"Ah sneeze~"
"Ah sneeze~"
"Grass (a plant), who is talking bad about me behind my back!"
When he woke up early in the morning, Huo Guang snorted twice and cursed carelessly.
At this moment.
He had already left the General's Mansion with the guards who could go to the fields to collect the food and town tax that he had not asked for in several years.
The so-called food and town tax means that princes have the right to collect local taxes in their fiefdoms.
but.
With the beginning of the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion during Emperor Wen's period, the newly-confessed princes, or the Guannei princes, no longer enjoyed fiefdoms, but only food towns.
Mr. and Mrs. Wei were the Marquis of Yichun awarded by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty!
Although it is just a name, it still has 200 households.
During the period of Emperor Wen, each household was allocated sixty acres of land. However, in the early years of Emperor Wu's accession, the population soared from 15 million to 38 million, more than twice as much.
Therefore, in the early days of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, each household only had about 30 acres.
Calculate it this way.
The total food tax collected by Wei and his wife, the Marquis of Yichun, dropped to 66,600 yuan a year. It has been four years since the title of marquis began in 124 BC to 121 BC now.
so.
Mr. and Mrs. Wei can collect at least 266,400 yuan from the food and town tax this time.
As the Marquis of Yichun, Wei and his wife received so much money for the first time in their lives, so of course they were very excited.
"It turns out that I, the Marquis of Yichun, can really receive taxes. Haha, that's a lot of money. This is the first time I've seen so much money!" At this time, Mr. and Mrs. Wei were trembling slightly as they spoke.
But Huo Guang cast a contemptuous look at his behavior.
He is a Hou after all, right?
Among the twenty nobles of Qin and Han Dynasties, one of the two highest titles!
Four years of accumulated rent and taxes, and only this amount of money?
What's so happy about!
Of course, this is also the reason why there are differences between Hou and Hou. After all, as the Marquis of Yichun, he was just in the favor of his father Wei Qing and had no military merit, so he was only rewarded with the lowest 200 food fiefs.
For example, the champion Hou Huo Qubing was rewarded by thousands of households!
A well-deserved Marquis of Wanhu!
If we want to collect the restaurant tax, how much money will it cost? If Huo Guang didn't want Brother Champion to know about his affairs, he would have gotten some money from his brother.
aside.
Seeing that Huo Guang was silent, Mr. and Mrs. Wei quickly came over and hugged each other and said, "Come on, old cousin, we made so much money today, let's go back to the city and buy some delicious food!"
Buying food?
wipe!
I still expect this little money to be used as capital to make a fortune. Are you telling me to buy food?
Thinking of this, Huo Guang immediately slapped the unsatisfactory Mr. Wei on the buttocks, and then heard Mr. Wei scream like a pig.
"Oh ho ho... What are you doing? The wound on my butt is not healed yet!" Mr. Wei pushed Huo Guang away in pain.
However.
Huo Guang said directly: "No wonder my uncle doesn't like you, so he just collected some taxes, and you just want to enjoy it?"
"What about the career we were talking about? Have you forgotten?"
"Don't you want your general father to look at you with admiration?"
However, Mr. Wei muttered and said, "Just spend a little. We have so much money. It doesn't hurt to spend a little."
"No!" Huo Guang glared at him and said, "If you think about spending a little today and a little tomorrow, you will lose all your money sooner or later. Now I will take care of the money and you can't touch any of it!"
Upon hearing this.
No matter how stupid Mr. Wei was, he would not be happy and said, "This is my money!"
Seeing that Mr. Wei was anxious, Huo Guang immediately softened his tone and said deceitfully: "Old cousin, we are people who want to do big things. It is said that those who achieve big things don't hesitate to tip. How can we succeed if we share this small amount of money between you and me?"
"You believe me!"
"In three months, I will definitely make this money double several times! At that time, I can buy whatever I want in Chang'an City!"
After Huo Guang said this, the Wei couple could only agree.
Did the ancients love money?
Love!
Throughout the ages, who doesn’t love money? Even the emperor loves money. The hustle and bustle in the world is all for benefit, and the hustle and bustle in the world is all for benefit.
Even like Huo Guang, who has lived in two lifetimes, he still likes small money.
Now that he had capital, Huo Guang took Wei and his wife out of the city and began to choose a good place to produce toilet paper.
But Mr. Wei didn't know what Huo Guang wanted to do, so he asked, "Old cousin, what are we going to do?"
The corner of Huo Guang's mouth raised slightly and he said: "If you don't do anything, just find a good place and build an industrial park that can make money!"
"Industrial park? I can't understand what you're saying!" Mr. Wei couldn't help scratching his head. As a Western Han native, he naturally couldn't understand such modern vocabulary.
Huo Guang also had a slight headache.
I had nothing to say about modern vocabulary, but now it would be troublesome to explain it.
After much deliberation, I didn't know what to say, so I decided not to explain, and said bluntly: "If I can't explain it to you, just follow me. As time goes by, you will understand."
"Oh!" Mr. Wei nodded.
It just looked like he was a little confused.
But now is not the time to get confused. What happens next will be very troublesome. Because Huo Guang is planning to enclose the land. Only with land can we build factories, and only with factories can we engage in large-scale production.
This series of things is not something that can be done if you have money.
It has to be related!
Although land in the Han Dynasty was privately owned and could be bought and sold freely. But the question is, how to buy and sell?
Everyone knows that the land system of the Han Dynasty was complex, including a series of systems such as the village system, the fake land system, the land grant system, and the royal land system.
If you want to enclose land, you have to find a reason!
fortunately!
With Mr. and Mrs. Wei, the Marquis of Yichun, here, it will be easier to do things.
He himself is just average, what matters is Mr. Wei's background.
He is the son of General Wei and the nephew of the Queen. As a relative of the royal family, if you want to buy a land or a house, if only a little bit of news is revealed, most of the grassroots powerful people below will lick their green faces and come over to show their attentiveness.
As a human society, we have long been used to it.
It was like this before, it is like this now, and it will still be like this in the future.
By the time Huo Guang finalized the land enclosure, many days had passed.
And in these days.
A big event also happened in the Han Dynasty!
What's the big deal?
That is, the imperial court also wanted to make money, and began to reuse officials with business backgrounds such as Sang Hongyang, and vigorously reformed agriculture, salt and iron government operations, etc.
But these have nothing to do with what Huo Guang wants to do.
What he is currently focused on is building his own factory and selecting workers to work on it.
Recruiting!
Simple.
Chang'an City lacks everything except people. Although there are only 30,000 people in Chang'an City, there are more than 200,000 residents outside the city.
Huo Guang wanted to recruit some people to work. As long as they were paid, it would be easy to recruit people.
But there was a problem that he had to pay attention to.
That is papermaking technology, and we must not let these people spread it. Whether it's toilet chips or paper on which you can write and draw, Huo Guang must firmly control the production technology in his own hands.
This is the so-called monopoly.
Capital!
Everyone despises them, but if there is a chance to become capital, who wouldn't want to?
to this end.
He specially called Bu San and explained these things to him. Anyone who is responsible for felling raw materials such as trees and bamboo must not be responsible for soaking and beating.
Same reason.
Subsequent work such as cooking, mashing, filtering, film picking, extrusion, and fire-drying cannot involve each other, and confidentiality must be done well.
Technology!
It is the most valuable.
As time passed, Huo Guang's "industrial park" was built step by step according to his plan.
But this day.
The roar of horses came from the nearby horse farm that was built at some unknown time, attracting him.
In the racecourse.
A girl was riding a horse and was responsible for guarding the not many horses. Seeing Huo Guang approaching, the girl immediately said warily: "Don't come over!"
