"Ah sneeze~"

"Ah sneeze~"

"Grass (a kind of plant), who is talking bad about me behind my back!"

When he woke up early in the morning, Huo Guang snorted twice and cursed carelessly.

At this moment.

He had already left the General's Mansion with his wife who could go to the fields to collect the food and town tax that he had not asked for for several years.

The so-called food and town tax means that princes have the right to collect local taxes in their fiefdoms.

but.

With the beginning of the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion during Emperor Wen's period, the newly-confessed princes, or the Guannei princes, no longer enjoyed fiefdoms, but only food towns.

Mr. and Mrs. Wei were the Marquis of Yichun awarded by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty!

Although it is just a name, it still has 200 households.

During the period of Emperor Wen, each household was allocated sixty acres of land. However, in the early days of Emperor Wu's accession, the population soared from 15 million to 38 million, more than twice as much.

Therefore, in the early days of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, each household only had about 30 acres.

Calculate it this way.

The total food tax that Wei and his wife, the Marquis of Yichun, could collect in a year dropped to 66,600 yuan. It had been four years since the title of Marquis in 124 BC to 121 BC now.

so.

The Wei and his wife can collect at least 266,400 yuan from the food and town tax this time.

As the Marquis of Yichun, Wei and his wife received so much money for the first time in their lives, so of course they were very excited.

"It turns out that I, the Marquis of Yichun, can really receive taxes. Haha, it's a lot of money. This is the first time I've seen so much money!" At this time, Mr. and Mrs. Wei were trembling slightly as they spoke.

But Huo Guang cast a look of contempt at his behavior.

He is a Hou after all, right?

Among the twenty nobles of Qin and Han Dynasties, one of the two highest titles!

Four years of accumulated rent and taxes, only this amount of money?

What's so happy about!

Of course, this is also the reason why there are differences between marquises. After all, he, the Marquis of Yichun, only benefited from his father Wei Qing's credit. He had no military merits, so he was only rewarded with the lowest 200 food fiefs.

For example, the champion Hou Huo Qubing was rewarded by thousands of households!

A well-deserved Marquis of Wanhu!

If you want to collect the food and town tax, how much money will you need? If Huo Guang doesn't want his affairs to be known to Brother Champion, he will definitely get some money from his brother.

aside.

Seeing that Huo Guang was silent, Mr. and Mrs. Wei quickly came over and hugged each other and said, "Come on, old cousin, we made so much money today, let's go back to the city and buy some delicious food!"

Buying food?

wipe!

I still expect this little money to be used as capital to make a fortune. Are you telling me to buy food?

Thinking of this, Huo Guang immediately slapped the unsatisfactory Mr. Wei on the buttocks, and then heard Mr. Wei scream like a pig.

"Oh ho ho... what are you doing? The wound on my butt is not healed yet!" Mr. Wei pushed Huo Guang away in pain.

However.

Huo Guang said directly: "No wonder my uncle doesn't like you, so he just collected some taxes, and you just want to enjoy it?"

"Where's the career we talked about? Have you forgotten?"

"Don't you want your general father to look at you with admiration?"

However, Mr. Wei muttered and said: "Just spend a little, we have so much money, it doesn't matter if we spend a little."

"No!" Huo Guang glared at him directly and said, "If you think about spending a little today and a little tomorrow, you will lose all your money sooner or later. Now I will take care of the money and you can't touch a penny!"

Upon hearing this.

No matter how stupid Mr. Wei was, he would not be happy and said, "This is my money!"

Seeing that Wei and his wife were anxious, Huo Guang immediately softened his tone and said deceitfully: "Old cousin, we are people who want to do big things. It is said that those who achieve big things don't hesitate to tip. How can we succeed if we give this small amount of money to you and me?"

"You believe me!"

"In three months, I will definitely make this money double several times! At that time, I can buy whatever I want in Chang'an City!"

After Huo Guang said this, the Wei couple could only agree.

Did the ancients love money?

Love!

Throughout the ages, who doesn’t love money? Even the emperor loves money. Everything in the world is for profit, and everything in the world is for profit.

Even like Huo Guang, who has lived in two lifetimes, he still likes small money.

Now that he had capital, Huo Guang took Wei and his wife out of the city and began to choose a good place to produce toilet paper.

But Mr. and Mrs. Wei didn't know what Huo Guang wanted to do, so they asked, "Old cousin, what are we going to do?"

The corner of Huo Guang's mouth raised slightly and he said: "If you don't do anything, just find a good place and build an industrial park that can make money!"

"Industrial park? I can't understand what you're saying!" Mr. Wei couldn't help scratching his head. As a Western Han native, he naturally couldn't understand such modern vocabulary.

Huo Guang also had a slight headache.

I had no problem using modern vocabulary, but now it would be troublesome to explain it.

After much deliberation, I didn't know what to say, so I decided not to explain, and said bluntly: "If I can't explain it to you, just follow me. As time goes by, you will understand."

"Oh!" Mr. Wei nodded.

It just seems like I'm a little confused.

But now is not the time to be confused. What happens next is very troublesome. Because Huo Guang is planning to enclose the land. Only with land can he build factories, and only with factories can he engage in large-scale production.

This series of things does not mean that they can be done with money.

It has to be related!

Although land in the Han Dynasty was privately owned and could be bought and sold freely, the question was, how to buy and sell it?

Everyone knows that the land system of the Han Dynasty was complicated, including a series of systems such as the civilian settlement system, the fake land system, the grant land system, and the royal land system.

If you want to enclose territory, you have to find a reason!

fortunately!

With Mr. and Mrs. Wei, the Marquis of Yichun, here, it will be easier to do things.

He himself is just average, the important thing is Mr. Wei's background.

He is the son of General Wei and the nephew of the Empress. As a relative of the royal family, if he wants to buy a house, as long as there is a little bit of news, most of the grassroots powerful people will come over to show their courtesy.

.

As a human society, we have long been used to it.

It was like this before, it is like this now, and it will still be like this in the future.

By the time Huo Guang finalized the land enclosure, many days had passed.

And in these days.

A big event also happened in the Han Dynasty!

What's the big deal?

That is, the imperial court also wanted to make money, and began to reuse officials with business backgrounds such as Sang Hongyang, and vigorously reformed agriculture, salt and iron government operations, etc.

But these have nothing to do with what Huo Guang wants to do.

What he is currently focused on is building his own factory and selecting workers to work on it.

Recruiting!

Simple.

Chang'an City lacks everything except people. Although there are only 30,000 people in Chang'an City, there are more than 200,000 residents outside the city.

Huo Guang wanted to recruit some people to come and work. As long as he was paid, it would be easy to recruit people.

But there is a problem that he must pay attention to.

That is papermaking technology, which must not be passed on to these people. Whether it is toilet chips or paper that can be used to write and draw on, Huo Guang must firmly control the production technology in his own hands.

This is what is called a monopoly.

Capital!
To be continued...