: Questioning and Discussion

Zhang Ziqiang gathered a lot of wealth in just a short time, but the profits of the liquor house were unknown. His selling of the county town and land was ridiculed by the nobles of other counties. People did not know how much wealth he had gathered, and no one had thought about the purpose of his governance method.

But the nobles in Rositing County knew that the lord was extraordinary. You should know that the kingdom's total tax revenue was only 200 million gold coins every year. With Zhang Ziqiang's current value, not to mention 4,000 private soldiers, he could afford it even if he turned it over.

The construction of barracks outside the city last month. Considering that there has been no war in the kingdom recently and the role of the private army in fighting against the Jindan masters was limited, he decided to recruit school-age children to train themselves.

The newly relocated civilians in the county are worried about their children's schooling. I heard that the lords have not sent them to recruit private troops. When did they see the lords' private troops going to the front line to fight? Many young nobles also sent off their age-aged descendants here. The 4,000 children's army was immediately recruited, and at the same time, it alleviated the conflicts that the primary school was insufficient.

The Barbara Baoji of the Advanced College has only been more than 2 million yuan. The college was completed in half a year, so this little money is no longer a problem for him.

Zhang Ziqiang carefully calculated the account and confirmed that the current gold coins and future income had been developed and used, so he issued the third decree to the fief: permanently exempt agricultural planting taxes!

This government order came to an end, and the nobles and civilians in the county cheered, but the kingdom lost its voice for a moment!

King Carus could not sit still. Because Zhang Ziqiang invented the pump, Carus took the opportunity to support him and restrain the two major families. He also saw that his family had a small business and had specially exempted him from taxes for three years. Now, he dared not to collect taxes when he saw him?

After a little time, he found out that he had only been to the fiefdom for four months, recruited private troops and rebuilt half a city, and built so many new factories and workshops. Moreover, the new land in the territory was faster than other counties. Carus thought, where did he get the money?

Recently, due to the initial results of the use of pump pumps in Alge counties, newly developed land has grown spiritual wood and elixirs in low mountains. The mountains at high points have not yet been developed, so they are ready to plant crystal stone wheels to cut forests. The land used to grow grain on the plains has increased. Some visionary nobles have begun to sell large quantities of stored grain, and the prices of grain are now on the rise.

It can be foreseen that next year the Kingdom will have a large number of new grain output, and the grain prices will be lower. Now the Kingdom is employed more expensive. Small and medium-sized aristocrats who rely on growing grain as their main source of income will have a very sad life, and many civilians will go bankrupt.

The kingdom's grain can't be sold even if there is too much food, because there is no shortage of food in all countries! This will happen in the next ten years. It is a good thing to have rich products, but why did it become like this after a while? Carus thought about it for a long time but couldn't understand the truth.

The Kingdom of Al is an agricultural society. Thanks to the development of teleportation arrays, transportation and commerce, it is not surprising that such equipment that greatly improves productivity has emerged. The birth of the "Jane Loom" on the earth also caused many handicraftsmen to be unemployed and bankrupt.

Carus was puzzled and saw Zhang Ziqiang working hard at Rosidine. He ignored the fact that only a few days were the New Year holiday, so he urgently summoned Zhang Ziqiang to the palace to ask questions.

Zhang Ziqiang received the order inexplicably. He had only been separated for four months. What else did the boss come to me? He took Ranelli to the palace quickly, but he didn't go to Zhangzhuang to see Dovos. It took only half an hour from departure to the palace, so fast!

"See Your Majesty!"

"I'm not giving gifts. I'm summoning my dear today. I heard that my dear has exempted the agricultural tax on my fief. Why? Do you have a lot of money?"

Seeing that Carus and him were the only ones in the Political Affairs Hall, Zhang Ziqiang didn't have so many rules. When he heard the boss say that he had a lot of money, he quickly complained: "I don't have money, Your Majesty, I'm not for the development of the fiefdom, how can I compare to other people's great things?"

"Don't cry, I'm not poor, I'm exempted from agricultural tax if I don't have money? Can you afford to recruit private troops if I don't have money? If I don't have money, I'll wave my hand and I'll rebuild half of the city if I push it?!"

"I really have no money, Your Majesty."

He then concealed most of the restaurant's income and reported the other accounts to the boss one by one. When Carus heard that he had about four million gold coins now, he could not help but take a breath of air.

"Other county towns have two to three thousand gold coins per acre, why can your Rosiding City be so expensive?"

Zhang Ziqiang smiled and said, "The grain prices in other areas are falling, but I will not change, but the building materials in other areas are not change, but my prices will rise, and business is easy to do. In the words of their merchants, people here are stupid and have a lot of money. They all want to come to our county to do business, but the store is limited, so of course they sell it expensive."

"Oh, that's why you use your land to attract civilians!"

After saying that, Carus fell into deep thought again. When Zhang Ziqiang saw that the boss had not spoken, he did not say anything casually. He had just let go of his mind, thinking that the boss had come to see that I had developed well and had come to learn from the scriptures.

After about ten minutes of touching, Carus suddenly spoke, "If you have any problems with your idea, there will be big problems!"

Zhang Ziqiang was surprised. The world is developing like this. It’s not like this. No problem is there? He hurriedly asked: “What’s the problem?”

"You are right to attract a lot of civilians now, but in another year or two, civilians will not have the gold coins to plant spiritual medicine and spiritual trees. They will definitely grow the fastest-produced grain and vegetables, from 100 square kilometers to 800 square kilometers. Even if the population doubles, you don't need so much food. It will inevitably cause a big price drop. Civilians can't pay back the money they owe you to the land and go bankrupt. Even if they are exempt from tax, it's useless. What should you do then?"

In fact, when Zhang Ziqiang did these things, he didn't think about it carefully. He just followed his previous experience. Now, he was shocked when he suddenly heard this. He was still thinking, and Carus sighed again and said, "Oh, he is still too young."

I don't know if Carus was really touched or excited about this, but he couldn't stand the stimulation anyway.

"There must be no problem in our county. I'm afraid that other counties in the kingdom will come to my fiefdom to sell grain, so I can't collect it!"

Carus asked him with a smile, "Even if I order others to sell grain from your fiefdom, how can you solve your fiefdom?"

Zhang Ziqiang's thinking activity was started at this time. What is the fastest consuming food? First, brewing wine, the price drops a little, and it will be fine to sell it to other countries. Second, breeding, by the way, breeding!

"I plan to vigorously develop winemaking and breeding in the county. Brewing consumes a lot of grain, but breeding requires more. Anyway, meat is expensive now, so not only will the grain price not drop, but the income of civilians will increase due to breeding."

"Oh? This is a good idea. It's not bad. Everyone has meat to eat, and you can eat meat for meals, hahaha."

Carus felt a question in his mind, and thought about it and asked again: "Let me tell you that after you settle the accounts, you sold all the 800 square kilometers of land, and your total income will exceed 100 million in ten years. Will there be so many gold coins in your county? Where will these gold coins come from then on?"

These accounts are the easiest to confuse people. Zhang Ziqiang has never thought so. Where does the money come from? But if you think about it carefully, you can still answer that the political economy of college is not in vain.

He resumed his smirk: "It seems that civilians pay me so much money every year, but where do they get their money? Let's sell crops, and the crops were bought by me and some merchants. In the past ten years, the money in the county was equivalent to a circle and then returned to me. There are only one or two thousand gold coins every year. There are so many nobles in the county, and there are so many merchants in the outside county who send money to our county, and there are still 20 million gold coins in total."

"This is equivalent to the fact that within these ten years, the civilians in the county will give me free farming, and all the excess production will belong to me, right? If I turn those excess things into wine, meat, etc. and sell them to other counties, will the money in this county become more?"

"What? You said that in ten years, it's so simple. I have earned primitive funds for ten years and have a lot of gold coins in my hand. I can use these gold coins to make some new things and sell them to other counties. In this way, will there be more and more gold coins in our county? The lives of civilians are getting better and better, will there be fewer and fewer gold coins in other counties?"

"This idea is wrong? It doesn't matter if it's wrong. We can regard the kingdom as a whole. We sell it abroad and make money from other countries. That's right."

"There are also other countries? Do they have pumps? Do they have steam machines? Do they have spirits? Do they have to work hard to develop. Technology is the primary productive force."

"Will they imitate it? So, I'm now studying how to keep it confidential. Of course, the Kingdom should also promulgate patent laws to protect the interests of researchers and developers."

"No? Why not? I'll make all the money from the kingdom? Please, all the five great dukes are stronger than me, and there is also the boss, um, your majesty's royal family, I can't compare. How could I make all the money from the kingdom? Or not? It doesn't matter, then I'll study how to keep it secret."

The two of them quarreled for a long time, but Zhang Ziqiang finally failed to convince Carus to promulgate the patent law. However, His Majesty Carus had a broad vision. It turned out that money could be made like this?

Kocarus thought about it carefully and found that except for the breeding, there was no gain in the rest. In his opinion, the patent law restricted the circulation and development of new technologies and was a law that only serves the nobles, which was inconsistent with his idea of ​​suppressing the nobles' governance.

Carus did not know that his own ideas were plausible. The kingdom's R&D power was in the hands of the nobles. If the patent law was promulgated according to Zhang Ziqiang's suggestion, the civilian formation division had a chance, but now the civilian formation division division had no chance to develop. He did not know the reason for returning money to the people. Even the problem of overproduction made him confused and he couldn't figure it out.
Chapter completed!