Chapter 65: Zhang Guozhu is forward-thinking
This kid is a fool.
The Yun family is not big, with only two sons and one daughter.
According to the principle that the strong get stronger, Yun Zhang must be the patriarch of the Yun family and the heir to all the property of the Yun family. This heir refers to the property inherited from Yun Niang. As for Yun Zhao, in his hands Not a penny.
Yunniang’s property must eventually belong to Yun Zhao, that is to say, it must belong to Yun Zhang.
According to the rules of property distribution in large families, the eldest son owns everything, while the second son owns nothing. In more ruthless families, even brothers and sisters belong to the eldest son, and he has enough power to decide their life and death.
It is said that only this method can make the ancestors accumulate more and more wealth, so that the family's strength will not be weakened by the division of the family.
This method is shameless and very ruthless. However, within the Yun family, even Yun Niang, who loves Yun Xian the most, has no intention of giving any property to Yun Xian or Yun Qian.
However, all the properties in Qian Duoduo's hands belong to Yunxian.
Yunhu, Yunbao, Yunjiao and Yunxiao will all give part of their property to Yunxian, just like Yunmeng gave 80% of his property to Yunxian before his death. In their eyes, the Yun family only relies on Yun Zhang is not safe and a backup candidate is needed.
The Yun family relied on this method to survive for more than a thousand years.
It stands to reason that a family that has lasted for more than a thousand years should be a big family anyway. However, the population of the Yun family is pitifully small. Most of them are tribes and depend on the Yun family for survival. After a long time, he became a member of the Yun family.
Just like Yunhu, Clouded Leopard, Yunjiao, Yunxiao and others.
During the long development process of the Yun clan, due to the existence of the Yin clan, the men in the family suffered heavy casualties. It was necessary to constantly draw manpower from the Yang clan to maintain the Yin clan. Therefore, after a thousand years of After so many years, it is commendable that the Yun family has not been exterminated.
"Dad, are you saying that I am going to be a robber in the future? The country belongs to our family. Are you saying that the child is specifically going to harm my brother?"
Yun Xian seemed to be right. I am very interested in becoming a Yin tribe...
Then, the poor child was whipped again by Yun Zhao with his belt.
Yun Xian was very dissatisfied after being whipped twice by his father with a belt in half a month!
He believed this was a sign that his father was preparing to abuse him.
This is indeed the case. Yun Zhao started beating him, which proves that Yun Zhao wants to deepen Yun Xian's memory over and over again. It is best to form a physical memory until he forgets the idea of harming his brother. .
Yunbao was very satisfied with Yun Zhao beating Yun Xian, he had wanted to beat him for a long time.
It is useless to just talk about this kind of thing.
After August, autumn has completely entered Guanzhong.
To be honest, autumn in Guanzhong is the most beautiful time. As for spring, there is no such thing as spring in Guanzhong.What kind of spring is there? After the cold and harsh winter, as long as the sun shines for a few days and the grass in the mountains grows taller, Guanzhong will be eager to enter summer.
The summer in Guanzhong is torture for everyone.
Perhaps God is trying to compensate for the disasters suffered in Henan. This autumn, Guanzhong is ripe!
Looking at the ears of grain, which were as thick as an arm and half a foot long, Yun Zhao pondered for a long time.
He sighed softly and took out Hong Chengchou's memorial from the pile of memorials. In this memorial, Hong Chengchou detailed the benefits of farming in Nanyang and believed that with the development of Ming Dynasty ships, Hong Chengchou The load capacity is constantly increasing, and the time is ripe for shipping grain from Nanyang to the coast of Ming Dynasty.
In his memorial, the ports of Jiangyin, Xiuzhou Huating, Xiuzhou Kanpu, Hangzhou, Mingzhou, Wenzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, and Zhangzhou could become ports that accept Nanyang rice.
Among them, the rice received by Hangzhou and Mingzhou can reach the capital along the renovated Grand Canal, thus ensuring that the people in the north will not have nothing to eat due to natural disasters.
He even suggested that the empire should build seaports in Dengzhou and Tianjin, Shandong, so that food transported by sea can enter the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty more smoothly.
In Nanyang, the price of a load of rice is only about 20% of that in the Central Plains. Even excluding transportation losses and freight, the price of a load of rice is still only 70% of the local grain price in the Central Plains.
This alone can completely reduce the price of food in Ming Dynasty by 30% or even more.
This sounds like a good thing. However, in the purely agricultural society of Ming Dynasty, the price of food must be maintained at a constant price.
When food prices are low, it is a disaster for farmers.
The high price of food was also a disaster for the court, because as the price of food soared, the soaring price of food, which was a barometer of prices in the Ming Dynasty, would inevitably cause all domestic prices to start to soar in the Ming Dynasty.
What's more, the crops grown most by the people in Guanzhong are millet, millet, and corn. The value of these crops itself is not comparable to that of rice. Once there are seven million more tons of rice on the market, the price of these grains will fall. Even more powerful.
Therefore, Sinong Temple and the Prime Minister's Office will set a constant price for grain every autumn to protect the interests of farmers and the court.
Usually, according to the practice of Lantian County, the imperial court will purchase the excess grain from the people at a protective price, store it in the grain depot, and wait until the disaster year to sell it out at a fair price. In this way, Guanzhong People can always eat affordable food.
This kind of stable life seems to last for a long time, and there seems to be no need to change at all.
For the government, every reform and every progress is actually a process of asking for trouble.
Obviously with so much rice, the people in the country can eat more rice, which seems to be good for everyone.
However, once implemented, it will destroy stability and have a devastating impact on the self-sufficient farmers of the Ming Dynasty.
This kind of stability is actually only a fragile stability. Once a major disaster occurs, or a major disaster occurs for several consecutive years, this stability will collapse immediately.
This is how Zhu Ming died.
However, accepting Hong Chengchou's method is also unreliable.
Yun Zhao knows.
The price of grain in Nanyang is actually a deformed price.
The main reason is that the grain Hong Chengchou received in Nanyang was almost free of charge. In Annan alone, he received seven million tons of grain a year.
This is the result of his desperate efforts to expand grain planting areas in Annan. This predatory planting method not only destroyed numerous forests, grasslands, and hills in Annan, but also destroyed the last hope of the Annan people.
If you grow three crops of rice a year, only 60% of one crop belongs to you, and the rest must be turned over.
Except for the cost of collecting the grain, there is no other cost for this batch of grain. Therefore, in the process of producing grain, the people in the country cannot compare with the price of the grain plundered by Hong Chengchou.
Yun Zhao didn’t know whether the Annan people would be willing. Anyway, if it was put on his head, he would definitely rebel.
Hong Chengchou also said in the memorial that showing kindness to the Annan people would be a long process. Whenever the Annan people had the urge to riot, he would be prepared to compensate the Annan people a little, for example, leaving some money for the Annan people. 70%, 80%, or even 90% of the next season's income, or all the rice from one season will be left to the Annan people.
Yun Zhao believed in Hong Chengchou's methods of manipulating people's hearts.
I also believe that he can accurately grasp the tempers of the Annan people.
However, once so much food entered the Ming Dynasty, the harm to the farmers of the Ming Dynasty was real.
If you grow food, the income is very low. If you don’t grow food, there is no way to make money. Yun Zhao thinks that it is unrealistic to expect Ming Dynasty’s weak industry and commerce to absorb so many farmers.
So, how such a large amount of food enters the country and where it goes needs to be carefully considered, which is a difficult problem.
When Zhang Guozhu came, Yun Zhao was still a little irritable. When there was no food, people could starve to death. When there was too much food, it was equally annoying.
"Seven million dans of grain?"
Zhang Guozhu smiled after reading Hong Chengchou's memorial.
Yun Zhaodao: "I will give you the grain. You are responsible for giving money to Hong Chengchou and ensuring that the price of grain in the Central Plains will not drop. What do you think?"
Zhang Guozhu smiled and said: "Your Majesty "Where is the food supply?"
Yun Zhao opened the map and pointed at the Henan tunnel: "This year, apart from the lack of food here, there is a slight shortage of food in Shanxi. Tell me, where is the food shortage?"
Zhang Guozhu gestured with his hand on the huge map of Ming Dynasty and said: "There is a shortage of food everywhere.", as for whether or not to give Hong Chengchou money, and how much to give, it’s not us who has the final say?
Your Majesty always believes that income and expenditure should be equal. Hasn’t he ever thought that Annan is not actually in the Ming Dynasty?
These grains are actually our Ming Dynasty’s surplus.
Although Guanzhong is said to have ushered in a ripe year, to be honest, it is just that there is no shortage of food. The people are still used to the days of melons and vegetables for half a year. When cheap food comes in, the people will also It’s good to be able to eat a few more bites of rice. "
Yun Zhao looked at Zhang Guozhu and said, "Are you going to distribute this food to the people? "
Zhang Guozhu said with a smile: "Just give it to the farmers. "
Seeing that Yun Zhao still looked incomprehensible, Zhang Guozhu smiled and said: "Your Majesty, we are just keeping these grains in the hands of the people. "
Yun Zhao nodded and said: "I know the truth, wealth is hidden among the people! "
Zhang Guozhu took a cigarette and lit it and said: "If you want the people to become rich, it depends on the people, not on us officials. The prosperity we guide is actually just us. Just what you want.
The spontaneous prosperity of the people is the prosperity that the people need.
Having more supplies is a good thing. It is a great good thing. If we distribute the extra supplies to the people, the people will naturally know how to deal with these supplies that are redundant to us.
With these rice grains, it might be enough for those who originally didn’t have enough money to marry a wife.
With this money and food, a house might be built if it was not enough to build a new house.
With this money and food, a family that could only raise one pig might just bite the bullet and raise two, as well as some more chickens and ducks.
Overall, people’s lives will be easier.
And we have also achieved the goal of making people rich from another aspect.
Yun Zhao looked at Zhang Guozhu suspiciously and said, "Do you think anyone will call us fools?" "
Zhang Guozhu puffed out smoke and said: "As far as I know, for such a fool emperor, the people may really hope that he can live long live, long live, long live! ”