Li Yan stated the problems faced by Liang State, and after hearing this, all the officials felt heavy.

Many people think that this is actually an unsolvable problem.

During the Chongzhen Dynasty, natural disasters occurred in the north, resulting in refugees and bandits. The government needed to allocate funds and resettlement and relief. However, bandits destroyed the local area, affected ordinary people to farm and reduced the taxes of the court. The court could only increase taxes on the people who could collect taxes, which caused new refugees and formed a vicious cycle.

If the economic difficulties faced by Liang State is not handled well, the dilemma in the north may reappear.

During the Chongzhen Dynasty, it can also be said that the gentry and merchants in Jiangnan paid less taxes, and there was a breakthrough in solving the problem.

However, the Liang State has now collected commercial taxes and implemented the implementation of taxes to invest in the land, which means there is no breakthrough.

The root cause of this problem is that there is too much population and too few resources. The cake has not become bigger, but it has become smaller, causing a person to lose points.

This situation has become turmoil over the years, leading to a decrease in population and finally the resources can be resolved after being redistributed.

Population growth grows in geometric orders, while survival resources only grow in arithmetic orders. The more increased population must always be eliminated in some way, and the population cannot exceed the corresponding level of agricultural development.

This is the so-called "Malthus Trap", which is also the root cause of the dynasty change after hundreds of years.

Unfortunately, the late Ming Dynasty was in such a period of population exceeding the level of resource tolerance.

Du Yinxi frowned, wondering how Gao Huan could solve the problem of the livelihood of these millions of people.

At this time, Gao Huan had already taken the iron horn again and said in a deep voice: "The problem, Li Yizheng has already said it. So now I will tell you my solution."

No one applauded this time, and they leaned forward, unwilling to miss any information.

Some officials from Jiangnan couldn't help but feel shocked, "The so-called plan is not to steal us again, right? After all, if the goods cannot be sold, the workshop cannot be started, and if the workshop cannot be started, there will be no income. If these millions of handicraftsmen have no income, merchants from all walks of life who do their business will suffer a blow. By then, the business is over, how can so many people be resettled? There is no extra land in Liang State, so that these handicraftsmen and merchants can re-farm. In the final analysis, this is because there is too much population, exceeding the local capacity, and it cannot be solved by killing big customers."

In the past, conflicts between people and land in Jiangnan could be transferred through commerce. Now that the economy is not good, the problem is immediately exposed.

Gao Huan glanced at everyone, looked at the officials who had different reactions, and then said loudly: "The key to the economy lies in circulation. In fact, food is enough to eat, and the key is how to make millions of handicraftsmen and merchants have the money to buy food."

The Ming Dynasty was in turmoil for decades and lost a large number of people. The south now does not need to transport grain and military rations to the north, and the food is still enough.

Now the Liang Kingdom occupies half of Huguang, and the grain is actually enough, but the people in Huguang have grown grain and cannot be given to unemployed workers and bankrupt merchants for vain.

If it is given for free, the enthusiasm of the people of Huguang to grow grain will decrease, and within one or two years, a famine will occur in Liang State.

Du Yinxi looked at Gao Huan and wondered how he planned to make these nearly one million people have money to buy food. Where did the money come from?

Nowadays, there are only so many people who need to farm, and there are still new populations. The conflict between people and land will only become more acute in the future. How can these people have a livelihood and make money and buy food?

Gao Huan seemed to guess everyone's thoughts and continued: "You guys may think this matter is difficult to deal with, but I think that to solve this problem, it can be solved by development. Here, I have formulated a five-year plan."

If Liang State has paper money, the people also believe that Gao Huan can print money and then invest in water conservancy, roads, shipbuilding, and even construction projects to create job opportunities and pay money to the people.

When the people have money, they can buy food, cloth, salt, and consume variously, and drive the development of agriculture and commerce.

As for business development, Liang State can collect more taxes, thus achieving a positive cycle. When there are too many taxes, the banknotes will be recycled for destruction to reduce inflation.

But now that Liang State has no banknotes, it has to pay real money and silver, so it cannot be released.

At this time, Gao Huan took out a file and put it on the table, chanting: "In the next five years, my mission and everyone will be to stabilize the economy, maintain development, practice internal skills, consolidate the foundation, improve industrial layout, solve the livelihood problems of the people, and there are external threats!"

Many officials were confused when they heard this, and many people quickly picked up the paper and pens prepared on the table and recorded Gao Huan's words.

"In terms of business, the government will purchase a large number of fabric reserves, and at the same time introduce Western barbarians such as Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands to compete with Zheng Zhilong, expand the sales of cloth, tea and porcelain, stabilize the existing handicrafts and commerce, and stabilize the livelihoods of hired workers!"

"In industry, in the 15th Plan, we must increase investment in shipyards and build more warships and merchant ships. Warships will open up routes, escort merchant ships, break Zheng Zhilong's monopoly, merchant ships transport goods, exchange cloth and tea from Jiangnan to grain, spices and wood from the barbarians in all directions. This increases the sales channels of goods and obtains more markets, which can promote the economic operation of Jiangnan and provide more job opportunities. This makes it easier for the people to go out in general, and the resources of the outside world are constantly transported back, so there is no reason why the people are not rich."

"In addition, shipyards can increase their investment, which not only provides tens of thousands of job opportunities, but also drives the development of industries such as logging, transportation, tung oil, and paint making. This shipbuilding industry can be said to be a new industry, and the job opportunities created by the company are also new. It does not occupy the original textile industry and agriculture opportunities, which is equivalent to making steamed buns bigger."

"Within five years, the shipyards must absorb talents, cultivate teams, create gunboats that are not inferior to the Zheng family, and take advantage of the opportunity of trade with the Western Italians to obtain Western Italian warships on the condition of allowing them to come to trade, and successfully imitate them!"

The officials present were stunned. Gao Huan made a fuss out of nothing!

Although Liang State had a shipbuilding industry before, its scale was very small. Gao Huan can be said to have created a new large industry to drive economic development.

Du Yinxi's eyes lit up, but then he found a question, that is, where does the money from investing in the shipyard come from.

At this time, Gao Huan continued: "In terms of infrastructure construction, in the five-year plan, we will continue to build water conservancy, roads, dredge canals, build river embankments, and build new conference halls and heroic martyrs' poems, and build university halls in Nanjing, provincial governments and primary schools, and counties in various prefectures and counties."

"These constructions can also provide a large number of job opportunities, and the work threshold is very low. They can provide jobs to the people and make money, so that they can have money to buy food and not buy cloth, thereby driving economic development."

At this time, many officials had already understood that Gao Huan's idea was to invest in the vassal states, provide job opportunities for the people, make money, and then use the money to buy food for food.

"In terms of education, within five years, the recruitment of teachers and government-run schools across the country should cultivate 20,000 administrative, military, navigation, industrial, and arithmetic talents to provide talents for the development of various industries!"

"In terms of agriculture and animal husbandry, within five years, we will reclaim the dry land and hills that can be planted, and further promote the planting of drought-tolerant crops such as sweet potatoes and corn. We will encourage the establishment of farms, breed cattle, sheep, chickens, and ducks, clear ponds and ditches across the country, develop fish farming industry, allow coastal people to go fishing, reduce the price of fish, and make it affordable for the people!"

"In addition, a seed selection and breeding department was established to introduce new crops to cultivate good varieties!"

Gao Huan's series of plans surprised all officials.

When they were officials in the past, they basically considered these issues, just to ensure tax payments, maintain public order, and deal with disputes, and then they would be punished without doing anything.

At this time, Gao Huan looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "I know that everyone may have a question: How much money should the vassal government invest in these things??"

Many officials stopped recording the brushes and looked at Gao Huan together.

At this time, Gao Huan smiled and said, "This time, the vassal state is preparing to invest 10 million taels in five years to stimulate the plan. Please look at the last two coins and government bonds for the topic!"

Officials quickly looked through the booklet, while Gao Huan continued: "In terms of finance, within the next five years, the vassal state will establish the Daliang Central Bank to specifically mint the currency of the Liang Kingdom."

As he said that, Gao Huan pointed to the box on the official's desk, then took out a "one yuan" silver coin and smiled: "I believe everyone has seen it. This will be the currency of our Liang Kingdom in the future. The copper coins circulating in the market now have different silver quality and are very troublesome to trade. Within five years, we will let the people accept new money. Within twenty years, we will prohibit the direct circulation of gold and silver, and use all new money!"

Du Yinxi and others picked up coins to check again, while Gao Huan continued: "In addition to the central bank account, the court also needs to establish business, commerce, construction, agriculture and other camps. Within five years, branch accounts must be set up in various provincial governments, and officials' salaries and local taxes will be settled through bank accounts."

Gao Huan continued: "Finally, in the next five years, the court will issue short-term treasury bonds and borrow 5 million yuan from the private sector. The treasury bonds will not be purchased forcibly, they all depend on voluntary..."

Gao Huan's new words appeared in this meeting, but all the smart people present were all, and you can understand it with a little explanation.

If Gao Huan's five-year plan can be realized, a prosperous and powerful Liang Kingdom will inevitably appear in front of everyone.

But the start-up capital of this plan may be a bit difficult to deal with!

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