In Wang Shuhui's expectation, the expansion of the Revival Society will definitely encounter many problems. This process must be full of contradictions, and all kinds of unexpected troubles constantly arise. But the reality is very different from Wang Shuhui's expectations.

The expansion of the Renaissance Society, which began in March 1626, was very smooth not only in renovating the military fields of the local guard posts into farms, but also in the purchase and construction of farms in the surrounding areas of the area ruled by the Renaissance Society.

On the one hand, Wang Shuhui read a large number of work reports on the work of the working group and the Baxing Army, and on the other hand, he took turns to meet with cadres at all levels who carried out the tasks, and finally understood the reason why the expansion of the Revival Society had become very smooth.

For no other reason, the closer you are to the area where the Revival Society is in its territory, the higher the recognition of the Renaissance Society, and the closer to the area where the Renaissance Society is in its sphere of influence, the higher the support of the local people for the Renaissance Society.

There is no other reason for this, it is a purely economic problem.

Take Wulipu Town between Jingzhou and Jingmen Prefecture as an example. At this stage, the economic situation of Wulipu Town and the surrounding villages is like this.

Because of the Fuxing Society's grain policy of only entering and not leaving, and because the Fuxing Society's grain purchase price was higher than the market price, most of the grain produced in the rural areas around Wulipu Town was purchased by the Fuxing Society, except for some of the local landlords.

Revival will have such an economic policy that Revival will use its own currency in all its transactions.

Someone said, "The silver dollar of your revival society, one silver dollar represents one or two pieces of silver." Ordinary people are not fools, people know that your silver dollar is not one or two at all, will people use your silver dollar?!

Of course, the common people are not fools, but the common people's measurement of the value of money is also quite realistic. For them, whether you will buy our food in silver, copper coins, or paper money, it is not the point to them. As far as they are concerned, as long as the money you will pay us for the revival can be used as the money to pay the imperial grain and national taxes, and the second can be used to buy things with your money, then even if you pay with iron rags, they will accept it.

Ordinary people definitely know more about money than economists sitting in their offices and ancient bureaucrats who only know how to shake their heads every day. People know that money itself is not valuable, and money can be valuable, because money can buy real things. That's because things are valuable, that's why money is valuable.

As an industrial organization that is currently theoretically capable of producing 200,000 to 300,000 tons of steel per year, the Revival Society can make basically everything from heaven to water.

Hot air balloons in the sky, steam ships in the Yangtze River, high-yield grain, cheap cloth, and all kinds of daily necessities produced by industrial means. From sewing needles to sewing machines, from soy sauce to bean paste, from eggs and chicken to canned luncheon, and so on, everything is not only higher than the local time, but also much lower than the cost of the local space.

The Revival Society itself does not care about the real money that is currently piled up in the general treasury of the Renaissance Bank, because the Renaissance Society has the same deep understanding of gold and silver as the common people. Whether it is an ordinary cadre of the Revival Association or a cadre of the revival economic department, they all know this truth in the training course on basic concepts of economics taught by Wang Shuhui: Industrial products are valuable, the workers and factories that produce industrial products are valuable, and nothing else is valuable.

They knew that the reason why all the money issued by the Renaissance, from paper money and steel hammers to silver dollars, was valuable was because of the Renaissance's own strong industrial manufacturing capabilities. If you take the money of the Revival Society, you can buy all kinds of low-cost and high-quality goods from the Renaissance Society, and the real money looks cute, but you can't buy a single one from the Revival Society with these things.

Economic policies such as the Renaissance Society are beneficial to ordinary people in the surrounding areas. On the one hand, the Renaissance Society grasped the political power in Hubei and contracted the imperial grain and national tax (tax system) for the entire Huguang region. On the other hand, the strong industrial manufacturing capacity of the Fuxing Society has completely monopolized the commodity market in the entire Huguang area.

In other words, after selling grain to the grain stores of the Renaissance Society, and receiving the currency of the Renaissance Society, on the one hand, they can directly hand over the money to the tax bureau of the Renaissance Society to pay the grain payment, and on the other hand, they can buy cheaper rations (potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, etc.) and all kinds of cheap daily necessities (from farm tools to iron pots, from cloth to matches, from soap to luncheon meat, etc.) from the grain stores of the Renaissance Society.

The common people in the surrounding areas ruled by the Renaissance Society clearly felt that they could enjoy all kinds of conveniences in doing business with the Renaissance Society, and that their quality of life was significantly improving (a negligible increase, after all, their grain production was low and they were subject to exploitation by the landlords).

The economic policies of the Revival Society were good for the common people, but they were very bad for the various landlords who played a major role in the economic activities of ancient society.

Of course, the landlords could hoard grain on their own and not sell it to the grain stores of the Renaissance Society, and the grain stores of the Renaissance Society would not buy the grain from the landlords' families at a high price (the high-price grain collection policy of the Renaissance Society was only for ordinary people). However, because the Renaissance Society controlled the power of Hubei and took over the national tax of the entire Hubei, the landlords had to use the currency of the Renaissance Society when paying taxes.

The brains of the landlords were not the same as those of the common people, and they themselves did not believe in the credit of the Renaissance Society's silver dollar. For them, there is nothing more valuable and reassuring to them than real money.

But under the rule of the Renaissance, they had only two ways to go. The first is to sell the grain that he has extorted from the tenant farmers to the Fuxing Society at a very low price in exchange for silver dollars and steel hammers to pay taxes to the Fuxing Society. The second is to directly use their own silver, use the black heart price of 15 to 1 to trade with the bank of the Renaissance Society, and then exchange the silver dollar steel hammer to pay taxes to the Renaissance Society. There is no other way.

Speaking of which, this is the benefit of taking power.

In the past, landlords could have concealed their acres of land and paid no or less taxes to the yamen. The local government of the Ming Dynasty relied on these landlords to maintain the local area. So many times, even if they don't take the initiative to collude with them and don't accept bribes from them, they have to give all kinds of conveniences and benefits to the landlords.

It's like many real estate dealers in later generations who didn't bribe local government officials, but these local government officials served them like dogs raised by real estate merchants. Real estate is directly related to the GDP of the local economy, and the GDP of the local economy is directly linked to the performance of officials, which in turn is linked to their careers. This led to the collusion between officials and businessmen.

It was the same in the environment of the Ming Dynasty. If the magistrates of the Ming Dynasty want to ensure their official hats, they must ensure that the imperial grain and national taxes in their jurisdictions are paid on time, and whether they can collect these imperial grain and national taxes is not counted by the county commanders who only have dozens of officials and archers under their hands, and the landlords who have hundreds of families are counted.

However, the Revival Society was not a local government of the Ming Dynasty. The guns of the Revival Society are definitely not something that can be shaken by hundreds of dogs with cold weapons. Space-Time Gate 1619

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