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Chapter 215, Industrialization Era

After communicating with Sun Qing, Xu Wei left 50,000 victims for him to resettle, and continued to Yunzhong County with the remaining 100,000 victims!

Yunzhong City, the county seat of Yunzhong County, has become lively since it was recaptured by the Tengjia Army. After Niu Gui arrived, it became more and more different every day. After millions of disaster victims were resettled here, it became even more...

The splendor of a great trading city.

Niu Gui learned everything Xu Wei did in Mayi, including elevated water canals, steel plants, and textile factories. Coupled with the constant blood transfusions of the Tengjia Army, Yunzhong County has changed more in the past few years than in the previous hundred years!

Since the construction of the elevated water channel in Yunzhong County was completed, tens of millions of acres of fertile land have been added to the entire Yunzhong County. This year’s autumn harvest alone will generate a total of 30 million shi in grain income. This can not only satisfy the lives of the people in the entire Yunzhong County, but also

Feed herdsmen thousands of miles away.

Now the entire Yunzhong County has become the big granary of Monan. Monan herdsmen go to the desert to graze in summer, and in winter they bring their cattle and sheep to Yunzhong County to spend the winter. These herdsmen have wool, cattle and sheep, and

War horses, when there are no sales channels, they are just hairy and can barely survive. Even a snow disaster will starve to death less than half of the population.

But now that the Tengjia Army has opened up the sales channels, these things have become a source of financial resources. Even the frozen cattle and sheep sold to Mayi merchants are more than 3-4 times the previous price, while war horses and scalpers

The price has increased more than 10 times than before, and the price is already close to that in the Han Dynasty. Now they can live very well just by grazing!

So a surprising scene appeared on the territory of Tengjia Army. The income of herdsmen was higher than that of farmers. What was even more surprising was that most of the herdsmen in Yunzhong County were actually Han Chinese.

So these days, if you don’t push yourself, you don’t know how much potential you have. It’s nonsense to say that the Han people don’t know how to herd. The herders in Yunzhong County are making money, and all of a sudden the Han people have become the best herders, so even in ancient times

Paintings are all imaginary, but making money is real!

A large number of herdsmen and cattle and sheep attracted big merchants from the entire Han Dynasty. Every winter in Yunzhong County, any goods can be purchased by hundreds of thousands of herdsmen. The purchasing power of these herdsmen is 10 times stronger than before, and they can also

Large quantities of wool, cattle, sheep and war horses are purchased from herdsmen. In the autumn and winter, Yunzhong City is more lively than Double Eleven in Xu Wei's previous life. It can be said that the transaction volume in an autumn determines whether many businessmen will eat chaff and drink water in a year or eat big fish and meat.

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After Zhao Tian and others arrived at Yunzhong County, Yunzhong County Governor Shi Zhaogui took them to continue traveling north. Their destination was not Yunzhong County, but a grassland stronghold hundreds of miles north of Yunzhong County.

These 100,000 will be divided into dozens of groups, stationed densely on the grassland with a radius of thousands of miles, and forts will be built one by one to divide the grasslands on the desert. In the end, these forts will form a giant network stretching thousands of miles.

, live in this thousands of miles of desert!

And Xu Wei entered Yunzhong County. When he came, Yunzhong County was at its busiest. The shops on both sides of the street were filled with goods. The clerks were shouting loudly outside, and there were even more people coming and going on the street.

, the horse-drawn carriages flowed endlessly.

If he hadn't walked hundreds of miles, Xu Wei would have thought he was coming to Mayi! Everything here is so similar to Mayi, including the elevated aqueduct outside the city, waterwheels, huge textile factories, and steel plants.

There are all these in every city, as if they were carved out of the same mold!

Xu Wei just wandered around the streets of Yunzhong County like this!

At this time, a waiter shouted to Xu Wei: "Hero, do you want to come to our Yunji to look at the leather goods? I guarantee they are of high quality and low price!"

Xu Wei took a look and found that it was filled with leather coats. Before Xu Wei came up with woolen clothes and sweaters, leather coats were the first choice for the rich to spend the winter. Of course, it is the same now, even because Xu Wei came up with woolen coats.

, the leather coat became a status symbol and became more expensive.

The clerk saw Xu Wei coming in and smiled and said: "Our leather coats are the best in the whole Han Dynasty. The nobles and wealthy businessmen in these big cities like Luoyang City, Chang'an City, Pengcheng, and Linzi all like our furs. Come and buy the guarantee."

Don’t suffer!”

Xu Wei saw a gray fur coat and asked, "How much does this cost?"

The waiter was surprised and said: "You have such good eyesight. This is a bearskin coat. It was hunted by a Xianbei warrior. That warrior is the legendary eagle shooter. He can hit the eye of a giant bear with one arrow. The whole bearskin can be used for hunting."

It is said that there is not a single wound, and when it is sold to our store, it is made by masters and top tailors, so it has such a beautiful color and soft feel. If you want it, it only costs 200,000 yuan!"

Xu Wei shivered when he heard the price. It was indeed a show-off item for a rich woman. It was definitely not affordable for ordinary people. Although Xu Wei was in charge of the entire Tengjia Army, his monthly salary was only 20,000 yuan. This coat cost

With his 10-month income, he really can’t afford it!

Xu Wei immediately said: "It's too expensive, is there anything cheaper!"

The waiter said: "Yes!"

The clerk pointed to the white leather coat and said, "This is a coat made of desert snow fox fur. The price is also much cheaper, only 30,000 yuan!"

Xu Wei became calmer later on, because he knew he couldn't afford it, so he just looked at the coats here. Sure enough, even the cheapest rabbit fur coat here costs more than 5,000 yuan, and Xu Wei was reluctant to buy it anyway.

Instead, Xu Wei discovered a way to make money. He asked his subordinates to raise rabbits on a hilltop. The meat could be eaten and the skins could be used to make rabbit fur coats. With such a high price for the fur coats, he should be able to make money.

But Xu Wei wondered: "This leather jacket is so expensive, will anyone buy it?"

The clerk seemed to have noticed that Xu Wei was poor, and his interest was not as high as before, but he said calmly: "Of course there are more, we have more and more rich people in Yunzhong County in recent years, so naturally there are more people buying fur coats!

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"Many Xianbei people don't like the work of herding and farming, so they specialize in hunting all kinds of beasts. Some time ago, a Xianbei warrior hunted a giant white bear. The bear skin alone was sold for 1 million yuan.

, it caused a sensation throughout Yunzhong County!"

Xu Wei secretly thought, the white giant bear couldn't be a polar bear, right? It shouldn't be possible that this place is still thousands of taels away from the North Pole!

However, a white bear skin can be sold for 1 million yuan. If it were made into a coat, it would cost 2 million yuan. Unexpectedly, the rich people of the Fujijia Army are already so wealthy.

Now Xu Wei is a little worried again. He came from a society with a huge gap between rich and poor, so he naturally knows the dangers involved. No one believes that he got rich through labor in his previous life, and getting rich through capital has become a common sense.

It seems that personal taxes should be levied on these rich people to balance the gap between rich and poor!

At this time, the shopkeeper of Yunji came over. He recognized Xu Wei and said excitedly: "Qushuai, why are you here in the store? What kind of coat do you like? Our store will give it to you for free!"

Xu Wei shook his head and said: "You're welcome, shopkeeper. We, the Tengjia Army, are disciplined and cannot accept gifts from the people. As the leader of the Tengjia Army, I must set an example!"

The shopkeeper then smiled awkwardly and said: "What kind of leather jacket do you want to buy? I will give you a 20% discount on the small one!"

Xu Wei smiled and said: "No need, the leather jackets here are too expensive, I can't afford them!"

At this time Niu Gui also came over and said with a smile: "Qu Shuai, you didn't notify me when you came!"

Xu Wei smiled and said: "Aren't you here now!"

Then he pointed to the coats around him and said, "I never thought that our Tengjia Army would have such expensive luxury goods and that they could be sold!"

Xu Wei's words shocked the shopkeeper, thinking that he had offended Lei Gong!

But Xu Wei and Niu Gui ignored the shopkeeper at all and walked out of the shop towards the street!

Niu Gui smiled bitterly and said: "No matter where you are, there will be no shortage of rich people, especially in a large trading town like Yunzhong County, where there are thousands of big businessmen with a fortune of more than one million!"

"I originally wanted to do something for the people, but I soon discovered that the people's income has not increased much, but there are more and more rich people in Yunzhong County. When I first came here, my family fortune was millions.

There is no such family, but now there are hundreds of such families, and they are making money faster and faster. I don’t know whether my current busyness is for the rich or for the poor. We are doing it for

How long can the banner of Tianxingdao resist!"

Obviously Niu Gui doesn't like the current changes in Yunzhong County, and is even a little confused.

Xu Wei smiled helplessly: "This kind of thing is inevitable. Some people just have the talent to make money, and some people only use their talent for farming and carpentry. And farmers and workers obviously don't make as much money as businessmen!"

We can only try our best to adjust this kind of thing, levy more taxes on the rich, levy less taxes on the poor who have no money, and at the same time protect the vulnerable farmers and workers. If conditions permit, we can even give the people at the bottom a guarantee, at least

No one will starve to death!”

Niu Gui said excitedly: "Qu Shuai, can't we return to the system we had when we just conquered Mayi? Everyone had food to eat together and spent money together! I think that was when our Tengjia Army was the most powerful.

The current Tengjia Army has gradually become not much different from the big men!"

Grain

"While our generation is still alive, we can still ensure fairness for the people at the bottom, but the rich will definitely collude with the powerful to change the country's laws to their benefit. Just like what Qu Shuai told us back then

The land tax of the Han Dynasty is the same. The land tax of the Han Dynasty is one in fifteen, or even one in thirty, which seems very low.

However, it is calculated that each person has to be levied 150 yuan, and each family has to pay 600-700 yuan. This tax has suddenly become high. With the addition of corvee labor, more than half of the income of ordinary people has been levied. And if there is no land,

The common people can only share their farmland, and 80% of their income will be taken away, so they can barely survive. If there is any natural or man-made disaster, they will starve to death!"

"But those powerful and powerful people only get one out of every fifteen acres of fertile land. Oral calculation is nothing to them. The most fair thing is to cancel the oral calculation and levy taxes according to the land. It is even more convenient to levy taxes in this way, but for hundreds of years it has been

There is no such suggestion, that is, taxes should be levied on the basis of land on the territory of our Tengjia Army."

"Shuai Qu, you said it's because those powerful people are the rulers. They will not make laws that are unfavorable to them. Even if they do, they will change the laws to their benefit. If our Tengjia Army really takes over the world and becomes the ruler,

, will they collude with these rich people, will they abandon our current tax per acre, and change it to a policy that is beneficial to the rich!"

Niu Gui said a little frustrated: "Although Yunzhong County is rich now, I am not optimistic about the future of the Tengjia Army. The Tengjia Army's territory seems to be becoming more and more like the big man!"

Xu Wei looked at Niu Gui in surprise. He did not expect that Niu Gui would have such thoughts. He was really born in the wrong era.

It's a pity that he was reading novels when he was taking politics class, and after so many years, he has basically forgotten the content of the politics class. Otherwise, he would have explained the path of the prophet to him, which would definitely shock Niu Gui.

God.

He can understand it, after all, he has formed a stable three views, but it is difficult for Xu Wei to refine these truths, and naturally he cannot express them. After all, if he can really refine the truth of the prophet, it will not be the same in his modern age.

As an ordinary person, he can only speak according to his own understanding, and he doesn’t know if he has the power of a prophet!

Xu Wei said slowly: "The system of Tengjia Army can only be run by small countries. Do you remember why we need to change the system?"

Niu Guidao: "Many people have selfish motives and can no longer sustain themselves, so we have just started to distribute monthly stipends according to abilities!"

Xu Weidao said: "Now our territory is thousands of miles long. It would not be too much to add the grassland to become a country thousands of miles wide. We can't supervise it at all. As long as one of us has selfish motives, it will destroy an area."

Niu Guidao: "We will strengthen supervision!"

"It's useless. Our original system can ensure averageness, but it can't improve efficiency, and it can't be considered fair. There are many people who clearly do more, but can't get more gains. This is unfair.

, since doing more or less is the same, when the time comes, no one will work hard, and we can only starve to death! The most important thing, we don’t have enough officials to guide everyone!”

Xu Wei began to hear a lot about what happened during that period, and even experienced the most drastic changes in society. If the productivity was not up to par, forcing him to do such a thing would only be counterproductive! He would not do such a thankless thing.

Of course, Xu Wei didn't want to attack Niu Gui just like that! After all, being able to think is a good thing. Who knows if Niu Gui can find a new path.

After thinking about it, Xu Wei drew a rugby-like picture for Niu Gui and said to Niu Gui: "There is a saying in my hometown that a rugby-type society is the most stable. There are not many rich people at the top, not many poor people at the bottom, and those in the middle.

They are all middle class, the kind of people who can have enough food, clothing, and some assets, but are not considered rich!"

Although Niu Gui doesn't know what rugby is, he can understand the graphics!

He seemed to understand and said: "It seems that this is the situation in Yunzhong County now."

There are not many rich people in Yunzhong County now, and there are not many poor people either. Of course, it can be said that all of them are poor, but after all, everyone has fields and pastures, and they are considered the property class. There are not many people who really have nothing.

, it was also the case that there were tens of thousands of prisoners in the mining area, so Niu Gui said it was very similar to the current Yunzhong County.

Xu Weidao: "I can't explain the truth, but what you have to do in Yunzhong County from now on is to limit the number of people in the upper class from continuing to increase, and find ways to bring people at the bottom into this center, so that society will be stable! You

If you think the rich have too much money, just levy a property tax on them. What our Tengjia Army has to do is to limit the strong and protect the weak as much as possible under the premise of fairness."

The current Han Dynasty is a pyramid-shaped society! The powerful nobles and powerful people use the power of the Han Dynasty to plunder and brutally oppress the people at the bottom, without caring about the life and death of the people. This kind of society is very unstable!"

Then he made a pyramid, and divided it into several layers and said: "The top layer is the royal family, the lower ones are the nobles, the lower ones are the powerful, and the lowest ones are ordinary people and slaves! The people in the upper layers are oppressing the people.

people."

Niu Gui can understand this, after all, it is clear at a glance.

"When the number of people in the first three floors exceeds the ability of the people at the bottom to support them, more and more people will starve to death. If the people don't want to starve to death, they can only rebel, and the big man kills the rebels.

The common people, the people at the bottom who support them have become less and less. The more pressure they put on the people, the more people starved to death and had to rebel. In this way, the Han Dynasty formed an endless cycle, and the Han Dynasty society could not continue to operate.

Got it!"

Niu Gui said: "Just like the great sage and good teacher led us to rebel?"

Xu Wei nodded and said: "That's right!"

On the contrary, Niu Gui can better understand the pyramid-shaped society of the Han Dynasty, because the events of the Han Dynasty in recent years perfectly fit this pyramid structure. The people rebelled, and the Han Dynasty suppressed them. But after the suppression, the people continued to rebel. The Han Dynasty has been in an endless state in the past few years.

In the midst of rebellion and suppression, everyone in the world can sense the rhythm of chaos in the world!

Niu Gui asked curiously: "What can be done to stabilize a pyramid society like Qu Shuai Han's?"

Xu Wei drew a line from the middle of the first three floors of the pyramid and said: "As long as the royal family, the noble family, and the powerful are reduced by more than half of their people, the people will have a chance to breathe. If they die seven or eight times,

If it succeeds, the Han Dynasty will be a powerful and prosperous country in the next 50 years!"

"The reason why the former Han Dynasty was ruled by Wenjing for several decades was because the troubled times of the Warring States Period and the late Qin Dynasty almost wiped out all the nobles who had survived for thousands of years. The great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, and their batch of founding heroes were all of low status.

There are not many rulers, and the oppression of the people is not strong!"

When Niu Gui heard this, he suddenly realized and said: "No wonder Qu Shuai would kill all the powerful nobles in Bingzhou. It turns out that Qu Shuai is preparing for the prosperous age behind the Tengjia Army!"

This is not wrong, but Xu Wei wanted to clear the weeds on the land of Han Dynasty and prepare for an industrialized society. Xu Wei remembered that he said in class that the reason why the country of hope developed so fast in the industrial era was because it was a country.

A blank piece of paper, without the obstacles of various feudal relationships, can allow capitalism to develop rapidly.

And this statement is not unreasonable. Why did the Great Celestial Dynasty develop so quickly? It was not thanks to the old man Taizu who cleared away all the monsters! The era when Xu Wei was born was a fair era for the Celestial Dynasty. Most people

We are all on the same starting line. Of course, whether there will be strength or weakness in the future is another matter for another time!

Xu Wei said with a smile: "It can be said that, but it is not complete. Industrial society can feed more people than agricultural society, so our Tengjia Army has attached great importance to industry from the very beginning, and I want to change the entire Han Dynasty from agriculture.

The country was brought into an industrial country, and the wealthy gentry in the Han Dynasty who built manors and forts were the biggest obstacle to industrialization. If I want to develop industry, I must eradicate these wealthy gentry and powerful gentry!"

Niu Gui asked: "Are the workshops built in Mayi considered to have entered an industrial country?"

Xu Wei smiled and said: "It can't be considered an industry, it can only be regarded as a handicraft industry. If we want everyone to enter the real industrial era, a lot of things need to be done. This requires hundreds of times more workshops than in Mayi, and the laws of the Han Dynasty need to be able to

To promote the development of industry, the morality of the entire Han Dynasty must adapt to the development of industry, and the people of the entire Han Dynasty must become accustomed to industrialized life. Only then can we enter the era of industrialization."

Niu Gui asked: "Will people in the industrial era live better than they do now?"

Xu Wei was really stunned. It's hard to say whether it was good or not. After all, many people in Xu Wei's previous life were so exhausted that people at that time wanted an idyllic life.

He thought for a while and said: "Industrialization represents progress. If society does not want to become a stagnant pool of water, it must progress. I can't say whether an industrialized society is good or not, but the bottom line is definitely better than the big man. At least it will not appear like the big man.

A natural disaster will cause people to starve to death in droves!"

Niu Gui asked: "Qushuai, what should I do if I want Yunzhong County to bring the industrialized society you mentioned?"

Xu Wei patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Find a way to let businessmen open workshops, the more the better. At the same time, we must pay attention to protecting the interests of workers. Although industrialization represents progress, businessmen exploit the people and hate them more than the aristocrats.

We have to be careful about releasing a monster!"

"Monster?" Niu Gui, who cannot even understand industry, is even less able to understand the monster of capital.

On the other side, after Zhao Tian and the others continued walking for a few days, they finally arrived at their destination! On a small plain near a river, this was a grassland with lush water and grass.

The Army Sima of the settlement said loudly: "This place will belong to us within a hundred miles from now on. Everyone starts to prepare to do things. Autumn has passed for several days now. It won't be long before it snows on the grassland. If it doesn't snow before,

, we haven’t even built the docks and houses yet, by then we may all freeze to death here!

The first batch of people who came here to settle the camp were not very many, that is, there were more than a thousand members. Most of them had wives and children, and of course most of them were young and strong!

Yunzhong County, on the other hand, led a whole set of leadership teams, including Sima, Litian, blacksmiths, teachers, and doctors. It can be said that each small stronghold is a small self-sufficient society.


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