For a long, long period of history, the Chinese did not like to consume money and grain, either saving it or buying land to preserve its value. But when it came to the 'revolutionary army', it was directly stipulated that the land could not be bought and sold, and the landlord wanted to get out of the way.

In order to accumulate funds in the early stage of industrial development, many developing countries in later generations desperately took advantage of the 'industrial and agricultural scissors gap' to suppress peasants' incomes. Cheap agricultural products are obtained through administrative means and by raising the prices of industrial products, and agricultural products are exported in exchange for advanced foreign industrial technology and equipment.

But this trick is useless for the 'revolutionary army' - the strongest industrial technology in the world is Zhou Qingfeng's group. In these years, there is still a lack of convenient transportation, and it is very troublesome to engage in foreign demand. For example, when Europeans come to Asia to do business, there are dozens or hundreds of ships a year. These ships are not big, and the small volume of transportation is pitiful.

If you want to count on foreign trade, the factories will have to go out of business!

If Zhou Qingfeng wants to develop industry, he needs a market. If the external market cannot be opened, then domestic demand can only be developed. He did not want to use administrative means to deprive peasant households of the fruits of their labor. He would rather spend money to buy it, trading the silver and copper dollars punched out of his press to the million-dollar farmers in his territory, begging the latter to consume them.

When the wheat harvest in 1617 was over, the whole 'revolutionary army' understood one thing, that is, the marshal spent millions of silver dollars to buy a large amount of grain. He started the propaganda machine and printed good news in the newspapers, announcing that the Liaoning Peninsula had a bumper harvest throughout the world.

Today, the newspapers of the 'revolutionary army' have a circulation of 20,000 or 30,000 copies, and those who follow the newspaper news are even as far away as Shaanxi and Sichuan. So the entire Central Plains knew two things. First, Zhou Dashuai is no longer short of food; Second, the peasant households under the rule of the 'revolutionary army' were rich, and third, the marshal welcomed people from all over the world to do business with him.

While people were still wondering what these three pieces of news meant, the 'revolutionary army' began to organize caravans one after another, carrying goods produced in their factories to all corners of the territory—a seemingly left-handed to right-handed process. But that's the process, and the goods and money are in circulation.

Zhou Qingfeng would rather lose some money, but also let the people at the bottom accept the impact of foreign commodities and forcibly expand their horizons. Farmers have money in their hands but can't buy land, and some people want to save it, but many people still choose to spend it. For example, this old Li Tou, who came to talk to the mulberry carpenter at night, was dazzled in front of the goods provided by the supply and marketing caravan.

"Uncle, let's pull a few feet of flower cloth. Authentic machine-made cloth, thick and comfortable. With it to make clothes, it won't be cold in winter. "The salesmen of the caravan were shouting loudly, clutching the cloth woven by the 'revolutionary army' water-powered loom in their hands, and constantly boasting.

Ordinary farmhouse cloth is very narrow, and the quality is not guaranteed. The product consistency of the hydraulic loom is good, and it can also achieve a cloth width of one meter or even two meters, which is refreshing to look at - Song Yingxing has recently engaged in research and development in the steel plant. This old man has learned too much, and the first thing he did was not spring steel, but dye from coking tar.

......, this technology tree has opened to chemistry, but don't waste the technology when it comes out. So the 'Revolutionary Army' weaving factory began to produce floral cloth. Because the production efficiency of machine-made cloth is dozens or hundreds of times higher than that of manual labor, the price is really cheap.

The homespun cloth in the south of the Yangtze River was beaten by the machine-made cloth, which really forced a large number of rural women into desperation. It also thundered the morale of the cloth merchants in Songjiang Prefecture. But for consumers who buy cloth, this thick and good-looking fabric is too real.

"Bring me one."

"A piece of cloth?"

"Yes, this kind of indigo. The family has a large population, and everyone happens to change into new clothes. ”

Old man Li gritted his teeth, and arrogantly took out a few silver dollars to buy a whole piece of cloth. However, the salesman saw that the old man was quite rich, so he specially recommended: "Uncle, why don't you buy ready-to-wear directly." We have ready-to-wear for adults and children here, the style is also good-looking, the stitches are very fine, and the price is not expensive. ”

The 'revolutionary army' has recently been in trouble developing the garment industry. This common man likes to buy cloth and make his own clothes, and he thinks that this will save money. As a result, in addition to the fact that the army would place a large number of orders, the sales of the garment factories were bleak, and the recruitment of a large number of female workers into the production line was about to become yellow. This is a matter related to the promotion of women's status, in order to solve this problem, Uncle Zhou raised the price butcher knife......

The price of machine-made cloth is lower than any kind of cotton cloth on the market, so Zhou Qingfeng simply reduced the price of ready-to-wear sales to the same as buying cloth to make his own clothes. The salesman broke out the price of the ready-to-wear and the price of the cloth, and the old man Li could immediately calculate the benefits - yes, ......yes, this is equivalent to someone making clothes for him without money.

"Old man, don't think that your wife and daughter-in-law are more cost-effective to make clothes. In fact, it's not cost-effective at all, and now women can also come out to earn money. Instead of making clothes at home, it is better to find some work outside and earn more. Besides, our ready-to-wear is really cheap, and there are no other colors and styles. You don't lose money if you buy it, and you can't be fooled if you buy it! ”

At this instigation, the salesman easily compared the clothes of several children in the caravan to Lao Litou's grandchildren. Not to mention, the children's clothes made in the garment factory are just good-looking. Lao Li Tou laughed when he saw it, and his big toothless mouth couldn't close - buy, buy, buy!

At this time, Lao Li Tou's whole family will have a new dress. The seller is also happy, and the commission for selling ready-to-wear is higher - Zhou Qingfeng wants to make the society continue to divide labor. He wants to make the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy completely finished, so that the people at the bottom can only master one or two work skills, and honestly be a stable screw in the social system he has built.

After buying the clothes to wear outside, do you want the underwear inside? I bought underwear, and I want a futon. Winter is coming, and a large family can't make do with it in the haystack of Ula grass, right? This quilt is definitely needed.

The garment factories of the 'Revolutionary Army' provide a full set of bedding, which must be paid for. I have all the bedding and a few winter coats.

And there's food.

Salted salt is a must, miso is also readily bought, large quantities of dried fish are also very cheap, and some children eat snacks that don't cost a few dollars. These non-staple foods are produced in the newly opened workshops, and the employees are recruited from the agricultural population. Due to the million-level market, the selling price can be pressed to a very low level.

In the past, salty salt was expensive to death, and it was unpalatable to death, and the common people were even reluctant to put salt in the dishes. Now the salt farms of the 'revolutionary army' are drying salt on a large scale, and several tons of salt are coming out of a salt pan at every turn, and the price of salt has plummeted.

Lao Li Tou looked at the refined salt wrapped in horse manure paper, and couldn't help laughing and crying. In the past, when you bought salt, you had to buy black salt from the official family, and you couldn't buy it if you didn't buy it. Now you can buy and sell as much as you want - since the 'revolutionary army' started the process of drying salt, the smuggler salt dealer has completely disappeared. Because this thing really can't afford the price.

In other words, the 'revolutionary army' has become the largest smuggler of salt, or the kind with knives and guns in hand, and large-scale armed trafficking.

The miso is made of soybeans and is the only seasoning that ordinary people can afford to eat. Nowadays, the diet of ordinary people is extremely simple, and they are extremely satisfied if they can eat a full meal, and there are basically no dishes or anything, so they feel very delicious with some sauce. In addition, what fish is used for has almost become a special product of the 'revolutionary army', and the fish in the sea seems to be inexhaustible, and adults and children can eat it.

In addition to these food and clothing, the caravan also brought a large number of daily necessities.

Iron pot, do you want it?

That's a good thing!

If a poor family has an iron pot, it is all valuable belongings, and they can change a daughter-in-law.

Needlework, do you want it?

That's a good thing, too!

Poor people are always indispensable for sewing and mending. A set of clothes, three years for the new, three years for the old, and another three years for sewing and mending.

These needles and threads, pots and pans or something, let's have a set.

Don't 888, don't 88, just eight dollars and eight today, and take all household items home. Today's special offer will also give you a set of wooden tables and chairs. If you sell our beds again, you'll get a 20% discount.

The caravans were selling things that the common people needed. In particular, these peasant households, who fled last year, often live in makeshift wooden sheds, with no furniture or anything. Now that I have money, I can't make do with life anymore.

Oh......, you don't want a bed at home, you want a clay kang? That's easy. If you want to build a house, you must build a house, or you must build a house as well. Now building materials are very cheap, and wood, masonry and stone are transported by horse-drawn carts. As long as you make a deposit today, the engineering team will come to dig the foundation for you within half a month, and you will definitely be allowed to live in your new home before the snow falls in winter.

Too expensive to build a house? It doesn't matter.

Loan.

Low-interest loans, and it will be good to use the grain used to farm in the future.

Can you still believe the credibility of the handsome? This is our 'revolutionary army's own bank, and it is by no means a loan shark. The annual interest rate is less than two cents, and it can definitely be paid off within ten years.

The caravan salesman crackled a lot of words, and the seventy or eighty yuan that Lao Li Tou earned this year will soon be only a fraction of it. Instead, there was a large pile of purchased goods around him. Seeing that the money was almost spent all at once, and then looking at his family's assets being richer than before he fled, he didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing - like falling into the clouds, there was a kind of illusory unreality.

The caravan provided a delivery service and delivered a large pile of things bought by Lao Li Tou to his home. There are still food rations at home, enough to eat until next year, so you don't have to worry too much about life. The family was happy, and a few children were chattering around the goods they bought.

"It's really unthinkable." Lao Li Tou sat at the door of his wooden shed, staring blankly at the grain piled up in the corner and the goods in the house. He has lived for more than sixty years, and he has never felt so easy as he is now. "In the past, our family had a large population, but we had few fields. There is a lot of wasteland, but none of it is your own. I want to grow more land, but I don't have the strength to do it. ”

A strong labor force with ploughing cattle and farming strength and a weak labor force with nothing are completely different concepts. Lao Li Tou was also young, but after a few decades, he watched the strong labor force of his whole family become weakened under the heavy oppression. Watching other farmers in the village keep fleeing, watching their own family's food stock become less and less.

Seeing that the family is about to be destroyed, a flight has brought new life to the whole family.

After a few days, the engineering team organized by the 'revolutionary army' began to solve the housing problem for the low-level people. Lao Li Tou's family of more than a dozen people planned a homestead of more than 300 square meters, ready to build a two-story small building, with a dirt yard. When the masonry was pulled over by the freight carriage, Lao Li Tou suddenly made a decision to the whole family, "I have to thank Dashuai and give him a gift." ”

The whole family was rejoicing in the construction of their new home, and it was strange to hear that their old man had made this decision.

Gifts?

Old man, what gift can you give to Dashuai?