Chapter 853: This is called liberating the labor force
"Impossible." Yan Ju said loudly, "According to what you said, won't this money never be spent?"
"Yes, as long as money continues to circulate in the market, the money will never be spent." Qin An said.
"As you have seen, after the businessmen made a year's money just now, will they give wages to the workers? Do the workers need to buy food in order to survive? The farmers have made money because of this?
Then businessmen pay taxes, workers pay taxes, and farmers don’t have to pay taxes? Does the court have taxes?
Now that the court has money, it can not only provide salaries to officials, military expenses for the army, but also miscellaneous expenses. "
Everyone nodded, but just because they understood, it didn't mean they could understand.
When did farmers earn 20,000 taels a year, when did workers earn 100,000 taels a year, and when did businessmen earn millions of taels a year?
This amount was so huge that it scared everyone to death.
But he didn't pay much attention to Yan Ju's problem.
Qin An continued: "The times are developing, and the days of bartering for goods will soon pass. In a few years, all goods will have a price.
In the future, taxes will be paid in the form of money. Even if the agricultural tax cannot be offset in full at one time, it will be more convenient to pay the tax in money. "
"The people don't have money in their hands, and if they are asked to use money to trade, isn't that a different way to take money from the people.
In the past, people who had no money could use grain to pay taxes, but now they can't pay taxes on grain. Is the court planning to force the people to death? Yan Ju said again.
"How could it be?" Qin An said, "Do you think I haven't considered these issues?
Common people can sell their excess grain to the government. The price of grain purchased by the government will be determined according to the situation in each place, but the price of food in different places will not differ much.
I just wanted to show you that as long as the court has money, it can do a lot of things, such as raising salaries for members, military expenditures, building bridges and paving roads, developing science and technology, and so on.
Finally, cancel all your corvées, cancel agricultural taxes, and even provide farmers with subsidies. There are also various pension insurances and so on.
The money from the imperial treasury is not exploited from the people, so everyone will not be dissatisfied and will accept it happily. "
"That's wrong." A commoner in the city reacted, "Since merchants can bring so much wealth to the country, why has agriculture been emphasized and merchants suppressed from ancient times to the present?"
Yes, everyone reacted one after another.
Qin An immediately explained: "It's very simple. There are too many businessmen and no one goes to farm."
When Yan Ju heard this, he smiled in his heart and told the truth.
Immediately he burst out laughing: "Haha... Imperial Master, you finally let it slip."
Qin An said: "It's not that I let it slip, it's that you don't know the situation at all. I said that three years ago, the laborers who cultivated your land were either humans or cattle, and there was no other labor force.
The most important thing is that if you can cultivate five acres of land a day, it is already the best.
But things are different now. Now I have invented a steam plowing truck, which can plow at least a hundred acres a day. If the speed is faster, there will be no problem with a thousand acres.
And it only takes three or four people to operate it, so how much labor can be saved.
Take two villages as an example. Both villages have 10,000 acres of land. There are 500 households in the village, and each household has 20 acres of land.
Three years ago, the five hundred households in both villages were busy with the 10,000 acres of land throughout the year.
But three years later, one of the villages raised funds and even mortgaged 5,000 acres of land to the government to purchase a steam plowing truck.
There is another village that was reluctant to part with the land and did not buy it. It still relies on its own hands and cattle to cultivate the land.
So in the village that bought the cultivator, only a hundred people were left busy working in the fields. There were also some old, weak, women and children, and all the young and middle-aged people went to work.
Just pretend that there are 400 young adults working in this village.
Four laborers, each one earns per month
One tael of silver is equivalent to twelve taels of silver a year, and four hundred people have four thousand two hundred taels. After two years of work, the village's land can be redeemed.
In the third year, the income of the villagers in this village will increase, and after cultivating the land in a short period of time, they can just leave it to the care of the elderly and women at home.
You can work part-time the rest of the time, and when it's time to harvest, you only need to take a few days off, because with steam plowing trucks, farming is very fast.
It will not delay work in the city at all. In the end, working people no longer think about going home to farm, thinking that all this is a burden.
It’s not that there aren’t any, but that this phenomenon is very common. In the future, many, many people will never touch a hoe or even the soil.
And when another village sees that this village is getting richer and richer, do you think they are still reluctant to mortgage 5,000 acres of land in exchange for a plowing truck? "
"Change." The middle-aged farmer said, "Don't say 5,000 acres, even 8,000 acres. With a plow truck, you can reclaim wasteland, and you can make back as much as you lose."
Everyone couldn't help but nodded. Yes, with the plow truck, I have time to do other work, but wouldn't it be better to subsidize the family?
Qin An smiled and said: "This will be called liberating the labor force in the future. If it is too profound, you may not be able to understand it.
To put it simply, you are the labor force. You are working when you plant the land, and you are working when you make clothes.
But with the arrival of plowing vehicles, there is no need for so many people to farm, and then the labor force appears, which liberates the labor force. "
Everyone nodded in understanding.
Yan Ju said: "Master Emperor, since we have liberated so much labor force, don't they have nothing to do?
If there are too many people doing nothing, chaos may occur. "
Qin An smiled and said, "Of course I know, so the usefulness of merchants appears. They build various workshops, hire these laborers to work, and then produce various commodities.
After merchants appear, commerce will appear, thus forming a market.
Now let me talk about the market. The market is a place for business. Every place has its own market.
There is a place in Zhao land close to the Xiongnu. There is a prairie there, which is very suitable for raising cattle, sheep, horses, and chickens.
Therefore, there is no shortage of meat, so the price of meat will be much cheaper than other places, especially the land of Baiyue.
This is the rule of the market. I have said so much today, mainly for businessmen and people who want to do business.
Because the development of business will drive the country's economy and fill the national treasury, the court can use these taxes to serve the people.
I firmly believe that the imperial court's tax revenue will be taken from the people and used for the people.
In addition, I receive a hundred people every day, and I will answer their questions. Even if they want to do business, I will give them advice. .
Now, I will go back to the inn and wait for these one hundred destined people.
Next, I will go to the city wall to speak once every ten days, that is, there will be two more times. Next time I will talk to you about agriculture. I hope farmers will listen. "
