Chapter 11: Greed The weather has begun to get hot in mid-June, and tens of thousands of people are working on the originally narrow and uneven dirt road between Rodnik Lingcuifeng Town and Hulu Mountain.
"If you want to get rich, build roads first."
In the camping area of the construction site upwind, Zhao Yannian was sitting in the pergola and said to Jasmine with black tea.
"What does wanting to get rich have to do with building roads?"
Jasmine put the dessert plate in her hand on the table and asked Zhao Yannian curiously.
"Let me kiss it, and I'll explain it to you."
Zhao Yannian put down the teacup and said to Jasmine with open arms.
Jasmine turned her head to look around, and at this time the women and children in the camp area were preparing lunch for the men in the field, so the camp area full of tents was now empty, and the noise of the people working in the distance seemed to make the camp seem strangely quiet.
"Just a gentle kiss!
Don't stick your tongue in my mouth!
And if someone comes, let me go!
Jasmine stretched out her finger and pointed at Zhao Yannian's three chapters.
"Good!
I promise you won't stick your tongue in!
Zhao Yannian maintained the posture just now and nodded with a smile.
"Then, for the sake of your honesty today, I'll give you a kiss."
Jasmine reconfirmed that there was really no one nearby like a thief, and then came to Zhao Yannian's side with a twist. hugged him violently and sat Jasmine on his knees, Zhao Yannian immediately turned his face and said without admitting his account: "Lord Lord is going to eat!"
” "Ah, you scoundrel!"
After a burst of screaming and fighting, the two of them tossed in messy clothes and red faces, and Zhao Yannian was a little reluctant to let go of Jasmine.
"Bastard, you almost suffocated me just now!
Bah!
Bah!
Saliva came in.
Jasmine complained to Zhao Yannian both shy and angry.
"Alright, the payment has been paid, and it's time to lecture."
Zhao Yannian wrapped his hands around Jasmine's waist, smiling and changing the topic while rubbing oil.
"Little Jasmine, what do you mean to be wealth?"
Zhao Yannian, who was very aware of the weaknesses of this money-obsessed girl who occasionally made mistakes, easily attracted Jasmine's attention.
"Wealth?
Isn't it just gold coins?
Jasmine opened her mouth to reply, but after answering, she tilted her head and thought about it for a moment, and then added.
"Money, land and houses, and all sorts of things are considered wealth."
"Yo, my jasmine has become smarter!"
Zhao Yannian praised, obviously able to answer such an answer, this girl who has never received any education is still very smart.
"Usually what we call wealth generally refers to what you are talking about, but in fact, there are some intangible things that also belong to wealth.
But we can talk about these things later.
Zhao Yannian hugged Jasmine's hands tightly, letting the two of them get closer, and then continued to speak with satisfaction.
"It might be difficult for you to understand if you follow the standard interpretation, so I'll give you an example here, a town has a lot of fruit trees on the hills outside the town, and you say that these fruits are not wealth to the people of the town?"
Zhao Yannian asked.
"It's considered wealth, the fruit can be eaten directly, it can also be made into fruit pie, it can also be dried into dried fruit or pickled with honey."
Jasmine struggled in Zhao Yannian's arms, and moved the hand that was originally holding Zhao Yannian's waist to her chest and counted it.
"Then how much do you think these fruits are worth to the townspeople if they are converted into gold coins?"
"Convert to gold?
It's not comfortable to eat too much fruit, and children and young people may eat more, but if it were me, I would prefer to eat bread and beef, even if it's a mountain full of fruit, it's not worth fifty gold coins, right?
"Jasmine, who usually lives in the royal capital with a group of big men full of violent factors, prefers meat that can provide more calories in terms of eating habits, and is not too fond of fruits, so the offer is not very high.
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"Yes, if you eat the fruit every year, you will definitely get tired of it, so for the townspeople, this mountain full of fruit may not be worth as much as a bag of flour."
Zhao Yannian sighed, and then asked Jasmine again.
"Little Jasmine, you said that if a town is all grasslands outside, they have a large herd of cattle and sheep, and the daily staple food is roast meat, how much do you think beef is worth to them?"
"It's worthless, isn't it?
If I only eat meat every day, I will get tired of eating it.
Jasmine imagined a life where she could only eat meat for a day, and suddenly shivered, and then inexplicably stopped the futile struggle that had been going on before, and replied obediently lying in Zhao Yannian's arms.
"So, think about it, if a person transports the fruits of the first town to the second town, how many cows, sheep and gold coins will the people who want to try it out will pay for these worthless fruits?"
Zhao Yannian continued to induce Jasmine.
"Ahh I understand that a merchant just takes cheap goods from one place and sells them at a high price to another where they don't, so if you want to get rich, you need to build roads!?
Jasmine finally understood the relationship between wealth and roads.
"Correct, buying low and selling goods high is the way for merchants to accumulate wealth, and the quality of the road determines the speed and quantity of merchants' circulation, just like fruit, calculated from the beginning of picking, if the weather is hot, it will rot in three or five days.
Although the herd can be driven live to other places to sell, but the longer the distance, the greater the risk of encountering, thieves, diseases, monster attacks, and the possibility of being frightened and causing the livestock to run away and be lost.
These risks will gradually diminish as roads and law and order improve.
Saying this, Zhao Yannian paused and looked down at Jasmine.
Jasmine that Zhao Yannian saw was looking at him with a serious face.
"And then?
If there are usually more merchants on the road, won't these things eventually become worthless?
Jasmine raised her own questions.
"My Jasmine is so smart that she can think so far."
Zhao Yannian doted on Jasmine's forehead and praised.
"The end result of the smooth trade routes is the abundance of goods everywhere, and the townspeople and merchants make money in this trade, and then we need to tell the fact that human beings are greedy, just as I like pretty and cute girls, and you like gold coins."
Speaking of this, Zhao Yannian smiled and picked up Jasmine's chin and slammed it, and then was beaten by Jasmine.
"People don't like gold coins, it's just that they used to be poor, and they always feel that they need to save more, so they can feel at ......ease when they look at it," Jasmine lowered her head and whispered in defense.
"Of course I know, and when I see little Jamie, I can imagine how hard it is to grow up alone in that kind of slum."
Zhao Yannian stretched out his hand and stroked Jasmine's silver-gray short hair and said softly.
"Hmm......"
Jasmine whispered in response to Zhao Yannian's gentleness.
"Alright, let's move on to the topic of greed."
The two were silent for a while, and Zhao Yannian opened his mouth to interrupt this warm state and resumed the previous topic.
"Everyone has greed, and they want different things depending on their position, a farmer wants to be in good weather every year, a craftsman wants to be a god every time he builds, a warrior wants to master powerful skills to make himself invincible on the battlefield, and a nobleman wants a more prosperous territory and a more respected position.
For ordinary townspeople and merchants who have been given money, all they want is more gold and a better life, so for the sake of these little golden things, they will use their increasingly flexible brains to find new ways to earn gold. ” "Come to think of it, the townspeople are not one, there must be some clever ghosts in them who have figured out how to get their neighbors' gold coins, they may study cooking, and then open a delicious restaurant, they may learn tailoring, they may open a gorgeous silk clothing shop, they may become a good mason, and then they will tear down the shack-like houses of the townspeople and build them into small spacious and bright buildings, and the townspeople will not have any relatives in other cities, In order for them to be dressed in gorgeous clothes and carry glittering gold coins in their arms, to show off the food and dwelling they enjoyed to their poor relatives, the presence of grooms was naturally needed. ” "Think about it, these gold coins will be like grease between the gears, enlivening all those who come into contact with them, and they will eventually create a great material civilization in their incessant labor and thinking.
Of course, this is only an approximate process, and there will be many strange things that will happen in the meantime, human greed will bring about creation and destruction, and any civilization will eventually come to an end, but that will be a long, long time later, and what I am doing now is to put a few drops of grease on my little territory and make these rusty machines roar again.
Zhao Yannian, who had said this in one breath, suddenly felt that there seemed to be some shackles in his heart, and in his mental induction, the magic elements that had been blurred all along suddenly became clearly visible.
"This is?!"
Zhao Yannian exclaimed.
"What?"
Jasmine woke up from the wonderful picture described by Zhao Yannian and asked with some puzzlement.
"It's nothing, baby, I'm a little hungry, go make me a beef sandwich full of gratitude."
Zhao Yannian patted Jasmine's ass and said.
Jasmine, who suddenly found out that his lover was such a powerful guy, surprisingly did not complain and honestly walked into the tent not far away to prepare for food.
"Damn, how can I advance to the magic level if I tell a business story?!"
Zhao Yannian tried his magic power operation, and suddenly found that his magic power had skyrocketed several times, and it had reached the level of a high-level magician.
"It's only been a year since the last advancement, it can't be accumulated by one's own meditation, and I didn't feel anything abnormal before I teased Jasmine just now, does it really have anything to do with what I said?"
Zhao Yannian thought about it and suddenly whispered two words in surprise.
"Greed?!"