The 1371st section of the three horrible monsters (1)
July is a month of fire, and the temperature in Chang'an is getting hotter and hotter.
Also becoming popular are the scholar-bureaucrats and nobles throughout Chang'an.
The Yanji War is definitely over.
In this battle, the Han army beheaded more than 40,000 people (including the Battle of Zaoyang), completely annihilated the Xiongnu Yougu Li King's headquarters and the Xuhu Army headquarters, forced the cavalry headquarters and other 110,000 cavalry, and captured more than 35,000.
More than 135,000 Xiongnu war horses and hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep were seized.
The Xiongnu lost all of its mobile troops and 40% of its young strength.
Even Shanyu died at the foot of Yuyang Fortress.
This was an unprecedented victory in the history of the Han Dynasty!
From now on, the Han Dynasty's frontier fortress will be completely safe, and the Huns will not be able to invade the Great Wall for at least ten years.
Of course, the Han army also paid a heavy price.
In the Battle of Zaoyang, more than 4,000 Shanggu County soldiers and militiamen, including the Loufan army, were killed and more than 7,000 people were injured.
Lou Fan's home was burned to the ground. From Zaoyang to Juyang, the Han army abandoned four counties and twenty-three townships, burned tens of thousands of houses, and blocked hundreds of wells.
The economic loss is at least tens of millions!
In the Battle of Yanji, the Han army lost more than 20,000 people, including more than 3,000 Huyi soldiers, more than 4,000 soldiers from Yanzhao County, and the main force of Yi Zong's army lost more than 3,500 people.
, Yuyang’s army and civilians suffered losses of more than 2,000 people.
The rest were all losses on the Youbeiping battlefield, which was also the Han army's largest battle loss. Nearly 6,000 soldiers died in the battle, and more than 5,000 civilians were taken prisoner.
As for the number of injured?
It’s impossible to count!
This is only on the surface.
In order to maintain the war, Louchuan Jiangjun Yamen braved summer ocean storms to continuously transport a large amount of grain, grass, ordnance, materials, and personnel to Quanzhou for more than two months.
Eleven large ships and thirty-five sterns capsized in the storm.
One thousand, four hundred and fifty-three sailors died at sea.
These people are the first and most experienced sailors in China.
In addition, in the rear, in order to serve the army and support the war, hundreds of thousands of people carried military rations on their shoulders, distributed supplies, repaired roads, and even cooked various dry foods.
As a result, many people have even put their farm work on hold.
In the Yanzhao area, Shanggu County, Liaodong, and western Liaoning, this year's grain harvest has become a problem.
Before and after the entire war, if all expenses and expenditures are counted, the Han Dynasty invested at least more than 180 million yuan and 14,000 pieces of gold, mobilized more than 300 ships, and requisitioned more than 100 civilian ships and ships.
whaler.
If we also include the impact of the Battle of Gaoque last winter.
In less than ten months, the Han Dynasty wiped out all the savings in the north.
In the past, in the past, this would have been a disaster.
Continuous wars will become a symbol of the country's militarism, and such high-intensity consumption will also lead to thousands of miles of bare land in the north, and the people will rise up in hunger.
But now...
The term war economy appeared in the mouths of ministers and princes for the first time, and entered the eyes of the general public for the first time.
In two consecutive battles, more than 100,000 people received military honors.
Let the entire Han Dynasty directly give birth to 100,000 middle-class or noble families within one year.
In order to reward meritorious soldiers, orders from the state flow to the people like water.
The demand for cloth, silk, ceramics, ironware, bambooware, and bronzeware is more than 100,000 each!
In the face of money, workshop owners and handicraftsmen are like chicken blood, working overtime day and night, so that all the goods they produce can be purchased by the government immediately.
The law determined by Ping Lv now plays a vital role.
Even the government can no longer buy and sell by force.
All transactions are supervised by the authority.
Through daily negotiations, regulations are made based on market prices.
Although the benefits of such materials purchased by the government are not as great as those sold in the market.
Generally, the profit is up to 40%, usually around 20%.
But that's enough!
As long as workshop owners and craftsmen concentrate on manufacturing, they won’t have to worry about sales!
What makes them even more excited is that plans for post-war reconstruction have been released.
The emperor decided to spend money from the inner treasury to rebuild the homes of all the people who lost their homes in the war, and at the same time, he would also improve local water conservancy, transportation and education.
And this will definitely further stimulate workshop owners and craftsmen.
Even in the slums of Chang'an City, people are beginning to cheer up now.
Relying on the massive orders, these people at the bottom of the city, who used to be impoverished and precarious, are now finally able to have enough to eat, and even have enough money to buy new clothes for themselves, their wives and children.
But these people actually just drank some leftovers from this feast.
Those who really eat meat...
They are always big landowners, and the big nobles are the noble scholar-bureaucrats.
Shi Fen was sitting at the table at this moment, listening to the report of his son Shi Jian: "Father, our manor and workshop have made huge profits this year! Just last month, we made more than 200 yuan! This is comparable to
That’s as much profit as a million-year-old Marquis of Wanhu!”
"My son plans to recruit a thousand more people and buy two thousand more slave laborers to expand his business!"
The Lao Shi family was originally the noblest and most aloof scholar-bureaucrat family in the Han family.
Although Shi Fen is not yet known as Wan Shijun, he is still a national elder and a prominent figure.
Therefore, what the Lao Shi family has always advocated is to cultivate, study and pass down the family lineage, and to compete in reading!
Even martial arts were considered astray in the Shi family in the past, and were only done by reckless men!
As for opening a workshop or something...
The Lao Shi family never bothered to do it!
However, since last year, the Shi family has been quietly changing. A workshop was built in the manor. At the beginning, it was mainly used for printing.
Then, he got involved in the ceramics industry.
Then he started making farming tools, of course very simple shovels, rakes and so on.
But even so, the Lao Shi family still made a lot of money.
Last year, the profit was as much as five million!
It exceeds the total salary and tenancy of the Shi family in the past fifty years...
As for this year…
Until now, in just over half a year, Shijia Workshop's profit has exceeded 7 million!
I made two million in one month last month!
Even if Shi Fen is a saint, he will not be able to control himself in the face of such profits.
As for the Shi family, they have long since abandoned all pretense and become slaves to money.
"We want to continue recruiting workers..." Shi Fen said softly: "But Jian'er, go tell the people below that starting from this month, the salaries of all workers will be increased by 30%. Craftsmen and capable people will be rewarded accordingly according to their abilities.
Double it... If there is a great craftsman, you can take him as a retainer..."
"Father..." Shi Jian moved his lips and said, "If this is the case, my family's profit may not be much!"
Nowadays, the wages of workers in Chang'an and Guanzhong are very high, especially those of skilled ceramic workers, blacksmiths, and carpenters. Their wages are no worse than those of ordinary petty officials.
With such an increase, Shijia Workshop's profits may not be much.
Without money, you can't do many things.
"What's the use of money?" Shi Fen stood up and scolded his son: "What a stupid idea!"
"Shi's success today depends on the Emperor and His Majesty..." Shi Fen faced the direction of Weiyang Palace and bowed: "I, the descendants of Shi, can love money, but they must not keep it!"
"Slaves who keep money, such as King Qi..." Shi Fen also sighed when he talked about King Qi.
King Liu Jianglu of Qi was the youngest son of King Hui of Qi.
This line was once extremely prominent.
But today, except for Liu Xiongqu, the king of Jiaodong, who was spared due to his son Liu De's connection with the present, everyone else was wiped out by wind and rain.
Especially the King of Qi, just from his palace, he made 200,000 gold coins, 30 million five-baht coins, other coins worth hundreds of thousands, and 10,000 catties of copper!
These were all made into wedding dresses for the emperor!
Speaking of which, Shi Fen also met King Hui Hui back then, and he was indeed a smart king.
Among his sons, there are some losers, but there are also some heroes.
For example, King Chengyang Jing and King Qi Ai were both heroes of the time.
But so what?
If you want your minister to die, how dare you not to die?
Today's mourning for King Hui, only the Jiaodong line is left, how sad!
Shi Fen didn't want his family to end up in the same tragedy as King Qi, who spent his whole life guarding his wealth, only to end up using it as someone else's wedding dress!
Besides...
Shi Fen's eyes flashed with sharpness.
"Furthermore, the most beneficial thing in the world is to seek for the country!"
"The war at Yanji has ended, the king's army has achieved a great victory, and the emperor has announced to China and foreign countries that outside the Great Wall, all the places for the heroes..."
"People...have become the most valuable resource in the world..."
"My family currently has more than a thousand workers and slave workers... If we recruit one thousand more workers and two thousand slave workers, and get them to join us, we can get five thousand people! If we get five thousand loyal and honest people, we can be enough to live outside the wall.
Be submissive and rebuild a country!"
"The Shi family has become the hope of a county from now on, and will be rich and noble for generations to come!"
"Is it okay to just focus on money?"
Shi Fen reprimanded his son: "Can money buy you five thousand loyal soldiers?"
"Can't..." Shi Jian bowed his head and bowed.
"Can money make my family wealthy for ten generations?" Shi Fen asked again.
"cannot……"
"Can money be used for my family's descendants, my meritorious service, and the title of noble lord, and be worshiped as a general or prime minister?"
"cannot……"
"In that case...what's the use of it? If we don't scatter it all, we can gain five thousand loyal followers. In thirty to fifty years, it may become the foundation of a prince and the wings of a general!" Shi Fen said: "Come on.
Today, you and I, my father and my son, might as well enshrine the ancestral master for our descendants, and the title of his divine lord is 'Shi Clan's Clan'!"
"I would like to learn from you, sir!" Shi Jian bowed sincerely.
The old father's wisdom is indeed beyond his comparison.
He only saw money, but the old father saw something more attractive behind the money!
In Chang'an City, many important figures and nobles all made the same decision at this moment.
The treatment of their diners, retainers, and hangers-on has been improved one after another.
Countless people shed tears of gratitude.
And those who owned the workshops began to work hard to increase wages for the workers.
Fortunately, the profits of the Han family's industry and commerce are frighteningly high.
The general profit in general industries is more than 20%!
In some industries, the profits are even several times higher!
In the past, the old men would exploit people as hard as they could.
But now, in order to win people's hearts, the gentlemen have to sacrifice their lives for themselves, charge into battles, kill and plunder, and offer "high wages" one after another.
Especially for those who have skills and a strong physique that can be called a strong man, their wages skyrocketed instantly.
However, in the past few days, in the workshops in Guanzhong, the wages of ordinary craftsmen, especially men, have generally increased by more than 20%. There is no other way. The big bosses have raised their wages, and the small workshop owners at the bottom dare not raise their wages. The workers have used them one after another.
Feet vote for job hopping!
This made the businessmen from Guandong burst into laughter. People said: "Guanzhong gentry, you are so frustrated and crazy! You don't make good money, but you actually give a salary increase to a poor guy? It's simply..."
But what happened next made them unable to laugh.
After receiving a salary increase, workers are more active in consumption.
The commodity economy in the Guanzhong market suddenly became active.
As a result, even though the examinations have ended, the Guanzhong market has bucked the trend and prospered.
Someone did some math and found that instead of losing money, the merchants in Guanzhong actually made a profit!
This really made the Guandong merchants a little confused. They couldn't figure out what was going on?
But Liu Che knew.
Take what Xiuyiwei reported.
He sighed and said: "Now I roughly know what China's capitalism will look like in the future..."
It probably has three heads.
One is called capital, just like the capital in the West.
There is also a family called clan, which is similar to the Morgan family in the West, but not because it is a unique product of China.
The first batch of private capitalists in later generations all had similar characteristics.
When one person attains enlightenment, the whole family will succeed.
Even in some areas, as long as one person makes a fortune doing a certain type of business, his neighbors and even the entire village, town, and county will follow suit.
The more you do, the bigger you get.
He has made a name for himself, and he has also made himself infamous.
For example, there are just a few places that are home to false evidence.
Also like the title of fraud.
There is also the famous Putian, which is an even more jaw-dropping place for counterfeiting and counterfeiting.
That was still China two thousand years later, when human and clan relations had become weak.
As for now...
Liu Che can only say that when one person attains enlightenment, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.
In the future, Chinese capital will most likely become family-based and regional-based.
The division of labor is clear, the organization is tight, and... the level of bloodthirsty, madness and profit-seeking far exceeds that of their Western counterparts.
In the future, there may be nothing they dare not do.
Using blood as a bond, using clan as a means of unity, and relying on interests to stick together, they will tear the entire world into pieces.
What's the point of setting up machine guns to sweep workers?
The power of China's clan capital will let the world know what it means to be truly powerful and awesome!
The countries and governments of later generations will probably have a lot of headaches for them.
Just think about it, the capitalists that will appear in the future will be super families, and you will definitely have reason to be afraid.
Apart from this, in the news of later generations, are there not many cases of a village or even a town or a county boycotting the national investigation team and the public prosecutor?
As for this third head.
Everyone may not think of it.
Its name is Etiquette!
In the long history of two thousand years, ritual cannibalism has emerged one after another.
As for the world of capital...
Do you think it will become a vegetarian? (To be continued.)
