Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1003
Although Liu Yu really wanted to treat these merchants as human beings, the tricky tricks he used to deal with monkeys were really effective.

These merchants have always been like this.

Before doing things, I wish every official was a corrupt official, and it would be best if an official could collect money to do things.

After doing business, I wish that every official would be a blue sky, not corrupt, not taking, not deducting, not asking for bribes, not asking for rewards, not apportioning.

Dredging tracker roads, beach roads and hidden reefs from Yichang to Chongqing.

This money, as a power-for-money transaction, bought the monopoly power from the court and the court's solution to their land rent problem, they would be very happy.

If the money is collected from them after they really monopolize it, they will be complained all day long, feeling that the imperial court is asking for too much: the construction of the Three Gorges waterway is none of our business?

Official transportation, commercial sales, we produce, but transportation and sales have nothing to do with us. Co-authoring the Three Gorges shipwreck rate is high, and ordinary people don’t eat salt?

As long as we eat salt, we can sell it. Why should we pay for the construction of the Three Gorges Waterway?

If the imperial court entrusts us with the Three Gorges waterway, we will pay a road tax for a boat to pass, and we will not repair it.

Unless there is another way to go, if it is repaired or not, this waterway must be taken, so why build it?
Therefore, Liu Yu directly used three, four, four, three methods to deal with monkeys, and the Shaanxi businessman was really very happy.

It depends on whose mouth it comes from.

Even corrupt officials who ask for money are classified into different classes.

Some have clearly marked prices, and if you get the money, that's a real job.Others don't do anything after receiving money.

And Liu Yu's reputation with merchants has been laid for 20 years, and the reputation is very high.

From the looks of it, this looks like a power-for-money deal with the imperial court and the emperor.

Liu Yu is just the emperor's white gloves, collecting money for the emperor.After the emperor received the money, he took care of the affairs, guaranteed these businessmen to monopolize the salt industry in southern Sichuan, and used violent machines to solve the land rent problem by the way.

That money is well worth it.

"What the Duke said is true."

"We entered Shu from the Qin Dynasty, and we know that brocade does not produce cotton in the real estate of Shu. The cotton cloth used by the people is all produced in Jianghan. If we can repair the Three Gorges waterway, it can be regarded as a good deed for the Shu people by the people of Qin."

Liu Yu heheed, thinking, what the hell are you talking about from Qin and Shu? Then your salt is still the salt of people from Shu, and the first bucket of gold you earned by relying on the distribution of military supplies is still silver from Jiangnan.Using Sichuan salt money to build the Three Gorges waterway, the Qin people who count as a hammer do good deeds for the Shu people?

However, Liu Yu didn't bother to worry about these, and threw out a set of repair plans for the Three Gorges waterway, saying: "The governor of Kuizhou, the county magistrate of Fengjie, etc., have long ago asked for the repair of the Three Gorges waterway, and the silver consumption of various plans has been finalized."

"It's just that the imperial court is currently busy repairing the Huaihe River. There are priorities, and this matter has been put on hold."

"I figured it out. The original cost of repairing the towpath and the rapids was about 50 taels."

"But now it's not like before. The Academy of Sciences has its own explosives for blasting stones, and also has the method of buoy navigation. If these are added, another 20 taels will be added."

"The sea merchants over there in Songjiang Prefecture want the zinc ingots here, so I am going to add a 5% infrastructure tax to the zinc ingots. They are also well-behaved, and they directly set up a yearly contract and paid 10 taels in advance. .”

"I can't let you pay for the rest. Your majesty is wise, you will pay 2 taels from the house. The household government will contribute another 8 taels, and the merchants of Kuizhou Mansion will contribute 10 taels. There is still 40 taels left. You take it."

40 taels is really not much.

Even if it is the land rent paid by the imperial court, if it is really done, it will not be more than this amount.

This Shaanxi businessman is considered to be the leader of the Sichuan-Shanxi merchants. He is quite prestigious among the businessmen. If you know what else to do, please ask the Duke to make some suggestions."

Liu Yu smiled and said, "It's nothing more. It's your children, don't be in Xijing or Sichuan. Go to the capital or Songjiang Mansion to open your eyes and see the outside world."

"This is not a confrontation between Zhou and Zheng, and you are not qualified to do so. With your little capital, Jiangnan Capital will move your fingers casually, and you will be lost forever. The court doesn't need to use court methods to mess with you."

"Near the water, you get the moon first. You should understand this truth better than others."

"Salt, there is always an end. You must always learn new ways to make money, and the direction of business. Otherwise, the court will not be happy, and I am not satisfied."

For this request, Shaanxi businessmen can only say yes again and again.

Let's not talk about the reasoning here, just talk about the conditions given by the court, and they have to agree.

They really don't have the right to bargain now.

He led them around the Academy of Sciences first, both to promote technology and to intimidate them.

If they don't accept it, it seems that the court will turn around and support a Wang Ermazi and Zhao Sangouzi who are willing to agree to this condition, and it is very easy to support.

There is no shortage of capital and no shortage of technology.

As for the truth, the Shaanxi businessman has to admit that the truth Liu Yu said is indeed such a truth.

He also understood what Liu Yu said.

The fundamental reason why they were able to gain a foothold in Sichuan was that "I have no one else, but I am familiar with it, and Sichuan merchants are not yet familiar with selling salt."

The reason why they are familiar with it is because they sold salt in Lianghuai before.

They are the losers in the competition of Lianghuai Salt Industry.

Just like what the Shaanxi businessman said to Liu Yu before, some Western tricks and tricks were first popular in the southeast.After waiting for people in the southeast to be easily deceived, it is easy to deceive many people when they get the north and northwest and southwest.

This is the so-called closeness to the water.

Shaanxi merchants suffered a crushing defeat in the battle between the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River, but they couldn’t beat the Huizhou merchants in selling salt, so they couldn’t beat the Sichuan merchants?

As the second most proficient merchant gang in the world at this time, it was normal not to be able to beat the first place, and it was quite easy for those in the back row to fight.

What Liu Yu meant was to let their heirs, the sons of the family, go out and have a look, and don't just sell salt in this life.

Going deeper, if it is said that it only sells salt, it is wrong to say so.

Rather, if you have not seen other industries and opened your eyes to other industries, the salt industry will have an end.

After reaching the end, what will the money be used for?

eat?drink?Play?happy?
How much do these cost?

Those who can monopolize the salt industry can spend their energy, how much can they spend?

The large amount of profits earned will inevitably flow in three directions without knowing the rest of the industry.

buy land.

lend money.

Imperial examinations—including hard study, but also donating money to the court in exchange for fame. If a big salt merchant wants to buy it, it usually starts with 10 taels of silver.

This kind of donation depends on the right timing. For example, if there is a disaster, if you donate [-] shi of grain at this time, can the court not give you an entry ticket for the ruling class?

In a broad sense, buying land and lending money also belong to industry and commerce.

You can't throw finance and real estate outside of industry and commerce, right?

Buying land is not self-growing. How can it be regarded as a commercial activity due to standard financial attributes?

However, this is not the industry and commerce that Liu Yu wants, nor the industry and commerce that the court wants.

Therefore, under the special national conditions of Dashun, land purchase and loan lending are excluded from the concept of industry and commerce.

Therefore, what Liu Yu meant was that if he only knew about the "salt industry" which was related to industry and commerce, then he would definitely be able to revolve around salt in the future.In the end, after the salt is saturated, it will be invested in the purchase of land and lending of non-industrial and commercial concepts.

Including the Dashun court, none of them wanted to see this kind of situation.

For the Dashun court and the imperial power, the annexation brought about by the land purchase is the poison of the dynasty, and all dynasties will have some awareness of suppressing annexation.

Although the land system remains unchanged, it is useless work, but it does not mean that the emperor does not have this awareness.

It seemed that Liu Yu was also doing futile work.

It was as if Liu Yu was persuading these people, saying to go outside more, there are many women outside, so don't keep staring at the few around you.

But the reality is, if you go out and have a look, there are indeed many women outside.

But when I look back, those around me are still the most beautiful, so what's the point of going out to have a look?

As far as Dashun is concerned, using the analogy of objectifying women, how many "women" are there in industry and commerce that are more "beautiful" than "buying land, collecting rent, and lending usury"?

If not, the only solution is to kill the "most beautiful" ones.After killing, those who were not ranked before are attractive enough.

Liu Yu called it Snow White's stepmother theory: If I can't be the prettiest no matter how I dress up, then killing the prettiest one by violent means is the most effective.

History has given this kind of killing method, and the reality seen in Dashun also healed Liu Yu's last beautiful childish fantasy: it seems that there is really no other way except that kind of killing method.Success can only move the land, and only by doing so can success be achieved.

The land appeal of the European bourgeoisie is to obtain land from the nobles, so that capital can be king and buy land freely; the land reform in Dashun is to prevent the accumulated capital from eating land.totally two directions.Because even land equalization is useless. If the land system remains unchanged after land equalization, a new round of mergers will begin quickly.

Now Liu Yu asks their children to go outside instead of staying in Sichuan and Shaanxi, just hoping that if there are one or two out of their heads who don't eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, don't buy land and collect rent, they actually think about starting a business.

If you cast the net widely, there will be three or five people who are not so "normal" and have the desire to revitalize the world and establish industries to strengthen the world.

Furthermore, it is also for some large-scale industrial and commercial businesses to make money in the future, and the children of these people will play the role of threading the needle, so as to facilitate the future investment of Chuanyan Capital in some places that Liu Yu hopes to invest in.

The significance of threading the needle is still great.

They are all held back in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and 20 years later, they will all be a group of dudes.If you know how to eat, drink and enjoy, you can sit back and enjoy what you get. Anyway, you don’t have to worry about selling salt. If you know how to buy land and collect rent, you will make a steady profit without losing money, and you won’t lose the rest.

Sichuan is a good place, but it is rare to come to Sichuan. It is best for these people to go out to see and see.

The Shaanxi businessman felt that Liu Yu had become very prosperous in Songjiang Mansion in the past few years, and it would not be a bad thing if he could let his own family's children learn from him.

Just like my group, relying on the advantage of being close to the water, the losers in Lianghuai are invincible in Sichuan.It is definitely not harmful to learn, see, and get in touch with some new industries.

What's more, I heard that I am new to learning, and I also teach accounting, business and other knowledge.Taking the imperial examination on the right path, I also know the difficulty.What you learn in science is not beneficial to business, etc., and it can be regarded as learning a skill. Even if you come back to inherit the family business in the future, it will have some benefits.

Besides, it’s okay not to go.Since he chose this "shortcut", he had to bear many conditions imposed by the imperial court.How can there be things in the world that have only advantages and no disadvantages? If there are such things, how can it be my turn?
(End of this chapter)