Feng Ziying tried hard to make them understand this term in modern economics in this era, and tried to make them understand what they wanted to express, which is a bit difficult, but not without progress.

"All of you should understand that we are short of food in Dazhou, um, but not all places are short of food, if the north is in a normal year, the people are enough to live, but once they encounter floods, droughts and locusts, then they must rely on the imperial court to help, the local gentry and grain merchants also have food, but on the one hand, they hope to marry huge profits, on the other hand, they also think that they need to leave enough food for themselves for emergency use, so they are not willing to take out food for free, after all, such good people are very few, they hope to buy and sell grain through normal transactions,......"

Feng Ziying spoke patiently, after all, people in this era, even characters like Cui Jingrong, Wei Guangwei and Wu Liangsi, are difficult to understand.

"But the reality is that the farmers in the north are too poor, they have almost no food, and it is impossible to have much spare money to keep in case of emergency, and it is precisely in the past two decades that the weather in our north is really bad, and almost every year there are either floods or drought ,......locusts."

"Similarly, the Great Zhou Dynasty is not without money, and the imperial court is very difficult, but the people, especially the wealthy merchants, such as the salt merchants in our Yangzhou city, are afraid that if they pull a few out casually, they will be richer than the imperial treasury, and the people in Jiangnan are nominally rich, but we can also see that in fact, it is only relative to the north, and the people in Jiangnan are many and narrow, and the people are also becoming more and more difficult and crappy in intensive cultivation,......"

"......, Gayin's demand is so great, can ordinary people afford silk, tea, porcelain, and other things? I am afraid that there are only a handful, this is the lack of purchasing power, without a complete solution to the problem of food and clothing, they cannot expect these extravagantly, and now they can afford to make a living on their own one-third of an acre of land, or on tenant land? Difficult. Therefore, in order to pursue a better life, whether it is the farmers in the north or the people in the south of the Yangtze River, it is difficult to find more and better ways to make a living, so we must open up the sea, open up foreign demand, and establish more tea gardens, tea farms, silk workshops, and ceramic workshops, because export can be exchanged for real silver, and in this way, more people are needed to work, and the people can have more opportunities to make money, enhance their purchasing power, and in turn, the purchasing power is enhanced, and they can spend on all aspects,......"

After going around and around, it still comes back to the term purchasing power.

It's a bit like a car talking, but it has to be like this, otherwise it is difficult to make these people understand, and without these people, there is no immediate recognition and support.

And this group of people should be regarded as the backbone of the Beidi people, if even these people do not approve or support, then Feng Ziying knows very well that these ideas and opinions of his are in the air.

Wei Guangwei is younger, and he has been in the Ministry of Industry for a long time, and he was born as an official eunuch, but his father is quite famous, so he knows a lot about the people, so he is more interested.

"Ziying, I generally understand what you mean, it's not that there is no food in the Northland, but the gentry and rich families are unwilling to take out the relief endlessly, and are more willing to buy and sell, but the people of the Northland don't have this purchasing power at all, well, what is the reason for this purchasing power you are talking about? It's because the weather is not good, and there are more ways to earn money to make a living, this word is also Ziying, you newly coined, right? ”

Wei Guangwei became more and more interested in the young man in front of him, this guy really had a lot of things in his heart, and he didn't know how Qi Yongtai, Qiao Yingjia and Guan Yingzhen taught him?

It is no wonder that these people in the north and even the scholars in Huguang are very optimistic about him, and this nuanced analysis and insight alone is not something that ordinary people can understand.

Qi Yongtai and Qiao Yingjia were cultivating this guy as the leader of the Beidi people twenty years later, which made Wei Guangwei both a little jealous and a little unconvinced.

But now it seems that this guy really doesn't have much else wrong except for being a little greedy for women.

Well, if you don't like poetry, it's also one, but this seems to be very much in the emperor's mind.

is arrogant and magnified, his speech and demeanor are also polite, and he is also very respectful to his predecessors, this guy should have been in the last seat with him, but Cui Jingrong valued him far more than several other people, and now everyone is slowly accepting this reality.

"Uncle Xian, that's pretty much what it means." Feng Ziying gestured with her eyes.

"Well, Jiangnan is actually similar to Beidi, but the overall is better, but if the people want to live a better life, well, expand their purchasing power,......" Wei Guangwei is also learning Feng Ziying's words and sentences, "I also need more channels to make money, so opening the sea is an opportunity?" Can the opening of the sea bring many channels and opportunities for people to earn money? ”

Feng Ziying laughed, "Uncle Xian is right, this is the so-called mining of external demand, and opening the sea is one of the most important ways to tap external demand, because the export of silk, tea and porcelain can immediately bring us real silver, or gold, copper, spices, which are not more scarce than silver,......

Cui Jingrong and Wu Liangsi both listened to the discussion and argument between the two with great interest, and Sun Juxiang was the last to arrive, but he was quickly attracted in.

"In fact, for our Da Zhou, compared with external demand and domestic demand, domestic demand is more important, but external demand can be more immediate, like the people have found a way to make money, such as going to the newly opened tea garden tea field to plant tea and make tea, to work in the newly opened ceramic workshop, to go to the silk workshop to reel silk, and earn money, naturally they may buy cloth, salt, furniture, and food and clothing may be more generous, which can also drive the expansion ,......of these industries."

"Ziying, then for the imperial court, in addition to the sea tax, can there be any other more income?" Cui Jingrong, as the right attendant of the household, naturally has to think about the problem from his point of view.

"Well, Master Cui, what do you think of the mine supervisor and tax supervisor set up by the emperor?" Feng Ziying asked rhetorically.

Cui Jingrong immediately understood, shook his head with a wry smile, and stopped talking about this topic.

Commercial tax is a hidden pain in the Great Zhou, everyone knows that the excessively low tax rate directly led to the Great Zhou Caifu can only stare at the Tianfu, but due to the impact of natural and man-made disasters, the income of the Tianfu is becoming more and more difficult to meet the needs of the imperial court.

The question of commercial taxation was raised several times, but it all ended in vain, because of the resistance and opposition from the gentry everywhere.

This sea tax is also mainly a new tax, to be precise, it is a tariff, which cleverly avoids the resolute opposition of the gentry, especially the gentry in Jiangnan.

The emperor was forced to set up a tax supervisor and a mine supervisor under countless scoldings, once the military salaries of the nine sides were difficult to maintain, and the Jurchens and Tatars in the north came in, it would really be the end of the Great Zhou.

So he has to do it despite the infamy, but in fact he is doing the work that should be done by the cabinet.

"Master Cui, in fact, as long as domestic and external demand really start, the situation will gradually improve later, and there will be more ways and channels to improve,...... Feng Ziying comforted the other party, "But now many conditions are not ripe,......

"Ziying, you haven't talked about the purpose of everything we are doing in Yangzhou Mansion." Wu Liangsi was finally able to interject.

"Very simply, Yangzhou has a special geographical location, where transportation and shipping extend in all directions, commerce and trade are prosperous, and material distribution is abundant, we can understand the flow of money here from these surveys, which I remember talking to several people before,......

"Ginzhuang?" Cui Jingrong frowned slightly, Wu Liangsi took a breath of cool air, Wei Guangwei was thoughtful, and Sun Juxiang glanced at Feng Ziying deeply, with different expressions.

"Well, you may not understand it yet, but I think this will probably be the most critical part of the strategy of opening the sea, or an important cornerstone of how to further expand the development of the strategy of opening the sea in the future,......"

All the people here have an understanding of the silver shop is still limited to the temporary storage of silver money, well, for businessmen, it is the convenience of deposit and exchange, and it is difficult to think of more, but as a modern person, Feng Ziying naturally understands that this kind of most primitive money shop silver village is not what he wants, what he needs is a silver village (bank) of modern significance that can support many strategic developments.

Of course, this can't be done in one step, but now there is such an opportunity, with such a good gimmick, of course, it must be used.

What he has to do now is to slowly convince them, so that they gradually know and understand, even if it is difficult to accept for a while, but the facts and time will slowly prove.

*******

"Ziying, you're almost busy, aren't you?" Lin Ruhai's complexion was good today, and when Feng Ziying came to greet him, he took the initiative to get up, "Let's go, accompany my uncle to the plum garden for a walk." ”

"Okay." Feng Ziying hurriedly followed behind.

"I heard that you have been moving a lot in the past few days, and you have tossed the Yangzhou Mansion and Jiangdu County Offices a lot of ,......."

"There are some investigations, and there are some foundations at the prefecture and county levels, but they are very sparse and brief, and there are many things that I want to grasp and understand, so I can only do a more detailed investigation on the basis of those documents,......

Feng Ziying didn't expect Lin Ruhai to pay attention to this, she was a little surprised, and she was also thinking about Lin Ruhai's intention to invite her to visit the Plum Garden today.

The plum garden behind the Yamen of the Department of Salt is famous, covering an area of dozens of acres, the plum forest is everywhere, the path is secluded, and people walk in the meantime, there is also a kind of artistic conception that is out of the dust.

However, it is not yet the season when the plum blossoms are in full bloom, if you wait another month or two, the scenery of this plum garden will really be unique.

Stepping into the plum garden, Lin Ruhai took a deep breath, as if he was brewing something, Feng Ziying didn't speak, waiting for her to speak.

"Ziying wants to build a silver village in Yangzhou?" Lin Ruhai, who suddenly stopped, turned his head with his hand, "How big do you plan to do it, and what is the purpose?" ”