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Chapter 380 Improved Crops
In subsequent development, the Chamber of Commerce's admission of new members was no longer limited to merchants in the three states, but began to open up to merchants from all over the country.
However, although the restrictions on merchants' place of affiliation have been relaxed, the requirements for the business alliance to absorb new members have been further improved.
The Chamber of Commerce has successively introduced a series of rules and regulations. Merchants who do not comply with the regulations will be rejected by the Chamber of Commerce.
Successfully becoming a member of the Chamber of Commerce does not mean that you can sit back and relax. The Chamber of Commerce conducts random inspections of its members every year.
Once a member of the Chamber of Commerce is found to have violated the rules, such as using the Chamber of Commerce resources to monopolize the market, deliberately raising the price of goods, influencing market conditions, etc., he/she will be expelled from the Chamber of Commerce, put on the blacklist, will never be hired again, and will be jointly suppressed by other members of the Chamber of Commerce.
Despite such strict and even harsh rules and regulations, there are still many merchants flocking to the Three States Business Alliance and actively wanting to join it. The reason behind this is that the alliance has extremely rich resources and is generous in opening them to all members of the alliance.
As long as you successfully become a member of the business alliance, you can enjoy the exclusive resources of the business alliance. Whether it is personnel training, site selection, store planning, prospect forecasting or event planning, you can easily get solutions through membership application.
Not only that, in addition to the above-mentioned resources that can be shared by ordinary members, intermediate members and senior members also have higher permissions in the business alliance.
They can obtain the latest decrees issued by the court at the first time and decide whether to participate in new investment projects initiated by the Chamber of Commerce based on their own circumstances.
In this regard, there is no difference in the authority between intermediate members and senior members. The only difference is that the upper limit of the amount of funds invested in the project is different.
All of the Chamber of Commerce’s investment projects were initiated by Qian Laiye, the second-in-command. It’s a bit exaggerated to say that it’s a sure win, but at least it’s a sure win.
Even for the loss-making part of the investment, the amount of loss is within the acceptable range of the members of the Chamber of Commerce, and there is no fixed number for the profitable part. Some can earn 30% to 80% within the specified period, while others can directly seize the opportunity and increase their capital three to five times.
Such high-quality investment projects attracted many members of the Chamber of Commerce. They tried their best to improve their level of the Chamber of Commerce in order to take advantage of this favorable situation and increase the value of themselves and their industries.
As more and more merchants tasted the sweetness of the Merchant Alliance, the status of the Three States Merchant Alliance began to gradually rise. Later, the Three States Merchant Alliance became a merchant paradise that merchants from Da Chu yearned for, and everyone was proud to receive the medal of membership of the Merchant Alliance.
Of course, the glory of the Three States Business Alliance is all a matter for the future, but the current business alliance has just expanded with new members and is actually just an empty shell.
Fortunately, the experienced and resourceful Qian Lai is also in charge of the Chamber of Commerce. Even if he does not have the ability to predict the future, Lin Chuyi is not worried at all about the future development of the Chamber of Commerce.
After the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce were on track, Lin Chuyi became a hands-off boss and handed over the management of the Chamber of Commerce to Qian Laiye. As the eldest princess, she led the officials in charge of agricultural affairs and personally visited various villages in the jurisdiction to conduct on-site inspections of the local land quality so as to select the most suitable farming varieties for the local people.
After the investigation, Lin Chuyi will carefully prepare the corresponding weakened improved seeds in the species laboratory according to the local soil quality conditions, and first carry out large-scale planting and harvesting in the space land, and then distribute these improved seeds to local people.
She also issued a series of preferential policies in the name of the eldest princess, such as tax exemption for the first three years of planting new species, using tangible benefits to encourage the people to plant the new crop seeds that she distributed.
Next, Lin Chuyi promoted and popularized on a large scale various new farming tools, scientific planting methods and a variety of simple and practical fertilizer composting techniques produced by Jiangxinfang, which further improved the farming methods of the people, reduced labor costs and increased soil fertility.
Through the joint efforts of these three aspects, we finally achieved a bumper harvest of products, and used practical actions to effectively promote the agricultural development in the three-state area.
Although the people were very grateful to Her Royal Highness the Princess for her hard work in the fields to find a way out for their lives, in their eyes, Her Royal Highness the Princess knew nothing about farming and was just a layman.
Therefore, deep down, they did not really trust the assurances given to them by Her Royal Highness the Princess regarding the planting and harvest of the new species.
Because these people have been farming all their lives, they have a clear understanding and judgment criteria deep down about the different types of fields, what kind of food can be grown, and what the final yield will be.
They believe that no matter how much they try to work on the same piece of land, it is impossible to achieve the miracle of doubling the profits.
However, despite this, there is a difference in status. They are just common people, while the other party is the monarch. No matter how reluctant they are, as long as the monarch asks them to do something, they can only obey unconditionally and do it.
Moreover, Her Royal Highness the Princess also promised that if they were willing to try to grow new species, all taxes would be exempted for the first three years. Faced with such a huge temptation, they could hardly resist.
After all, they are just ordinary farmers who rely on God's blessings to survive, and the lives of their families all depend on the few acres of thin land at home.
After paying the taxes required by the imperial court, only the remaining grain from the hard-earned crops they grew each year would truly belong to them.
The taxes paid each year accounted for 30% to 40% of all grain, and they had to be of the best quality. This meant that they had to leave behind poor quality grain to sustain their own livelihoods, and their lives were extremely difficult.
Now Her Royal Highness the Princess has told them that planting new species will exempt them from taxes for three years. This is like a blessing from heaven for them! Because it means that in the next three years, everything produced from their land will belong entirely to them.
It doesn’t matter even if they don’t grow food crops. After all, the extra harvest is enough for them to sell at the market for money, and then use the proceeds to buy enough food for the whole family, so that their family can say goodbye to the miserable days of not having enough food.
Therefore, under the dual temptation of pressure and benefits, the villagers in the villages that Lin Chuyi had personally visited responded to the call, actively cooperated with the work arrangements of the instructors sent by Lin Chuyi, and sowed the new seeds distributed by the princess in their own fields.
In the days that followed, these simple villagers strictly followed the guidance of professionals and completed a series of necessary processes such as weeding, watering, fertilizing, etc. step by step.
Days passed by like flowing water, and in the blink of an eye, the harvest season arrived. In the vast fields, the ripe crops swayed gently in the breeze, and a pleasing harvest scene appeared before our eyes.
The villagers from various villages looked at the abundant harvests in their own fields, their faces filled with unconcealable joy. It was as if they were in a dream, so happy that they could not even tell the directions.
This year was the first year of trying to grow new varieties, and according to the princess's decree, no taxes were required this year. Therefore, after farmers completed a series of follow-up tasks such as harvesting and drying agricultural products in the fields, they did not need to send the harvested crops to pay taxes.
Instead, they would directly pick out the best quality parts and prepare to transport them to the town or county to sell them in exchange for money to buy food and various daily necessities needed for the family.
However, just as they were about to step out of the house, something unexpected happened - a group of merchants purchasing agricultural products came to the village.
These merchants showed great interest in the new species produced in the village and expressed their desire to purchase a large number of them. What was even more surprising was that the prices they offered were much higher than the villagers expected.
The villagers were overjoyed. They could sell this year's harvest without leaving home and didn't have to worry about not being able to sell the goods. They could even make much more money than expected. No one wanted to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.