Kai Fu Han

Chapter 446: The Rich Is Not Kind
Liu Xinqi knew.

People like the Kong family will definitely spread the brutality of the Xinghan League in the future, subtly conveying to students that Liu Xinqi is a tyrannical person, and so on.

The scholars of the Zhao Kingdom in the south may directly and fully support the anti-Han stance because Liu Xinqi copied Yanshengong Beizong.

The pseudo-Qi gentry in the west will also work more together.

The Jin Congress in the north paid more attention to Liu Xinqi's ruthlessness.

However, these are not important.

As long as he can speed up the literacy process, Liu Xinqi naturally has many ways to change people's concepts.

No one in this world attaches more importance to "propaganda" than Liu Xinqi.

A department was specially set up for propaganda work, which was at the same level as the official department.

Because Liu Xinqi makes knives, as long as the "word" is in the hands of the government, no matter how bad the image is, it can be reversed.

Three people become tigers!Although it has a derogatory meaning, the wisdom contained in it cannot be denied.

By the next day, more than a dozen branches of the Kong family, with a total of more than 4000 people, including more than [-] adult males, were all cleared up under the supervision of the field army.

According to Liu Xinqi's request, these people can only bring what they can carry, and keep everything else.

However, Liu Xinqi also demanded that the Xinghan League confiscated something and issued receipts to these people.

Houses, money, valuable calligraphy, paintings, antiques, etc., everything except the fields were listed.

Liu Xinqi planned to gradually return these things to them after they had made meritorious service and became citizens.

For a country, these things are actually of little value. The main reason is that Liu Xinqi does not want these people to have too much property now. If they have money, they will have capital to make trouble. Temporarily confiscating the property of these people is also a disguised form for them. Protect.

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"A lot of IOUs." Liu Xinang reported.

Liu Xinqi looked at the dozens of large boxes of IOUs. These IOUs were the most fundamental means for the Kong family to control their tenants.

Some soldiers in the New Army originally had some sympathy for these "farming families" and felt that Liu Xinqi's decision was a bit too unkind.

However, as the house search progressed, all this sympathy dissipated. Seeing that even the most remote members of the Kong family were very wealthy, and then seeing these boxes of "IOUs", sympathy was quickly converted into hatred, hatred for the rich, and hatred. Being rich is unkind.

"How to deal with these?" Liu Xinang asked.

For all usury loans, the principal has actually been repaid at the beginning, but the repayment speed cannot keep up with the interest growth rate, so it appears that the interest has been repaid.

Moreover, usury usually converts the interest into capital after a certain period of time and creates a new IOU, which is a "donkey rolling", so the amount owed on the IOU will become larger and larger.

Regardless of the fact that there are dozens of large boxes of IOUs here, Liu Xinqi is sure that the amount of capital actually lent by the Kong family is not even one percent of the total face value of the IOUs.

"Seal them all and treat them as if there are no more IOUs." Liu Xinqi did not order these IOUs to be burned.

The relationships here are too complex and involved, and it is impossible to just burn them out.

For example: In fact, the IOU was burned, and someone fabricated a fake IOU and then went to the debtor to collect the debt. How to prove that the fake IOU is fake?

You know, in this era, people are illiterate, let alone writing, and they can't even write their own names.It is impossible to have any signature or seal on the IOU. The fingerprint stamping is relatively high-end, and most of them are made with a brush to draw a circle.

The cost of counterfeiting is too low.There are other problems, so it is better to keep these IOUs than to burn them.

After final statistics, the property found from the Yan Shenggong family was converted into silver taels, reaching 2000 million taels, of which cash accounted for [-]%.

What is the concept of 2000 taels of silver?
At the current price of food in the Xinghan League, one tael of silver can easily be exchanged for one stone of food.

Once one hundred kilograms of grain is counted, the price of grain in later generations has remained at one yuan to one five yuan per kilogram. However, people in later generations do not eat whole grains directly, but only processed flour and polished rice, so the comparison price should be around three yuan per kilogram.

According to the calculation of three yuan per kilogram of rations, one tael of silver is equivalent to 900 yuan.This does not take into account the impact of food as a share of gross social product.The value of food to people in ancient times was much higher than the value of food to people in later generations.

Therefore, it is appropriate that one tael of silver is equivalent to 1000 yuan in future generations.

The property seized from the Kong family is equivalent to 200 billion.

Don’t think 200 billion is too little.

To put it another way: before Zhao moved south, the annual fiscal revenue was just over 2000 million taels, which was [-] million taels of silver. [-] million is equivalent to one-fifth of a country's fiscal revenue.

In later generations, China's annual fiscal revenue was 20 trillion, and one-fifth of it was [-] trillion.

Four trillion! ! !
The wealth of the Kong family is equivalent to [-]% of the fiscal revenue of the State of Zhao. It is no exaggeration to say that they are as rich as the enemy.

But what did the Kong family do with the money?Just look at the luxurious house in Yanshenggong Mansion.

In later generations, the country used 2008 trillion to stimulate the economy and survived the fierce global economic crisis in [-], while the Kong family only built some luxurious houses.

Worms!Deserved.

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Liu Xinqi stayed in Xianyuan until July [-]th. After all the unstable factors here were cleared, he returned to Penglai with his guards.

The news that Bei Zongyan Shenggong's home was ransacked by the Xinghan League was published in the "People's Daily" on July [-], and it was published in Beidi and Hangzhou.

For a time, one stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the entire southern Confucian community was boiling.

The Xinghan League is known as a barbarian organization that "dwells in the wild" and "drinks blood". Even the procurement operations of the first fleet in the south of the Yangtze River were affected and had to be suspended.

Those businessmen wanted to make money, but they did not dare to risk the anger of their "master" by continuing to supply Xinghan League.

While Liu Xinqi stayed in Xianyuan, literati came from all over the country from time to time, reprimanding the Xinghan League and cursing Liu Xinqi in various places in Xianyuan.

Scholars who were originally unable to be recruited suddenly seemed to have been stabbed in a hornet's nest, and many came in, making Liu Xinqi very happy.

Liu Xinqi had people arrest all these scolding scholars and put them all into the renovation and construction of primary schools in the territory, contributing to the popularization of compulsory education in primary school by the Xinghan League.

"Alliance leader, a letter from Minister Zhou."

On the way back, Liu Xinqi received a letter. This was a private letter sent from Penglai. The person who wrote the letter was Liu Xinqi's father-in-law Zhou Xinyuan.

At present, the Xinghan League's Golden Eagle messaging system is only used by official, military and intelligence systems, and is not open to civilian private use. Therefore, if my father-in-law Zhou Xinyuan wants to send a private message to Liu Xinqi, he can only use the newly established postal system and employ people. transfer.

This letter was written on July [-]th. Liu Xinqi estimated that this was a letter Zhou Xinyuan wrote to himself after reading the new issue of "Baixin Xundao".

(End of this chapter)