I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 214, The Age of Industrialization
After communicating with Sun Qing, Xu Wei left 5 victims to be resettled by him, and took the remaining 10 victims to Yunzhong County!

The county city of Yunzhong County, Yunzhong City, has been bustling since it was taken back by the Tengjia Army, and after Niu Gui came, it was even more different every day. The style of the trading city.

Niu Gui fully learned what Xu Wei did in Mayi. The elevated canals, steel mills, and textile mills are not missing. In addition, there are continuous blood transfusions from the Tengjia Army. The changes in Yunzhong County in the past few years are more than the previous hundred years!
Since the completion of the elevated canal in Yunzhong County, the entire Yunzhong County has gained tens of millions of acres of fertile land. This year's autumn harvest alone has a total grain income of 3000 million shi, which can not only meet the needs of the people in the entire Yunzhong County, but also To feed the herdsmen with a radius of thousands of miles.

Now the entire Yunzhong County has become a big granary in Monan. The herdsmen in Monan go to the desert to graze in summer, and bring their cattle and sheep to Yunzhong County to overwinter in winter. These herdsmen have wool, cattle and sheep, and War horses, when the sales channels are not opened up, these are not counted as fur, and they can only barely survive, and even a snowstorm will starve half of their population to death.

But now that the Tengjia Army has opened up the sales channels, these things have become a source of income. Even the price of frozen cattle and sheep sold to Mayi merchants is more than 3-4 times that of before, while war horses and cattle The price has increased by more than 10 times than before, and the price is already close to the territory of Dahan. Now they can live well just by grazing!

So there was a surprising scene in the territory of the Tengjia Army. The income of the herdsmen was higher than that of the farmers, and what was even more surprising was that most of the herdsmen in Yunzhong County were actually Han Chinese.

So these days, if you don’t force yourself, you don’t know how much potential you have. It’s all nonsense that Han people can’t herd herds. The pictures are all fake, but the real thing is that you can make money!
A large number of herdsmen and cattle and sheep have attracted the big merchants of the whole Han Dynasty. Every winter, any goods in Yunzhong County can be purchased by hundreds of thousands of herdsmen. The purchasing power of these herdsmen is 10 times stronger than before, and they can also A large number of wool, cattle, sheep, and war horses are purchased from the hands of herdsmen. In autumn and winter, Yunzhong City is more lively than Xu Wei’s previous Double Eleven. It can be said that the volume of transactions in an autumn determines whether many businessmen will eat chaff and drink for a year or eat big fish and big meat .

After Zhao Tian and the others came to Yunzhong County, Yunzhong County Chief Shi Zhaogui led them to continue heading north. Their destination was not Yunzhong County, but a grassland stronghold hundreds of miles north of Yunzhong County. The 10 will be divided into dozens of stocks, and they will be stationed on the grasslands with a radius of thousands of miles, building one by one forts to divide the grasslands on the desert, and eventually these forts will form a giant net that spans thousands of miles. , live in this desert thousands of miles away!
And Xu Wei entered Yunzhong County. When he came, it happened to be the most prosperous time in Yunzhong County. The shops on both sides of the street were full of goods, and the shopkeepers shouted loudly to the outside, and the streets were even more crowded. , The carriages are constantly flowing.

If it hadn't been for hundreds of miles, Xu Wei would have thought he had come to Mayi!Everything here is too similar to Mayi, the elevated aqueduct outside the city, the waterwheel, the huge textile factory, and the iron and steel plant, all of which are in Mayi, as if they were carved out of the same mold!
Xu Wei just wandered around the streets of Yunzhong County!
At this time, a guy shouted at Xu Wei: "Hero, why don't you come to our Yunji to see the leather goods, we guarantee good quality and low price!"

Xu Wei took a look and found that it was full of leather coats. Before Xu Wei made woolen cloth and sweaters, leather coats were the first choice for rich people to spend the winter. Of course, it is the same now, even because Xu Wei made woolen sweaters. If the leather coat becomes a status symbol, it will be even more expensive.

Seeing Xu Wei coming in, the clerk smiled and said, "Our leather coats are the best in the whole big man. Luoyang City, Chang'an City, Pengcheng, Linzi, the nobles and wealthy businessmen in these big cities all like our furs here. The uncle came to buy a guarantee Don't suffer!"

Seeing a gray fur man, Xu Wei asked, "How much does this cost?"

The waiter was pleasantly surprised: "Master, you have a good eye. This is a bearskin coat. It was hunted by a Xianbei warrior. That warrior is a legendary eagle shooter. He shot the giant bear in the eye with one arrow. The whole bearskin can There is not a single wound, and when sold to our store, it is sold by masters and sewn by top tailors, so that it has such a beautiful color and soft texture. If you want it, you only need 20 yuan!"

Xu Wei trembled when he heard the price. It really deserves to be a rich woman's pretense item, and it is really not affordable for ordinary people. Don't look at Xu Wei who is in charge of the entire rattan armor army, but his monthly salary is only 2 yuan. He really can't afford his 10 months' income!

Xu Wei immediately said: "It's too expensive, is there a cheaper one!"

The guy said: "There are too!"

The man pointed to the white leather coat and said, "This is a coat made of desert snow fox fur, and the price is much cheaper, only 3 yuan!"

Xu Wei became more calm afterwards, because he knew he couldn't afford it, so he just looked at the coats here. Sure enough, even the cheapest rabbit fur coat here costs more than 5000 yuan, and Xu Wei is reluctant to buy it anyway.

Instead, Xu Wei found a way to make money, whether to ask the people to contract a mountain to raise rabbits, the meat can be eaten, and the skin can be made into rabbit fur coats. With the high price of fur coats, they should be able to make money.

But Xu Wei asked strangely: "The price of this leather jacket is so expensive, will anyone come to buy it?"

The buddy seemed to see that Xu Wei was poor, and his interest was not as high as before, but he said calmly: "Of course there are many, these years, there are more and more rich people in our Yunzhong County, so naturally there are more people buying fur coats! "

"Many Xianbei people look down on the work of herding and farming, so they specialize in hunters, hunting all kinds of beasts. Some time ago, a Xianbei warrior hunted and killed a giant white bear. The bear skin alone sold for 100 million yuan. , causing a sensation in the entire Yunzhong County!"

Xu Wei thought to himself, the giant white bear could not be a polar bear, could it?It shouldn't be possible that there are still thousands of taels of distance from the North Pole!

However, a piece of white bear skin can be sold for 100 million yuan. If it is not 200 million yuan to make a coat, it is unexpected that the rich men of the rattan armor army are already so rich.

Now Xu Wei is a little worried again. He came from a society with a huge gap between the rich and the poor, so he naturally knows the harm involved. No one believes that he got rich through labor in his previous life, and getting rich through capital has become a generally accepted common sense.

It seems that these rich people should also be taxed to balance the gap between the rich and the poor!

At this time, Yunji's shopkeeper came over, he knew Xu Wei and said excitedly: "Shuai Qu, why did you come to the shop, what coat do you like, this shop will give it to you for free!"

Xu Wei shook his head and said: "The shopkeeper is polite, our Vine Armor Army is disciplined and cannot accept gifts from the common people. As the leader of the Vine Armor Army, I must lead by example!"

The shopkeeper smiled awkwardly and said, "What kind of leather jacket do you want to buy? I'll give you a [-]% discount for the small one!"

Xu Wei smiled and said, "No need, your leather clothes are too expensive, I can't afford them!"

At this moment, Niu Gui also came over and smiled, "Shuai Qu, don't let me know when you're here!"

Xu Wei smiled and said, "Aren't you here now!"

Then he pointed to the coats around him and said, "I never thought that such an expensive luxury item would appear in our Tengjia Army, and it could be sold!"

Xu Wei's words startled the shopkeeper, thinking that he had offended Lei Gong!

But Xu Wei and Niu Gui ignored the shopkeeper at all, but walked out of the shop and walked towards the street!

Niu Gui smiled wryly and said: "No matter where you are, there will be no shortage of rich people, especially in a large commercial city like Yunzhong County, where there are thousands of big businessmen with wealth over one million!"

"I wanted to do something for the common people, but I soon discovered that the income of the common people has not increased much, but there are more and more rich people in Yunzhong County. When I first came here, my family was worth millions. I don’t have a single family like this, but now there are hundreds of such families, and they are making money faster and faster. I don’t know if I’m busy now, whether it’s for the rich or the poor. How long can the flag of Tianxingdao last!"

Obviously Niu Gui didn't like the current changes in Yunzhong County, and was even a little confused.

Xu Wei smiled helplessly: "This kind of thing is inevitable, some people have the talent to make money, some people only use the talent of farming and carpentry, and farmers and workers obviously don't make as much money as businessmen!

We can only adjust this kind of thing as much as possible, collect more taxes for the rich, and less tax for the poor without money, and at the same time protect the disadvantaged farmers and workers. If conditions permit, we can even give the bottom people a guarantee, at least No one will starve to death! "

Niu Gui excitedly said: "Shuai Qu, can't we go back to the system we had when we first came to Mayi, where everyone had food and money to spend together! I think that was when our Tengjia Army was the strongest. The current Rattan Armor Army has gradually become no different from a big man!"

"When people of our generation are still alive, we can still guarantee the fairness of the people at the bottom, but the rich and the rich will definitely collude with the powerful to make the laws of the country change in their favor. Just like Qu Shuai told us back then The land tax of the big man is the same. The land tax of the big man is one out of fifteen, or even one out of thirty, which seems very low.

However, each person has to pay 150 qian, and each family has to pay 600-700 qian. This tax rises immediately, and more than half of the income of ordinary people in corvee has been collected.And if they don't even have land, the people can only rent the land, and [-]% of their income will be taken away, and they can only barely survive, and if there is any natural or man-made disaster, they will starve to death! "

"However, those tyrannical and fertile farmlands take one out of ten thousand mu, and the oral calculation is nothing to them. The most fair thing is that the oral calculation should be cancelled, and the taxation should be based on the land. It is even more convenient to collect taxes in this way, but for hundreds of years There is no such suggestion, that is, to collect taxes according to the land on the territory of our Fujiko Army."

"Qu Shuai, you said that it is because those tyrants are rulers, they will not make decrees that are not good for them, even if they have them, they will change the decrees that are beneficial to them. If our Tengjia Army really captures the world, after becoming the ruler , Will you collude with these rich people, will you abandon our current taxation per mu and change it to a policy that is beneficial to the rich!"

Niu Gui was a little dejected and said: "Although Yunzhong County is rich now, I am not optimistic about the future of the Tengjia Army. The territory of the Tengjia Army seems to be becoming more and more like a big man!"

Xu Wei glanced at Niu Gui in surprise, he didn't expect Niu Gui to have such an idea, he was really born in the wrong era.

It's a pity that he was reading novels when he was in politics class, and after so many years, he basically forgot the content of the politics class, otherwise he would definitely explain the way of the prophet to him, and guarantee to surprise Niu Gui. Heaven and man.

He can understand that after all, he has formed a stable three views, but it is difficult for Xu Wei to extract these truths, and naturally he can't say them. An ordinary person, he can only speak according to his own understanding, and he doesn't know if there is any success power of a prophet!
Xu Wei said slowly: "The system of the Tengjia Army can only be operated by small countries. Do you remember why we changed the system?"

Niu Guidao: "A lot of people have selfishness, and they can't keep going, so we started to pay monthly salary according to ability!"

Xu Wei said: "Now our territory is thousands of miles away. If we add the grasslands, it is not too much to be a big country with thousands of miles. We can't supervise it at all. As long as one of us has selfish intentions, it will destroy a whole area."

Niu Gui said: "We will strengthen the supervision!"

"The same is useless. Our original system can guarantee the average, but it can't improve the efficiency, and it can't be regarded as fair. Many people obviously do more, but they can't get more. This is a kind of unfairness. , since it’s all the same if you do more or less, then everyone won’t work hard to do things, we can only starve to death! The most important thing, we don’t have enough officials to guide everyone!”

Xu Wei began to hear a lot of things about that period, and even experienced the most drastic changes in the society. If the productivity is not high enough to force such a thing, it can only be counterproductive!He wouldn't do such a thankless thing.

Of course, Xu Wei didn't want to hit Niu Gui like this!After all, it is a good thing to be able to think. Who knows if Niu Gui can find a new path.

After thinking about it, Xu Wei drew a rugby-like picture of Niu Gui and said to Niu Gui: "There is a saying in my hometown that a rugby-shaped society is the most stable. There are not many rich people at the top and not many poor people at the bottom. They are all middle class, that is, the kind of group who can eat and clothe, have a little property, but are not rich!"

Although Niu Gui doesn't know what rugby is, he can understand the graphics!

He half-understood and said: "It seems that the current situation in Yunzhong County is like this."

There are not too many rich people in Yunzhong County, and there are not many poor people. Of course, it can be said that they are all poor people, but after all, everyone has fields and pastures. This is also the case with the tens of thousands of captives in the mining area, so Niu Gui said that it is very similar to the current Yunzhong County.

Xu Wei said: "I can't explain the big truth, but what you have to do in Yunzhong County in the future is to limit the number of people at the top to continue to increase, and find a way to bring people at the bottom into this center, so that society will be stable! You I feel that the rich have too much money, so we just need to levy property taxes on them, and what our Fujiko Army has to do is to limit the strong and protect the weak as much as possible under the premise of fairness."

And now the big man is a pyramid society!Aristocrats and tyrants took advantage of the power of the Han regime, plundered and plundered the people at the bottom, brutally oppressed them, and didn't care about the lives of the people at all. This kind of society is very unstable! "

Then he transformed a pyramid, and looked at several layers and said: "The top layer is the royal family, the bottom is the aristocrats, the bottom is the powerful, and the bottom is the common people and slaves! The people on the upper layers are oppressing the people. people."

This Niu Gui can understand, after all, it is clear at a glance.

"When there are more and more people in the first three layers, more and more people will starve to death, and the people who don't want to starve to death can only rebel, and the big man killed the rebels. The common people, the people who support them at the bottom have become fewer, and their pressure on the common people has become stronger. More people have starved to death and have to rebel. In this way, the big man has formed an endless loop, and the society of the big man cannot continue. Already!"

Niu Gui said, "Like a great virtuous teacher leading us to rebel?"

Xu Wei nodded and said, "That's right!"

On the contrary, Niu Gui can better understand the pyramid society of Dahan, because the things of Dahan these years perfectly fit the pyramid structure. In the midst of the rebellion and suppression, so that everyone in the world can perceive the rhythm of the world's chaos!

Niu Gui asked curiously: "If the pyramid society of Qu Shuai is to be stable, what can be done?"

Xu Wei drew a line from the middle of the first three floors of the pyramid and said: "As long as the royal family, powerful families, and tyrants lose more than half of their people, the common people will be able to breathe. If they die seven or eight times Success, the next 50 years of the big man will be a powerful and prosperous world!"

"The reason why there were decades of Wenjing rule in the former Han Dynasty was because the chaotic times of the Warring States Period and the end of Qin Dynasty almost wiped out the nobles who had survived for thousands of years. Han Gaozu Liu Bang and their group of founding heroes were not of high status people, the number of rulers is not many, and the oppression of the people is not strong!"

"Later, Liu Bang's descendants gave birth to more and more descendants. Now there are more than a hundred thousand Liu Bang's descendants in the world. Do you think it is easier for all the people in the world to support Liu Bang alone or to support these hundreds of thousands?"

Hearing this, Niu Gui suddenly realized and said: "No wonder Qu Shuai will kill all the powerful and noble families in Bingzhou. It turns out that Qu Shuai is preparing for the prosperity behind the Tengjia Army!"

This is not wrong, but Xu Wei is to clear the weeds on the land of the Han Dynasty and prepare for an industrialized society. Xu Wei remembers saying in class that the reason why Hope Country develops so fast in the industrial age is because A blank sheet of paper, without the hindrances of various feudal relations, allows capitalism to develop rapidly.

Xu Wei said with a smile: "It can be said like this, but it is not complete. The industrial society can support more people than the agricultural society, so our Tengjia Army has attached great importance to industry from the very beginning, and I want to turn the whole big man from agriculture. The country was brought into the industrial country, and in the Han Dynasty, they built manors and docks, which was the biggest obstacle to industrialization. If I want to develop industry, I must eradicate these powerful gentry, powerful gentry!"

Niu Gui asked: "Are those workshops built by Mayi counted as entering an industrial country?"

Xu Wei smiled and said: "It can't be considered an industry, it can only be regarded as a handicraft industry. If you want everyone to enter the real industrialized age, you have to do a lot of things. This requires hundreds of times more workshops than Mayi, and the law of the big man needs to be able to To promote the development of industry, we must adapt the morality of the entire Han Dynasty to the development of industry, and let the people of the entire Han Dynasty get used to industrialized life, and this is considered to have entered the era of industrialization.”

Niu Gui asked: "Will people in the industrialized age live better than they do now?"

Xu Wei was really stunned. It’s hard to say whether it’s good or not. After all, how many people in Xu Wei’s previous life 996 were exhausted. At that time, everyone wanted to live an idyllic life.

He thought for a while and said: "Industrialization means progress. If society doesn't want to become a stagnant pool, it must progress. I can't say whether an industrialized society is good or not, but offline is definitely better than a big man. At least it won't appear like a big man. In one natural disaster, the common people will starve to death in batches!"

Niu Gui asked: "Shuai Qu, what should I do if I want to bring Yunzhong County into the industrialized society you mentioned?"

Xu Wei patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Find a way to get businessmen to open workshops, the more the better, and at the same time, pay attention to protecting the interests of workers. Although industrialization represents progress, businessmen exploit the people and hate them even more than the rich and powerful. We Be careful to release a monster!"

"Monster?" Niu Gui, who couldn't even understand the industry, couldn't even understand the monster of capital.

On the other side, after Zhao Tian and the others continued walking for a few days, they finally arrived at their destination!On a small plain near a river, this is a grassland with lush water and grass.

The military commander of the reclamation said loudly: "This place will belong to us in a radius of a hundred miles. Everyone is starting to prepare for work. Now that autumn has passed for several days, it won't be long before the grassland will snow. , We haven't even built the docks and houses, and we may freeze to death here!

There were not many people in the first batch of reclamation camps here, that is, more than a thousand members, most of them had wives and children, and of course most of them were young and strong!

And Yunzhong County led a whole set of leadership team to join the army Sima, Li Tian, ​​blacksmiths, teachers, doctors, everything is available. It can be said that each small stronghold is a small self-sufficient society.

(End of this chapter)