Chapter 116: The Problem

Li Jinglong understands very well that even if there is no problem with the new banknotes, relying on Yao Guangxiao's secret hand alone is enough to make the Nanjing Imperial Court drink a pot of ruthlessness.

Not to mention, there is a problem within the new banknote system.

Once Yao Guangxiao makes a move, Nanjing's finances will inevitably have problems.

Yao Guangxiao continued: "The people of the south will not be able to support it for long. Look at these big projects."

Immediately, Yao Guangxiao took out a piece of paper, which was a large project in Nanjing.

Xuzhou Iron Works Project.

Qingjiangpu Shipyard Project.

Lantian Railway Project.

Huainan Coal Mine Project.

Wait a minute.

Needless to say, Xuzhou Iron Works. Qingjiangpu Shipyard Project, Qingjiangpu originally had a large shipyard, which was used to build ships. This time it's just an expansion, and it doesn't seem like a problem, but the question is where does the wood come from?

It's just a matter of building ordinary ships. If you want to build a big ship that can compete with Beijing at sea, it is not ordinary wood.

It has to be a big wood.

The Lantian Railway has increased its priority because of the defeat in the Northwest War.

The Huainan Coal Mine is also due to the recent expansion of the Taiping Iron Works, and the iron ore should be able to supply. However, there are some deficiencies in coal mines, and there are not many coal mines in Anqing, and it is difficult to mine. I had to look for it from somewhere else.

In addition to these, I don't know how many other fragmentary projects there are?

After Li Jinglong saw this, he was a little puzzled and said, "Is there anything wrong with this?"

Yao Guangxiao knew that Li Jinglong was born in a wealthy family, and many things were not too clear. can only explain: "Do you know, how to transport military rations here in Nanjing?"

Li Jinglong was very clear about this, and said: "If it is a war, there is a special army to recruit people to escort it, and if it is too urgent, it can only be transported by itself."

Yao Guangxiao said, "So long-term stationing?"

Li Jinglong said: "It is usually sent by the imperial court and the local government, and the details are not very clear."

Yao Guangxiao said, "It's forced labor. and the people shall be subject to servitude."

Li Jinglong said, "It seems to be like this."

Yao Guangxiao said: "With such a long front, how much military rations are needed, and how much conscription is needed? Do you know that?"

Li Jinglong shook his head blankly, so that he had no concept of this, but he also knew that there must be a lot.

Yao Guangxiao said, "Do you know how these projects are built?"

Li Jinglong is a smart person, obedient and obedient, how can he not hear Li Jinglong's extraneous meaning?

Li Jinglong said, "Is it also conscription?"

Yao Guangxiao said, "Exactly. I have sent people to investigate, and the most are the conscription in southern Shandong, and there are already some places where Zhuang men have served for more than a year."

Li Jinglong no longer understands the world, but he also knows that where the people at the bottom are, men are the pillars of the family. What happens when there is no man in the family for a year.

Li Jinglong said with some doubts: "I don't think the north has stopped the big project. Why is this happening?"

Yao Guangxiao said: "When Taizu changed the law, he was actually about to abolish forced labor. It's just that in the end I had to blur the matter. After all, the impact is too great. But now that His Majesty has ascended the throne, the system of conscription has been completely abolished. Even when the city of Beijing was built, wages were paid. Nowadays, in the whole north, there are no local officials to serve the people, but as long as the scale of the project is carried out, it is all hired. Even because of the support of a lot of engineering teams, how many people operate such things professionally. You've probably heard of that, too."

The employment system, which is different from the conscription system, brings different results.

In Beijing, employment has brought great financial pressure, which is why the 100 million national debt has been spent so quickly. You know, Beijing's income is not just about national debt. There are also a lot of other incomes in all aspects, plus the income from the over-issuance of currency.

It is also normal to spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

It's just that a lot of it is not included in military spending

Among them, for example, the funding of the railway.

However, such a large investment has also led to economic growth in other aspects. Don't say anything else. A large number of people have money in their hands, what will they do, what will they spend. Various types of consumption stimulate economic growth.

And Beijing's sound commercial tax system, I dare not say that no one evades taxes. But at least a considerable part of the dividends of economic development were taken by the imperial court and turned into fiscal revenue. And supported the war.

Is there any bubble in it?

Even in the matter of over-issuance of currency, Beijing is much more serious than Nanjing. But there isn't much of a feeling on the market.

Naturally, there is. It's even quite a bit. But at least it is much stronger than Nanjing. It can be said that Beijing has turned the pressure of war on everyone into inflation. It makes a lot of people lose money. And a lot of pressure on Nanjing was directly pressed on the people in the form of forced labor.

It's going to die.

Li Jinglong was a little dazed, he seemed to understand a lot, but he didn't seem to understand.

Yao Guangxiao didn't mean to tell Li Jinglong much. After all, to make Li Jinglong understand so many things, he needs a lot of homework to talk about, and Yao Guangxiao has no intention of lecturing Li Jinglong.

Yao Guangxiao said: "There is another thing, have you made any money in the Jiangning Weaving Factory recently?"

Li Jinglong said: "Naturally, it was earned."

Yao Guangxiao said, "Do you make a lot of money?"

Li Jinglong said, "No more, no less." Li Jinglong didn't say much. But with a smile on his face, he had already betrayed him. That's a lot of money.

Yao Guangxiao said: "I don't know, have you noticed one thing, that is, many social studies in Jiangnan have closed."

Li Jinglong was even more dazed. He didn't know what Yao Guangxiao was talking about, what did this have to do with him?

He felt that Yao Guangxiao was in the same world as him, but not in the same world.

Yao Guangxiao was originally very smart, he had been by He Xi's side for the longest time, and he understood He Xi's thinking better, and today's Yao Guangxiao is more like an ancient sociologist than historical Yao Guangxiao.

Yao Guangxiao's choice of entry point is sociology.

What is Sociology?

It was Zhu Yuanzhang who asked the village to establish its own private lady for enlightenment and education. It can be said that it is a private elementary school. And who are the people who go to such schools?

He is the son of a yeoman farmer.

People who are really rich are self-tutors. Or have homeschooling. The private lady organized by the imperial court is actually not too good.

Rather, they are rich among yeoman farmers. After all, the real middle and lower class people have no need to study.

Social studies was popularized on a large scale in the early Ming Dynasty, but disappeared in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. This is also related to the demise of yeoman farmers in the Ming Dynasty. It also proves that Yao Guangxiao's choice cannot be wrong.

And what the yeoman farmers rely on to make money and what they rely on to let their children go to school is naturally weaving.

From this point of view, the impact of the textile industry on the smallholder economy is very intuitive.

It's only been a year.

There has been a massive sociological demise.

After all, these sociology are essentially parents who ask a gentleman to submit a book. Education at this age doesn't require so many heavy assets. All you need is one room, one teacher.

And Chinese have always paid the most attention to children's education. Parents are the same no matter what era they are.

Children will not be allowed to stop studying unless absolutely necessary.

Not to mention, He Xi has also brought a change to this era, especially industrialization, which has brought a lot of literacy needs. If you only studied for the imperial examination before, the employment prospects in other directions are not very good. But that's no longer the case.

It can be said that this is a window period. Only reading and literacy, in this era, have a very good future, after this period of time, it is difficult to say.

Even as an investment, reading books has the highest rate of return.

The people are the most cunning and the most ignorant. In this case, it has stimulated many people's desire to read and write. There are even a lot of spontaneous private affairs in Beijing.

Today, the richest Jiangnan region has such a situation.

What does this mean?

Li Jinglong may not know. But Yao Guangxiao understands it very well. That is, he expected the impact of industry on the smallholder economy to come. Without the extra income of weaving, many of the people's children were unable to study.

And that's just the beginning. Now you can save money without reading. But what about the future? The people's life is very hard, and he can't afford the slightest fluctuation in income.