Coming to the foot of the Purple Mountain again, looking at the increasingly dense docks and busy workers on the shore, Xiong Jing couldn't help but feel more happy. The seeds sown last year have already grown seedlings this year, and the same is true of the shipyards, the same is true of the mansions, as well as the big merchants of the Wei State such as Bai Yi, and the big merchants of the Zheng State who rely on Bai Yi and these Wei merchants to leverage, are willing to buy the bonds of the Chu State with half of the money.

A total of 300,000 gold bonds were issued for a period of ten years, and one or five percent of the money needed to be paid every year, and the principal was repaid in a lump sum after maturity. The second issuance of bonds, I am afraid that the sub-money will only be one, and then the issuance, the sub-money is estimated to be only half of it.

The money received from the sale of bonds is basically not purchased in Chu State, and most of them are purchased in other countries: grain, dried meat, and vegetable sauce do not need to be said, Dazhang (large wood), silk and linen, cloth brocade, tendons, dansha, lacquer, cattle and horses, pigs and sheep, leather, clothing, shoes, and even coffins (customized) will be purchased in large quantities.

There are more than 630 households in the six countries of the world, if eighty percent of them are farmers, each household receives 150 stone millet from 100 acres of land, and 220 stone millet from the field, with an average of 180 stones, and the annual income of each household is only 5,400 yuan, plus the income of weeds and silk linen, it is difficult to exceed 6,500 yuan, so the agricultural output value of the whole world is about 3.41 million gold. In an agrarian society, agriculture is the main one, and although the kings of various countries take the initiative to reward thousands of gold, in fact, the output value of handicrafts and other industries will not exceed 700,000 gold.

If the grain of various countries can be bought and sold freely, then all the 300,000 gold will be used to buy grain, and it will not stir up the slightest wave, but if the 300,000 gold is used to buy products other than grain, it will be equivalent to pouring a barrel of oil on the fire, and the craftsmen of various countries will soon be able to feel an unprecedented strength. Overnight, everything would have to be sold, and not only were the accumulated goods swept away, but the merchants demanded to step up production.

This is the case in various countries, but the situation in Chu is the opposite: the influx of goods from various countries continues to suppress local prices, causing the prices of handicrafts to fall again and again, and only the price of grain soars, which may rise to 50 yuan a stone in a short time. So the peasants laughed and all the workers were sad - since it was difficult for countries to buy grain except for smuggling, then it was up to the state of Chu to produce grain by itself; Since the manpower of the Chu State wants to produce grain, it is natural to try its best to suppress the price of its handicraft products and greatly increase the price of grain.

It is impossible for a hundred workers to immigrate because most people have household registration; It is impossible for a hundred workers to have no land to cultivate, and there is no other country in Chu State, and there is a lot of land, and it is the country with the most land except for Yan State. In addition, the policy of helping farmers has just been discussed, and its focus is on popularizing cattle farming, followed by clearing land for farming.

Of course, the basis for achieving this is the 300,000 gold treasury bonds. The annual interest of 45,000 gold is easy to say, and the return of 300,000 principal when it is due is difficult for the Chu State, which had only 70,000 gold in fiscal revenue last year, not to mention that from this year, the Chu State will no longer collect land tax.

But who says the money has to be repaid? If the principal of 300,000 gold is not repaid at maturity in ten years, and another 300,000 gold new bonds will be issued. Not only will new bonds be issued, but the amount of national bonds will also be reduced. At that time, the Zhao State was on the verge of extinction, and Han Wei was crumbling, could these funds still flow back to the Three Jin Dynasty?

The king of Wei decided to be pro-Qin, and the king of Zhao was not credible, and the state of Chu had more than 300,000 troops in defense, but if he attacked Qin again, with the current political pattern in the country, he would gather at most 200,000, or even less - the last time he had only 150,000 soldiers, and the county Yin said that he would stay behind to prevent Qin and Qi from taking the opportunity to attack. And afterwards, waiting for the Chu State must be a continuous attack, although it may not necessarily be destroyed, but the densely populated land of Huaishang will definitely be lost, there is not enough population, no matter how high the technology is, what is the use?

The national strategy determines the economic strategy, and the economic strategy determines the economic policy, and what affects the national strategy lies not only in the international situation, but also in the science and technology in hand. The pedantic and conservative ministers of the Chu State unanimously agreed: Instead of gambling together, it is better to develop quietly for ten years, and then try to merge and vertical, and if the combination fails, you can also survive.

On the painting boat, looking at Wei Shang Bai Yi and the others, Xiong Jing remembered the economic strategy that the Yan Dynasty was discussing recently. Borrowing 300,000 gold (or even more) and not repaying it is equivalent to the big businessmen of various countries supporting the Chu State, and the return of the Chu State naturally contains some political commitments in addition to interest, but these are just tacit understandings, and both the guest and the host avoid talking about it.

"Tell the king, the price of iron in Chu is extremely low, and it is sold all over the world, and all the iron smelting merchants from all countries will go bankrupt." Kong Xiang was dejected after seeing the Zaofu Iron Smelting Factory, he was an iron merchant, but he was an iron merchant who would soon go bankrupt.

"No, no." Xiong Jing shook his head, "No, we have allowed iron smelters from all countries to build iron smelting plants in the territory of Chu State. ”

"Build a factory in the territory of Chu?" Kong Xiang felt that he had misheard. The price of iron in Chu was extremely low and the profits were very high, so how could merchants from other countries be allowed to build iron smelting factories in Chu State.

"Exactly." This is also part of the economic strategy under discussion. "If you build a factory in Chu, Chu will provide all the benefits, and you can also supply a sufficient amount of coke, and the technology can also be transferred, but you have to collect patent money. There is not much money, and a pound of pig iron is only a penny. ”

The news that Zhao Guo purchased the art of Chu State's giant iron, with Bai Yi, Kong Xiang and others, also knew a little bit about it, especially the patent gold of two gold for a weapon, but now the king of Chu said that one pound of pig iron only charges one dollar of patent gold, and the two thought that they had heard it wrong.

"The king wants to ......," Bai Yi was the first to understand, "...... Is it a craftsman who wants the Wei Kingdom? ”

"I didn't say that the Wei State is not safe, so why put the property in the Wei State?" Xiong Jing smiled and invited a few people to tea.

"But, but there aren't many iron mines in Chu Country." Kong Xiang was a little distressed. Most of the iron ore in Chu was owned by the king of Chu, and the rest was also occupied by Chu people from all over the country, and he could only buy other people's iron ore when he built an iron smelting plant in Chu State.

"A lot of iron ore has been discovered in Jiangdong, and it can be mined in the open pit." Iron ore in the Liuhe and Ma'anshan areas has been discovered, and the building is being urgently tested. "If you are interested in building a factory in Chu State, you can go and have a look."

"Koto iron ore for sale?" Kong Xiang's eyes were a little hot. Iron ore is a priceless treasure, but he soon discovers another problem: "Dare to ask the king, how can the coke of ironmaking be transported to Jiangdong?" How did the ironware made in Jiangdong be transported to Yingdu and Daliang? If it is from the ditch, it is too far. ”

"The Koto iron ore mine is not for sale, but it is allowed to be monopolized. The franchise period starts from 20 years and ends at 50 years. "Ma'anshan reserves are too abundant, and iron ore mines can only be outsourced in a franchise form." As for transportation, it's not difficult to ......" Xiong Jing asked people to find a map and said: "Between Yingdu and Luxian and Juchao, a railway will be built." ”

The north of Shouying City is connected to Huaishui, and the south of the city is connected to Shaopo and Feishui into Wabu Lake, which connects Huaishui. Feishui is from the direction of Luxian (now Hefei), although the boat is passed, but to Luxian must get off the boat, and then there are two roads:

One is the waterway, which goes to Chaohu Lake and then gets on the boat again, and enters the Yangtze River from the wet water in the southeast of Chaohu Lake. Wet water through Qibao Mountain, wet beard mountain and into the Yangtze River, the two mountains were originally opposed, in the stone beam, it is rumored that Yu chiseled the stone beam when the water control, this water is out. Several wars between Wu and Chu took place here, and hundreds of years later, in the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao also fought with Sun Quan here, and built a pass on Qibao Mountain in the west, and confronted the Dongguan occupied by Sun Quan on the Wet Xu Mountain.

The other is by land. After traveling to Juchao, climb directly along the land route over the big and small Daxian mountains, and pass through Zhaoguan to the Yangtze River ferry. This is actually the road that Wu Zixu walked to Wu hundreds of years ago.

It is about 100 kilometers from Yingdu to Juchao in Luxian County, on the north shore of Chaohu Lake; If you pass through Juchao in Luxian County from Yingdu, and cross Zhaoguan to the Yangtze River Wharf along the ancient road, it will be 220 kilometers. Whether it is to immigrate to Jiangdong or transfer the resources of Jiangdong to Huaishang, it is necessary to build a horse-drawn railway. The railway uses metre gauges, and from the outset it was planned to build double tracks.

"Railroad?" Including Bai Yi, none of the cadres knew what a railway was.

"It is to pave the road with huge iron bars, and to carry it with horses." Xiong Jing explained, but his explanation surprised several people even more.

"Iron?! Horses to save luck?! "The transportation businessman was surprised that he was also one of the national debt purchases, and he did not support Xiong Jing's so-called railway." Does the king know what the price of the iron is? How much does a horse cost per day? ”

The railway is going to be built after all, so it doesn't hurt to tell these Wei merchants now. Xiong Jing said with a smile: "Ju Tie was originally produced by the Chu State, of course you know how much it costs, and you also know how much it costs to spend a horse." The railway of Chu State, with 1,300 horses per 250 miles, a horse has a solar eclipse of 40 catties, even if it is all corn, it is only 962 stones, even if corn is 50 yuan a stone, it is only 48,148 yuan. Do you know how much cargo these 1,300 horses can carry in a day? ”

"The villain doesn't know." It may be possible for a horse to eat 40 pounds a day, but it cannot be all corn. As for the price of corn, it is only more than 30 yuan at the moment, and 50 yuan is already outrageous, unless it is a year of great disaster.

"1,300 horses can transport 2 million catties a day." Xiong Jing made a simple conversion in his heart and replaced the ton with Chu Jin. "How much does a pound of horse fodder cost?" He wrote on the case with tea: 0.024, considering that they did not know Arabic numerals, and added the words 'two and four'.

"24 money?" Ziqian's math is not necessarily good, and the strings shouted a number randomly.

"A penny is divided into 1,000 parts, and here are 24 parts, how much do you say?" Xiong Jing asked rhetorically.

"So low?" Shi Jian couldn't believe it, "The cost of 250 miles of transportation is one mile and one dollar." ”

"A mile and a penny? Isn't 250 miles 250 dollars? "It's unbelievable to change to Xiongjing now." Why is it so expensive? ”

"Your lord, villain......" Shi Shu was a little stammered, what he said was actually that a truckload of goods costs a mile, not a pound of goods. Under normal circumstances, it is unlikely that a car of 50 stones, most of them are loaded with 30-40 stones, so calculated, it costs about 0.23 yuan per catty to transport 250 miles, which is 10 times that of the railway.