The Great Zhou Dynasty used strong armies to suppress the four parties. In essence, strong armies come from financial resources. Without the support of money, no matter how strong the army is, it is just a sham. It is like a country with a rough population in later generations. In anger, hundreds of thousands of troops were launched to attack another country. The country of the Mao people failed to win the first battle, and then exposed its inner weakness, inevitably becoming a laughing stock.
The Great Zhou Dynasty is naturally very wealthy. When Guo Ning was separatist in Shandong, he relied on maritime trade to make a fortune. In recent years, iron factories, carbon factories, and textile factories have sprung up all over the Great Zhou Dynasty, and famous kilns for making ceramics have been established. The scale is also constantly expanding, not to mention the huge financial resources brought by the northern livestock industry.
Flooding financial resources are naturally beneficial to the huge political power that controls the Central Plains and the North. The problem is that wealth does not necessarily bring stability, and even occasionally causes instability within the newly born dynasty.
After a large number of people left the land and moved to industry and commerce, the first result was that agricultural production was affected.
Most of the core territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty had been burned, killed, and plundered by the Mongolian army in the past few years. Due to the brutality of the Mongolian army, the population of the people wherever they passed was halved, and in many places the people were killed in entire cities and villages. During the massacre, millions of acres of fertile farmland were abandoned, leaving only bones and bones lying in the wasteland.
At present, there are few people and few people. It is the time when large-scale reclamation is needed to restore the country's vitality. However, many people have gone to sea and factories. There are fewer strong men, and farming and land reclamation are affected. What's more, agriculture is naturally unstable. If we don't take advantage of it, We have been working hard in the past few years, but what will we do when natural disasters occur frequently? Local officials are quite complaining about this.
On the other hand, after many strong men left the land, they gained a family, an organization, knowledge, and courage. As a result, they themselves became factors that disturbed the local order. As for those who returned from the sea, most of them became Fierce and unruly.
The subsequent impact is both good and bad. The good thing is that local officials are restricted and it is difficult to control the situation with one hand. Guo Ning is very happy to see the process of some officials being unlucky because of this. The bad thing is that many contradictions have arisen as a result, whether right or wrong. Whether the final result is good or bad, the processing process actually takes up a lot of resources.
The people who were developing a port area near Tianjin were causing trouble before. This is an example. The work is naturally hard, and the compensation given by the court is quite a lot. However, when people have comparisons, their mentality is different from before, and it is not easy to work with peace of mind. oxen and horses.
Guo Ning's purpose in raising the army was to stop the Han people from being foreigners. But no matter how hard he and his companions tried, the dining table could not be expanded indefinitely, nor could the food and wine placed on the table be unlimited. The land increases. Everyone wants to be on the table, but there are always people who can't squeeze in. Everyone wants to eat meat or gnaw bones, but there are always people who pay more and gain less, and have to drink soup or even drink slop.
People who drink swill will be resentful, and resentment will lead to turmoil. When Guo Ning was wandering in the grass, he could feel sorry for this, but now he is the emperor, and the people around him are also rich. Since his butt has changed Depending on the location, the perspective of consideration will change.
When I was in Shandong earlier, this was not a big problem. Because Shandong's size is limited after all, the scale of resources imported by the Ding Navy from the sea was huge enough; the refugees who joined the Ding Navy from all over the country, and even the prisoners captured by the Ding Navy on the battlefield were sufficient. Slave labor is enough to make up for the shortage of manpower.
To make matters worse, there are the Jurchens or other alien races that are continuously introduced from the northeastern hinterland. Their backward culture and economy ensure that they happily squat under the table, work hard and drink swill.
But with the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, the territory has become more than seven or eight times larger. Places that could be ignored before are now included in the scope of overall planning. The imperial court cannot indulge the wanton flow of human resources, nor can it allow any industry to flow without restrictions. Extract human resources.
However, so many industries are springing up like mushrooms after a spring rain. If we are slow, time will not be able to catch up with us. The places that are in urgent need of employing people are growing rapidly every day.
In other words, if you want to make the table bigger, you need people. But the food and wine on the table are limited, and there are not enough people willing to work hard and drink swill.
In the past year, contradictions and conflicts have occurred one after another in factories and rural areas. The large newly opened farms in northern Xinjiang are vaguely meant to compete with the mainland for interests. Even Yin Chang and other warriors openly promote the southern invasion, which is likely to be motivated by the regime and aristocratic groups. factual requirements.
Fortunately, Korea has been settled now.
Guo Ning couldn't help but smile.
Yin Chang's fighting ability is just that, but after decades of wandering between right and wrong, and with countless experiences of fighting against evil, there is no shortage of cunning tactics on and off the stage.
Coups and internal strife in Goryeo were also frequent, but their level was still at the level where the prime minister led dozens of people to kill political opponents, and the king sent a dozen monks to assassinate the prime minister. How crude is it? People like Yin Chang let go When he went to Korea to kill people, there was no blood on his hands, and all the people who needed to be cleaned up were already dead... I don’t know where Gao Ming went!
Now that the Kingdom of Goryeo is in the palm of his hand, a huge source of manpower is placed in front of Guo Ning.
The country of Goryeo is small and barren, but has a population of more than two million. The people of Goryeo are generally squeezed by the nobles at many levels. As the national politics of Goryeo becomes increasingly absurd, their lives become increasingly difficult.
Not to mention the untouchables who are the most miserable, even the two million people who make up the majority of good people are still struggling in extreme poverty and are as humble as animals. Many of them have long been carrying milk and defecation. That’s the mother’s mentality. Since the big shots above don’t care about them, they don’t care about the big shots above either.
Therefore, when Goryeo was founded, it was able to fight with the Khitan people back and forth. Now, only a few groups of defeated Khitan troops and refugees can run rampant in its territory. It is obvious that no one is willing to fight to the death for the future of Goryeo.
In the past few years, the settlement of Han merchants in Licheng Port has become larger and larger, and more and more Koreans have defected to it, and this is actually due to the actual need to make a living.
When Cui Zhongxian was here, Han merchants petitioned the Goryeo nobles through various channels, hoping to deepen their business and open up more financial resources in the Goryeo Kingdom. However, they were continuously suppressed by the capital led by Cui Zhongxian.
Now that Cui Zhongxian is dead, Han merchants can expand their business to Goryeo, and their income from porcelain, medicinal materials, etc. will be doubled soon. In this regard, the original goal has been achieved. What will the Han merchants near Yeseong Port be like now? Guo Ning shook his head just thinking about the impatient expression on his face and the salivating look of the Dazhou warrior group standing behind the Han merchants.
But since the conditions are right, why not do more?
There is room for many people around Dazhou's dining table. Korean people should also have the right to change their lives and the opportunity to win wealth.
The Han people can go deep into Goryeo, and the Goryeo people can leave Goryeo on a large scale and join a wider world. This is a win-win situation!
"Let the left and right officials work with our people from Korea and Han to come up with a plan as soon as possible to open a new trading company."
Guo Ning was thinking about it and said slowly: "Follow the example of Shanghai Bank. The shares are half-shared by Dazhou and Gaoli. This trading firm does not participate in any old business and only does one thing. That is to recruit employees. , send the Korean people out of Korea as a team, and then split them up and place them in various places in our Zhou Dynasty... No, split them up and place them wherever we need people."