The high prices in Guihua City shocked these gold diggers. They found that if they wanted to eat, they had to go back to the fleet. The money in their hands was simply not enough to live here for a day.
At this time, Zhang Baiqi and his men appeared. They greeted these gold diggers warmly. If they found fellow gold diggers, they even warmly welcomed them to their homes!
This makes the gold diggers living in a foreign land very excited. As expected, they still have to rely on their fellow villagers when they are away from home.
After arriving at the homes of fellow villagers, these people will understand how their fellow villagers are treated in the New World.
Not only do they have their own small house, they also have three wives and four concubines as standard, and they have thousands of acres of land in the countryside. They can be said to be small rich people in Ji.
And these people said proudly: "This doesn't count at all. There are plenty of fields here, and the generals don't restrict us from reclaiming wasteland. We can reclaim as much land as we want?"
The gold digger hesitated and asked: "What should I do if I can't plant it?"
The fellow said proudly: "I still have 10 households of native tenants. I just need to guide them in farming. There are few natives now, so I have these lands. When there are more natives, I can cultivate more
Land! When the time comes, I will build a new-style courtyard house here and a three-story small high-rise building in the city!"
Such rhetoric makes gold diggers envious. Most of the people in Daqian are farmers, and what farmers want most is not workers, but landlords. However, landlords were not allowed to appear at all in the Daqian Dynasty, and now his
The fellow countryman is living the life he wants most!
Finally, the fellow persuaded him: "Although gold mining is profitable, it will not allow you to own so much land. You can only become a farmer when you return to Jidu. Why not stay here? What the generals in Guihua City lack most are us big people."
With Ganren’s support, as long as you stay and keep it for my brother, everyone can become a small rich man and live a life of three wives and four concubines!”
Such words did not appear only in this place, but in many places there were such scenes. Many gold diggers were tempted by this and stayed in Guihua City.
Three days later, the housekeeper counted the number of immigrants and found that 300 people were missing. This made the housekeeper look at Zhang Baiqi with a look of resentment.
Not only did we agree to only have 100 people, but a big shot like you actually deceived a little guy like me!
Zhang Baiqi said with a helpless face: "Many people say that they can't stand the life at sea anymore and want to stay in Guihua City. Just go and tell Xu Hao that my uncle wants 200 more people from him!
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After Zhang Baiqi clapped his hands, several soldiers came over with two boxes. When they opened them, golden light suddenly appeared!
Zhang Baiqi said: "These golds are considered as the cost of your hard work!"
What can the butler say? He can only leave here with the gold and swear never to come here again!
Five days later, the Cui family’s fleet arrived at Jinshan City!
Then the housekeeper immediately reported to Xu Hao that he was bullied in Guihua City!
Xu Hao looked helpless when he heard the news. He could only comfort the housekeeper and said: "Uncle Zhang and the others also want to develop the New World. The manpower is the same wherever they are and here!"
Zhuge Liang said: "Now, the most important thing is to resettle these immigrants! It's best to let them farm and work in Jinshan with peace of mind! The labor efficiency of the savages is so poor that three people are not as good as one big man. It is best to have someone to guide them. They work to open up wasteland!"
Again, in a place where savages are everywhere, even farmers and workers are high-level technical talents.
Jinshan is the largest city in the New World. The total number of Tutu and Dagan people is 70,000 or 80,000. It will become the first city in the New World with a population exceeding 100,000 in at most two years.
However, the development of this city is extremely abnormal, with only a small amount of industry and only more than 1 million acres of farmland, and half of the population is mining for gold.
In this place where supplies are scarce but there is a lot of gold, huge inflation soon formed. The price of flour in Guihua City exceeded 1,300 yuan, which is a sky-high price, but here in Jinshan, it has exceeded 2,000 yuan. , it can be said that the price is higher than that of naturalization. If Zhuge Liang had not decisively introduced the food stamp system to control prices, the price of food here in Jinshan would have skyrocketed. Therefore, this cargo of the Cui family caravan can be regarded as solving the problem of Jinshan. big problem.
But Zhuge Liang didn't want Jinshan's prices to keep soaring. He wanted to find a way to stabilize Jinshan's prices. To do this, first, he had to transport a large amount of goods from Jidu to Jinshan, and second, he wanted to find a way to stabilize Jinshan's prices. A large amount of materials can be produced, and the second point, in Zhuge Liang's opinion, is the fundamental solution. To achieve this, we must find a way to arrange manpower in the two industries of industry and agriculture!
Sima Yi on the side sneered: "I think the current high prices are just right. On the one hand, it can absorb the gold from gold diggers and reduce their profits, and these profits will be obtained by the people who work and farm. Only in this way can we attract people." People are working and farming!
The second is that it can attract a large number of maritime merchants to help us transport goods. Although there are many goods with more than ten times the profit in maritime trade, such goods are extremely rare. Goods such as grain, which can be purchased for millions of stones at a time, can still be guaranteed. There are very few profitable goods. The price of our Jinshan goods is more than ten times higher than that of the mainland of Daqian. Do you think maritime merchants will swarm in?"
What Sima Yi meant was to control the prices of Jinshan through the goods in their hands, absorb the profits of gold diggers with high prices, and transfer these profits to agriculture and industry, so that Jinshan can become a normal city!
It's just that Xu Hao was a little hesitant. This was not just asking the governor's office to skin the gold diggers, but also asking the workers and farmers to skin the gold diggers. He felt that this method seemed a bit too much.
However, he also felt that this policy was most suitable for Jinshan now. Being hungry for gold beads and not being able to eat is not an adjective in Jinshan, but a reality. If these gold diggers are not forced to go to the fields, Jinshan cannot become a normal city. .
At this time, the butler said: "Uncle, if the goods we bring are calculated according to the price of Jinshan, we can earn 30 million yuan. Such a high profit is enough to attract the entire Daqian maritime merchants to trade!"
Xu Hao also felt this. During the Jinshan period, maritime merchants came here from time to time. They didn't know that prices here were high, but they wanted to buy gold here. Of course, such ships couldn't come empty. They
They brought a large amount of grain, cloth and ironware, but they did not expect that these goods could be sold for more than ten times the profit, which was more than what they made from gold arbitrage.
Therefore, when these merchants returned to their voyages, they would only keep the minimum supplies and sell all other goods to the governor's office.