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Chapter 347: The Running Economy

After this blind date activity, the Dongjiang Army was successfully demolished by Zhu Youxiao, and most of the ordinary soldiers were discharged.&1t;/p>

The officers and soldiers who remained in the office were sent to the Royal Military Academy for further study.&1t;/p>

Mao Wenlong obviously wanted to continue fighting on the battlefield, so before being transferred to the training class, Sun Chuanting reported the situation, and Zhu Youxiao directly appointed Mao Wenlong as the commander of the Northwest Military Region.&1t;/p>

The northwest will be the core area of ​​the combat in the future, or the front station. The Ming Dynasty's expansion on the 6th ground will continue to spread westward and northward.&1t;/p>

The nomadic regime in Central Asia, as well as the Russians, will become the main opponents of the Ming Dynasty in the future.&1t;/p>

After successfully dismantling the Dongjiang Army, Zhu Youxiao finally completed military centralization. Although the southern garrisons and some garrison troops were not abolished, these troops obviously did not pose any threat. After all, the commodity economy in the southern region was relatively early, and the garrisons had long been corrupt and had very low combat power.&1t;/p>

In the northern region, the military has now been fully captured by Zhu Youxiao, and there is no uncontrollable army. At the same time, it has completely solved the bad habit of military officers in captivity in the northern region.&1t;/p>

Today's new army does not allow officers to have servants, or even slaves. Once such behavior occurs, it is a serious crime that violates military law.&1t;/p>

Without the servant system and the compulsory military service system adopted now, the new army has become a soldier who is in a state of iron.&1t;/p>

In the seventh year of the Tianqi revelation, the Ming Dynasty was quite 'good weather'. Although there were still many small-scale disasters in various places, there were no major disasters this year. Earthquakes! Large-scale droughts and other things occurred. Small-scale droughts and floods all occurred, but the impact was not very large. They were all safely survived with the relief of the court.&1t;/p>

The summer harvest in various regions is also relatively smooth. There are not many areas with poor harvests in northern provinces. In addition, the construction of water conservancy facilities in recent years, agriculture has been much better than a few years ago.&1t;/p>

Especially in the areas around the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, Zhu Youxiao has continued to invest money to manage the Yellow River in recent years. Although the problem of the Yellow River cannot be fundamentally solved, at least it has curbed the continued deterioration of the situation and made some improvements, which has also had a huge impact on agriculture around the Yellow River.&1t;/p>

The Northeast region achieved a bumper harvest. This summer, a large number of commercial grains were harvested. However, in the north, because the temperature is relatively cold, winter wheat cannot be planted, so the harvest has to wait until the autumn harvest season. Only the area of ​​Liaoning has winter wheat harvest because of the continuous decline in temperature. The planting area of ​​winter wheat in Liaoning is much smaller than decades ago.&1t;/p>

The harvest of summer grain in the north is obviously not enough to support the food consumption in the northern region.&1t;/p>

After the continuous land enclosure movement, the summer grain production in northern Zhili has been greatly reduced, and Shandong's summer grain production has also also decreased. On the one hand, it is personnel changes. On the other hand, it is land used to develop the aquaculture industry. Because the industry in northern Zhili and Shandong continues to develop and urbanize, a large number of people are concentrated in cities and a larger scale of aquaculture industry is also needed.&1t;/p>

In addition, nowadays, projects are everywhere in various northern provinces, and construction sites are everywhere. A large number of agricultural labor forces leave the land, which has also caused a certain degree of agricultural production reduction.&1t;/p>

However, the scale of fishing catches caught from Zhendong Province fishing grounds and coastal fishing grounds, as well as the rice transported from Taiwan and Nanyang, has begun to grow, maintaining the large-scale construction in the northern region today.&1t;/p>

With the expansion of the scope of reform and the increase of employment, the wage level in the reform areas showed a new round of significant increase in the seventh year of the Tianqi period. Young and strong male workers who have paid more physical strength have increased their wages to 80 yuan per day, and their income reached 4.8 yuan in a month.&1t;/p>

Such a salary level is actually very low. The demographic dividend space is still relatively large.&1t;/p>

At this time, Zhu Youxiao was obviously not afraid of the population being too high, but was worried about the population being insufficient. The idea of ​​family planning has completely faded from his mind.&1t;/p>

Originally, Zhu Youxiao’s idea was to adopt a more gentle family planning, that is, to allow two children. But now I suddenly feel that this doesn’t seem to be needed.&1t;/p>

After all, Zhu Youxiao is now following the new socialist route of later generations, which protects citizens' basic right to survival. It will not set welfare benefits too high, but provides a competitive platform so that those who are willing to do things can be rich. Those who are unwilling to do things will only protect their basic right to survival. Under such a system, the national welfare expenditure will not be too exaggerated due to the excessive population.&1t;/p>

As long as you can afford it, there is no big problem with a larger population. Moreover, the economy has reached a certain level, people are not so leisurely and comfortable, there are more things, and the cost of raising up will naturally lead to less birth and less childbirth.&1t;/p>

The rise in wage levels in the newly-collected areas is mainly related to inflation. With the injected use of paper money, the mint is a printing banknote that works overtime. Although the number of paper money put on the market is controlled, there is a relatively large increase in currency investment in the market every month.&1t;/p>

The most obvious inflation is food prices, which will inevitably rise, because food is consumable and needs to be continuously produced. With the increase in labor costs, prices will inevitably rise.&1t;/p>

However, in the prices of steel and other commodities, there was no rapid price increase, but only a slow increase. This is a normal market phenomenon. Although labor costs have increased, the technical level of the metallurgy industry is constantly developing. The steelmaking furnaces of state-owned steel enterprises are now building larger and larger. With the use of some by-products, the profit margin is still very large.&1t;/p>

Just like later generations, food prices are always rising, but the prices of electronic products are constantly decreasing.&1t;/p>

The slow rise in steel prices is mainly because a large number of engineering construction increases the demand for steel, and the hot market has led to the slow rise of prices, so this is a very normal market phenomenon.&1t;/p>

The rise in food prices has made the state-owned capital consortium make a big profit, because many foods are shipped back from overseas. The production cost of overseas food is low!&1t;/p>

Not to mention overseas, even in the Northeast and Taiwan, although the increase in wages increases labor costs, these areas are commercial grain production bases, large-scale production of commercial grain, personal labor efficiency is very high, and labor costs have not had a great impact on commodity grain prices.&1t;/p>

The labor cost of plantations in the Nanyang area is even lower. Under the third-grade and ninth-class system of the Ming Dynasty, the basic survival rights can be guaranteed, but the wages and benefits are relatively low, and the agricultural output in Nanyang and other places is also relatively high.&1t;/p>

The division of labor in the industry is becoming more and more obvious. The efficiency is also becoming more and more high.&1t;/p>

The benefit of the increased currency of the state in the construction of various infrastructure is to put money in the hands of those willing to do things and private businessmen who are of great significance to the national economy.&1t;/p>

However, if the state-owned capital consortium cannot collect this money, it will not be able to recycle it, which will also cause private businessmen to get rich and cause extremely bad social problems. Therefore, the monopoly of state-owned capital consortium must monopolize the money, so that money can be recovered through people's consumption and then released. This will allow wealth to flow. Only when wealth flows can society be full of vitality.&1t;/p>

If the state-owned capital consortium does not monopolize some industries, once the private capital masters these wealth, it will not be willing to flow money to the lower-level people. The merchants in the late Ming Dynasty were very rich. After the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, a wealthy household was randomly searched in the Jiangnan region for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and tens of thousands of taels of silver. However, in the late Ming Dynasty, not only large-scale natural disasters occurred, but also severe deflation occurred. This is because wealth was over-concentrated in the hands of those private businessmen. These private businessmen were unwilling to release their money for investment, and the money flowed on the market would be less. There were fewer jobs, and the people could not even find work.&1t;/p>

In such a country without external exploitation, the people will live so poor. And in a country like China, where the people are more hardworking, it is a very abnormal phenomenon in itself. The main problem is the rise of capitalism, which monopolizes wealth.&1t;/p>

The rise of state-owned capital consortiums can avoid this problem.&1t;/p>

A large amount of social resources are controlled by the state-owned capital consortium. The financial power is bound by the state power, and the interests are stable with the state, and the development is reached. When money is made, it must be invested and built. When the economy is not good, the state-owned capital consortium will also stand up and invest everywhere to drive the economy.&1t;/p>

Therefore, under this new socialist system, no matter how difficult the economy is, it is impossible to have widespread unemployment conditions like the Great Depression in the United States.&1t;/p>

When social productivity reaches a certain level, commodity production capacity is what is placed there. It is equivalent to this time, as long as the people have something to do, no matter how difficult the economy is, the society will be relatively stable, but there is not so much extra money and no matter how tight the money is, you can still live.&1t;/p>

There are also many construction projects, including infrastructure, military construction, scientific and technological research, etc. Drive basic production capacity and distribute wealth, so that everyone can live a life.&1t;/p>

The biggest benefit of state-owned capital consortiums is to build commodity production capacity first. State-owned capital consortiums can obtain a large amount of low-interest loans to quickly build commodity production capacity. Large enough commodity production capacity means enough supply to society. Wealth is actually commodities, and currency is just something that represents the value of commodities. Having enough production capacity means that if the wealth is distributed, the people will be rich.&1t;/p>

The important means of allocating wealth is to build a large number of construction and research activities, and find things for the people to do if they have nothing to do. Infrastructure construction can be done at any time, infrastructure will age and need to be updated. Military construction can also be done at any time. Even if there are not many construction projects, there are always a lot of things to do in environmental protection construction, right?&1t;/p>

Therefore, under the macro-control of state-owned capital consortiums, it is impossible for people to lose a large amount of jobs. In fact, construction activities do not require a large amount of loans to private capital to invest, and then to make a complete harvest, just like the American international consortium in later generations.&1t;/p>

It is equivalent to that when the economy is prosperous, it is impossible to be as prosperous as the US economy, and the economic bubble will not be blown too much. However, when the depression is in a recession, it is impossible to be as difficult as the Great Depression in the United States in later generations. Overall, it is relatively stable, but in terms of construction, the efficiency is the highest.&1t;/p>

Nowadays, the projects monopolized by state-owned capital consortiums, namely transportation, commodities, and some profit-making industries. There is no monopoly policy in agriculture, and agriculture cannot monopoly, but the state-owned capital consortium has also intervened in agricultural production and carried out a large amount of investment and construction of agricultural production capacity.&1t;/p>

In terms of total investment, the Northeast still accounts for half of the land. Since the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the main force of the construction of the state-owned capital consortium has been transferred to the Northeast.&1t;/p>

The scale of infrastructure activities in roads, towns, water conservancy and other aspects is getting bigger and bigger every year.&1t;/p>

After three years of continuous investment in construction, the population of Northeast China has exceeded 10 million, and resources are being continuously developed.&1t;/p>

The output of minerals, commercial grains and wood is increasing.&1t;/p>

Metallurgy, wood processing, papermaking, grain and oil processing and other industries in the Northeast are booming. Now, grain and oil, steel, wood products, medicinal materials and other products can be imported into the customs.&1t;/p>

The Northeast, which has only 10 million people, has now become a very prosperous region.&1t;/p>

Local resources are numerous per capita, and the resources that people can obtain are also very large. As long as they are willing to do things, they will have no worries about food and clothing. The towns are also newly built, because there are many resources, the towns and streets are designed relatively wide, and the underground drainage system has also invested a lot of manpower and material resources to build.&1t;/p>

There is naturally a reason for economic prosperity. After a large number of immigrants come to the Northeast, they need to settle down and start a business.    [$].org&1t;/p>

A large amount of funds were invested in opening the Northeast, and these funds were allocated to these immigrants through labor. Starting a business was solved. Before settling down, they just made a simple settlement. Many immigrants still lived in small houses built casually. Now that they have no problem with their work, they naturally have to buy real estate, buy furniture and daily necessities, which has led to huge market demand.&1t;/p>

The core driving force of economic development is market demand. Construction can only stabilize the economy. However, if most of the people's needs are met, it can only serve to stabilize the situation and cannot make the economy prosperous.&1t;/p>

With strong market demand, the weather vane of economic prosperity.&1t;/p>

After the Northeast was ravaged by Jiannu, many things were destroyed. Now that they are rebuilt, demand is very strong, and rapid economic growth is a very normal phenomenon.&1t;/p>

The result of the reform is to make the economy run wild. Therefore, the economic growth of the Northeast region has surpassed that of Northern Zhili and has become the fastest economic growth area in the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

With Shandong, Shanxi and Henan provinces entering the reform stage, they have also become key areas for state-owned capital consortium investment.&1t;/p>

Shandong's economy performed extremely strongly in the seventh year of the Tianqi revelation. Because Shandong is located in the pass and its population size is superior to that of the Northeast at this time. In addition, it is located in the coastal area of ​​East China. In this era, the marine economy is dominant and is suitable for heavy industry. With all the advantages, Shandong's economy began to rise all the way, and the growth rate can pass through the Northeast region in less than a few years.&1t;/p>
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