686 Agricultural cooperatives
This statement is not without basis, some people are indeed unclear, and even the government can't find out how they died. It's true that he died very miserably, and even walked on the street in a good manner, and suddenly exploded into pieces of flesh, and even the corpse couldn't be put together, this is not a spell or anything.
Slowly, wherever there is a hitchhiker passing by, there is an extra rule in the green forest and the rivers and lakes, don't mess with the copper coin flag when you see it. There is a life to rob the lifeless flower, mortals can fight against it, and the gods really can't afford to provoke it.
In fact, it really has nothing to do with the gods, people are killed by the Mountains and Rivers Inspectorate, and the rumors are also spread by Wang Er and Wang Shi, with only one purpose, to maintain the reputation of Shunfeng Dart Bureau and Shunfeng Post at the lowest cost, these two industries make money by reputation.
It is precisely because of the unremitting efforts in the past few years that the Shunfeng Dart Bureau has built a reliable and credible reputation, and Hong Tao dared to integrate the banking system into the mail system to become the Shunfeng Post Office.
On the surface, dart offices, postal services, and deposits and withdrawals are all separate industries, but in fact they are linked to each other and must support each other to survive. It is not impossible for others to imitate, but it is too difficult, and there is no possibility in the short term, so there is no need to worry about all-round competition.
Shunfeng Post Office can dominate the financial market, and Hong Tao can make the next plan. He wants to use the foreign exchange business to tie the merchants to his thief ship, so that they will become more and more inseparable from this set of things.
The next step is to absorb private capital and carry out deposits, withdrawals and lending business, which is equivalent to using the money of businessmen to cultivate more businessmen for themselves, and then using the people's money to support businessmen to become bigger. At the same time, he will also grab a large piece of the cake from it, which will be used to subsidize river repair, agricultural persuasion, school running and medical programs.
To put it bluntly, Hong Tao just didn't want to spend his own money to work for the imperial court, these jobs should have been done by them, and they were incompetent if they didn't do it well.
This money sounds like a lot, but in fact, it can't even complete a small project. As long as anything is preceded by words such as popularization and national people, the amount of money that needs to be invested is massive and has to be endless.
There are benefits, and there are a lot, but the deadline is too far away, so far that no one can see clearly, and the right to see the final harvest is likely to be unkept, so no one is willing to do it.
In fact, many people still don't understand that as long as these industries are put on the right track, they will not be restricted by the imperial court if they make money than doing anything. Who has ever heard that the imperial court did not allow peasants to fetch more grain, children to study, and people to see a doctor?
Through reading more books, people can be reasonable, through medical treatment, people can be free from worries, through the harvest to make people full and clothed, and through repairing the river embankment, people can live and work in peace and contentment.
Whoever dares to oppose these will be working against the whole people, and when the time comes, there is no need to call on themselves, and the people will find their own ways to defend their own interests, provided that they are allowed to enjoy and experience the benefits first. Didn't the ancients say that it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, this is human nature.
"I have to say that the second girl has the ability, she has set up a cooperative in Fuzhou, not only absorbing the tenants of the big landlord's family, but also the people who are squeezing in the newspaper have no face to go out to meet people."
At this time, the initiator was the most idle, starting everything, and then lying on the soft collapse of the study of the Yangtze Town Palace, while touching the big belly of Zhou Ri, while reading the secret letter sorted out by Sidi, and at the same time having to read to the eldest princess, let her know the greatness of her husband.
In less than two months, Shunfeng Post Office had been opened in nine cities, and together with the former Huangzhou Bank and the Daimyofu Bank, a large network was not very complete, covering almost the entire territory of the Great Song Dynasty except for the west and southwest.
Among them, Wang Er, who was far away in Fuzhou, had the most outstanding achievements, and she used her friendship with the local government to not only assist Ziju to successfully open the Fuzhou branch of the Shunfeng Post Office, but also make the school and medical center prosperous.
Unlike Yangzi Town, there are not only poor children from peasant families in her school, but also many young masters from local businessmen who have no worries about food and clothing.
As Hong Tao thought, even if the merchant family is not too short of money, they don't expect every child to be able to go to high school in ten years, so that the child can learn some real skills to support the family when he grows up. Sending one or two children to the new school does not delay the continuation of the family, but has one more option.
What Hong Tao had to admire the most was that Wang Er actually got the cooperative out. She had only heard of this thing in the stories she told, and the difficulty of achieving it could be imagined.
The phenomenon of land annexation in Fuzhou is even more serious, and most of the arable land is basically in the hands of local gentry and eunuchs. The mountainous and hilly Fujian roads, which account for a large proportion of the land, have less arable land, so there are many tenants living on rent.
After a year of hard work and paying the land rent and various taxes, they found that their family's grain could not be eaten for next summer's harvest, and they had to go to the mountains to find all kinds of wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger.
Poverty changes, and many people have to leave their hometowns to earn a living. Those who rely on the sea go to sea, and those who do not rely on the sea go to business, but create a cultural atmosphere that does not depend on the level of knowledge and only depends on the size of the ability to make money.
Wang Er started with these small and medium-sized businessmen, encouraged and organized groups of merchants in a village or township to raise funds or borrow from the post office, buy or rent adjacent acres of land in their respective hometowns, and hire local poor tenants to form agricultural cooperatives to grow sugarcane on a large scale.
The tenants of the cooperatives do not have land and do not work alone, but several or a dozen families work together to cultivate, weed, boil soil and fertilizer, and harvest.
At the same time, he cooperated with businessmen to set up a small pressing workshop, and after the sugarcane was harvested, it was pressed into juice and sent to a large sugar factory outside Fuzhou. This factory is the key to convincing businessmen to invest, it can produce white sugar as white as snow, as sweet as honey, without any variegated colors and miscellaneous flavors!
The key technology of the sugar factory comes from Hongtao, but the key raw material is produced in the distant island of Jeju. Whale bone meal is a very good adsorbent that can remove the pigment in sugarcane juice, and the most important thing is that it is cheap, easy to process, and has a large output, which can support the normal production of sugar factories.
In the end, the amount of sugar will be distributed according to the amount of shares invested by the businessman, and whoever invests more money will get more sugar, and he will find a way to sell it, and how much money he can make depends on his ability.
Money? That's impossible. In order to make a pound of sugar, the merchants can use force with each other's arms and sleeves, for fear that their own shares will be less, and they are not 100% sure of making money, who will spend this effort.
But it wasn't just the merchants who really benefited, the tenants had to work as they did on a daily basis, at most transporting the sugar cane to the mills to squeeze the juice during the harvest season, and the sugar mills would naturally have carts and horses to transport it.
The income in exchange for this is much more than the land cultivated by the landlords separately, and it is all cash, without any catties, feet, or fineness.
In this way, the local landlords, especially the big ones, were not happy. They get rich by exploiting tenants, and no matter how much land there is, no one cultivates it, and it will not produce food. Now so many tenants have set up cooperatives and done their own work, and there is no one to exploit and become a fart landlord.
What annoyed the landlords even more was that the sugar factory had hired a lawyer to rent and buy land and sign contracts for the tenants of the cooperative.
Don't think about bullying people, go through official channels, from the county magistrate to the state capital, there is no one facing you; Playing the underworld, there is a special security team in the sugar factory, those people don't do any work, they get up early all day and train in the dark, and they are also equipped with archers, which are specially prepared for group fights.
Whoever dares to bully the cooperative, these security teams will wait for an opportunity to retaliate. If you have the ability, don't go out of the village for the rest of your life, and if you come out, you will break your arms and legs, and if you come out, you won't even be able to find the corpse.
At this time, the government began to pretend to be a grandson again, no matter how you sue it, there is no result, unless you can catch the perpetrator, you have to be sentenced to falsely accuse the good people, first beat 20 boards and then fine.
The most unbearable thing is not the physical pain, but the mental torture. Fuzhou Daily is too lacking in morality, and whoever is looking for trouble with cooperatives and sugar factories will expose their shortcomings.
First of all, help your family calculate the accounts in the newspaper, and compare the taxes that should be paid in the past years with the actual payment. And then shake off the ugliness of the family to you, and I can't wait to dig through the eight generations of my ancestors. If you get it, you can't raise your head in the village, county, or state capital at all, and if you don't do it, you will have to go to court.