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Chapter 597 Each has a plan
The social environment changes people, or in other words, what kind of environment there is, and what kind of people there will be.This refers to ideology, regardless of whether people are originally good or bad, good or evil.

"Instead of sitting and dying of hunger, why not steal and die." At the end of the Ming Dynasty in history, honest farmers raised hoes and sticks to overthrow the behemoth-like Ming Empire in order to survive.

Just to eat, just to live, this kind of request is the most basic and humble, for this, they are not hesitating to be beheaded and killed.

It's all about death anyway, and the way it's done doesn't matter anymore.Hunger makes people crazy, it's that simple.

But when the society is stable, there is no fear of starvation, or most people have food to eat, then who would have the idea of ​​rebellion?
Heroes come out of troubled times, not to mention whether Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others in history are considered heroes.

Now, even if Gao Yingxiang is so poor that he starves to death, as long as he is one of the few people, he will at most rob his house and become a criminal who endangers society, not a traitor who sieges cities and villages.

Therefore, even if Gao Yingxiang cannot be a horse dealer, he still has other choices.For example, being a soldier, in his words, fighting for wealth with one's life.

You know, Gao Yingxiang sells horses for business, is good at riding and shooting, and has excellent physical strength. This is his capital and his hope for wealth.

"Wealth and wealth are sought in danger. If you dare to join the army, you don't take your life seriously." Gao Yingxiang smiled nonchalantly and said, "There are many places to recruit soldiers, such as Ganzhou, Yansui, and Guyuan. Some people want to go to Guyuan."

Guyuan Town can also be called Shaanxi Town, and it is the hometown of Gao Yingxiang and Li Hongji. It is also reasonable as the first choice.

Li Guo interjected and said, "This time, most of the recruits are cavalry. As long as you have excellent riding skills, you can relax in other aspects."

Li Hongji nodded, and said: "As for riding skills, my uncle is absolutely fine." Then, he turned to Li Guo and asked, "What about you, go to Guyuan too?"

Before Li Guo could answer, Gao Yingxiang had already answered, "Yes, I'm going to take him there, I hope there is someone to take care of me."

Li Guo nodded in agreement, and said: "Although you can eat at home, you don't have to spend a lot of time. Building roads, houses, and water conservancy are also full of hard work."

Relief with work is a disaster relief plan that has been planned by the imperial court and the local government. It has been implemented since local disasters and has accumulated considerable experience.

This year, it is implemented on a large scale and on a large scale throughout Shaanxi, providing food or managing meals, but not paying wages.

This way of exploitation is accepted by the common people and meets their basic survival needs.The well-built infrastructure has laid a good foundation for Shaanxi's post-disaster recovery.

Moreover, since the fifth year of Tianqi, corvee has been abolished.To be precise, it is replaced by another form.

Villages close to official roads were responsible for maintaining roads, while villages close to mountains planted trees, dug ponds to store water, dug wells for irrigation, etc., all of which could be counted as having served corvee.

The most important thing is that it is nearby, so you don't have to travel long distances, which greatly reduces the burden on the people.

Farming and paying taxes are called "grain" by the people; corvee service is called "poor" by the people every year.

In the history of disasters in the late Ming Dynasty, the lack of food and food was the main reason why hungry people flocked and flags of righteousness were everywhere.

Li Hongji appreciated his nephew Li Guo's words very much.If you are a man, if you can only eat, then you are too worthless.

"Serve for five years, and after retiring from the army, you can get [-] acres of land, three years of tax exemption, six years of half tax..." Li Hongji is quite familiar with the treatment of soldiers.

Gao Yingxiang nodded with a smile, patted Li Guo on the shoulder, and said, "Boy, as long as you survive, you will be a small landlord in five years!"

Li Guo laughed twice and said, "Maybe I can still be a general!"

"Yes, what is fifty acres of land? Joining the army is to make contributions." Li Hongji agreed, "If you want to keep your wife and son, you will be promising."

Gao Yingxiang picked up the big bowl, drank half of it in one go, wiped his mouth, and said to Li Hongji, "How about it, how about joining the army together?"

Li Hongji thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "I'll wait and see, if I can rent a carriage, it's a good business to pull people and goods."

Leasing is similar to renting. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce expanded business routes in the northwest and opened a car dealership.People who rent cars have to pay according to the number of days they use it, which is similar to the cost of taxis in later generations.

Li Hongji felt that he was familiar with horses, and the risk of renting a car was not great.

Moreover, with the growing prosperity of the tea horse market in the northwest, the price of horses continued to drop, and he might be able to buy horses for himself in a short time.

Daming's border trade has always been profitable, and the profits are huge.Commercial goods such as silk, tea, ironware, cotton cloth, and grain are all rigid demands of the northern nomads.

As for horses, cattle and sheep, Daming was not particularly short of them.As a means of controlling nomads, there is also a quota for how much livestock is exchanged from which tribe each year.

Once the Ming Dynasty cut off the mutual market, the life of the Mongolian tribes would be in trouble.Before the opening and closing of Longqing, some Mongolian tribes were so poor that they could only cook meat with skins, and they wore ragged clothes in summer.

There is no way, the dependence of the Mongolian tribes on iron can only be solved from the Ming Dynasty's mutual market.Fur, wear it to keep warm in winter, and heatstroke in summer.

Therefore, the Mongolian ministries attach great importance to the mutual market, and they also care about the share of the transaction with the Ming Dynasty, hoping that the more the better.

However, out of the need to stabilize the Northwest and expand the Western Regions, after the Ping-Liao Dynasty, the imperial court expanded the scale and time of the mutual market.

The original trading time of the mutual market is usually only about one month per year, which is difficult to meet the needs of trade.Now a "small market" is set up, which is opened once a month, also known as the "monthly market".

In this way, the lives of the nomads were improved, and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty also gained huge benefits.

Although the Chinese Chamber of Commerce monopolizes the border market, it does not completely ban other businessmen.It's just strategic materials such as ironware and grain, and only they are qualified to distribute them.

Prosperous commerce naturally drives the transportation of goods and the movement of people.As a postman, Li Hongji naturally understood this very well.

Seeing that his nephew had other plans, Gao Yingxiang didn't force him, talked for a while, explained some family matters, and took Li Guo to leave.

How could Li Hongji treat him so slowly, he hurriedly got up, took his uncle and nephew out of the post station, and invited them to dinner and drinks at the nearby inn.

The commercial warehouse built on the basis of the post station has both a hotel and a warehouse. It is not like a shop in the wilderness, it is quite safe.

The business inn is also connected with the post station, and some letters and parcels are delivered through the post station, which can be described as complementary and win-win.

(End of this chapter)