They are all big leaders with thousands of troops and tens of thousands.

The Northern Song Dynasty was extremely cautious about these people, and at the same time, suppressed and excluded never stopped.

As mentioned in the previous article, a civil servant wrote a letter to prohibit foreign officials from becoming Han officials and working in the mainland, and only foreign officials were allowed to serve in foreign positions.

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These people succeeded in history, and throughout the Yuanyou era, the minority leaders of Xihe were greatly suppressed.

Even in the Xining-Yuanfeng era, and later the Shaosheng-Yuanfu era.

The court was also wary of them and was more cautious than trust.

In this case, don’t talk about policy support or encouragement.

In addition to being alert to Xixia and Tubo, civil and military officials on Xihe Road.

I'm afraid that more energy will be devoted to surveillance and guard against these surrendered Hu leaders.

Especially the Baoshun family, they can mobilize tens of thousands of people and more than 10,000 cavalrymen.

I don't trust others at all!

That's why they asked the Shenzong to give him a surname Bao.

This is a political bowing - stop beating, I am my own people.

However, the literati said: don’t touch the porcelain.

Therefore, Xihe's economy has been stagnant for a long time and cannot develop.

Therefore, the Xihe area requires central funding every year and cannot be self-sufficient.

During the Li Xian era, Xihe allocated funds every year, ranging from seven to eight million (wartime), and the few were four to five million.

This is also the reason why the old party Sima Guang and others wanted to abandon Lanzhou in the Yuanyou era - the cost was too high.

However, in this book, with Xiang Zonghui and Gao Gongji taking office, all these restrictions were removed with the support of the protagonist.

No matter how different Han Hu, we encourage the land to be reclaimed. As long as we reclaim, we will admit that it is your land!

At the same time, Xiang Zonghui, Gao Gongji was still buying the prices of Bianjing and buying Xihe's output legally and compliantly.

The cost of hiring workers and investment in Xihe cotton farms is so low that it is outrageous.

In the book, even military officials like Wang Dafu who had just been transferred to the position of a young envoy can receive their own salary, and reclaim 500 acres in the second half of the eighth year of Yuanfeng and hire more than a dozen workers.

So, dear reader, if you were a powerful man in Xihe, would you not be moved?

Yes, in the spring of the first year of Yuanyou, the cotton planting area on Xihe Road was only between 50,000 mu and 60,000 mu. Even if the planting was urgently added and some of the land was replanted, the planting area would not exceed 100,000 mu.

But throughout the first year of Yuanyou, the Han and Qian tyrants in the Xihe prefectures were crazily reclaiming land and taking advantage of the dividends of the times to hire a large number of workers.

They not only turned a large amount of labor on Xihe Road into a cotton farm hire.

He also extended his hands to Tubo, Hengshan Qiang tribes, and Dangxiang.

He also called friends, kidnapped and cheated, and even went directly to rob people.

These newly reclaimed lands did not grow cotton, but were soybeans, alfalfa, barley, wheat, oats, and corn.

The land of Xihe is barren and the output is far less than that of the inner county.

But, as the same goes, the exchange rate difference has led to huge arbitrage space.

With the protagonist's intentional indulgence and indulgence, Xiheyuan Road now makes economic profits no matter what it plants.

In the seventh year of Yuanfeng, the prices of Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty were as follows: 100 ciders per bucket of japonica rice, 78 ciders per bucket of mung beans, and 54 ciders per bucket of wheat (unground).

In Xihe, the output of two stones of millet, wheat, barley or one and a half stone beans per mu is calculated.

The output is like this - the output value of millet per mu of wheat is 1,000-1,500 ci, and the output value of beans is about 1,200-1,300 ci.

What about the cost?

The cost of land is approximately equal to none.

Labor costs, one employee has 500 iron coins a month and 6,000 iron coins a year, calculated at a 10-to-1 exchange rate.

This employee actually costs only 600 mins per year.

Of course, employers provide food and accommodation.

How much can the cost of boarding and food?

The book has also said many times that it is so full that a worker can use food, accommodation and clothing for cotton shops for a year, that is, 3-5 jin of copper coins.

In this way, this employer must be a conscientious employer.

For example, a good person like Wang Dafu.

In fact, employers without conscience can squeeze employees at the limit, let them dig wild vegetables by themselves, and then give them some salt, rice and wheat at will, and eat them as much as possible, and they can't starve to death.

The clothes are just worn until they are broken!

The moral bottom line of the ancients was very low.

Of course, some agricultural tools cost must be included.

Based on the price of agricultural tools in the Northern Song Dynasty, each employee equipped a set of iron and agricultural tools.

It is about twenty to thirty.

But this must be shared by multiple employees, and at the same time, because Xihe's entire school is in charge of Xiang Zonghui and Gao Gongji.

So, they can actually hire iron and agricultural tools for themselves and their friends at a cost price.

At the same time, after April of the first year of Yuanyou, all iron coins on Xihe Road were cast using iron without impurities.

The kind that can be melted and cast into iron tools directly.

Out of conscience, the author set all these iron coins as the top ten iron coins used in Sichuan, rather than small flat coins.

The cost per chunk is calculated based on the average price of iron per catty of Northern Song Dynasty 11 quins, and 12 kilograms of iron is about 132 quins.

Finally, let’s summarize Xihe’s economic model.

When the exchange rates of iron coins and copper coins are not equal, and the local prices in Bianjing and Xihe are seriously inverted.

The main profit method for cotton owners now is actually arbitrage.

Through arbitrage, their cotton shops have reached a very amazing level in terms of input-output ratio.

It is calculated by the 500 acres of land newly reclaimed by Wang Dafu in the spring and summer of the first year of Yuanyou.

Its employed fifteen to twenty workers to take care of these newly reclaimed lands.

Based on the lower limit of 1,200 citrus per mu of all beans and alfalfa.

The annual output value of 500 mu of land is 600,000 yuan, with a discount of 780 jin.

The labor costs of the employees are calculated based on the top-level iron coins. Each employee has 12 guan of iron coins this year, and 1,200 coins are made of copper coins. For 20 guan, it is 24,000 coins and 33 guan.

Food, accommodation, clothing, and materials are counted as five stakes, and 20 people have 100 stakes.

Three people share a set of iron and agricultural tools, each set with a maximum size of 30 jin and 200 jin.

Festival red envelopes, year-end red envelopes, red envelopes and rewards are given six times a year, and each time, it is 600 yuan for 20 people, and 12,000 yuan for copper coins, less than two cents will be given.

Let’s take into account the cost of land reclamation, each person reclaims two acres of land per month.

500 acres require 250 people to be employed. In one month, it is 250 guan of iron coins, equivalent to 25 guan of copper coins (it is definitely not employed so many people, and it can only be calculated by adding up the calculations, for example, hiring 50 to 100 workers, and two or three months to be employed for land reclamation).

The total cost of Wang Daxun is 360 jin.

Their harvest is 780 jin.

Gross profit is 420 yuan.

If you deduct seed expenses, it will be counted as 100 guan (including cotton fields!), there are 320 left, and 100 guan and 220 guan will be deducted from two taxes.

Therefore, he finally made a profit of 220 knots. This money was enough for him to maintain the expenses of another 500 acres of cotton fields.

And what he got was 1,000 acres of land that had been reclaimed!

Friends, this is more exciting than anything!

Of course, the author himself is not very good at arithmetic, and he may have calculated it wrong.

But no matter what, Xihe Cotton Village profits are common.

And it is profitable.

As long as you are qualified to reclaim land, you will make a profit.

Moreover, the key to this model is that the court does not suffer any losses.

After the increase in local products of Xihe, there is no need to transfer food and grass from Shaanxi and other places.

The saved manpower and material resources actually benefit the court, which is equivalent to reducing costs and increasing efficiency.
Chapter completed!