Chapter 649 Cultivating the Consumer Market Zhu Yujian set up a banquet in the Yin'an Hall of the Tang Palace, entertaining Quan Xu, Sanniang and other people, and it was silk and bamboo with wine, dancing to help the fun, and the scene was both grand and respectful.This made Quan Xu feel very good about Zhu Yujian.Generally speaking, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty are all waste, for example, the King of Fu and the King of Qin, of course, even in the worst years, there can be a few full grains of wheat.Even Tsinghua University and Peking University are the same scum and waste.Origin and region, in fact, does not represent anything, many people say that black people have low IQ, but there are also smart people among black people, and they are also out.Of course, 14 percent of the Nobel Prize winners, that are the Nobel Peace Prize, this prize does not mean anything, as long as you kneel and lick Europe and the United States, you will definitely win this prize.Zhu Yujian is a vassal king who wants to do practical things, he did not say what kind of welfare he would seek from Quanxu, gain more power, or train his troops, prepare for rebellion, etc., on the contrary, he always wanted to increase grain production and improve the living conditions of the people in Nanyang.This sincerity is full of sincerity, which makes Quan Xu obviously feel it.During the banquet, Quan Xu said with a smile: "Whether it is to be an official, a farmer, or a businessman, or even a craftsman, whether you can succeed is because of people, the same people, the same system, why in the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming army could go to Mobei seven times and go to the Western Ocean seven times?"
The same farmer cultivates the land, why is the yield per mu of Liaodong and Liaoxi separated by a river, under the same fertile land, with the same seeds, and the difference between the yield per mu in Liaodong and Liaoxi is several times?
is also a craftsman, why is it that the artillery produced by the Gun Bureau in Liaodong has never been blown up, and the musket rarely has been blown up?
”Zhu Yujian and Chen Zhenhao were also full of doubts, and asked in unison: "Why?"
”"The answer is actually very simple!"
Quan Xu said with a faint smile: "Because of two words, interests, that is, because of interests, the farmers in Liaodong, the land is their own, we do not collect agricultural taxes, the grain farmers can put it into their own pockets, only when the grain is sold, will be taxed, in this way, the farmers are profitable, they are willing to work hard in grain production, they are willing to sweat more, and they are willing to pay more labor!"
”Zhu Yujian fell silent.They didn't know the problem that Quan Xu said, but there was no way to solve the problem, he raised his glass and said: "Wuwei Hou, Xiao Wang asked Hou Ye to come over, he wanted to solve the problem, not let Hou Ye see the joke, if Hou Ye wanted to see Lone's jokes......"
Quan Xu interrupted Zhu Yujian and said: "I don't even know the specific expenses of your palace, how can I give you an idea?"
”Zhu Yujian took out an account book and threw it to Quan Xu, Quan Xu hurriedly glanced at it, this is similar to what Quan Xu had speculated before, the income of Tang Wangfu is no less than 200,000 taels of silver, but because Quan Xu has been suppressing grain prices, this income is only gross profit, if it is combined with reality, it should be about 150,000 or 60,000 taels of silver.Quan Xu sighed and said: "The problems of your Tang Wangfu are the same as the difficulties of the imperial court, there are too many people, too many places to spend money, and because you lend, there are a lot of bad debts, due to the problem of bad debts, there is a financial crisis, in your current situation, you have no choice, you can only open source and reduce expenditure."
It is estimated that there is no hope for throttling, and even if you can do it, others can't do it, so you have to open source. ”If it was a peaceful year, those people naturally did not dare to owe the money to the Tang Wangfu and not pay it back, but with the rise of Quanxu, especially the large number of immigrants in Liaodong, Luzon, and Taiwan, these people who owed the huge debts of the Tang Wangfu and could not repay them could only flee.As soon as they fled, these debts naturally could not find anyone to repay, and this kind of usury, the amount of which accumulated into a lot, became a huge burden for the Tang Palace!
In the final analysis, this is still Quanxu's pot.Without Quan Xu's crazy attraction of human resources, Tang Wangfu would not have a financial crisis.Zhu Yujian asked, "What kind of open source method?"
”"Simple, change your previous monotonous farming methods, stop working hard, plant wheat to the death, and plant some cash crops such as flax, potatoes, and cotton appropriately!"
Although the current Ming Dynasty has natural and man-made disasters and a sharp decline in grain, the problem is that due to the influx of a large amount of foreign grain, there is actually no profit to be made by growing grain.For example, wheat, an acre of land can produce about 150 catties of grain at most, which is the total output, and tenants also have to support their families, and it is good to harvest a bucket of grain per acre of land.Even if it is 10,000 acres of land, the income is only 1,000 stone of grain, which is about 4,500 taels of silver, and 100,000 mu is 4,500 taels of silver.But the problem is that because Daming is in the Xiaoice River period, the weather is dry and cold, and one acre of cotton can be sold for four or five taels of silver.And the income from planting wheat per acre of land is only about thirty or forty yuan.Quan Xu smiled: "You can grow vegetables or cotton, and these cash crops can bring ten times the income of one season of wheat a year." ”This is still just the price of cotton, in Liaodong a bed of ten pounds of cotton thick quilt can be sold for four or five taels of silver, if after processing can be sold separately cotton to the oil mill, long-staple cotton sent to the textile factory, then the income will be higher.Zhu Yujian smiled bitterly: "I also want to plant these, but I don't know how to plant them......
Quan Xu began to roll his eyes again: "You don't know how to plant, won't you invite someone who knows how to plant to come over as a technical consultant?"
If you have to understand everything yourself before you can do it, how many things can people do in this life?
As for the supply of fertilizer, you can rest assured, I am not a person who has forgotten my roots, you have given me so much fertile land, I will definitely give you a return, the phosphate fertilizer pipe is enough, and I will send someone to guide you in application. ”Zhu Yujian was overjoyed and said: "Thank you, thank you!"
”"You're welcome!
By the way, if you grow cotton and flax, you might as well set up a few more textile factories and weave the flax cotton you grow into cloth, which will be more profitable, not to mention, and can also provide more employment opportunities for the people. ”Quan Xu said with a smile: "Of course, the salary must be reasonable, otherwise good things will definitely become bad things." ”Zhu Yujian said he understood.No matter how ignorant he was of farming, he knew that selling a pound of flour was much more profitable than selling a pound of wheat, not to mention that the profits of the cloth business had always been very high.However, he was still a little worried: "What if the woven cloth can't be sold?"
”"How can it not be sold!"
Li Xin, on behalf of Quan Xu, has reached an export agreement with the Dutch East India Company, the British East India Company, and the Spaniards, not only silk, this kind of thing is too valuable, and the rich people in Europe are actually limited, and this market is actually not large.Now Quanxu had monopolized the export of the sea route, and the Dutch East India Company ordered to buy 700,000 pieces of silk, the British East India Company ordered 500,000 horses, the Spaniards ordered 1,350,000 horses, and together with Portugal and Venice, the total annual sales volume was only 3,200,000 horses.This amount is actually only one-third of Liaodong's production capacity.As the Thirty Years' War in Europe entered a critical period, the European countries carried out a full mobilization, and the main population of Europe was used to fight, and their trade imports had become all-round.For example, steel, copper, lead products, daily necessities, especially the standard military uniforms produced by the whole army, the Spanish Empire ordered 1.2 million sets in one go.This is a very large market, not to mention, Liaodong is also a huge consumer market, especially after Liaodong people become rich, especially in terms of food and clothing.The ready-to-wear market in Liaodong alone is as high as 80 or 90 million taels of silver, but in fact, this market is far from saturated.At present, the total population of Liaodong is close to 12 million, and the per capita consumption expenditure is only 7 or 8 taels of silver, and there is room for further increase in this number.Quan Xu said with a smile: "Let me tell you, there are two or three thousand primary schools, hundreds of middle schools, and more than a dozen universities in Liaodong, with a total of seven or eight hundred thousand students, and each student is given two sets of clothes per person every year, what a big market is this!"
It's not that I underestimate you, if you don't plant hundreds of thousands of acres of cotton or flax, the little cloth you weave is not even enough to supply Nanyang and Luoyang Mansion!
”Listening to the grand blueprint depicted by Quan Xu, not only the Tang King Zhu Yujian's disobedient heart jumped wildly, but even Chen Zhenhao, the prefect of Nanyang, was also excited.Once the economy of Nanyang Mansion develops, in the case of the economic recession of the entire Ming Dynasty, he will become a standout, and at that time, it is difficult not to be promoted.Zhu Yujian thought that as long as he said according to Quan Xu's words, it meant that as long as he improved the planting method and weaved the cloth, the silver would automatically and consciously jump into his pocket as if he had grown legs?
This sale, done!
Thinking of this, Zhu Yujian arched his hand towards Quan Xu: "Thank you Master Hou for your advice!"
This king has decided to set aside 80,000 acres of land to grow flax and cotton!
”"It's not enough to just breed, you have to build textile mills, recruit workers, and weave them into cloth!"
Quan Xu said seriously: "How many rich talents are there in Nanyang City?"
Just like clothes, if a piece of clothing can earn one or two taels of silver, there will be more than 1.2 million people in the entire Nanyang, which is more than 1.2 million taels of silver.With such a huge market, you need to cultivate it yourself, you must know that the big river has no fish and the small river is dry, and the people have no money in their hands, who do you sell your cotton and cloth to?
Do you want to sell it to me?
It is recommended that you plant flax first, the investment in cotton is too large, and it is better not to play if the cost is not enough. ”Zhu Yujian thought so."
If you plant 80,000 acres of flax and potatoes, be conservative, it can bring you at least three or four hundred thousand taels of silver every year.Zhu Yujian said seriously: "I will set up porridge sheds in various places in Nanyang and give more porridge ......"
"It's useless!"
Can you raise them for the rest of your life?
The best thing to do is to write off the old debts they owe you, reduce the rent, and give them some food and drinks during the New Year's holidays......
In fact, in my opinion, you simply dismissed all the tenant farmers. ”