Chapter 49: The Benefits of Sweet Potatoes (Part II)
But many times, the people will spontaneously make a kind of behavior, after this year's autumn harvest, the people of Tundi have risen to a new level of love for Zhao Yan.
Under the rule of Zhao Yan, it is undoubtedly very happy for them, although the year is very busy, but it is bitter and sweet, there are no ruthless officials here, and there are no all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes. He also gave them fields, ploughed cattle, provided them with all kinds of livestock and cubs for free, and did not need money to see a doctor in the hospital in the tun.
This year, there is also an income of more than a dozen taels of silver in the field, plus some chickens, ducks, and pigs, these chickens and ducks can already be sold, as for those pigs, they have to wait, and they have not yet grown fat.
These livestock are now very well sold, especially in the army, the demand is the highest, those who are soldiers have to eat meat every day, plus training all day long, these soldiers stand up one by one have a kind of fierce atmosphere.
And the families of those veterans also have a high demand for meat, those veterans started with Zhao Yan, caught up with the best time of the policy, plus the dividends of the bandits, etc., they can be regarded as the richest group.
When people become wealthy, the demand for livestock farming also increases, and this increase stimulates the cultivation of forage crops, such as corn. Nowadays, corn and sweet potatoes are relatively good feed, and horses are sometimes mixed with corn. Corn is generally ground into corn flour to feed chickens, and sweet potatoes are generally fed to pigs.
Those veterans are generally worth one or two hundred taels, and they have now built spacious and bright tiled houses.
There are also those scribes whose consumption of meat is also very high, these scribes have a stable income, the monthly salary ranges from three to one hundred taels, and there is a year-end bonus if they are able to do things, so they also belong to the main force in consumption.
Then there are those craftsmen, as long as those craftsmen have good craftsmanship, the salary is generally five or six taels per month, of course, the income is different depending on the type of work.
Towards the end of the year, the demand for meat for all kinds of people who have not engaged in agricultural production has suddenly soared, and the large farms are still in a state of expansion, and many livestock have to be kept for childbirth, and the livestock that were born this year have not grown well, so the supply is still insufficient. The main supply is chickens, ducks and geese, which are easy to breed.
Therefore, many people choose to sell their chickens and ducks in the market, and some sell them to merchants who come to receive them. At present, there are some traveling merchants active in various cantonments.
These merchants who came to Tundi to do business had to pay commercial taxes to Zhao Yan, and the commercial taxes under Zhao Yan's rule were heavier, except for some commodities that were encouraged to be trafficked, and the rest ranged from 10 taxes to 10 taxes and 4. Beneficial goods have less taxes, and non-beneficial goods have high taxes, mainly depending on the category.
And for those traveling merchants, even if the taxes are high, they are very happy to sell goods in Huang County, which not only has a rich output of goods, but also the military and civilians here are very rich, the market here has great potential, and most importantly, there are still many merchants who come here to traffic.
Those traveling merchants generally trafficked all kinds of commodities needed by the military and civilians of Huangxian from other places, and then transported yarn and cotton cloth from Huangxian, or transferred to Laizhou Bay to transport salt from Laizhou Bay.
It's a place where the business opportunities are endless.
At the beginning of the establishment of the tundi, the houses were very simple, mostly some thatched houses, and even leaked in winter.
Most of the people of Sanbao, who first started Tuntian, have now built new houses, all of which are brick houses, with two skylights on the roof of the kitchen, which look very bright during the day.
The people of other tuns could not hold back after the autumn harvest and decided to build houses one after another.
It takes about eight taels of silver to build a spacious brick house, and if you want to plaster the ground with cement and put the floor slab on the second floor, it will cost more than ten taels.
As far as this year is concerned, in the first year of the Tuntian, most of the time was spent building infrastructure, so the silver recorded in the account was only a dozen taels of silver on the land, deducting the cost of Pingli, and it was almost the same if you wanted to build a house, but it would be a little tight in the coming year.
However, there are really not many places to spend money here, and the various daily necessities needed, that is, some handicraft products, and the cotton cloth worn are all woven by textile mills, and the price is much cheaper than in other places.
After Handan produced iron, the price of various iron tools was also reduced, and the quality was better.
There is no need to worry about eating, everyone has enough food in their homes to eat for a year, and some people are really hungry, so they make all the sweet potatoes they left behind into vermicelli and hoard them themselves.
Some people from Shanxi have even given full play to their habits, and they are reluctant to eat good things, and they have hidden a lot of grain.
Whenever they see a warehouse full of grain, every resident will express their heartfelt love for Zhao Yan, and in the first year, they have solved the problem of food and clothing.
Although it was a hard year, it was all worth it.
The biggest profit for this year is the sweet potato, which has become a commodity that can be sold and is easy to store.
All kinds of vermicelli on the market are sold for seven or eight yuan per catty, and even if sweet potato vermicelli is sold for six yuan per catty, 670 million catties of sweet potato vermicelli can be sold for 4 million taels.
It can be regarded as an unexpected joy in Tuntian, but the demand for labor is high, so Zhao Yan also distributed the profits to the people, and the most important thing is to generate income for them, so the people who process vermicelli receive very high wages this month.
In fact, even in the era when grain production was not high, as long as people were willing to work hard in grain production, everyone could have land to cultivate, and even a surplus of agricultural products could be created.
As for why people are in a state of hunger, it is not because of natural disasters, but more because of [***], the unreasonable distribution of social wealth and the unreasonable distribution of the means of production may lead to the waste of production.
In the distribution of social wealth, the most important thing is not to create too large a gap between the rich and the poor, because a small number of people have too much money, and most of the money can only be put in the warehouse to mold, and it cannot have the effect of circulation. Most people have no money, they can't buy goods, and if they don't consume, they don't produce, which will cause unemployment.
The amount of money is not a criterion for measuring whether you are rich, money cannot be eaten as food, so the rich side also depends on how much material money can buy, and the total amount of material is the core of the measurement.
In fact, in this society, everyone is engaged in the division of labor, and if everyone is trying to produce and then distribute the things produced equally, then everyone will be very rich.
This is the ideal state of communism, but it has been proved that this ideal state is impossible to achieve, this state of society, is often in the form of reading talents, because if it is not reading talents, it is impossible to produce such a social form, there must be people who oppose this social form, reading talents are often accompanied by [***], at the same time, everyone is born with a lazy surname, it is impossible to ensure that everyone is not lazy.
If the gap between the rich and the poor is large, many people will not have the opportunity to participate in production, and the material produced will naturally be less, and they will naturally be in a state of poverty.
Therefore, eliminating the gap between the rich and the poor is a major event that benefits the country and the people, and everyone will understand this truth in later generations, but the problem is that some countries only stay in words.
For the upper classes of the country, a country with a huge gap between the rich and the poor is a paradise for them, and they have the money to trample on everything of the lower classes of the people and buy everything they have likewise.
However, some developed countries have united internally and squeezed the external by eliminating the internal gap between the rich and the poor and widening the gap between the rich and the poor between countries.
In general, the essence of these countries is the same, even if they put on all kinds of hypocritical faces, only one means are bad, and the other means are clever.
Therefore, Zhao Yan has spared no effort in increasing the income of the people, especially the people in Tundi, and Zhao Yan often supplies them with some materials for free.
However, what is more important is the organization of the tun chief's production, and the reason why it can achieve such fruitful results in a short period of time is because of the precision management.
The role played by the tun chief is to organize the division of labor and eliminate idle labor.
At present, under the rule of Zhao Yan, it has moved closer to the commodity economy in an all-round way, and the commodity economy is obviously more advanced than the natural economy, first of all, the division of labor in animal husbandry and agriculture, then the division of labor in handicrafts, and finally the emergence of merchants. And the natural economy is a state of self-sufficiency, no division of labor, low productivity, and at the same time a rejection of exchange, very low productivity.
At present, most of the Ming Dynasty has successfully transferred to the commodity economy, but because of the lack of supervision and regulation of the commodity economy, it has flooded, resulting in a chaotic period after the transformation, the collapse of the natural economy, so that the society has entered a period of sharp contradictions, the most important contradiction is the high concentration of means of production.
Without a commodity economy, there would be no problems such as the concentration of the means of production and the annexation of land. In terms of commodity economic regulation, the most successful was the Two Song Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty also died in land annexation.
The people of the tun are more thorough in the division of labor, and the people of the tun are now only engaged in farming, breeding, and training, and their main energy is still used in farming, and breeding is only a sideline, but they can raise as much as possible, and although one of the obvious characteristics of the commodity economy is the division of labor between animal husbandry and agriculture, it is not completely separated.
In terms of breeding, each tun has a special farm, and in addition to each tun, there are several separate large-scale farms. Agriculture and animal husbandry are separated to a large extent and combined to a small extent.
However, this small combination is also very impressive, although it does not keep up with the production of the farms. Farms are very specialized, with their own processes from feed collection to feeding, and the efficiency is much higher than that of individual farming.
In the handicraft industry, all the handicraft products needed are bought, and there are almost no cottage workshops. Zhao Yan is involved in almost all of these commodities, the largest of which are naturally ironware and cotton, as well as building materials, and these aspects are also the mainstream commodities in demand.
Therefore, Zhao Yan gave more benefits to the people of Tundi, and they could earn it back quickly, and then form a cycle to stimulate production, so that everyone has something to do, and strive to create material wealth.
In order to celebrate the completion of the sweet potato milling, Zhao Yan held a banquet that day and invited all the high-ranking military and political leaders in Huang County to dinner.
This is a more casual dinner, each with their families, Zhao Yong, Lin Yi, Wang Wenyue each with their adopted sons, after the three of them connected, Lin Yi showed off there: "Hehe, their five brothers have been able to run smoothly on the horse, Lao Wang, your boys are small and thin, can they go into battle in the future?" ”
", how can they not go into battle, they were hungry before, and they are no worse than your five boys after a while, and their three brothers can already write more than five hundred words!" Wang Wenyue proudly touched the heads of his three righteous sons.
"You're still talking on paper! My two rabbit cubs have been sent by me to suppress the bandits last month, and I have cut down several bandits! Zhao Yongmeng said silently, and patted the two eleven or twelve-year-old children standing beside him proudly.
Lin Yi: "@%...*...&"
Wang Wenyue: "@%...*...&......"
The two couldn't help sweating, they didn't expect Zhao Yong to be so unrestrained, and the little ghost, who was only eleven or twelve years old, pulled out to suppress the bandits.
When Zhao Yan collected the displaced people, he also collected many orphans, more than 30,000, which shows the degree of turmoil in this world.
Those high-level personnel also led by example and took the lead in adopting a group of orphans, and for the people of the tundi, they were also happy to adopt these orphans, especially those who had settled down a long time ago.
Because the people who have settled down have enough food to feed these children, they don't have to worry about food at all, and there are many people in the family, who can also help raise chickens and pigs, and they can also be used to support the elderly when they are old.
Among these orphans, boys are not adopted, girls are rarely cared for, and the preference for sons over daughters is very serious.
"Dean, our group has made the friends of the miners, the piston and the cylinder, but the cylinder's closed air surname is very poor, obviously unable to manufacture the kind of steam engine you gave, you should go to the rubber as soon as possible to solve the problem of closed air surname, in addition to the processing of the cylinder, you must have a special drilling machine, otherwise it will be too difficult to make." Putragus complained to Zhao Yan at the banquet, "Our group's progress is the fastest, but because there is no rubber, they have caught up with the progress, and I suggest that it is best to let us be a month ahead." ”
"It's not fair, your group hasn't started building steam engines yet! Our group has already started construction. Richardson shouted on the spot.
"Wouldn't it be fair that you could save the cylinder closure for the end?" Zhao Yan said with a smile.
The atmosphere of the banquet was very harmonious, and everyone was very open, and they were discussing their own topics with each other.
The most discussed is the upcoming year-end assessment, now the expansion is very fast, whether it is a commercial bank, or a civil affairs, or the army, a large number of grassroots personnel are needed, and there are more grassroots personnel, and there are more management above, so a large number of people will definitely be promoted at the end of this year.
However, for these high-level personnel, they are more concerned about next year's budget, and the financial settlement at the end of the year is underway, and it is estimated that the results will be obtained soon, and next year's finances seem to be relatively generous.
(To be continued)