abnabooks Chapter 2162 Internal Strategy
Chapter 2162 Internal Strategy
Chapter 2162 Internal Strategy
The Golden People are tougher and more tenacious than weeds. What they lack is only opportunity, the opportunity to not starve through hard work and honest business, and the opportunity to be good, hardworking and law-abiding people.
What the Emperor Jiuyou wants to do is to return these opportunities that were once taken away by demons and immortals, evil tyrants and bad gentry, wars and separation.
Before He Yue set off to return home, he happened to catch up with Cang Yan's new batch of orders taking effect. When he said goodbye, he gave his brother a thumbs up and said, "Well done, big brother, you really have lofty ambitions."
If He Lingchuan wasn't his brother, he would have said he was too ambitious.
Not to mention Cang Yan, not to mention Shen Guo, even Bei Jia doesn't dare to boast like this!
Is it so difficult to let people get enough food to eat after working hard?
Nonsense, it’s so difficult!
Especially the Golden Plains, which originally had an extremely poor foundation. Other countries started from scratch, but Cang Yan had to start from a negative number.
"That's why we say 'strive to protect'." He Lingchuan never underestimates the difficulties before him. "The people are the foundation of the country. If they are not rich, Cangyan will not be strong."
The second major policy item issued by Cang Yan was to encourage industry and commerce.
In addition to food, the above-ground and underground resources of the Shining Gold Plain are actually very rich, including lake and river fisheries, forests, minerals, livestock and agricultural products, etc. The resource list drawn up by the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce has more than 4,700 items, and it is still growing. He Lingchuan is very moved every time he sees this list. If Panlong City had such a vast territory and such rich resources, how could it be constrained by others?
This was also the rich reward he and the Dragon God Army had received for risking their lives to conquer the Shining Gold Plains.
He Lingchuan controlled the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce, so he knew very well that because the resources in the Golden Plains were too abundant, the low-priced, large-volume, and difficult-to-store grains were not the most popular commodities. In the first few years of the founding of the country, because everyone was still hungry and the Dragon God Army fought a big battle in the territory of Ya Country, the price of grain fluctuated greatly, but as the grain harvests continued to increase year by year, the price of grain would also decrease year by year, and even stabilize.
Merchants are profit-driven and will turn their attention to other commodities early on.
What are other commodities? Most of them are cash crops, various handicrafts and luxury goods, referred to as famous and high-quality specialties.
Blade Harbor and Yangshan Islands make a lot of money every year thanks to their specialty palm oil. But what about the resource-rich Gold Plains?
In addition, the Golden Plains is too large and has sufficient labor. If you don't farm, there are plenty of people who will do it. You don't have to worry about no one taking care of the crops in the fields. Therefore, Cang Yan is not worried that the development of industry and commerce will hit the country's foundation. Instead, he wants to strongly encourage it.
At this time, the historical mission of Yangshan Chamber of Commerce has been completed, and the Yangshan Islands also belong to Chiyan. It is no longer appropriate to call it "Yangshan Chamber of Commerce", but no one except He Lingchuan can dismantle it.
So Emperor Jiuyou personally took charge of splitting this huge organization into more than ten institutions, which were dedicated to the supervision and storage and transportation of grain, casting, minerals, armaments, animal husbandry and other categories, one for the purpose of war preparedness, and the other to stabilize prices.
For example, in the early stages of land reclamation in various places, agricultural tools were in short supply and it was difficult to find a hoe. A hoe that used to cost a hundred coins was even sold at a high price of one or two taels of silver. The county government stepped in, and the chamber of commerce worked with local workshops to reduce the price back to three hundred coins.
After the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce was dismantled, it also lost weight, with 70% of its personnel going to the military, government, property management, and business groups at all levels for other purposes. Anyway, the local teams were desperately short of people.
In the early days when He Lingchuan traveled through the Shining Gold Plains and during the Dragon God War, the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce gradually monopolized many businesses, forcing local merchants of all sizes into a dead end; after Cangyan established the country and encouraged civilian commerce, the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce could no longer be allowed to monopolize the benefits of the mountains and seas, and the benefits had to be gradually passed on to the people so that wealth could slowly circulate among the people.
As for the aristocratic families, merchants and landlords of Shanjin, although they were able to survive during the Dragon God War, Cangyan was worried after establishing the country. The war was over, Shanjin was peaceful, and the army was strong. Should the emperor take action against himself?
Everyone knows that Cang Yanchu is penniless and the government has no money. Are they going to start with these fat sheep in the pen?
However, Emperor Jiuyou soon summoned a number of wealthy merchants in the capital and had cordial conversations with them, using practical actions to send an important signal to the entire territory:
Cang Yan has no intention of killing the rich and taking their wealth.
Some people may be disappointed, but this is one of Cangyan’s important decisions to encourage trade.
Firstly, the Dragon God War almost wiped out all the evil tyrants in the Golden Plains. The local evil has been eliminated quite thoroughly, which is conducive to the healthy and orderly development of private commerce.
Secondly, the noble families who surrendered in the Dragon God War had been forced to move away from their homeland by the Dragon God Army, away from their original entangled local relations, and it was difficult for them to collude with officials and businessmen. When people are in a foreign land, they have few resources to mobilize except money, and they will also encounter local exclusivism.
Finally, He Lingchuan had been in business for many years and knew very well that although money was not a living thing, it was very independent. Unless you locked it up in a warehouse or buried it underground, once it entered circulation, its destination was no longer determined by you.
It's not like it will stay where you want it to be.
No matter how evenly and thinly you spread it, it will eventually flow to the most efficient place.
What is efficiency?
If production, division of labor, cooperation and circulation are all smooth, there will be efficiency.
Why didn't Cangyan State use the experienced, ready-made chambers of commerce and business organizations? Why did it kill them all with one blow?
Business is the lifeblood of the economy.
The philosophy of Emperor Jiuyou is to seize the day and he would never do such a stupid thing as severing his own meridians.
These decrees were promulgated without any objection.
The Golden Man has only one goal at the moment:
Eat and have enough food.
All others stand aside.
Cangyan and the whole country are also working towards this direction.
Finally, it is the military reform.
Emperor Jiuyou used his supreme prestige to personally reform the army. Half a year after the war of Baiqiuyuan in Ya country, that is, after the truce between Mou and Ya countries, the main force of the Dragon God Army was reduced by half, and most of them were stored in the central and western regions of Cangyan. To the east of Cangyan was an endless sea, so only sporadic battle groups were needed.
Cang Yan announced that the disarmament was to reduce military spending. After all, the military's salaries, horses, armor, and weapon maintenance were indeed an extremely heavy burden for emerging countries.
However, the elite members of the Dragon God Army who are sent to the counties and towns will become seed instructors to help train the township defense militia and patrol troops.
In recent years, Emperor's spiritual fluid has occurred frequently, and countless creatures in the world have been enlightened by the spiritual fluid and turned into mountain goblins and monsters. These newly born monsters do not know etiquette and rules, and often injure people, posing a threat to urban and rural safety.
Some small countries are simply unable to cope with it, and even their national foundations are shaken.