With only 40,000 taels of silver, he was able to kill hundreds of people and capture thousands of the imperial navy, thus solving such a serious crime of rebellion.

"Absurd, really absurd."

"Fake, too fake."

"Idiots, two idiots."

Faced with Wu Shanshan's comments, Zhao Han had nothing to say.

The truth is so ridiculous.

Think about it in Dream of Red Mansions. The Jia family spent nearly a million taels of silver to welcome the imperial concubine to visit the bride.

In the end, my house was confiscated.

Why didn’t so much money help them change the outcome?

Why does this happen?

It's simple, because there are no soldiers behind the Jia family.

If I want to crush you to death, I will crush you to death.

The Jia family fell only after Wang Ziteng, the man with military power, died violently.

"This incident means that the imperial court is already very weak at this time." Jia Lian said to the two of them.

"Then what should we do?" Jia Rong asked.

"We should speed up our pace now and develop quickly without hesitation."

"Yes, the officials under the imperial court are more tolerant than we thought. They are only interested in making money."

"The reality is not the Red Mansion. There is no such complicated conspiracy. It only depends on strength and means."

The idea of ​​​​deciding to speed up is still there.

They began to introduce large numbers of refugees, open up desert islands, attack savages, and distribute land.

In fact, this is the foundation on which the dynasty was founded.

How did the dynasty become stable in the first place?

It relies on allocating ownerless land to the refugees.

The first achievement of the county magistrate was to appease the refugees, distribute land, and register them.

Cultivate a large number of homesteaders.

This is the foundation for the prosperity of a dynasty.

A force that can do this will have the hope of becoming a dragon.

Many heroes don't understand it and fail in the end.

These three seemingly simple things require the cooperation of a large number of scholars forming an official class.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to reach the sky.

It's impossible to rely solely on rogue bandits. They don't even know how big the land is, let alone divide it.

There are yeoman farmers.

The food is available.

Iron tools and cloth appeared subsequently.

When supplies are abundant, they can be collected.

It depends on small farmers.

Without the yeoman farmers, the dynasty would be doomed.

why?

Obviously, after becoming a sharecropper, he is still creating wealth.

Moreover, the population will be larger in the later period, and theoretically more wealth will be created.

The reason is very simple. Homeowner farmers are the most vulnerable to oppression and are scattered one by one. They are the natural class to be taxed.

Once they disappeared and became tenant farmers of the big landowners, they could no longer pay enough taxes.

As for the big landowners, they have various ways to bribe officials and avoid taxes.

In the end, the imperial court was accidentally destroyed even though the people still had a lot of money, food, and material wealth.

If he cannot collect taxes and supplies, the system will not function.

All three of them understand this.

Of course they have to find a way to solve this problem.

It's actually not troublesome.

Through prosperous business activities, there is a solution.

When trade prospered, the imperial court controlled the army, which controlled transportation, maintained trade channels, and collected taxes.

Allow landless farmers to obtain food and other materials through commercial activities.

To put it simply, it is to create jobs...or to provide welfare, which means that no labor jobs can be created, so the court directly forcibly collects taxes from wealthy businessmen and uses the taxes to feed the redundant landless peasants and maintain stability.

It's just that this is more difficult, and wealthy businessmen will find ways to evade taxes.

This will turn the small-scale peasant economy into a mobile commodity economy.

The more developed commerce is, the more labor force can be used and the faster the circulation of materials becomes.

From the two basic materials of food and cloth, to steel and gunpowder, taxes are collected and these things are saved through taxes.

Currency is the medium of circulation for materials.

The three of them have learned this trick a long time ago.

But this kind of insight was beyond the imagination of feudal rulers.

Feudal rulers only thought that having money was enough.

They also created paper money early and kept issuing it, but in the end they ruined themselves.

No one uses paper money anymore.

Why was gold and silver used in ancient times?

Because gold and silver cannot be distributed randomly, you must dig out as much as you can to issue it.

Ancient paper money simply did not work, and the unrestricted feudal rulers could not control their impulse to issue indiscriminately.

This year, they brought in another 1 million refugees.

They quickly immigrated the refugees to various islands.

Open up wasteland and clean up mosquitoes, rats, and fleas, the biggest enemies of immigrants.

Set fire to clean the land, and then distribute the land. After two years, these farmers will settle down and be able to produce materials and become producers.

However, they must also become consumers and join the commodity economy.

"How to create a commodity economy?" The three people began to discuss again.

"The West relied on maritime trade and trade with the colonies. Starting with weaving, it promoted a series of industries, and then brought a large amount of food from the colonies to ensure the needs of workers. At the same time, it defeated the local landlords and forced

They switched to planting cotton and raising sheep, changing the use of the land." Jia Rong said.

"Then how do we replicate this process?" Zhao Han asked.

"We want farmers to participate in commercial activities, sell their grains, and exchange them for daily necessities, thereby improving the circulation of the entire material supply. Only by circulation and by making more things can we develop."

"It's difficult. These farmers naturally have a conservative sense of saving. So we have to issue currency and anchor this currency to an item they must use."

"It must be medicines. Only medicines can never be produced by farmers themselves. There are also clothes. Generally, farmers will find that it is not cost-effective to make clothes themselves."

"Yes that's it."

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An island somewhere in the south.

A village is surrounded by high village walls.

Wang Ergen is a land immigrant. He has settled here for three years, married a wife, and has given birth to two children.

Thanks to God's blessing, he is in good health and already has some property.

Twenty acres of land, three cattle, and flocks of chickens and ducks.

Now he desperately hopes that his children will grow up quickly and be able to help him work and inherit the family business.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! He can make good use of these children.

Of course, he has no intention of actively exploiting his children, but the fact is that in agricultural production activities, it is easy for him to exploit his children and help him with farm work.

He is now short of labor.
To be continued...