Chapter 2020 NPC
With only 40,000 taels of silver, hundreds of people were killed and thousands of imperial navy soldiers were captured. Such a serious crime of rebellion was solved.
"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 absurd.
Think about the Dream of Red Mansions. The Jia family spent nearly one million taels of silver in order to welcome the imperial concubine to visit the bride.
In the end, my house was ransacked.
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 are we going to do?" Jia Rong asked.
“We should speed up our speed now and develop rapidly without hesitation.”
“Yes, the officials under the imperial court are more tolerant than we thought. They are bent on making money. . ”
“The reality is not the Red Mansion, there is no such complicated conspiracy, it only depends on the strength and means.”
The idea of deciding to speed up.
They began to introduce a large number of refugees, open up desert islands, attack savages, and distribute land.
In fact, this is the foundation for establishing the dynasty.
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 has the hope of becoming a dragon.
Many heroes don’t understand it and fail in the end.
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 dividing it.
There are yeoman farmers.
The food is ready.
Ironware and cloth appeared subsequently.
When supplies are abundant, they can be collected.
It relies on small farmers.
Without the yeoman farmers, the dynasty would be finished.
Why?
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 easiest to be oppressed. They are scattered one by one and 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 there was still a lot of money and material wealth among the people.
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.
Business prospered, and the imperial court controlled the army, which controlled transportation, maintained trade channels, and collected taxes.
Enable 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, as 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, we levy taxes and save these things 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 banknotes early and kept issuing them, but 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 distribute.
Ancient paper money simply didn't work, and the unrestricted feudal rulers couldn't control their impulse to issue indiscriminately.
This year, they brought in another 1 million refugees.
They quickly immigrated the refugees to various islands.
Clear wasteland and clean up mosquitoes, rats, and fleas, the enemies of immigrants.
Set the land on fire and distribute it. 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 relies on maritime trade and trade with the colonies. It starts with weaving and drives a series of industries, and then brings a large amount of food from the colonies to ensure the needs of workers. It defeated local landowners and forced them to plant cotton and raise sheep, changing the use of their 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. Only by circulation and by making more things can we develop.”< br>
"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 medicine, only Medicines are absolutely not something that farmers can produce themselves, as well as clothes, and ordinary 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 surrounded by high village walls.
Wang Ergen is a land immigrant. He has settled here for three years, married a wife, and had two children.
Thanks to God's blessing, he is in good health and already has some properties.
Twenty acres of land, three cattle, and flocks of chickens and ducks.
Now he is eager for his children to grow up quickly and be able to help him work and inherit the family business.
He could put these kids to good use.
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 short of labor now.
There is too much land, and there are plenty of wastelands outside, but he can'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 are also sowing, weeding, fertilizing, watering...
The complicated farm work makes him urgently in need of labor.
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 the opportunity to eat, so they rebelled.
He only knows that the excess food in his family must be sold at this time.
Because it's hot here.
Moist and insect-ridden.
If you don’t sell the grain, it will rot in half a year at most.
He does not have a good storage environment like a large granary, nor does he have to manually clean and dry it 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 and sorghum 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 gets bugs, it's over.
He was scared of hunger.
The granary built at home is already full. As long as there is no war or chaos, it will be enough for his family to eat 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 or silver coins to collect taxes.
He doesn’t believe in that kind of money, but he still believes 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 a true rebellion.
This is issued by Rongshi Bank.
Jia Datou can be directly exchanged for silver. One coin is one tael, which is very valuable. There is also a dime, which is equivalent to one penny.
He took his wife and drove the ox cart and set off early in the morning. The three children were entrusted to the care of neighbors.
Everyone is like this. He will also take care of his neighbors next time.
Two ox carts, one beam loaded with 2,000 kilograms of grain, and the other cart loaded with 20 chickens and ten ducks.
Two bullock carts walked slowly towards the town market.
Start 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 the grain station 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 is not worried 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. It will be easy to move.
When the food 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 the 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 then sell the old grain to the land.
He quickly exchanged all the grain for money, and there was a lot of wrangling in the process. The other party said that he did not dry well and had insects.
He was very angry because he was a hard-working man and cherished food the most, which was very good and dry.
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 reluctantly accepted the second-level product.
But I threatened him not to charge so much next time and asked him to come early.
He was very depressed.
Everywhere the bankers suffer.
Fortunately, the chickens, ducks and geese sold well. 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 they are all 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 they come to collect them regularly every year.
I am not afraid of the obstruction of these petty officials at all.
He then took his honest wife to buy cloth.
I want to make some new clothes at home.
Fortunately, the company is good and will not collect taxes from them 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 earn more.
The only thing to worry about is 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, your life is good now, why don't you buy a concubine?" On the way home, the villagers couldn't help but pick up any pot.
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 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, saying that it will damage the feng shui.
He believed it too.
The feng shui here must be good, otherwise, how could I make a fortune?
He heard that some people 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 this was all done by three people to prevent and cure diseases?
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.
When the children grow up, they go to the wasteland to cut grass.
So he decided not to buy it.
See you next time.
After all, the firewood pile at home has not been burned yet.
At this time, Wang Ergen did not know that he had participated in an economic cycle.
And completed the round.
In this round, his labor force, by using solar energy and land, "made something out of nothing" by-products such as food, chickens and ducks.
It was then sold to others, 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 settling 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.
Think about 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.
Thinking like this, Wang Ergen, an ordinary farm man with a little 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.
Start a new economic cycle again.
Like an NPC.
(End of this chapter)