Chapter 538: New Year's Day 1

This Spring Festival in Jishi City is extremely lively and festive. This is the first Spring Festival since Zhengdong Mansion moved to Jishi City. Naturally, there is a big celebration. For this, Wang Wuyi from the household department of Zhengdong Mansion, bitten Chu Ya allocated a large sum of money to decorate the entire city. In Gao Yuan's words, sometimes, waste is also a necessity. Because certain wastes can allow the people under the rule to see the prosperity and prosperity of the entire Zhengdong Mansion, and can also greatly enhance the people's self-confidence.

The people living in Jishi City and the surrounding areas, whether they are Yan people or Huns, after two years of hard work, their lives are now quite good compared to other places. Every household has land, and the taxes levied by Zhengdong Mansion are relatively low. Moreover, these cultivated fields are basically exempt from taxes. Every grain of grain produced is owned by the family. It can be said that the family owns it. Every family has a surplus of food. Especially for the first group of people who came to Jishi City, two years have been enough to turn the former raw land into mature land, the output has also been greatly increased, and the home is full of granaries.

In addition to these, more importantly, they also have other incomes. During the construction of Jishi City, these residents were not sent to labor, but were paid according to working days. For every day of work, they would have one day of income, even if the wages were not It is high, but for the entire Central Plains, this is also the first one. In any country on this continent, if the government sends labor to the people, it is done openly and without paying a penny.

In this regard, Gao Yuan had his own theory, and after two years of practice, this theory was finally accepted by ministers such as Jiang Jiaquan and Wang Wuyi. Don't be afraid of paying money to the common people. After the common people have money in their pockets, they will buy things and consume them. However, the taxes levied by Zhengdong Mansion on merchants are the highest in the entire continent. In other words, the money eventually flowed back to Zhengdong Mansion through various means. Although the merchants have complaints, the largest merchant within the jurisdiction of Zhengdong Mansion is Sihai Trading, and Sihai Trading is controlled by Zhengdong Mansion. Naturally, they have nothing to say. Even Sihai Trading has nothing to say. Other merchants, I can only accept this.

As time goes by. All the merchants also discovered that although the taxes levied by Zhengdong Mansion were extremely high, the circulation speed of their goods was countless times faster. Because the people had money in their hands, they naturally bought more things, and the cost of each business was The profit seems to have dropped, but after one year, I actually made a lot more than before. The complaints naturally came down.

More importantly, the status of merchants has been greatly improved in the area under the control of Zhengdong Mansion. This makes them particularly satisfied.

In fact, for Gao Yuan, he knows nothing about the advanced theories of market economy. But after all, he came from a society with a highly developed commodity economy. Even with his extremely shallow economic knowledge, in this era. It's enough to change a lot.

What makes Gao Yuan even more satisfied is that from the initial hostility and indifference between the Huns and Yan people, they have now become harmonious and as close as one family. In order to achieve this, Wu Kai, the prefect of Jishi County, resorted to sucking of strength.

Today’s Jishi City,

If the Huns don't know how to farm, the Yan people will organize experienced farmers to teach them step by step. If the Yan people are not good at raising livestock, the Huns will come to help each other enthusiastically, share their needs, and help each other. The results will be natural. It just improved together.

The villages outside Jishi City are gathering more and more, and the cultivated land is becoming more and more vast. Every household raises cattle, horses, sheep, pigs and other livestock, as well as cheese, mare's milk wine and other specialties passed down from the Huns. Every household can Since there were too many of these things for local consumption, they were purchased by Sihai Trading, went out of Liaoxi and Yan Kingdom, and marketed them in all directions, bringing a lot of profits to the people of Jishi City.

The most profitable business is the fur business. In the past, the Huns traded with the Central Plains people and generally suffered huge losses. Some small items such as pots, pans, needles, threads, and brains could be exchanged for more than the Huns could store in their homes. It's superficial, but now, these businesses unified by the four-sea trade have made all the people who used to do these businesses in various countries in the Central Plains lament that the era of huge profits is over.

Gao Yuan even allowed Sihai merchants to sell horses to the Yan people, Qi people, Zhao people, and Wei people.

War horses have always been one of the most important strategic assets on this continent. Even in the era of the Xiongnu Royal Court, there were extremely strict regulations on the export of war horses from the Central Plains. Gao Yuan's decision was once discussed in the Zhengdong Mansion. It has caused a lot of controversy, because everyone believes that cavalry is now the biggest advantage of the Eastern Conquest Army. If a large number of war horses are sold to the countries in the Central Plains, then they can also form cavalry, and the advantage of the Eastern Conquest Army will be gone. live.

In response, Gao Yuan smiled indifferently and asked: "How long does it take to train an infantry?"

An infantryman can master basic knowledge in one month, and half a year is enough to become an elite soldier.

And a cavalryman?

Without several years of hard work, it is difficult for a cavalry to take advantage of it, and to become an excellent cavalry, it may take even longer.

What's more, the cost of raising one cavalry for one year is enough to raise dozens of infantry.

Building a powerful cavalry force requires a long time and a lot of money.

Before, war horses were restricted, and countries could not form a large number of cavalry, but now, Gao Yuan gave them this opportunity. You form cavalry, and spend all your time and money on your cavalry. At a certain point, you will find that cavalry will become that bottomless pit, with countless investments but little gains in the end.

More importantly, when cavalry can be formed, some people in power will inevitably despise infantry, which was originally the basis for the survival of the Central Plains countries.

Gao Yuan dug a pit and waited for some people to jump in.

And this problem is not a problem at all for Zhengdong Mansion. Not to mention that almost every household in Jishi County now raises horses, there are more and more Xiongnu people returning, plus the vast grassland outside, which can provide Gao Yuan with enough war horses, and his investment is extremely limited.

As for cavalry, the Xiongnu themselves are natural cavalry, and under the leadership of these people, how many people in Jishi County can't ride horses now?

Jishi City celebrated the Spring Festival in a lively manner, just like every new political power at the beginning of its birth, and the people of Jishi City are now happy and satisfied. In three words, they are not short of money.

This year's Spring Festival is especially lively because the first day of the Lunar New Year is the wedding day of Sun Xiao, the commander of the Northern Army Group, and Cao Tiancheng, the daughter of Cao Lianer, the big boss of Sihai Commerce. Almost all the high-ranking officials of Zhengdong Prefecture gathered in Jishi City to congratulate Sun Xiao, and more merchants from all over the world also gathered in Jishi City. Now there are not many merchants on this continent who do not want to curry favor with Cao Tiancheng. Sihai Commerce has not risen for a long time, but its expansion speed is extremely amazing. Now it can compete with the Qinyong Chamber of Commerce of Qin State, which once dominated the world.

Merchants are all shrewd. The franchising method adopted by Sihai Commerce is more clever than any other chamber of commerce in the world. They are not afraid to give profits to merchants who join. Any merchant who joins Sihai Commerce will have the opportunity to operate Sihai Commerce's countless unique commodities, and what they have to pay is just a certain percentage of the profit, which is really a drop in the bucket compared to what they get.

Moreover, everyone knows that behind Sihai Commerce stands a world-famous figure, Gao Yuan. With such a figure standing there, one's own interests can naturally be guaranteed.

In this era, there is a powerful person behind any chamber of commerce, otherwise, you can't operate at all.

It's not that no one has challenged Sihai Commerce and obtained the right to operate their products, but in the end they were unwilling to hand over the agreed profits. Sihai Commerce's response is very simple. The first step is to announce the cancellation of the merchant's qualifications and not allow them to sell such products. If the merchant does not listen to the dissuasion, the second step will follow. The second step is very rough, which is to eliminate them humanely.

When a Qin merchant also died overnight, dozens of people died cleanly. After the shop was burned to the ground, no one dared or wanted to challenge the bottom line of Sihai Trade. This incident once shocked the mainland. Although the Qin State Black Ice Platform and the Criminal Department claimed to have found the murderer and brought him to justice, everyone who understood knew that this was just a trick. The real murderer was in Liaoxi and no one could arrest him.

Countless guests went to Jishi City, which also made the inns and taverns in Jishi City make a lot of money. Ninety percent of these inns and taverns belonged to Sihai Trade.

In the later stage of Jishi City construction, under Gao Yuan's instruction, Wu Kai allowed the business People bought land and built these inns and taverns at their own expense. The first beneficiaries were naturally the merchants under Sihai Trade.

The inns were full, so later guests could only rent houses of ordinary people, which brought a lot of income to the local people. Sun Xiao got married, but Wang Wudi was the happiest.

Because these people came to Jishi City, in addition to spending money, they couldn't fail to express their gratitude to the local landlord Gao Yuan. All kinds of gifts filled the warehouse and finally went to the Ministry of Households.

The whole day of the first day of the New Year, the whole Jishi City was in a carnival. Sun Xiao was prominent, and Cao Lian'er Not only does he have a father who is now a big boss, but he also has a brother who is in a high position and has great power. More importantly, the governor's wife Ye Jing'er regards him as a sister. All these factors combined have made this an extremely grand wedding banquet.

The highlight of the wedding banquet was the Xiongnu dance performed by hundreds of Xiongnu women in gorgeous costumes led by Helan Yan. When Helan Yan danced charmingly on the stage, almost all the high-ranking officials in Jishi City were stunned, because in their eyes, Helan Yan has always been a powerful and arrogant person who is as good as men. They have never seen her look like a daughter. (To be continued..)