Chapter 20 130 million yuan

It seems to be a win-win plan, but in fact, one loses. Nothing else. It is the landlords of the north.

After this turmoil, there were landlords who collected rents and operated with other related incomes, and there were no more.

There are several reasons for this.

The landlord's income is not just land rent. In fact, the land rent is only a few dollars.

The income of the landlord is rent. It does not matter whether it is a year of disaster or a year of famine. Secondly, the tenant's unpaid labor, that is, the landlord can let the tenant do the work for himself at will, and under normal circumstances, there is no remuneration. The third is financial exploitation. Through usury, the tenants were exploited cleanly, and the tenants were turned from tenants into domestic slaves.

It became the property of the landlord.

And now, first of all, He Xi has raised the price of labor in the north a lot in the past few years in Beijing. So much so that He Xi's military spending was high. The average military salary is 20 taels, although there are many generals who have a very high salary, and most of the soldiers are also paid more than 10 taels. You must know that the salary of the army at the end of the Ming Dynasty was only this number.

But the price of silver in the early Ming Dynasty was completely different from that of the late Ming Dynasty. After all, from the Wanli period to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the West imported at least 600 million taels of silver.

Even if He Xi finds a way to issue more currency, the current one yuan will be worth more than one or two at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

It's not that He Xi doesn't want to reduce military spending, but the wages given by some factories have reached ten taels a year. Even some skilled workers can have more. People who go to the battlefield are not as good as workers, right?

If that's the case, who will give their lives to the court?

As a result, the price of labor will increase, and the rent of land will not be high. If it is high, there will be no human race.

Then there is the increase of new agricultural tools, which makes labor efficiency improved. Many tenants have gone to clear the land on their own. Grit your teeth and you'll have your own land. The cost of land reclamation is reduced.

The only place where the landlord could make super-profits was usury.

After all, agricultural production is too risky. To tell the truth, although there have been wars in the past few years, the wind and rain have generally been smooth, and there have been no major droughts and no major floods. But even so, Fu Youde's man-made flood was still unbearable for many tenants.

It is difficult for tenants, and even homesteaders, to combat the risks of agricultural production. Once this happens, the landlord can come out and reap it with usury.

Now there is no way for loan sharks to operate.

Land is much less attractive to landlords.

Farming has almost become a non-profitable business. This is still when the price of food is high.

In fact, if you really study the price of grain in ancient times, you will find that in terms of land price, farming is not a profitable business at all. Just like real estate, if you expect to rent out the house and collect rent to recover the cost, it is almost impossible to do so without decades or hundreds of years.

Therefore, most landlords do not want to recoup their costs by farming.

On the one hand, they counted on the power attached to the land. On the other hand, many landlords' property is fished out of officialdom. They don't expect to make money, they just want the land to keep its value.

Now the financial attributes of land are gone.

It is impossible to exploit tenants through the power attached to land, and it is impossible to preserve value. Without him, a large amount of land is being reclaimed under the implementation of new agricultural tools. It is a good thing that the price of land does not fall. I also want to appreciate and preserve my value, and I want to be beautiful.

In this way, the landlord had only two ways to go.

First, it is a true cultivation and heirloom.

That is, to participate in labor. As a result of the renewal of agricultural tools, the amount of land that can be cultivated by everyone has increased. If you are a peasant, you actually have to make money, and you don't have to work yourself, but you can organize labor. That is, to become a landlord who operates.

Not a rentier landlord.

After all, if you grow food, it is difficult for the land to return to its original value. This is limited to growing food. If it's a cash crop. But it's a different story.

The land in Jiangnan did not produce grain later, which is also the same reason. As for what kind of cash crops to plant, it depends on the situation. And now if Beijing grows cotton, it must be profitable.

After all, the Xie family is very short of cotton.

The second is to give up the land and do something else.

For example, to go into business.

This has also changed the economic structure of many bureaucratic families, and before that, it was the norm for a family to have someone as an official and someone to guard the land at home. But now it is different, the Xie family has given them new enlightenment, and the number of bureaucratic families like the Xie family has begun to increase.

But anyway.

There is a fact of the same. That is, the traditional scholars no longer exist.

The economic basis of their existence has been destroyed.

The reason why it's so easy to do. In fact, it is also related to the fact that the north itself is not a place where scholars and doctors flourish. But it also speaks. Another class that could replace the scholars, the capitalist class, had grown to a certain extent.

Under He Xi's guidance, they already have considerable attack power.

It's just that many people in the game can't recognize this situation.

From now on, He Xi can already determine how the history books of later generations will write about this war. This is not just a war, but also a revolution. A capitalist revolution.

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How far-reaching the impact of this event will be, that will be in the future.

Now He Xi, Zhu Xiongying, Yang Shiqi and others are most concerned about how much money they have made in this turmoil.

Yang Shiqi took people from the Ministry of Finance to calculate, and finally came to a conclusion, saying, "A total of 130 million yuan."

"$130 million." Zhu Xiongying was taken aback when he heard this number, he already knew that he would definitely be able to raise a considerable amount of money this time, but he never expected that there would be so much. This was enough for the imperial court to fight two or three big battles.

A battle like the Great War between the Rivers.

If they all win, it will be enough to drink the Yangtze River.

He Xi said, "Okay. This thing is in the past, and now we have to think about how to spend the money, after all, the money is not given for free, but also with interest. We can't let them lie in vain."

In fact, He Xi is not too satisfied with this number.

He still has a lot of ways to use it. But let's wait.

The capital market can't suck too much blood at one time, and it won't be able to slow down.

It's not too late to do it when you're short of money in the future.

There is borrowing and repaying, and it is not difficult to borrow again. It's also okay to borrow the new and pay back the old.

However, He Xi also knew that the thinking of Daming people could not bear too high a deficit. This money will have to be paid off in the future.

"Yes." Zhu Xiongying said, "Yes, find a way to spend it. Can this money be used as military expenses, go south in one fell swoop, and fight the south against the victory."

He Xi pondered for a moment and said, "It's not good. After all, is it a good idea for Nanjing to invite Wei Guogong to be the commander, and really fight to the death?"

When Zhu Xiongying heard this, he immediately fell into deep thought.

Facing the prestige of Xu Da, the Duke of Wei. Zhu Xiongying couldn't hold it. In fact, he also knew that Wei Guogong's health was not good, and it was one thing to even be able to command the battle. But in any case, as soon as the name came out, everyone had to hesitate.

Zhu Xiongying said, "What should I do then?"

He Xi said: "The minister always has an idea, that is, we cannot win in ourselves, but we can win in the enemy, we must first be invincible, and then talk about other things. The first thing I want to do is to build a railway all the way to the front line, so that the army will no longer have to worry about the future. Even if you encounter a big defeat, you can hold your ground."

"Even if the Duke of Wei comes to attack, he won't be able to bite it."

He Xi was jealous of Wei Guogong, but not to the point of not daring to fight. It's just that he doesn't want to take risks. Unlike letting Nanjing have a chance to turn around, in a word, what He Xi wants is to suppress the strength of the upright.

The firepower is several times, the combat power is several times, and the money is also several times, under such pressure, he doesn't believe that Wei Guogong can still turn the tables.

No matter how powerful Xu Da is, he is only a human being, not a god.

Zhu Xiongying nodded, he admitted that He Xi was right. National events, to

Prudently, one thing can be risky at the tactical level. Even if you lose, the loss is not big, but you can't take risks in terms of strategy.

It's just that Zhu Xiongying was a little unwilling, and said, "Don't we do anything? That's too passive, isn't it?"

He Xi said, "The minister thinks it's not that he can't move, but he doesn't attack head-on?"

"What do you mean by that?" Zhu Xiongying asked.