Chapter 142 Section 5 Power Club

Li Si no longer had the anger of his youth.At that time, he had just arrived in Xianyang and had nothing, no identity and status, no wealth and real estate.But the Xianyang officialdom he was going to was a fully closed aristocratic club, and Lu Buwei was the owner of this club.This club is only open to members, and no outsiders are allowed to play at all.Li Si can only wander outside the club, he is both jealous and envious of the scenery inside, and hopes that he can also enter one day.At this time, the relationship between him and Lu Buwei is completely opposite, and Lu Buwei is his enemy.

Goethe said a romantic and poignant sentence: I love you, and it has nothing to do with you.What Li Si wanted to say to Lu Buwei was this sentence: I hate you, and it has nothing to do with me.Who told you people in the club to only care about your own happiness, never look outside, and never notice my existence outside the door, I, I am more qualified and capable than all of you to enjoy everything in the club.Li Si wanted to wake up the people in the club, draw their attention, and open the door for him.He has two methods, one is to burn the house down with a torch, just like what Chen Sheng and Wu Guang did later; the other is to stand outside the door shouting loudly, even cursing, and beating the door frantically, just hoping that someone can hear it.Li Si chose the second method, and he could only choose this way.

At that time, Li Si had too much suppressed anger, so it was difficult to make an objective evaluation of Lu Buwei.In Li Si's eyes at that time, Lu Buwei was always just a businessman, short-sighted and mercenary.He and his senior brother Han Fei have exactly the same views on businessmen: the so-called businessman is one of the five moths, the scum of human beings, and the moth of society.It is true that merchants, as a profession older than prostitutes, have been despised and disgusted for a long period of time in ancient times, and there is even a saying that there is no business without adultery.Traffickers, shameless people also.It can be seen that the status of businessmen in ancient times was far lower than that of today.In comparison, the status of businessmen was pushed too low in the past, but it is raised too high today.The values ​​that are popular today are the values ​​of businessmen.The so-called success is the success of money. From a large perspective, it depends on how much money you have in your hand. From a small perspective, it depends on what brand of cigarettes you take out.And those successful people have long abandoned the rustic title of rich man and rich woman, and put on the new clothes of social elites and wealth heroes.I don't know much about economics, and the economists don't seem to intend to let me know.But it is clear that when the profit of the manufacturer is far less than that of the seller, when the consumer has to accept some products whose price is much higher than the value, when the labor and the harvest are presented to different people. There must be a problem with the huge contrast.It can be seen from the past that the hatred of the rich has existed since ancient times, and it did not start today.Are those who hate the rich purely pink-eye?Is Han Fei pink eye?Not necessarily.

On the other hand, the reading profession, which was highly sought after in ancient times, has been in decline recently.The ancients said: Everything is low-grade, only reading is high.Recently, the once promising profession of reading has also begun to move closer to lower grades.Unlike businessmen, the status of scholars was raised too high in the past, but it is stepped down too low today.The so-called social division of labor, three teachings and nine streams, turns out that there are times when Feng Shui turns. Having said that, now that Li Si has joined the club and become a VIP member, he can observe Lu Buwei's actions at close range, and being an official in the same dynasty, he can empathize with many of Lu Buwei's mental journeys.Now Li Si can evaluate Lu Buwei relatively calmly and fairly.