"Okay, I'll follow Brother Li's advice."
"I will listen to Brother Li."
"No one should buy an official position. Anyone who does is a grandson."
After fierce debate, the salt merchants expressed their unwillingness to buy official positions.
After everyone swore, the "tea party" finally ended.
After leaving the teahouse, the salt merchants returned home.
The first thing they did when they returned home was to ask the housekeeper to find a way to raise money to buy official positions for their descendants or close relatives.
What a shitty oath!
In their eyes, profit comes first.
First, the imperial court was investigating the problem of common people exceeding the rules, and most of the problems could be avoided as long as they had official status.
Second, spending money to buy an official position may not be important to other common people, but it is very attractive to businessmen, especially salt merchants in the south.
The salt merchants here are all wealthy.
According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, they belong to the intermediate stage of respect needs.
To put it bluntly.
They need respect and recognition from others, as well as corresponding social status and power.
At that time, merchants were called untouchables.
Buying an official position and becoming an official can not only help one escape from this low status but also make one a superior being.
It can also bring honor to the family.
The clan concept is very strong in the south, and every clan has an ancestral hall.
These ancestral halls not only enshrine ancestral tablets, but also serve as the cohesive force of the entire clan.
For those salt merchants who successfully bought official positions, their names would be engraved on the stone tablets in the ancestral hall and would be respected and admired by their clansmen.
This money is worth it!
Under the influence of various factors, Lianghuai salt merchants paid next year's salt tax in advance and arranged suitable candidates to participate in the auction for donated official positions.
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