At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 323, "National Wealth Policy" and the best time for negotiation
Xu Fan smiled proudly and said: "Many policies of the Han Dynasty have been copied from those of the Qin Dynasty, but why is there so little pressure among the people?

First, our Han Dynasty is fairer than that of Da Qin. In Da Qin, the nobles and tycoons do not charge much tax burden, but in my Han Dynasty, the more property and land, the more taxes. Ordinary people do not have to bear the tax burden of the nobles and tycoons, which naturally relieves a lot of pressure. . "

"But this is not the most important thing. If the world's wealth remains the same as before, even if I divide it evenly, the people's land tax may be reduced or reduced, but the corvee will be indispensable."

The second is that my Han Dynasty has a better ability to increase wealth than Da Qin. In Da Qin, it is not wrong to regard agriculture as the source of wealth. Agriculture is indeed the source of all wealth, but cloth farm tools, even tables, chairs and benches are also wealth.

Da Qin did not value these, but the land of the world was limited, and the wealth that Da Qin could increase was also limited. However, the increase in wealth of Da Qin could not match the greedy desires of the rulers such as the First Emperor, and the entire world collapsed.

Although I, the Han Dynasty, did not add much land, because of my emphasis on industry and commerce, although the land in the world did not increase, the wealth increased rapidly, so that everyone could get more wealth.

In order to make it easier for Zhang Liang and others to understand, Xu Fan continued: "During the Qin Dynasty, they did not have a blast furnace, and the amount of iron they could refine in the world in a year would not exceed 1 million kilograms. But after our Han Dynasty had a blast furnace, the world could refine as much steel in a year." Nearly 2.5 million kilograms (20 tons). According to the calculation of 20 jin per kilogram of iron in the Qin Dynasty, I, the Han Dynasty, have added jin of wealth to the entire world, which is equivalent to jin more for the common people of the Han Dynasty than for each common person of the Qin Dynasty. "

"This is still calculated based on the lowest price of iron. If we calculate it based on hundreds of steelmaking costs thousands of dollars per catty, agricultural tools costing thousands of dollars, armors and weapons worth tens of thousands of dollars, our Dahanguang steel products industry will be The whole world brought wealth worth millions of gold."

"There is also the sugar industry, which was originally an industry that did not exist in the world. Only a small amount of honey and sugar can be enjoyed by the kings and nobles. But because of the development of our country, now wealthy families can also eat sugar. There are millions of acres of sugar cane fields in the world. , the wealth generated by sugar production is close to one million gold every year, which brings a wealth of three hundred gold to every common person in the world. This is the new wealth in the world, brought by me. "

There is also the salt industry and the textile industry. Although these industries have already existed in the world, under the pioneering efforts of my great man, the cost of salt production and textile industry has dropped, and the production capacity has increased several times. It can be said that each of these four pillar industries can Increase the wealth and income of my Han people by one hundred to several hundred.

"The four pillar industries combined have added thousands of dollars of wealth to the people all over the world. This is why while I, the big man, am reducing the burden on the people of the world, the income of the imperial court is getting higher and higher, because I, the big man, are also rapidly Enlarging the wealth of the entire world, in this process, everyone will benefit.”

Zhang Liang and Qin Bo suddenly realized.

Zhang Liang was even more excited and said: "What your Majesty just said is really Huang Zhongda Lu, let me know the truth directly. Your financial management ability has surpassed Guanzi. Guanzi is more skilled and can only dominate the world, but you are more important. That’s why you can rule the world.”

Qin Bo also said: "What your Majesty said is a policy to enrich the country."

Xu Fan said: "This is the benefit of the industrial and commercial industry. It is not controlled by the land or the weather like agriculture. It can increase the wealth of the entire world dozens or even hundreds of times on a small piece of land. The development of the steel industry is The most striking example is that the area of ​​Dahan's steel factory has only expanded dozens of times, but the wealth generated has expanded tens of thousands of times. "

"The wealth that craftsmen in the world can produce is generally ten times or even dozens of times more than that of farmers. During the Qin Dynasty, the number of craftsmen in the world was less than one million, but the number of craftsmen in the world doubled in a few years. If half of the people in the world were craftsmen, The wealth of the entire world will at least increase tenfold, and the most important thing is that the ability of craftsmen to increase wealth is more than ten times that of farmers. "

“The output of the fields has only increased by one or two times since ancient times, but craftsmen can increase it tenfold, a hundredfold, or a thousandfold. This naturally leads to an increase in the world’s wealth tenfold, a hundredfold, or a thousandfold. "

"This is why I say that in the future the world will be dominated by craftsmen and workshop owners, because as far as the world is concerned now, craftsmen are the most advanced producers and workshop owners are the most advanced managers in the world. Both of them can create the most in the world. If one can manage the most wealth in the world, he will naturally become the two most powerful forces in the world. "

Zhang Liang also said: "I decided to record your Majesty's words on entering and publish them in the "Han Monthly" so that the Han officials in the world would know your Majesty's intentions and how to develop the industry."

Speaking of the "Dahan Monthly" Xu Fan said to Qin Bo: "You Mohists should also create a "Moji Monthly" so that craftsmen can have a voice."

Then he told Qin Bo about the story of the female worker he had seen in the "Rule of Law Monthly": "This should not be your Mohist family's justice for her, but in the end, the Legalists spoke for them. This is yours." dereliction of duty."

Qin Bo smiled bitterly and said: "The female textile workers are all women, so we can't get too close. Moreover, this is also a household matter, so outsiders like me can better interrupt."

Xu Fan shook his head and said: "You are not firm anymore. You don't care whether she is a boy or a girl, or whether it is a household chore. As long as she is a craftsman, you, the Mo family, should stand firmly behind them. If you cannot firmly speak for them, , the Mohist family has no meaning to them, and your Mohist family has also lost this basic base.

You want all the craftsmen and female textile workers in the world to understand that the Mohists will stand by their side and help them, and then they will support the Mohists.

At the same time, with the "Moji Monthly" as a voice channel, we can publicize to the world the rationality and urgency of the four-hour working day, which is the necessary path towards a harmonious world.

Only by spreading this concept and letting more people understand this concept, will more people support the four-hour work system and our team will grow. "

Modern political parties are different from feudal bureaucracies. What feudal bureaucracies pay attention to is that the punishment is unpredictable and the power is unpredictable, so the people are afraid of superiors.

But modern political parties promote their own ideas in order to attract people who share the same ideas and form a unified executive group. Therefore, their combat effectiveness is more powerful than feudal bureaucracy.

"Although the Mohist rules are strict, I believe that the people in this world always want to live a better and better life. As long as these people understand the philosophy of your Mohist family, even if they cannot bear the Mohist rules and will not become Mohists, they will still be able to live a better life." I will be your supporter, but millions of people in the world support you, even if you are only one in a hundred, you can find enough like-minded people, so that your Mohist family will rise and fall. "

After listening to Xu Fan's words, Qin Bo said firmly: "I must work hard to promote our Mohist philosophy and let everyone in the world understand our Mohist philosophy."

When a hundred schools of thought were contending, there were not many disciples of Taoism, Confucianism, and Legalism. Mozi brought thousands of Mohists, and naturally he could dominate the world and become a prominent scholar in the world.

But now there are countless Confucian disciples. Even they themselves don't know how many disciples there are, but half of the scholars in the world are Confucian disciples.

Taoism has always followed the elite route. Although there are not many in number, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty is a Taoist. There are many people who believe in Taoism among the two thousand stone officials of the Han Dynasty. They now occupy the upper echelons of the Han Dynasty and hold high positions of power.

Even though the Legalists suffered heavy losses, the laws of the Han Dynasty were more stringent, but this strictness was aimed at the Han officials. Although the process of learning Han laws made them lament, more and more Han officials Officials became followers of Legalism. In the Han Dynasty, where law enforcement was becoming more and more stringent, Legalism was recovering rapidly.

Only their Mohist disciples number less than a thousand, and they are already extremely rare among all the major schools. If Qin Bo wanted to revive the Mohist family, he would obviously have to undergo major changes. The elite line does not belong to the Mohist family.

Xu Fan said: "When the Mohist Monthly is ready to open, I will write an article supporting the 4-hour work and give it to you. I hope that your Mohist Monthly will be an instant hit."

The reason why Xu Fan is so interested in the four-hour work system is because he wants to see if the technological level of the previous industrialization era can support a four-hour work day.

This is one of his experiments.

Because the Han Dynasty at this time was a once-in-a-lifetime time for ordinary craftsmen. The war in the world caused a large number of people to decrease. Xu Fan forced the land to be equalized, so that the people of the world could feel confident.

Ordinary craftsmen can loudly say to the workshop owner: "Can you give me a four-hour working day? I can't just leave."

Because they really have a hundred acres of land to support themselves. When the income from working is not as good as farming, the craftsmen can loudly say no to the workshop owner. After both parties have benefited, in such negotiations, both parties will be equal.

But if in a few decades or even hundreds of years, the population increases several times, and a large amount of land is annexed by aristocrats and wealthy businessmen, then the people will have no way out, and their salaries and welfare benefits will definitely be suppressed to the point where they are only enough. A situation that barely sustains their lives.

At that time, it will be the workshop owner's turn to shout loudly to the craftsmen: "You can't do it, there are many people who can do it."

At that point, the craftsmen will have no way out. Xu Fan has experienced this kind of thing once. When he was young, Xu Fan opened a stall and earned more than 5000 yuan every month. But in the next ten years, purchase prices increased, booth fees increased, management fees increased, and prices fluctuated. Ten years later, Xu Fan could only earn less than per month.

Later, he read some novels and learned some things. He understood that this was because the rules of society had changed.

Dahan's current time is the time when labor is the most valuable for hundreds of years in the future, and it is also the time when craftsmen have the most abundant negotiation capital. If we don’t negotiate the system with the workshop owner at this time, it will be even more difficult in the future.

But at the same time, Xu Fan knew that ordinary craftsmen were just ordinary citizens, and they did not think too far into the future. If their work was enough to support their families and even have a little surplus, they would be grateful to the workshop owners and would not ask for anything at all.

But if you don’t make demands when you have an advantage, when you are at a disadvantage, you will only be squeezed to death.

(Although it sounds a bit unpleasant, in terms of advancement, workshop owners may be more advanced than craftsmen. We did not achieve great unity, but others did. Money can flow around the world and the global industrial chain is laid out.)
Zhang Liang looked at the emperor strangely. The emperor paid extraordinary attention to the Moh family.

"It's time to start dinner," Chen Xiu said.

Several people came to the dining room and sat down respectively. There were four dishes and one soup, including fish and meat.

Xu Fan's place does not share meals, but everyone sits at a round table, which is the same as the habit of later generations.

Xu Fan thought very clearly about this. This kind of insignificant etiquette is mainly based on his own comfort. He has become the emperor. If he wants to be accommodated, it is the people of this world who should accommodate him, not them.

After Zhang Liang and the others had eaten there several times, they got used to it, and even the senior officials of the Han Dynasty began to popularize this kind of dinner party system.

After a few people started moving, Chen Xiu asked Xu Fan: "Zhao Gao came over two days ago and said that the profit of the glass workshop had exceeded 5 million yuan. This money was deposited in the agricultural bank. He asked my husband what his plans were."

"Cough cough cough!" Zhang Liang almost choked.

The Han Dynasty's financial balance for one year was just this. Zhang Liang would not be surprised if the emperor still controlled the Shaofu. But the emperor returned all the workshop land, and all the money was earned by the emperor's workshop. The efficiency of this kind of money-making is too scary.

Xu Fan was also surprised and said: "Zhao Gao is very capable, he actually made so much money?"

Of course Xu Fan understood the profit of glass mirrors, but Xu Fan thought that there were not that many rich people coming to Dahan, and the profits would not be too exaggerated. But obviously he underestimated the profits of glass mirrors. He had made money in more than a year. Several hundred million.

Chen Xiudao: "Part of this is due to the glass greenhouse. I didn't expect that there are so many rich people in Han Dynasty. The supply of vegetables worth a few hundred dollars per catty exceeds the supply. The greenhouse made tens of millions of dollars in one winter."

Chen Xiu didn't pay much attention to the profit from glass, but she could see the off-season vegetables and sell them.

As for off-season vegetables, it was the first time for the people of Chang'an City to see them. Everything else in Guanzhong was in a state of depression. The people in Guanzhong didn't even have to nibble the leaves of the trees, but in the vegetable glass shed, they were lush and full of vitality. .

This aroused the curiosity of all the people in the audience. Last winter, out-of-season vegetables became a popular check-in area in Chang'an City. Many people braved the severe cold to come and see this spectacle.

Because ordinary people don't understand the principles, there are even various myths spread.

Scholars in Chang'an City believed that the reason why God sent down such auspiciousness was because there was a holy king in the court and the world was at peace, so the rain fell and such auspicious scenes appeared.

The people in Chang'an City all nodded and recognized this. The Han Emperor was much better than the First Emperor. They reduced taxes and exempted them from corvee service. Life has been much better in the past two years. The Han Emperor was recognized by the people of Chang'an as a holy king. This Since the point is correct, it makes sense that God would send such auspiciousness.

Even though there are farmers who are constantly educating the people around them about the principles of off-season vegetables, they cannot understand what the heat ratio and lighting are. The people of Chang'an City still believe what the Confucians say more.

I thought it was good at first, but the sorcerer from nowhere told me that these off-season vegetables are spiritual fruits, and people can live forever if they eat them.

When the news came out, I didn’t know whether others believed it or not. Anyway, these warlocks believed it. They tried their best to get some off-season vegetables.

This book was for sale, and Zhao Gao immediately sold it at the price of a thousand yuan per catty of vegetables. These sorcerers actually tricked a group of rich people into helping them finance the purchase of these vegetables.

As a result, this caused the whole Chang'an rich people to rush for it. It didn't matter the price. The key was that it could lead to immortality. So what if it was just a rumor. It was only a thousand dollars per catty. This was money.

In order to live forever, the First Emperor spent a lot of money to build sea ships. They also sent 3000 boys and girls to seek the elixir of immortality, and now they spend thousands of dollars. Even if it is fake, it is worth it to them to eat vegetables in winter.

These people brought about the popularity of off-season vegetables, and demand exceeded supply for a while.

But what is fake is fake. After eating off-season vegetables, a large number of rich people in Chang'an City discovered that they were just vegetables and had no immortality function at all. These deceptive warlocks suffered a severe beating, and the price was reduced due to this. This made Zhao Gao was somewhat disappointed.

But being able to eat vegetables in winter is a very honorable thing after all, so even if the price drops, it still costs several hundred dollars per catty.

And because of this huge advertisement, many wealthy people also ordered glass and planned to build a small glass greenhouse in their homes, which in turn promoted the sales of glass.

That's why Zhao Gao was able to earn so much money for Xu Fan.

Xu Fan thought for a while and said: "This time I visited Han Dynasty, and most of the places I visited were wealthy areas of Han Dynasty, but these areas still lacked doctors. Many people got sick, and without doctors to treat them, minor illnesses could only turn into serious illnesses. , a serious illness dragged him to death.

As a big man, I still lack a doctor. This money will be used to build a medical school. You will be the principal and recruit a group of literate people to teach them medical skills. If thousands of people can learn it every year, in more than ten years the problem of medical treatment for the Han people will be solved. . If there is any extra money, use it to buy medicinal materials, build a medical center, and provide free medical treatment to the poor people in Guanzhong. "

With the current financial situation, the big man cannot afford medical benefits, so he can only do his part.

This was also one of the motivations for him to become an emperor. To create a profitable industry, no one dared to plunder his property, spend money on the people, and no one dared to say that he harbored evil intentions.

This is the annoying thing about the feudal era;
Chen Xiu said happily: "I will never let my husband down."

Although Chen Xiu's medical skills were taught by Xu Fan, she has become better than others. He is a well-deserved master in surgery, and she made many various instruments.

After becoming a master, he naturally had the idea of ​​spreading his knowledge to others.

(End of this chapter)