For example, Daxia is still specialized in salt and iron.
This kind of salt or iron is still under the control of the authorities.
Because in itself, when Zhang Bao wanted to reform this aspect, he found that it was not necessary at all.
Just like when I was in Dongzhou before.
There are many private capitals that monopolize the salt industry. The sea salt they dry is a huge dependence for most people.
Because whether it's salt or iron, or other things like these, people simply can't get them through other means.
Just like some ordinary oil, or other things, people may also be able to replace it with some other things.
For example, oils used daily.
Oils include animal fats and vegetable fats.
Even if there is a place where they don't have too many of these animals, so many trees can still provide them with the basic oily stuff.
In addition to the oil aspect, for them, it is more about a continuation of the wisdom of the previous generation.
But for things like salt, iron, and minerals, it is not something that ordinary people can do.
Therefore, any common people are not simply closed in their own village, but can go through the changes that come and go.
Let my own life be self-sufficient.
And this way is simply impossible.
It is precisely because of this impossibility that ordinary people need to have money in their hands to buy things when they need it.
And they must have something in their hands that can be converted into money.
For example.
In ancient times, they generally believed that relying on mountains to eat mountains and relying on water to eat water.
If.
The place where I live is rich in land.
Then the food produced by oneself can be used to sell money.
If your place is a forest, the area of cultivated land is relatively small.
But there are many wild beasts and medicinal materials in the forest, so these things can also be used as a tool to turn into money.
And if it is close to the sea, then it is more convenient for them.
Because what the ocean itself can provide them is enough.
So for ordinary people now, they all have money in their hands.
According to their previous concept, this kind of money is hidden in their own hands.
They may be buried underground, stored in earthen jars, or hidden in a corner of the home.
But since Zhang Bao established a trading house in this way, ordinary people can put their money in this trading house.
In fact, when it just started.
This approach did not go very smoothly.
This is because on the one hand, for ordinary people, that little bit of money is actually theirs. It is actually all the property they have accumulated in their lives.
If all these properties are taken away and handed over to other people, they will naturally be uneasy.
only.
Under Zhang Bao's transformation through high interests, many people's ways and perceptions have also been constantly changing.
Because in fact, for the current situation, Zhang Bao's approach is conducive to the smooth flow of this kind of trade.
Because we need to know that for many ordinary people, if they want to start some small businesses, they also need capital.
And for this kind of capital, they cannot obtain funds through some other means.
So Zhang Bao directly transferred this set of financial methods from later generations.
certainly.
In the process of doing this, Zhang Bao and others were much more conscientious than later generations.
At least during this process, there were not too many things, and there were some mandatory requirements.
At the same time, for this kind of interest rate, it is relatively low.
Therefore, through this model, Daxia's financial and trade prospered rapidly.
With these prosperity, in fact, Zhang Bao and others will have enough confidence to build ships, train troops, expand armaments, and develop various armaments.
In fact, to put it bluntly, when it comes to war, what is still competing is the strength of each country, and what is competing is the comprehensive strength of each country.
And from another perspective.
At present, whether it is Daxia or other neighboring countries, they are no longer the petty quarrels between neighboring countries like before.
They are no longer like before, with some minor conflicts and frictions between various countries.
And now the time has come. What they have, and what they are experiencing now, are some such activities at a distance.
Whether it is trade or war, once the distance goes up, once the entire process is stretched.
Then the entire cost will also rise exponentially with this change.
This is also the reason why many countries in Daxia are not willing to take part in activities easily.
On the contrary, as for Zhang Bao, he is more active and has a lot of actions. In fact, in the final analysis, it is to promote connections in all aspects.
Because for Zhang Bao, as long as all the money in Daxia flows between Daxia, there is no risk.
For Zhang Bao.
Naturally, he is very willing to see this happen.
So this kind of problem is not a problem for Zhang Bao.
It is through this change that ordinary people in Daxia now begin to have some subtle and unobservable thoughts.
To know.
For ordinary people in the past, they only knew how to maintain their basic life through hard work with their backs to the sky and their faces to the loess.
but.
Doing business is completely different from farming.
What farming tells others is that you pay silently.
And doing business makes all of them know how to use their brains.
And Zhang Bao and the others now know deeply that there is no way to overcome some powerful outsiders in the future by simply relying on some farmers.
According to Zhang Bao's idea, he doesn't want the people on his side to become so bad, but he also needs to let them understand that when others use some bad tricks to deal with them, they have ways to deal with it. .
Instead of just passively enduring and being beaten like the previous situation.
