Hey, this name is quite apt, old man Luo, how did you come up with the word economy?
”Li Luxin said that this old Greek man is so powerful, and he translated it so appropriately."
Don't hide it from the king, the old man met a Taoist friend named Li Chunfeng, he told the old man, as long as there are Chinese people who have the pursuit of the desire to help the people, he said that the people who can do the work of the people must be Wenneng Anbang Xingye, Wu can resist insults but the enemy is a good hand, the old man thinks that no matter the civil and military, it is inseparable from the word money, so he borrowed the word economy in the world....."
Rollo said proudly.Li Lu was shocked when he heard it, and his butterfly wings were too powerful, you must know that the word economy became the meaning of economy in economic activities in later generations, or the credit of the Japanese, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese set off a wave of industrial revolution, accepted, absorbed, and propagated Western culture, and translated a large number of Western books, and they translated the word "eics" as "economy".Later, it spread to China, and this became the true meaning of the economy.But now Old Man Luo has concretized the word economy, which is a bit premature, right?
There is also no trace of this old man Luo in the original history, it seems that his judgment that he is in a parallel space is not wrong, otherwise such a university scholar would not be unknown.On the one hand, this is because this is an economic census, and after Li Lu gets the economic survey data of Old Man Luo, he will compare it with the economic report obtained by his subordinates.....
Then there is economics is too important, Luo Luo is willing to study and improve it, he must vigorously support it, the reason is very simple, Li Lu has been an engineering student all his life, he has not studied systematic economics, and it is already a great luck to be able to lay such a big stall and not have a big problem; Although Li Lu has not been taught in systems economics, he also knows that human beings cannot survive without the production of material wealth.And different ways of social organization, different interpersonal arrangements, and the efficiency of wealth production are very different.And the economics that Old Man Luo wants to study and perfect is precisely the study of how human society is organized to achieve efficient wealth production.As long as Old Man Luo can improve the classical economics that is currently only based on the economic expositions of Xenophon and Mr.
Sima, then Li Lu will be able to discover the laws of economics and see the problems more thoroughly, and then he will be able to use the laws of economics to explain the world, judge the rights and wrongs of things, and estimate the development of the situation.Li Lu also knew that because the ancients did not understand economics, the development of human beings was greatly delayed, and similar mistakes were made again and again.As long as Old Man Luo helps him improve economics, he is sure that he will be able to push human society forward for hundreds of years, or even thousands of years, in a period of time.Many time-traveling novels are about doing business, opening companies, running factories, and making guns and cannons, as if everything came so naturally, but they ignore the fact that many times, their methods are against the laws of economics, and Li Lu has actually done a lot of things that violate the principles of economics, if he wasn't a warmonger, he has lived a good life by looting in recent years, and he would have gone bankrupt.So when Old Man Luo said that he wanted to conduct economic research, Li Lu was very supportive, he happily approved a sum of money for Old Man Luo, and gave Old Man Luo an official identity, so that he would not be troubled when conducting economic investigations, and finally Li Lu tried to recall what invisible hands he learned in political class in high school, what are the fundamental reasons for the promotion of labor productivity, and what is the importance of exchange and capital.
In short, he stuffed Rollo with all the mutilated knowledge of economic principles that he could remember.When Li Lu mentioned that strengthening the social division of labor can improve the efficiency of labor productivity, Luo Luo looked at Li Lu with admiration, "Your Majesty, others say that you are a natural genius, born to know, the old man still doesn't believe it, now that I look at it, you are really a born saint..... you must know that Xenophon thinks that it is impossible for a person to be proficient in all skills, so the division of labor is necessary."
The social division of labor can make the product more exquisite and improve the quality of the product......
You don't even know who Xenophon is, but you can explain it more profoundly than him, the old man admires, admires..."
Rollo, this old man, has the common problem of ancient Greek scholars, that is, he despises royal power, in their opinion, learning and knowledge are more important than bowing to royal power and divine power, although Li Lu received them before, he conquered most Greek scholars with mathematics, physics and chemistry that transcended the times, but Old Man Luo stubbornly thought that this king should be inferior to himself in the way of economy, but when he talked about it today, he found that he underestimated the other party.Dealing with such a knowledgeable emperor undoubtedly made Luo Luo very happy, "Your Majesty, the old man has written down what you said, you can rest assured, the old man will do his best to sort out the context of this economics, so that you can better govern the country......
Let the people also benefit from your benevolence...."
It is hard to imagine that these words came from the lips of a scholar who advocated that the monarch should do whatever it took to strengthen his rule.Li Lu encouraged Luo Luo again, and finally he said to Luo Luo, "Master Luo Luo, this economic question you want to study is of great use to Lone..... you can rest assured to study, if you have problems or difficulties, come to Lone, and Lone .....will solve it for you."
After sending Luo Luo away, Li Lu began to think, Chinese civilization is so splendid, but how many of the ancestors raised economics to the height of learning?
For thousands of years in China, except for the Guan Zhong who is known as the "first phase of China", who dares to use the method of vigorously developing handicrafts and commerce to achieve a rich country and a strong army, the others cannot jump out of the circle of "heavy agriculture and suppression of business", that is to say, they are all Li Kui's disciples and grandchildren, for 5,000 years, there is only such a Guan Zhong, only relying on industry and commerce to quickly make the originally barren Qi country strong, and this great god is also a good hand at fighting economic warfare.
That's definitely the level of a doctoral supervisor in economics.It's not that the author is bragging and writing nonsense, this Guan Xiangye is really a god-like existence, or in the Spring and Autumn Period when the slave society was over to the feudal society, Guan Xiangye had an amazing idea of market economy.Guan Xiangye's salt and iron monopoly ideology has been inherited until the 21st century, with far-reaching influence, becoming the abuse of the salt monopoly system for more than 2,000 years after the Spring and Autumn Period.He practiced in the Qi State "those who are levied on the customs, do not levie on the city; Those who are levied in the city, do not be levied in the customs", it can be seen that when he was in power, the Qi State did not repeat the tax; The tax rate is even as low as "one out of fifty" and "one out of a hundred"; Even in some periods, he simply exempted certain goods from tax, "Tube.
"Baxing" records that "the customs are not levied, and the city books are not given", which means that the checkpoints of Qi are only inspected and not taxed, and the market is only registered and not taxed.This is in stark contrast to the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business pursued by Legalists such as Li Kui and Shang Ying, and our Guan Xiangye's understanding of business is worthy of being the top economist of that era.It's a pity, it's a pity that there is only such a Guan Zhong in the entire ancient Chinese period, Guan Xiangye.Thinking of this, Li Lu couldn't help but sigh that he was lucky, if he hadn't stumbled into such a strange thing as Rollo, it was estimated that if he didn't get it right, he would have to summon an Adam Smith to help him, but this Adam Smith wanted to summon, the price was too high, and he had to lose almost half of his family to recruit him, and now he found Rollo, under his own order, this old man may be able to bring him unexpected surprises.