The biggest drawback of the "Nongsang Order" promulgated more than ten years ago was that Xiangguo Gongsun Yue minted money excessively, which led to inflation. In order to avoid the losses caused by inflation, merchants turned to barter, using shelf-stable daily necessities to purchase grain at a relatively constant price and a huge market demand.

And the main source of food is the state apparatus controlled by the monarch and the magnates, and in order to get enough food, the only way to get it is to bribe the magnates in exchange for food.

Due to the severe depreciation of copper coins and the small quantity of precious metals such as gold and silver, merchants resorted to bartering and trading privileges with the powerful, thus buying large quantities of grain.

Over time, the squeezed commodities in the magnates and the treasury increased, and the grain flowed out of the treasury to countries with high grain prices at that time, such as Zhiguo and Sunguo.

The result can only be more than ten years down, with the recovery of productivity, a large number of old goods that have been hoarded before begin to deteriorate and rot, even if it is cloth, leather, silk and linen and other storable goods, storage for three or five years is not a big problem, ten years or eight years can be, but no matter how long, the constraints of preservation technology will inevitably rot. There is a lot of humidity and heat in the north, and deterioration is inevitable.

Such a huge amount of commodities are hoarded in the hands and left to deteriorate, and it is the treasury that loses.

As a result, Gongsun Yue discussed with the magnates and decided to cut off domestic merchants in the name of "Pushing the Business Tax", so as to achieve the purpose of monopolizing the market and making profits for the magnates.

Merchants are engaged in the transportation, sales, production and many other links of goods in all walks of life, and to crack down on businessmen is to destroy the productive forces, and when the productivity of commodities is reduced, the price will rise if the demand for commodities does not decrease but the production capacity of commodities decreases.

At this time, as long as the customs are strictly controlled, and then the old goods are released, the people, as passive recipients of the market, can only buy spoiled goods without new goods to replenish.

Cloth, clothing, silk and linen, leather, grease and other essential commodities are all commodities that are necessary for the livelihood of ordinary people, but they can reduce quality standards.

The common people are not dignitaries, and their requirements for the quality of life are extremely low.

Gongsun Yue is seizing this mentality, and while cracking down on domestic merchants, he wantonly releases the inventory that has accumulated for many years in exchange for money, and at the same time, in the name of cracking down on profiteers, confiscating family property, so as to achieve the goal of accumulating wealth for the state.

Thinking about all this, Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) only felt cold in his chest, he hadn't thought of this before, Jiang Rong broke the last layer of window paper, and the ultimate purpose of the new deal was revealed. He said:

"Lord, Mr. Chen's plan is feasible."

"Oh, Mr. Wei thinks so too?"

"It's just that the inferior goods are fierce, and the quantity is probably ten or even a hundred times that of the main government's treasury. At that time, the market will still be a world of inferior goods, and the inventory released will be just a drop in the bucket and a futile move. ”

The amount of commodities squeezed in the hands of the state treasury and the powerful is unprecedented, let alone seven or eight years old, and such a large stock is shipped throughout the country.

This time, the Department of Taxation specially sent eunuchs to Guangxin, one of which was to sell the stolen goods and restrain Jiang Min's hands and feet to prevent him from killing him. The second is to suck up Guangxincheng's taxes and money and grain, with the current situation, the dumping of inferior goods cannot last only a few months, and such a large stock and high prices are bound to last for a year or two before they can be digested.

But a year or two later, the nation's business network will be destroyed, productivity will seriously regress, and there will be another round of economic crisis. At that time, the economy of Guangxin City will be destroyed, and the strength of Guangxin City will naturally be weakened by half, not to mention that it will not be able to recover in ten or eight years.

But it is not that the new deal has no benefits, the "Nongsang Order" is essentially because of the drawbacks that have not been encountered, and the reform is basically a failure, but because Jiangdong was defeated by the Jin State in the first war, the Xian State once became the lower state of the Jin State, and the economic problems of the Xian State were imported into the Jin State through trade, and the Jin State wanted to annex the Xian State, of course, it was impossible to sit back and watch itself be damaged, and at the same time take over a mess in the future.

Therefore, after the First World War in Jiangdong, the Jin State imported a large amount of rice and grain, stabilized the price of grain in the Xian State, and also indirectly controlled the grain supply of the Xian State, making the Xian State unable to get rid of the economic control of the Jin State.

If you want to get rid of the control of the Jin State, it is obviously not feasible to start a war rashly, and you can only kill people with a soft knife if you expel the Jin State without blood. This soft knife is the economy, which has completely turned Xianguo into an economic rotten pit. Let prices skyrocket uncontrollably, while the powerful and nobles still have a firm grip on the executive power and the military.

In this way, the Xianguo returned to the old society overnight, and the Jin State had to bear the burden of the Xianguo economy, which may not be a problem for a year or two, but it often became a bottomless pit for ten or eight years. At that time, under the clamor of public opinion, the so-called drawbacks of the New Deal can also be transferred to the cruel exploitation and oppression of the Jin State.

To say that Gongsun Yue formulated this new policy, it can not be said that it is painstaking, but how many people can really see through this layer. Even princes and nobles like Jiang Min only saw the stakes of the prevalence of inferior goods.

And Gongsun Yue's real sinister intention was to create a nationwide civil uprising and economic crisis, so that the Jin State consciously and voluntarily imported financial resources to feed the Xian State. And then gradually drag down the national strength of the Jin State, and at the same time can also encircle the powerful and noble relatives within the Xian State, and continue to maintain the legitimate rule of the King of Xian, which can be described as a poisonous plan to kill many birds with one stone.

This old game of bad money driving out good money, which was originally an economic war of local princes against centralized power, has now become the government's initiative to participate in the dumping of inferior goods, and it is the common people who suffer the most.

It must be said that Bai Liyan began to pay a little attention to Gongsun Yue, the "straw bag" Xiangguo, and every move he made seemed to be a stinky chess, but every time he could make the bordering vassal states fall into a quagmire.

At present, it is impossible to use thunderous means to raid the profiteers controlled by Ding Yanghou and Guo Pan, and it is useless to release the goods rashly. After thinking for a moment, he said:

"My lord, for the sake of the present, we should promote the old with the new, organize the merchants in the city, expand the production of materials needed for the people's livelihood, and continue to produce the goods needed by cloth, silk and linen to rush into the market, and at the same time release a small amount of inventory every day to stabilize the market price."

"Alas......" Jiang Min sighed for a long time, and his expression was very gloomy: "You can see for yourself." ”

Jiang Min took out a letter from under the book on the table, it was a secret letter from the eldest prince Jiang Gan who once again sent someone to fly to Guangxin, the content is very simple, the locust plague at the junction of Xu, Song, and Zhiguo is getting more and more intense, Xu and Zhiguo have suspended this year's cotton exports, cotton prices have doubled in the south, and after the end of the year and winter, the price may rise by three percent.

Xianguo is located in the north, although the winter temperature is not low, the normal consumption of cloth is still very large. Xianguo's location is warm and humid, which is not conducive to the growth of cotton, so the yield is very low, and more than two-thirds need to be imported from the south of Zhiguo.

And the main cotton production is concentrated in Xuguo, in addition, Zhiguo, Jinguo, Weiguo also produce high-quality cotton, of which Zhiguo is the closest, and there is Caoyun, so the freight rate is the lowest, most of the imported cotton in Xianguo is mainly Zhiguo cotton, only when the two countries are at odds, they will return to import slightly higher cotton prices from Xu and Jin.

Now that the locust plague is complete, five or six out of ten cotton fields have been lost, and it is an inevitable trend for the price of cloth to rise. At this time, even if cloth production is expanded, domestic cotton stocks will soon be exhausted, which is really a disaster.

As a result, Bailiyan thought about it again, and when Xihuan was defeated in the competition for the position of political envoy of the Great Secretary of Nong, he turned to speed up the promotion of "Promoting Business Tax", the purpose of which was probably to monopolize Xianguo Cotton City.

The target of the "Push Business Tax" was the private businessmen and the self-made businessmen who had no foundation, and in the end, it was still the productivity of the Xianguo that was injured.

Xihuan took the opportunity to introduce the capital of the Jin Kingdom, annexed the productive forces of the Xian Kingdom, and controlled the external business network, so that through the curve method, it could also override the finances of the internal dynasty and obtain the real power of the Great Synon.

It is impossible to annex Xianguo in the short term, and only through economic invasion and complete control of Xianguo's land, taxation and productivity can Xianguo be effectively incorporated into the territory of Jin. Gongsun Yue colluded with the powerful and wanted to drag down the Jin State with economic warfare, but he didn't want Xihuan to be a good person.

Now that I think about it, although it is impossible for Xihuan to expect a locust plague, it will not take long for the people and people ointment squeezed by the Xianguo lords and magnates to be put into Xihuan's bag after three or five years of this layout.

When she was at a loss, Bailiyan had a plan and said:

"For today's plan, there is a plan in the next place that can solve the urgent need."

"Oh, Mr. Wei, but it doesn't hurt to say it." Jiang Min's heart lit up, and his eyes looked at him in surprise, wondering if Bailiyan could still conjure up goods out of thin air.

"Forbidden City." Bai Liyan said heavily.

"Forbidden market? Wouldn't this be a self-defeating martial arts? ”

"What my father said was that he could not do such a thing as killing a thousand enemies and harming eight hundred. You can think of such a bad idea. Jiang Rong scoffed.

Unmoved, Bai Liyan continued:

"My lord, most of the inferior commodities flowing into Guangxin this time are necessary materials for the livelihood of the people, although the daily consumption is not much, the accumulation of a large amount is very considerable. However, the cloth, silk and linen, oil and other materials that each household needs every year are very small.

The lord can order all counties and villages to count the annual needs of each household under his rule, and then the lord will stock up the goods in the government treasury, and the people will directly exchange money and grain with the lord to buy the commodities needed for livelihood. In this way, the money and grain in the hands of the people can flow directly into the hands of the lord without entering the market, and at the same time, the measures to ban the market can also make the inferior goods no market. ”

It is impossible to unilaterally ban the sales behavior of some individuals in the ban, so that Ding Yang Hou and Huangmen Ling Guo Pan will seize the handle, and if they want to ban it, everyone will not be able to trade, so that other powerful people have nothing to say.

At the same time, in the form of planned rationing, the general annual consumption of people's biological resources is reported door-to-door, and the Guangxin public treasury is directly distributed to each household according to the amount, and the farmers and tenants are directly exchanged with the Guangxin public with the money and grain in their hands.

In this way, it can not only ensure that the money and grain in the hands of tenants and farmers do not directly flow into the market, but enter the pockets of the Guangxin Mansion, and at the same time, it can also win the favor of the people.

The most important thing is that the entire ration cycle is limited to one year, which means that there are no special circumstances within a year, and the vast majority of people no longer need to buy other daily necessities from the market except for grain, meat, and salt.

Inferior goods naturally have no market, and if there is no market, they will either be transferred to other places to continue to sell, or they can only be smashed in their own hands.

This system of planned rationing is a product of the era of economic planning and a last resort in times of scarcity. Nowadays, inferior commodities are in vogue, there is neither a complete set of commodity laws, nor a bureaucratic system to punish the powerful, and the only way to curb the circulation of commodities is to use iron-fisted means to completely cut off all channels for the flow of commodities.

With Baili Yan's advice, Jiang Min said meaningfully:

"Mr. Wei's plan...... It's a bit vicious. ”

"The lord clearly sees that after the ban on the market, inferior goods will not be able to be sold, and Guangxin local goods will not be sold, but the lord can still sympathize with the name of the people, and distribute the goods needed for livelihood to households, and the price should not be too low, so as to prevent the people from buying low and selling high, and seeking intermediate interest rate differences.

In addition, grain, meat market, salt, farm tools, etc. can be traded as usual to ensure the stability of grain prices, so as not to be used by Guo, Zhang, Chen and others. ”

Jiang Min was silent for a long time, his face fluctuated, and he couldn't tell whether he had adopted the opinion or not, until after a while, Jiang Min said noncommittally:

"This matter is very important, you should think about it in the long run, you should step back first."

"No!"

He bowed and slowly exited the study. Bailiyan thought to herself, the whole city of Guangxin is the property of Jiang Min, and the ban on the market will directly lead to the damage of Guangxin's commerce, and it is not possible to settle the interests and concerns of all parties. Jiang Min is more worried about those inexplicable entanglements of interests at this time.

Bai Liyan withdrew from the study for a moment, and Jiang Rong said worriedly:

"Father, Wei Xian's plan is very vicious, once the market is banned, how should Qin Caidong explain it."

"Yes, that's what worries my father the most. The policy of banning the market and rationing can indeed prevent inferior goods from running rampant in the market, but Qin Caidong is not easy to explain. ”

"If my father didn't give some profits to Qin Caidong, it would be reasonable."

"Hehe......" Jiang Min smiled noncommittally: "I'm afraid that Qin Caidong won't nod easily." ”

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