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بخش ۱۳ / Section 13

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وزیر هرمز بن شاپور به وی نامه نوشت که بازرگانان دریابار جواهر بسیار آورده اند و آن را به صد هزار دینار برای پادشاه خریده ایم، شنیده ام که آن را پادشاه نمی خواهد اگر راست است فلان بازرگان به صد هزار دینار سود می خردو
هرمز در جواب نوشت که هزار دینار و صد هزار دینار چندان پیش ما قدری ندارد، و چون ما بازرگانی کنیم پادشاهی که کند و بازرگانان چه کنند؟

نه طور منصب شاهان بود که بیع و شری
به قصد کسب معاش خود اختیار کنند

چو شاه پیشه کند کار تاجران جهان
تو خود بگو که دگر تاجران چه کار کنند

English translation

The vizier of Hormoz son of Shapur wrote him a letter, saying: 'The seacoast merchants have brought many jewels, and we have bought them for the king for a hundred thousand dinars. I have heard that the king does not want them. If this is true, a certain merchant will buy them at a profit of a hundred thousand dinars.' Hormoz wrote in reply: 'A thousand dinars and a hundred thousand dinars have little worth in our eyes, and if we ourselves engage in trade, then who is to be king, and what are the merchants to do?'

It is not the way of the rank of kings that they should choose buying and selling for the sake of earning their own livelihood. When the king takes up the trade of the world's merchants, tell me yourself, what work are the other merchants to do?

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