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The Discourses on Salt and Iron was a debate held at the imperial court in 81 BCE on state policy during the Han dynasty in China. The previous emperor, Emperor Wu, had reversed the laissez-faire policies of his predecessors and imposed a wide variety of state interventions, such as monopolies on China's salt and iron enterprises, price stabilization schemes, and taxes on capital, which had sparked fierce debate. After his death, during the reign of Emperor Zhao of Han, the regent Huo Guang called on all the scholars of the empire to come to the capital, Chang'an, to debate the government's economic policies.
The debate was characterized by two opposing factions, the reformists and the modernists. The reformists were largely Confucian scholars who were opposed to the policies of Emperor Wu, and who demanded abolition of the monopolies on salt and iron, an end to the state price stabilization schemes, and huge cuts in government expenditures to reduce the burden of the citizenry. The Modernists supported the continuation of Emperor Wu's policies in order to appropriate the profits of private merchants into state coffers to fund the government's military and colonization campaigns in the north and west.
2100 лет прошло, а мы всё ещё то же самое обсуждаем, и конца не видно. Правда, нынешние правители бросили дурную привычку приглашать учёных другой стороны для дебатов - вместо этого они приглашают корреспондентов дружественной прессы, а на мудрецов с другой стороны натравливают прокуратуру.
The debate was characterized by two opposing factions, the reformists and the modernists. The reformists were largely Confucian scholars who were opposed to the policies of Emperor Wu, and who demanded abolition of the monopolies on salt and iron, an end to the state price stabilization schemes, and huge cuts in government expenditures to reduce the burden of the citizenry. The Modernists supported the continuation of Emperor Wu's policies in order to appropriate the profits of private merchants into state coffers to fund the government's military and colonization campaigns in the north and west.
2100 лет прошло, а мы всё ещё то же самое обсуждаем, и конца не видно. Правда, нынешние правители бросили дурную привычку приглашать учёных другой стороны для дебатов - вместо этого они приглашают корреспондентов дружественной прессы, а на мудрецов с другой стороны натравливают прокуратуру.
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