Suspicious, Anthony followed Roland to the end of the train.

The last carriage of the train was a special car escorted by the tax police, and the two were stopped as soon as they approached. Roland showed his ID, and the captain of the tax police who led the team to the countryside carefully examined his face, and finally recognized his identity through his disguise, and hurriedly stood up and saluted His Royal Highness the Prince.

Roland waved his hand to signal that there was no need to be polite, and took Anthony to the car. More than 40 tax policemen sat on one side of the carriage, their young faces looking a little solemn, probably because there were eight wooden boxes with bank seals lined up in the aisle of the carriage beside them, and they knew that they were full of bright coins without opening them.

"Three boxes of gold thaler, four boxes of silver thaler, and one box of copper thaler for change." Roland sat down and pointed to the box escorted by the tax police and said to Anthony, "All this money is prepared for going to the countryside to buy grain, farmers sell grain, they have money in their hands, and with money, of course they will have the urge to shop, now you know why those small traders are rushing to the countryside after the tax police, right?" ”

Anthony patted his forehead and suddenly realized, "Never underestimate the wisdom of businessmen, this is what my father often said, and today I have a new understanding." ”

"Just the wisdom of a businessman? It's not that simple. Roland shook his head slightly, "Our country is moving towards industrialization, the types and quantities of industrial varieties produced in factories are growing at an explosive rate, we must find a broad consumer market for these commodities, the urban population alone is not enough to support this market, we must try to sell industrial products to the villages that occupy seventy percent of the country's population, but due to traffic congestion, most of the rural areas do not have perfect commodity trading markets, and many places do not even have a monetary economy, and they are still using the ancient tradition of bartering, In order to change the situation and establish a perfect commodity trading market in the countryside, our Far Eastern government has formulated a set of inducement strategies, which can be roughly divided into three steps. ”

"What are the three steps?" Anthony listened attentively.

"The first step is to improve transportation, build roads and railways that connect urban and rural areas, and reduce transaction costs between urban and rural areas."

"This is very necessary, because without convenient transportation, it is impossible to transport goods produced in towns to the countryside, and it is impossible to establish a unified urban and rural market." Anthony nodded in approval.

"The second step is to take the opportunity of collecting public grain to buy surplus grain in the hands of farmers with money, which I call 'money going to the countryside'." Roland said.

"Money goes to the countryside, this is very appropriate, the peasants have money in their hands, there is no need to barter." Anthony nodded repeatedly.

"The third step is to publicize the above two steps in the news reports, and call on the small traders who are active in the towns to take advantage of the opportunity to go to the countryside to do business, after all, the peasants have a few spare money in their hands." Roland looked out the window with one hand on his cheek, and said leisurely: "Thanks to the national newspaper distribution network established not long ago, the policy guidance of the central government can quickly spread to all cities and towns in the country, attracting the attention of relevant interest groups. ”

Finally, Roland concluded: "The convenient transportation network and the nationwide news network laid the foundation for urban-rural exchanges. Commodities to the countryside have changed the conservative and closed trading methods in the countryside, and established a new thinking of using money to buy commodities and measure wealth in money, so that the industrial products produced in the towns have opened up new markets in the countryside, and the rural people have more consumption choices, and can also buy various commodities as easily as the urban people to improve the quality of life, and finally establish a unified market across the country to achieve the macro goal of 'monetization of the national economy'. ”

"Monetization of the National Economy...... This concept is a bit familiar! Anthony frowned and thought for a while, then his eyes lit up, "That's right! Mr. Liszt Keynes's article published two months ago in the weekly magazine "Controversy" was about 'monetization of the national economy'! ”

"Economic monetization", simply put, refers to the measurement of the role of money in social and economic activities. It is often said that "money makes the devil grind", but there is also a saying that "money is not everything", and these two proverbs actually reflect the difference in the degree of "economic monetization".

In a society where "money can make ghosts grind", the degree of economic monetization can be said to be at its peak, money can buy almost all goods and services, and even "ghosts" have to bow down to the magic of money.

Conversely, in a world where it is generally accepted that "money is not everything", there are still many things that cannot be bought with money, and the degree of monetization of the economy is not as high as that of a society where money can make the devil grind. In extreme cases, such as in societies where barter or ticket-based purchases are restricted, money loses or partially loses its "general equivalent" attributes, and the degree of economic monetization in such societies is obviously very low.

In Roland's view, the degree of "commodity monetization" of the national economy is not necessarily as high as possible, but as far as the conditions of the Far East are concerned, especially in the vast rural areas, the currency has not yet played its due role, and the advantages of implementing the "economic monetization" policy outweigh the disadvantages. In particular, as far as he, a policymaker in charge of the lifeblood of the national economy, wants to establish a unified national commodity market, give full play to the guiding role of the price mechanism in commodity production and circulation, and even use monetary policy to carry out macroeconomic regulation and control of the economy, the key indicator of economic monetization must reach a relatively high level, otherwise it is impossible to achieve the above-mentioned goals at all.

"It is strange why the economic policies pursued by the government of Koras are so much in line with the academic views of Mr. Liszt Keynes, who was also an economic adviser to the government?" Anthony looked at Roland expectantly, "I heard that this person never attends academic conferences, and his background is also a mystery, have you ever communicated with this mysterious person face to face?" ”

Roland smiled bitterly, this question was really difficult for him to answer. In order to avoid showing a flaw in front of Anthony, he decided to change the subject.

"Regarding the matter of 'goods going to the countryside', there is actually another benefit that we did not think of when we formulated the policy, thanks to the fact that those traders went to the countryside with the tax police, which made the grain collection work smoother."