1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 821 Industry
On February 1667, 2, Jianye City.

As the new year is approaching, the whole city is becoming more and more lively.Although it is located in the tropics, it doesn't feel like a New Year's Eve, but the government departments and many businesses are doing their best to dress up this young city to exaggerate the excitement of the New Year's Eve.Lanterns, colored ribbons, couplets, lanterns, and a big "Daofu" is pasted on the door of every house.

In the sparsely populated Hanzhou territory, it is also rare to see crowds of people rushing, and scenes of cars and horses approaching each other. On the dimly lit streets, people all have unconcealable smiles on their faces, all of them are red and excited.After working hard for a year and saving some money, it is time to reward myself and my family.

Jin Baosheng saw his four-year-old daughter stop suddenly, staring at a five- or six-year-old girl without blinking, who was holding a candy figurine in her hand and licking it constantly.

"Daddy, I want it too." The daughter raised her head and said in a childish voice, her face was full of longing, and the seven-year-old second child next to her was also subconsciously licking her lips.

"Niuniu, be good. If you eat too much candy, you will get worms in your stomach." Jin Baosheng glanced at the pretty little girl who was eating candy man, she looked like a child from a rich family.This sugar man probably costs three or four cents, it's better to go home and drink sugar water, it's much more cost-effective.

"You lied!" Unexpectedly, the little girl who was eating candy man said crisply: "If you eat candy, there will be no worms in your stomach. Only teeth will have worms!... But, my mother said , eat a little less, and you won't get worms...Do you want to eat?"

"Niu Niu is good, don't eat other people's things casually." Seeing the little girl talking, Jin Baosheng was about to pass the half-eaten candy figurine to his daughter, and hurriedly stopped him: "Later, Daddy will buy it for you at the market." Meatloaf to eat."

"I want to eat candy." The daughter pulled her father vigorously, trying to take the half of the candy man from the girl opposite.

In desperation, Jin Baosheng wanted to forcibly pick up his daughter and prepare to leave here, so as not to make people laugh.Children are greedy, if they are allowed to beg for unnecessary snacks, they will spend a lot of money in vain.I and my wife work in the factory, and earn a lot from hard work every month. Although they earn more than in Daming, they can't be squandered like this.

"Hey, big brother, the new year is coming, we just want to have a good time, and don't let the children down." The little girl who eats sugar is surrounded by a young officer, who greets Jin Baosheng with a smile, and at the same time , handed over a complete candy figurine.

"Thank you..." Jin Baosheng hesitated for a moment, took the sugar figurine with his hand, and handed it to his tearful daughter.

"...Ninth brother, you didn't eat any of your candy figurines. How about you eat mine, okay?"

"I don't care about eating these sweet ones. From my point of view, it's better to eat some grilled meat skewers, with some spices, that's the delicacy in the world..."

Jin Baosheng looked at the two brothers and sisters who had gone away, and sighed slightly in his heart. The children of these rich families would have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives. In their eyes, the little sugar figurines are probably nothing more than ordinary snacks.

In the evening, Jin Baosheng bought a fish, weighed a piece of pork, made half a bucket of soybean oil, tore a few bolts of cotton cloth, and some small New Year's items, and walked home with his son and daughter.

Jin Baosheng was originally from Taizhou, Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty. Ten years ago, he immigrated to the mainland of Hanzhou spontaneously with a group of people and neighbors.After arriving in Jianye City, he took refuge in fellow villagers who were engaged in the sesame oil business, and received some immigration subsidies from the government, and soon settled down in the city.

Of course, this "settlement" is only to establish a foothold in Jianye City. Up to now, they have not even had a house of their own, and they have been renting in public rental housing built by the government.

It stands to reason that the immigrants have saved the money to buy and build houses no matter what they have done for ten years, so they will not still be renting public rental housing.The reason for this, Gein, Jin Baosheng has a grand ideal, that is, he wants to accumulate a sum of initial capital for starting a business, prepares to open a factory, and be the shopkeeper himself.

As for the project, he has already planned it out, which is to produce various sauces in his hometown, whether it is peanut butter, bean paste, or even chili sauce that has never been made before. In his opinion, there will inevitably be a broad market. Need space.Not to mention the large daily needs of ordinary people, even those ocean-going merchant ships and naval ships may not be able to refuse this delicious sauce.

"Boss, this pork is a little thinner after buying, I'm afraid it won't be able to cook much oil and water."

Back in the house, his wife took the purchased New Year's supplies from Jin Baosheng, looked at the piece of lean meat, and said with some complaints.

"Let's just eat it." Jin Baosheng said: "There is not much pork left on the market today. Two days ago, our expeditionary fleet of Qi State returned to the mainland. I heard that in order to celebrate, the pork on the market was almost I'm done buying it. Plus it's the Chinese New Year, so the fat will be a little short for a while."

"You said that the navy won the battle, and the government didn't think about celebrating with the whole world and giving us some New Year's gifts to the common people?" The wife chattered while packing the ingredients, "Remember, when the royal family received the bride a few months ago, We also distributed rice, flour, grain and oil to every resident of Jianye City, that is, every child has an egg!"

"It's a happy event for the royal family to receive relatives. In order to show their closeness to the people, the royal family will naturally give gifts to ordinary people like me. But the naval expedition fleet crossed tens of thousands of miles of sea waves to conquer the barbarians. It was going to fight. Don't say how many people will die , even if the cost is bound to be huge, the government probably doesn’t have the money to distribute supplies to us.”

"I heard that more than ten years ago, every New Year's season, the royal family and the government would distribute New Year's supplies to the people to celebrate with the people. Now that the country has developed, it is reluctant to give us things."

"You only want good things!" Jin Baosheng couldn't help laughing when he heard his wife's complaint, "How many people did we have in Qi State more than ten years ago? Look at the current population! A few days ago, the government issued a According to the census notice, the population of Qi State exceeded 340 million last year. Think about it, if we give everyone a new year gift, it will empty the government treasury! "

"You said the government is true. We now have a population of three to four million. Why are we still vigorously emigrating? It costs millions of Hanzhou silver dollars every year, which is really worthless. If the money of these immigrants is all Wouldn't it be good to distribute it to us small people?"

"Who says it's not!" Jin Baosheng was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "This government spends millions of silver dollars every year. If it is distributed to every citizen, every household can get several dollars! These newcomers The immigrants from Daming went all the way to Hanzhou, and we, the old citizens, provided food and food, but we didn’t get any benefits from it.”

Qi State has immigrated for 30 years, and there are quite a few people like Jin Baosheng who criticize the government for spending a large amount of financial funds to emigrate every year.They all believed that instead of spending astronomical sums of money to emigrate from Daming, it is better to use the money to improve the lives of the domestic people.

Although the standard of living in Qi State is obviously higher than that of Ming Dynasty, the desire of the broad masses of the people for a better life is never-ending.Seeing that a large part of the wealth I create every year is shared with those new immigrants who have never lived, it is inevitable that the public will have some complaints.

"By the way, the head of the family." His wife Yang suddenly thought of something, "I heard from Lao Xue today that a mutual aid bank has recently been established in the market, which is dedicated to providing personal loans to small and micro businesses, which are used for the establishment of private private businesses and workshops. .Moreover, this bank does not require much collateral to borrow from it. Lao Xue intends to go to this bank to borrow a sum of money to start a silk weaving workshop."

"Ah? Is there such a good thing?" Jin Baosheng was taken aback, "You don't need collateral, you can borrow money and get out the money, and the bank won't be afraid that our business will fail, and we won't pay the money?"

"That's not known." Yang shook her head and said, "However, Lao Xue said that this bank has the shares of the royal family. This is a bank that benefits the people. If you are in charge, how about we..."

"I'll think about it, I'll think about it again." Jin Baosheng hesitated, deep in his heart, the money in the bank was not so easy to borrow.I still remember when I was a child, borrowing money from banks in counties and villages meant borrowing usury. If I was not careful, I would lose my entire family and be wiped out by those black-hearted banks.

Although the several big banks in Qi State are controlled by the government, and the interest rates are not so ridiculously high, they are not engaged in charity or relief, and they lend you money for nothing?
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"In this world, many countries and many people are extremely fanatical in pursuit of gold and silver, two precious metals. And this is one of the reasons why European countries are currently vigorously advocating mercantilism, in order to make the country as much as possible Get more precious metals."

Qi Tian walked slowly in the garden of the palace, followed closely by Zhang Wenqi, Prime Minister of the Cabinet, Qi Yuanshan, Vice Premier, and Qi Zixing, the Crown Prince.

"However, there is no shortage of gold and silver in Qi State. Not to mention Shanyangbao (now Mount Isa, Australia) has abundant silver mines, but Jincheng (now Chartersburg, Australia), Guizhou (now Australia) There are also quite a few gold mines in places such as Perth, Australia) and Nandu (Melbourne, Australia). But for the long-term, we have sealed up some precious metal mines more than ten years ago to avoid the amount of gold and silver. Too much, causing price shocks in the small domestic market."

"As we all know, no matter whether it is gold or silver, it is just used as a general equivalent in the market. It can neither be used for clothing nor for food. Back then, the Spaniards discovered and occupied the American continent and obtained a large amount of gold. Gold and silver, in the past 100 years, 80% of the world's precious metal mining volume has been owned by Spain. This can be said to be pie in the sky, and it has been falling for more than 100 years. The wealth is so much that it is about to "overflow"."

"It seems that with the continuous inflow of gold and silver, it will definitely be able to achieve the hegemony of the Spaniards for generations. But it is precisely the inflow of a large amount of precious metals that hastened the decline of Spain. Although, it once became the first in the world. The empire fell and European hegemony was established. But Spain, which is in full swing, is not as beautiful as imagined."

"We all know that economic growth and the growth of gold and silver should complement each other. Economic development, in the final analysis, is the simultaneous improvement of productivity and consumption. In a positive circular economy, the expansion of gold and silver means that consumers The money in the hands of producers and producers has increased, factories will produce more goods, and consumers can also buy these goods. Because the increase in the number of goods can dilute the pressure of rising prices, so as to keep the growth of consumer income keeping up with price rises. "

"However, Spain, which possesses a large amount of gold and silver, has completely destroyed its own fragile handicraft industry and underdeveloped agriculture. Because gold and silver are so easy to obtain, that the luxurious Spaniards have started a global shopping model , The gold and silver brought back through hard work flowed abroad as soon as they changed hands, which helped the economic development of Europe, but caused the country's productivity to stagnate."

"To put it simply, the gold and silver that the Spanish royal family and nobles robbed from the Americas with their left hands flowed into the hands of rivals Britain, France, and the Netherlands, which could provide rich industrial products. It's just a one-time hand, and it hasn't turned into capital, Spain has become a veritable "golden funnel."

"For the past 30 years, Qi State has spared no effort to develop industry and commerce, and worked hard to consolidate the foundation of agriculture. It seems that we have taken the most difficult and arduous development path. But for the future of the country, it is the foundation for the century-old national destiny. We all need to remember that the prosperity of the industry leads to the prosperity of the economy, and the strength of the industry makes the country strong. In the future competition between countries and nations, the competition will be who has the strongest industrial strength, who can produce more products, and who Who can withstand more consumption in future wars."

"Therefore, whether it is the various new financial lending tools in the market or the booming foreign trade, we should focus on serving the domestic industrial development, instead of coveting the so-called ease and comfort of making quick money like the Netherlands. It will become the main business of our country’s future development.”

(End of this chapter)