Tao Jie said aggrievedly: "According to what I learned in the technical newspaper, the supporting industries in Tianfu could not keep up, and the original production cost was higher than that of Beiping. ”

Zhang Bo nodded, understanding Tao Jie's failure.

This person is not defeated in business, but in the environment.

The business environment in the north has surpassed that of the Ming Dynasty, so outside of Beiping, it is impossible to defeat Beiping.

Tao Jie is always looking for the reason for his failure.

By familiarizing himself with the technical newspaper, Tao Jie had some preliminary understanding, but he always felt that it was not clear enough, so he sincerely asked Zhang Bo for advice.

"Logically speaking, the Jianghuai region is the richest place in the Ming Dynasty, and the productivity is not weaker than that of Beiping, why would I fail so completely?"

The exchange between the three attracted the rest of the people, and many people gathered around.

Zhang Bo smiled.

He said in public: "It is already remarkable that the Jianghuai region has reached this height in terms of traditional productivity. ”

Zhang Bo has a high degree of awareness of the talents outflow from China Heavy Industries.

The merchants hoped that through Zhang Bo, they would also deepen their message.

After finishing the cliché, Zhang Bocai said seriously: "The information published in the new newspaper has increased in Peiping from one catty and nine taels of iron per capita to thirty-nine catties, an increase of twenty times. ”

"What is the concept of twenty times?"

Zhang Bo's voice became more and more excited, full of passion, and made people listen more devotedly.

Like the protagonist of the stage.

Zhang Bo's hands danced, and his exaggerated body language looked even more powerful.

"In other words, with a point to an area, the social wealth of Peking has increased twenty times!"

"What is this rate of expansion?"

"Even the richest salt merchant in the Jianghuai region has never reached a level of growth in a lifetime, and there is no such high rate of return on smuggling salt."

People couldn't help but smile.

In the development of Beiping, or the development of Beiping, countless rich people have been added.

Small businessmen become big businessmen, and big businessmen become forces that have mastered capital.

For example, Zhang Dehui.

An important member of the Coal Industry Association, a coal industry tycoon.

This is already an exaggeration.

But now Zhang Bo has made a new model in Kaiping, which is equivalent to adding leverage, and it is even more incredible, others are still running, and he has already taken a plane.

So Zhang Bo became the most popular person in Beiping.

"Beiping's first-mover advantage, and Beiping's current commercial volume, are like Huizhou merchants."

Zhang Bo explained in easy-to-understand terms.

"The environment of Hui businessmen exceeds that of other groups, so Hui businessmen do business all over the country in the Ming Dynasty, and there is a saying that no Hui is not a business."

"This is the inevitable trend of business, the stronger the stronger, the weaker the weaker."

"Hui merchants flow out, spread all over the country, the same is true of Beiping, only Beiping exports in the future, and there is no export to Beiping, because of the development of Beiping's industrial productivity!"

If Zhu Gaochi was here, he would understand that it was also the reason why the United States shouted free trade in later generations.

With the industrial production capacity of the United States at that time, the so-called fair competition is the greatest unfairness to countries with weak productive forces.

If fairness is really pursued, when China's industrial production capacity surpasses that of the United States, the United States will not erect trade barriers again.

At that time, Britain occupied the world's main market, while the United States surpassed Britain in industrial productivity, and the United States shouted every day that Britain was obstructing the world's free trade.

The dragon slayer boy defeated the evil dragon and eventually became the evil dragon.

It is said that China likes to talk clichés.

Actually, the United States is the same.

It's just that he likes to use the words freedom, which is different from the traditional Chinese words, and there is no difference between looking at the essence through the phenomenon.

Of course, there must be something worth learning, and the ancestors have long said that there must be a teacher for threesomes.

But if you really regard others as saviors and expect others to fight for your own happiness, this kind of person is really called a fool to tell a dream, open the door to introduce tigers and wolves, and harm others and themselves.

There has never been a savior in the world, only you can save yourself.

Whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, the progress of world civilization has always been the result of the people's own struggle, hoping to sit back and enjoy its achievements and blessings from heaven, and such people cannot be saved.

It's like the Ming Dynasty.

The resistance to the imperial power has never been broken, and the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty has been challenged step by step, which is the manifestation of the Ming Dynasty's openness over the Qing Dynasty.

Try to challenge the imperial power during the stable period of the Qing Dynasty, and die if you try.

The Ming Dynasty was different.

Dare to scold in the court, still scold when you return to your hometown, and if you don't scold enough, write a book and pass it on to future generations.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, civilians with sticks actually walked directly into the East Palace, so defenseless, dare to think in the Qing Dynasty?

"Peking is now like a train on the railway, and the sooner you join this train, the farther you will go."

"And those who don't take this train will be left behind and will eventually be eliminated by society."

Zhang Bo praised Beiping vigorously, hoping that more people would invest in Beiping, and he could get more cakes from it.

This time the banquet was a success.

Zhang Bo's good performance has won the recognition and trust of many people.

The balloon-like expansion of the assets of businessmen who came to Peking attracted more people, and Tao Jie was one of them.

But they are very new to Peking and don't know where to start.

But they have the money, they have connections in the South.

Zhang Bo raised another 20,000 taels of silver.

Real money.

This batch of silver was exchanged for grain stamps, and I continued to go to Kaiping to get land, and then recruited workers to open mines, and in the early stage of production, I went to the grain stamp bank for loans.

This month, three new restaurants were opened in Beiping.

The boundary of Zhending Mansion, the junction with Shunde Mansion, Bai Township, Lincheng County.

Qingming two months ago.

The people burned paper and swept the graves.

However, Beiping is not the same as the south.

Most of the population of Beiping migrated from the south, in fact, hundreds of years ago, most of this group of people are the descendants of the original group of people who flowed from the north to the south.

This is also one of the reasons why the Han gene is the highest in the world.

It's just that.

There are indeed not many big families in Peking at the moment.

In the north, military households are the mainstay, and in the south, small households are the mainstay, and most of the ancestral graves are not in Beiping.

But Shandong is different.

Now the scale of tomb sweeping in Shandong in the Ming Dynasty is much larger than that in Beiping, and in the southern coastal area, the scale is much larger.

This was caused by the policies of the Yuan Dynasty, after all, the era of inferior people, and the center of the Southern Song Dynasty, various bans caused the culture of the Jianghuai region to be completely destroyed.

On the contrary, the coastal areas were preserved, including the clans.

Many people say that the clan is not good.

The premise is that you have something better first, and before there is no better replacement, but you lose the clan, then it is called stupid and pedantic to read.

Study, test for fame, become an official, buy land to increase ancestral property.

This is the path of a traditional agrarian society.

This year, the people in the township who returned from business in Peiping Province have repaired the ancestral graves, that is, the graves of their grandfathers and fathers.

Actually used masonry.

Truckloads of sacrifices were pulled back, alarming the villagers.

"It's bold."

"The government doesn't care."

The folks gossiped.

The largest landlord in the local area, the people of the Lao Tian family also came to see, and several descendants of the family showed envious eyes.

"This family used to be inferior to our family, and after going out for a few years, they were so arrogant."

"I heard that this family has opened a mine in Beiping."

"If you don't buy a field to open a mine, there will always be a day when the mine is finished, and where is it like my family's field, it will be passed on from generation to generation."

"But the profit of the mining business in one year exceeds our accumulation of decades, and I heard that his family has bought another mine."

Some children said uneasily.

In ancient times, people kept the good rice and wheat grown in their fields as the next year's grain.

This is not a small proportion.

There are many wheat growers in the north, and in ancient times, according to the different geographical environment, some places need to keep more than 100 catties of grain on five acres of land.

One acre of wheat seeds needs twenty catties.

In the West.

Before the 11th century, the ratio was roughly 1:2, and even on the eve of the Industrial Revolution in the 17th century, it was only about 1:4.

What is the concept of around 1:2?

One acre of land in the West can roughly sow 20 catties of seeds in ancient times, so only 40 catties of grain can be harvested in the future!

From the British "Medieval Life".

It is also consistent with the conclusions calculated by Cambridge economic history based on data in records such as the ancient Roman "On Agriculture".

China's farming technology is much higher than that of the West.

After the grain and taxes are removed, if you don't count the forced labor, the profit of a yeoman farmer is about seven dollars of silver for one acre of land in the north.

Ten acres of land is seven taels of silver.

After removing the cost of rations, daily necessities, and tools, then there is not much silver left.

Theoretically, fifteen acres of land is the upper limit of a family, with the help of oxen ploughing.

Even if you have 100 acres of land, you won't create much value.

And now the general workers of China Heavy Industry have an annual income of 12 taels, including food and shelter and free work clothes.

Those businessmen who invest in industry have an even higher rate of return.

The snowballing profits of Zhang Bo are even more unimaginable to landlords who want to make a profit from land.

If the profits of industry are more than double the profits of land, these landlords will want to pursue security.

But a hundredfold, a thousandfold.

People's annual profits are beyond the reach of ordinary small landlords in their lifetime.

There are many who will oppose it, because industry has made labor strained and increased the labor costs of landlords, but there are also more landlords who will turn to industry.

What channels and capital do ordinary people have to start factories?

The main forces in the first industrial revolution in Britain are still the same people, the royal family, the aristocracy, the landlords.

It's just that their model has changed, and they have changed their name.

Without bloodshed, how could the original interest class disappear.

It's just that the development of industry has made the plate bigger, and more people have joined.

Therefore, although Britain succeeded in the first industrial revolution, it also deepened the class contradictions at home.

Taking out a few hundred taels of silver is something that many landlords can take out by gritting their teeth.

These few hundred taels of silver can become the original capital.

The rich man who returned to his hometown invited several landlords in the township to dinner, hoping to pull an investment from these people.

The luxury of wealth is also for these people to see.

(End of chapter)