No matter how wealth is distributed, most of it will eventually flow to the top.
The upper class knows how to distribute and turn dead money into living wealth, which can effectively eliminate the gap between rich and poor and activate the circulation of wealth among various classes.
On the contrary, if living wealth turns into dead money, a large number of conflicts will accumulate between various classes due to lack of lubricants, and eventually they will become stuck like gears, causing unimaginable consequences.
This was true in the Wu Dynasty, and even more so in the grassland.
It is not that there is no money in the grassland, but it is a pity that the wealth is highly concentrated in the hands of the leader. With the market blocked and goods not abundant, the leader has no place to spend even if he spends money.
After all, you can't let the leader who is accustomed to looting and exploiting the lower class herdsmen learn from the commodity economy of the Central Plains and spread the money in his hands.
Even if it is spilled, what can the bottom herders consume?
"My plan is very simple. The first step is to divide the pastures!"
Equation stretched out a finger and drew on the table, "The acres are divided into upper, middle and lower, and the grasslands and pastures are differentiated. The first step is to separate the playground near the border into three grades: upper, middle and lower. The rental price is based on ten cents per acre for high-grade grassland, six cents per acre for medium-grade pasture, and three cents per acre for low-grade pasture. The rent starts at 1,000 acres. After signing the contract, the merchant will pay the money in one lump sum. How will the money be divided among us? No matter, we will hand it over directly to the leader!"
"The second step is to select the shepherds, one household is a unit, and each household has twenty taels per year!"
"The third step is to select the lambs. The lambs are male and female. One or two lambs are provided by various grassland ministries to form a sheep market. We look for experienced shepherds to help merchants select the sheep. After the selection, the sheep's ears are nailed and ordered. Record the information on the iron plate!"
"The fourth step is to wait, wait six to seven months for these lambs to grow up!"
“The above is part of the goods!”
Fang Fang retracted his finger, "What do you think should be done? Will there be merchants spending money to raise sheep?"
"There will definitely be!" Huang An said with a smile, "According to my experience in the northern pasture, a good pasture can raise about five to seven lambs in a grazing mode. As long as this number does not exceed, the lambs can be fattened. In addition, there is no need to consider the problem of overwintering after winter. If you raise two to three more sheep per acre, a thousand acres of pasture will be counted as 800 sheep!"
"A lamb weighs ten pounds, and a sheep weighs one hundred and twenty pounds. Calculated at fifteen cents per pound, one sheep can earn at least one pound!"
"With a thousand acres of grassland, I invested a thousand taels in March and April, and harvested about 2,000 taels in October and November, which is equivalent to making a hundred taels a month!"
"One hundred percent return rate!"
It's not that he didn't know. He was shocked when he calculated it. When he thought about the result he calculated, Huang An couldn't help but take a breath.
The theory of Capital has not yet been born in Kyushu, another world, but everyone understands it. What can businessmen do for profit?
Businessmen from all over the world are rushing to do business with an annual income of more than 30%. You must know that the annual profit of underground smuggling is only 60 to 70%. After all, the more you make, the more links you need to take care of.
But if you really follow the equation, even if there are risks, who can bear it if your wealth doubles in six or seven months?
But, is there really any huge profit from animal husbandry?
Really, why are the ranchers of the Wu Dynasty still complaining about poverty?
"Simple calculations are indeed true. A 100% return rate can be calculated by just relying on data. The reason why it is not available in reality is due to various circumstances. First of all, the source of the lambs. Normal herdsmen cannot have so many lambs. It cannot take care of one household. Secondly, with many years of experience, neither the grassland herders nor the ranchers in our country will consume the pastures until they are exhausted. According to your algorithm, no matter how good the pastures are, how can they be consumed? In three or four years, it will surely become a wasteland!”
"Finally, there is the problem of surviving the winter. As the winter progresses, the forage problem alone is enough to bankrupt the herdsmen!"
"And now there's no need to worry!"
"As long as there is profit, businessmen will continue to increase their investment and make great achievements. In the short term, even if the herdsmen know the consequences, they will not care, because for the herdsmen, the money they receive is the most important. At the worst, it is better to change to another pasture. The grassland lacks everything except pasture!"
Who didn’t know about the classic story of sheep eating humans? Who didn’t know about it in the previous life?
Wool can eat people, and so can mutton.
Don't play with wool, play with mutton. That's because mutton is more expensive and more direct. Regardless of whether it is fresh meat, frozen meat, or finally made into dried meat that can be stored for a long time, as long as it is shipped out of the Wu Kingdom and the Liao Kingdom, it will not matter. Don’t worry about selling.
One year after Fang Fang came to another world, the productivity of the Wu Dynasty was visible to the naked eye. He had not made any glass or cement. He would definitely touch wool products in the future, but at best it would be supplementary. Full-scale development was impossible and unrealistic.
Under the productivity, the output of wool is far greater than the consumption. There is no point in playing small. Not only will there be no profit in playing big, but if it is not done well, the price of wool products will fall into the dust. It is better to play small and make wool products into luxury goods. Focus on low quantity and raise the unit price to gain profits.
"I know roughly what you think!"
Old Man Xia obviously thought further, "Through this move, we can turn the disorderly inflow of mutton from the grassland into an orderly inflow. Compared with us forcibly raising the price of mutton, participating merchants will not allow it. In their hands, Mutton has plummeted. After all, all the falling meat prices come from them!"
"That's right!"
Fang Fang couldn't help but give the old man a thumbs up, "The grassland transition in winter only ranges from a hundred to three hundred miles. Excessive distance will not only make the sheep fatten, but may also cause a large number of casualties. Now we will move the border If the grasslands are all divided, the leaders who originally gave way will probably not give way, because they will have a share of the profits!"
"Their profit, lamb?" Huang An smacked his lips, "The process here seems to have earned everything except us!"
Not to mention it is true, a lamb regardless of male or female can be sold for one tael of silver. In order to meet the needs of merchants for lambs, these leaders will inevitably reach into the depths of the grassland.
In the depths of the grassland, warriors could not enter, and merchants could not enter even more. However, the leaders of the border tribes had various options.
To put it bluntly, they can definitely buy back the pregnant ewes.
Lambs that enter the sheep market are only worth one or two silver dollars, but there is no such amount in the grassland. In winter, in order to get rid of the sheep that are destined to not survive the winter, useless things are turned into useful ones. One or two hundred coins can be used to turn them into useful items. To move pregnant ewes, 1,300 to 400 yuan is usually enough.
This time, five or six hundred coins were stuffed into the bag, and three or four thousand heads were operated, which was a profit of several thousand taels.
The key is that the risks that the leader needs to bear in the process are not big!
"Why didn't we make any money?" Fang Fang laughed. "Is it because slaughtering doesn't cost money, or does salt curing cost money, or does it mean that we don't charge tolls for shipping out of the Wu Dynasty?"
"Besides, is the speed of the return journey with goods and without goods the same? If a team of merchants stays in the country for one more day, we can earn an extra share of carriage fares. If we accumulate small amounts, we can make a lot of money in secret and prevent it. People are jealous!”
“And don’t forget, we haven’t talked about the futures themselves yet!”
Futures is where the real money is made. The more you play with futures, the more Wu Chao will make as a banker.
