With only 40,000 taels of silver, he was able to kill hundreds of people and capture thousands of the imperial navy, thus solving such a serious crime of rebellion.
"Absurd, really absurd."
"Fake, too fake."
"Idiots, two idiots."
Faced with Wu Shanshan's comments, Zhao Han had nothing to say.
The truth is so ridiculous.
Think about it in Dream of Red Mansions. The Jia family spent nearly a million taels of silver to welcome the imperial concubine to visit the bride.
In the end, my house was confiscated.
Why didn’t so much money help them change the outcome?
Why does this happen?
It's simple, because there are no soldiers behind the Jia family.
If I want to crush you to death, I will crush you to death.
The Jia family fell only after Wang Ziteng, the man with military power, died violently.
"This incident means that the imperial court is already very weak at this time." Jia Lian said to the two of them.
"Then what should we do?" Jia Rong asked.
"We should speed up our pace now and develop quickly without hesitation."
"Yes, the officials under the imperial court are more tolerant than we thought. They are only interested in making money."
"The reality is not the Red Mansion. There is no such complicated conspiracy. It only depends on strength and means."
The idea of deciding to speed up is still there.
They began to introduce large numbers of refugees, open up desert islands, attack savages, and distribute land.
In fact, this is the foundation on which the dynasty was founded.
How did the dynasty become stable in the first place?
It relies on allocating ownerless land to the refugees.
The first achievement of the county magistrate was to appease the refugees, distribute land, and register them.
Cultivate a large number of homesteaders.
This is the foundation for the prosperity of a dynasty.
A force that can do this will have the hope of becoming a dragon.
Many heroes don't understand it and fail in the end.
These three seemingly simple things require the cooperation of a large number of scholars forming an official class.
Otherwise, it will be difficult to reach the sky.
It's impossible to rely solely on rogue bandits. They don't even know how big the land is, let alone divide it.
There are yeoman farmers.
The food is available.
Iron tools and cloth appeared subsequently.
When supplies are abundant, they can be collected.
It depends on small farmers.
Without the yeoman farmers, the dynasty would be doomed.
why?
Obviously, after becoming a sharecropper, he is still creating wealth.
Moreover, the population will be larger in the later period, and theoretically more wealth will be created.
The reason is very simple. Homeowner farmers are the most vulnerable to oppression and are scattered one by one. They are the natural class to be taxed.
Once they disappeared and became tenant farmers of the big landowners, they could no longer pay enough taxes.
As for the big landowners, they have various ways to bribe officials and avoid taxes.
In the end, the imperial court was accidentally destroyed even though the people still had a lot of money, food, and material wealth.
If he cannot collect taxes and supplies, the system will not function.
All three of them understand this.
Of course they have to find a way to solve this problem.
It's actually not troublesome.
Through prosperous business activities, there is a solution.
When trade prospered, the imperial court controlled the army, which controlled transportation, maintained trade channels, and collected taxes.
Allow landless farmers to obtain food and other materials through commercial activities.
To put it simply, it is to create jobs...or to provide welfare, which means that no labor jobs can be created, so the court directly forcibly collects taxes from wealthy businessmen and uses the taxes to feed the redundant landless peasants and maintain stability.
It's just that this is more difficult, and wealthy businessmen will find ways to evade taxes.
This will turn the small-scale peasant economy into a mobile commodity economy.
The more developed commerce is, the more labor force can be used and the faster the circulation of materials becomes.
From the two basic materials of food and cloth, to steel and gunpowder, taxes are collected and these things are saved through taxes.
Currency is the medium of circulation for materials.
The three of them have learned this trick a long time ago.
But this kind of insight was beyond the imagination of feudal rulers.
Feudal rulers only thought that having money was enough.
They also created paper money early and kept issuing it, but in the end they ruined themselves.
No one uses paper money anymore.
Why was gold and silver used in ancient times?
Because gold and silver cannot be distributed randomly, you must dig out as much as you can to issue it.
Ancient paper money simply did not work, and the unrestricted feudal rulers could not control their impulse to issue indiscriminately.
This year, they brought in another 1 million refugees.
They quickly immigrated the refugees to various islands.
Open up wasteland and clean up mosquitoes, rats, and fleas, the biggest enemies of immigrants.
Set fire to clean the land, and then distribute the land. After two years, these farmers will settle down and be able to produce materials and become producers.
However, they must also become consumers and join the commodity economy.
"How to create a commodity economy?" The three people began to discuss again.
"The West relied on maritime trade and trade with the colonies. Starting with weaving, it promoted a series of industries, and then brought a large amount of food from the colonies to ensure the needs of workers. At the same time, it defeated the local landlords and forced
They switched to planting cotton and raising sheep, changing the use of the land." Jia Rong said.
"Then how do we replicate this process?" Zhao Han asked.
"We want farmers to participate in commercial activities, sell their grains, and exchange them for daily necessities, thereby improving the circulation of the entire material supply. Only by circulation and by making more things can we develop."
"It's difficult. These farmers naturally have a conservative sense of saving. So we have to issue currency and anchor this currency to an item they must use."
"It must be medicines. Only medicines can never be produced by farmers themselves. There are also clothes. Generally, farmers will find that it is not cost-effective to make clothes themselves."
"Yes that's it."
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An island somewhere in the south.
A village is surrounded by high village walls.
Wang Ergen is a land immigrant. He has settled here for three years, married a wife, and has given birth to two children.
Thanks to God's blessing, he is in good health and already has some property.
Twenty acres of land, three cattle, and flocks of chickens and ducks.
Now he desperately hopes that his children will grow up quickly and be able to help him work and inherit the family business.
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Of course, he has no intention of actively exploiting his children, but the fact is that in agricultural production activities, it is easy for him to exploit his children and help him with farm work.
He is now short of labor.
There was too much land, and there were plenty of wastelands outside, but he couldn't manage it alone.
It is very tiring for a cow to plow 5 acres of land a day.
It takes 4 days to cover 20 acres.
There is also sowing, weeding, fertilizing, watering...
The complicated farm work made him urgently in need of labor force.
Of course he didn't know that in a few generations, his descendants would fall into a population trap, lose land to cultivate, lose the opportunity to reproduce, and even have the opportunity to eat, so they rebelled.
He only knew that the excess food in his family would definitely have to be sold at this time.
Because it's hot here.
Damp and full of insects.
If the food is not sold, it will rot in half a year at most.
It does not have a good storage environment like a large granary, nor does it have manual cleaning and drying every day.
He must sell the grain to the grain station in the town.
Only the food rations that the family can eat for more than half a year are left. Anyway, there will be new food here in four months.
Of course, he tried his best to grow things that could be stored for a long time.
For example, rice, sorghum, etc. have the longest shelf life and can be stored for 5-10 years.
The premise is that it is dry enough. Once it gets wet and insects breed, it’s over.
He was frightened by hunger.
The granary built by his family is already full. As long as there is no war or chaos, it will be enough to feed his family for three years.
So, today he started taking the old grain and the chickens, ducks and geese he raised to the town to sell them for money.
If you don't sell it for money, you can't pay taxes.
You can use treasure banknotes to collect taxes, or you can use Yinyang Jia Datou.
He didn't believe in that kind of banknotes, but he still believed in Jia Datou.
This kind of Jia Da has a chubby guy with an unclear face carved on his head.
This guy is naturally Jia Rong.
This is truly a rebellion.
This was issued by Rong's Bank.
Jia Datou can be directly exchanged for silver. One piece is one tael, which is very valuable. There is also a dime, which is equivalent to one penny of silver.
He took his wife and drove the ox cart and set off early in the morning. He left his three children in the care of a neighbor.
Everyone is like this. He will take care of his neighbors next time.
There were two ox carts, one beam loaded with 2,000 kilograms of grain, the other cart loaded with 20 chickens and ten ducks.
Two bullock carts walked slowly towards the town market.
Set off early in the morning and arrive at noon.
Thanks to the company, the security is very good, there are no bandits or soldiers.
Grain is still sold to grain stations as usual, and the price has remained stable.
The other party also sells grain, and the price is only a little more expensive than the selling price.
It is equivalent to charging a storage fee, which everyone understands.
So he doesn't worry about not being able to buy food if he encounters problems after selling it.
It is still troublesome to save food, but it is easier to save large amounts.
It won't rot or get bugs, and it will be easy to move.
When the grain is stored, I have to dry it every half a month.
It cannot be shorter than one month at least.
No matter how long it takes, the inside of the grain will be exposed to moisture, causing it to rot and sprout.
This kind of drying was too tiring, so he planned to save only half a year of food.
As long as you have enough to eat until new grain comes out, if not, just come to the grain station to buy it.
The grain station will store new grain for three years, and the old grain will be sold on land.
He quickly exchanged all the grain for money, and there was a lot of quarrels in the process. The other party said that he was not doing well in the sun and that there were insects.
He was very angry because he was a hard-working man and cherished food the most, which was very good and well done.
In fact, I just want him to give me money.
But he refused to give it and said he would sue the mayor.
The other party then reluctantly accepted the second-level product.
But I threatened him not to charge so much next time and asked him to come early.
He is very depressed.
Everywhere the bankers suffer.
Fortunately, the chickens, ducks and geese sold very well, and the restaurant took them away directly and sold them at a high price.
They like his chickens and ducks very much. They taste good and are raised in the fields.
This made him think that it would be much simpler to plant less land and raise more chickens and ducks.
After all, selling food is really hard.
I heard that big customers are not afraid and come to collect them regularly every year.
I am not afraid of obstruction from these petty officials at all.
Then he took his honest wife to buy cloth.
I need to make some new clothes at home.
Fortunately, the company is good and they won't be charged taxes for the first five years.
In the process of buying cloth, he did not know that he had paid taxes.
This is the industrial scissor difference.
He only knew that the prices for selling cloth were quite reasonable and more cost-effective than his wife's weaving.
The time his wife spent weaving was used to raise ten more chickens and ducks to make more money.
We only have to worry about disease. The neighbor next door killed his chickens and ducks and then sold them to the unscrupulous businessman who came to buy them.
Of course, you have to buy some medicines for treating headaches and fever.
Children have fevers two or three times a year. If they don't buy it, they will die young.
"Ergen, are you living a good life now? Why don't you buy another concubine?" On the way home, the villagers picked up every pot they didn't like.
Looking for another concubine?
Wang Ergen looked at his honest mother-in-law. She had given birth to two children and was out of shape. She was active every day and was very dark.
Immediately, he had dirty thoughts.
It’s time to find another beautiful concubine.
Have a few more children.
Now of the two children, the eldest is three years old and can already collect firewood.
You can collect firewood at the door.
Very obedient.
Much better than raising a puppy.
By the way, there is also the matter of firewood.
I need to buy some more coal.
It is now forbidden to cut firewood casually.
The firewood at home is made from crop straw grown on the ground.
Wood cannot be burned.
They are not allowed to cut down trees because they say it will damage the feng shui.
He also believed it.
The feng shui here must be good, otherwise, how could I make a fortune?
He heard that some people also went to other places to cultivate wasteland, and many people died of illness the next year.
But nothing happened to him.
How did he know that these three people were responsible for disease prevention and treatment?
This is also the reason why we started in the pharmaceutical industry in the first place.
There are still good ways to deal with the plague using traditional methods.
But thinking about it, he was reluctant to spend money.
I also need to save money for my eldest son to get engaged when he turns ten.
Get engaged early and marry someone else's daughter to work at the age of twelve.
Who wants to buy coal?
How expensive is it to buy coal?
There is a lot of wasteland anyway.
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So he decided not to buy it.
Let’s talk next time.
After all, the firewood and haystacks at home have not been burned yet.
At this time, Wang Ergen did not know that he had participated in an economic cycle.
and completed one round.
In this round, his labor force, relying on the use of solar energy and land, "made something out of nothing" by-products such as food, chickens and ducks.
It was then sold to other people, forming the most basic and solid part of the entire socioeconomic model.
Once there is a problem with the economic cycle of this small Wangergen, no matter how powerful the empire is, even if it has the ability to destroy the world, it will collapse in an instant, which will make people stunned.
However, the reason may simply be that no one sells grain, chickens and ducks.
Only Wen Rensheng knows this best.
Wang Ergen sold grain, chickens and ducks in the market in exchange for cloth and medicine.
He sat on the empty bullock cart, resting and calculating accounts.
How much did you spend this time and how much did you earn?
He found that he had a few extra heads.
He also heard that someone recently deposited money into the company's bank, and it was said that they could get some interest.
Not only are there no storage fees, but they are also given as gifts during holidays.
Come to think of it, he is still gone.
If the bank fails one day, wouldn't he be unlucky?
There are still people in their village who have gone to save it, let’s take a look and talk about it.
With this thought in mind, Wang Ergen, an ordinary peasant man with some lust, returned to his home.
"Daddy, I picked up six handfuls of firewood." The three-year-old son ran out from the neighbor's house to greet him.
