Please enter the text At the beginning of May in the first year of Tang Zhenguan, in the scorching summer, there was something hotter than the sun in the sky. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info that is the enthusiasm of the common people to work, and in the farmland near the Gyeonggi area, it is already full of greenery, and all kinds of corn have begun to grow rapidly. And this time, the people of Wannian County looked at this farmland, and they were all smiling. Even those ordinary people who are serving for everyone are calculating in their hearts how much income they can get in the future. Because they have been working during this time, this kind of civil construction work has become more and more familiar. They are now much more proficient in their work alone than they were in the past, and their time and efficiency and even results are much better than they used to be. In the same amount of time, there are more than five times more work than in the past, and even more than ten times more. Things that would have required a lot of manpower to do well can be done by less than one-fifth of the people, and the quality is better. Because the advantage of skilled workers is that they are skilled and the quality is better than those of novices, the infrastructure of Wannian County has been built a lot.

"Brother Liu, if you want to get rich, you must first build a road, and this road is an important channel for us to communicate with the whole country in the future. Only with this path can we truly promote the exchange of goods. Commodities were exchanged, and the people's grain could be sold, so that they could get merchants from farther afield to buy it. Reducing the cost of transportation for merchants allows us to make more profits, and we have to tell the people how much profit they can make so that they can get higher profits. Otherwise, we are afraid that the people will be exploited by the merchants, and when the time comes, there will be no peasants' share, but when the money is lost, those merchants will pass it on to them, which of course will not work. Shi Bufan said.

Liu Renliang is the Xianyang County Cheng next to him, and now the county Cheng in various places has the power to build civil engineering, so they have the right to levy and issue forced labor to build roads. Together, Shi Bufan and Liu Renliang built the road near Xianyang, Chang'an, in the Gyeonggi region, where construction sites are everywhere and the process of building various infrastructure is everywhere.

Shi Bufan is not worried about farmland, he is worried about infrastructure. With the turmoil of the last years of the Sui Dynasty, these roads and other infrastructure were often the most severely damaged, and if they were not repaired as soon as possible, they could easily become a stumbling block to economic development. There is a saying in later generations that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads, and this can be said in most areas. This road construction was very important, but in the past, the government levied and issued conscription, and the people also resisted. It was very difficult to build roads in this way, but Shi Bufan adopted a new management method, and the surrounding Gyeonggi region followed suit, so that everyone could start preparing for the huge infrastructure construction.

Shi Bufan used his authority and those relationships with the surrounding counties, so that they could carry out large-scale construction together. However, this large-scale construction project not only did not delay agricultural production, but on the contrary, to a great extent, increased the peasants' output and income. Even those who were responsible for serving in place of everyone began to gradually become professional civil construction workers, and most of them will become professional civil construction workers in the future. Because this civil construction is also a road, and it is also possible to obtain food and various survival materials, even more than farming in the past, so of course they are willing to do it.

"Brother Shi Xian, we have built more than 3,000 miles of roads recently, and I really didn't expect that we could build so many roads in such a short period of time. Even many businessmen from Luoyang said that they could save 30% of their time on the road in this area. What was supposed to be three days, now you can save one day. On this day, they all said that as long as we accumulate more, then we can do business a few more times and make more money! ”

"In addition, your money bank federation has opened a branch in Luoyang, so that merchants can directly exchange the flying money, so that they can bring a small number of people to trade, and then hire local people to transport the goods back. In this way, half of the manpower cost is saved, and the merchant's profit is increased a lot. But what if the merchants are not willing to lower the price? ”

Shi Bufan said indifferently: "It doesn't matter, the invisible hand of the market will regulate them." They reduce their costs and will inevitably attract customers by lowering prices. If one company lowers the price, then others will also reduce the price. This promotes communication and allows people to gain more. Even now we sell surplus grain together as a cooperative and in your township, and now those merchants have come to order grain. In this way, our people can have more bargaining power and gain more at one time. Even the grain merchants who have ordered grain are willing to give more money, so that both sides are mutually beneficial! ”

Liu Renliang really admires Shi Bufan's management method, because everyone sells grain as a cooperative at a time, and sells all the grain at one time. They have a lot of food in their hands, which gives them more bargaining power. Those grain merchants had to choose to compromise to a certain extent. Therefore, in terms of selling surplus grain, the overall income of the people has increased by no less than 30%! This is also the biggest advantage of the peasants forming cooperatives to unite, otherwise if they go to negotiate with the grain merchants one by one, they will not be able to face the behemoth of the grain merchants under the scattered sand, and they will inevitably be depressed.

Now that they have more bargaining power, the people know to unite and defend their interests. The price of surplus grain alone is also directly at a premium of 30%, which makes the local people smile. This is definitely a good thing to increase production and income, who wouldn't want to do that? Even if you are reluctant to eat and drink during the New Year on weekdays, you have already begun to plan to eat and drink hard after the autumn harvest and be full once.

Of course, the grain merchants were willing to do the same. Because in the past, it was not so easy for them to buy grain. They had to hire people to inspect the grain one by one, inspect the grain from house to house, check the quality, and then go from house to house to confirm the price of the grain. It is even necessary to hire people to carry out centralized transportation one by one, which of course is a huge cost.

However, this time, the people sold the surplus grain together in the cooperative, and on the surface it seemed that the grain merchants had spent more, but when they carefully calculated the accounts, they were even less. Because the people themselves will gather to confirm the quality of the grain by themselves, and then take the initiative to carry it to the designated point for unified stacking. In this way, grain merchants do not have to hire people to confirm the quality and specific prices of grain from one household to another, and there is no need to negotiate prices from one household to another. Otherwise, if a family has to negotiate more than one family, then they will also spend a lot of time and energy, and it is also a cost here! Originally, the negotiation of one family by one family could not be completed without half a month of business. But now it's only three or four days, and you can negotiate a business, and you don't even have to hire too many people at all.

In addition, Shi Bufan asked the Qin's money bank to open a branch in Luoyang, so that Luoyang and Chang'an could trade through flying money. Transaction costs are further saved, so in this way, all kinds of grain merchants will not feel at a loss in the face of a premium of 30%, but will make more money than in the past.

"This is a win-win situation, not only does the people benefit more, but it also makes the businessmen more profitable. The higher the profit of the businessman, the better he can do business, and the higher the enthusiasm for doing business. Shi Bufan said.

During the Tang Dynasty, merchants were not significantly suppressed, and although they did not have political rights, they were clearly not deliberately suppressed economically. In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, merchants began to move west from the Silk Road, gradually reaching the Western Regions to earn a lot of wealth. Commerce in the south is even more developed, and although Guangzhou is still a poor and remote country, in a few decades, Guangzhou will become a rare harbor city in the Lingnan region.

"Shi County, there are many people near Chang'an who have nothing to do, and they have nothing to do all day long. Recently, our Chang'an was arrested by Wuhou Wei's people, and there were a lot of drunk troublemakers. We've been to Wuhou Wei several times. A servant said.

Shi Bufan immediately asked: "What's going on?" How did you get caught by Wu Houwei's people? ”

Wuhouwei is the force of Chang'an public security, similar to the police and fire city management, etc., all of which are a hodgepodge. Therefore, if there is a public security matter, it is mostly Wu Houwei who is responsible. The people of Wannian County were drunk and made trouble, and it was also the people of Wannian County who went to bring it out. Anyway, it's a matter of public security, and I won't make a big fuss about it.

"Shi Xiancheng, originally these people went to replace the servants. But then the people who served in the conscription became more and more skilled, and there was no need for so many people. Therefore, they all have nothing to do, and they have no income, and they are drunk and making trouble here! ”

Shi Bufan's face suddenly didn't look good, because they were originally civil engineers, but now because civil engineering people are becoming more and more skilled, they don't need these people anymore. Because the extraordinary reform of the mode of production will inevitably lead to a great increase in productivity. However, after a large increase in productivity, it will inevitably bring about a transformation. That is to say, there are some people who will be unemployed, and almost every progress in the productive forces will bring a group of people unemployed. After the advent of advanced textile machines, a large number of textile workers lost their jobs. When the telegraph appeared, many postmen lost their jobs. When online shopping took off, many people in brick-and-mortar stores lost their jobs as a result.

This is an inevitable result of every progress in the productive forces, so every progress in the productive forces is also a revolution. will cause a social transformation, although it does not seem to be too much of a problem at the moment. But now the signs are emerging, especially since these people are starting to lose their jobs. Although it has only spread to these civil engineering and construction industries, this trend will become more and more obvious in the future.

Shi Bufan, who studied macroeconomics, was very sensitive to this "unemployment rate". It can be said that the lower the unemployment rate, the better it is for the stability of the country. The higher the unemployment rate, the more a powder keg the country can explode at any moment. Now it is beginning to show signs that some people are starting to lose their jobs.

"This problem must be solved as soon as possible, or I'm afraid we will get into trouble next. Their employment needs must be addressed, or we may have terrible consequences! Shi Bufan said.

And Liu Renliang immediately said: "Brother Shi Xian, it's not just you who have this matter here. Our nearest Xianyang County prison already has a lot of people, almost five or six times more than in the past. I didn't expect you to have this situation here, and I'm afraid that even the people of our Gyeonggi area have such a situation. Those idle people who have nothing to do and drink all day long, I thought it was just idleness, but I didn't expect you to have this kind of thing here? “

"Of course, Brother Liu, this matter should not be taken lightly. We in the Gyeonggi area have adopted this kind of cooperative, so there will be a group of idle people who are unemployed here. If we don't solve their way of making a living, then they will be dissatisfied with the court. In particular, in the future, we will promote the way of this cooperative to the whole country of Datang, since we have found it, it must be solved as soon as possible. Otherwise, we can't solve it, and once it spreads to the entire Datang, the consequences will be unimaginable. Let's take a look at how we are able to solve the employment problems of these people, especially how we can find a way to make them have a stable income. ”

Shi Bufan knew that the employment problem must be solved, as long as he thought about the employment army in later generations, and reducing the unemployment rate was necessary. Why are there so many labor-intensive enterprises in China in later generations, and there must be many shortcomings before this labor-intensive, but he can solve the problem of drinking and more employment. Why do you want to go all out to attract investment? Even many people scolded Chinese products for their low technological content, but although the scientific and technological content is not high, it has solved the employment problem of the vast majority of people. Otherwise, once the technology is thoroughly advanced, the unemployment rate will increase suddenly.

"It's really difficult, history is often like this spiral progress, not so easy for you to progress. I was productive, but with that came unemployment. If the people are unemployed, if it is not solved as soon as possible, I am afraid that it will still rebound. If they can't solve their employment, then after a long time, they may choose to quit the cooperative, and finally the cooperative model that was established with great difficulty will be dissolved. Shi Bufan thought.

There is a dead end in the cooperative model, and that is the issue of land ownership. Shi Bufan didn't dare to touch this Juntian system, because this was the founding system of the Tang Dynasty, and he didn't dare to touch it. This cooperative model is based on a "voluntary" situation. If the unemployed people remain unemployed for a long time, they will definitely take advantage of this loophole in land ownership to get their land back, so as to re-maintain the production of that small-scale peasant economy and secure employment.

Although the smallholder economy is too productive to promote social progress, it does guarantee employment. At present, although those are still drinking and making trouble, they are not so troublesome that they want to quit the cooperative. However, once this goes on for a long time, then Dafan knows that there will definitely be many people who will quit the cooperative, so that the cooperatives that have been established with great difficulty will face disintegration, and then they will return to the small-scale peasant economic model. In this way, almost a year's efforts have been in vain, and the productivity that has been promoted with great difficulty has regressed again.

"This employment problem must be solved. I can't change the land system, so I can only find a way to solve their employment needs! Shi Bufan thought. (To be continued.) )