At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

It is a problem for ordinary people to eat poorly, so how can they still have spare money to eat and drink in taverns?

But Guo felt that this was not conducive to the development of the tertiary industry to make money.

He felt that with the development of the commercial economy and the relaxation of his exploitation of farmers, the wealth of the people would increase.

If the construction of the tertiary industry is not stepped up, there will be no place for private wealth to be exchanged, and if economic activities cannot be stimulated, economic prosperity will not be promoted.

Adhering to the principle of using all possible means to amass wealth, Guo decided to set a precedent for the future market again.

So during the Jian'an period after Liu Jian succeeded to the throne, he ordered Cao's caravan and Mi's caravan to become pawns again and began to handle the business of restaurants in the city.

Opening wine shops in market locations in cities with a relatively large flow of people not only sells wine, but also sells catering services. With the gradual popularity of iron pots and cooking, it also creates opportunities for the emergence of hotels.

At that time, four wine shops appeared one after another in the east and west cities of Yecheng, the core of the Guowei regime. They were all run by Cao's caravan and Mi's caravan. They sold wine and food, and provided dine-in meals.

All kinds of food are sold in the wine shop, including steaming, stewing, grilling and frying.

And besides the freshness of the restaurant itself, there are even fresher things.

That is, the existence of tables, chairs and benches.

Things like tables, chairs and benches did not exist from the beginning.

At least in this era, there are no benches, only a bed, which can be used for sitting, which is called sitting, and sitting on knees is called sitting, which is considered orthodox by the world.

Naturally, there are no improved tables for sitting upright and the emergence of benches, and there are only low desks.

Mr. Guo has lived in such an environment since he was a child, so it doesn't matter whether he is used to it or not. Anyway, he must accept it. Living and working in this way, and eating on such a table, is also acceptable.

But in this way, it is very inconvenient for the development of the tertiary industry.

The commercial existence of a restaurant pays attention to efficiency and profit. It pays attention to a large table surrounded by a circle of people, serving dishes together, it is great to use public chopsticks and spoons, to maximize the use of space, tableware, manpower and material resources, and to pursue economic benefits.

However, the traditional way of eating pays attention to one person, one table, one cushion, and then one meal per person, one tableware per person, and many servants to serve the dishes, without paying attention to the cost at all.

If the restaurant operates in this way, the cost will be seriously increased. Under the foreseeable environment, there is no way to make money at all.

This is the standard configuration designed for socializing with rich and powerful families.

If people at this time also use this method to do business, how many customers can they attract?Then what money do you make?

But at this time, people who eat energy in restaurants like to pay attention to this model.

Therefore, in order for the restaurant to survive, someone from Guo did not hesitate to personally stand on the platform, call the restaurant, call the platform for the brand-new way of eating, and do his best to promote it.

He personally took the high-ranking officials and dignitaries to the restaurant for dinner, sitting on a wooden armchair made of good wood, with a large round table in front of him.

Everyone sat around the big table and watched the waiter bring up the dishes plate by plate, and then Guo Peng greeted the novelty people to eat.

Using public chopsticks and public spoons, put them back into bowls to eat by themselves, and communicate and drink at close distances at the dining table, which has led to a wave of rich and wealthy households going to restaurants to eat and drink with relatives and friends.

There are also many people who want to find out what is going on with the legendary table and chairs. They are very interested in it.

Of course, it will not be so easy for wine shops to gain a firm foothold in this era.

Soon, scholars who were dissatisfied with this stood up and attacked the wine shop.

To say that this way of sitting is clearly Hu Zuo, what is the idea of ​​introducing Hu Zuo to the Central Plains.

He also said that this way of eating is completely inconsistent with the teachings of the ancestors. The distance between people is too close, and it is very indecent that they may spit each other while eating.

They cite classics to criticize the wine shop, and call the wine shop "Hu Si", trying to stigmatize it, so as to arouse widespread resistance.

Guo Peng had expected this kind of thing to happen a long time ago, so he immediately deployed his ultimate oral sex weapon - Chen Lin.

Chen Lin led the team of mouth guns to rush to the moral position, quoted scriptures to excuse Guo Peng, fiercely confronted the traditional scholars, and smelt crazy.

It is said that the chair is not a bed, it was modified by Guo Peng with reference to the case, it will be very comfortable to sit on, and it will also relax people's legs, and it will not become numb when sitting. It is very stupid to distinguish between sitting and sitting behavior and the like.

In addition to such fierce laning, Chen Lin also kept changing concepts secretly.

He shifted the dispute of sitting upright to other places, confusing the public, diverting people's attention, and laying a relatively good environment for the development of wine shops.

Afterwards, it will be the big historical event of the Wei Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, and the existence of small and small wine shops will definitely not become the mainstream of the debate.

After Guo had three consecutive political purges and finally ascended to the throne, he promulgated a decree supporting the construction of wine shops, and then this debate actually ended.

Afterwards, not only the big hotel chains run by Mi's caravan and Cao's caravan appeared, but also small wine shops established by some folks.

After things such as tables, chairs and benches gained a firm foothold in wine shops, the economical and fast way of eating was very popular among business travelers, and gradually spread to other places among the people.

After that, more and more people did this kind of business, and the tax revenue of wine shops gradually increased, occupying a little position in the official tax level.

But there are still quite a few diehards who resist the appearance of tables, chairs and benches.

chapter 1013 the gradual normalization of the Wei Empire

These diehards harbor a certain aversion to anything new that comes up.

They insisted that the way of sitting in the restaurant is Husi, and called on relatives and friends around them not to go to the restaurant to eat, and resolutely not to eat in the way of Husi, in order to maintain the dignity of the ancestors.

They just like to elevate things that they are not used to to the level of their ancestors, and then use this to occupy the moral high ground, and reduce the dimensionality of things that they are not used to and that are not in their interests.

The patriarch told them that there should be no class, why didn't they obey?

The patriarch also told them to respect ghosts and gods and stay away. Why don't they obey?

One or two are very good at metaphysics and ghosts, and they worship ghosts and gods every day after reading so many books.

Shameless!

Same double standard as someone Guo, just as shameless!

Therefore, Chen Lin led the royal literati team to fight with them one after another every year, fiercely competing for the right to speak, and fiercely confronting the existence of this matter itself.

Because of this part of the reason, although Guo intends to fully introduce tables, chairs and benches to the official level to realize his dragon chair dream, he has to consider the existence of these diehards.

No change can happen overnight...

That's all he could think of.

The popularization of the people is not influenced and controlled by these scholars, but the impact of the changes at the top is indeed great.

For Guo Peng's demand, Chen Lin tried to use Zhao Wuling Wang Hufu's riding and shooting to refute the matter and forcefully achieve the goal, but was stopped by someone Guo.

Zhao Wuling Wang Hufu's riding and shooting was for the military and to fight back against the Xiongnu. It was a major military matter, with righteousness, the driving force of the army and external oppression, so it was carried out smoothly.

And tables, chairs, benches and the like are not military affairs.

There is no strong internal and external impetus, there is nothing that seems necessary, and it has been involved in the dispute of sitting and sitting, so the promotion of this matter at the official level has become more tortuous.

In this regard, Guo also felt quite helpless.

Even so, wine shops developed without restriction, and the debates among scholars did not affect the actual needs of the people.

After the wine shop appeared, it was very popular with some local grassroots officials, and it was also very popular with the local garrison. People who didn't have the concept of sitting and sitting didn't care about it.

Up to now, there are more than 20 wine shops in Luoyang, each with its own special brewed wine and chef's special dishes as signs to attract customers.

In addition to bureaucrats and rich families, private business travelers also began to gradually enter the wine shop, and began to try to enjoy this kind of meal that was not made by their own family in the wine shop.

Someone Guo had expected this.

As Mr. Guo gradually lowered the tax rate of the villagers and proposed various policy support for small merchants and hawkers, a group of people who worked hard with their own hands and gradually accumulated wealth began to emerge among the common people.

From the first year of Yande, Guo began to gradually reduce taxes for the villagers.

It is intended to gradually liberate them from the wartime agricultural system, and prepare to slowly transform the wartime economy into a normal agricultural economy.

In the state of garrisoning the fields, the tax paid by the tuntian people to Guo was far more than the amount of agricultural tax in the normal dynasty.

This is a wartime economic policy that exploits farmers far beyond the normal state, and is used to cope with the high-frequency and high-intensity military campaigns that far exceed the normal state.

In this mode, Guo can also guarantee that they will eat and not starve to death, to such an extent.

During times of war, such a policy ensured that Mr. Guo had sufficient military rations to use, guaranteed his logistics and confidence, and ensured that he, as a warlord in troubled times, had the economic foundation to unify the country.

So the Wei army continued to win victories. They were well fed, trained in a timely manner, and had high combat skills. They beat the hungry beggar army to the ground.

Therefore, he exploited the peasants and squeezed Lishu without any relaxation.

Not only that, but also tried every means to cut the leeks of the powerful gentry.

As long as it is the area covered by his ruling power, no one will be left anyway, and he will squeeze wholeheartedly to obtain capital from them to continue the unification war.

At the same time, because Mr. Guo eliminated the middlemen, the highest power went directly to the countryside and opened up the upper and lower channels, so the amount of food obtained was far beyond Mr. Guo's own imagination.

Guo originally thought that he would not get too much, so he set the tax rate very high, just to prevent the farmers from starving.

But after implementing it, he found that the food he got was too much, nearly [-]% more than expected.

That's why he really realized how much benefit the people class had squeezed between the emperor and Li Shu.

After the most difficult era of entrepreneurship has passed, Mr. Guo has actually begun to gradually reduce the burden on the villagers, began to gradually increase their rations, and used various policies and incentives to reduce their burden in disguise.

However, because of the fear of poverty, the tax ratio has not been lowered, and it is always in reserve for the aftermath of the war.

The entire Guo Wei regime was still a standard war locomotive before Guo Peng became emperor, running very sharply and at high speed, crushing all the warlords who stood in front of Guo.

The tax reduction plan that was actually implemented at the policy level began after the first year of Yande.

In order to obtain this popularity alone, and prevent this popularity from being touted to Liu Jian by the old and young of the Han Empire, Guo also took great pains.

Aware of the unsustainability of the long-term high tax rate farming policy, Guo began to formulate a policy to gradually reduce the tax rate paid by the farming people.

Take away less and leave more to farmers.

The wartime economic model was gradually relaxed, and the peasants were gradually loosened, and excessive taxes were no longer squeezed from them, so as to give the peasants a certain economic strength and return to normal economic policies.

Then slowly stop the mighty chariot of Guo Wei Empire, get on the right track, and start to move forward slowly and normally.

Wartime economic policies cannot be maintained for a long time, and there is a limit to the degree to which people can endure oppression, and no ruler should challenge this limit.

Otherwise, it won't be long before someone Guo will start to suppress the peasant uprising.

Because I know, since the operation of the farming system, there has not been even a peasant uprising in the territory under the Guo Wei regime, and it is the same after Guo became emperor.

It will definitely not work to let go of the wartime economic policy in one go.

Various supporting policies also take time to adjust. You can't suddenly step on the brakes on the war locomotive, but slow down slowly.

Moreover, the gradual release can also win the hearts of the people continuously for a long time, which will help the rule of the Wei regime to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

So since the first year of Yande, the village residents have gradually paid a lot less taxes with the help of Guo's policy support.

Guo's propaganda slogan has also changed.

From working hard to fill the stomach to eat more and earn more, farmers began to call on farmers to work hard for their own better life. The more they harvest, the more they earn, because the imperial court's taxes are being reduced.

In order to activate the production enthusiasm of farmers.

So from the first year of Yande, although various small-scale natural disasters have not stopped, after the implementation of the policy of reducing the tax rate, the tax collected by the government has not decreased, but has continued to increase slightly.

The reason is that the propaganda outlets have stepped up their efforts to make farmers realize that they are no longer farming the fields for a meal.

His Majesty the Emperor took pity on their difficult life, changed the policy, and began to reduce the proportion of handover.

In the future, the harder you farm, the more you will reap, while the imperial court will take away less and less. In this way, you will get more and more in your hands.

So the harder you work and work harder, the more you will be able to eat enough and eat enough to support you.

Think about eating to support your stomach and work hard!

After the court shouted such slogans, the peasants were mobilized.

This policy has greatly increased farmers' enthusiasm for production. Although the tax rate has been decreasing, the Wei Empire's agricultural tax revenue has been increasing.

Peasants have played their own subjective initiative, and the small-scale peasant economy has begun to glow with new vitality.

Therefore, the more industrious and willing people are, the more harvest they will get, and the better their lives will be. Not only can they eat enough, but they can also eat enough to fill their stomachs and have surplus.

The surplus gradually accumulates and becomes a considerable fortune.

As time goes by, this wealth will gradually accumulate, and it will become more and more, which will give farmers the confidence to carry out daily consumption.

According to the investigation of Linziying, this is indeed the case.

Then, someone Guo promulgated an economic policy to support small businesses and hawkers.

Later, he ordered the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Civil Affairs to send people to the countryside to preach the main points of this policy.

For example, the government will support the surplus labor of peasant households to start a small business, open a small shop, manage the business of the neighbors, or go to sell food along the main road.