Do you know that there was a special community dentist in ancient times, who was at the bottom but could be extremely rich?

A "dental dealer" is also called a "dental customer". Simply put, it is a businessman who makes a living by being glib.

Compared with today's concepts, we can roughly understand "tooth dealer" as "middleman", "intermediary" and "broker", commonly known as "tailor-made". In a sense, the most popular "e-commerce platform" at present can be regarded as an "upgraded version" of the "cloud" electronic "internet plus" of "Tooth Merchants".

From the perspective of traditional business, a "tooth dealer" doesn't even have goods, let alone a "user" or even a "profiteer". In ancient times, almost all groups who knew this craft, including "merchants" who brought goods and "merchants" who sold goods, would think that their "all" was just a glib tongue.

Why not call it "tongue quotient" or "mouth quotient" but "tooth quotient"?

Because "teeth" are hard. That is to say, in the so-called "universal" understanding, after putting aside "position" and "morality", "tooth merchants" and their communities are still very strong and not so easy to provoke. In fact, in ancient times, people who could become "tooth merchants" were really not simple; There are many generalists among them, and of course there must be "innate" "evil".

On the issue of "evil", compared with today's "intermediary", the ancient "tooth dealer" is more prominent. Therefore, there are indeed "villains" and "evil deeds" in their community.

The "business scope" of the "tooth dealer" usually does not include the "real estate" with the highest value today, but mainly involves "materials", including materials in short supply.

"Tooth dealers" have a wide range of activities and communication. Their main business is "linking production and demand". The greater the geographical span of "production and demand", the easier it is for them to earn more lucrative profits from "linking". This is very similar to today. Today, we will clearly realize that the "confidence" and "resources" of "middlemen" and "middlemen" to earn price difference and huge price difference come from their understanding, judgment, foresight and coordination of the needs of both producers and sellers, which requires a lot of information and its combing and analysis, skillful and even superb communication skills, and a thorough understanding of policies and related business loopholes in different regions ... This is just a "big picture".

There is an old saying-if you are innocent, you should be killed.

Nine times out of ten, the word "tooth" in the subtitles was wrongly written as "tooth" when the film and television drama mentioned this sentence. Just like "Being King in Beijing", the subtitle "Being King in Beijing" is a "full twist" joke.

"Vehicle and boat shop foot teeth" generally refers to "service industry". "Car" refers to land transportation, "boat" refers to water transportation, "shop" generally refers to reception and entertainment industry, "foot" is the abbreviation of "porter", and "tooth" means "tooth merchant" and "tooth guest".

These five businesses are extended to all "service industries". Why "killing innocent people"?

The root cause is the social law of "emphasizing agriculture and restraining commerce" in ancient China.

In the middle of BC 1 1 century, the agricultural tribe "Zhou" replaced the "Shang" of slavery primitive industry and commerce with war and became the so-called "master of the world". Due to the need of rule and the lessons of the collapse of the Shang Empire, the Zhou Dynasty emphasized and praised its familiar agricultural production mode, while belittled and rejected the "goods circulation" industry that had already reached a considerable scale in the Shang Dynasty. At that time, people engaged in this industry were all adherents of the Shang Dynasty whose social status fell below the zero line, called "businessmen"; The business they are engaged in is called "business" The terms "merchant" and "business" come from this.

The Zhou Dynasty lasted for nearly 800 years, and it was the longest-lived dynasty in Chinese history, and its influence on later generations was "fundamental". Paying attention to agriculture and restraining commerce is the "social heritage" left by the Zhou Dynasty to our nation. Until the Republic of China, there was still the saying of "scholar, agriculture, industry and commerce", and "commerce" came last. Not to mention in the long ancient times.

Legend has it that in some dynasties and places, if a farmer or craftsman had a conflict with people engaged in business and service industries and complained to the government, no matter what the reason, whoever was right or wrong, the party from business and service industries had to eat a board first, and then started litigation. The reason for playing the board is very simple, that is, ta is engaged in a "get something for nothing" career.

That's right-something for nothing!

In the ancient times of our agricultural society, people thought that if there were no products for consumption, there would be no labor. Get something for nothing, of course, get something for nothing.

It is even worse to replace the above-mentioned "business and service industry" with "dental dealers"-dental customers and dental dealers have no right to claim litigation, that is, they can only be "defendants" but not "plaintiffs".

Why is this happening?

Because, according to the traditional authoritative concept of agricultural society, dental merchants and dental customers are the most "bad" among the "get something for nothing" groups! Because they pay nothing-cars, boats, shops, at least "means of production", "feet" have paid a lot of sweat, and most of them are poor. And "teeth" are just lip service, but they don't worry about eating and wearing even extravagant food. Are you a bastard!

Cars, boats, shops and feet are all things that should be killed, so I won't say much here. The focus is on "teeth". See how Tooth makes money-

For example, a farmer planted citrus, which was bought by a fruit merchant at the price of 10 and sold to consumers at the same price of 15. The difference between the two is the "sales profit" of citrus merchants. This model, also known as "Huo Zhi", means "breeding" with "goods", which means "getting rich" through citrus "goods".

The act of buying and selling oranges did not produce new products, but gained 50 taels of silver from them. This is easy to understand today-fruit merchants pay "logistics value", so they should get reasonable profits. In ancient times, when agriculture was emphasized and commerce was suppressed, "logistics value" could not produce new physical objects (materials), so the purchase and sale behavior of fruit merchants would be considered as no labor. However, compared with "tooth merchants", fruit merchants who get something for nothing have to pay the purchase cost and storage cost, and thus bear the corresponding financial risks.

How did Yake do it?

Let's talk about citrus-he gathered the above-mentioned 10 fruit merchant, that is, the goods with the "purchase cost" of 100, and told this 10 fruit merchant that he could find big buyers far away and eat their goods at one gulp, thus saving the "sales cost" and speeding up the capital flow. He will contact buyers who are far away and lack ability and knowledge to "purchase goods on a large scale"; He knew that in the area where the buyer was located, oranges bought at 10 could buy 20 taels of silver, so he told the buyer to ship at 16 taels.

So, he received the buyer 160 Liang and paid the seller 140 Liang, and the difference of 20 Liang became his income. In the whole process, what he does is information notification and purchase and sale contact, and at most he pays a little "down payment". Regardless of warehousing or retail, his marketing efficiency is much higher than that of buyers and sellers. For example, buyers and sellers can only make one order a month, and he can make 5 ~ 10 orders a month. Phenomenologically, he rambles, drinks tea and chats, and easily earns 100 Liang a month, while the theoretical profits of all buyers and sellers who participate at the same time may be far lower than this amount.

If this cycle continues, dentists who seem to have paid nothing will soon become "rich". In fact, most dentists are very rich, and even a few can reach the level of "as rich as an enemy"!

In the eyes of the mainstream forces in agricultural society, such "prosperity" is just like bandits!