366 Wealth is hidden from the people
Li Tianyang never believed in the fine traditions of the ancient Chinese, and lived like a grande, an iron rooster, and a mythical beast, Pixiu, only in and out.
He believes in a truth, that is, open source and reduce expenditure is the foundation for a team and a force to become bigger and stronger. Especially when you are running a huge territory, you can only make your own team rich if you make the people under your command rich.
As an ordinary post-80s generation in later generations, like the post-70s, I am afraid that the two generations who feel the deepest changes in the development of the motherland, and also the generation who witnessed the rise of a country in the meantime.
There may be many people on the Internet who wantonly abuse the country's flaws in some systems and some personnel scandals, but one fact that you can never deny is that the government of the motherland has only spent more than 30 years to make a country that is poor and has nothing to become one of the largest economies.
In contrast, the disparity between the rich and the poor in a certain country separated from the motherland by a mountain is obvious to all.
As a member of it, Li Tianyang learned a little thing from the rise of the motherland in later generations, that is, to make the people rich.
After having the money, Hongtang's costume change no longer had to be carried out in batches, and Li Tianyang, who was wealthy, found more than a dozen well-connected businesses such as Defuxuan and Jirentang in one go, and handed over a large number of procurement tasks to them, allowing them to go to the inland of the daimyo to purchase the materials they needed for themselves through their own channels.
At the same time, many relatively simple jobs such as weaving and sewing clothes, Li Tianyang also asked Wu Changtao and Gan Dabiao to come up with a specific implementation measure, and packaged these tedious and simple tasks to the vast number of working women in Jilong Gang, but in addition to raising children at home, there are few other sources of income to do.
In this way, Qixintang can reduce a lot of tedious work, and the vast number of women can also earn a lot of money for their families through their own labor to subsidize their families.
Immediately, the government of Bengang and Jilonggang also made big moves, and with money, the government could also organize everyone to carry out various infrastructure construction work during the slack time.
Roads, wells, sewage canals, irrigation canals, and other infrastructure sieges have also been launched, and a large number of laborers who either stay at home or wander around in their spare time have also had work, as long as they are willing to work hard, can bear hardships and stand hard work, and the wages they receive every day are completely enough to feed a large family and there is still a surplus.
Of course, in addition to these, the Bengang Academy of Agricultural Sciences has also promoted the planting methods of many cash crops and the extraction methods researched by the R&D Park to the majority of farmers. Since then, in addition to growing grain, farmers in Bengang Jilong Harbor can also choose to grow other cash crops, such as sugarcane, peanuts, sweet potatoes and so on.
At the same time, many workshops related to crops, as well as workshop tools, were also freely opened and sold in Bengang Chicken Coop Harbor. Many savvy farmers have turned into workshop owners, growing their own crops and selling their own crops and the crops of other farmers into products that they sell to traders in the chicken coop port.
Not to mention, just like this, Bengang Jilong Hong Kong has produced an extremely sought-after commodity - snow-white crystalline and sweet white sugar.
In this era, those who can eat fine white white sugar are not ordinary masters. However, with the help of agricultural workers from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and researchers from the R&D Park, the sugarcane growers in Bengang Jilonggang squeezed the juice from the sugarcane with big roots and boiled it into white sugar, which was as fine as sand and as white as salt.
Just a few hundred miles of sea, can make the price of some white sugar rise several times, even if the price is so high, it is often priceless, every cargo ship transported to the port, as long as the figure of white sugar appears, the shopkeepers of the moon port will wave the heavy silver in their hands, rush to buy this expensive product.
The ensuing change, that is, many small businesses that could not buy white sugar because of the rush to buy it, finally found Jilong Port, which suddenly expanded the reputation of Jilong Port a little, and the trade between Hong Kong and China became more dynamic and marketable.
Subsequently, dried sweet potatoes made of sweet potatoes, vermicelli made of sweet potatoes and potato starch, preserved eggs, eggs and other products that are simple to make and easy to store have been continuously spread to the vast city of the Ming Dynasty from the chicken coop port, and have become a familiar small snack for the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Although the price of small snacks is not expensive, it is not as valuable as a luxury such as white sugar, but as long as the quantity is large and the output is more, it is natural that the lives of the people of Bengang Jilonggang will be thriving, and they will have a prosperous and healthy life.
The people are rich, naturally they have to start to learn to consume, all the size of the merchants came to the chicken coop port to buy products at the same time, they also brought the good things from all over the Ming Dynasty to the cooster port, silk and satin, jewelry and other luxury goods Although not every Dayuan people can afford things, but the general embroidery, printed beautiful cloth, the people of Dayuan still ask themselves can afford it.
For a time, all kinds of shops and stores were like bamboo shoots in the spring rain, and countless could pop up overnight, and the business was not bad.
In addition, as a free trade port in Jilong Port itself, in addition to the inland businesses of the Ming Dynasty, the Dutch who signed a cooperation agreement with Hongtang, the Portuguese who were afraid that the Dutch had been hooking up with Hongtang, and the British who crossed Chongyang and passed through the Dayuan Sea from the Wa Kingdom and other Westerners also used Jilong Port as an important trade port to carry out free trade with various businesses in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time brought various commodities from the West and Nanyang to Jilong Port, adding countless kinds of commodities to Jilong Port.
With the frequent commercial activities, the commercial tax revenue of Jonlong Harbor has also risen to a new height.
Just in the general ledger at the end of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the trade tax revenue of the port of Jilong Harbor hit a record of 400,000 taels of silver, which is equivalent to the tax collection of every month, and the tax revenue of Jilong Port can receive 30,000 taels of silver.
Don't think this is a fantasy, in fact, this is still under the condition that the tax policy of the Bengang team is relatively low, and they only collect 1,000 taels of silver as a tax on this cargo ship with thousands of materials. Otherwise, if Li Tian raised them to be a little darker, their income would have to increase a lot.
(End of chapter)