The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 164 Why are landlords less eager to expand than capitalists?
On his way back to the fifth camp from Luoyang, the second uncle should have met Yao Dake from Qinzhou, otherwise he would not have told Song Yingkui this very tempting offer.

The so-called opening of trade routes with Qinzhou simply meant direct transactions between the Qinzhou Army and the Fifth Battalion Army.Yao Dake and Song Yingkui don't need to worry about the private smuggling trade, even if they want to, there are many places in the middle that even the two companies have talked about.

The official government of Dazheng denied the idea of ​​opening a foreclosure market in Qinzhou. The biggest impact was on Yao Dake's interests. He could only worry because he clearly saw that he had meat to eat but couldn't get it into his mouth.He didn't have the guts to open a private discussion against the official orders of the Zheng court.If you dare to open a private discussion, just wait for the whole family to be executed.

The only way to make a profit is to support the smuggler gang and make a little money by turning a blind eye.It is difficult to increase the scale of smuggling. Yao Dake's personal participation is not too obvious. How much benefit can he get after several layers of gloves?Besides, the Qinzhou Army cannot completely block the smuggling trade route in Minzhou. There are also mountain roads that can lead directly to Sichuan and Shu.

Instead of earning a little money so hard, it would be better to directly conduct military-to-military transactions with the Yungu Army.The officers and soldiers in Dazheng can't help doing business, not only the frontier troops are engaged in business affairs, but also the officers and soldiers in the interior are more dedicated to business, but you can't do things that are expressly prohibited by the imperial court.In this way, Yao Dake took advantage of the loopholes. The Fifth Battalion Army is also an army appointed by Da Zheng. The transaction between the two companies is a friendly exchange between friendly armies, and it is to help brothers who are fighting hard in enemy-occupied areas. This can be regarded as a connection between the inside and the outside. , Is private business prohibited?
Yao Dake deliberately took advantage of this loophole, and Song Yingkui also thought it would be profitable.There is a market in Dazheng, with raw materials that cannot be replaced elsewhere, and there are also many products that cannot be produced here.Why not carry out relatively large-scale procurement and trade through the hands of the Qinzhou Army?
It is estimated that many merchants and forces in Qinzhou and Dazheng who took the northwest route, and even in the Dazheng court, were happy to see this happen.The ban on merchants by the Western Fan was a last resort for the sake of face and for the people of Dazheng to abandon their land, not for profit.

"Shopkeeper Guo, when you arrive in Qinzhou this time, you can stay a little longer. Not only must you negotiate with General Yao about the beginning and end of the trade between the two armies, but you must also make more contacts with businessmen in Qinzhou. Please purchase a large amount of cotton for our army. If the news spreads, Yao Dake alone may not be able to organize it properly. Also, our Yungu Army treats craftsmen well. Anyone with craftsman skills comes to Wuying to start a business. The army will provide free space and tax exemption for three years, and will be based on the situation. The policy of interest-free loans at the discretion of the business should be publicized." After deciding to establish formal business relations with the Qinzhou Army, Song Yingkui decided to send Guo Kaifeng as a plenipotentiary envoy to Qinzhou to connect with Yao Dake, and gave instructions before leaving A few important words.

Recruiting craftsmen to start businesses in Wuying is a recently thought of way to promote further prosperity in Wuying and effectively promote technology aggregation and iteration.To promote technological progress, it is not enough to rely on oneself alone. The best craftsmen in the world are summoned to Wuying. Through exchanges, collisions and integration, coupled with intentional promotion, guidance and summary, industrial progress will be greatly achieved. The environment and the pace will definitely speed up.

Calling the best craftsmen in the world to come to Wuying can only be considered an ideal at this stage.But after the wind is released, some craftsmen will come more or less. The few will become more and the business will continue. One day Wuying will become a holy place in the hearts of craftsmen all over the world.

Qinzhou is relatively close to the hinterland of Dazheng, so it is relatively easy to spread rumors in Qinzhou to the hinterland of Dazheng.And Dazheng should be the place with the most skilled craftsmen in this time and space. It is relatively easy to dig corners of Dazheng.In addition to poaching Dazheng's corner, these policies are also aimed at craftsmen in other areas. In short, the bait is thrown out, and it depends on how many fish can be caught.

Providing free venues, providing tax exemptions, and providing interest-free loans to advantageous and important industries. This is already the best policy combination imaginable. For an engineering student, it seems that there is no better memory than this in his mind.At least it’s much better than Dazheng’s policy towards craftsmen, so it’s still attractive, right?

How to prosper the economy, Song Yingkui's first reaction was to attract investment, but after a period of exploration, he found that this idea seemed wrong!

Why do you want to attract investment?Business in this time and space is pure buying and selling. If you have the buying and selling conditions, you don’t need to recruit merchants. Businessmen will come over. If you don’t have the buying and selling conditions, no matter how much you try to recruit people outside the market, it won’t help.Attracting investment is even more nonsense. The so-called investment in this time and space is buying land. What land is available for sale in Wuying?Not to mention the Fifth Battalion, even in the entire northwest, there are only a few pieces of land that can attract the attention of truly wealthy families.

It seems that there are some wealthy families in Hexi, but in the Wazhou and Gongchang areas, the Wei family and the Li family are already considered top wealthy families, and families like them cannot even be seen in the hinterland of Dazheng.

What does this mean?It certainly does not mean that the development of this area is balanced enough and the gap between the rich and the poor is not widened enough.It can only show that this area really has no development prospects and is not favored by others.

Even if there is good land, getting a bunch of landowners to buy land and buy real estate will not be of much significance in promoting social progress.

If you want to make a difference even with a small territory, the best way out is to expand into industry. By stacking up industries, your competitiveness will rise.

What Wuying needs is not landlords, but industrial capitalists.If you can't bring in big capitalists, then bring in small ones and slowly support them to grow bigger.Relying on the City Lord's Mansion alone to make the industry bigger and stronger can only be regarded as a one-man show.As the saying goes, spring is not spring when one flower stands alone, but spring when hundreds of flowers bloom.When Wuying has dozens of large-scale industries, there is no need for the city lord's government to worry about it. It can only rely on those factory owners to push the business forward.

After becoming a warlord in a daze, Song Yingkui began to ponder and think about governance.Frankly speaking, he still has a lot of doubts to this day.In textbooks of later generations, the bourgeoisie is described as being highly aggressive and expansionary.What is puzzling is that aren’t the so-called landlord class and bourgeoisie both groups that control social wealth?Why is there no such description of the landlord class?
It stands to reason that wealthy landowners also have a strong desire to make themselves richer and to maintain wealth forever?

After careful observation, the phenomenon discovered is that the landlords here in Dazheng are indeed much lazier in their enterprising spirit.Of course they have the idea and desire to occupy more land, especially good land, but at the specific operational level they appear to be quite Buddhist and careless.After acquiring land, there is little incentive to find ways to increase production and income.

For example, people who have more land along the river rarely think about water conservancy projects to make the land better.If building water conservancy projects involves too many inconvenient operations, it is always possible to find a way to get more good farm tools for farmers to improve labor efficiency, right?As a result, very few people do this.The common situation in Wuying is that the poor have no money to improve production conditions, and the wealthy households with money and land have no idea in this regard.The entire society seems to be unchanged and develops extremely slowly.

(End of this chapter)