Bai Gui's introduction.

Bai Gui was born in Luoyang, Central Plains during the Warring States Period. It has the reputation of "Shang Zu". As a minister under Wei Huiwang, he is good at building dams and water conservancy projects. Han Shu said that he was the theoretical founder of managing trade and developing production.

He advocated reducing land tax and collecting one-twentieth of the products. Put forward the theory of getting rich through trade. It is advocated that the method of "people abandon me and take me, and people take me and do business" should be implemented according to the specific situation of good harvest and poor harvest. When the grain is ripe, harvesting the grain; When the cocoons are harvested, the grain will be sold when it comes out.

Bai Gui also put forward the theory of agricultural economic cycle, which holds that one cycle of agriculture is 12 years. He also believes that business should be done according to the opportunity, just like Sun Tzu's Wu Qi used soldiers and Shang Yang did. Bai Gui, a water conservancy expert, and Bai Gui, who became rich through trade, are two people.

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It is said that he was a minister of Wei in his early days. At that time, the capital girder of Wei was close to the Yellow River and often suffered from floods. Bai Gui showed his outstanding talent in water control and relieved the flood of girder.

Bai Gui claimed that his water control ability was better than Dayu's. He said that the Qianli levee often collapsed because of small ant nests, so when he was controlling the water, he sent people to look along the levee and blocked all the ant nests. As a result, the levee was impregnable and the flood was eliminated.

Later, Wei's politics became increasingly corrupt. Seeing this situation, he resolutely left Wei and went to Zhongshan and Qi.

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