Beijing, the first department store invested by Zhu Youxiao at the end of the 13th year of the Apocalypse was finally opened. The department store is called 'Royal Department Store'.&1t;/p>

It took more than two years to build this department store and it was built to a six-story height. This is also a technical attempt by the Ming Dynasty construction industry. By building this department store, many concrete construction technologies were conquered during this period.&1t;/p>

As soon as the department store opened, it suddenly became crowded.&1t;/p>

There are too many customers coming on site, which is almost crowded. For rare things, Chinese people are willing to try them.&1t;/p>

This means that you will not fall behind, and there may be new choices after experiencing it. In fact, this is also a manifestation of a nation's intelligence, but within the nation, there are differences between individuals, and not everyone is so smart, so it often becomes a sheep and is used by people to achieve some goals.&1t;/p>

Department stores are not only strange, but also new things. Department stores are indeed more popular with consumers. People can buy a variety of products in it.&1t;/p>

Large, small, expensive, cheap, and food, and fun. Almost most of the products are available, or suitable products, which are basically included.&1t;/p>

The basement is made of discounted goods and cheap goods, while the upper floors are made of luxury goods, and the lower floors are made of ordinary goods.&1t;/p>

And on the roof, there is a garden restaurant, for food and drink.&1t;/p>

What ordinary people want to buy? Basically, you can get it in one stop by just coming to Royal Department Store.&1t;/p>

Rich people can go to high-end upstairs, and those who want to save money can go to the basement cheap.&1t;/p>

Watches, jewelry, jade, glass, porcelain, needles and thread, iron pots, shovels, kitchen knives, scissors, toys. There are also shoes and socks, clothing, hats, luggage, fragrant pancreas, washing water, towels. There are also specialties gathered from home and abroad, including food, wine, and grains, etc., which are all available.&1t;/p>

Royal Department Store also has facilities such as children's playground.&1t;/p>

It can be said that when these things are combined, ordinary people like to come here to consume and shop. It is much more convenient than buying a bunch of things to run around, and it gives people a more classy feeling and is very lively.&1t;/p>

Another thing is that the product is indeed more affordable and the prices are fair.&1t;/p>

Opened on the first day alone, the turnover of Royal Department Store reached a terrifying level of nearly 120,000 yuan, and it was simply a gold-making beast.&1t;/p>

However, it was just before the New Year, and the consumer market itself was booming. In addition, the opening of department stores has caused a craze, Jingshi is a place with a lot of money, and the turnover of 120,000 yuan is not a rare thing. After this period, the turnover of Royal Department Store will drop to normal levels, but the turnover of a day is at least 40,000 to 50,000 yuan. It will be very successful to reach this level.&1t;/p>

The emergence of Royal Department Store is more of an enlightenment.&1t;/p>

When merchants see that department stores are very successful in zero form, they will naturally follow suit, which is helpful for improving the level of the Ming Dynasty's zero industry, and it is also beneficial for consumers.&1t;/p>

State-owned enterprises will not completely monopolize the zero industry. Although they will join forces with the emperor to invest in some Royal Department Stores, they will not swallow the entire market and allow private capital to compete with them.&1t;/p>

At present, there is only one Royal Department Store in the market and there is not much competition, so the profit of Royal Department Store is very terrifying.&1t;/p>

Moreover, Royal Department Store has a very strong supply capacity, and various products from all over the world have procurement channels. The products are complete and the prices are fair. This advantage is not comparable to ordinary private department stores. Therefore, Royal Department Store has been destined to stand at the top of the pyramid of department store zero since the beginning.&1t;/p>

"Your Majesty, I just went to see it. The department store is very popular. The scene is crowded and it is even difficult to enter." Yang Guang ran outside the palace to look around and then went to report to Zhu Youxiao. Zhu Youxiao smiled on his face and nodded.&1t;/p>

"Your Majesty, this department store is so good business, we can invest in a few more companies." Yang Guang suggested, and Zhu Youxiao said: "Let the state-owned enterprises run it! I'll just start them."&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao has no interest in working alone, so Royal Department Store is still included in the state-owned enterprise system, but the Royal Department Store in Tianjie, Beijing is a sole proprietorship of the royal family.&1t;/p>

What he did was nothing more than an innovation, bringing new vitality to the Ming Dynasty's economy.&1t;/p>

Without innovation, the economy will feel like it is stagnant. For the Ming Dynasty, which has entered the industrial era, innovation is very important, so that we can continue to move forward.&1t;/p>

Another magic weapon to drive the economy is reform. He and the cabinet have basically confirmed that Huguang will be reformed first after the year and will take the resources into their hands.&1t;/p>

Huguang is an important commercial grain production area. Take these resources first. Even if the south is in chaos due to reform, it will not go astray.&1t;/p>

Whoever controls food will control the people.&1t;/p>

As long as Huguang completes reforms, the court will not only be able to control this commercial grain-producing area, but also liberate a large number of people from the land and invest in industrial construction.&1t;/p>

The Huaihe River Basin, which was reformed with Huguang, is the Anhui and northern Jiangsu regions in later generations.&1t;/p>

Basically, it is constantly advancing southward and reforming to southern provinces year by year.&1t;/p>

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The spring of this year was very lively. Although the people of the Ming provinces suffered a lot of disasters in the past year, no one starved to death under the relief and resettlement of the court.&1t;/p>

There are many floods in the south, but the flood is at least water, which can moisten everything, and the flood can bring fertile silt. In many places, floods are flooded every year, but agricultural production will not be devastating.&1t;/p>

The hardest-hit area in the north is Shaanxi, which is almost every year, and the next year it is a major disaster. Northern Shaanxi has already had a drought, and a large number of plants and trees have died.&1t;/p>

However, in today's Shaanxi, the population has been almost immigrated.&1t;/p>

It can be said that nine out of ten families are empty, and most of the population was immigrated to the Western Regions and Northeast by the court. The people who immigrated to other places quickly obtained resource allocation. Compared with the resources of northern Shaanxi, the resources in the Western Regions and Northeast are much richer.&1t;/p>

The imperial court basically gave up agricultural production in northern Shaanxi, and the rural population in northern Shaanxi was completely moved out. Only the population without immigrants remained in the towns. While giving up agricultural production, it continued to transport grain to northern Shaanxi, which was needed by the towns in northern Shaanxi, and the urban population began to develop mining.&1t;/p>

The railway is almost built to northern Shaanxi. At that time, even if the drought in northern Shaanxi is severe, there will always be drinking water. Transport the grain and the urban population will be able to develop it with mining support for employment.&1t;/p>

In contrast, the Guanzhong Plain Principle was a key area for the imperial court to resist disasters. Water conservancy facilities were built for three years in a row, and a large number of victims were invested in the construction. As a result, the imperial court established an extremely complete water conservancy irrigation facility on the Guanzhong Plain. As long as it rained, rainwater could be accumulated for irrigation. At the same time, the Wei River also had water resources required for irrigation, although not so many.&1t;/p>

However, the agricultural production in the Guanzhong Plain had stabilized in the 13th year of the Apocalypse. Without the rampant rage, the Guanzhong Plain gradually became a commercial grain production area. Agricultural production in Shaanxi gradually recovered and the situation stabilized significantly.&1t;/p>

Henan locust plague is also a key prevention and control by the imperial court. Zhu Youxiao also set up a special locust control unit. Once a locust plague occurs, the insecticide will be directly sprayed with the sea of ​​people. The prevention and control method is simple and crude.&1t;/p>

When there is no locust plague, local governments will seriously implement various methods of locust control that have been explored from ancient times to the present.&1t;/p>

In fact, it is not so important to suffer certain disasters in agriculture, because a large number of people have been released from the land due to the enclosure movement and have been invested in industrial construction and production. The court already has a stable commercial grain production area.&1t;/p>

Workers can make money through labor and can eat all kinds of food to fill their stomachs. Even if the court does not provide relief, they will not starve to death.&1t;/p>

The worst thing to do is to go to the town to work. Now the new northern provinces are recruiting workers everywhere, so the people have a full way out to choose.&1t;/p>

Many times, it just depends on whether you are forced to that extent. When a person is forced to a certain extent, he will choose to change.&1t;/p>

However, the court is still doing relief, after all, it is necessary to take care of the disaster.&1t;/p>

No one starved to death, and the production scale continues to expand, the volume of goods can keep up, and the people also have income, so they naturally live a good life.&1t;/p>

Especially for those workers, life is better than in the previous two years. Because the business in the market is not easy to do, merchants have to reduce the price of goods. Not only does their income not decrease, but it has increased, and the money has become more valuable.&1t;/p>

The only price increase is agricultural products, and other industrial products have basically not increased.&1t;/p>

Although labor costs are rising, industrial productivity is developing and productivity is increasing, so the price has not increased with the increase in workers' wages.&1t;/p>

The impetuous social atmosphere has settled a little during the Spring Festival of the 14th year of the Apocalypse. Although it is still quite lively, compared with previous years, there are fewer large scenes and fewer spending a lot of money. Many people have also begun to realize that money is not easy to make, and the court cannot make people eat sideways, sleep for a long time, and get income without doing anything all day.&1t;/p>

The high welfare system of Westerners in later generations seemed to be very good to the people, but in fact it eventually harmed the people. It was very easy to form a trend of arrogance, extravagance and debauchery, and everyone was playing, who would produce it? Moreover, the ultimate result of crazy overdraft consumption was to make ends meet, and the status quo could only be maintained by crazy exploitation of the world.&1t;/p>

Venezuela is even more bizarre. In order to please voters, the president gave out a lot of benefits. As a result, oil prices fell and the entire country faced the brink of economic collapse.&1t;/p>

This is basically the case with the foreigners. In ancient Rome, ancient Greece and other periods, after they were able to flourish for a while, but did not understand the essential laws of the world, they always made some measures to dig their own graves, which seemed very short-sighted. Since its birth, the Chinese nation was destined to be a very long-lived nation.&1t;/p>

Since the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the history of this nation is far more than five thousand years. It can be said that a nation can achieve this level as the most successful in the world.&1t;/p>

The reason why this nation can live so long is mainly because of the foundation of Taoist culture. After Fuxi drew the Eight Trigrams, Taoist culture has run through the entire history. Taoism is the mainstream, which is much longer than Confucianism. And Confucianism is actually exhibited based on Taoism.&1t;/p>

The Taoist non-contact means omnipotence. Confucianism will die, but Taoism will not die in the blood of this nation, no matter what era it is.&1t;/p>

Now the Ming Dynasty only guarantees basic right to survive and some low welfare policies. At the same time, the privileged class has suffered a great blow after the reform. If anyone wants to eat sideways, it will become increasingly difficult to sleep. Those who do not do things and do not struggle will one day lose their lives.&1t;/p>

Under the Ming Dynasty system, there is no financial crisis. Because the operating model of the state-owned capital consortium in the Ming Dynasty is different from that of later international consortiums. Although banks did not lend out private capital at this time, state-owned enterprises and governments acted as employment protection, and the income of ordinary people was still guaranteed.&1t;/p>

At the same time, ordinary people are accustomed to saving money and do not have the habit of overdrawing consumption in a crazy way. The market cannot produce serious bubbles.&1t;/p>

Of course, overdraft consumption still has positive significance. For example, if a house does not have a mortgage, how much money people have, then the house is worth. Real estate cannot be developed without capital injection.&1t;/p>

A certain amount of overdraft consumption is still necessary, which mainly depends on demand. People in the Ming Dynasty who do not have a house will take out loans to buy houses, or those who run factories and agriculture will take out loans to operate production. These future consumption behaviors are of positive significance.&1t;/p>

Those people who meet their needs are accustomed to saving money or relying on saving money to make what they need. Such behavior makes the Ming Dynasty have a strong economic risk resistance.&1t;/p>

The subprime mortgage crisis in later generations caused most countries around the world to fall down, and China relied on the habit of saving money and did not overdraw money in a crazy way.&1t;/p>

Westerners stimulate the economy through continuous interest rate cuts and large-scale personal consumption to stimulate economic development. In fact, it is just a means of drinking poison to quench thirst. Once the ammunition is consumed, people's crazy consumption will lead to overdrafts, which will eventually lead to a crisis of not being able to make ends meet. This is the essential reason for the subprime mortgage crisis.&1t;/p>

In summary, the people cannot endure hardships and have to consume all day long. As a result, consumption is greater than production, and the current situation cannot be maintained.&1t;/p>

Therefore, hard work and thrift are still a traditional virtue in an industrial society.&1t;/p>

A country that has lost such virtues and wants to maintain its hegemony status, can only go through the path of crazy plundering the world. But uncontrolled plundering will eventually cause a sharp rebound, and it will have to be returned sooner or later. Once even the plundering world cannot support its own consumption, the situation will collapse.&1t;/p>

The United States in later generations is the best typical negative teaching material. Although it dominates the world, it will not last long.&1t;/p>

If the Ming Dynasty wants to maintain its position as the world hegemon, there will be serious internal tendencies of extravagance and debauchery. It still requires the people to work hard in exchange for a better life, and the efforts and gain need to be balanced. At the same time, in terms of external plunder, the Ming Dynasty cannot plunder uncontrollably like Britain and the United States in later generations.&1t;/p>

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty has never signed compensation agreements with other countries. Even if the war is won, the other party will not be allowed to lose money. It will not use various means to humiliate the other party. The relationship between nations is like a wooden board. If a nail is made into it, there will still be a hole even if it is pulled out.&1t;/p>

At the same time, the method of plundering is mainly based on business models, which is a relatively mild plundering method.&1t;/p>

The wealth plundered is not spent randomly, but is used to expand itself and invest in the construction of various infrastructures, rather than constantly please voters like the Western countries in later generations.&1t;/p>

Benefiting life comes from harm, harming life comes from benefit.&1t;/p>

Westerners lack this basic dialectical view, but Han people with Taoist culture understand this principle very well.&1t;/p>

The benefits of the Ming Dynasty plundering from the outside are now used to promote them on the one hand, and on the other hand, they are used to protect the basic right of survival of the people, so that those who do not know how to work hard or those who do not have the ability to work can survive. As for whether they live well, it depends on whether they work hard, and at the same time, there is an opportunity for the people to work hard.&1t;/p>

The biggest problem of the Ming Dynasty in the past was that the powerful and powerful ate and slept long and fell asleep all day long, while ordinary people were under heavy burden. Even if they wanted to work hard, they would not necessarily have the opportunity and sufficient resources. Even if they worked hard, they might not be able to get corresponding returns. This is the fundamental reason why internal social conflicts are so severe.&1t;/p>

The purpose of reform is to eliminate such a situation. Strike the privileged class and allow the people to gain resources and opportunities to work hard and strive for, while ensuring that the fruits of their labor are not eroded by the privileged class.&1t;/p>

From ancient times to the present, China's peaceful and prosperous times have basically been similar systems, but they are not that fine. Therefore, the Chinese have formed a competitive instinct. One person is a one-stop, and a group of people may become a group of insects. But this model is actually more permanent and rational than the high welfare system of Westerners. Chinese people who grew up in such a country, when they are placed around the world, their competitiveness is much stronger than those barbarians, but they will be worse in unity.&1t;/p>

However, once such a country is on the right track. Even if it is at its peak of chaos and its national strength has weakened to freezing point, it can also rise rapidly through its own struggles and climb back to the peak of the world, and have the ability to revive other nations that do not have. This is also the secret of the longevity of this nation. Just like stocks, there are always highs and lows, and it depends on the stage to which it reaches.&1t;/p>

The provinces of the New Deal in the North, as well as various overseas colonial provinces, have basically completed the reforms and have been on the right track of the exhibition.&1t;/p>

However, the people of southern provinces were still living in dire straits at this time, and Zhu Youxiao decided to continue rolling the wheels of reform and rolling towards those privileged classes.&1t;/p>

After the Spring Festival, the Mongolian War has entered the final stage.&1t;/p>

After a cold winter, Mongolia's resistance had weakened to the extreme. Lin Danhan also blew a cold wind in Central Asia. He could not go back to the Mongolian grassland and was driven out like a dog with a wreckage. Whenever he thought of the terrifying combat power of the Ming army, it was like an indelible nightmare.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao was busy finalizing the dispatch list of officials in the reform areas with the cabinet, and at the same time, he withdrew the Mongolian army from the front line in batches and began to dispatch to Huguang and Jianghuai areas. (To be continued.)&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!