?? Seeing that Yang Lihua was ignorant, Yuwen wanted to give an example to illustrate the importance of "relaxation of thoughts". He said that the number of people employed was only one, and the key was the joint industrial prosperity.

Taking the large blacksmith shop (iron smelting workshop) with iron smelting furnaces as an example, the shop owner first had to hire blacksmiths and recruit apprentices, and then had to recruit furnace workers to smelify iron, and arranged for these people to eat and live.

Iron smelting furnaces need raw materials to smelify, so iron ore supply needs to be supplied, so the iron ore owners' business will come to the door, and iron ore naturally needs to hire people to mine, and manpower must not be missing.

If you can dig an iron ore, you need to transport it from the mine to the blacksmith shop, and you need to hire someone to transport it. So other people's business comes.

You have to hire a ship when you go to the dock, and you have to hire labor to unload the goods. You have to hire more coachmen on the land. Whether it is a car or a boat, the demand is high, so the business of carmakers, boatmen, and lumberjacks will come to you.

Even small households can make charcoal by themselves to sell, and a large amount of charcoal is transported to blacksmith shops, carts and boatmen's business. A blacksmith shop with a prosperous business invisibly drives so many industries to make a fortune together.

By analogy, other similar industries will also drive the increase in related demand. If the industry prospers, more people will be hired. People who come to work and earn money to support their families will also gather in the city. They need to settle down and buy rice and vegetables.

In this way, urban residents can rent houses, and various rice shops and market businesses will become popular. Even surrounding farmers and vegetable farmers can pick up rice and vegetables to the city to sell. If there are too many people, the business of the wine shop can also improve, and small vendors such as setting up stalls to sell cooked cakes can also improve.

The increase in dietary demand, and the business of raising chickens, ducks, fish, sheep and pigs has also improved. This is the benefit of such businessmen.

"This is the so-called industrial chain." Yuwen 'Jiaoshou' said earnestly.

"But, the blacksmith shop has to be prosperous," Yang Lihua asked again. In fact, she wanted to say that Zhou State is a specialty for salt and iron. Although she didn't know the specific situation of the blacksmith shop, it was afraid that the government would have an iron smelting furnace and scale, so where was the turn of merchants to run it.

"So the key to the problem is here." Yuwen's "Jiuzhe" began to get excited, "How to increase the demand for iron products made?"

He said that the only thing that needs iron products is farming and fighting. Iron farming is needed to reclaim land and farming, so the demand will be very high at the beginning. However, farmers who bought iron farming tools will not buy them in addition to loss, and there will be wasteland when they open land, or new people will settle down and have to grant land.

The wasteland in Bazhou is limited, and the people who are willing to move here are limited, so there is another purpose to support the demand.

That is to fight, building the soldiers' armor and weapons requires a lot of iron, and especially arrows are consumables. Although in field wars, the battle forms are diverse and cannot be generalized.

For example, if you defend a city or attack a city, the archers on both sides can't stop shooting. Of course, you need strength to pull the bow and shoot arrows, but the strength of the archer is limited. After comprehensive consideration, it is calculated based on the total of eighty archery pieces per person per day.

There must be no less archers when besieging or defending the city. Two thousand archers plan to shoot arrows from morning to night. There are 160,000 arrows in a day. If the weight of an ordinary feather arrow is measured in four cents, it will consume 4,000 kilograms of iron arrows. If the city attack and defense battle takes ten days and half a month, there will be a lot of feather arrows used.

Although feather arrows can be recovered on the battlefield, you still have to prepare what you should prepare before the war, and there may not be many feather arrows recovered afterwards, especially when the arrows fall into the water during the water war, it is equivalent to being lost, not to mention those armor-breaking arrows with heavier arrows, so the iron consumption of feather arrows alone is quite large.

This is still an ordinary battle. Now, the two armies of the Sui Dynasty are fighting, and the war spread from the Yellow River to the Yangtze River. Not to mention anything else, the feather arrows consumed by the Zhou army in Shannan alone are not low, so as long as there is a war, you will not worry about the bad business of the blacksmith shop.

Yang Lihua was silent after hearing this. She didn't know much about what it meant to shoot 4,000 kilograms of iron every day. However, she heard that her husband seemed to be keen on fighting. Although fame and fortune must be taken immediately, and the governor of the local officials was also unavoidable to use troops, she heard that her husband regarded war as a business.

When the soldiers talk about war, they think of making achievements, but the person next to her actually thought of pulling "demand". Yang Lihua thinks this kind of thinking is too exaggerated. From ancient times to the present, no one has ever heard of such meaning from war to this kind of meaning.

"It's not for your husband that you have been fighting many battles since April to now, and countless feather arrows have been consumed. Making feather arrows not only requires arrowheads, but also fish glue, arrow bamboo and feathers. These alone have made fishermen and hunters make a lot of money."

"The craftsmen in the military weapon supervisor of Bazhou earned a lot of money for their families by working overtime to make arrows. They bought rice and vegetables with more money, and even dared to buy meat. In this way, the vendors made money."

"I specially sent someone to the intersection of the east city and squatted by the pancake stall under the big tree. In the past two months, Lao Li, who bought pancakes, has been doing well. The average number of people buying pancakes on the day increased by 30% compared with the previous month."

"This" Yang Lihua wanted to say something but couldn't say it. Her husband actually set her eyes on a pancake stall. This strange focus surprised her. She specially sent someone to count the number of people buying pancakes. This behavior was speechless.

"A leaf knows autumn, consumption is increasing, which is a good thing, so the second type of businessman is what the husband needs."

"It turns out that my husband told Manager Li that they were all." Yang Lihua suddenly realized that she was very smart and had already realized her husband's intention: to cultivate manufacturers and promote demand, the main purpose is to attract the people to settle in Bazhou.

"Yes, if the demand is high, manufacturers have to recruit people. So there is no need to mobilize the state government. Idle personnel from other prefectures and counties will come to Bazhou to find work."

"Manufacturers need policy support, that is, official support, so that their husbands can support them strongly, but if they change to another official, it may not be necessary." Yuwen's "Jiaoshou" was very happy. He successfully instilled the concept of a manufacturer. "There is also soap. If he changes to a state official and Li Fang has no one to protect him, the craftsmanship will not be preserved."

"If they want to make money, they have to rely on being husbands, and as long as they are husbands, they can make a lot of money, so this is not a question of whether to buy or not."

Bazhou needs to build the river embankment on the north bank of Santai River and more water conservancy facilities, which requires a large amount of stones, so the business of the quarry will not be bad. Those who did not catch up at the beginning of this year have already opened mountains and quarrying in advance after the rainy season. <>

Quarrying requires a large number of people, and you also have to hire coachmen and boatmen to transport stones. If the Bazhou area cannot hire labor, they will naturally have to hire people from other places.

"There is another point. Many places are some distance from the city. The state yamen is preparing to organize the people to settle outside the city and form villages." Yuwen's "Jiu Beast" began to talk about the inside story, trying to create a bright future and let the other party feel at ease and 'letting open up'.

Building materials are required when building a house. Although bricks and tiles are not necessarily affordable, wood is indispensable. Xiyang City and Bahe City also need to expand and accommodate more people. The city walls are high-standard rammed earth bricks, so the business of brick kilns is not bad.

As demand rises, the demand for hiring people from various ‘manufacturers’ is naturally rising, and the number of people gathering in Xiyang City will gradually increase. The so-called business of food, clothing, housing and transportation will also become prosperous.

Cloth shops, rice shops, carriages, pancake stalls, tea stalls, needlework stalls, and even clinics can make money. Those who raise chickens, ducks, geese, sheep, pigs and vegetables will not have to worry about not making money.

Social security will become worse once there are more people, so it is imperative to increase the number of people to maintain public security, and more people will be able to hold jobs in the yamen.

Yuwen's "Jiu" describes the various benefits of "letting go of mind", but Yang Lihua thinks it's too wishful thinking. The premise of all this is to create demand for manufacturers.

Water conservancy facilities are only one or two years old; the city is expanded and built, and the prosperity will be stopped for a period of time; wars may not be able to win every time, not to mention that there will be no less rewards and pensions; when all this stops, the gatherings will naturally disperse.

The most important thing is that the government needs to pay money and grain for large-scale construction. Craftsmen need to pay wages, and laborers at least have to take full care. As a result, the "manufacturers" make money. The government basically only goes out and doesn't get so much money and grain. Where did it take so much money and grain to consume?

Yang Lihua has been influenced by her many things and knows that there are some dirty means to solve this problem: she can deduct craftsmen's work, let the laborers solve the problem of eating by themselves, and even collect free service from the people, which can effectively reduce government expenditures.

But this will make the people complain. Sooner or later, it will inspire civil rebellion. She knows that her husband is not such an official, so the so-called support manufacturers will definitely not make ends meet in the end.

The government is responsible for large-scale construction, and the so-called manufacturers are the ones who make a lot of money. Apart from the increase in farmland, the government has no benefit. In fact, it is just to transfer the government's money to merchants in disguise.

Those businessmen will be grateful for this? Are you a fool?

When the government is promoted, the government will build a large number of construction. If the businessmen make money, they will think it is natural, because they make "hard money" based on their own abilities. If the government stops work one day, the businessmen will complain and curse the state officials for not giving work to them, so that they can't make money.

If someone else said that supporting manufacturers would be willing to think, but judging from her husband's usual behavior, she didn't look like a fool, so she made a judgment: her husband was going well this year, so she was a little proud and thought that she could get what she wanted.

Do you want to persuade? Of course, you have to persuade, but not now.

Yang Lihua knew that it was useless to persuade her now. If she refused to let go, it would be annoying. She was not the wife who was not qualified to argue with her husband. Her husband raised her excitedly, not to ask her for her opinion. This must be clear.

The husband just wants to share the joy with others. After making arrangements, he thought it was all in control, but he could not talk to outsiders, so he could only share it with his wives and concubines at home.

So what she has to do is to ask some questions appropriately without pouring cold water on one after another. Her husband can also gain great satisfaction by explaining the problem. When the situation changes later, she can listen to it, and she will help solve the problem together.

After making up his mind, Yang Lihua did not ask any new questions. Seeing her silence, Yuwen Wen felt a little disappointed, just like the "Beast" who failed to make a transaction, she was a little overwhelmed.

He kept talking so much, not to show off in front of women, not to be proud of his desire to prove that everything is in control.

It is natural for merchants to pursue profits and can do anything for profit. The merchants of Jin in the late Ming Dynasty interpreted this very well. Of course, he knew this characteristic of merchants, but if they could guide them well, it would be a force that should not be underestimated.

People in this era know that merchants are greedy and seek profit, but they cannot be without merchants. Therefore, the rulers use and suppressed attitudes. Yuwen Wen knows that there is a difference between middlemen and manufacturers, and he does not intend to suppress the latter.

The bloody history of hundreds of years since the Age of Discovery shows that merchants dare to do anything to pursue profits, but the choices of manufacturers and middlemen will be different, and people of this era may not be able to understand.

After saying so much, you are unwilling to take the initiative, so don’t blame me for being too arrogant.
Chapter completed!