Chapter 188: Detonating the Economy
In the second year of the Apocalypse, Beizhili can definitely be said to be the most 'turbulent' year in society, and some peasants on nearly 80 million acres of land will leave the land after the autumn harvest and enter the cities and towns to become workers. Some will move into the Huangzhuang and become tenant farmers in the Huangzhuang.
The construction of the new Huangzhuang is no longer the previous model. In the past, there were a large number of displaced people who had no productive activities to reclaim the land, so the Huangzhuang could be distributed before it was built, and then the Huangzhuang could be built.
At present, the peasants on these 80 million mu of land have to wait for the autumn harvest before they can make arrangements. Therefore, the construction of Huangzhuang can only be carried out by hired workers.
Obviously, the construction of Huangzhuang did not hinder agricultural production much.
The land was measured, the land situation was investigated, and then the Huangzhuang was divided according to 3,000 acres of cultivated land, plus 100 acres of vegetable land, and the land occupied by the Huangzhuang.
At this time, each household also added one acre of vegetable land, which could not be used up so much, but could be used to plant fruit trees.
It is equivalent to saying that in the imperial village, most of the grain, oil, eggs, meat, vegetables, and fruits can be self-sufficient, and in daily life, only coal, salt, wine, cloth, seeds, farm tools, quilts, and kitchen utensils, toiletries and other things need to be purchased. The purchase of these commodities is obtained by exporting commercial grains.
Beizhili Agricultural Company became a company specializing in the production of commercial grain.
In fact, 30 acres of land per household cannot completely release the output value of a labor force, but if the method of intensive cultivation is adopted, it is still possible, and the efficiency of exporting commercial grain is also relatively high.
After the site selection of Huangzhuang was determined, the workers directly built the large tiled house. After the tenant farmers settled in Huangzhuang, they would bear the loan for these tiled houses. If you don't want to, you can become a worker.
This year's summer harvest is because Huangzhuang has perfect water conservancy facilities. As well as sufficient agricultural technical guidance, the farmers in Huangzhuang have obtained a bumper harvest, and the income of every household has been greatly improved, which makes the farmers outside Huangzhuang look at it, so most of the tenant farmers are willing to go to Huangzhuang as tenants.
As for their original houses, most of the tenant farmers were not wealthy, and naturally they were not as good as the spacious and comfortable tiled houses in the imperial village. When I arrived in Huangzhuang, I lived in a big tiled house, where to find such a good thing. Despite the repayment of the loan, the income in the Imperial Estate is guaranteed. In the event of a natural disaster, injury or illness, the loan can even be forgiven, and the protection measures are very good.
In fact, what attracted the most to tenant farmers were the safeguards and interest-free loans. Tenant farmers who farmed the land for the landlords. A lot of them are in debt. Under the profits, some even owe the next life. Entering the Huangzhuang, who still recognizes this thing. So much so that those landlords had nothing to do with these debt-indebted tenant farmers. Lao Tzu has no money, can he still kill Lao Tzu? Wait for the emperor to assign them to the imperial village, and those arrears will go to the imperial village. Those landlords really dare to go to the Huangzhuang to ask for debts, and it seems that they have to be beaten all over the ground to find teeth, but the Huangzhuang is a baojia system, and every householder in the village is a militiaman.
When ordinary peasants. Sometimes I encounter a bad year, and I don't have the next meal. Where there are people in charge, they can only borrow grain from the landlords. If the landlord does not borrow and hoards goods, it will be the rhythm of selling children and daughters, and the family will be ruined. After entering the Huangzhuang, even if they are injured or sick and lose their labor force at home, at least the emperor will give them food to eat, and the rent that should be exempted is exempted.
As long as you become a person in Huangzhuang, you will not have to worry about food and clothing if you are willing to work.
For the peasants of this era, it is the biggest dream to have a full stomach and a big tiled house to live in. Entering the Huangzhuang is in one step, how is it not attractive?
Therefore, after learning that they could enter the Huangzhuang as tenant farmers, those tenant farmers, even yeoman farmers, were elated and did not feel dissatisfied at all because they were going to move.
Suddenly, in Beizhili, one after another imperial villages rose from the ground. Under the construction of a large number of workers, these imperial villages with the same specifications were quickly built, and most of them were able to live in them after the autumn harvest.
Workers are also ready-made, a large number of nearby confessions, around each Huangzhuang, there are a large number of peasants, can go to work when the farm is not working, 20 wen a day.
The construction cost of Huangzhuang is funded by bank loans. After the Huangzhuang houses are allocated, they will be implemented to each farmer.
A lot of construction activities, and a lot of money.
16,000 Huangzhuang under construction, the construction cost of each Huangzhuang, mainly those tile houses, the cost of a Huangzhuang tile house reached 5,000 yuan, 16,000 Huangzhuang together, the cost input is 80 million yuan, and the next repair of water conservancy, will adopt the forced labor system, but also a large number of masonry and other materials, but also need waterwheels, drilling, this part of the cost, which will be divided into two parts to the head of the North Zhili Agricultural Company and other agricultural companies. The cost of water conservancy projects related to large rivers is directly distributed to each agricultural company, and it is evenly distributed according to the number of acres. The ditches, ponds, waterwheels, and wells within the Huangzhuang area were undertaken by the Beizhili Agricultural Company, which also borrowed from the bank.
Overall, 16,000 Huangzhuang have been sprinkled on the market, with a capital of about 90 million yuan.
It is still very easy for the Royal Bank to lend 90 million yuan, because 100 yuan, if in a highly developed capital society, can lend nearly tens of thousands of yuan. Because 100 yuan is loaned out, people will save the money back after they have generated economic activity. It is possible to recover $95, and then $95 is lent out again, and $90 is recovered...... If you keep borrowing like this, you can easily lend thousands of dollars for 100 yuan.
At this time, the royal bank of Beizhili had been opened all over the province's cities and towns, and because the interest rate on small deposits was relatively high, almost all the people who had money to spare had opened an account. And those merchants are very willing to put their money in the bank to eat interest. Although the ordinary interest rate was reduced to 1% at this time, it was still there. Moreover, the transaction between merchants is obviously more convenient to transfer money to the bank, and there is no need to worry about losing money outside.
It means that most of the money will still return to the bank after it is lent out.
It's just that the more money the bank lends, the more money circulates in the market, and the more money is withdrawn, so it is necessary to maintain a certain level of money, and the current bank of the Royal Bank has dropped to 13%, adopting a loose monetary policy, but not issuing banknotes for the time being. That's why it's better to use silver. However, at present, the Royal Bank can borrow a large number of silver dollars from various Shanxi ticket numbers at any time.
The 90 million yuan project is not just the wages on the construction site. It also directly drove logging, quarrying, brick (tile) making, and transportation. Investment activities in various sectors to expand reproduction have also stimulated the economy. And after a large number of workers were paid, there was a demand for various commodities.
The economy of Beizhili soon prospered to the point of almost exploding.
Whether it is a rural area or a township, there are recruitment workers everywhere. The population of 15 million in Beizhili is simply not enough. You must know that in terms of road construction, Zhu Youxiao also invested tens of millions of yuan, and it was directly funded by internal funds.
"Recruitment. Recruitment, to work in Beizhili, 30 Wen per day. ”
"It's hired. The salary is 30 wen a day. ”
In Shandong, Henan, and Shanxi, the three provinces next to Beizhili, you can often see people recruiting workers, all of whom go to Beizhili.
Let's take a look at the labor market in Beizhili.
A sturdy young man has just walked into the labor market and is immediately pulled around by a group of people.
"Young man. Lad. It's you. Go to the dock to resist the big bag, 40 wen a day? Just follow me. A recruiter from a loading and unloading company shouted.
"How tired it is to resist big bags, come to my brick burning factory, it's much easier than resisting big bags, 35 wen a day."
"Don't fool around, don't be tired of moving bricks?"
At this time, in Beizhili, the wages of coolies rose a lot, and the lowest rose to 30 wen a day. There is really a shortage of people, and a group of businessmen are in a hurry.
Now the economy of Beizhili seems to have been detonated. The consumer market is extremely prosperous. In addition, tariffs have formed a barrier protection, so that the merchants of Beizhili can set up a factory casually is to sit and wait for the rhythm of counting money.
Infrastructure is recruiting workers everywhere, and businessmen are also hiring workers everywhere.
The daily wages of ordinary women have also risen to 20 Wen. In China, it is also a very common phenomenon for women to work, after all, for the bottom of society, it is a problem to have enough to eat, what can women do if they don't work?
Such a wage level was quickly stabilized by the influx of migrant workers from Shandong, Shanxi, Henan and other provinces into Beizhili, but it was not so easy to lower. Farmers from other provinces who did not have enough to eat flocked to Beizhili one after another, and many of them still came to Beizhili with their families.
This is obviously good news, because there are more people in Beizhili, and the grain can be sold. The grain was sold, and the farmers in Huangzhuang could afford to repay the loans.
Obviously, the construction of Huangzhuang this time is spending money in the future.
If something goes wrong in the economy, then the banks will fail.
In order for the banks to be able to recover these loans, the key is that the population that has poured into Beizhili can continue to maintain employment, which must rely on the export of goods. If Beizhili is described as a country within a country, then it means that there must be a lot of exports, export industries must be developed, and there must be enough commodity exports in exchange for silver, so as to ensure employment, otherwise the economic order will collapse.
Beizhili's current export products are still a lot, steel products, glass products, as well as salt, coal, are the best-selling bulk commodities. In addition, porcelain and textiles have gained sufficient competitiveness in terms of prices because Zhu Youxiao asked the cabinet to introduce an export subsidy policy. The toothpaste, shampoo, fragrant pancreas and other products launched by Hanhua, Piaoxiang and Hexiang of Royal Holdings have also begun to be marketed in various provinces.
In June of the second year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao sent a large number of Beijing camps to the northern provinces and began a large-scale illegal salt inspection activity. The salt of Beizhili was sold to other provinces in large quantities at a price of 15 Wen. Buying 100 catties will also give salt leads, and buying 100,000 catties will also give salt leads, which directly breaks the monopoly of salt by a small number of salt merchants.
Among the northern provinces, except for Shaanxi and Gansu, which have inland salt output, the other provinces have basically become the market for official salt in Beizhili.
Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, and Liaodong, almost all of them are official salt in Beizhili, and it is really very strict in Beijing to grasp illegal salt, coupled with the reduction of the price of official salt in Beizhili, so that the private salt is not so profitable, so that as long as it is caught once, it is the rhythm of labor reform to death, the cost of crime is too high, and the number of people who sell illegal salt is gradually decreasing.
There is also a lot of Beizhili official salt sold by sea, which has also had a great impact on the provinces in the Yangtze River basin. (To be continued......)
PS: The second update has arrived.