Chapter 15 The New Chu Neizhi (3)
In order to accelerate the emergence and promotion of wine, Liu Xie asked Zhiluotai to allocate 50 million yuan to Huangfu Yan to establish a Liangzhou wine shop, and 38 million yuan to the Institute for research on grape planting technology and winemaking technology.
Liu Xie did not expect that the adjustments he made to support Liangzhou's agriculture would have put the European wine industry in a very embarrassing situation in the next ten centuries. It was not until the emergence of French brandy that the European wine industry had the qualification to have an equal dialogue with the Dahan wine industry. The wine produced in Liangzhou, especially the Liangzhou wine company, which differentiated in the mid-6th century, had long occupied the world's top high-end wine market.
By the early sixth century, the wine industry in Liangzhou had four famous wines: white horse champagne made from seedless white and horse milk in the ratio of thaliana qi, Munagar red wine made from Munagar and Tianhong, Kashgar dried red and Soso wine.
By the end of the 20th century, more than 3,000 barrels of Soso wine produced in the mid-16th century AD were discovered in Jinwei, Liangzhou, and became the most valuable wine king in the world.
The Chinese government stored one of the barrels in Liu Xie’s imperial tombs to thank Liu Xie for bringing this special honor to China.
However, the honor is not only that. After a period of summary, Liu Xie promoted the farm system throughout Chu. He adopted the agricultural reclamation system later used by the Republic. He divided the official fields of Chu into more than 1,000 farms, and set up the agricultural reclamation department under the control platform. Through the agricultural reclamation department, the agricultural reclamation department promoted the agricultural and fishery integration and rice-wheat ripening system south of the Yangtze River. In Hanzhong, Nanyang, Runan, and Shouchun, the agricultural and livestock integration system and the mixed seed system of rice-wheat beans were promoted, and the agricultural and animal husbandry integration was promoted in Liangzhou and the Western Regions. The main agricultural economic crops were concentrated in cotton and soybeans.
Like the agricultural reclamation system used in the later Republic, Liu Xie's farms were divided into military reclamation and civil reclamation. The difference is that Liu Xie did not assign the farm to the direct management of the court, but instead handed over the management authority to the people, deepened the cooperation between the trading club and the farm, and was determined to use the market to actively guide the farm to grow plants.
Since then, the farm economy, which has long occupied a dominant position in China's economy, has officially emerged. In the next few thousand years, the main driving force of China's economy is the farm that is passionate about social division of work and technological innovation, and the two major economic organization forms of trading companies.
With the emergence of Xiangyang Mine, iron ore was directly forged into steel ingots on a large scale based on coal essence in Xiangyang Mine, and then distributed to iron smith shops in various places. This model led to a reduction in the production cost of iron tools, and most people widely used iron tools in farming.
Under the guidance of Liu Xie, the large-scale expansion of the trading company, and a large number of northern refugees became long-term workers, working in the trading company, intensive production and the use of wooden machinery have greatly reduced the cost of the trading company's products. Among them, daily commodities such as hemp silk, ironware, ceramics, flour, etc. have the largest price reduction. The initial self-cultivation and self-sufficient small peasant economy has been affected. The people no longer weave textiles themselves, but sell the hemp, silk, rice and wheat to the trading company, and then buy ready-made goods from the trading company to meet their own needs.
In order to promote urban construction, Liu Xie rented and sold the land inside Jinling City to Southeast Trading Company on a large scale, allowing Southeast Trading Company to build houses on its own according to urban planning and then sell them to the outside world. This led to the earliest real estate developers in China.
Since the Southeast Trading Company monopolized the entire Jinling City construction project, its assets rose a hundred times in just half a year. Although the Wu family only shared one-tenth of the profit, they still became the richest man in Jiangdong in one fell swoop.
The myth of the Wu family getting rich overnight led to a large number of businessmen entering this industry. The Mi family, Kuai family, Cai family, Zhang family, Huang family and other major families in Chu have invested in. In order to avoid Zhang Zhao and Kuai Liang's favoritism, Liu Xie finally arranged for the Huang family and the Cai family to become state businessmen, and the others were designated as civil and commercial businessmen.
After thinking for a while, Liu Xie stipulated that a large number of urban reconstruction projects, water conservancy irrigation projects, and even the construction of military facilities would be included in major trading companies, but all projects must be subcontracted to three or more companies. In short, whoever builds them well will have more opportunities. In Liu Xie's mind, this is also a matter of doing things in accordance with the principle of market competition.
According to the economic principle of later generations, investment leads to an increase in the output value of related industries, leading to an increase in employment rate, and ultimately promoting consumption and increasing economic growth rate.
With the issuance of this law, Liu Xie also approved the expansion projects of the nine cities of Shangyong, Xiangyang, Xinye, Changsha, Huai'an, Nanchang, Kuaiji, Jiangxia and Wuchang, along the three rivers of the Yangtze River, Xiangjiang River, Huaihe River, and the fifteen new water conservancy irrigation projects around Baima, Taihu, Yunmengze and Poyang Lake. The entire plan is to be completed within five years, of which two-thirds of the funds are loaned from Zhiluotai and the prefects of each county to Xiangyang Yinzhuang, and will be repaid in the future by taxes and taxes of each county. This has also changed the economic development of Chu from the initial accumulation to investment to the model from investment to income.
The five-year project of the reconstruction of Chu land will allow all major trading companies to make enough money, and of course it will also prompt a large number of farmers in Chu land to flow to trading companies.
When farmers flow to trading companies, the increase in the per capita land rate will further lead to the promotion of ox and horse plowing, and further enhance productivity.
There is no doubt that after the more detailed new Chu land rule led by Liu Xie, Chu land entered a special prosperity. Large-scale commercial investment and engineering investment, and the comprehensive improvement of agricultural technology have triggered a new round of Chu land economic growth.
Unfortunately, some crises that Liu Xie did not realize are hidden under the appearance of prosperity, ready to bite off the lifeblood of the new economy - the financial system.
The development and improvement of the economy have its objective laws. It is very expensive to change the economic track without authorization and enable the economy to achieve a jumping improvement.
We cannot expect Xun Yu and Zhang Zhao to discover the existence of such a crisis. Even if they discover it, they are not able to cope with such a crisis. A semi-monopoly and semi-marketist economic model based on the small peasant economy is destined to be unstable. The market's choice to Liu Xie can only be more radical and go further or go back to the original beginning.
This is the bitter wine brewed by Liu Xie himself. He must drink it alone, even with a hint of tragic and helplessness, and try his best like a gambler.
Chapter completed!