Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 496
Chapter 500

And Ran Ming has done more than himself in caring for the people. He uses the resources in the sea to develop artificial breeding of kelp, fish, and shrimp, and teaches people to eat in the sea.Develop artificial sun-dried salt to produce green salt that is as crystal clear as snow.At the same time, teach the people to make salted fish, dried fish, and various canned seafood, so that the people of Qingzhou will become rich first.

Ran Ming taught people to use Qingzhou's natural pastures to develop circular economy farming and build various large-scale workshops, creating a lot of wealth for Wei.Now the commercial tax revenue of the entire Qingzhou has exceeded the sum of the agricultural taxes of the seven prefectures of Yan, Hebei, Bing, Luo, Yu, Si, and Yong.Without Qingzhou's commercial tax revenue, Wei Guo would definitely suffer even more heavy losses in this counterattack, and without the support of food and grass, it would be impossible to win this war.

At this time, Ran Min had already made up his mind.Let Wei Guo start an effective throne competition mechanism.Like the wolf king, select the best from the best, and the survival of the fittest.

In the early morning of the next day, Ran Min announced at the court meeting that he ordered the prince Ran Zhi to go to the southern general Jiang Gan as a small spearman, and he would not be allowed to return for at least three years!
When Ran Min's decree was issued, the whole court was shocked.Afterwards, all the officials Qiqi opposed Ran Min's resolution.However, Ran Min stood up against all opinions and resolutely carried out the edict.

In addition, an edict was promulgated, "From now on, all the children of the Ran family's royal family must join the army and serve the country after they reach the age of 12."

This is thanks to Ran Ming's national policy that the king of the county guards the frontier, the emperor dies in the country, does not make peace, does not pay tribute, does not discuss peace, does not concede vassalage, does not pay compensation, and does not cede land.Ran Min took this sentence to be engraved on a stone and erected on a stele as a tradition of the Wei state.After the dynasty, the ministers still could not digest the shock brought about by this huge change.

Interest, eternal interest.Although the prince was not seized, he was demoted to a small soldier.Although Ran Ming also came from a small soldier, everyone knows that talent is something that cannot be explained clearly.It is very difficult for the crown prince to be second to Jiaodong king. At this time, these aristocratic families began to rack their brains to curry favor with Ran Ming, who had the most hope of becoming the master of the East Palace.

As Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Ran Ming started his industrial development plan.

Now Ran Ming has a large number of craftsmen from the Jin Dynasty, and at the same time, he has also taken in a large number of craftsmen from the Wei State. Almost [-]% of the craftsmen in the whole world are used by Ran Ming. If Ran Ming does not make good use of these craftsmen, he will be sorry for his time travelers. This honorable title.

In fact, Ran Ming's first thing to do is to build roads first. Now whether he is marching, fighting or doing business, the consumption on the road is very huge.As a descendant, Ran Ming is no stranger to road construction.It is a bit difficult to manufacture asphalt roads now, but the technology for manufacturing reinforced concrete roads is fully mature.

Ran Ming plans to build a road equivalent to two-way four-lane roads in the later generations according to the later Longhai Railway Line, as the first plan for industrial development next year.However, this plan is costly, and the manpower, material and financial resources required will be astronomical.

Ran Ming just mentioned his industrial development plan to Du Zhishangshu Wang Meng, Wang Meng quickly shook his head and said: "Your Highness, there is no money in the treasury, not only the salaries of officials, but also the food and salaries of soldiers, and we must prepare Next year's spring plowing, the treasury will definitely
Unable to support His Highness's development plan! "

"It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice!" Ran Ming exclaimed, "If Gu's plan is implemented smoothly, within five years, the comprehensive national strength of our Great Wei will surpass that of the Jin Dynasty, and within ten years, we will become the most powerful country in the world. The world is just around the corner!"

Wang Meng said: "Your Highness, since this is the case, why don't you invite business?"

"Investment promotion is a policy implemented by Ran Ming in Jiaodong country at the beginning!" As the prime minister of Jiaodong, Wang Meng is very familiar with this matter.Wang Meng explained: "His Royal Highness has too many lucrative industries in his hands. If you know the truth, money touches people's hearts. Those gentry clansmen see His Highness making money every day. They don't have a penny. Wouldn't they be jealous? As long as they are jealous, they will definitely be jealous." Dissatisfied, I'm afraid I will take a desperate risk at that time!"

Ran Ming said: "Sir, what do you mean!"

"In the words of His Highness, this is called benefit kidnapping!" Wang Meng said, "It's like the Jiaodong Cannery Factory, but it needs more than 3000 craftsmen. Within a year, even working overtime, it can only produce 380 million stone cans. These Most of the cans are used as military supplies, and a small amount is used for sale. The income and expenditure are basically balanced. Anyway, this technology will be learned by people sooner or later. Why don't you let your highness make a big deal and sell this technology? Will buy it. As long as His Highness sells part of the technology he has mastered, wouldn’t there be start-up funds for this industrial development plan!”

Ran Ming thought, that's right, why is he so stupid?What's more, except for a small amount of technology in my own hands that is for military use and the country must monopolize it, all other technologies can be sold.

Ran Ming thought for a while, and rushed to the yamen under the door!

Ran Ming originally planned to discuss this technology transfer plan with the officials who were from merchants in the province.But halfway through, Ran Ming thought, if he came to sell like this, wouldn't he want to sell his golden dolls for a cabbage price?

Ran Ming walked halfway, and said to the coachman, "Turn back to the house!"

The carriage turned to Jiaodong Palace.Ran Ming went straight into the academy and locked himself in the study.Now that there is no one around Ran Ming, Wang Meng leads the Du branch, which is the Ministry of Finance of the later generations, and will be so busy all year round that he can't take care of him at all.In desperation, Ran Ming had to do everything by himself.

The method that Ran Ming came up with was actually not complicated. It was his best field, that is, creating momentum.After building enough momentum, the auction will be held, and the one with the highest price will win.

Ran Ming thinks about printing and papermaking. If these industries are monopolized in his own hands, it will not only affect the progress of culture and technology, but also be detrimental to Ran Ming's strategy of making the country rich and powerful.Therefore, Ran Ming put the paper mills and printing workshops that are quite mature enough into public auctions.

The second is the printing and dyeing technology of silk and linen.China's silk and linen weaving technology began in the Neolithic Age. After a long slavery society, it was not until the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods that China's weaving technology gradually matured.In this era, the printing and dyeing technology of silk is mainly plant dyeing.Since Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions and the opening of the Silk Road, Chinese silk has become one of the country's main foreign exchange income.The printing and dyeing technology of this era is still limited to monotonous colors and very simple patterns.

But what Ran Ming used was the chemical printing and dyeing technology of later generations, not only the same color is more gorgeous, but also colorful patterns.Even ordinary silk has the bright embroidery of Hang brocade, the simplicity of Shu brocade, the elegance of Su brocade, and the boldness of Yun brocade.

The silk and linen engravings made by Ran Ming can be printed and dyed in more than a dozen different colors. Ran Ming even created a brand of silk and linen products he printed and dyed in this era, called Rainbow Brocade.Now whether in the Wei state or the Jin state, wearing rainbow brocade is not only elegant and magnificent, but this dazzling brocade not only exceeds the price of ordinary first-class silk five to ten times, but also has no market price.

Ran Ming originally thought that ordinary people in this era were very poor and had limited purchasing power. In fact, Ran Ming underestimated the consumption level of the gentry in this era.Now that the state of Wei is newly established, the state of Wei does not limit its identity by wearing clothes.As long as they have money, merchants can also wear silk, but if they have no money, gentry can only wear linen.

Breaking through the technology of printing and dyeing silk and linen products will not only improve the market competitiveness of Chinese silk and linen, but also benefit the society.Counting the plagiarized technologies in Ran Ming's hands, in fact, not many are suitable for Ran Ming to sell.Ran Ming gave the sugar-making technology to the Xie family as a dowry. Even if Ran Ming wanted to sell the steel-making technology, Ran Min would never agree.

In this era, steel is the embodiment of comprehensive national strength.One hundred thousand catties of fine steel can arm one hundred thousand troops, and Ran Min would never allow the sale of steel technology, and even if he sold it, he would not dare to buy it in Wei State.Could it be that the gentry family will give Ran Min a chance to eliminate them?Put on the big hat of conspiracy and rebellion, no matter how big the family is, it can't stop Wei Guo's angry master!
There is also his canning technology, this thing cannot be sold, if it is sold, it will definitely not be worth the loss.

In desperation, Ran Ming had no choice but to rack his brains in order to make money. He wrote down what later generations learned when he visited the Pearl Paradise, and came up with artificial pearl breeding technology. Ran Ming has not verified this technology. As advertised in the Pearl Paradise, it is not within the scope of Ran Ming's consideration.

Ran Ming is not worried that these technologies cannot be sold. In fact, during this period, Ran Ming encouraged business, and the effect of promoting business has already appeared.Regardless of whether Liu Yuan, Zhang Xun, Wang Cheng or the others followed Ran Ming, they had accumulated tens of hundreds of wealth from ordinary gentry in just a few years.They all understand that farming is the most stupid way to make money and accumulate wealth.

Don't look down on the lowly industry of merchants and merchants, but they are doing it quietly.Almost every gentry family has a huge business in their hands, and they control food, cloth, and major living materials including salt.However, the businesses controlled or owned by these gentry have been left far behind by the Huaxia Business Alliance formed by Ran Ming.If they don't have advanced production technology and advanced products, they can only be abandoned under market economy conditions.

The family members of the gentry are also in a hurry at this time. They are not like those merchants. The merchants generally have small families and few children in the clan, but these family members of the gentry are different. Huge numbers.

Now Wei State is in a period of rising national power, even the officials of the gentry, they all understand a truth.Wei Guo is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat.Now that Wei Guo has the ability to initially unify the world, they want Wei Guoran to want to unify the world, so as to obtain greater family benefits.

(End of this chapter)