Chapter Ninety-Five: Diversified Farms
In the dead of night, Sun Xiangfu once deeply analyzed the current society, summed up several reasons why the country was not rich during this period, and he decided to take it out and talk to several shareholders.
"There is a problem, I must make it clear to everyone, that is, we have made money, and we should not let it rust in the treasury, otherwise, we will become the same people as the family, hindering the development of this country."
Everyone was surprised when they heard this, Qin Qiong had the closest relationship with Sun Xiangfu, so they asked, "What do you mean by this?" Tell me more. ”
"Ladies and gentlemen, in a month, we can make a profit of more than 100,000 yuan, maybe we can earn millions of yuan a year, how many millions of yuan does Datang have for us to earn? Ten or eight years later, when tens of millions of dollars of wealth are gathered in our hands, do you think the money on our Datang market will still be transferred? ”
Sun Xiangfu simply asked a few questions, but the few people present were stunned, is it also a mistake to make too much money? Everyone gathered their doubtful eyes on Sun Xiangfu, waiting for his explanation later.
"Money can't be eaten, can't be drunk, and can't bring warmth to everyone, its meaning is to circulate, what is the benefit of circulation? You can see it from the entire supply chain of our Wangjiang Tower.
The family and the magnates, I call them the landlord class, these are the people who consume in our Wangjiang Tower, their money is earned for us, do we need to use ingredients, craftsmen, and artists to ensure their consumption? So, the farmers, the craftsmen, and the artists who provide us with these services take most of the money from us.
And these peasants, craftsmen, and artists will use it when they get money, and they will use it, and they will use the money to pay taxes to the landlord class, and go to the shops opened by the merchant class to buy cloth, ironware, ploughing cattle and the like, and a large part of the money will go back to the hands of the rich, and the whole process, I call it a virtuous circle, in this cycle, the rich people enjoy, the people at the bottom also harvest, and everyone gets benefits.
But if one side breaks the cycle, then the other class suffers.
For example, the family of seven clans and five surnames, they earn a lot of wealth from this society every year, a century-old family, is a hundred years of wealth accumulation, a thousand-year family, is a thousand years of wealth accumulation, from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, to the Qin and Han dynasties, and then to today's Tang Dynasty, in this thousand years, our nation has been mining and minting money every year, how much money has been cast? It is impossible to calculate, at least a hundred times more than the one circulating in the market, but all this money is written in the hands of a small number of people, thus destroying the whole cycle, they only earn and do not spend, so that the poor have no opportunity to earn money to improve their quality of life and expand productivity.
When most of the people in a country are poor, then the country will be extremely fragile, the court can't collect much tax from these poor people, these poor people have no surplus food at home, they can't withstand a little disaster, God loses a little temper, and the whole country is in dire straits in an instant, this is not a normal country, you can understand it, a sick country, it needs to be healed. ”
Sun Xiangfu said a lot in simple and straightforward words, but it made the house quieter, the first time they heard such an argument, it turned out that the country is not rich because the rich do not spend money.
"But the big families also earn money by their ability, and you can't force them to give the money to the poor, right?" Lawyer Pei, who has a different position, said that although his Hedong Pei family is not as strong as the seven clans and five surnames, it is also a wealthy family in the world, and the wealth accumulated by the family is naturally a lot.
"So, let's just make their money with our ability, Wangjianglou is a platform we have created to make money from the rich to the common people, this is the biggest role of Wangjianglou."
Speaking of this, everyone nodded one after another, thus raising the development of Wangjianglou to the height of the great cause of benefiting the country and the people in their hearts.
Wei Chigong, who doesn't like to use his brains in this kind of thing, spoke the most happily, and you said directly, "Just tell us what to do!" ”
"The second issue I'm going to talk about here is the ratio of men to women." Sun Xiangfu looked at the expressions of the crowd and said.
"Male-female ratio? What the heck? Wei Chigong grabbed his scalp and said puzzledly.
"It's a matter of the number of men and women, the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty has been in turmoil for many years, and after the founding of our Tang Dynasty, there were also endless wars, on the battlefield, the main ones who died were young and strong men, and a few grandfathers did not find that in your food town, the number of young and strong men was more than half less than the number of young and strong women."
Sun Xiangfu mentioned this, several generals with troops thought about it carefully, it is really the case, especially the villages that are more frequent, are about to become daughter countries, the number of young widows is very large, but the current population of the Tang Dynasty is only one or two million, and it is polygamy, which has led to the fact that this problem has not exploded.
"What you said is indeed a problem, we Datang, there are many more women than men, so our old men are rare." Cheng Yanjin said very proudly.
He is a martial artist, he can marry the daughter of the Cui family, and he can also accept several concubines, of course, he is very satisfied with this situation.
"This is not the point I said, the point I want to say is that if we want rich peasants and invigorate the economy, we must give these families who are mostly paid by women some work, opportunities to earn money, and liberate women's labor force, so that they can also be like men, and can produce with their own labor and support a family, in this way, our Datang's national strength will be greatly enlarged, because the number of women is much larger than that of men." Sun Xiangfu knocked on the table and said.
"Well, but, the male farmer and the female weaver are passed down from generation to generation, so how easy is it to change? Besides, what does this have to do with our Wangjiang Tower? The eldest grandson Chong who was sitting there read the most books, and he was the first to question the rules and regulations in the book.
Sun Xiangfu gave him a blank look and said, "I didn't say that I asked women to plow the fields!" They don't have that energy, I mean, we have to use the women as much as possible so that they can earn money to support their families. You see, our waitresses in Wangjianglou were not all tenants from your fiefdoms, aren't they doing a good job here, a year's income is not less than that of a strong man who farms at home, and recruiting them to work here will not affect the cultivation of the fields. ”
"You mean, we're going to have to use a lot of women in the future?" Qin Qiong came back to his senses and said.
"Well, I just said a total of two problems, the first is that the money can't be put in the house to rust, to invest in hair growth, the second is to use cheap, and will not damage the productivity of agricultural workers female workers, so, what industry should we invest in a large number of applied female workers? The answer is very simple, the clothing industry, the breeding industry, and the food industry that may be developed in the future. ”
Speaking of which, Sun Xiangfu told everyone about the industrial chain model of Happy Village, as well as some unique edible seasonings and other things that can be developed into an industry. So, everyone knows what Sun Xiangfu meant, if you want to supply a restaurant like Wangjianglou, you need at least a base for ingredients like Happy Village, and even more than that, and the popular things in Wangjianglou can be scaled up and made bigger, such as soy sauce for kitchen stir-frying, sauces, sugar made by new technology, dairy products, etc.
Because the ration output of Xingfu Village is too small, the reason why it can survive in Chang'an is to rely on the food supply from the other major shareholders, so in addition to chicken farms, pig farms, and fish farms, the number of farmland should also be greatly increased.
'Diversified farms', this is the name Sun Xiangfu gave to these industrial chains, and the main purpose of this diversified farm is to increase the added value of agricultural and sideline products produced by farmers and sell them at better prices.
So speaking of which, the major shareholders know what they should do next, raise money according to the shares, buy land near Luoyang, Yangzhou and Yizhou, and build this diversified farm.
In addition, several garment and shoemaking workshops will also be funded to start site construction, and then a large number of female workers will be recruited to make new ready-to-wear shoes or some accessories that have become widely known because of Wangjiang Tower.
Therefore, these families basically did not take money from the dividends, and even like the East Palace, which has a lot of deduction fees, they still need to make up some money, and it costs a lot to buy tens of thousands of acres of land around Luoyang and other big cities to build farms.
"I can't imagine what it would be like when Datang is full of farms like Happy Village." Coming out of the conference room, Qin Qiong sighed.
Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "As long as we work together in this direction, it won't take many years to be everywhere." ”
Qin Qiong nodded firmly, and walked to the carriage at the door, not knowing whether he was going home or going to the palace.
At dinner, Sun Xiangfu and Yu Xiuer ate together in Wangjiang Tower, and there were several outstanding artists who were invited to the table together, only fifteen days away from the Shangyuan Festival, the new program must be designed, and then rehearsals began.
Therefore, the meal lasted for two hours before it ended, and when most of the things were finalized, when Sun Xiangfu took Yu Xiu'er's hand and walked home on the light snow, it was almost midnight.
"Lady, are we not allowed to go to Yu's house tomorrow to pay New Year's greetings?" Sun Xiangfu suddenly thought of this stubble and asked.
"I thought my husband would forget about it!" Yu Xiu'er glanced at Sun Xiangfu with a smile on her face.
Sun Xiangfu knew that he had missed it, so he asked embarrassedly, "Then have we prepared any New Year's greetings?" ”
"It's useless if you prepare anything else, our family lacks good poems, good words, good words, you can go back and write now, but Daddy sent someone to inform me today, and there will be more students at home tomorrow, I'm afraid I'm going to hold a literary meeting." Yu Xiu'er raised her eyebrows, and said very easily.
Sun Xiangfu said very weakly when he heard this, "Then can I not go?" ”
"You dare not try it?"
From Yu Xiu'er's slightly murderous tone, Sun Xiangfu knew that if he dared not go to her mother's house to pay New Year's greetings in the first year of marriage, she would definitely be able to murder her husband.
"I'm kidding you! Why should the lady be angry, for the sake of her husband, she will go back and write poems······"