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Chapter 246 The Difference Between the Rebel Army and Lantian
Luo Rucai, the spies reported to Li Chaosheng what Heisha God did in Dali County as quickly as possible. Li Chaosheng saw the report and sighed: "This is the so-called rebel army. The poor are unlucky, they have no concept of class, all they want is wealth, they are like locusts, after eating and cleaning up, they turn around and leave, no matter what happens to this place in the future."

After hearing Li Chaosheng's evaluation of the thieves, all the people behind him showed approval on their faces. In fact, Li Chaosheng, the controller of the Lantian regime, mostly came from poor backgrounds.

Not to mention Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng's think tank, Guo Bao used to be a bandit slave, Liu Zhubo was a poor scholar, Bai Shoumin was a bandit spy, and as for the staff members, most of them were children from poor families. I was sent to Lantian Academy to study for a few years, and I was sent to the center to help make suggestions.

It can be said that their backgrounds are similar to those of the thieves, and even many of them are not as good as the thieves. However, under the education of Li Chaosheng, they understand the class, know who is their enemy, who is their friend, who can be wooed, and who It cannot be won over.

Therefore, after Lantian annexed the land, the former landlords and gentry were not beaten to death with a stick, but the government negotiated with the gentry to keep enough land for their family to cultivate, and the rest of the land could be sold to the government, or Twenty percent of the rent is leased to farmers for cultivation.

Correspondingly, the government encouraged the gentry to take their energy away from the land and turn to business. The business in Lantian County is now more and more developed, and there is no shortage of wealthy households in Lantian County, and almost all of these wealthy households started from business.

Many of them were former landlords and tyrants, but more of them were a group of new rich people who became rich under the stimulation of Lantian's economic policies. They all took off on the cusp of Lantian County's development.

And most of them have a backer, that is Lantian Investment Company, the company's legal shareholder, Li Chaosheng.

However, most of the profits of Lantian Investment Company entered the treasury of Lantian Treasury, which was regarded as an important part of Lantian's finances, but this part belonged to the county lord in name.

To put it bluntly, Lantian Investment Company is a state-owned enterprise in Lantian County. Li Chaosheng invested in many small businesses in the early days, such as Wu Song, who bought cooking cakes. The sales volume is very good, and the brand of Wu Dalang Cooking Cake is also considered to be in business.

Not to mention other things, this business can give Li Chaosheng 300 taels of dividends every year. You must know that this is just one of Li Chaosheng's many businesses, and it is a very inconspicuous one.

Therefore, many people know that Lantian County respects business, and because most of the businesses Li Chaosheng invests in are profitable, many people superstitiously believe that only businesses that have been invested by the county can make money, so countless people come to Lantian every day. Investment companies invest.

It is even more clever to think that accepting the investment from Lantian Investment Company can obtain policy preference, so more people invest with different purposes.

After Li Chaosheng knew about it, he specially investigated Lantian Investment Company and found that all procedures were normal and there was no so-called policy preference. No one believed it.

Li Chaosheng was a little annoyed by this, and had no choice but to hold a meeting internally, strongly requesting that no one should be allowed to show obvious policy favoritism to Lantian Investment Company.

However, this still couldn't stop the businessmen's enthusiasm for investing in Lantian Investment Company. In the end, Li Chaosheng also gave up struggling.

So there are many wealthy businessmen in Lantian County, but the real rich is Lantian Investment Company.

The second richest is the Lantian Jiangnan Trading Company.

The third richest is a goose merchant group, that is, the merchant group that often does business with Jiannu near Guihua City in Saishang. However, this merchant group is still secretly, and not many people know about a goose merchant group. The regiment is under Lantian.

The sum of these three can almost support half of Lantian County's economy, and the remaining half is Li Chaosheng's benefit to the common people.

Because of Li Chaosheng's crazy business development, Lantian County is very rich, but there is land for the people to cultivate. The landlords took the money, and the smart ones started to develop business, and found that the return on business was several times that of farming on the land. So the landlords are even more indifferent to the land.

Only some extremely uncivilized rich landowners will stick to the land, but according to Li Chaosheng's policy, they can't sell much money from farming, because all the grain from farming is taken away by the government at a uniform price. The rich locals can't do it if they want to stockpile grain, so they don't have to make money.

After comparing and looking at the rich owners of the same status in the past, they found that they made a fortune in business, so even the unenlightened landlords began to turn their attention away from the land.

This is what Li Chaosheng wants to see. Li Chaosheng does not want all the smart people in Ming Dynasty to focus on the land. The expenditure and income of the land are very unequal. Farming the land every day is the same as spending a year. , is not beneficial to society.

So don't focus on the land, especially the landlord class. There is one thing Li Chaosheng doesn't want to admit, but he has to admit that the landlord class in Ming Dynasty is much better than the civilian class in terms of ability, vision, and means. The success rate of doing business is several times that of ordinary people.

There is no way, this is the difference in knowledge, so after the landlords stopped studying how to exploit farmers on the land, they started to develop in business, and after the landlords began to compete with their business partners, the economy of Lantian County began to grow by leaps and bounds.

And Lantian County's income has also grown exponentially, because Lantian County collects commercial taxes.

And I received a lot, almost received 30.00% of the merchants' harvest. The merchants were very distressed, but they had to hand it in, because only Lantian had the business environment they needed, and only Lantian County could guarantee that the government would not extort merchants. Don't embarrass the merchants, the government protects the merchants from thieves.

Therefore, the merchants will hand over the money with tears in their eyes. Everyone is responsible for the construction of Lantian.

But even so, some people still feel that the merchants pay less, especially a group of people from Lantian Academy. They found a book called Das Kapital from the mysterious library of Lantian Academy. They think that merchants do not control it. In the future, they will inevitably become terrifying behemoths, they will corrupt and control the government.

Of course Li Chaosheng knew that it was terrible for merchants to control the government, but since ancient times, China has not had the soil for merchants to control the government. Every dynasty has emphasized agriculture and suppressed business. The humbleness of merchants has been engraved in everyone's mind.

The Huaxia people are always more officials than merchants, almost without exception, but the disorderly expansion of capital must be guarded, so the Commercial Supervision Office of Lantian County appeared, and they will check whether the merchants have benefited through bribery. All illegal gains will be confiscated, and fines will be imposed. Businessmen will be sentenced, corrupted officials will be sentenced, and they will never be hired.

Li Chaosheng believed that the business in Lantian County was in the stage of development. At this time, he decided not to give up food because he was afraid of the emergence of capitalism. It would be wrong to abolish business.

On the contrary, after discovering the problem, instead of refusing to solve the problem, he made great efforts to find out the problem, design laws, and carry out supervision. In this way, Li Chaosheng could not guarantee that no one would be corrupt, but absolutely no one would dare to be open about corruption.

It will not be like the Ming Dynasty, where a lot of corruption is put on the bright side, and no one thinks it is wrong, but relevant laws and institutions are established. When these people are corrupt, they will feel fear, and maybe they will I couldn't help but reach out, but with peace of mind, that was impossible.

Li Chaosheng wanted to make them jittery and panic all day long, so that the entire government could run normally.

Business needs to be developed, discipline must be grasped, people's livelihood must be grasped, and science and technology must be advanced...

These are the directions of continuous progress of Lantian County. Many people think that the fact that Lantian County has today has solved the food problem, but this is wrong, because sweet potatoes and potatoes have already been spread to all parts of Shaanxi, but local officials cannot promote it.

In some places, no one is even farming. This is no longer something that can be rescued by grain seeds. This requires the improvement of the system and the enlightenment of people's hearts.

For example, in Lantian County, half of the arable land is planted with sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes, and the other half is traditional crops such as wheat and sorghum.

As for sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes, except for potatoes, because the taste is so good, ordinary people eat sweet potatoes and corn, and Lantian people don’t eat a lot of them anymore. Most of them are sold to grain merchants by Lantian County at a high price. It was sold to the people of the world by grain merchants.

Even many of the thieves on the opposite side are eating sweet potatoes from Lantian.

Li Chaosheng also heard that some people even sold sweet potatoes to the imperial palace. After our Chongzhen Emperor ate it, he praised the delicacy and asked the lowly eunuch, how much is the price?
Our lovely eunuch said to Chongzhen: "Three liang of silver is a catty."

This frightened Emperor Chongzhen so that he didn't dare to eat it at once, and left half of it for Queen Zhou, saying that sweet potatoes should not be eaten in the future, and it is better to eat steamed buns and rice.

And the real market price is [-] cents a catty of sweet potatoes, but it grows hundreds of times when it falls to the emperor. In the end, the emperor is not willing to eat a sweet potato. suffering.

Chongzhen, the emperor, was hardworking and frugal. From this point of view, he did better than most of his ancestors. If he was placed in a small family, he would definitely be the owner of the revitalization of the family business, but he was the emperor. So his advantages are hardly highlighted.

On the contrary, some of his actions and thinking made him very stupid, which eventually led to the tragedy of his life.

Li Chaosheng actually sympathized with Chongzhen. This guy has a good character, but unfortunately his ability is not good, and when he is an emperor, character is the most worthless and useless thing.

So his tragedy is doomed.

Because almost the entire Ming Dynasty was lying to him, how could he possibly fight against the people of the world?

It is also because of Lantian County's policy that Li Chaosheng's subordinates are very unimpressed with the rebels, and even think that they are inferior to the bandits. At least the bandits know that they can't kill all the people in the village. There is nothing to grab, but the rebels don't know.

They are more like shit sticks, stirring up the big cesspool in the late Ming Dynasty even more stink.

But this is what Li Chaosheng needs them to do, because he wants this big tomorrow, so he has to worry about his reputation, and he can't deal with some stubborn dung in the cesspit, otherwise he will get a very bad reputation.

In fact, Li Chaosheng wanted to arrest the landlords and local tyrants early in the morning, and then kill them all. Once the land is divided equally, the world will be peaceful. How cool it is to beat the local tyrants and divide the land.

But gradually Li Chaosheng felt that he could not do that, because the wisdom of the people in this era is not enlightened, and the common people don’t know anything. More than 90.00% of the news that the common people get is passed on to them by the landlords and gentry. , it can be spread in the county next door that Li Chaosheng is a murderous monster without blinking an eye.

After you come, you will be troubled by all those who have daughters, and all the farmers will pull out your seedlings, and Li Chaosheng eats people's hearts and livers. When he comes, he will serve your hearts and livers with wine.

Make up a few more specious stories. For example, Li Chaosheng fell in love with the eldest daughter of the Wang family at the entrance of the village, but the eldest daughter had already betrothed to someone else. When the eldest daughter of the Wang family was bridal, Li Chaosheng led someone to arrest the groom. , The eldest daughter of the Wang family was killed, and the eldest daughter of the Wang family hanged herself unbearably humiliated.

The groom's family was massacred and the house was burned. The Wang family went to complain about their grievances. Li Chaosheng didn't even let the old lady of the Wang family go.

Don't think it's nonsense, this thing is a three-person tiger. I haven't seen the people of Li Chaosheng. Who knows what Li Chaosheng really looks like? It's not just a landlord and gentry, but many people are willing to believe that Li Chaosheng is like this.

This psychology is very mysterious, so Li Chaosheng can't offend the dead gentry, because Li Chaosheng doesn't toss the gentry with his life, and the gentry don't have the courage to ruin Li Chaosheng's reputation, because if one day Li Chaosheng breaks into their county?

Don't you just leave a way out for yourself?

So this thing is a kind of tacit understanding, Li Chaosheng will not divide the land by local tyrants, and let their ancestors lose all their property overnight, and they will not speak bad things about Li Chaosheng and Lantian to death, and keep a line with each other in the future. Nice to meet you.

But now the lives of the landowners and gentry in Lantian County are watched by local tyrants everywhere, and they are actually not bad. Therefore, when the boundary markers of Lantian County are moved outwards, there are few places that resolutely resist, and of course there are not no places, such as Dali County.

But it's not a problem now, those stubborn and uncivilized landlords and gentry have been eliminated by the lovely Luo Rucai and Heisha God, so I am very happy.

This is why Li Chaosheng has always felt that the existence of the rebel army is necessary. There are some things that we cannot do, and it is natural for the rebel army to do it.

"This big day really cannot do without these shit-stirring sticks."

Li Chaosheng said so.

(End of this chapter)