Chapter 196: Ice and Fire
The Yanhuang family's slave-serving policy had a great impact on Rositing County. The total number of slaves in other noble families in Rositing County was less than 20,000. Because the slaves became very negative after hearing the Yanhuang family's slave-serving policy, the slaves became very negative, which made it more difficult to manage the masters of these slaves. However, Zhang Ziqiang's personal prestige in Rositing County was at its peak. Who dared to say anything about his policies?
Bill and Benson helped Zhang Ziqiang take over the slaves of the Yanhuang family and knew very well about the situation on both sides. After they carefully calculated with several nobles, they also imitated the Yanhuang family's slavery policy, and the slaves' enthusiasm for production immediately changed dramatically.
It is true that even if the cost of going to the civilians to supervise workers is still more cost-effective than hiring civilians according to the previous slave policies. However, the passion that slaves work independently is not available to employees, and the value created is incomparable. Overall, the final result is that there is not much difference between buying slaves and hiring civilians. It is just that buying slaves requires one-time investment. The mind is a little darker, and the length of slaves will be increased. Even if it is increased for one or two years, the slaves have a hope, and the nobles are more cost-effective than using civilians.
It was not until this time that Bill and others realized that the slave working years set by the Lord were not determined at will. He could just scratch your itch and make you sway from side to side. In the end, he didn't even need him to stretch out a finger to push it. You had to follow him. Bill and others felt ashamed of this method.
Zhang Ziqiang would laugh to death after hearing the praises of Bill and others. He was just a little petty to outsiders and believed in equivalent exchange. He could not be wasted because of pity when buying a slave. He had to earn back his ideas. With this idea as a guide, he set the length of the slave working just coincidence with what Bill thought...
No matter which method is used, it is very cost-effective to use slaves, but the Hudal family can only transport so many back every year, and the value of female slaves and children is obviously lower than that of male slaves. Not every nobleman is as stupid as Zhang Ziqiang, so slaves have always been in short supply in Rosiding County, but the labor force is not only slaves, but there are also a large number of civilians in Rosiding.
The open management model of Rositing County, with high per capita income of civilians, no worries about finding a job, and no fear of being bullied by nobles, has continuously attracted free civilians from all counties of the kingdom, making Rositing County extremely rich in human resources.
The people of Rositing County have a complex composition. Of course, the Yanhuang clan has the largest population. There are also aristocrats, property-owned civilians and merchants, proletarian civilians hired workers, wealthy businessmen from other counties who opened shops in Rositing County, slaves and other classes.
With so many people gathering in Rosyding County, it is almost inevitable that different conflicts between various classes will arise. Thanks to Zhang Ziqiang's elite among the gangsters as legal staff, he formulated a meticulous law. The new law not only stipulates the rights and obligations of the nobles, but also stipulates the rights and obligations of civilians and workers.
Zhang Ziqiang followed the trend and implemented it. Because the main expenses of lawyers and other legal personnel were expensed by the Yanhuang family, they had no interest disputes with other people in the county, and were supervised by everyone in the county, they had already committed a crime and the lord asked them to commit crimes and make meritorious service, so they dared not be careless, so it is not an exaggeration to say that they are fair and honest.
The low lawyer service fees, relatively fair judgments, and the efficient execution capabilities of the city guards and private forces have greatly alleviated various contradictions arising from social changes and balanced the interests of all classes to the greatest extent.
The social system of Rossiding County is also constantly changing. Before Zhang Ziqiang came, it was a semi-slave and semi-feudal society. So far, it has become a semi-feudal and semi-capitalist society, and the legal system is constantly improving. The new social system is adapting to the changes in productivity, and the entire Rosiding County is also undergoing earth-shaking changes.
The mountain development in Rossiding County had not started in the past few years. Since Yanhuang Mansion purchased hundreds of thousands of slaves, the development efforts have suddenly increased. According to Bill, with the current progress, Rosiding County will be able to be completed in three to four years!
It is no wonder that the total number of people in other counties is only more than 200,000, while Rosidin has reached more than 900,000. It has rich human resources and concentrated development. It is nothing more than building water conservancy and planting spiritual wood and elixirs. As long as the spiritual seedlings and seeds are guaranteed, it is difficult to speed! Most of the spiritual seedlings and seeds are produced by civilians and the Yanhuang tribe, and the funds required for development are getting smaller and smaller.
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Unlike Rosidin's fiery development, other counties in the kingdom are now in crisis!
The market in the Kingdom of Al is now in a slump. There are more workshops and factories that go bankrupt and bankrupt, and many shops are closed. Many small and medium-sized aristocrats have poor capital turnover and are facing bankruptcy crisis. Development naturally comes to a halt. Even the Sendland family, one of the six most stable families, has suffered heavy damage, not to mention the Stanlo family, which has been suppressed.
The Yanhuang family was also slightly affected. The restaurants all over the country used to make huge profits, but last month it was just a balance of income and expenditure! According to Carlilu, His Majesty Carus was so anxious that he had blisters on his lips. He shouted and scolded his subordinates every day, but the problem became more and more serious and he had not found a solution.
After a little investigation, Zhang Ziqiang knew that what the Al Kingdom was currently facing was an economic crisis they had never encountered before. Social productivity suddenly increased, and the redistribution system did not keep up. The Al Kingdom's national strength was weak and its economic scale was too small, so it fell into deflation.
According to him, the biggest problem now is that there are insufficient gold coins circulating. If there are insufficient gold coins circulating on the market, the value of gold coins will naturally increase, prices will drop, and the decline in prices will cause losses to producers, thus forming a vicious cycle.
Although the Yanhuang family is a big money-making tool, it is still good. The income from the liquor house gradually declined. He also handed over the spirit-absorbing modules in the kingdom to the Aidra family, so the Yanhuang family has not directly made much money in the Kingdom of Al in the past two years. The main income comes from exports and authorized usage fees paid by the Stanlow family, as well as the land money sold to civilians in Rositing County.
Since the introduction of the pump, the royal family has attracted the most money from the Ayer Kingdom! The royal family monopolized the pectin business. The production of pumps and water pipes requires a large amount of pectin. The royal family has also increased the scale of planting multiple gum trees. The royal family has not increased much in recent years, but the income has increased significantly with the production of pumps and water pipes, so the royal family's pockets have gradually become thicker.
In addition to the royal family, there is also the Hudal family. The Aidal family also swept away a lot of gold coins from the Al Kingdom. Due to the shortage of human resources for development, Hudal's slave trafficking behavior gave many gold coins from the kingdom to the three northern countries. Then, by selling spirits and spirit-absorbing modules, some of the gold coins were transported back to the Yanhuang family.
The Aidra family actually earned a lot of gold coins from the Berwick Kingdom. Of course, they also made a lot of gold coins from the Al Kingdom, but because of the authorization fee and the transaction without cinnabar elixir, Millum and Harric gave the earned gold coins to the Yanhuang family.
No wonder Zhang Ziqiang spent a lot of money on Rosidin, but the more money it was spent. It can be said that the Yanhuang family and the royal family were responsible for this economic crisis!
But the main reason is not this. The amount of gold coins circulating in a country is so huge. The two big families absorbed only limited gold coins. Moreover, Zhang Ziqiang spent nearly half of the gold coins he earned. If it were just the royal family and the Yanhuang family to go around, it would not be enough to cause such a large-scale economic crisis. The main reason was the "Development Order" issued by His Majesty Carus.
There is no problem with the Development Order itself, but one of them is: after the development is completed, all civilians can purchase land from the kingdom from the previous plains at a price lower than the market to grow daily necessities.
Since the release of the "Development Order", human resources themselves have been in extremely shortage, and the salaries of ordinary civilian workers have been increasing. To this day, compared with the time when the pump was not invented, the salaries of civilians have doubled! This greatly increased the production costs of small and medium aristocrats, but in the early stage of development, the shortage of production materials also increased the prices of these materials, and small and medium aristocrats and civilian merchants are profitable.
But now, because the production cycle of the materials required for development is short, the newly produced materials are filling the market, and the main force of development - the great nobles and the country - have no money, so where is the money gone? Except for the royal family and the Yanhuang family circle, most of them are in the pockets of civilians.
Because of the "Development Order", civilian workers save money and accumulate gold coins one by one. When the development is completed and the land is purchased, their simple thought is to suffer this generation and create a good practice environment for the next generation so that they can be popular.
So everything went by. First of all, due to the vigorous development of small and medium-sized aristocrats, the funds were short of funds, and the strong launch of the spirit-absorbing module, small and medium-sized families that could not afford the spirit-gathering array in the past can now also use it. The spirit-gathering array can also increase the speed of cultivation. In the absence of funds, it is normal to buy less elixirs. Everyone is thinking that after the development is completed in the years and the income of gold coins increases greatly, they can buy more elixirs. Now there is insufficient gold coins, so good steel must be used on the blade.
The demand for elixirs in small and medium-sized families has decreased, and the Hudal family and the Aidra family have stopped purchasing elixirs in the past two years. According to the two families, it is claimed that it is because of insufficient gold coins and cannot buy elixirs. In fact, only the Yanhuang family and their families know.
The demand for high-end and low-end elixirs has dropped sharply, and some independent small Danfangs have gone bankrupt one after another. The Sendland family was the first to be hit hard. The sluggish elixir market quickly affected the spiritual medicine market. In order to hide the growth rate of family strength, Zhang Ziqiang now all the spiritual medicines needed by the Yanhuang family were purchased from the Three Kingdoms of the Northern Kingdoms by the Hudal family. Most of the spiritual medicines in the Al kingdom were digested by the Sendland family. Now the Sendland family is not flawed, so how can they purchase a large number of spiritual medicines?
Chapter completed!