Chapter 204 Virtue is in the countryside

Chapter 204 Virtue is in the countryside

In the afternoon, Shangyuan was once again crowded with carriages and horses. The locals from Zuojin Township were saying hello to each other and walking towards the manor.

After most of the people attending the meeting entered the main hall of the manor and sat down, Li Tai and Liu Min walked into the hall surrounded by the soldiers in the tents. They waved in response to the villagers who stood up to greet them, and occasionally stopped to chat with several respected elders among them. A few words of conversation.

He walked to the host's seat and stood, introduced Liu Min to everyone, and then motioned everyone to take their seats, and said with a smile: "I have been busy for a long time, and I have some leisure at the end of the year. I should have visited all the good people in my hometown. But. All the fellow villagers have benefited me a lot and are very kind to me. If I visit each house one by one, it is inevitable that there will be some differences. I am afraid that you may blame me for favoring one over the other, and act like a scoundrel and dare to sit in the house. I sincerely ask you to tolerate my youth and frivolousness. Let’s get together!”

When everyone heard this, they all smiled and thanked Li Tai for his kind invitation. It was a happy moment.

Those who accepted the invitation today were mainly the elders of the Qu League who were the first to participate in the Longshou Canal Affairs. After Li Tai initiated this matter last year, after a year's work, Longshou Canal was finally cleared in its entirety. Today's gathering can be regarded as a celebration.

"Today all the sages from the village are gathered in the hall. I am not known for my long teeth and virtues, but because the sages and elders in the village have elected the consul as the leader of the canal. The canal was completed a few days ago, and fortunately it has lived up to the high expectations of the folks. In terms of merit, the people who work with me will appreciate it. Yes, I am the only one who can support Xiangsheng. I feel ashamed and dare not be the only one who can be beautiful.”

While he was talking, Li Tai waved to the audience, and someone brought up a large bronze plaque with the four characters "De Bei Xiangli" written on it.

Li Tai stood up, pointed at the bronze plaque and said with a smile: "Collect the voices of the hometown, gather these four words, and publicize the virtues and righteousness of the Qu Alliance. Although the Qu alliance has been settled, the hometown righteousness should not be dispersed. I am honored by the imperial court. The mission is all in Guanxi, and I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate this alliance. "

When everyone heard this, they all stood up, applauded and cheered.

Li Tai had the bronze plaque hung outside the entrance hall of his home, and used his identity as the Dushui envoy to authenticate that this hall of his home would become the official meeting hall of the Qu Alliance.

He wanted to ask Daxingtai for a certification and praise, but Yuwentai was still busy digesting the harvest and expanding the army. He was probably too lazy to pay attention to his behavior of seeking fame and reputation. Moreover, Yuwentai's handwriting was not as good as his own. correct.

Although it was a bit shameless to praise him, Li Tai didn't feel embarrassed anymore when he saw everyone was so supportive.

He not only prepared a bronze plaque for himself, but also prepared a gift for each of these local tycoons who took the lead in supporting him.

After the bronze plaque was hung up, he walked down to the hall again, took a brocade box from Bu Qu, came to Party Chairman Zhao of Shang Yuan and said with a smile: "Friendship cannot be measured in material terms, but real gold can prove it." Qu Since the founding of the League, Party Leader Zhao has never thought of his old age as being greedy, being hands-on and hard-working, so he would like to express his gratitude with this gift!"

While he was talking, he opened the brocade box, and there was a yellow-orange gold medal inside. On the surface of the gold medal were the four characters "Xiangyi Gaoshi", and on the back was the outline of the Longshou Canal engraved on it. The gold medal weighs more than a pound, and its value is already very high, and it also contains extraordinary significance.

Party Elder Zhao had a smile on his face, looking like he wanted to pick it up but didn't dare to. After Li Tai saw this, he simply tied the gold medal on Party Leader Zhao's belt, which immediately pressed him so hard that Party Leader Zhao's belt was hanging. On the crotch.

After seeing this, everyone clapped their hands and congratulated, their eyes full of envy. Li Tai did not let them wait too long. Everyone who came today was presented with the same gold medal one by one, and hundreds of kilograms of gold were spilled out at once.

While everyone felt Li Tai's generous spending, they also rubbed the gold medal with great care and treasure. Therefore, the excitement and sense of honor they felt far exceeded the value of the gold itself.

Li Tai invited everyone to come to the party, of course, not just to spread money. After giving away the gifts and returning to the table to sit down, he said with a smile: "Although we and others gathered in the hall because of the canal affairs, the local affairs are not limited to the canal." One thing? All the villagers who are in need of food, clothing, or disease should be helped by the villagers.

Taking advantage of the completion of the dragon's head canal, I will build a charity warehouse to celebrate. I will fill the warehouse with rice, thousands of stones, and thousands of bolts of silk. I invite you to choose people who are famous for their benevolence in your hometown to serve as wardens of this warehouse. When the villagers are in need and seek help, they all come here to help! "

As soon as he finished speaking, there was another round of thunderous applause in the hall, and several local tycoons also stood up and expressed their willingness to donate materials and materials for this righteous cause.

Li Tai did not arrange any entrustment. It should be said that everyone actually has a righteous and kind side in their heart. When helping others to gain gratitude, they can also get a great sense of satisfaction in their hearts.

"Country people give charity according to their own intentions, but if it is just to hurt oneself and enrich others, it is definitely not a long-term solution. People can only help themselves and get help from others. Those who are lazy and give up on themselves will be abandoned by heaven, and no one can help! "

Li Tai took advantage of this momentum and talked about the second thing: "Everyone should know that I came to the countryside alone last year and have accumulated a little bit of property. Whatever I have, the people in the countryside have been kind and generous to me. The so-called taking from others. , use it for people, although I am not known as a great benefactor, but I also hope that the folks I see in the countryside will be down-to-earth and polite people, rather than evil villains with cunning tricks.

But often, although people from the countryside have the willpower to run their careers, they may not have the capital to do it, so they waste years and lose their ambition. In the past years, when I looked at these kinds of things, I felt compassion but had no power to help them. Now that I have a little surplus from things, I also want to pass on my experience in managing my business to my close relatives..."

When everyone heard this, they cheered up. They had all witnessed the rapid rise of Li Tai, a newcomer from Dongzhou, in the village. They might not be aware of the power management beyond the local sentiment and influence, but they were all convinced that Li Tai must have a unique secret.

Not to mention anything else, the high-quality and best-selling products in Shang Yuan's workshop alone make people envious.

Seeing how enthusiastic everyone was, Li Tai felt that the atmosphere was well prepared, so he told his real plan.

He is now considered to have abundant capital, but if the money is not spent, it will be a pile of dead things. However, how to spend it more effectively requires certain skills.

With the productivity level and business environment of the Western Wei Dynasty, even if you want to consume wildly, you don't have the conditions, so you need to change the environment within your own ability.

He wants to open a bank and treat the elders of these alliances as customers. Lending and making profits is secondary. The key is to let these wealthy people get out of their respective manors and participate in the economic activities of mutual exchanges in the entire society.

In order to avoid some bad guys finding fault and saying that he was whimsical, Li Tai had been preparing for this for a long time.

First of all, through the canal alliance, a certain number of rural households were demarcated, and through the construction of Longshou Canal, they deepened their mutual sense of co-operation, making the canal alliance and personnel affairs an important part of their social life and interpersonal interactions. They were no longer just bound by nostalgia and ethics, but It is to establish a deeper connection.

Giving away gold medals is also to strengthen their sense of identity and honor for this identity. If they want to betray them, they will have greater psychological burden and social cost. In ancient societies where personnel were not often circulated, if debts were not repaid in the organizational structure of Qumeng, it would be a more serious social death than a naked loan, and even generations of descendants might be labeled as treacherous.

With such a stable lending environment, the risks of financial activities will be minimized. Big data also needs to be mastered using cloud computing. Li Tai relies on Qumeng's personnel network. As long as he does not blindly expand the lending atmosphere, his money will not be wasted.

The general land power is based on the self-sufficient large estate economy. Under normal circumstances, there is no need for borrowing. Even if there is a surplus, the first choice is to invest in land which is relatively stable.

Therefore, Li Tai also needs to set a good example and influence the people around him through the expansion of his own industry, so that they can see an investment and production model with higher returns.

Even so, given the relatively fragile foundation of people's livelihood in Kansai, Li Tai did not rush forward blindly.

The first plan he proposed was textiles that were most familiar to rural households. It is no longer a one-stop production scattered in every household. Li Tai provides mulberry seedlings, silkworm seeds, hemp seeds and other materials for free. Villagers can receive it if they subscribe to the amount of planting area. The only requirement is that the silk and hemp raw materials must be Sold back to Li Tai.

After being processed on large spinning wheels, these silk and linen raw materials are returned to each household for weaving. Li Tai also provides looms here. Each loom must provide a certain amount of fabrics every year. After deducting the cost of silk thread, linen, and looms, other fabrics will be exchanged for equal amounts of items according to the current price.

Resources can only be optimally configured after replacement. After mastering the Luoshui water conservancy, Li Tai's workshop's spinning capacity increased sharply, but its weaving was seriously hindered. Even if he wanted to expand output, there were not enough weavers.

For rural households, this production model has also greatly improved their production efficiency, and the change of production model and the expansion of production capacity do not require any investment on their part, and are all supported by Li Tai.

So when Li Tai finished talking about his plan, all the villagers present also claimed their looms. There is almost no risk in this matter. Even if they don't join in, they will still produce textiles.

There are nearly a hundred local tycoons in the hall, each claiming a different number of looms according to their family status, some have more than a dozen looms, and some have hundreds of looms. At the end of the day, more than 7,000 looms had been claimed.

According to the annual return of one hundred looms per loom, Li Tai will be able to have more than 700,000 pieces of fabric by this time next year! Thirty percent of it will be deducted as his cost investment, which means that more than 200,000 horses belong to him. For the remaining more than 500,000 horses, he provided materials of equal value in exchange.

This account was not unknown, but when it was calculated, everyone was shocked. Everyone did their own calculations, and for a while they all doubted Li Tai's ability to grasp such a large material handicap.

Li Tai proved his strength with practical actions. He directly asked people to bring gold and silver and weigh them in the hall. He did not have more than 7,000 looms, so he could only buy them from rural households, buy and sell them in the hall. The hall is called gold, as much as you want!

In other words, each family sold its loom to Li Tai, and then took it back for production. They exchanged the ownership of the loom for gold and silver, and the production was correct, as long as the ration was returned by this time next year.

Naturally, the villagers made a lot of money, and Li Tai did not suffer any loss. His family could not weave these more than 700,000 pieces of fabric in a year, and more than 70 Gao Aocao!