Wen Jifu was called to the northwest by his father from the capital, the weather was cold, and the wind and sand were all over the sky.

Frankly speaking, Wen Gongzi is complaining.

It's just that you're old and suffering alone, so why drag me into the water with you!

It's only been half a month since he arrived in Lanzhou, and Wen Jifu's idea has completely changed, where is the wilderness, it is simply full of gold, and the business opportunities are unlimited!

In addition to the official green seedling money, Xijing Bank took out 3 million guan to invest in agriculture and roads, and the Royal Bank, in conjunction with the money bank in Ping County, took out another 5 million guan to invest in water conservancy in the northwest.

Almost the entire financial circle has been regarded as a treasure land in the northwest, ready to get a piece of the pie! Some people want to wonder, could it be that Wang Ningan has such a great appeal that he can force everyone to invest in the northwest?

Obviously not, no matter how strong Wang Ningan is, he can only take advantage of the situation, and he can't force everyone to lose money!

To put it bluntly, the potential of the Northwest is too great and it is worth investing a lot of money.

Wang Ning'an, Wen Yanbo, Wen Jifu, they are standing in front of a vast land, with no end in sight, and next to the land, there are still a lot of bricks and stones, which are used to build aqueducts.

"This land should be tens of thousands of acres, right?" Wen Jifu said curiously.

"48,000 acres to be exact! Among them, 10,000 acres are suitable for farming, and the rest is pasture, but when the canal is repaired, the arable field can reach 30,000 acres! ”

Wen Yanbo accurately reported the number, and Wen Jifu opened his mouth wide, revealing a look of surprise!

The Wen family is also a local tyrant, Wen Yanbo has been an official for so many years, and the fields given to him alone are hundreds of hectares, tens of thousands of acres of land, which will not make the Wen family lose their temper.

However, don't forget, these tens of thousands of acres of land, as far as the eye can see, are a complete piece, you can plant whatever you want, and the cost of getting land is almost zero!

Wang Ning'an was in Pingxian County, organized the common people into farms, and also established a large-scale agriculture, but an interesting phenomenon appeared, that is, the grain produced by the farms in Pingxian County was always more expensive than the farms in Lingnan and Jiaozhi, and among the three farms, Jiaozhi was the cheapest and had the largest output.

And the farms in Pingxian County are not even cheaper than the surrounding grain.

This point made Wang Ningan very confused for a while.

It stands to reason that economies of scale, large farms, and large farms have no price advantage, which is simply a big joke in the world!

At the beginning, many teachers who taught economics were salivating and full of envy when they mentioned the big farms in the moldy country, and there were countless people who advocated land concentration, imitated the moldy country, established large farms, and then could compete with others in agriculture...... Wang Ningan also believed in this set of ideas at first, otherwise, he would not have tried it in Pingxian.

But when it really started, Wang Ningan suddenly realized that he was also fooled.

Take the farm in Ping County as an example, because all the people spontaneously joined, the farm has to pay the people wages and dividends to the people, in contrast, the people's income has indeed increased, and it seems to be beneficial to the people, but don't forget, to give the people dividends, to the people's wages, these will eventually be put into the price of grain, how can it be possible to reduce the price of grain?

In addition, because it is organized by the common people on their own, it is necessary to take care of the interests of the common people, and one of the simplest problems is that every household should reserve some land for them to grow vegetables and miscellaneous grains to meet their living needs...... Of course, this is reasonable, which farmer will go to the market to buy vegetables to eat!

However, the result of this reasonable demand is that some land has to be taken out and divided, so it is difficult to see an endless large area of fertile land, and there will inevitably be partitions and mutilations in the middle, because these lands are needed by the common people and must be given. The problem is that the land is incomplete, there will be trouble in repairing water conservancy, and it will not be possible to implement unified standards, and even if there is agricultural machinery in the future, it will not be possible to realize mechanized operations......

Why is the idea very good, the people's demands reasonable, but in the end, they didn't come up with the legendary big agriculture?

This point confused Wang Ningan for a long, long time!

It wasn't until the Battle of Hengshan was won and he began to plan the development of the northwest that Wang Ningan suddenly figured it out and finally knew where the problem was!

Think about it, which countries in later generations had big farms?

Moldy Country! Canada! Australia! South america!

What a place is this!

It's all a special colony!

How did their land come from?

One word: rob!

Slaughter all the natives, there is no one left, the land is naturally theirs, the huge land, the sparse population, how you want to plan, how you want to plan, what is valuable, what is convenient, you can plant.

Therefore, these large farms generally grow wheat, corn, soybeans and other bulk agricultural products that can be bought and sold in the international market!

On the other hand, what about the Great Song Dynasty!

Almost all of them are Han family children, aborigines who have lived for thousands of years, and to put it bluntly, they are also indigenous!

Everyone is each other's own people, can they kill people, let go and grab land, and divide it at will?

Of course not!

For thousands of years, except for the only opportunity to divide the land equally at the beginning of the country, the rest of the time, we could only watch the system of equal land being destroyed, and the imperial court was helpless.

The reason is very simple, everyone is their own people, and in the face of their own people, they need to negotiate conditions, need to compromise, and need to compensate...... These things are all reasonable, but from an economic point of view, these are transaction costs!

When the cost increases to a limit, the legendary big agriculture becomes unprofitable, and naturally no one does it.

Someone wants to ask, doesn't the Great Song Dynasty also have hundreds of thousands of acres of landlords? They have seized so much land, why can't they form a big agriculture?

In fact, this problem should also be from the perspective of the indigenous, take the Wen family as an example, they did get a lot of land, but after all, some people are something they can't move, hundreds of thousands of acres of land on the books, can not be connected into a piece, there are many barriers in the middle, and it is cut into pieces, so that there is no way to carry out standardized operations.

In addition, although the Wen family annexed the land, only the ownership fell into their hands, and those peasants who lost their land, except for some who had to run to the city, the rest remained in the countryside.

Killing people is not enough, what can the Wen family do?

Do they dare to push people to a dead end and give them no chance of life?

Obviously, most of the peasants who lost their land still became tenants, and they still had to continue to grow crops for the Wen family, and the Wen family could only take most of the grain, and they had to leave some rations for the rest of the family. If you don't even let the tenants make the house, it will be a big basket!

Conversely, what is big agriculture?

Massive, mechanized, the pursuit of efficiency, the exclusion of labor, of course!

How do you build big agriculture when it's full of tenant farmers?

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It took Wang Ningan a long time to finally think through this fatal problem, and he finally understood that the so-called advanced experience of later generations, if you don't carefully figure out the ins and outs and don't want to know the conditions for realization, you just copy it, thinking that as long as it is progressive, it must be good, and it will definitely be done, it will be ridiculous!

In addition, the level of most scholars in later generations is really disgraceful!

Large-scale, large-scale agriculture, to put it nicely, how many people's interests will be sacrificed? Will these people say yes? If you want to compensate for the losses of these people, after you compensate, will there be any benefits to speak of?

Of course, this is the Great Song Dynasty, not the afterlife.

The land under Wang Ning'an's feet originally belonged to Western Xia, not the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and the people living on it were not the people of the Great Song Dynasty...... You don't have to worry about the intricate relationship, let go of your hands and feet, and do whatever you want!

Wen Jifu calculated a little, 30,000 acres of irrigated land, one mu can produce one and a half stone of grain, 30,000 mu is 45,000 stone, placed in the northwest market, can be sold for about 30,000 yuan, but in fact, he only paid seeds, farm tools, livestock, and labor costs, the most important land, he spent very little.

Because according to the regulations, as long as he pays 500 yuan a year for five consecutive years, this land belongs to him.

"If slaves are used to plough the fields, the labor costs can be kept down, as long as they are fed. Therefore, the cost is only 8,000 guan at most a year, and the remaining 22,000 guan are all earned! ”

Wen Jifu's eyes narrowed into a slit, "The most important thing is that these farms produce a lot of products and have good quality, which can completely affect the price of grain, no matter where the grain merchant is, there is no way to fight!" ”

Wen Gongzi seemed to see countless mountains of gold and silver, rolling towards him!

"More land, more farms!" Wen Jifu shouted presumptuously, "Dad, Xijing Bank has to increase loans, Qingmiao money, the more the better!" ”

Wang Ningan smiled, since the big agriculture is in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, no matter what, it can't be pushed, so it's better to do big agriculture outside!

As long as enough food is produced and a full stomach can be guaranteed, the Great Song Dynasty can release more people and enter the cities, correspondingly, the population pressure in the countryside is less, the contradiction between man and land is eased, and the foundation of the country is stable.

Wang Ningan felt that he had found a way to break out of the cycle of chaos, and his whole person was sublimated...... Some people are happy, some people are depressed, such as Lu Xu, he rushed to find Song Zhen, hoping to rely on the teacher's help to lift the darkness and reveal Wang Ningan's face.

For so many years, countless ministers have been planted in Wang Ning'an's hands, and only he, Lu Xu, has found Wang Ning'an's life!

But after sitting at Ma Tao's house for a while, I carefully asked about the Qingmiao money, such as the amount of loans, is it really that much? For example, the ability to repay, will there be bad debts? What's in here?

Ma Tao couldn't listen to it anymore, "My field is just outside the city, adults might as well go and see if they can pay it back!" One more word of advice to adults, don't always spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain! “

"You!" Lu Zhi was speechless, and could only retreat in embarrassment.

Ma Tao was embarrassed, he peeked at Song Zhen, but found that Song Xianggong didn't care, and smiled, "Young man, if you don't fall a few heels, you won't grow big!" ”