People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 447: You can’t reason with the common people, just give them money

After Guo Feixue said this, everyone present fell silent.

This is especially true for these businessmen.

Although they are all doing business, there is one thing that Guo Feixue is not wrong about.

That is, after these people do business, a large part of the money is stored instead of being directly returned to the market.

That’s because in the entire Daimyo, many things cannot be bought and sold again.

Apart from food and drink, and all those miscellaneous things, all that's left are fields, land and real estate.

then what should we do?

Can I buy anything else with my money?
When I had no money, I would definitely think about what I would do when I had money in the future.

But once you have money and all these things are satisfied, what should you do?

Even if you take the bus at different stages every day, you can only take three or four trips a day, so buying three or four cars is enough.

Cars are the most expensive thing, but for many wealthy people who have reached a certain level, carriages have become less important.

In fact, it is just a toy that you can have after you have money. No matter how much you spend on bigger toys, you will not have much purchasing power.

So much so that after some of the money is received, it can only be buried underground.

In this case, it can be considered a kind of value preservation for them.

Especially gold and silver, which become more valuable as time goes by.

They all understood very well that there was nothing that could be done about it.

It's not because of their decision.

They also want to say, I don’t want to be like this either, but there are only so many things that can be sold on the market, what can we do?

The only thing I can do is save this money first.

It can be left to the younger generations, or if there is any natural disaster or man-made disaster in the family, the money can be used for emergency.

There is no way around this.

So when Guo Feixue said this kind of thing, she sometimes felt that it was a bit easy to talk without any pain in the waist.

It’s not that we don’t want to consume.

It’s because there is nothing for us to consume. Even if we have spent a lot of money, it has no other effect except being called nouveau riche in the market.

They have bought everything they should buy and played everything they should play. You can't blame them.

Should we take this money and redistribute it to the poor?
And then make them as rich as themselves?

It is said that it is hard to give up good fortune and hard to enter the door of goodness. This kind of thing is impossible to do, so everyone remained silent.

Even the Ningbo prefect felt that this was a normal thing after hearing this.

Because there is nothing we can do about it.

This is how everyone comes here.

Even as an official, he might sometimes buy some study items, but these things cannot be eaten or drunk.

You can only buy it once, this kind of thing is more valuable, and there is nothing new on the market.

Even if it is an inkstone, or even calligraphy and paintings, if you want more, you can't buy them all at once.

In this case, asking everyone to save money, buy some land and real estate that can maintain their value, or bury gold and silver in the ground seems to be a last resort.

The Ningbo prefect said directly: "Saint, when you say this, you should consider a realistic problem, that is, even if we have money, we can't buy more things.

"What we have at home is enough. As the saying goes, how much can we spend on food and clothing? We are just ordinary people. Even if we spend lavishly, how much can we spend?"

These words immediately resonated with the businessmen present.

One of them said, "Yes, this is not our fault. Even if we live a life of luxury, how much can we spend? In the end, we can only buy some land and real estate when we have them, and buy some cheap shops when we have them, and accumulate them slowly.

We also want to do bigger business, but there are some businesses that we are not good at and we cannot get involved.

What can you do after you have money?

Now, if we have money, we can deposit it directly into the Daming Bank. We didn’t have such a good opportunity before.”

Other people also said the same thing.

Even the Jianghu people, especially the elders of the Salt Gang, said: "It is true that they cannot be blamed. This is the fact."

After hearing these words, Guo Feixue said: "So, it is because of these facts that we have to do this.

Why does the Duke have to do this?
It's because people like you have limited spending power and there are more poor people.

After all, you rich people are just a drop in the ocean. Just think about it, even if those poor people got 500 coins, but there are one million poor people who got 500 coins, and each of them only spent half of it, then how much money would be available for circulation in the market?

Think about it again, if every poor person had money to spend, and everyone bought something to take home, wouldn’t there be a huge market?

For example, if you want to build a cabinet at home, even if there are ten thousand rich people and each of them builds a cabinet, then you will only need ten thousand cabinets.

After these 10,000 cabinets are sold, it may take a long time before they are replaced, so the turnover in between will appear particularly slow.

Have you ever thought about this: even if 10,000 of you buy one cabinet every year, that would be 10,000 cabinets. How many craftsmen can be supported?

If those carpenters only depend on you to make a living, many of them will definitely not be able to survive.

Those with better skills will definitely be able to live a relatively comfortable life, but those who don’t have better skills and don’t have orders will definitely have to change careers and do other things.

But if there are one million people in the market and they buy one cabinet every three years, that means on average they can buy 300,000 cabinets a year, which is thirty times more than you.

So think about what this concept is?
Does that mean that even those carpenters with inferior skills can sell their products at a relatively low price, but at least they can have a meal to eat?

How many carpenters can be profitable with these 300,000 cabinets?

Once a carpenter has business, he can make money. If he makes money, can he buy other things? Can he buy clothes? Can he buy some silverware or jewelry?

And this is all a chain reaction.

When the carpenter becomes rich, he will buy silver jewelry and clothes. Does that mean that those selling clothes and jewelry in the market will have more business?

Then, will those jewelry stores, silk shops, and clothing stores also have more income?

After they have income, they eat better, use better things, and then they buy other things again. Isn’t this a good cycle?

Once everything on the market is mobilized, think about how many people it can feed?"

After these words were spoken, many people present were actually shocked.

First of all, they are not stupid. They also understand that once more people have money, there will be more business to do, more people will buy things in the market, and more people will make money. With money, you can buy more things. At the same time, because some people in this industry can make money, more people will rush into this industry, as well as other industries that will have a chain reaction.

In this way, the entire industry will flourish.

This is actually what Chen Han thought at that time why he wanted to give money directly to the people.

Because he understood very well why ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty were poor and why the commodity economy was underdeveloped.

It’s because the common people are too poor, the vast majority of the common people are too poor.

At the same time, there are too few commodities circulating on the market. If this continues, how can Chen Han’s reforms be implemented?

Can this reform be forced through just through some policies?

No, there is a very good saying that goes, "When the granaries are full, people will know etiquette."

If the common people cannot even get enough food and drink, no matter how much you tell them about the benefits of reform, they will just listen to it as if it were a holy book and will not consider these issues.

But if I give you money directly, although it cannot directly stimulate the entire society to become materially wealthy all of a sudden, it can at least show that my reform can make you better off to a certain extent.

This is a psychological effect.

In other words, if I make you rich now, you will have more time to spend.

In the process of consumption, you will be exposed to more information.

The more information you are exposed to, the more you will understand what reform and change mean.

You wouldn't be shouting in your own little piece of land at home all day long, "I don't care what the reforms are, they have nothing to do with a person who can't even change his diet."

Just like many decadents say.

I don’t care what kind of achievements you have made or what kind of international reputation you have. What does it have to do with me, who only earns 3,000 yuan?
But if one day he, who earns 3,000 yuan, suddenly earns 30,000 yuan because of reforms, do you think he will pay attention?

He will definitely pay attention, more than anyone else.

Because he was afraid that he would go back to the time when he only earned 3,000 yuan.

This is what Chen Han needs to do first.

Now we have so much silver that cannot rot in the warehouse, and we have such a good opportunity that we cannot waste it.

Now is the moment when the conflict is most acute. Even though the blood is flowing like a river through the use of force, the voices of opposition have been temporarily suppressed.

But these voices will definitely still be hidden deep in some people's hearts, and they will definitely continue to stir up trouble.

How to prevent it.

We must let the people at the bottom feel the benefits of reform.

But how can the common people at the bottom feel it?

Do you want to spread the benefits of reform to them?

How to popularize it? The literacy rate of ordinary people is less than 3%. They don’t even know the characters. What’s the point of popularizing it to them?
What the people need most now is quantity. How to give quantity? Just give money.

Now we are building a road. I have occupied your fields, your land, and your house, and I will compensate you.

Next time I won’t need you to pay taxes, I will give you money.

You can even say that when you reach the age of 60, I will give you the compensation.

In this way, the common people benefit.

Just like what people say, if you are soft-handed when you take advantage of others, you will be soft-mouthed when you eat from them. Then they will realize that reform and change can make their lives better, and then they will change their mindset faster.

In the future, when someone else tells him that he wants to overturn this reform.

He would just say, "Reform has made me rich and I live a better life, that's enough."

Silver and gold notes are just tools. What they carry should be linked to material and development potential.

Instead of letting it become a toy in the hands of some individuals.

Although it will certainly make some people richer in the process.

But as long as it can be circulated, as long as this concept is deeply rooted in people's minds, gold, silver, banknotes and silver bills will be easy to solve.

As long as people's hearts can change in line with the pace of reform and change, we will be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

The reason why Chen Han was fighting so hard outside, fighting with Japan and snatching its resources, and even wanted to develop colonies in the future and bring all the resources of the colonies to the Ming Dynasty for the people to enjoy, was all because of this reason.

Ordinary people are very realistic. It’s impossible to convince them with dogmatism. Just give it to them directly.

As for cultivating a group of new people who follow your own ideas and move forward, you have to do it step by step through education.

This will not take a short time. It may even take ten, twenty or thirty years of changing lifestyles before collaboration can gradually be formed.

Chen Han didn't dare to expect that everyone in the world would recognize him in one go.

But he must let the people get the benefits in the shortest possible time, in addition to tax exemption, because in the eyes of the people, you let them pay less tax, that is what you should do, they may not be particularly grateful.

They didn't have any particularly obvious feelings, they just felt that the government was doing well and there were not so many corrupt people.

But if I just give you the money directly, they will wonder how it could turn out like this.

This change in thinking is what is needed now.

When Guo Feixue finished saying this, the people below were all stunned.

I didn't expect it could be played like this.

Guo Feixue even said directly: "Let the people have money, let them buy and sell things, let more goods on the market be sold, let more people do business, let more businessmen make money, and it will promote more industries.

The more industries there are, the more people will be willing to hire ordinary people to work.

The people can get wages in addition to farming, and even if the road construction occupies the people's fields and land, it can still allow the people to survive.

As for the crops grown in the fields, the imperial court no longer collected taxes from them.

Whatever they grow and sell is theirs.

The goal of ordinary people is to farm well, live well, and sell the crops grown in the fields well.

If the court wants to collect taxes, then it should collect taxes from those who do business. This will form a virtuous cycle, and this is what the Duke wants to do.

This is also the reason why compensation must be given when building this road now.

It is to let the common people of Ningbo, as well as the businessmen and women in the underworld, know this news, and spread it together so that the government offices in other places can follow suit.

As for how other local governments can apply for money and talents, that is up to the Duke, Princess Ning'an, and the university scholars led by Prime Minister Zhang of the court to study, and it is none of our business. "

(End of this chapter)