1. What are the ancient texts about doing business in ancient times?

Fan Li was an outstanding politician and big businessman in the late Spring and Autumn Period. He also has some noteworthy economic management ideas, such as his economic management ideas of benefiting both farmers and the poor.

According to "Historical Records·Biographies of Huozhi", Fan Li believed: A farmer is sick at his twenties, and at the end of his nineties. If he is sick at the end of his life, he will not be able to make money, and if he is sick at the end of his life, he will not be able to grow grass. If the upper limit does not exceed eighty and the lower limit does not decrease by thirty, then both farmers and farmers will benefit. It is the way to govern a country if everything is kept in balance and there is no shortage of cities and towns. "The general idea of ??the above is: If the price of grain is too low, it will harm the interests of farmers. If farmers are harmed and do not work hard to produce, farmland will be abandoned. If the price of grain is too high, it will harm the interests of industrial and commercial people. If industry and commerce are harmed, no one will be engaged in it. Industry and commerce will suffer from economic difficulties. If the grain price is as low as 20, it will harm farmers, and if the grain price is as high as 90, it will harm industry and commerce. It will be beneficial to agriculture, industry and commerce. If we can "equalize everything", there will be no shortage of checkpoints and markets. Isn't this the way to govern the country?

As for his customary use since the Warring States Period" It is his own change to replace "industrial and commercial" with "无". This has been pointed out by predecessors①. It should also be noted that by limiting the price of grain to no less than 30 and no more than 80, "Yue Jue" According to "Ji Ni Neijing", "buying twenty stones will hurt the farmers, and ninety will end the disease." The price of such grains per stone is roughly consistent with the 30 millet stone price mentioned by Li Kui during the Warring States Period and the grain price in the Han Dynasty. . This may also be an example of the Han Dynasty using the customs of the time to express Fan Li's thoughts. However, these small changes do not damage the brilliance of Fan Li's idea of ??"profiting all the farmers". 2. There is a classical Chinese article about fishermen and businessmen. >

A businessman's boat capsized when he was crossing the river. He grabbed the floating weeds in the water and shouted for help. A nearby fisherman heard this and rowed over to rescue him. He did not even reach the businessman. The businessman said: " I am a rich man. If you save me, I will give you one hundred taels of silver. Can you save me? After hearing this, the fisherman rescued him and brought him to the shore. The merchant gave the fisherman ten taels of silver. The fisherman said, "You promised to give me one hundred taels but now you give me ten taels. Is this okay?" "After hearing this, the businessman's face was full of anger. He said: "If you fish, you can only make a few money a day. Now you can get ten taels of silver at once, aren't you satisfied? "The fisherman left without saying a word. Another day, the merchant's boat capsized again -_-||. The fisherman was next to the merchant who fell into the water. When he saw it, he said: 'This is the man who said he would give money but did not give enough." Unable to save the businessman, he rowed away by himself. After a while, the businessman sank. 3. How did the ancient people say business in ancient Chinese?

It should be:

"Sitting in the business (gǔ) doing business" or "going business and sitting in the business".

Jia gǔ

The more commonly used words in ancient proverbs are to express business, such as: "Hide everything in a cabinet, sell everything if you ask for a good merchant", "Marry a merchant from Qutang, and go to court" Today, "Shang" has basically replaced "Jia", but there is still the word "Shang Jia".

--The information comes from asking a classmate and he sent it to me (I don’t know where he got it yet).

zuò gǔ xíng shāng (zuò gǔ xíng shāng)

Explanation: Jia gǔ: businessman. Sitting businessman and walking businessman. In ancient times, merchants were people who traveled around selling goods, and merchants were people who opened a shop and had a fixed address to sell goods. This was called "traveling merchants and merchants". Now generally refers to traders who do business.

Source: Song Dynasty Fan Chengda's "Shihu Poetry Collection* Title Nantang Guesthouse": "Only when you are idle can you know how to live in this life. A fool is more active outside. Look at the businessmen who are sitting here, who can be calm again? Singing about Weicheng.

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