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Chapter 240 Guiding Ancient Officials

Chapter 240 Guiding Ancient Officials
It is somewhat strange to talk about economics with the ancients.

However, this was the effect Yunchu wanted.

Seeing mosquito coils appearing in Liu Rengui's eyes, Yunchu thought that his goal had been achieved.

In the Tang Dynasty, any knowledge that others could not understand was high-level knowledge, just like the theory spread by Xuanzang, few people could understand it, which did not prevent the people of the Tang Dynasty from flocking to this kind of knowledge.

At this moment, there is no market for Bai Juyi's poems that even illiterate old women can understand. It is not surprising that a few poets can be remembered.

Yunchu's purpose was to let Liu Rengui know that Yunchu's views on the economy had long been out of the blue, and Liu Rengui was still crawling on the ground like maggots.

However, Liu Rengui has a strange ability, that is, the ability to distinguish the authenticity of knowledge.

Although he understood every word of what Yunchu said, but he couldn't understand it together, this did not prevent him from thinking that it was a very good thing.

So, at the beginning, he acted a little frivolous, and as he couldn't understand and understood more and more things, the guy became more pious.

It can be seen that he is trying hard to memorize these strange theories that Yun Chu said, and he is ready to learn them carefully.

The entry-level social economics that every street director must learn was extremely precious in the Tang Dynasty.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of knowledge will only be passed down from family to family, and will never be made public.

The weather in Chang'an is extremely cold today, the two of them gathered around a brazier, chattering away, and outside the door, it started to snow again.

Today's snow looks very heavy. It is snow particles. Although there are not many, they are blown by the wind and piled up under the threshold. It didn't take long for them to accumulate very thickly.

"Why isn't such a good knowledge written into a book and spread?"

After Yunchu finished drinking a bottle of water, the silent Liu Rengui asked in a low voice. It seemed that Yunchu's new knowledge still had a great impact on this stubborn little old man.

"You see, the essence of things is like this. After seeing the essence clearly, the rest are just variants, which remain the same.

I know that you can't understand what I'm talking about for the time being, but it doesn't matter, you can slowly explore and confirm it in practical application.

The truth is unclear, but I still insist that practice is the only criterion for testing truth. "

Liu Rengui looked up at Yunchu and said, "So, Jinchangfang, Qujiangli, and Wannian County are all the result of your practice?

Now, do you want to add Chang'an County? "

Yun Chu nodded and said: "Chang'an is one, but because of my low official position, I can only start from Wannian County, but once Wannian County develops, it will consciously or unconsciously attract people from Chang'an County. of blood.

Moreover, this blood-sucking will not be transferred by human will. "

Liu Rengui nodded and said: "The strong will always be strong, and the weak will always be weak. This is the principle of heaven and earth. What you said makes sense."

Yunchu looked at Liu Rengui: "When I first started developing Jinchangfang, I wanted to spread the stalls, hoping that Di Renjie could lead the people from Chang'an County to do the same thing as Jinchangfang.

In the end, Di Renjie failed because of too many constraints.

Later, after Pei Xingjian came to power, I hoped that Pei Xingjian could keep up with the pace of development of Wannian County. As a result, Pei Xingjian was too arrogant and disdained to be inferior to others, so he also failed, and left a mess for the boss of Chang'an County. So, now I would like to ask the county lord, if Chang'an County is allowed to follow the development pace of Wannian County, will it hurt the name of the county lord? "

Liu Rengui was silent for a moment and said: "Even Xiao Gui and Cao Sui left no notoriety, so what is Liu Rengui's reputation?

If the Prime Minister of Yun County can make the people of Chang'an County live a life as rich as the people of Jinchangfang, even if Liu Rengui is cast aside by thousands of people, a certain family will be content with it.

So, will the visit of Yun County Prime Minister be beneficial to Chang'an County? "

Yunchu took out a handful of cotton seeds from his pocket and put them on the low table.

Liu Rengui was obviously a farmer, he looked at the cottonseed for a while and said, "What is this?"

Yun Chu said: "Bai Diezi."

"Cotton? Oh, I heard that the name was given by Yunxian Cheng."

Yunchu left the official house, took his own heating equipment from the horse bag on the back of the bay red horse, put it in front of Liu Rengui, and said, "Your Majesty, take a look first."

Liu Rengui opened the bag, and spread out Yunchu's hat, cotton gloves, cotton socks, cotton knee pads, cotton shoes, cotton coat, cotton trousers, and green military overcoat one by one.

Then I took off the clothes on my body, and after leaving only the underwear, I started to wear these things.

After the little old man put on this set of equipment, a woman in Yunchu's impression appeared.

After putting on the equipment, Liu Rengui sat down opposite Yunchu again like a bear and said, "It's a good thing, it's warm and strong, and it's just this white stack that's worth a lot."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "This is coming back to the term productivity. Dare I ask the county lord, how much grain can one mu of top-grade fields in Chang'an County produce?"

Liu Rengui frowned and said, "In summer and autumn, four loads of grain can't be more than five loads."

Yun Chu asked again: "How much is it worth?"

Liu Rengui frowned even tighter, and sighed, "Seven hundred Wen."

Before he finished speaking, he waved his cotton-gloved hand and said, "Okay, five hundred Wen."

Yun Chu pointed to the equipment on Liu Rengui's body and said: "The county lord is also a subordinate of the sect, and he is not ignorant of military affairs.

If such a set of clothes is equipped for the army on the expedition to Goguryeo, how much money is the county official willing to spend to equip the army? "

Liu Rengui took off the hot hat that made him feel stuffy, stood up and jumped a few times, did a few squats, stretched his limbs, and finally looked at Yunchu and said, "It's not even five... Not negotiable."

Yun Chu clapped his hands together and said, "Okay, let's count on the usual five, does the county lord know how many sets of this equipment can be produced per mu of land?"

Liu Rengui didn't embarrass Yun Chu this time, he cupped his hands and said, "I'm going to ask Yun County Prime Minister for advice."

Yun Chu pointed to this set of equipment on his body and said, "These clothes weigh twelve catties in total, and one mu of land can produce more than ten sets of such equipment."

When Liu Rengui heard Yunchu say this, no matter how good his mentality was, he was startled. He stared at Yunchu and said, "Ten sets?"

Yun Chu smiled and said, "If the land for growing cotton is irrigated, then it is still possible to produce [-] sets per mu."

Liu Rengui took off the equipment carefully, looked at it carefully, and kept tearing it, looking at the stitches, trying to figure out the thickness, and finally tidied up the equipment carefully, and put it on the low table with a sigh Said: "For twenty times the profit of growing grain, even if the labor cost of making clothes is eliminated, ten times the profit can be grasped."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "A certain family came to find the county lord this time because of cotton."

Liu Rengui said: "Although this thing is good, if you give up growing food, once disaster happens, the people in Chang'an County will starve to death."

Yunchu said: "The grain output of Wannian County can only supply the people of Wannian County with one month's rations. I wonder if Chang'an County is better than Wannian County?"

Liu Rengui sighed and said, "One month and six days, the required food still needs to be brought in from outside, and the cost is astonishing."

Yunchu continued: "Do not sell woodcutters for hundreds of miles, and do not sell goods for thousands of miles. This has been the principle since ancient times. Now Chang'an needs more than thousands of miles of rice. This in itself is a violation of common sense.

A certain family asked the transfer department that for every catty of rice grain transported to Chang’an, one catty would be consumed on the road. Adding labor, shipping, and other costs, basically every catty of rice grain transported to Chang’an would cost three catties Rice grain.

However, Chang'an needs an astonishing amount of grain and rice from other places. After this, transporting grain and rice to Chang'an has become a chore for the local government, and it has become a burden on the people.

Now with cotton, that can change. "

Liu Rengui heard Yunchu say this, and immediately asked with bright eyes: "How do you say?"

Yun Chu smiled slightly, and pressed his hands on the equipment on the low table, using ten times the profit of cotton to reduce the burden of transporting food by three times. "

Liu Rengui's eyes glowed green again, and he pressed Yunchu's hand and said, "The county magistrate means that the cotton growers are allowed to earn seven times the profit, and the three times the profit is used to make up for the loss caused by grain transportation?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "That's not the way to calculate it. There is a lot of grain and little cotton, so at least seven times the profit from growing cotton should be used to compensate for transporting grain, while the cotton growers get twice the profit, the government gets one, and the craftsmen get it." In addition to ten times the profit, the government will take twice the profit of the production bonus.

That's a good deal. "

Liu Rengui did not show the joy that Yunchu expected, but what greeted him was Liu Rengui's extremely serious face.

"This is a big deal, don't take it lightly."

Yun Chu nodded and said: "I think so too, so this year in Wannian, the two counties of Chang'an will plant a total of [-] mu of cotton. Now, I have obtained the seeds from Hu Shang and the cotton fields of Shanglinyuan.

He also obtained a doctorate in agronomy from Sinong Temple who specializes in cotton cultivation.

Just wait for the county lord to say that we will start planting cotton in the spring of next year. If things can be done, we will plant cotton on a large scale in the next year, and the two counties will give up planting grain.

Going all out to use cotton as the main crop in Chang'an and Wannian counties has also allowed the people in these two counties to taste some benefits.

With 10,000 mu of land, there are only 30+ sets of equipment, and there are no less than [-] soldiers in the sixteen guards alone.

The little cotton produced was not enough for them to use. "

Liu Rengui breathed out and said, "It's so good. Wannian County has [-] mu and Chang'an County has [-] mu." "

Hearing that Liu Rengui finally agreed, Yun Chu laughed and left Liu Rengui's official residence.

And that set of equipment was left on the short table. Liu Rengui wanted to call Yunchu to take the equipment away, but in the end, he put down his hands and accepted the gift.

When Yun Chu came out of the Chang'an county government office, he looked back at this place and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It is said that Liu Rengui is as clean as water. Didn't he accept Lao Tzu's gift today?"

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