Mystery Makes Me Strong

"It's ok, Lao Han, you really got sister Daiyu done." Xiao Huan said in shock.

"It's all under the teacher's guidance, and the teacher has rich experience." Zhao Han is an honest person, and of course he will not take credit for himself.

"I heard, next time you go to Hachiko's world and be the protagonist, an excellent student should be the protagonist." Wen Rensheng said angrily.

"Thank you, teacher. By the way, what is the protagonist of Hachiko's world?" Zhao Han asked happily.

"dog."

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South Island.

Jia Rong and Jia Lian are developing rapidly.

Compared with Jia Baoyu who is still in the gentle village, they have already started industrialization.

The three of them have already discussed, some people are in charge, and some people are in charge of outside.

Jia Baoyu is in charge of the interior, following the main line of emotional flow.

And they just engage in the external environment, and the outside influences the inside.

In order to avoid the literary prison, the author of Dream of Red Mansions tried his best to remove the background of the times and countries, and even deliberately confused the various timelines, which often confuses people after reading it. Even the exact age of the hero and heroine, you can’t figure it out, just to prevent others from reading it. Call it insinuation.

Unlike Wen Rensheng, who has always been eighteen years old, so clear and simple.

Obviously, the author's efforts were very successful. Although the last forty chapters were lost, at least after completion, it was still officially published by contemporaries and spread widely.

At that time, the authors of many books were killed by the literary inquisition, which was terrible.

Qingfeng is illiterate, so why flip through the books?

I used to illuminate my heart to the moon, but the breeze cut my head.

Even so, when it comes to the plot, the author also had to write some external environment.

For example, Xue Dafool ​​was kidnapped by bandits when he traveled far away, and was rescued by Liu Xianglian.

What does this symbolize?

It symbolizes that bandits have been everywhere for a long time, and the people are in dire straits. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence?

You must know that Xue Dafool ​​is definitely not alone when he goes out, he must be the shopkeeper, guards, and servants.

Then came the village of Jia's mansion, which was often hit by drought, and the harvest was always bad.

These are clear signs of a deteriorating environment.

But now, Jia Rong and Jia Lian are transforming the external environment.

Now their pharmaceutical industry, relying on some secret recipes and some unique formulas adopted by later generations, has become popular all over the world and become popular.

Among them, medicines for treating malaria, medicines for refreshing, medicines for invigorating qi and blood, medicines for stopping bleeding and anti-inflammation, medicines for fighting bacteria, medicines for relieving pain and reducing fever... are all effective and widely used medicines.

For example, the ancients lacked fever-reducing medicines for wind-cold colds, which caused many people, especially infants, to become idiots and even die young after being caught with a high fever and cold.

In fact, there is no need for anything at this time. As long as the fever can be reduced, most people can survive.

Whether the drug is effective or not is the most visible.

An effective medicine is naturally sought after by everyone, and it is absolutely necessary, because if you don't take medicine when you are sick, you are making a joke of your own life.

Unless you are poor, as long as you are a person with some assets, you have to take medicine when you are sick. It is not uncommon for families to go bankrupt because of taking medicine.

Now Jia Lian's pharmaceutical factory is named "Yangrong Pharmaceutical", a very modern name.

But nothing, the Dream of Red Mansions has already involved modern times, with chiming bells and ships.

Yangrong Pharmaceutical is booming, with a monthly turnover of more than 300,000 taels and a profit of more than 120,000 taels.

This year is completely a seller's market, and it belongs to the era of scarcity of supplies, lacking everything.

From grain to ironware, there is also a shortage of cloth. Of course, this refers to the shortage of farmers without consumption power. Landlords with consumption power do not lack food and cloth.

Many people have labor, but have no opportunity to convert labor into cash.

And labor is the most precious resource in the industrial age.

As long as there is labor, resources can be exploited in great abundance.

The agricultural society is the other way around, with extremely limited resources and wasted labor... This can be seen from the countless massacres.

From the perspective of industrial society, what a waste it is. The massacre of hundreds of thousands of people, even if they only earn one hundred a day, is still billions...

However, the agricultural society does not think so. With fewer people, there will be more land, and the dynasty will be more stable for decades.

And Yangrong Pharmaceutical is trying to convert these redundant labors into wealth.

They recruit landless farmers, homeless, beggars...all of them into the factory.

The salary given is extremely low, which is enough for three meals a day, plus a residence.

But that's enough for a lot of people.

As for saving enough money to get married and have children, most landless farmers have no such luxury.

What is the 30 million bachelors in later generations?

In this era, many people have no chance to leave offspring at all. Only the landlords, officials and gentry can leave many offspring.

On this day, the two were looking at the ledger.

"The industrial population has exceeded 88,887 people, and the bank balance on the books has exceeded 1.2 million taels. In just a few years, it has surpassed Lin Ruhai's entire life savings, and there is still a huge shortage of patrolling salt censors." Jia Rong sighed. .

"The speed at which industrial society creates wealth is completely unimaginable in agricultural society, because in industrial society, available resources and labor are two completely different dimensions from agricultural society," Jia Lian said.

"Yes, industrial society can use coal, oil, and electricity as power. From the perspective of energy, it far exceeds the bioenergy of human beings. It can create massive wealth. The index that restricts the production capacity of industrial society is actually agricultural society. The biggest headache is the population, the larger the population, the larger the industrial scale, and the higher the efficiency, the sparse population, and no matter how advanced the technology is, it cannot support industrialization." Jia Rong had to sigh, this feudal society wasted Too much labor.

While the two were thinking about it, suddenly, a chief came from the outside. He took a letter sent by a carrier pigeon and urgently reported:

"The big thing is not good. The two bosses, the governor, asked for 300,000 taels of silver from our branch stationed in the local provincial capital. They also said that it is needed for one season and will be collected in the next season."

When he said this, the master was sweating profusely and looked nervous.

If the money comes out, they won't be able to work for a long time in the semicolon, and they will just close the door.

"It's not that the wild goose has plucked its feathers, it's that the wild goose has been thrown into the pot!" Jia Rong was furious when she heard this.

Jia Lian looked calm.

This wild goose is getting fatter, so naturally there will be more jealous people.

This is feudal society. The size of your business does not depend on how smart you are, but on how big your official position is.

Of course, even if you are the emperor's old son, the scale of your business will be restricted, mainly by eunuchs and civil officials.

"Boss, what should we do? They will give an answer within three days, otherwise they will send troops to recruit." The chief said hurriedly.

He now has an annual income of 735 taels, plus a lot of benefits, but he doesn't want such a good job to disappear.

The most important thing is that the two clubs treat him as a human being.

Once it's gone, he will wander about in the world again, enduring humiliation to survive, and humiliating.

"Did the name of the Xue family be reported?" Jia Rong asked after calming down.

"Report, they say that a down-and-out imperial merchant dares to interfere in the imperial court's suppression of bandits?" the chief said helplessly.

"Have the names of the Wang family and the Jia family been announced?" Jia Lian asked.

"I didn't get permission from the two of you, so I didn't dare to report."

"Report and try."

Half a day later, the news came, and the master came to report again.

"Reported, they said at least 200,000 taels, not a penny less."

"It seems that Jia Wang's family is much stronger than Xue's family. One hundred thousand taels less, no wonder Aunt Xue wants to join Jia's family." Jia Lian laughed.

"But in this way, don't we become part-time workers for them? After working so hard for so long, one quarter and three months, the total profit is only 360,000 taels, and they want 200,000 taels. This is still a semicolon request!" Jia Rong said harshly.

The principal is also helpless.

Obviously, this business is not easy to do. The influence of the Jia family and the Wang family is in the north and south of the Yangtze River. This is a land in the south of the world, too far away.

The other party's willingness to give up one hundred thousand taels was probably because of Wang Ziteng's sake. After all, the other party was still a celebrity in front of the emperor at this time, holding military power, and had some ties to the governor.

"You go down first, we will discuss right away."

Afterwards, Jia Lian and Jia Rong contacted Xiao Huan and asked her to contact Jia Baoyu for a tripartite meeting.

This was the only trick that Wen Rensheng used the underlying mechanism of this world to set up for them.

Let them ignore the distance, surpass the means of communication in this world, and be able to communicate in real time.

This is the treatment that can only be given after the telegram comes out.

In fact, in the timeline where Jia Baoyu is located, there are also various gods, gods and monsters.

For example, Ma Daopo, or Taoist Kongkong, or that monk.

They all have mystical powers.

For example, too illusory realm, Jinghuan Fairy, etc., but in the end, these gods and gods are all fake.

This is called when the false is true, the true is also false, and when doing nothing, sometimes there is and there is nothing.

Gods and monsters are fake and do not exist, but those overseas countries, overseas things, inside and outside Jia's mansion, actually exist.

This is one true and one false.

After contacting Jia Baoyu, Jia Baoyu also said angrily: "Damn it, you dare to ask for 200,000 taels of silver. Do you really think this silver is blown by a strong wind?"

"Oh, the Jia family is doomed. If Duke Rong Jia Daishan was around, who would dare to ask for it like this?" Jia Lian shook his head.

"That's right. Every time those big eunuchs came to Jia's mansion, they would ask for more than 1,000 taels of silver, but Grandma Liu was very happy when she took 20 taels of silver." Jia Rong also sighed.

"It seems that our pharmaceutical industry can no longer be covered by the power of the Xue family, the Jia family and the Wang family alone. Some people are already jealous of the annual bonus of 1.2 million taels. The 200,000 taels are just a test. If you give in , They will definitely ask for dry shares, and the property that we have worked so hard to build will fall into their hands step by step." Jia Baoyu understood.

"Yeah, what's the benefit if it really falls into their hands? The government-run industry is extremely bad, and there is no worst, only worse. There are too many people, and 10 people can do the work for you. Put 100 people in and eat 100 people. The empty rate. The raw materials are shoddy, and the raw materials are rotten for you to fool you, but the price is still the price of good materials. 100 taels of silver are used to purchase materials worth ten taels of silver. As a result, the raw materials bought cannot be used. You have to spend another 100 taels to buy it again." Jia Rong sighed.

"Then what shall we do?" Jia Baoyu asked.

Now the three of them have personally experienced the severe obstacles of feudal society to large-scale industry.

Why industrialization requires a stable legal environment.

If it is unstable, if you allow oppression and exploitation, no matter how high the profit is, it will not be able to support it.

It's a blow to the confidence of the factory owner. Who can stand it for a year of hard work and finally for nothing?

Only a fair legal environment and a fair contract environment can rationalize the distribution of industrial profits.

For example, I can pay taxes to the court, but you must ensure that after this round of collection, you will not be able to collect more, and you must ensure my safety.

If it was endless, no one would engage in industry anymore.

There is only a thousand days to be a thief, but there is no thousand days to guard against a thief.

What should they do now?

"By the way, did we overlook something?" Zhao Han suddenly remembered what he had overlooked when the matter came to an end.

"Forgot what?" the two asked.

"Have you forgotten the two uncles?"

"Uh, I really forgot." Wang Wenwen said helplessly.

She remembered that the two uncles were working as eunuchs.

They were still great eunuchs, one was Xia Bingzhong and the other was Dai Quan.

"Understood, first put the property under their names and see if it can scare some people? We still need time." Jia Lian suddenly said.

a day later.

The chief came again and reported happily: "Governor Ping Yu asked for less price, only 10,000 taels."

The three of them were not half happy.

From 300,000 taels to 10,000 taels.

This is the power of imperial power.

It should be said that he is a person who can really enjoy the imperial power.

The emperor just couldn't enjoy the imperial power in many cases, because he lacked skills.

Although he has power, he is a person and cannot control time.

Most of the benefits brought by his imperial power were shared by eunuchs, concubines, and civil officials.

It is a great thing that the emperor can enjoy 10%.

Jiajing was able to enjoy one-third of it back then, so he was not satisfied, saying it was his money.

He should be satisfied, his later emperor, Chongzhen, could not get one-thirtieth of it.

This is not an exaggeration at all. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, commerce was extremely developed, especially maritime trade. Western merchants had a lot of things to sell to the Ming Dynasty, and a lot of things they wanted to buy from the Ming Dynasty.

The ridiculous officials of the imperial court deliberately set up obstacles, which led to the complete ruin of Ming Dynasty, who could save his fate by trade.

You must know that Zheng Chenggong once reached Nanjing by relying on trade training. The key is to rely on the expensive armored men to defeat the mighty cavalry of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties!

This is the most important thing. Being able to defeat the opponent's cavalry means being able to take the initiative, especially with maritime superiority.

If it weren't for Zheng Chenggong who only lived to be 39 years old, and if he was allowed to live to Sima Yi's age, it is very likely that Man Qing would be pushed back.

The history of social forms is actually not inevitable. In many cases, it depends on the life of the main characters to determine what it looks like.

It’s just inevitable in the general trend, such as the origin of the industrial revolution and the development of science and technology.