Seeing that Guan Ning and Cai Yong's faces became increasingly ugly. If we continue, we might be repaired by two great scholars of the world, we immediately changed the topic and said to Lu Ning: "Brother, the population in our jurisdiction has now exceeded 3 million, and the preliminary statistics have reached more than 3.2 million. In just over ten months, we have resettled more than 1 million refugees and refugees, and it will probably reach about 350 by the end of the year. To resettle these victims and refugees, we have spent a lot of money. The food consumption alone is as high as 2 million dan, more than 1 billion, and a large amount of manpower. There are still a large number of people around us pouring into our jurisdiction every day. If it flows in at this speed, it won't take long and we have no place to resettle them."

Lu Ning was also shocked after hearing this. What does it mean to place more than one million a year? This is not easy to accommodate so many people in later generations. Besides, it was in ancient times. The people in ancient times were easy to pass on, and they were satisfied with their random tricks.

Lu Ning said happily: "This is very good. Whether it is the victims or refugees from there, we must resettle them. As for the next place to resettle? If it really doesn't work, extend it to the west and north. What's the solution? We can't let the victims and refugees be homeless. So how are our food ready now? Should there be storage?"

After hearing this, Gu Yong replied: "My lord, our grain reserves are not bad now. So far, there are nearly 10 million dans of grain reserves. This is mainly because the Mi family in Xuzhou sold us about 6 million dans. The Zhen family also transported about 2 million dans. In addition, the governor of Jizhou, Han Fu, purchased our weapons and equipment. His gold and silver were not enough. He used more than 2 million dans of grain and a large amount of silk and cotton to deduct part of the payment. The people in our jurisdiction handed over the grain mainly for military and daily use. The grain in the hands of the people was basically not sold. They were afraid of hunger, so the people were also storing grain. If the people in our jurisdiction wanted to sell surplus grain in large quantities, it would probably increase gradually from next year."

After hearing this, Sima Lang smiled and said to Lu Ning: "Brother, since we cooperated with the Zhen family and Mi family, we have no worries about the sales of the things we produce, and we are constantly expanding the production scale, which has also made our tax revenue grow month by month. If you marry the eldest daughter of the Zhen family again, then our life will be better."

Everyone laughed after hearing this. What a bullshit, is it a matter of one code? How can it be confused? Besides, the first thing that merchants consider is interests, so it is so easy.

Lu Ning glared at Sima Lang and said, "Fifth brother, why haven't you seen each other for a few days? You are becoming more and more slick. It seems that you want to ask your second brother, Ziyi and others to help you find a few more beauties from the grassland to manage you well, so as not to make trouble. Although the things we produce are easy to sell now, we cannot be careless. We must continue to focus on product quality, conduct more technological innovation, and work hard on quality, variety, and patterns. We cannot blindly expand the scale of production and operation, otherwise problems will arise sooner or later. Only by constantly updating the product structure and improving product quality can we occupy the market for a long time.

Do you think we are just producing it, as long as our products are available, many people will imitate it in the world, especially some low-tech products. So why we cannot sell some things out? This is the reason. For example, once the thermometer we made is in the hands of ceramic manufacturers in the Jiangnan area, the ceramic things they produce will be much better than what we produce. Everyone cannot be content with the status quo, but should have a sense of crisis at all times. In addition, the cooperation between our Zhen family and Mi family is essentially a matter of interests between the two parties. If the other party has no interests, don’t say that marrying a eldest daughter of the Zhen family is to marry a married lady.

Ten people will not be useful; if both parties have a lot of money to make, it means they have no relationship with the Zhen family and can cooperate well; their Zhen and Mi families support us, then they mainly want to obtain greater benefits. Without the driving force of interests, who is willing to lose money in vain? Even scholars and heroes choose masters. If they choose someone who can't even keep their territory, how can they live in the future? Only by choosing a good master, they will not be in vain, because sooner or later their efforts will be rewarded, and they will have high officials and generous salaries, become famous all over the world, and be famous in history, otherwise they will be unknown for a lifetime."

After hearing this, Guan Ning shook his head and said, "Ziyi, what you said may not be correct. According to your statement, it is not that everything is based on interests. I have never pursued any interests in the past few decades?"

Lu Ning stood up and bowed to Guan Ning and said, "Master, you are a wise man of a generation, so everyone can compete with you. But interests are both material and spiritual. Although the master has never pursued material interests, you are indeed famous all over the world, which is also spiritual. If you have no reputation, then who will join your subordinates and how can you make a living? Interests have direct interests and indirect interests. It is also a matter of interest between countries, including the emperor, the ministers, and the people.

It is also a matter of interest distribution. Only when the interests are distributed well can the country be stable, the nation be rejuvenated, and the economy can develop rapidly. Otherwise, there will be turmoil and will be invaded by foreign barbarians. Why are our soldiers willing to fight? When fighting, it is like a tiger going down the mountain and leading forward? Why? That is because there are interests and spoils to be divided. This is the conquest mechanism. Only with a good conquest mechanism can the war be won, otherwise it will not last long.

Like Emperor Wu, it is great enough, but it took several generations of savings to defeat the Huns and Tartar cavalry, and his Han Dynasty was indeed so bad that he didn't even wear pants and was so poor that he was so poor. Why is this? The conquest mechanism was wrong, and the nature of the war was problematic. Emperor Wu fought the Han-Hungary War, which was his personal conquest war, not the national conquest war. So although the war was won in the end, what did the Han Dynasty get? What did the people get? Scholars and scholars win the war in the end, but what did the Han Dynasty get?

What did the soldiers get? To put it bluntly, it means that Emperor Wu won the face, and only Emperor Wu won the face that was worthless. What's the use? It can be used as a food? So when you Confucians mentioned war, they immediately thought of military and military force. In fact, war is a theory called war economics. War can promote the progress of science and technology, war can promote the development of society, war can promote human civilization, and war can also promote the rapid economic growth."
Chapter completed!