Xinshun 1730

Chapter 507

"To make money is definitely to make money. I have been on the side of Wa these days, and there are some things in the court that are not clear. The question is what price does the court plan to set for the purchase fee of Ezo? How much is it a year?"

Qi Guogong and Yi Guogong have been paying attention to this matter these days, and when Liu Yu asks, they are very precious.

"Exemption for two years. One Jiazi at a time for 60 years. Starting from the third year, the money will be collected, and the first ten years will be 5000 taels per year. After ten years, it will be rated at 4 taels per year."

This price is really not very high. The huge Ezo land has a lot of land that can be developed.In addition, it is mostly volcanic ash land, with high fertility.Although the latitude is similar to that of Vladivostok, the climate is warm and the accumulated temperature is similar to that of Liaodong due to the warm current.

Liu Yu thought about it in his mind, and after ten years, the annual quota is 4 taels, which can be regarded as the income of a relatively standard big county in Dashun.

Before going to Japan to negotiate, an incident happened in the court, and Liu Yu was very impressed.

At that time, we were promoting Wendeng Prefecture’s system of land-to-mu ratio, and the local magistrate of a county named “Huolu” in Zhili was very active, and published a statistical report catering to the reform.

As a result, the flattering was slapped on the horse's hoof, and the emperor took it as a negative teaching material, and satirized it in the court meeting.

In fact, I did a good job, but the report was written too nonsense.

That report not only allowed Liu Yu to know about the agricultural tax revenue of each county, but also opened Liu Yu's eyes to know many magical units of measurement.

The report said: The county's upper, middle and lower third-class land totals 13 nine mu, two cents one cent three cents two cents and eight microns, converted into Dingkou silver into mu, and a total of 880 six taels of mu tax is levied. Five cents, eight cents, eight cents, three cents, four silks, one sudden, two microscopic, nine weaving, six sand, two dust, two dust, seven faint, two desert, nine empty, one clear, four clear, and six quiet...

Accurate to 17 decimal places!
The original intention of the county magistrate was to use this to show that he was serious about his work, not bad at all, and valued pennies and pennies, in order to seek praise from above.

But at that time, the emperor was rectifying the problem of "doing nothing but not doing it". At the court meeting, the emperor read the memorial of "repaying meritorious service" in public, and he almost cursed.

Immediately ask someone to draw up a decree, and I don't ask you to weigh the weight of "one clear, four clear and six quiet", as long as you can weigh the silk, sudden, micro, weaving, sand, etc. behind the centimeter, and make such a weight. Weights and measures, immediately rewarded him with a loose official of the sixth rank Cheng Zhilang.

If you have time to calculate the tax to 17 decimal places, can you do something practical?But after all, the actual performance was not bad, so I just reprimanded him and did not get rid of it.

Liu Yu was very impressed by this incident, so in a county of Zhili, the annual mu tax plus Ding tax is actually only about 2 taels.

The imperial court regards the taxation target of Yezo as the tax package standard of two counties in a state directly under it.

In the eyes of the court, the court has made a lot of money.Without spending a penny, the wild land can catch up with the two counties of Zhili, and the purpose of immigrating to the border in the future can also be achieved.

In Liu Yu's view, the contracted reclamation company made a lot of money.A world-class fishing ground with an area equivalent to Yunnan Province and rich in fishery resources, the annual contract fee is only 4 taels of silver...

Of course, the premise of this profit is that Dashun has a navy that can force Japan to switch and force Japan to open the grain market.

Otherwise, the court may not only fail to receive money, but also have to spend money to reward cultivation.

The same land has different values ​​in each era.

In the eyes of the French government, the huge Canada and the Great Lakes region are no more valuable than Haiti at this time.

In the eyes of the British government, the value of the thirteen states in North America cannot catch up with the small islands in the Caribbean at this time.

But now, in the eyes of the imperial court, Ezo, which has great strategic value and arable land area, is completely inferior to a county in Henan.

Ten years later, the collection of 4 taels is already enough to give Ezo face, and it also reflects the imperial court's expectation for the purchase system.

However, it seems that the development experience in Ezo is not suitable for other places.To rely on private capital, we need a huge market.Liu Yu often uses the analogy of carving a boat and seeking a sword. The method that can be used in the Western Regions cannot be used in the Western Regions.

However, after all, it was a relatively good start, and Dashun also began to try to use its own method to quickly colonize.

4 taels is really not much.

"Father, father-in-law, if it's this price, it must be profitable. I'm not telling lies, there is a lot of profit in it. But I think it's better to make this matter clear in the imperial court. The court must make it clear One thing, that is the reclamation company has to be taken as a whole, as a virtual person."

"Since everything is contracted out, all activities in Ezo are considered to be done by this imaginary person. If this imaginary person makes a mistake, the court will investigate it according to the law."

"But this virtual person is not the same as the real person who invested money."

"The shareholders inside have committed crimes and cannot be involved in the company. Especially when Xungui took the lead in buying shares, if this matter is not explained clearly, it will become a bad thing if Xungui takes the lead."

Some things don't have to be said too bluntly.In this era where there are hundreds of clans, Xungui stands tall, and once he falls, he will fall hard.

Dashun was only due to some special founding factors, after the founding of the country, there was no large-scale massacre of heroes.But after that, Xungui also fell a lot.

If there is too much involvement at that time, and Xungui who committed the crime is also a shareholder of the company, I am afraid that the imperial court will directly confiscate the company.

This is what Liu Yu has always wanted to say. Songjiang was previously chartered by the emperor, and Liu Yu used his personal reputation as a guarantee, and the business atmosphere there was stronger.

In addition, the trading company was only involved in foreign trade, but the development of Yezo involved the lifeblood of the Shun Dynasty: land.

Since the emperor wants Xungui to take the lead, or wants to throw Xungui's money to the frontier, this is an opportunity to make it clear, and it is best to introduce a law.

Even if the king's word is the law, the law is fart, and the emperor can violate it at any time.But something is better than nothing.

With the defeat of Japan, the imminent voyage to Southeast Asia, and the trade negotiations with Sweden, Dashun is about to usher in a period of rapid industrial and commercial development.

If the foundation is not solid, sustainable development is impossible. Businessmen and wealthy households still have doubts about "joint stock trading".

For the court, this should not be considered a big deal.

Qi Guogong understood the key point as soon as he heard it, and said with a smile: "This matter should be like this. In other words, if this matter is resolved, Xizi will make a lot of money, right?"

After Liu Yu nodded, he said again: "Don't worry, even those fish, shrimp, seafood, and other items have been earned back. The Japanese can fish, so can't we here? Making items and the like, just learn it. In my opinion, as long as the court can establish a rule of non-involvement in business, there will be no shortage of people who invest money, and there will be no loss of future profits."

This sentence is a reassurance, and the two old men are at ease.

They are all their own flesh and blood, and those who are capable can earn the title by themselves, and those who are lucky are destined to win the title.But those who don't have the ability to earn titles and can't claim titles are after all their own flesh and blood.Many nobles in the capital are thinking about leaving one more way, which can be regarded as spreading their branches and leaves.

In the later period, the nobles of the previous dynasty mainly focused on getting some land here and there.Dashun's side is not much worse, but the emperor is now going to rectify it, so it is not easy to commit crimes against the wind. In addition, in the past few years, the investment and trade, or the industry of glass and other companies, the rate of return is not bad.

Although it is not as good as usury, it is better than stability.Even if they don't understand the operating mechanism of business, they also know that with the increase in foreign exchanges, the money from trade may not be able to catch up with the land.

The two discussed it and decided to offer 2 taels each.In the future, most of them will be distributed to the children who cannot inherit the title. Although the poems and books are passed down far away, the Liu and Tian families have seen another possibility of passing down the family because of Liu Yu's relationship.

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More than ten days later.

Near the Catholic Church near Dongjiang Mi Lane in the capital city, the carriages of wealthy merchants and rich households who came to participate in the development of Yezo have already blocked the road.

It is not gratifying that the imperial court won against Japan. On the contrary, many people feel that they will be shocked if they cannot win. Isn’t it a matter of grasping to win Fusang?

After a few days, the enthusiasm for professing ministers dissipated, and at most it was the radical young people among scholars who wrote some Han and Tang style poems.

But the enthusiasm for developing Ezo is getting hotter day by day.

After Dashun banned religion, since there were still many missionaries working in the palace, the churches in the capital were not all closed.There is one remaining Catholic Church, which is the Xuanwumen Church built by Matteo Ricci.

Dongjiang Mi Lane was built by Li Lesi, an Italian missionary who followed Zhang Xianzhong, and it was banned.

Now it has become a bill exchange in the capital. Over the years, Songjiang's trade has developed, and rice from Suzhou and other places is also shipped by sea, which has a huge impact on the capital.

On the one hand, besides buying land or burying it in the ground, there are other places for money to go.

Second, sea rice can carry one-tenth of the duty-free goods, which severely suppressed the trade of the canal rice system.The cost of sea transportation is low and the speed is fast. The capital of Songjiang is strong, and the joint-stock group has basically defeated the southern goods sent by the canal to the capital in a few years.

The prototype of futures has appeared long ago, and now with the development of seaborne southern goods, there are similar activities in Beijing.With the tacit approval of the government and the increase in commercial activities, the imperial court simply turned the church in Dongjiangmi Lane into a clearinghouse by using waste after the ban on religion.

Today is the day to sell the Yezo development shares. The imperial court took part of it for internal consumption, and brought in the money from various companies today to show that the price tag will not be manipulated in the dark, and it will be converted into shares in the future.

In order to reassure everyone, the imperial court also specially asked "Marquis of Jinghai" to host the reception activities of the merchants. After all, he has been in the limelight in the past few years, and he is relatively more trustworthy in the court in the hearts of merchants.

Many wealthy businessmen stood on the side of the road looking forward, waiting for the carriage and guard of honor from Jinghaihou Mansion to arrive.

The businessmen are actually very contradictory at this time.

On the one hand, what the businessman hopes in his heart is that the court will "govern by doing nothing" and don't care about anything.

On the other hand, merchants need the guard of honor of court officials and the authority of the court to be sure that the transaction is approved and supported by the court.The higher the guard of honor and the greater the authority of the court, the easier it is to believe and feel that this matter is reliable.

(End of this chapter)