The welcoming ceremony at Tianjin Wei Pier was very warm. Li Xiao stood on the Zhenyuan trestle and looked at the dark crowd below. The fisherman took the Dingyuan back to Changxing Island. He made technical statistics for this voyage and inspected the ship at the same time.

Make improvements to the unreasonable areas.

The Li family is always winning battles and can always win. This is very important. Only by giving people an invincible confidence can they rule this huge empire. More than two hundred years ago, a man named Zhu Yuanzhang took this

With such confidence, he ascended the throne of the Ming Dynasty emperor.

"After going through the journey from Fujian to Tianjin Wei, I feel that the further north you go, the more the people love you. When we stopped at Huating Port, when the people saw your warships, they all stayed in the distance in fear, their eyes full of surprise.

Fear and trepidation.

The situation in Huangdao Port is different again. The people look at Zhenyuan and Dingyuan with joy and confidence. When they arrive at Tianjin Wei, the people come to the dock carrying pots and slurry. You can see their eyes, warm and respectful.

The Ming Empire has ruled Zhili and Shandong for so many years. It is not as long as you Li Xiao for three to five years. This is what the people want. In the past, the elders said that the Zheng family was a fool to abandon the sea. If I go back to Quanzhou now, I will spit

These old guys have such bad looks." Zheng Zhilong sighed sincerely when he saw the enthusiasm of the crowd on the pier.

"The people of the Ming Dynasty are the best people in the world. In fact, they are the purest people. As long as you give them a stable life and have enough food and clothing, they will like you and support you from the bottom of their hearts.

There may be some emperors of the Zhu family who are diligent and love the people. But their eyes always fall on the huge bureaucracy. Their biggest wish is that the Zhu family will last forever, not that the people can live and work in peace and contentment.

A life of plenty of food and clothing. The scholars and officials that the Zhu family relied on were not only swooping on the empire like leeches to suck blood, but also playing political tricks to enrich their own pockets.

For more than 200 years, the Ming Dynasty has cultivated a group of sophisticated egoists. They don't care about the well-being of the people, nor the country. They only care about themselves, whether they have enough money and whether their rights are big enough.

That's all!

Therefore, although the Zhu family's empire has lasted for more than two hundred years, there is no real place in the hearts of the people. When another person gives them food and clothing, and allows them to live and work in peace and contentment, they will soon forget that the Zhu family is the Ming Dynasty.

of orthodoxy.”

After listening to Li Xiao's words, Zheng Zhilong took a deep look at Li Xiao. Then he nodded. Since his allies have given him a hint, it means that the Li family has the intention to win the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

If Li Xiao can have such an idea, Zheng Zhilong supports it with both hands and feet. The Zheng family does not have such strength, and now they can only cling to the wings of the Li family to stay at the top of the Ming Dynasty's power pyramid.

After getting off the ship, Li Xiao and Zheng Zhilong immediately rode a carriage towards the capital. The Zhenyuan will also return to the Changxing Island Shipyard to make improvements to address the problems exposed during this voyage.

The journey from Tianjin Wei Pier to the capital has opened Zheng Zhilong's horizons. In the spring, farmers are actively preparing for farming. They are not as numb as farmers in the south, but have a kind of expectation and joy for a good harvest in their hearts.

"These lands were originally owned by landlords and officials, but are now subcontracted to them. They only need to hand over 30% of the harvest every year, and they can enjoy the remaining grain. If the government recruits corvees, they will be given corresponding wages.

In today's Ming Dynasty, there is no such thing as using people for free." Li Xiao saw Zheng Zhilong's confusion, and smiled and explained to Zheng Zhilong why the farmers were so hopeful.

"A harvest of 30% is considered kind. I heard that potatoes and corn can produce a thousand catties per mu. A harvest of 70% is not only enough for them to make ends meet, but also gives them a lot of surplus. In this way, they can accumulate for several years

Even small households will become rich. But if there are rich households, there will also be poor households. If the poor continue to sell their land to the rich, won’t everything return to where it started?”

"Mr. Zheng is right. There are diligent people among the people, and naturally there are also lazy people. A diligent person can become a wealthy landlord after one or more generations. This is indeed a difficult question!

However, the latest "Da Ming Law" stipulates that all land belongs to the state, and no one is allowed to buy or sell land. And even these farmers only have the right to use the land."

"Buying and selling land is not allowed?" Zheng Zhilong took a breath of cold air, this was too outrageous.

At the beginning of each dynasty, the population suddenly decreased due to war. The state would give farmers land and encourage them to have children. But as long as they lived in peace for thirty to fifty years, there would always be people who became local people through diligence and intelligence.

Rich households. And those who are lazy and stupid will become poor again. By the end of the dynasty, there is usually a large amount of land annexation. The rich become richer and richer, and the poor become poorer.

The gap between the rich and the poor is huge, so the rich and powerful families are stinking of food and wine, and their bones are frozen to death. When a dynasty reaches that time, it is not far away from once again forcing the rich and poor to equalize. The empires on the land of China, no matter how strong or weak, are

There is no way to escape this fate.

Li Xiao's move was incredible because he fundamentally did not allow people to buy and sell land.

"But there will always be people who get rich through hard work and intelligence. After they get rich, they will instinctively use money to continue making money. If you don't allow the sale of land, what will they do?" Zheng Zhilong thought for a moment and immediately thought of a loophole.

When people have property, they will instinctively think of making money. Now if you don't let them buy and sell land to buy property, these people will lose the motivation to rise in the long run. If a country's diligent and smart people lose their motivation, then the country will not want to

It is too difficult to make progress.

"Hahaha! Mr. Zheng really has a unique eye for understanding people's hearts!" Li Xiao smiled, then a smirk on his face.

"Material desires! People naturally want to live a good life. Food and clothing are just the minimum requirements for survival. There is a man named Maslow in the West. His theory is very interesting. He said that human needs are divided into five levels. The first

Level 1: Physiological needs. Level 2: Safety needs. Level 3: Emotional and belonging needs. Level 4: Respect needs. Level 5: Self-actualization needs.

The needs for women, food, water, air and housing are all physiological needs. These needs are at the lowest level. People always try their best to satisfy these needs before turning to higher-level needs. A person does not feel hungry when he is hungry.

Will be interested in anything else, his main motivation is getting food.

Even today, many people are unable to meet these basic physiological needs.

But when they have enough food and rich living conditions, they will pursue other things. Our empire will provide them with countless things they pursue.

For example: when they have enough to eat and drink, do they want to live in a big house? Then they have to save money and buy bricks and tiles to build a big house on their homestead. In this way, the wealth they accumulate will turn into a house.

For them to live in. If you want to accumulate more wealth, you can only work hard again.

Of course, some people will be very smart. They will use the money they have saved as capital, and then do business to make a lot of money. After the money generates money, they will be very rich.

But rich people want to show off to others, what do they show off? Luxury houses, carriages, beautiful concubines, and Shu brocade robes, so that their wealth is spent. Those who sell Shu brocade, build luxury houses, and manufacture carriages

, and even the brothel sisters have made profits.

Of course, as a result of their actions, our country also receives taxes. That’s why money needs to flow!”

"But those people are still smart and very profitable. So what should we do?" Zheng Zhilong thought about it and felt something was wrong.

“Then let them keep spending!

We can build more luxurious and humane mansions and sell them to them. Let them feel that living there is a symbol of status. We can also make more luxurious carriages, and the horses pulling the carriages are famous horses from the Western Regions. Shu brocade robes,

We can make famous brand robes that can show status and wealth. Anyone who wears such a robe is a symbol of status and status.

This kind of robe can be sold to them at a profit that is ten times or even dozens of times the cost. Of course, those who make clothes, build mansions, and build carriages will also make money.

By analogy, as long as those rich people continue to make money, they will continue to upgrade their products. Every industrial upgrade will allow those rich people to consume again. In this way, their assets will be consumed in upgrades again and again.

And their self-esteem can be satisfied through upgrades again and again.

People envy the rich and will work hard to earn wealth. And their wealth will eventually be consumed to satisfy their material desires. In the end, they find that they have a lot of things they don't need. Wealth turns into

of flowing water.

From the hands of the rich, it flows to other people. This forms a virtuous circle. The rich have to consume huge financial resources to maintain their comfortable lives. The poor can make money from them.

If a rich person accidentally loses money in business and becomes bankrupt, he will have no choice but to return to the poor and start primitive accumulation again.

Rich people will continue to go bankrupt, and some will continue to become rich. This cycle can theoretically last for a very long time."

Li Xiao talked a lot, and Zheng Zhilong was in a state of confusion. He had never heard someone explain the people's livelihood economy in this way. It sounded absurd at first, but it made sense when he thought about it carefully. The more he thought about it, the more upset he became. This was completely beyond the pale.

his scope of understanding.

If the person in front of him was not Li Xiao, Zheng Zhilong would have gone crazy a long time ago. Without him, he would become angry from shame!

"The simplest way to understand it is that I will let people who have become wealthy have new goals to pursue. I will continue to spend the money they earn so that it will not be so easy for them to accumulate hundreds of millions of wealth." Li Xiao smiled confidently.

.

"I would have understood if I had said this earlier. After what you said just now, my brain was turned into mush." ​​Zheng Zhilong breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, his brain almost shut down because it could not process the overly complicated theory!

Li Xiao was also helpless. As one of the most important allies of the Li family, he had to let Zheng Zhilong know that he could not only fight, but also govern the country. This was very important to increase the confidence of his allies.

Otherwise, Li Xiao would not be here to tell Zheng Zhilong about consumption upgrading and this modern economic theory.

The closer he gets to the Gyeonggi region, the more factories Zheng Zhilong can see.

On the side of the wide and flat road, factories are almost connected one after another. In almost every factory, workers can be seen coming in and out of the red brick factory buildings.

"This is a planned industrial area, and it is all barren land. Since growing crops will not produce much output, we might as well use it to build factories. Look, these workers will receive their wages every month. Then

, they will use the wages to buy things. The money will go from the hands of the workers to the hands of the merchants. The merchants will use the money to purchase goods.

As a result, the money goes back to the farmers. If farmers have extra money after selling agricultural products, they will buy industrial products manufactured by workers. The factory sells products to the farmers, and the money is turned into wages and paid to the workers.

This is the principle of economic circulation. As long as this cycle continues to be completed, people in every link will benefit, and of course the court will also receive a lot of tax revenue. This is the truth. We must do this.

The key is to work hard to make this cycle faster and smoother. Also, to manage those who try to destroy the cycle.

As long as money can flow, the court will have a steady stream of tax revenue. When the country becomes rich, the people will also become rich."

"Uh...!" Zheng Zhilong finally understood most of it, but it doesn't matter. You can already see the towering city walls of the capital, appearing far away on the horizon. After entering the city, he asked his son to explain it to him. It's okay.

Euphemistically called it, test your studies in school!

If Zheng Sen doesn't understand, Zheng Zhilong will not be stingy with his fists and kicks.

Li Xiao had no time to think about whether Zheng Sen would be beaten by his father. He was so anxious to return to the capital because Ai Husheng had been planning the currency reform for more than a year and was about to officially launch it. At this time, Li Xiao still needed to stay in the capital town.

Otherwise, the powerful people who suffered huge losses due to currency exchange will never give up. At least, they will not spare Ai Husheng, who has no background.

As soon as he returned to his house, Zheng Sen hurried over to greet his teacher and his father.

Without disturbing their father-son reminiscing, Li Xiao saw Ai Husheng already waiting among the crowd at the door. He immediately asked someone to invite him into the study. He wanted to hear the latest progress of the currency reform.

When Ai Husheng saw the steward coming to invite him, he immediately entered the Li Mansion with two attendants. When they heard that Li Xiao had returned to the capital, the officials who came to flatter him whispered. Some people who had just been transferred to the capital from other places kept asking

People around me asked, who is the person who just entered?
Chapter completed!