Chapter 597: The Birth of a Behemoth (Part I)

What kind of money is always easy to earn besides a windfall? Deliveries to warring countries, of course!

Countries are at war, and the supplies they need are numerous and varied, and the quantities are not a small amount. Because there are too many types of items needed, people at many levels on the side that are provided for them can benefit, and under Lu Zhe's personal control and coordination, almost all the people in the territory of the eight counties can achieve equal benefits.

The word "interest sharing" is so important that others may not have discovered the importance of benefit sharing, but Lu Zhe can find out this secret from the financial statements and various applications submitted by each county.

Yes, Lu Zhe put the list handed over by Qin, Qi, Yan, and Zhao for public bidding, which county can provide how much, is determined by the productivity and production characteristics of each county, and Lu Zhe only acts as an intermediary, coordinating the type and quantity of materials for each county.

In order to win more orders, the counties must develop their own economic characteristics...... That is, its own production direction.

Is there anything easier than using other people's money to develop one's own livelihood and using other people's needs to build one's own industry?

Xiao He and Mian Dipper were the first to discover this mystery, and they wrote a long document one after the other to present it to Lu Zhe.

Taking advantage of this rare opportunity for development, Xiao He wanted to use this opportunity to sort out the place and specialize in one direction according to the characteristics of each region.

His report was on the naturalization of commerce, and he believed that there should be a relative balance between counties, and that trade conflicts between merchants should also be resolved within a certain framework, and there should be no price wars in pursuit of sales sources.

Lu Zhe exclaimed after reading the two documents, any era has its own elite, Xiao He, one of the original "Three Masters of the Early Han Dynasty", really lived up to his historical reputation; This unknown person in history has shown his talent, and he can actually come up with a set of "macroeconomic control", and then conceive the model of "chamber of commerce".

What does Xiao He mean by "specializing in one direction"? It is to cultivate economic characteristics. For example, areas with developed agriculture specialize in cultivating certain crops according to their own characteristics, which is a collective model of the "cooperative commune" model, in which each region has its own "fist product" to reduce competition while maintaining the selling price of the crop.

Lu Zhe has no good impression of the "cooperative commune", but it is undeniable that in today's social environment, it can only go in this direction, after all, the current productivity is not high because of the limitations of tools, and collective labor can concentrate labor force for distribution, and will not cause the stagnation of productivity due to insufficient labor force.

In fact, the cooperative model of labor is not new, and Huaxia has always been a clan social system, that is, a relatively centralized family relationship is maintained by blood relations. Under this clan system. Unless he made people angry and was expelled from the clan and became a monk, there is no such thing as a "self-employed".

Xiao He's so-called cooperation model is that one clan forms a cooperative relationship with another clan, but considering the clan's possession of private property, the types of products arranged in the same county should not be duplicated as much as possible, and their cooperation model is a paid short-term employment relationship, in order to make better use of the labor force that is already lacking.

Lu Zhe was amazed by nothing else, he believes that if Xiao He's set of policies is really implemented, then the liquidity of "wage earners" everywhere is estimated to appear "in advance", and as this model is widely accepted, there will be another effect. That is to dismantle the "exclusive" character of the clan and thus produce closer social exchanges.

Anyone who knows some sociology knows that when mobility and exchange become the norm, then the clan system can be considered to collapse on its own without too drastic means. And the clan system has always been a huge threat to the government. It is the clan that constantly breaks out large-scale armed fighting in the countryside, and it is also the clan that provides high-quality soldiers and materials for careerists in times of war.

People who leave their hometowns are often the ones who lose the protection of their clans and become cautious and dare not cause trouble, Xiao He is thinking about the plan for a hundred years and a thousand years. However, he overlooked a key issue, a large population movement can disintegrate the clan, but a large population movement can also easily cause social unrest.

Lu Zhe vaguely remembered some things. In the Ming Dynasty, it was strictly stipulated that residents of a certain place were not allowed to wander without the permission of the government, and that the local government must guarantee them wherever they went...... It is the so-called road guide.

Why did the Ming Dynasty have such strange regulations? In fact, it is based on the historical events of the Han, Tang and Song dynasties, and it is believed that the flow of population will cause a phenomenon of displaced people. The phenomenon of displacement is not a good thing, it means that the land annexation in this society is so fierce that the peasants have to leave their homes, and if Yan zhòng says that social chaos will erupt, it is usually very easy to threaten the regime, and the peasants are dissatisfied with something and break out into rebellion, which the main theme calls "uprising".

Lu Zhe couldn't talk to Xiao He so much, he just listed some items to Xiao He, and the latter items were also issued to officials above the county magistrate (order), so that they could watch and think at the same time, and if there was any good construction, they could also submit it.

It is not advisable to change the social environment rashly, and Lu Zhe wrote those items as some changes to be faced by social reform, and he would convey them to the officials, in addition to brainstorming, but also faintly worried that an incomprehensible trend was breeding with the general trend.

Lu Zhe is sixty percent sure of one thing, once Xiao He's policy of governing the world is implemented, then it will be the beginning of large-scale reforms.

Xiao He must not have realized this, his original intention was just to use the rare development environment to build people's livelihood, and the adoption of the cooperative commune model was also a good starting point, but he would never have thought that it would have a big impact on the society.

Compared with the changes in the lives of millions of people, the government-monitored chamber of commerce proposed by the government is much more timely, but what is the actual operation...... After Lu Zhe saw it, he only frowned and did not look happy.

In fact, there has long been a chamber of commerce model for a number of businessmen, and it is not uncommon for Qi during the Warring States period to have such behaviors, such as foreign economic aggression under state behavior is something that Guan Zhong and the businessmen of Qi have done.

The merchant-Jia alliance proposed by Mi Pyo was not to invade the economy of a certain country, but because the merchant forces under Lü Zhe's rule were too weak to compete with the merchants of Qin, Qi, Yan, and Zhao, and in order to make up for the lack of individual strength, it became an inevitable trend to join forces.

Lu Zhe sent someone to investigate, and immediately found out that it was the Shangjia who made a request to the court, and it was also a kind of compulsion to let the government join the chamber of commerce, and it was a kind of concession to get the protection of the army.

Why is it said that the Chamber of Commerce is beneficial to the government? Because any buying and selling behavior needs to pay taxes, they have completed their obligations to pay taxes, in fact, the government also has the responsibility to protect the safety of merchants and merchants, but Lu Zhe's regime is in its infancy, and many places cannot take care of it, so some negligence has also been caused.

The merchants who proposed to form a chamber of commerce were really forced to give up their profits, they just wanted to be taken care of by the government, and they could give priority to hiring armed personnel to accompany them for protection during the business period.

Bribery, and it is a kind of bribery of the government, Lu Zhe showed a strange expression after knowing this situation.

In these years, the emphasis is on giving and returning, and the other is responsibility and obligation, the government has received taxes from the merchants, so there is naturally an obligation to protect the merchants. Obviously, he was surrounded by a group of businessmen, forgetting that the businessmen had already fulfilled their responsibilities, but the government did not assume its due obligations, only considering that the chamber of commerce's concessions to the government made the government profitable, and did not consider that this was a disguised robbery.

The government can only pay attention to, restrict, and support commercial behaviors, and any commercial behavior with the participation of the government, no matter how good the original intention is, will inevitably change its nature later, or change in a bad direction. Among the ten such cooperation between officials and businessmen, eleven will inevitably become collusion between officials and businessmen to infringe on others, and then a large number of corrupt officials will emerge, and the chamber of commerce will inevitably become a ...... because of the help of powerful people (No numbers omitted)

What kind of social changes make the two chief officials in charge of people's livelihood and business want to change? Lu Zhe could only let Yan Piduo send personnel to investigate and listen in detail, and more energy was distracted by Lu Pheasant and Wei Ji's imminent production and the imminent establishment of the country.

Lu Pheasant and Wei Ji are pregnant in about the same time period, after they were conceived, Lu Zhe has been fighting outside, and after returning to Nanling, he has rarely accompanied him because of many things, and now the second daughter is approaching the time of delivery, Lu Zhe realized that rarely accompanying the two will make pregnant women feel uneasy and not conducive to childbirth, and recently as long as there is a little time, they will accompany more.

The establishment of the country and the title of king have been prepared for nearly three months, and it is also a great joy that many people are looking forward to.

In fact, for the countries of China, the demise of Chu and the founding of Lü Zhe are also major historical events, which affect not only the civil and military officials under Lü Zhe and the mouths of nearly seven million, whether it is Qin and Qi, Yan, Zhao, or Wei and Han, they will inevitably have some effects because of Lü Zhe's founding of the country.

The country name has been determined to be Han, and Lu Zhe will also become the king of Han, and the territory is Hanzhong County (virtual territory, no jurisdiction and governance rights), Nan County, Hengshan County, Jiujiang County, Cangwu County, Lujiang County, Changsha County, Huizhang County, Huiji County, Nanhai County, and Minnan County, of which in addition to Nanhai County and Minnan County are all taken from Chu.

Lu Zhe recently announced that Guilin County, Xiang County, and Yelang County will be set up in the Lingnan region.

The nations that are desperately trying to survive, they all feel that a huge empire has appeared, but Wei and Han, who can only survive under protection, are cheering because of this. (To be continued......)