Win the Ding 1617

Samsung has gone south, and the night is like water.

The city of Hue, which has been noisy all day, has become silent, only the lights on the streets, and the soldiers and patrolmen who patrolled past are still loyal to their duties and play the role of guardians for the city.

In the courtyard, the huge leaves of several banana trees in the corner rustled under the breeze, acting as the best lullaby.

In several rooms, there were high-pitched, low-pitched, or subtle snoring and sleep talking.

However, Shopkeeper Huang couldn't sleep. After tossing and turning several times, he felt that the room was stuffy again, so he simply put on his clothes and got up, and went to the courtyard to enjoy the shade.

"The shopkeeper!?"

In the shadow of the banana tree, one of Huang Da's shopkeeper's buddies also couldn't sleep at night.

Seeing the big shopkeeper approaching, he hurriedly stood up and saluted.

"Little Qiao? Why didn't you sleep?"

The guy called Xiao Qiao smiled wryly, "I can't sleep! Master! What I heard today is much more shocking than what I heard from these old Jiangxi cousins ​​before!"

In Taifeng Tower, I heard those craftsmen talk about the purchase system of surplus grain in the hands of farmers. The South China Army adopted a system of three times the market price to ensure the interests of farmers. Although a large part of the payment was made with industrial vouchers, the industrial vouchers In the eyes of these Shanxi merchants in Huang Da's shopkeeper, it is like the salt that the old predecessors exchanged for grain.Belongs to securities!

Ordinary people can use these industrial vouchers to go to various shops to buy various materials they need.Invisibly, there are millions of funds in circulation in the market, providing strong purchasing power to the various factories in the hands of the South China Army.Through policy instruments that subsidize agriculture.Created a market for industrial products.

Instead of using salt, a necessity of the national economy and the people's livelihood, in exchange for various supplies of food, cloth and horses needed by the frontier defense, as Kaizhongfa did.

However, Shou Han's method is also the result of hundreds of years of countless government experience and lessons.

The government buys grain from farmers at a high price and sells it to the market at a low price, thereby achieving the purpose of stabilizing the market, stabilizing society, stabilizing agriculture and rural areas, and providing and manufacturing industrial product markets.

For decades after the founding of the People's Republic of China, this policy of importing at a high price and exporting at a low price has been implemented. The country is responsible for stabilizing food prices and stabilizing the countryside.But when a certain boss who often uttered bold words and made ordinary people endure labor pains came to power, he brazenly risked the disgrace of the world.The grain purchase subsidy policy was cancelled.Push the price of grain to the market in an all-round way. Poor ordinary farmers, on the one hand, have to face the high price of pesticides and fertilizer seeds, and on the other hand, they have to face the low grain purchase price with tears.It will also suffer from the encirclement and suppression of large oil-based agricultural companies in the West.The cost and price of their agricultural products.None of them can be compared with the small-scale peasant economy of one family.

For a while, it was said that the peasants are really miserable and the countryside is really dangerous.

And this kind of practice, more than 300 years ago, Shanxi merchants couldn't figure out the reason even after thinking about it.They instinctively feel.This is definitely not an idiot way of throwing money into the street, but it is definitely not the so-called benevolent government. The mystery of this is probably an earth-shattering secret.

"Little Qiao, what do you think of the money's appearance and fineness?"

Shopkeeper Huang handed over a Nanzhong Tongbao that was held warm in his hand.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Qiao smiled wryly, opened her palm, and in her palm was the same Tongbao.

"Hey! Little Qiao! It turns out that the hero sees the same thing!"

This Tongbao is no less than the Yongle Tongbao and the Tongbao issued in the first year of Chongzhen in terms of copper material, appearance, texture, and even weight.Compared with the various horse-racing copper coins circulating in the mainland nowadays, and the privately minted sand shells, they are a hundred times more powerful.

"Before we came out, the big shopkeepers of several shops wrote to me, saying that this money has been circulated everywhere, and many people are no longer willing to use the horse racing Chongzhen, and many ministers have also asked to use this money. Xiao Qiao, What do you think of the interest rate in this money?"

"What does the treasurer mean? Are you going to send a batch of money back for use?"

The two copper coins were placed side by side on the stone bench. With the help of the lights outside the wall and the moonlight above their heads, the two of them carefully observed the two copper coins.

One was the change recovered from Taifeng Building. In addition to being used to reward the guys, the shopkeeper Huang quietly settled the wine and meal money of the table craftsmen who chatted with them, and deposited it on the cabinet. He paid ten silver dollars, "From now on, when these gentlemen come to your store for dinner, it will be a small treat."

The other one was the change that Xiao Qiao got back from buying newspapers on the street and various scripts and books popular in Nanzhong.

The two copper coins came from different sources, and the inscriptions and patterns on them were equally clear. They weighed them in their hands and found that the weight was the same.

"Our big boss once opened a furnace to mint money by himself. I also went to the government's money bureau to see it. I just thought about it for a long time. I can't think of such a neat and exquisite copper coin. How did it come out in large quantities?"

On the face of shopkeeper Huang, through the shadows of the leaves, Xiao Qiao could clearly see the loneliness on his face.

"Not only copper coins, but also silver dollars. When we set off, the big boss wrote a letter saying that in Liaodong, whether it is an officer or a Manchurian soldier, silver dollars are required. If we want to find a way to get silver dollars back, we can open the furnace." counterfeit."

It's no wonder that silver dollars are accepted everywhere. Compared with the Western silver coins that Shanxi merchants have seen, Nanzhong silver dollars are obviously much more exquisite in workmanship than Western silver coins. I really don't know how they were minted.On the front is a circle in capitalized Chinese characters, on the back is a chrysanthemum, and on the chrysanthemum is written the Ming Nanzhong Mint, and below it is written the words minted by Chongzhen in a certain year.The petals of the chrysanthemum are distinct.How such a delicate, beautiful and unified silver dollar was cast, Huang Da shopkeeper was puzzled.

Nanzhong silver dollar is not only beautiful in appearance, but more importantly, its fineness is excellent, which is far better than the Zusei pattern silver of Hubu.It's no wonder that officials and eunuchs in the capital use Nanzhong silver dollars as the standard for receiving gifts and offering bribes.

"What the big boss said is extremely reasonable. However, today I chatted with the clerk of this inn. I accidentally got a glimpse of something!"

Although Xiao Qiao's words were not loud, they sounded like a thunderbolt on Huang Da's head!

He looked around vigilantly, and there was no one else in the yard except for the rustling sound of the leaves being caressed by the night wind.

He grabbed Xiao Qiao's hand, "Say it! What do you know?!"

"After I came back, I couldn't figure out why we ate beef, pork, fish, chicken, etc. so cheaply, so I talked to the guys at the inn, and they told me the key to this."

According to the guys, fish and shrimp seafood.Except because Nanzhong is on the verge of the ocean.In addition to countless fishing boats fishing day and night, there are also methods of raising fish and ducks in rice fields that are used by farmers.

"In addition to raising fish and ducks, we also make use of the weather and implement intercropping. Rapeseed is planted first. After the rapeseed is harvested, the rapeseed is used to extract oil. The rest is used to fertilize the field. Almost every mu of field can harvest at least a hundred catties per year. Vegetable oil! That's why you can see so many oil baskets everywhere, and dishes that use oil like water!"

"this?"

Shopkeeper Huang was a little disappointed. He originally thought that Xiao Qiao had obtained some earth-shattering secrets from the mouths of the inn guys.It turned out that it was just Nanzhong’s method of farming, raising fish and extracting oil!This method cannot be said to be useless, but it cannot be realized in the interior where there are famine and refugees everywhere.

Not to mention the north, even the Huguang area, which is known as the most familiar place in the world, still has all kinds of refugees and bandits coming and going.Squires and clans from all over the country have formed villages to protect themselves.What I think about every day is how to survive in this troubled world, where is there any thought to raise fish in rice fields?

That Xiao Qiao is also a shrewd person who is full of news and ambushes, otherwise he would not have brought him to Nanzhong.Seeing that the shopkeeper Huang Da was unhappy, he threw out another news.

"In addition to farmers raising fish, cattle, and pigs themselves, Nanzhong is also known as a so-called professional farmer. This generation does not farm, but only raises chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle, fish, etc., and many of them have hundreds of pigs. Cows, even thousands of heads. Above this generation, there are farms operated by major government or businessmen, and the scale of breeding is several times higher than that of professional farmers! As the shopkeeper knows, these pigs and cattle What is the magic weapon in your hands, fish and chicken?"

"What is it? Could it be that they can turn beans into soldiers?" The shopkeeper Huang laughed, feeling a little sleepy, but out of habit, he still resisted the sleepiness and planned to listen to Xiao Qiao's words.

"Although you can't cast beans into soldiers, it can also make livestock, fish, chickens and ducks grow faster, stronger, and fatter!"

Xiao Qiao got up to leave, and when she was young, she retrieved something from her room and handed it to shopkeeper Huang.

"Please look at the shopkeeper, this is what I'm talking about."

Shopkeeper Huang was full of suspicion, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.

He carefully looked at the plant in his hand, which was nearly a person's height.

"What is this?"

Look at this man-sized plant with lush stems and crunchy texture.There is still a slight sweetness coming out of several fractures.

"This thing is called corngrass here. It's the same word as the corn we use in the noodles we eat today. But it's not the same thing as that corn. This thing is good forage for livestock!"

After showing off his knowledge, Xiao Qiao paused, and continued to explain the information he had obtained to the shopkeeper.

"This stuff likes to eat horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, fish, chickens, ducks, and geese. It has a strong regeneration ability and can be harvested seven or eight times a year! Every mu of grassland can produce tens of thousands of catties of stems and leaves! You can plant in the field, in front of the house, in saline-alkali land! Just chop it up a little and throw it into the pond to feed the fish!"

"Can each mu of land produce tens of thousands of catties?"

This number really shocked Shopkeeper Huang!

To Mongolia and Liaodong, he is familiar with this road.I have also heard about the amount of green grass produced on the grassland. A good grassland is only a few hundred catties or a thousand catties per mu.Such pastures are enough to cause wars between tribes.

"Where did you get this thing?"

Shopkeeper Huang held the corn grass tightly, his voice distorted, and he whispered to Xiao Qiao.

"According to the guy, it was more than ten years ago that the general here, Li Shouhan, bought it from Westerners at the price of a bucket of seeds and a bucket of gold. It is said that it was produced overseas tens of thousands of miles away from here. The serving is Good thing! Scatter the seeds, and if you want to take care of them, you can take care of them. If you don’t want to, you can let them grow by themselves. It can be harvested when it grows to about two feet 45 days after germination, and each plant can be harvested seven or eight times a year. About a year All seasons are available. For more than ten years, this corngrass has been promoted by Li Shouhan to all parts of Nanzhong, so this Nanzhong has such cheap meat!"

A bucket of gold and a bucket of seeds? !

This price has already driven Shopkeeper Huang crazy.But compared with the price of this thing and its meaning, it is too cheap!

"The guy at the inn said that outside the city, the innkeeper also planted some corn grass and raised some cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, etc. Almost every acre of fresh grass can feed about [-] sheep, or chickens, ducks, and geese. Five hundred. If it was replaced by cows and horses..."

With a "bang", Shopkeeper Huang grabbed Xiao Qiao's wrist, "Little Qiao, stop talking!"

He stood up.The meaning of sleepiness has long been thrown to Java by him!Um?It seems that Java is not far from Hue.The excited shopkeeper Huang couldn't stop pacing in the yard.

Originally, I planned to see if I could purchase some fine iron, armor, swords and guns in Nanzhong and sell them to Mongolia, Liaodong, Jiubian towns and Beijing camps to make huge profits.But after I came here, I realized that if I buy in large quantities, there will be a lot of trouble.An import and export license document is enough to make people daunting.

The next best thing.We can only focus on the cotton cloth, cooking oil, refined salt, high-quality white sugar and other things that Nanzhong encourages to export.If these materials are sold to Western Mongolia and other places.You can also make a small profit.But no matter how high the profit of these things is, it is still much lower than that of selling arms.

But the corn grass that Xiao Qiao took out just now.It made the shopkeeper Huang Da see the hope of making a fortune and making a fortune.

One mu of land can feed fifty sheep, so it is no problem to feed a few horses!There is a lot of free land in Liaodong, and the Manchurian soldiers use cavalry and cavalry as their main combat forces.If you can get the seeds and planting methods of this corngrass and sell them all over Liaodong and Mongolia, haha!My goodness!This grass is no longer grass, every blade of grass is a gold bar!

"Vaccinia! Tongbao! Corngrass!"

He kept repeating these three words in his mouth over and over again.These are the three things that have brought him countless surprises this day.

Cowpox can ensure that the population is only a small number, so that Huang Taiji and his banner master princes and Mongolian princes do not have to lose a large number of young people because of the pox, so that the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers and horses can ensure that they can maintain the level of war. superior.

Corngrass is here to support these populations.With enough soldiers, as long as those Ba Yala soldiers, armored soldiers, and unarmored Yu Ding are going to fight, they must have horses, not to mention one man with two horses or three horses, as long as they are the Manchurian Eight Banners and Mongolian soldiers who can live a little better. All Eight Banners must have at least one horse?

If these hundreds of thousands of horses were fed on the forage provided by various pastures, it would be difficult for the dead food and fodder officer.If you have the corngrass seeds, you just need to arrange for people to water them and harvest them on time.

He has already started to think, should he ask the big boss to apply to Huang Taiji to buy some land in Liaodong, and then plant these fodder in Liaodong?

"Even if you spend all the money you brought, you must get all three of these things! At least two of them must be obtained!"

Slowly stopping the fast running pace, shopkeeper Huang made up his mind, turned around and looked, Xiao Qiao was still standing aside.

"Little Qiao, what is your body weight now?"

"The big shopkeeper is really a noble person who forgets a lot. I was a good stock in the account period last year. From entering the shop to learn business to now topping the business, my stock is now [-]%."

"I'll write to the big boss right away! Tell the big boss about your performance in Nanzhong, and I will give you a boost!"

"Thank you for the promotion of the shopkeeper!"

Xiao Qiao couldn't help but beam with joy.

This is not surprising.There is a popular proverb in Pingyao, Taigu, Qixian County, Shanxi: "It is better to be a customer in a tea ticket house than to be a guest in a tea ticket house if you are an official." It can be seen how attractive the top body was at that time!

"I will protect you from the big boss! I will increase your stock by two percent, and promote you to be the third shopkeeper. From now on, you will be in charge of Nanzhong's affairs!"

When the golden rooster sings dawn and a red sun bursts out in the east, the guys who slept soundly last night were surprised to learn that they were discussing the true meaning of life with Zhou Gong, the great benefactor of the state of Jin. At that time, Xiao Qiao had quickly completed the big leap from a buddy to the third shopkeeper.Not only has the position been promoted, but the money has also been greatly improved.

And the reason for this promotion turned out to be a corngrass that can be seen everywhere in the city, outside the city, in front of and behind the house, which can reach nearly ten feet in height. When they first saw it, everyone thought it was sugar cane!

Because of such a plant of corngrass, Xiao Qiao quietly became everyone's boss, and everyone couldn't help but feel a little angry, envious, jealous, and hateful.

"Why didn't I get the promotion?!"

"Don't be unconvinced!"

Shopkeeper Huang Da held a large bowl of beef rice noodles, which were red and full of chili peppers. He poured a spoonful of vinegar on the rice noodles, and Xili Hulu began to eat.

After eating a few mouthfuls of rice noodles, he turned his head to face the group of subordinates standing in the yard.

"When you came back from drinking to take a hot bath yesterday, Xiao Qiao was thinking about business; when you were snoring like thunder, Xiao Qiao was thinking about business; when you woke up and woke up at night, Xiao Qiao was still thinking about business Business! If such a person, such a buddy is not promoted, and if he does not increase his status, it will really make God blind!"

The power of example is endless.

The guys from the firm, who had been greatly stimulated, were like hunting dogs, digging around in every corner of Hue City, trying to find a business that would allow them to get promoted and increase their salary.

However, Shopkeeper Huang also gave these people a new job.

"After you go out, no matter what you see or hear, whether it's the system or the story! As long as you think this thing is interesting, write it into a document after you come back, and write your opinions on it. Every article will be published by me. Two hundred Nanzhong Tongbao's moistening pens!"

The items collected by shopkeeper Huang Da were first written by him in the form of a letter to the big boss in Beijing.Later, it was copied by Dadong's family to the other seven phases.

Soon, this booklet called "Excerpts of Nanzhong Business Situation" became the most original source for mainland businessmen and officials to understand Nanzhong's various systems and social customs.

"There are two things here, I thought I could ask buyers from Liaodong. One is cowpox, which can prevent the spread of smallpox, and there are countless living people. It has been widely planted here. The second is corngrass, patented cattle and horses. It was searched for by Li from overseas. Come here. Tens of thousands of catties of fodder can be obtained per mu, which can be eaten by cattle, horses, pigs and sheep. The owner can reveal a thing or two to Liaodong Prime Minister, and find out how he speaks."

In the letter, the shopkeeper of Huang Da told the biggest gain of this trip to Nanzhong in the secret language agreed with the big boss.Please contact the fortune teller Zhou Xiazi who is currently sent by the Ming army in Liaodong to test the word, and Huang Taiji who is about to enter the customs and rob again at the same time, and see if Huang Taiji is right about these two weapons. Interested in equally strategic merchandise?How much can you pay?

"It should be noted that when Li Shouhan purchased this kind of seeds from overseas, he bought a bucket of seeds for a bucket of gold!"

Definitely huge profits! (to be continued..)