Chapter 500: The method is actually very simple
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The convoy continued to move forward, and the novelties of Youzhou continued to show in front of Cao Cao and his party.
The huge windmill, while shocking Cao Cao, also saw its huge role in agriculture, has understood what Lu Peng meant, and Cao Cao, who is also impressed by Lu Peng's broad mind, no longer wants to cover up the urgency of urination as an excuse, and then use this excuse, not only can not get anything real, but will make people suspect that the entire Cao Cao Group is suffering from prostatic hyperplasia, which is not good.
"Brother Xian, I see that your field is full of huge windmills, and I also see the great effect of that windmill on agriculture, I wonder if Brother Xian can sell me a few, and I don't know what the price is?"
Lu Peng squinted at Cao Cao, and smiled in his heart: "The export products are out, but this kid obviously wants to buy a few first, and then copy and plagiarize, haha, but this windmill is an absolute high-tech precision instrument in this era, except for my savage valley base, even other workshops in Youzhou can't make it."
Their own windmills, which are trained in their own technical schools, are systematically trained in batches of technicians, in a unified standardized unit of measurement, in the division of labor and cooperation of the assembly line, such a technical reserve is not possessed by others in any case. Don't say that you can't imitate the copycat, even if you do, you can't meet my standard quality. Even if you meet my standard quality, you'll end up finding that your own manufacturing isn't as cheap as mine.
Well, I'm going to export this windmill to you in large quantities, so that the livelihood of the people under your rule can improve.
Although your harvest is good, it will be good for your strength to improve, and when we pinch it in the future, I will have a hard time. But after all, the later construction is actually more laborious, or I would not have been able to take advantage of the victory to pursue and beat the water dogs after launching a war every time, and let go of the great opportunity, I must stop and carry out at least a year's rest, which is to resume the construction of this piece of drag on my own legs. If you build a good place, you will save me a lot of effort to build it. Defeating you, I always thought I was just trying to do it, but I have absolute confidence to defeat you. β
With your thoughts, Lu Peng said generously: "This can be sold to you, at the price, we sold it to the local people for 20,000 yuan, so you can come at this price." β
Hearing this price, Cao Cao couldn't help but think about it in his heart, and in the joy, he had another kind of regret.
Although the windmill is good, the price is indeed too high, not the common people can afford it, only those wealthy families can buy and promote, but in any case, with this thing, it will greatly increase the food output under their rule, and they can also get sufficient military food with the support of the wealthy families, and they don't have to be forcibly requisitioned from the people, and they can be regarded as giving the people a chance to recuperate.
So, in the subsequent negotiations, the windmill became a large commodity exported by Lu Peng, which opened up another source of revenue for Lu Peng.
Putting down the windmill, Cao Cao raised the issue of iron farming tools and ploughing oxen.
In other parts of the Han Dynasty, the people were poor, iron farm tools and farming cattle, they could not afford to use, and at the same time, in Cao Cao's territory, there was a lack of large-scale iron mines, so even if there was a model to follow Lu Peng, he also let go of the salt and iron supervision officials to sell, but after all, the limited resources, the effect was not obvious, and the price of iron tools was still high, and it could not be popularized by the people, and Cao Cao also deeply regretted this.
"The people of Youzhou are rich, and all of them use iron farming tools, how did you achieve it?"
Lu Peng replied casually: "In fact, the method is very simple, that is, for every iron tool that the peasants buy, I subsidize the price of 30% to the people, so that the people can afford to buy farm tools, and the merchants and foundries can still make money." β
Then Cao Cao was speechless in frustration.
It's a simple idea, but how much does it take to cover the huge cost?
"Ploughing cattle is so popular, how did the virtuous brother do it?"
"The method is very simple, the major families who migrated to the grassland were all with the idea of cultivating the land, but they found that the grassland is the grassland, and farming is not as good as grazing, and I also stipulate that for every time they sell a cultivated cattle to the Central Plains, I will give them a subsidy of 1,000 yuan, so that the price of cultivated cattle will be reduced, and I also stipulate that if the people want to buy cultivated cattle, I will lend them a loan and pay it off in three years."
"But if the people make a profit and sell their ploughing cattle, will you not waste your efforts?"
"If the people think that the cattle bought with loans are more profitable to kill and eat meat than to cultivate the land, then let him be, under my rule, there is no restriction on killing cattle, anyway, the cattle belong to other people, no matter what he does."
Cao Cao opened his mouth and stammered, and it took a long time before he continued: "Didn't you lose your original intention? β
Lu Peng pointed to the cattle everywhere with his finger: "Gong Cao, do you see that there is a lack of cattle on my land?" There is no shortage, the reason is very simple, since the arable land still needs to cultivate cattle, of course the people are willing to continue to buy. β
As a result, Cao Cao was once again speechless in frustration.
It's a simple method, but it still takes a lot of money.
"But in this case, won't you get back the money you paid for each cow?"
"Why, I'll give you a simple account." So, in the rickety carriage, Lu Peng gave Cao Cao a calculation of the economic account with his fingers: "Sell a ploughing ox in the grassland, I charge him a tax, not much, four (four percent) and then the merchant sells the ploughing cattle to the hinterland, sells it to the people, and I collect another tax from him, if the people sell the ploughing cattle to the butcher, I charge him another tax, the butcher buys the meat to the restaurant, I charge him another tax, the restaurant sells it to the diners, I charge him another tax, so that the foodies will subsidize my money, I got it back with taxes. Who says it's cheap? It's expensive. β
Cao Cao's eyes widened in shock and his mouth was shut.
Cao Cao was a military strategist, a thinker, a politician, and a poet, but he had not heard that he was an accountant or an economist, so he did not understand this account.
"Look at the workshops under the rule of the virtuous brother, blooming everywhere, how did the virtuous brother do it?"
"The method is very simple, no matter who wants to build a workshop factory, I can give him an interest-free or low-interest loan."
"I see that the officials under the virtuous brother are diligent and honest, how did the virtuous brother do it?"
"The solution is very simple, I give the officials a generous salary, so that the officials can live a decent life without exploiting the people, plus Xu Jie's Jinyiwei's knife, of course, the officials will not be greedy for ink, in order not to lose this rich money, of course, they must be diligent."
"But where does your money come from?"
"The solution is very simple, I use the government's money to invest a lot in those factories and workshops, and the income dividends of those shares are counted as a supplement to the officials' salaries, and I call him to raise cheap money."
"How did you manage the wide roads in your office, crisscrossed in all directions?"
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Okay, okay, I won't ask, because the solution is very simple, just a money,
When he was resting at night, Cao Cao and his subordinates got together to take stock of what they had seen and heard along the way, analyzed Lu Peng's various things, and finally summed up in frustration that what could be done in Youzhou could not be done in his own place, the reason was very simple, because Lu Peng had money, but he had no money.
What can you do without money? You can't do anything, it's as simple as that.
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