"Give me ten days, I can get the people and information for you, but don't forget, it will snow in another month at most. Once the snow comes, it will be difficult to deal with later!"
Production and life in various places in the Wu Dynasty were all affected by the weather.
The market is most active before and after the winter break. At other times, people rarely leave the area where their families live.
Around the time of the snowfall in October, it is the last active period of the year. After October is the month of buying for the winter break, the city is fine, but the majority of people living in the fields will hide at home and will not leave until the next spring. Villages, even if these people intend to buy national debt, they will not hear the news, let alone go to the city to pay the price of being frozen to death for the so-called national debt interest rate.
Therefore, the window period for the issuance of government bonds seems to be half a year, but in fact it is only the next two to three months.
"Don't worry, I know this!"
Rain and snow begin to appear in Wu Dynasty every month in mid-September. After early October, the cold wave moves south from the grassland. In less than half a month, most of the area in Wu Dynasty will be covered with snow, with two to three rounds of snow melting in between. When the weather gets warmer, by late November, regardless of whether it is the Northland or Qingzhou, which is close to Xuzhou, the activities will decrease, and finally enter a state of silence in December.
Not to mention the opportunity to make a fortune at this time, even if an enemy country entered the territory of the Wu Dynasty, the Wu Dynasty would not be able to respond, let alone mobilize.
It's so cold!
If it gets too cold, leaving a warm house for a short period of time can cause someone to freeze to death.
As for long-term outdoor activities, well-equipped and well-trained frontier troops will not conduct them.
And this is the reason why the Wu Dynasty only sent out the three battalions in Beijing during the chaos of the twelfth lunar month and did not use any garrison posts in various places. The news could not spread.
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"Master Fang, are the national debts true?"
Shang Zhong walked into the study with a hesitant look on his face. He thought that the slaughtering was successful and the payment was completed, and the matter for this year would be settled. But who would have thought that Fang Fang would take over the national debt.
Shang Zhong is no stranger to national debt. Not only Shang Zhong himself, but also all the second-generation people in Qinggu Village know who the national debt came from, why it was born, and what the benefits are.
But this game is really a bit too big, right?
Eight million taels!
In the eyes of ordinary people, eight million taels is a shocking number, an unimaginable number.
But Shang Zhong, who was born in Bowanghou Mansion, has a deeper understanding of this. Regardless of the annual external reimbursement of the Ministry of Accounts, he can understand all the various levels. The tax money that can really be collected is about the same. Just eight million taels.
More tax dollars are just reflected in the accounts, which does not mean that they will actually be recorded in the accounts.
This is not because the county, county, and state levels want to withhold money. In fact, they have no money to collect. At least 40% of the tax revenue is based on various types of physical objects, and often such physical objects will soon be provided to various parties after they are obtained. to pay for the deficit, and even need subsidies from the Ministry of Household Affairs in some years.
"Your news is a little slow!" Fang Fang laughed.
"..."
Is this a matter of message speed?
Please, this is a matter of eight million taels!
"Don't worry, since I dare to agree, it means that I can do it. On the contrary, you kid surprised me a little. You have nothing to say about my arrangement?"
Shang Zhong received the news, and he must also have received the news that Xia Heng would succeed him.
As the person most qualified to take over the trading market, yet because of his own words, he devoted himself to another seemingly impossible task.
Fang Fang didn't believe it, and Shang Zhong had no idea about it.
"What did you say?" Shang Zhong shrugged, "I am the head of the family, and I want to be of the same mind as my husband, and I hate being old-fashioned. Sir, you have fixed everything. All I can do is follow your plan. , there is no self-expression at all, but this national debt is... exciting!"
Shang Zhong has great confidence in the national debt, but the current amount is actually a bit scary.
"Exciting? It is indeed exciting, but it is not impossible to complete. Don't forget the martial arts families scattered in various places. If you regard the local martial arts families as the martial arts families in Tai'an City, that is not only a mistake, but a big mistake! "Fang Fang knocked on the table, "Think carefully about the situation of the local martial arts family, and you will understand what kind of capabilities this neglected group has!"
"Local martial arts family?"
Shang Zhong was silent for a moment, "Yongye Tian, tax-free? Teach me!"
"The reason why the Wu family in Tai'an City is poor is because they live in Tai'an City. They have all kinds of comparisons and consume a lot of money. Let's just talk about studying. Are the private schools in Tai'an City the same price as the local private schools? In addition, there are also With basic necessities such as food, clothing, housing, and transportation, and only relying on Yongye Field and tax-free benefits, it’s natural for a family without property to live a miserable life!”
"But any local martial arts family that has been passed down for more than three generations does not have two to three hundred acres of Yongye land, plus another hundred acres of family land? As well as their consumption, the village itself can satisfy them, with education including engineering, and retired soldiers serving as instructors. , earn more and spend less, except for the lack of connections, do you think they will have no money?"
Can cities and towns, towns and villages cost the same?
Not only is it different, some things in food, clothing, housing and transportation don’t even cost money.
Hearing this, Shang Zhong shook his head.
No matter how you calculate it, the local martial arts family is really rich.
"Don't forget, the biggest expenditure in the city is not available in the countryside. If you save this part of the money, it will be an astronomical figure. The local martial arts family may seem poor, but in fact they have no way to consume!"
"If that's the case, then this target is..." Shang Zhong didn't know how to describe the target of the national debt issuance.
Living in the city, the biggest support every year is not food, clothing, housing and transportation, but the cost of heating during the 100-day winter break.
The mountains and forests in the city and suburbs are all owned by owners. The price of firewood required for heating is not expensive, but it cannot sustain the daily consumption. Who dares to cease fire for one day in winter, let alone one day, even if it stops for half a day, until spring warms up? When the flowers bloom, the corpse collection team comes to the door.
This cost is usually around two or three taels per year. The larger the home area, the more consumption.
But for this part of the consumption, for the warrior family living in the fields, the grain poles dried after the autumn harvest every year are not only enough, but they also hope to sell them in the city.
If you go back and forth, you will not only spend no money, but you will also make a lot of money.
"Fifty years ago, the Yellow Book was re-recorded. At that time, there were 330,000 martial arts families nationwide and 270,000 local martial arts families. As long as each family is willing to pay twenty taels of silver, we can complete most of the tasks, except for those on the record. The Wu family, how many families in various places call themselves the Wu family?”
The Wu family was a separate household registration in the Wu Dynasty.
If a family wants to become a martial arts family, it can only rely on military service throughout the generations. The accumulated military merits of each generation cannot be judged at all. If a family wants to advance from a commoner to a martial arts family, there must be an ancestor with military merits and titles that reach the public rank.
Military merit titles cannot be inherited, but with the third-level public title, the family will directly promote one clan member to join the army every six years, thus ensuring that generations of children will join the army.
Of course, most of the time, the Wu family does not need to use these recommended quotas. They can be selected into the army through regular methods. Who makes the Wu family represent Genzheng Miaohong?
As for those who claim to be the Wu family but are not in the "Wu family" in the Yellow Book, no matter what they dare to say to the outside world, their family background must be strong.
