It was the end of the year in a blink of an eye, but the local area was already in chaos.

Before this, the gentry's understanding of the harm of Lang Son chaebols and Chen Xue might have been just ignorant, but they just felt that those were just a group of clowns jumping, but were just a thorny and scabies.

Or in other words, they do not have a deep understanding of these emerging classes, but until now, they finally realized something.

This consciousness comes entirely from profound lessons. The process of the rise of the chaebol is, in a sense, the process of digging the corners of the landlord. The chaebol is naturally extremely greedy and will never be able to fill its desires. When they grow a little stronger, they will be greedy and will never be satisfied.

Of course, this does not mean that these chaebols are in nature, but the operation of trade is basically the case. When emerging industries appear, there is market demand. The market demand is one hundred silk pieces. Naturally, countless merchants will join in it, build workshops and produce silk to meet the demand of these hundred. However, silk merchants are blind. Many merchants will overheat the industry. The final result may be that the silk produced may reach 200. At this time, if there is no new market and no new demand, it means that countless people will lose their money and the merchants will be finished. The craftsmen who were previously employed in workshops will also be finished. Once unemployment occurs, refugees will appear in the city. Once silk merchants go bankrupt, other industries that may be involved may also trigger a wave of bankruptcy, and more people will go bankrupt and more people will be unemployed.

This means that when Hao Fenglou started this chaebol model, this emerging interest group, as predicted by a certain senior Ma in later generations, encountered a problem of congenital deficiency from the beginning, and they repeatedly reached new intersections one after another. There was no choice. Either they encountered a catastrophe, an unprecedented crisis, most of them went bankrupt, and countless workers and disciples were unemployed. These hungry and cold workers gathered together to destroy Lang Son. Even the entire Jiaozhi, either they found a new market, or added more population and formed new demands.

Demand must be continuously expanded to meet this blindly expanded production capacity. At any time, the chaebol is hungry. The market will never be satisfied for them.

It is precisely because of this that these chaebols created a conflict in Siam, and finally gave the court a justification for the movement of troops against Siam. After taking Siam, they led by Hao Fenglou to persuade the palace to obtain the concession for population migration, and the demand for population. The chaebols almost reached the point of being hungry and food, and the population could replenish labor for them. They could even create demand. The more people, the lower the price of labor, the more people, the stronger the demand for food, clothing, housing and transportation. This has almost become theorem.

When they found profitable, no law in the world could restrain them. So Chen Xue became their propaganda machine and promoted the remarks that were beneficial to them. So Hao Fenglou was in the court to seek all national policies that were beneficial to them. So Huimen became their minions, infiltrating wildly, and plundering the population. Therefore, many local officials who were bribed by Huimen became their puppets, giving the green light to all their legal and illegal behaviors.

In Lang Son, resettlement of refugees has been set up, and a large number of refugees have poured in. In addition to a considerable number of them being sent to Siam, it is naturally not ruled out that some of the population is intercepted privately. The large-scale intercepted family is the Hao family, the backbone of the chaebol group. The wealth and industry of the Hao family owns almost more profits than the chaebols and businesses from the second to tenth place. The annual income is even far higher than the annual silver income of the imperial court.

This year, hundreds of millions of silver-patterned silver have been continuously invested in related industries, from silk suppression to iron making, to wood utensils, tea, emerging rubber, porcelain, pottery, and even ready-to-wear, shipbuilding, and almost all related industries have been involved.

Now the Hao family has become interested in the railway, and the labor required is countless. In half a year, due to sufficient funds and labor, the railway of 50 miles has been completed. It is not far from Haipeng to Lang Son. However, this distance is a golden section. Because of the throughput of a large amount of goods, most of the finished products produced by Lang Son's workshops have to be transported to Haipeng, and then transported to all parts of the West through the sea. If it is busy, the carriages on this section of road are as many as thousands of days, which is not enough to meet the demand. Now, the emergence of railways has greatly improved this situation.

At the beginning, Lang Son did not have a deep understanding of the railway, and everyone just took a look. It is said that the Hao family invested two million silver on this railway. This amount is really shocking, but now, its advantages are revealed, and once again all merchants have witnessed the Hao family's forward-looking nature and unparalleled money-making ability.

The benefits of trains are naturally as numerous as cows. On the one hand, compared to horse-drawn carriages, it is obviously more punctual. For workshops, time is obviously extremely important. If order delivery is delayed due to a heavy rain, the loss is quite large for workshops. And trains obviously do not have to worry about this. The train from Lang Son to Hai Phong departs on time every day. Although there are delays, it is at most an hour, and it is impossible to delay one day or two days. This alone is enough to make merchants rather choose trains to deliver goods.

On the other hand, the transportation cost of trains is obviously much lower than that of horse-drawn carriages. On the same road section, the train only takes six hours, but the carriages take two days. For the same carriages, the train only requires one carriage, while the carriages require six horses, six cars, and six coachmen. In these two days, six horses and six coachmen need to eat more than a dozen forages, six or seven meals, and also have to stay in a hotel. If it is a rainy day, the number will double. Therefore, with sufficient profits guaranteed, the transportation price of the train is only half of the carriages.

There are naturally countless benefits brought by trains. Not only that, the movement of personnel can become faster, but in terms of social and even military purposes, the benefits are extremely great. The organizational ability of the society has become stronger. This benefit is invisible and intangible. In layman's terms, it actually reduces losses and improves efficiency. For example, if the annual income of the imperial court is 10 million silver, but with the organizational ability of the imperial court and its current conditions, the real silver that can be used in real places is probably only 2 million taels, and the majority of the other eight million silver are consumed. If Jiaozhi's income is only 1 million taels of silver, the efficiency is greatly increased due to the minimum loss. If it is used in real places, it can exert the effect of two million taels of silver.

If it is used for military purposes, it would be not to mention that the court raised millions of troops and horses. However, if the enemy attacked Guangdong, the government would be afraid that the troops and horses that the court could use were less than 30,000, and even if the court organized and prepared for one year, it would be less than 10,000. However, once there was a railway, it means that even if the Hao family only had 10,000 troops, no matter where the enemy attacked, these 10,000 troops could reach any location within ten days. If the railway was built to Siam, there would be riots in Siam, even if the original military horses in Siam were only 3,000, it would take only a few days to reach Siam to suppress the rebellion. This is equivalent to that Lang Son's military strength was invisibly enhanced by several times.

The emergence of railways has led to the start of a large number of merchants' goods from railways. This first railway is naturally not like later generations. It is good to maintain infrastructure construction without losses. There are many options for transportation in later generations. However, in this era, the emergence of railways is an epoch-making meaning. It defeated water transportation and carriage transportation with almost no effort, and then achieved a monopoly. The daily income from cargo transportation was as high as 3,000 taels of silver. In just less than a month, it also had more than 2,000 taels of silver. In a year, the net profit can reach more than 600,000 taels of silver. What's more, the income is said to increase, and it may even exceed one million taels of silver.

Such profits immediately made all the merchants jealous.

Next, the Railway Bureau began to raise funds to build a railway to Jiaozhi and even a railway to Siam. Siam produces grain and a large amount of minerals. In the future, there will be countless goods dumped to Siam, and how many Siam minerals will be transported to Lang Son and Jiaozhi workshops. The future income is extremely promising. As for the Jiaozhi governments, although the income will not be higher than that of the coastal defense, the railway is ultimately a transaction of money. As long as you invest in silver and collect money for hundreds of years, it will not be a problem. The descendants will not have to worry about their livelihoods. Therefore, this investment in railways has immediately become the hottest now. Almost countless businesses and chaebols are now looking for brokers to consult, and countless books and offices are calculating the income and prospects. In just a short time, tens of millions of silver appeared on the railway bureau's books.

The construction of railways has made the workshops of iron ore and sleepers suddenly become popular, like mushrooms after a rain. Countless subway shops emerge everywhere in Jiaozhi. Now fools know that investing in iron ore and sleepers is a sure profit. The demand for iron ore and logs has also increased greatly. This has led to the prosperity of wood mining and mining, and the demand for labor has reached an endless situation.

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