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Chapter 217 [3 More] 217
Liu Tan was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Is there not enough people in Shuofang?"
Huo Guang said: "We can't invite everyone to work. It's spring, and it's the time for farming. The weather in the northern border country is late, and it hasn't started yet. It will start in a while."
Liu Tan scratched his head, this was really a blind spot of his knowledge, he thought for a while and asked humbly: "Then Huo Xiang said... Can you go to the counties to recruit people? Especially those places with less cultivated land."
Huo Guang thought for a while and said: "That's not right, Your Highness paid a lot of wages. If it starts from the beginning to the end, the money in this year is worth their two or three years of farming. Your Highness guesses, if you know everything , Is there anyone else willing to farm the land?"
Liu Tan didn't say a word. In fact, the high wages he offered were not meant to destroy the market economy. The wages were mainly aimed at the people of Shuofang City.
After all, after a war, although many people still have land, the good seeds at home have been robbed or burned. Now even if they are asked to farm, they have nothing to grow.
If the wages are low, then wait and starve to death later.
In Liu Tan's place, every person in Shuofang City is very precious, and he feels sorry for anyone who dies!
However, other counties have not been eroded by the war, so the local people should still focus on farming. If they all come to work after they know about it, even if this year's harvest is not what Liu Tan would like to see.
Of course, there is another solution that is to distinguish wages by user status, not that the wages of the people in Shuofang City will be reduced.
But don't worry about scarcity but unevenness, they all work the same way, so why do people in Shuofang City get more?
No matter what reason Liu Tan has, what the common people see is very simple, he can see whether the money in his hand is the same.
If this is the case, the northern border country will be split up in the future. People in other places will feel that they are treated differently, and people in Shuofang City will also think that people in other places are greedy and insufficient. This is not acceptable.
Liu Tan took a deep breath and said, "That's it...then do the same thing first. You can't miss Chun Plow if you miss anything. First, I will cut off some of them, and then you can arrange for people to recruit these people away."
Although everyone did not distinguish between the current industries of Shuofang City during the discussion, they were still separated in practice. Except for iron ore, other minerals belonged to Liu Tan himself, and those who worked on the minerals were also Liu Tan paid for the employment.
And the construction of the city belongs to the imperial court's collection. To be honest, the money given is definitely not as much as Liu Tan gave, but the construction of the city is the most urgent task.
Huo Guang hesitated: "There is not much to do to build the city, Your Highness does not need to slow down for this."
Liu Tan shook his head and said, "There's nothing to slow down, just reduce the number of people in the copper mine, broken evil gold mine, and cinnabar mine."
These few minerals are of little help to the basic livelihood of the people.
The rapid mining of copper mines means that Liu Tan has a lot of money. After all, part of it is used to make coins, and part of it is used to make various bronze products.
The broken evil gold mine is even more so. How many ordinary people can afford broken evil gold?Even the noble ladies in Chang'an City may not be able to buy this thing now, or under Liu Tan's control, they basically can't buy it now, because Liu Tan hasn't opened a shop yet.
The shop Liu Tan, who was disliked by Princess Lichang before, planned to sell gems and jewelry.
So what if the location of the shop is not prosperous enough?It's really great that there are two eldest princesses here, so I'm not afraid that no one will cheer.
Thinking about it now, it was really right to artificially control the quantity of gemstones flowing into the market. Otherwise, if there is no restraint, now the quantity of mining has been reduced rashly, and the price of gemstones must be extremely ups and downs.
But now the price is in a stable range, and the accumulation from previous mining is still enough for a period of time.
As for the coal mines, Liu Tan dared not reduce the number of people.
Last year's coal mine produced only enough briquettes for Chang'an, and there was no other way. The time was too tight, so we had to do this in order to maximize profits.
This year, you can't do that anymore, at least let the people of Shuofang use it.
Anyway, the more high-quality honeycomb briquettes are produced, the more ordinary or even inferior honeycomb briquettes are produced.
After waiting too long, Liu Tan will even lower the local price a bit.
Because there is no local transportation cost, why did it sell so expensive when I went to Chang'an?It is because the transportation is difficult, not to mention that people eat horse chews along the way, even if there are a lot of losses.
Huo Guang didn't have a particularly good solution either. He nodded and said, "That's the only way. If that's the case, His Highness needs to write an order."
Liu Tan was a little puzzled: "What decree to write?"
Huo Guang said: "Although the news of your highness's lucrative wages has not spread throughout the country, there are already many villages in the surrounding area who know about it, so many people come here with their families to make a living. Some of them are refugees from the disaster last winter, but Some of them are tenant farmers with legitimate land, His Highness needs to let the county guards in various places strictly control it."
Liu Tan immediately said: "This is not easy to control. You can issue warnings to the counties in the name of the Prime Minister. I will ask the people below to strengthen the screening of foreign population."
When he said this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. Who would have thought that there would be problems with his high wages.
Huo Guang left with a solution that was not a solution. Although it seemed that the problem was temporarily solved, it was actually a choice that harmed Liu Tan's own interests.
He doesn't care about it himself, but the income of the national treasury has decreased invisibly-Liu Tan said that those things that are sold have to be taxed, and his reduction in production means that there are fewer things sold, and the tax paid is less than the national treasury. Wouldn't the income be less?
Liu Tan pinched Lu Xuan's letter and read it carefully again.
I just paid attention to the fact that Lu Xuan ran to beat King Yougu Li in surprise, but I didn't look carefully at the rest, I just saw the sentence "My heart is like it used to be."
After taking a closer look, he found that Lu Xuan had actually answered his question. Anyway, it was just to let him not worry too much. His royal city is now being built very smoothly, and it is even almost finished.
Liu Tan was full of question marks when he saw this place. How long did it take to build it? His little people are going to fight with him and build the city. If it is built so quickly, it will be a tofu project, right?
He didn't see the reason until he continued to look down: because Lu Xuan led people to fight around and got a lot of prisoners. Not to mention, there were enough prisoners from Dawan Kingdom. Back then, Lu Xuan only took Dawan King Wan escorted them to Beijing, but he left the others alone.
Of course, Liu Che probably doesn't care about other people. Those people are probably not as good as a horse in Liu Che's eyes.
Because of these captives, even if he led people to fight around, the construction of the city was much faster than before.
captive……?
Liu Tan's eyes lit up, feeling as if the door to a new world had been opened, he turned his head and said, "Go and call Li Buyan and Wei Buyi, and say that I have something important to tell them to do."