When the city gate is closed under the south gate, see the Baili Yanya card, and the guard will open the city and let it go. As soon as they entered the city, Zhou Kong and the others were taken aback:

"This is Seongnam?"

"Seongnam, of course."

Bai Liyan said casually, and Zhou Kong asked again:

"The south of the capital city is known as an important place for the troops of various countries, and I have also been to the old capital of Sun Kingdom, which is bigger than Zhiling, but I have never seen such a prosperous night scene in the south of the city, isn't it forbidden at night in Xianguo!"

"More than 12 years ago, after the rebels were defeated and retreated to Xianxi County, the Lingling only implemented a night ban from 4:00 a.m. to the end of the morning morning. Since the beginning of eight years ago, outside the extraordinary period, the night ban has been implemented for only one and a half hours from the fourth quarter to the last hour of the ugly hour on weekdays. ”

The implementation of the "night ban" is probably the longest-lasting, longest-lasting, and most coercive control measure in history, whether it is China or the present, the two civilizations are very similar, and the night ban system is no exception.

The origin of night curfews is mostly related to the poor living environment, backward productivity, military vigilance, and high mortality rate of the population, but it is not entirely due to anti-theft and anti-theft.

Due to the low productivity, backward technology, and high mortality rate of the population, the night ban was largely a powerful measure for self-defense in populated areas before the construction of the city wall system and the improvement of the city wall system.

At the same time, the primitive tribes did not have basic diplomatic norms and moral constraints before the germination of national consciousness and national consciousness, and the core of the tribal system was the survival of the tribe and the continuous annexation and expansion in order to compete for arable land space.

Before the advent of the wall-based system, night raids were far more effective than daytime battles, so night bandos were able to gather the population and concentrate men on night patrols to defend against the tribe in case of an attack at any time.

The current night curfew, to a certain extent, follows the practice of 2,000 years, and at the same time, the lack of material resources makes it difficult to enrich the nightlife.

From the beginning of the Xia and Shang dynasties to the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, the benefits brought by the developed commodity economy and material life greatly promoted the civil and official interest groups to open and ban night markets, and China's night ban that lasted for nearly 3,000 years was lifted in the Song Dynasty.

The lifting of the night ban in Chenling is the inevitable result of the development of the commodity economy and materials, which stimulates economic vitality and promotes market development, stimulates capital flow and consumption, and the state treasury can also increase huge revenues for this.

After more than ten years of development, especially in Yongxing City, male and female craftsmen attached to the workshop have obtained stable guarantees, monopoly technology production, and at the same time, Yongxing City has increased the income of the treasury at the same time, and the relatively high salary has greatly enhanced the consumption capacity of the Yongxing City workers.

Nowadays, there are seven people in a household in Yongxing City, and only one person works plus the income from self-cultivation or rental of the family's subsistence farmland, which can basically maintain the necessary expenses throughout the year.

Wealth is radiating from a very small number of elites to the middle group, and the economic income of the HP people has made the economy further virtuous cycle, and while easing wages and increasing consumption, the annual liquidity income to the treasury is extremely considerable.

As far as the world is concerned, Zhou Kong can be regarded as well-informed and militarily attained, but he has no knowledge of economics and politics at all.

Of course, at the moment, as a pure soldier, who cares about the economy.

However, politics is the continuation of the economy, war is the continuation of politics, the purpose of war is to serve politics, and the purpose of politics is to serve economic interests.

Without economic and technical strength, there is no place for a good soldier.

After entering the city, walking very slowly, although Zhou Kong and other women are martial arts, but the woman's heart dictates, at first glance to see such a brilliant fire tree silver light scene, the little lotus seed can hardly hide the throbbing:

"General Zhou, the Lingling is really beautiful, the lanterns are as lively as the New Year, and it is several times stronger than the city."

"Well, the lamp oil consumed for one night on one street is worth the cost of illuminating a month, which is really extravagant."

As soon as the words fell, Bai Liyan took over and said:

"General Zhou can see small businessmen setting up stalls along the street?"

"What do you mean?"

"Fifteen years ago, they were just poor peasants in the villages and counties around the city, but now they can go to the city to do some small business to support their families, and these small businessmen have thousands in the city of Chenling, and every month they receive the vouchers they need to set up stalls from the government, and the government collects a small amount of money from them according to what they have done.

This is not much, hundreds of thousands of taxes collected every year as much as tens of thousands of new money, this alone, only used to raise enough food and grass, can manage 20,000 weak soldiers to eat, how can the rebels be able to defeat our country. ”

"According to what you say, the money and grain of Xianguo are all business?"

Zhou Kong said as a matter of course, and Bailiyan laughed:

"Hehaha...... Where is it so easy, and the gold, silver and jewels cannot be eaten or drunk, how can they feed the army. General Zhou just talked about lamp oil, and then General Zhou knew that the lanterns hanging in many big shops along the street were not burning oil, but candles. ”

"What, candles." Zhou Kong was taken aback, candles are still a more expensive lighting tool than lamp oil at the moment, and it is not easy to come by.

At this time, Bai Liyan continued:

"General Zhou, do you know how much money I can earn from selling candles to various countries every year?"

"How much!" Zhou Kong asked with wide eyes.

"Not to mention more, when there is less, you can easily earn more than 200,000 Singapore dollars, and when the front line is tight, if the world is peaceful in the future, it will be more than several times. For this alone, Zhiguo needs to exchange grain and grass for a large number of candles from Xianguo every year. ”

"Wouldn't it have to be slaughtered to be so extravagant?"

"General Zhou thinks that wax can only come from livestock?"

"Of course not, paraffin wax is also available, but it is very rare and extremely difficult to find, how can there be so much wax in Xianguo."

"General Zhou can know the words 'through the world to help the people'." [Solution 1]

Zhou Kong frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head and said:

"Helping the people? Why? ”

In short, the word "economy" is taken from the four words of the people who have benefited from the world.

Since the essence of the economy does not produce any agricultural and industrial value, no matter how much precious metals and coins are meaningless, the fundamental purpose of economic activities is to promote the circulation and consumption of commodities and materials, and facilitate the trading of goods.

The commodity economy is divided into many categories, but there are only two main lines from beginning to end, one is the value that is being created, and the other is the potential value that can be innovated.

The former is easy to understand, but everything that is visible has its reasonable positioning value in the world.

The latter has a wide range, and for the current period of low technological productivity, in the normal cycle of civilization development, any avant-garde innovation needs to be accumulated and explored for a long time.

This cycle is full of contingencies and uncertainties, and before science forms a system, creativity comes mostly from chance and experience. And unexpected value-added value and material wealth are mostly generated by the development of new things and technologies.

Today's Yongxing City is largely due to Bailiyan's foreknowledge of technology.

Wax is a natural fuel, and at the moment of low productivity, it mainly comes from the slaughter of livestock offal and the solidification of grease after refining to make oil wax. Although this wax is of inferior quality, it is brighter than lamp oil, and it is not easy to splash and cause fire, and the price of wax is proportional to that of livestock, and it is expensive due to productivity.

In addition, paraffin wax can also be mined for refining, and the refined paraffin wax is of high quality, but paraffin resources are not easy to find, and in most cases still rely on accidental discovery.

In this context, the traditional means of obtaining wax are extremely limited, and the complex chemical transformation does not currently have an industrial and material production basis, but this does not mean that there are no other ways.

Thanks to the resources of lignite coal in Xianguo, as well as the cultivation of rice, rape and sunflower, it indirectly provides additional resources to obtain wax.

As early as the coking of the deserted village of Lincheng, Bailiyan found that the main lignite produced in Xianguo contained a large amount of wax, which was subject to the technical conditions at that time and could not be extracted from lignite in large quantities.

It wasn't until the Black Turban Army used oil as an incendiary agent and was captured by the Xian Army, about five years ago, after the kerosene was extracted, that Bailiyan extracted gasoline, which was used to clean and dissolve some of the wax, resin and a small amount of coal pitch in the lignite before coking.

Due to the varying degrees of bitumen containing a small amount of bitumen, the eye color of lignite wax is dark, and the more bitumen, the darker the color.

Lignite wax calorific value is high, non-toxic, acid corrosion resistant, easy to preserve, not easy to oxidize, widely used in industry, as far as the current is an excellent release agent, commonly used shoe polish can also be used to make it, and gasoline can be repeatedly dissolved and washed, and finally make the best use of it into the furnace for incineration, high utilization rate.

In addition, rice bran oil, sunflower seeds, and vegetable oil contain a lot of oil, and at the same time, they also contain wax.

However, all the oil extracted by Yongxing City Oil Mill uses the characteristics of wax with a lower condensation point than the oil, dewaxes at low temperature, and finally filters the oil and wax to separate, the oil can continue to be eaten non-toxic and harmless, and the extracted wax is made into candles, earning profits far higher than the price of oil.

In addition, the fact that rice bran contains oil is not well known, and the oil content of rice bran is comparable to that of soybeans, but rice bran is still discarded as bran or as a dry food for the poor, and its value is far underestimated.

Bailiyan has established a complete rice bran recycling store in Yongxing and Chenling, and at the same time, a large number of rice bran is purchased from other places and shipped to Yongxing for oil extraction.

Cutting out the freight and labor cost, rice bran oil is not only low cost, but also extremely profitable, and soybean oil, vegetable oil at the same price sales, the profit is two to times that of soybean oil and vegetable oil.

Every year, hundreds of millions of catties of rice bran are produced by rice hulling in the country, and the resulting income from rice bran oil and oil wax is very amazing.

In order to hide people's eyes and ears and strictly guard the secrets of the industry, the rice bran is recycled in the name of fertilizer, and the rice bran oil pressed by Yongxing is sold and shipped in the name of "jade seed oil".

Digging through the professional and complex financial system and technical problems, the traditional economy has no secrets at all, it is nothing more than building roads and trade, enriching the variety of goods, although it is easier said than done.

The opening up of agriculture and the encouragement of agricultural production require long-term policy support, and the development and upgrading of commodities require technical support, both of which are indispensable.

These truths are incomprehensible with Zhou Kong's vision and cognition, and Bai Liyan has no intention of listening to her, and along the way, she actually used facts to tell her why the Black Turban Army failed, in the final analysis, the Black Turban Army is a group of rabble.

Whether it is an eloquent argument or a foolish faction, the biggest defeat of the two factions is not the military, but the internal affairs.

[Note 1] The origin of the word economy first comes from "economic help to the people", so the essence of the economy should be around the people's livelihood, after entering the modern era, especially at the beginning of the 21st century, the word economy has been distorted into a synonym for "financial insurance, stock futures".

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