Mystery Makes Me Strong

For a mere 40,000 taels of silver, hundreds will be beheaded and thousands of court sailors will be captured. Such a major crime of rebellion will be solved.

"Absurd, really absurd."

"Fake, too fake."

"Idiots, two idiots."

Facing Wu Shanshan's comments, Zhao Han had nothing to say.

The truth is that ridiculous.

Think about it in the Dream of the Red Chamber, the Jia family spent nearly a million taels of silver in order to welcome the noble concubine to visit her relatives.

In the end it was stolen.

Why didn't so much money help them change the ending?

Why does this happen?

It's very simple, because Jia's mansion has no soldiers behind it.

If I want to squeeze you to death, I will crush you to death.

The Jia family fell, and it was only after Wang Ziteng, the man in charge of the military, died suddenly.

"This incident means that the court is already very weak at this time." Jia Lian said to the two of them.

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

"We should speed ourselves up now, develop fast, and stop hesitating."

"That's right, officials under the imperial court are more tolerant than we imagined, and they are bent on making money."

"The reality is not the Red Chamber. There is no such complicated conspiracy. It only depends on strength and means."

The idea of ​​​​deciding to speed up can't stop.

They began to introduce a large number of refugees, open up deserted islands, attack savages, and distribute land.

In fact, this is the foundation of the establishment of the dynasty.

How did the dynasty stabilize in the first place?

It is by distributing unowned land to refugees.

The initial achievements of the county magistrate were to appease the refugees, distribute the land, and register them.

Cultivate a large number of self-cultivating farmers.

This is the foundation of a prosperous dynasty.

The forces that can do this have the hope of Jackie Chan.

Many heroes don't understand and fail in the end.

The seemingly simple three things require a large number of scholars to form a bureaucratic class to cooperate.

Otherwise, it is difficult to compare to the sky.

Relying on bandits alone is not enough, and they don't even know how big the land is, let alone dividing it.

There are homesteaders.

There is food.

Ironware and cloth appeared subsequently.

When the supplies are abundant, they can be collected.

Rely on the small farmers.

Without the yeoman, the dynasty would be over.

why?

Obviously after becoming a tenant farmer, he is also creating wealth.

Moreover, the population will be larger in the later period, and theoretically more wealth will be created.

The reason is simple, the owner farmers are the most oppressed, scattered one by one, they are the natural class to be taxed.

Once they disappeared, reduced to tenant farmers of large landowners, they could no longer pay adequate taxes.

As for the big landlords, they have all kinds of ways to buy officials and avoid taxes.

In the end, the imperial court was accidentally destroyed when there was still a lot of money and food among the people, as well as a lot of material wealth.

If he can't collect taxes and supplies, the system won't work.

All three understand this.

Of course they have to find a way to solve this problem.

In fact, it is not troublesome.

Through prosperous business activities, there is a solution.

Business is prosperous, the imperial court controls the army, the army controls traffic, maintains trade channels, and then collects taxes.

Let landless farmers obtain food and other materials through commercial activities.

To put it simply, it means creating jobs... or distributing benefits, which means that if no jobs can be created, the imperial court directly collects taxes from rich businessmen forcibly, and uses the taxes to feed the redundant landless farmers 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 peasant economy into a liquid commodity economy.

The more developed the commerce, the more the labor force can be brought into play, and the faster the circulation of materials.

From the two basic materials of food and cloth, and then to steel and gunpowder, taxation is carried out, and these things are saved through taxation.

Currency is the medium of circulation of goods.

The three of them have already learned this set.

But this insight was beyond the imagination of the feudal rulers.

The feudal rulers only thought it was good to have money.

They also created paper money early, kept sending it out, and ended up screwing themselves.

Paper money is no longer used.

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.

Ancient banknotes were not good at all, and the unrestricted feudal rulers could not control their impulse to issue excessively.

This year, they introduced another 1 million refugees.

They quickly immigrated the refugees to various islands.

Open up wasteland and clean up mosquitoes, rats, and fleas, the enemies of immigrants.

Set fire to clean it up, and then distribute the land. After two years, these farmers settle down and can produce materials and become producers.

Yet they must also become consumers and join the commodity economy.

"How to create a commodity economy?" The three began to discuss again.

"The West relies on ocean trade, and on trade with the colonies, starting with weaving and driving a series of industries, and then bringing a large amount of food from the colonies to ensure the needs of the workers. At the same time, the local landlords were defeated and forced They changed 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 grain and exchange it for daily necessities, and then improve the circulation of the entire material. 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 need to issue currency and let this currency anchor an item that they must use."

"It must be medicines. Only medicines are absolutely impossible for farmers to produce by themselves. There are also clothes. Generally, farmers will find that clothes are not cost-effective to make by themselves."

"Yes, that's it."

…………

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 already has some property in good health.

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.

He can use these kids well.

Of course, he did not intend to actively exploit his children, but the fact is that in agricultural production activities, he can easily exploit his own children and help him with farm work.

He is very short of labor right now.

There is too much land, and there are wastelands outside, but he can't manage it alone.

It is very tiring for a cow to cultivate 5 mu of land a day.

20 mu will take 4 days.

Sowing, weeding, fertilizing, watering...

The complicated farm work made him urgently need labor.

Of course he didn't know that after a few generations, the descendants would fall into a population trap, have no land to cultivate, lose the opportunity to reproduce, and even the opportunity to eat, so they rebelled.

All he knew was that the surplus food in his family would definitely be sold at this time.

Because it's hot here.

Damp and buggy.

If the grain is not sold, it will rot within half a year at most.

He does not have the good storage environment of a large granary, nor does it have to be cleaned and dried manually every day.

He has to sell the grain to the grain station in the town.

Only the rations that the family eats 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 plant something that could be stored for a long time.

For example, rice and sorghum have the longest storage time and can be stored for 5-10 years.

The premise is that it is dry enough. Once it's wet and infested, it's over.

He was frightened by hunger.

The granary built by the family is already full, and as long as there is no chaos, it will be enough to feed his family for three years.

So, today he started to bring the old grain and the chickens, ducks and geese he raised to the town to sell for money.

If you don't sell it, you can't pay taxes.

Taxes can be collected with precious banknotes or with silver cash.

He didn't believe in that kind of money, but he still believed in Jia Datou.

On this kind of Jia's head, there is a chubby guy who can't see his face clearly.

This guy is naturally Jia Rong.

This is a real rebellion.

This is issued by Rongshi Bank.

Jia Datou can be exchanged for silver directly, one piece is one tael, and the value is very high. There is also a dime, which is equivalent to a denarius.

He took his wife to drive the ox cart and set off early in the morning. All three children were entrusted to the care of neighbors.

Everyone is like this, next time he will also take care of the neighbors.

Two ox carts, one beam loaded with 2,000 catties of grain, and the other loaded with 20 chickens and 10 ducks.

Two ox carts walked slowly towards the town market.

Depart early in the morning and arrive at noon.

Thanks to the company, the law and order is very good, there are no bandits, no soldiers.

Grain is still sold to grain stations as usual, and the price has remained stable.

And the other party also sells grain, the price is only a little higher than the selling price.

It is equivalent to charging a storage fee, which everyone understands.

So he is not worried that after selling, he will not be able to buy food if he encounters problems.

It is still troublesome to store food, but it is easy to store the bulk.

It won't rot, won't get worms, and it's easy to move.

When the food is stored, I have to dry it every half a month.

At least not less than one month.

No matter how long the time is, the interior of the grain will be affected by moisture, and it will rot and germinate.

This kind of drying is too tiring, so he plans to save the grain for only half a year and pull it down.

It is enough to eat until the new grain arrives, if not, just come to the grain station to buy it.

The grain station will keep the new grain for three years, and then sell the old grain on land.

He quickly exchanged all the food for money, and there was a lot of arguing in the middle. The other party said that he did not tan well and had bugs.

He was very angry, because he is a hardworking person, and he cherishes the food the most. It is very good and dry.

In fact, it is to ask him to give money.

But he refused to give it, and said he would sue the mayor.

Only then did the other party reluctantly accept the second-level product.

But threatened him that he would not charge so much next time and told him to come early.

He is depressed.

Wherever they go, the bankers suffer.

Fortunately, chickens, ducks and geese are selling very well, and the restaurant directly took them away and sold them at a high price.

They like his chickens and ducks very much, they are all raised in the fields.

This made him think that it would be much easier to plant less land and raise more chickens and ducks.

After all, selling food is really a pain.

I heard that big households are not afraid, and they come to collect regularly every year.

I am not afraid of these petty officials making trouble at all.

He then took his honest wife to buy cloth.

There are some new clothes to be made at home.

Fortunately, the company is good, and they will not be charged taxes for the first five years.

In the process of buying cloth, he does not know that he has paid taxes.

This is industrial scissors.

All he knew was that the price of the cloth was quite reasonable, and it was more cost-effective than his wife's weaving.

The time his wife weaves is used to raise ten more chickens and ducks to earn more.

Just to worry about the disease, the neighbor next door died of chickens and ducks, and then sold them to unscrupulous businessmen who came to buy them.

Of course, those medicines that treat headaches and brain fever should also be bought more to take home.

A child has a fever two or three times a year. If you don't buy it, the child will die.

"Ergen, you're living a good life now, why don't you buy another concubine?" On the way home, the fellow villagers picked up which pots they didn't open.

Find another concubine?

Wang Ergen looked at the honest woman, who had given birth to two children and was out of shape, and was working every day, very dark.

Immediately moved dirty thoughts.

It's time to find another beautiful concubine.

Have a few more kids.

Now the two children, the oldest of whom is three years old, can already collect firewood.

Firewood can be collected at the door.

Very obedient.

Much better than having a puppy.

By the way, there is also firewood.

Need to buy more coal.

Now it is forbidden to chop wood casually.

The firewood at home is all crop straw grown in the field.

Wood cannot be burned.

Trees are not allowed to be cut down, saying that it will destroy 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 of them died of illness in the second year.

Nothing happened to him.

How did he know that this was all done by the three of them?

That's why I started in the pharmaceutical industry in the first place.

Traditional methods are still very good at dealing with the plague.

But thinking about it, he was reluctant to spend money.

I also need to save money for the eldest son to be married when he is ten years old.

Get married early, and marry someone else's daughter to work at the age of twelve.

Who wants to buy coal?

How expensive it is to buy coal.

Anyway, there is a lot of wasteland.

Or when the child grows up, he will go to the wasteland to mow grass.

So he decided not to buy it.

Let's talk about it next time.

After all, the firewood pile at home has not been burned yet.

At this time, Wang Ergen didn't know that he had already participated in an economic cycle.

And complete the round.

In this round, his labor force, relying on the use of solar energy and land, "made out of nothing" the most essential wealth of mankind: by-products such as food and chickens and ducks.

Then it was sold to other people, forming the most basic and solid part of the entire socio-economic model.

Once there is a problem with this little Wang Ergen, the economic cycle here, no matter how powerful the empire is, even if it has the ability to destroy the world, it will collapse in an instant, making people dumbfounded.

However, the reason may be that no one sells grain and chickens and ducks.

On this point, only Wen Rensheng knows best.

Wang Ergen sold grain and chickens and ducks at the market in exchange for cloth and medicine.

He was sitting on an empty ox cart, resting and settling accounts.

How much money did I spend this time, and how much money did I earn.

He found that he had a little more Jia Datou.

He also heard that someone deposited it in the company's bank recently, and it is said that some interest can be given.

Not only is there no storage fee, but also gifts are given during the holidays.

Come to think of it, he still doesn't exist anymore.

If the bank goes down one day, wouldn't he be unlucky?

There are still people in their village who have saved it, let's see and talk.

Thinking of this, Wang Ergen, an ordinary farm boy with a little lust, returned to his home.

"Papa, I picked up six sticks of firewood." The three-year-old son ran out from the neighbor's house to greet him.

Start a new economic cycle again.

Just like an NPC.