Chapter 18: Inflation and Gold Mining
Zhang Daozhu personally wrote it, Wang Defa assisted by the main family, and Jing Zhu's family helped sort out the "Magna Carta" has actually been completed, but it has not been published.
Zhang is looking forward to the return of the other three friends.
Wang Defa's family said to him: "It's been more than ten years, and they must be very happy in that world------
Yes, if people have the right to choose their own way of life, then they must be happy.
"Wait a minute, it's been more than ten years, not a year or two------ I'm afraid that there are loopholes in the "Magna Carta" written by the three of us."
"If there are loopholes, then revise it, even if people from all over the world write it together, there will still be it, and besides, what qualifications do others have?!"
Zhang Island Master smiled and said:
"That's right! Only we are qualified------ we will at least give the people of the Great Song Dynasty a chance to choose with their feet!
likes to be comfortable, likes to be unchanged, and can stay in the Great Song Dynasty to live; If you like to develop, you like to win wealth, you can go to us, you can go overseas to fight------ even if you like to be a slave, worship tyranny and massacres, you can also go to the Tatar bandit group to find a way! Hehe------"
"Lao Zhang, you don't say one thing------ people who like absolute freedom also have a way out, they can go to live in the primeval forest of any desert island in the Philippines, and absolutely no one disturbs them."
The two laughed, and they may have changed the course of many people's lives.
However, Zhang still suggested that the "Magna Carta" should be postponed for a year or two before the issuance of the "Magna Carta", and the current production and construction development has reached a critical moment.
The core content of the Magna Carta is that "the king and all others are under the charter", which is much more advanced than the concept of "I rule the world with scholars and doctors" of the founders of the Great Song Dynasty.
Some of the rest is basically common-sense.
In fact, even if the owner of Zhang Island has not publicly released the charter now, it is precisely this core content that is being implemented on Liuqiu Island------ so Wang Defa's family agrees with his suggestion, and so on.
In view of the social and economic situation of the Great Song Dynasty, the families of Zhang Daozhu and Wang Defa had to increase their workload.
Overseas, they intensified the mining and trade of timber, coal, sulfur, kerosene, spices and other products, and every day hundreds of five-masted ships came and went in and out of the major ports of Liuqiu Island and the Great Song Dynasty.
Along the middle and upper reaches of the Yalu River, on the island of Hokkaido, on an island in the Philippine archipelago, in Borneo and in the Beth City area of Western Australia, the sound of clinking trees seems to be around the clock, and the sound of trees "clicking" and "clicking" down seems to be connected beyond geographical distance!
Kerosene from the western part of Borneo Island and coal from the east of the island of Borneo, and sulfur from Iwo Jima are almost three times more than before, and they are going crazy to the ports of Liuqiu Island and Da Song!
Fishing in the oceans has also intensified, especially in the whaling industry.
The fishermen of the Great Song Dynasty learned the techniques of catching whales on Liuqiu Island relatively early, and also learned the methods of handling whales relatively early, so that the two sides formed a competitive relationship------ of course, and also reduced unnecessary waste.
Everyone's comprehensive use of whales is particularly complete.
The abundance of cheap sea salt and the use of quick-drying technology in the pot camel steam engine made it easier to handle the catch------ and the market was flooded with all kinds of salted or dried fish that were inexpensive and could be easily consumed by the poor.
At this time, in terms of the total output of grain and its substitutes, the Great Song Dynasty is the first in the world, as Wang Defa said, the fundamentals are okay, and there will be no big chaos.
However, in terms of unit production, Liuqiu Island and Shandong Peninsula are the highest in the world.
The Shandong Peninsula has now popularized horse farming technology, while Liuqiu Island has popularized buffalo farming, coupled with the help of organic fertilizers and organic pesticides, the yield per mu is two percent more than the intensive cultivation of farmers in the Great Song Dynasty!
Moreover, the output of an ordinary peasant is equivalent to three to five times that of an ordinary peasant in the Great Song Dynasty!
The development and construction of Sidaohe Light Industry City on Liuqiu Island is at the right time, and the hemp spinning, cotton spinning, silk spinning or blended industries have developed rapidly with the help of pot camel machines, and even the infrastructure work of the plant has just been completed, and it has not been completely dried when it is installed and adjusted to start running!
Last year, a bumper cotton harvest in Shandong and the Central Plains of the Great Song Dynasty provided them with abundant raw materials and detonated the textile industry there.
It is foreseeable that in the next few years, cotton will be vigorously planted on the East and West Road of Dasong Mountain, the central part of Korea, and Western Australia------ and the textile industry will continue to develop rapidly.
However, the inflation in the Great Song market is still being transmitted to Liuqiu Island, and there is really no way, the two markets are too closely linked.
For example, the cement and other building materials market is completely a buyer's market, basically how many goods are bought, and the price rises one day a day.
Zhang Daozhu and Wang Defa's family had to come up with a way to deal with inflation in the Great Song market in advance.
Soon, the front page of the "Liuqiu Times" published the breaking news that a large amount of gold had been discovered in the gold mountain area of Western Australia, which is under the jurisdiction of Liuqiu Island!
Moreover, the following editions of the advertisement said that any big businessman or ordinary people are welcome to go to mining, only need to pay a small fee for a mining license and pay a certain mining tax in the future, and provide three different passenger ships with a voyage period of 15 days, 30 days and 45 days, the longer the time, the cheaper the boat fare.
The big businessmen in the Great Song Dynasty were shocked, there are still such good things in the world?!
In fact, not all big businessmen can find a place in the current economic wave.
For example, some salt merchants who relied on the salt of the Great Song Dynasty in the past to make their families, they belong to the typical representatives of the decline due to the flow of the island------ after the Great Song government had to cancel the monopoly, they were soon defeated in the market economy, all relying on the property saved in the past to live, and they were in a period when they could not find a new way out.
If you want to engage in the most lucrative cable telegraph industry now, it was already monopolized by the Great Song Dynasty government and some powerful families.
If you want to follow the trend and start a textile industry, they can't compare to the textile workshops that have previous textile experience.
I also want to set up farms to grow cotton, and those dry lands suitable for growing cotton are either designated as public land by the Great Song Dynasty government, or are occupied by local magnates------- the water here is too deep, they really dare not go down.
Take the old way to buy good land, but the Liuqiu Island has been selling paddy fields, and after buying it all the time, I found that there is not much income at all------ things are scarce and expensive, the more you buy, the more people sell, the price of grain will not go up at all, and the more you buy, the more taxes you pay, and the higher the management cost and planting cost.
Hoarding grain, etc., and selling it at a high price?
That's a joke------ if you hoard a season of grain, even under the best storage conditions, you will lose about 10%, and you will buy two years of old grain?
Ordinary people are afraid that they would rather eat corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes than buy them!
Hoarding grain and wanting to get rich is not until the world is out of harvest and there is no other substitute food.
But it is possible to go out and mine gold!
PS: Thank you for the tips of Australian Wu, Sanqi and Book Friend 151.