In Hanshan, the backyard of the official residence, and the small courtyard where Wu was watching the opera, and his wife Huang Yan was with him, Zhao Mengniang, Xue sisters and Duan Yuying were also present.

Li Li's children were also present, and they sat all over the "audience seat" in full view, watching the "Poyang Opera" performed by the actors on the stage with fun.

Wu came to Hanshan and reunited with his son and his family. Because he had many grandchildren, he was very lively around him, which was much more lively than in Poyang.

The little guys were like sparrows, gathering around Wu all day long, just to relieve Wu's boredom.

Huang Gui often accompanied Wu to walk around the city, so for the past two months, Wu has been in a good mood, and it has been autumn unknowingly.

Now watching the hometown opera, although I miss Poyang, the hometown where I have lived for most of my life, with so many families around me and speaking Poyang dialect, Wu's homesickness has faded a lot.

Next door, Li Li listened to the laughter and joy coming from the other side of the wall. He knew that his mother was very happy, and he was quite relieved and continued to move forward.

This is how the family should be, full of laughter and joy. The concubines have been having children one after another in the first half of the year, and the whole family gathered together, so of course it was lively.

He didn't ask the concubines to sincerely serve the Wu family, but it would be nice to have a "family" atmosphere.

As I walked, I thought of the current situation.

Emperor Gao Yang of Qi had already returned to the court. The war in Henan ended and the border between Liang and Qi was maintained. Therefore, after Li Li returned to Hanshan, he had more time to talk with Wu and his family.

He made great contributions to the army. The reward had arrived the day before yesterday, and Li Li, a son, was awarded the title of baron of the county.

If you have many sons, you will not be afraid of being rewarded with great achievements (relatively speaking), which is one of the benefits.

Li Li turned to the living room of the vestibule. Zhang Ying had been waiting for a while, and the two of them didn't talk nonsense and went straight to the topic.

Zhang Ying, on the order of Li Li, sent someone to conduct a "social investigation" in the Lianghuai area, and now he reports the investigation results to Li Li.

In short, in various parts of the Huai River, the "city population" accounts for a very small proportion, less than 10%, and the vast majority of the population is distributed in rural areas.

A typical social form is that farmers live in villages and manors, with land as the foundation of survival, and they are busy all year round, and they don’t have much money to save.

All kinds of landlords (powerful people) who control a large amount of land also live in rural manors on weekdays. If they are not necessary, they will generally not enter the city.

Because in the manor, landlords can be self-sufficient, and food and cloth can be "produced" by themselves, as are fruits and vegetables.

The service of a large number of servants can allow landlords and their families to live a life of food and clothing, so they generally do not leave the comfortable manor to live in the city unless they become officials.

The city of the county and county is not large in size, and the permanent residents in the city usually have only two or three thousand registered households.

In addition to the public officials, garrisons and family members in the city, most of them are industrialists, employed and slaves, and other people who are out of business (without agricultural production).

Farmers near the city will bring vegetables, fruits, grains, cloth, firewood, prey, herbs and other agricultural products to the city for sale in exchange for some daily necessities.

Farmers far from the county and county seats will go to nearby commercial ports or large villages to trade in grass and wild markets that appear regularly, and use various specialties to exchange for daily necessities.

On weekdays, there are occasionally peddlers carrying loads of goods and selling daily necessities to various places. Because farmers' income is meager, they only buy some cheap small daily necessities.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the development of industry and commerce will not have much impact on the vast rural areas.

This is true for Lianghuai, and in most other places, it is also true.

The only places that benefit from this are metropolis like Jiankang, as well as major waterways, such as Guangling, Gongcheng, Xiakou, Jiangling and other cities with prosperous trade.

Because there are a large number of wealthy families living here, they are able to absorb the products and "services" brought about by industrial and commercial development.

Therefore, the survey results show that, except for some low-quality and low-cost daily necessities, such as iron needles, all kinds of products produced in Hanshan cannot significantly benefit farmers in the Lianghuai area.

The reason why Hanshan's industry and commerce are prosperous is entirely because of its good location and convenient water transportation.

Therefore, a large number of products can be sold to cities along Huai and Si, so that those landlords, merchants and wealthy families can "consume" them.

"In short, it's just a word 'poor', right?" Li Li summarized, and Zhang Ying nodded: "Yes, the burden is too heavy, and the farmers are too poor."

"Because the consumption capacity of the Lianghuai region is limited, the scale of industrial and commercial in Hanshan will slowly reach a bottleneck, with the increase and decrease sharply, and can only be maintained by the stock."

Consumption capacity, incremental and stock are nouns created by Li Li. Zhang Ying thought it was very useful. His conclusion was that Hanshan’s abnormal development model might reach a bottleneck in a few years.

Products produced in the workshop must be sold before they can earn income. When the market is "saturated" and the products are unsalable, the development speed of industry and commerce will naturally slow down and the scale cannot be increased.

The labor demand will naturally not increase.

Because the purchasing ability of "consumers" is limited, the "market" in the Lianghuai region can only support Hanshan's industry and commerce to a certain scale, and then enter a bottleneck period.

In this way, cities like Hanshan, which developed in a deformed development mode (relative to this era), cannot bear more expenses through the prosperous industry and commerce.

For example, maintaining the normal operation of public buildings and facilities in the city, maintaining public order, maintaining the normal operation of the government, and raising more soldiers, etc.

Zhang Ying has now begun to adapt to Li Li's "thoughts" to solve the problem and try to solve a series of problems at present.

He drank a cup of tea and talked:

"Land owners who are able to pay for money are happy in their own estates, self-sufficient, have no desire to consume, and at most buy some luxury goods."

"The large number of farmers, because of their shortage of family background, became dependents of the manor, and it was difficult to support their families, and it was even more impossible to have any consumption capacity."

"This is the manor economy. Landlords rely on manors to suck the blood of farmers and make the farmers pale and thin."

"And the large and small manors all over the country occupy a large amount of land, labor, and suck the country's blood, making the country's income small, and even unable to support a decent army."

"The court has to pay a lot of money to compete for resources with these manor owners, that is, the powerful people, and the results may not be good. Therefore, many ways have been thought of in the past dynasties, but they are always unsatisfactory."

"And the Western Wei/Zhou Kingdom used a very clever way to resolve conflicts, that is, the system of government troops."

"The court gave official positions and ways to promote military merits, so as to buy the powerful people from all over the country, and to organize their private soldiers into government soldiers, and lead them to be self-sufficient in daily life, and to prepare their own troops to fight with the army during wartime, and then be promoted with military merits."

"In this way, the court does not need to pay extra money to raise soldiers, but can have more troops. The powerful people entered the 'system' and had organization and promotion channels, and became loyal court hawks."

"In the past, local tyrants who needed to be wary of local officials and suppressed became hawks and dogs of the court and good helpers of local officials through the system of government troops."

"In this way, the court did not spend much money to achieve further control of the local area."

"The court can mobilize a large number of resources that cannot be mobilized without paying too much administrative costs. The price is just to serve these powerful officials and give them a way to improve by relying on military merits."

Speaking of this, Zhang Ying asked: "The king and the lord gave a letter to the court not long ago, suggesting that the government military system be implemented in Lianghuai. I wonder if there is any news?"

"Add to discuss again." Li Li finished speaking and smiled:

"Can the gentry officials of Jiankang tolerate military personnel having a smooth way to promote? They don't even want the cold people to have the opportunity to become officials. Even if they are assigned to the post, they can only be foreign officials."

"If the military system of the government and the two Huaihuang people who were promoted by military merits can rob the officials of the gentry's children, and can be on par with them or even be superior to them. Can they bear it?"

"One of the key points to successfully implement the government military system is that the government army has a high winning rate in battles. In this way, the powerful people who bring their own private soldiers to fight have the opportunity to gain military merits, be promoted, and be given a wife and son."

"If you implement the military system in Lianghuai, who are the military tyrants who join the army, that is, the military generals at all levels, want to follow to fight with? Haha!"

"The officials of the gentry will not lead troops to fight, and the royal family has few decent generals. The ones who can fight the best in the two Huai Rivers... Only when the court is crazy will they agree to implement the military system in the two Huai Rivers, even if they are tried, they cannot."

Li Li said with a relaxed look on his face, and Zhang Ying saw hope: "My Lord, can you......"

"As the saying goes, bidding for the price all over the world, paying back the money..." Li Li snapped his fingers, "I use the government soldiers to bid, and the court needs to bargain, that thing will certainly be done..."

Zhang Ying was overjoyed: "In this way, the bottleneck that the official mentioned can be solved!"

"The chance of success is high, but whether it will be successful in the end requires everyone's efforts." Li Li put away his smile.

Now that he doesn't fight anymore, it doesn't mean he can spend money on life and death, and be drunk and dream.

People must have ideals and strive for them, so they must hurry up and do what they should do.

The manor economy is the mainstream economic structure of the times. Manors of all sizes in various places have controlled a large amount of land and labor. The court could not grab these land and labor.

The Zhou Kingdom (Western Wei) thought of a solution, which was to use the system of government troops to "redeem".

The court and the manor owner (strong people from all over the country) reach a mutually beneficial cooperative relationship, which can mobilize a large number of resources that could not be mobilized.

This move is effective, but the national conditions of Liang State cannot be implemented.

The gentry in Jiankang relied on the corrupt nine-rank Zhongzheng system to control the career and the way of rise. They suppressed the cold people from the evaluation of the local rank.

He also suppressed the military man with a level 34 military call, so he would never allow anyone to learn from the Zhou State's military system to steal his own job.

This system is becoming more and more deformed. Compared with the "lean" Zhou State who implemented the system of government troops, Liang State is a fat man with obvious decay all over his body.

Li Li is not in the center and has no power, so he cannot fundamentally change anything. Hanshan's industrial and commercial development is indeed about to enter a bottleneck period.

Therefore, since the "international situation is stable", he will cause trouble at home, even if it is just in Lianghuai.

There is a saying that even if you don’t have a general for a year, you should not be a soldier for a day.
Chapter completed!