Chapter 127: The First Disaster Relief (XI)
It was similar to the history. The edict and reply from Yongzheng to Nian Gengyao fully revealed the kindness of "I trust you to do the work".
Huo Chong certainly couldn't know what Yongzheng wrote. Huo Chong had his own things to do at this time. His subordinates began to slack off on disaster relief in May. Huo Chong couldn't stand it anymore, so he called the people in charge of this matter in each county and branch to the headquarters.
"A journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step. Until the people harvest this year's grain, dry it, and eat it, the disaster relief will not be over. Even if the grain is about to be cooked, it does not mean that it is already cooked."
Huo Chong finished speaking and looked at the group of people in charge. They all looked confused and a little aggrieved.
Seeing everyone like this, Huo Chong looked at everyone and asked, "Why are you so confused? Who can give me an idea?"
No one spoke. Everyone still looked aggrieved and confused. At this moment, a voice from the outermost part rang out, "Mr. Huo is blaming us, why don't you tell us what to do now?"
Huo Chong took a look and found that it was Lei Hu. This guy was promoted very quickly. Now it was June and Lei Hu was promoted to the headquarters.
Except Huo Chong, everyone was looking at Lei Hu. Lei Hu stood up as if nothing had happened and continued, "Mr. Huo, you overestimate us. This is our first time to provide disaster relief, so please continue to point out how to do it. If Mr. Huo doesn't lead us to do it, we will think that disaster relief is over."
"Yeah." Huo Chong felt that what Lei Hu said was right. He had been restless recently, and even if he tried his best, he could not help being a little lazy. After all, a person only has so much energy, and being worried and fearful is particularly exhausting .
Without further criticism, Huo Chong thought for a moment and began to arrange the work. Since the normal harvest this year has been basically confirmed, the next step is to analyze a lot of data. In particular, judging who has a higher credit rating based on the repayment situation of these people who borrowed money and things.
Listening to Huo Chong's detailed description of the specific implementation, many people took out their notebooks to take notes, while some people were listening attentively.
That's right! Huo Chong was very satisfied.
After the speech, young people began to ask questions. In particular, Huo Chong's sixth apprentice Liu Shiwang's question about "what is credit" received the most resonance.
Huo Chong used the explanation of "credit and capital" in modern economics to explain to everyone what creditworthiness is.
Credit under capital operation seems to be very similar to the agricultural era's "keeping one's word and fulfilling one's promise", and in fact, they are very similar. However, keeping one's word and fulfilling one's promise is a personal cultivation, and even has a moral meaning. Credit under capital operation is aimed at one's execution ability.
The earliest credit + cash model was developed by the Dutch bank, the coachman of the sea. At that time, the great triangle trade had already appeared. The colonialists shipped handicrafts to West Africa and exchanged them for slaves. They then sold the slaves to plantations in exchange for plantation products such as sugar cane, which were then shipped back to Europe.
It is a fantasy to expect these slave-trading colonialists to have any morals. Therefore, the "credit" under capital operation has never been linked to morality.
How were the colonists' fleets organized, how were they configured, what routes did they take, and how did they deal with the various problems they encountered.
Anyone who can propose and demonstrate organizational and problem-solving skills has a certain degree of credit. What ABN AMRO has to do is to select those with credit and give them cash investment to help these people realize their plans.
Credit + capital, this capital operation system has created huge economic benefits. No matter how much blood and evil this capital operation has stained, even people with a little conscience in the UK have criticized that "every pound of sugar we use is equivalent to consuming two ounces of human flesh." However, this capital operation still created wealth and power in Europe.
Huo Chong did not give such an example. It is not that Huo Chong did not want to show off, but in recent years Huo Chong finally understood that if there is no common foundation, don't say things that others cannot understand. It is a disrespect to yourself and others. So the case has become the current situation in Shandong.
"Everyone is clear about the processes of farming and raising livestock. Many people don't understand, and many people can't complete them even if they understand. I have long emphasized that this disaster relief is not to prevent those people from starving to death. That is not disaster relief, that is saving lives. Disaster relief is to minimize the impact of the disaster on everyone's production. From this perspective, our disaster relief is not over yet..."
As he was speaking, Huo Chong suddenly felt that his speech at this moment was simply that of a communist. In a sense, this cognition came from New China, not from the capital operation of Europe and the United States.
But the Qing people who attended the meeting understood what Huo Chong was talking about. Cultural inheritance is like this. If you talk about Chinese culture in China, everyone will understand. If Huo Chong talked about the slave trade, I'm afraid these young people would object first.
After some questions and answers, everyone basically understood what Huo Chong meant. Huo Chong hoped to select farmers with certain execution capabilities in the final stage of this disaster relief. The funds of the Zhongfu platform are not unlimited, and Huo Chong's funds are actually very limited. The reason why it seems to be running very smoothly is entirely because the platform has been operated by Huo Chong over the years, and the farmers with the most "credit" funds have come together to get to where they are today.
When the meeting was over, everyone was no longer confused as before, and all the young people were happy and looked very motivated.
Lei Hu asked to see Huo Chong again. When he saw Huo Chong, Lei Hu apologized first.
Huo Chong doesn't care about his image. It's too extravagant to talk about this at this time.
"Lei Hu, you have a good eye. Please speak so frankly next time." Huo Chong praised.
Lei Hu was stunned for a moment, looking somewhat moved. He said with emotion: "Mr. Huo is really very broad-minded!"
"Haha. Let's stop bragging to each other. What else do you want?"
"After listening to what Mr. Huo said today, I still want to ask Mr. Huo. Do you really not care about other people's ill will? Mr. Huo is so talented, and those people must not know how broad-minded Mr. Huo is. They are just jealous of Mr. Huo's platform because it is so popular. If they knew how broad-minded Mr. Huo is, they would kill him no matter what!"
"Lei Hu, there's nothing I can do about this kind of thing." Huo Chong sighed.
" Why make some preparations?"
"How to prepare?" Although Huo Chong didn't know what Lei Hu was going to say, he also wanted to hear what this young man who was trapped by the gentry and had no way to bargain had to think.
Before Lei Hu could speak, Qian Qing rushed into the room. She looked anxious, "Mr. Huo, something happened!"
"What is it?"
"I don't know what the magistrate of Mouping County is planning to do. He ordered our people to be detained!" Qian Qing's voice sounded a little exasperated.
Huo Chong glanced at Lei Hu. It seemed that his intuition had come true, and he was in trouble. However, the magistrate of Mouping County was definitely not an order from Yongzheng. Standing up, Huo Chong ordered, "Prepare the carriages and horses, we are going to Mouping County."
When Magistrate Dong saw Huo Chong coming, he said with a straight face, "Brother Huo, do you know that you are in trouble?"
Huo Chong felt that the attitude of County Magistrate Dong was different from his previous state of calling Huo Chong by his name, which meant that the matter was not that serious.
"Brother Dong, please tell me what I'm in trouble for."
After a conversation, Huo Chong realized that he was really in trouble. Some officials in the prefecture wanted to put pressure on Huo Chong. County Magistrate Dong was just a forced executor. As a Jinshi, County Magistrate Dong obviously did not want to be someone else's running dog. Everyone was a Jinshi, and there was no reason for other Jinshi to be above County Magistrate Dong. What's more, many people in the prefecture were not Jinshi.
"Although I have been traveling in the countryside, I have heard that the emperor wants to clear the debts. Now every official has to borrow money from the national treasury. Even some noble people like Brother Dong have to borrow some money in order to blend in with the world. Otherwise, if you stand out from the crowd, you will naturally be envied and attacked by those people." Huo Chong said what Magistrate Dong dared not and did not want to say.
County Magistrate Dong's expression changed several times, and finally he just sighed.
"To keep their positions, those people must pay back the money quickly. But it's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it's hard to go from luxury to frugality. The money is easily spent, so how can it be left to buy property? In addition, the exchanges between officials make it even harder to keep it." At this point, Huo Chong suddenly laughed out loud. Without waiting for County Magistrate Dong to ask, Huo Chong smiled and explained why he laughed, "I remembered the saying, wealth and honor that don't return to the hometown is like a walk in the night in brocade clothes."
When County Magistrate Dong heard this, he looked strange at first, but he couldn't help laughing. He laughed for a while and said the following part of this historical passage, "A monkey in a human costume?"
This is what Xiang Yu said when he became famous. After hearing this, one of Xiang Yu's advisers angrily criticized him, saying "a monkey in a human costume".
Muhou is not a monkey bathing and changing clothes, but a kind of big monkey. Huo Chong remembered that in the information he had seen, Xiang Yu killed this person after hearing this evaluation. And County Magistrate Dong could say such a thing, it seems that County Magistrate Dong is quite proud in his heart.
"Brother Huo, how are you going to deal with this?" Magistrate Dong asked after .
Huo Chong thought for a moment before answering, "Why not ask these people to take some time to meet me. Although I am only a reserve officer, at least I know a little about business. Those in Shandong probably have some land. Instead of forcing me to perish with them, why don't they give me some land to manage together with me? They can make money to pay off their debts, and I can have peace. What's not to like?"
"Is it possible?" Magistrate Dong showed a look of disbelief.
Huo Chong answered decisively: "Brother Dong, please tell those brothers. The Fourteenth Master has not fallen yet. Even if he was arranged by the Emperor to guard the late emperor's body, the Emperor did not take away his status as a prince. He was not imprisoned. The Empress Dowager is still alive. If the Fourteenth Master wrote a letter to the Empress Dowager, and the letter was about the integrity of officials that the Emperor cares about, do those brothers really think that the Emperor will not investigate?"
Before this, Huo Chong had never mentioned Old Fourteen. But when he changed his card, Huo Chong would never let it go.
