I want to be emperor

Chapter 516

On October [-]th, the sixth year of Chengshun, Luo Zhixue formally approved the plan to build the Songjiang Industrial Base. As soon as the plan got out, it quickly aroused great controversy in the industrial and commercial circles of the empire, especially in the Pan-Jiangnan area. focus on.

Ordinary people don't have any direct feelings about the construction plan of this industrial base. At most, after the people of Songjiang Prefecture and the surrounding prefectures hear the news, some people will realize that the Songjiang Prefecture Industrial Base will merge with Dangtu The industrial base also recruits a large number of workers.

Many people thought that they might be able to find a job in that Songjiang industrial base and then support their families.

However, limited by information dissemination and traffic problems, people who have this kind of thinking are only limited to Songjiang Prefecture and a few nearby counties. Even if people in other places hear the news, they will at most take it as an anecdote Just listen.

But for the industrial and commercial circles of the Great Chu Empire, especially for the gentry and big businessmen who have a lot of capital among the people, this is something that shocks them enough.

What shocked them was not the industrial base itself. In fact, in the Great Chu Empire, more than a dozen industrial bases led by the Ministry of Industry had been established one after another.

For example, the earliest Xiangyang industrial base.

Then it is to support the two major industrial bases of the national defense industry of the Great Chu Empire, namely Daye Industrial Base and Dangtu Industrial Base.

In addition to these two industrial bases, there are many medium-sized industrial bases, such as Changsha Industrial Base, Guangzhou Industrial Base, Tianjin Industrial Base, Chang'an Industrial Base, and Chengdu Industrial Base.

Finally, the Ministry of Industry has also established industrial bases in several other large-scale or geographically superior places with relatively superior resources.

So people are not unfamiliar with these industrial bases.

But it is worth noting that these industrial bases are dominated by the government, to be precise, the Ministry of Industry. The purpose of these industrial zones is not to develop any ordinary industry and commerce. Their purpose is simple and pure, which is to build the defense industry.

The core of every industrial base is an arsenal!

Various supporting facilities are carried out around the arsenal, and various factories such as steel factories and machinery factories are established.

Without exception, these industries are all factories under the Ministry of Industry.

Of course, with the establishment of these industrial areas, a large number of factories affiliated to the Ministry of Industry will be built here, bringing a lot of demand for goods and services, and private gentry businessmen will build their own various workshops or engage in other service industries.

The major industrial bases are actually the centralized start-up sites of government-run factories to reduce transportation costs and improve efficiency through centralization. Each industrial base is, to put it bluntly, a huge arsenal.

Therefore, these industrial bases have nothing to do with most gentry businessmen!

For example, in recent years, Suqin Textile Co., Ltd., which has been comparable to Hantian Textile Co., Ltd. in the cotton spinning industry, has no factories in the so-called industrial base.

It's not that I don't want to go, but I can't go. Most of the industrial bases are actually under military control, and companies outside have no way to go in and open factories...

How to put it, it is impossible for the Ministry of Industry to allow ordinary businessmen to open a textile factory near its own arsenal, and it was destroyed to do so.

However, the Songjiang industrial base approved by the Great Chu Empire this time is different. It is an industrial base that allows private capital to invest in and build factories.

If this is the case, it will not cause a sensation. There are already a large number of private factories in many places to reduce various costs. For example, Hankou in Hantianfu has gathered a large number of enterprises represented by the textile industry Factories include the government-run Hantian Textile Company and many private textile factories.

However, although many factories have gathered in these places, and the local government will also plan according to the model of an industrial zone, it is just planning. These so-called industrial zones have no administrative level.

Unlike those industrial bases, they are all a separate administrative area, such as Dangtu Industrial Base, this place is not under the jurisdiction of Dangtu County, but directly under the jurisdiction of Yingtian Prefecture, and the level is very high, the base is the highest responsible Supervised by human beings, fourth grade, much higher than the Dangtu county magistrate next door...

The same is true for the other dozen or so industrial bases, which belong to serious administrative regions, and the administrative level is generally relatively high.

The same is true for the Songjiang Industrial Base. After the planning of this industrial base, it is directly under the jurisdiction of the Songjiang Prefecture. in Shanghai County.

This industrial base will be the first official official industrial base of the Great Chu Empire, and private capital will be allowed to invest in and build factories.

In the end, the most common concern in industry and commerce, and the reason why many gentry and businessmen wondered whether to open a factory is that the factory in the Songjiang Industrial Base can enjoy certain tax incentives.

It's not that the local governments set up those so-called industrial zones that are not justified, and give a small amount of tax subsidies or discounts for local fiscal expenditures.

In the financial system of the Great Chu Empire, fiscal revenue was divided into two categories, one part was directly classified into the national treasury, and the other part was divided into various levels of local finance.

If your local government wants to support industry and commerce with tax relief, you can only make tax relief in your own part, but don’t at least take money directly from the state treasury or higher-level finance for tax relief.

Furthermore, the officials in the empire today don’t have the awareness to reduce or exempt taxes to stimulate the development of industry and commerce...the only tax reductions and exemptions are generally only for agriculture. For example, a certain place is hit by a natural disaster. Then the local government will often write a report requesting agricultural tax relief.

This year alone, the Great Chu Empire has fully exempted more than a dozen counties that have suffered severe drought or floods from agricultural taxes.

Don't count on commercial tax relief, however.

With the Chinese traditional thinking of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, as well as the official standard, as well as the ethos of raising pigs and killing pigs, those officials did not kill the chicken directly to eat, but kept the eggs for laying and they were very restrained...

Furthermore, some voices in the Great Chu Empire said that the downfall of the Ming Dynasty was not due to natural disasters or foreigners, but to the corruption of finances.

Unable to collect taxes from rich people such as gentry and big households, it can only be the poor who don't even have a copper coin in their pockets, which intensifies the squeeze.

The success of the Great Chu Empire is precisely because of the lessons learned from the Ming Dynasty, and then adopted a policy of collecting taxes on the middle and upper classes, and adopting a policy of generally low taxes or even tax exemptions for the bottom classes.

The abolition of Dingyin and other messy taxes and corvees, and the transfer of all the burdens that farmers should pay to the unified agricultural tax are a huge manifestation of this policy.

Then in this way, the burden of a large number of low-level people is much lighter. Not to mention the enthusiastic support for the Great Chu Empire, the agricultural taxation of the Great Chu Empire is even more...

As for industry and commerce, specifically, business taxation, etc., in the eyes of the top leaders of the Great Chu Empire, that is an important channel for collecting taxes from the big gentry.

Don't talk about reducing or exempting industrial and commercial taxes, the high-level of the empire can't wait to increase taxes...

Otherwise, how did the financial income of 7000 million taels a year come from... You wouldn't really think that it was all collected from the bitter hahas...

Therefore, in the current political and social environment of the Great Chu Empire, there is actually no such thing as tax exemption for industry and commerce. Only a very small number of local governments will grant tax relief to some special enterprises for specific benefits.

But officials also cherish their feathers. In order to avoid being labeled as a collusion between government and businessmen, profit transfer and the like, and then sent to prison, this tax preference is only limited to government-run enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of Industry.

They are all government-run enterprises, so it is a matter of turning left hand to right hand, and naturally there is no corruption or bribery.

At the same time, these tax incentives for government-run enterprises are often limited to the part of the tax that the local finance itself has the authority to reduce or exempt, and it is often done through tax rebates.

Because it is the Taxation Department that collects taxes, they don’t care what tax policies your local officials have promised those companies, as much as they should collect...

After the tax comes up and is allocated to local finance, local officials can use the money to subsidize tax refunds, pay officials' salaries, or use it for other public utilities, but the tax department doesn't care about you.

The tax policy of the Great Chu Empire is very strict, and for the industrial and commercial industry, the tax is actually not low. In order to collect industrial and commercial taxes, the tax department has created a lot of messy taxes.

Stamp duty, business tax, value-added tax, road construction fee, education support fee...

Even the gentry business could not continue, and they were forced to sell their own property in the end, and all the money they got had to pay taxes...

In order to collect commercial taxes and avoid tax evasion and tax evasion by those big businessmen, the tax officials in the tax department are watching them all day long...

In such a situation, it is too difficult for you to ask the government of the Great Chu Empire to reduce or exempt industrial and commercial taxes for private capital!

At least before, it was impossible.

However, now, the Great Chu Empire has officially announced that as long as factories that comply with the policy are opened in the Songjiang Industrial Base, they will enjoy tax incentives, and the full tax incentives, that is, the central finance, the Jiangnan Provincial Finance, and the Songjiang Government Finance , the full reduction and exemption of the four levels of finance in the Songjiang Industrial Base.

It is the first time in the Great Chu Empire that the full amount of tax incentives has been truly realized. In the past, even government-run enterprises, even core enterprises such as Dangtu Arsenal and Hantian Armory, did not enjoy this kind of tax incentives. policy.

Tax officials, no matter whether you are a government-run enterprise or a private enterprise, the tax you should collect cannot be less!
I don’t know if your factory is running well, whether it’s under a lot of pressure, or whether it’s closed down or not, but the tax officials will definitely lose their jobs if they fail to collect taxes.

Two years of tax exemption, three and a half years of tax, regardless of government or private can enjoy!

This is the preferential tax policy of the Songjiang Industrial Base that Luo Zhixue personally decided!
However, this policy is only limited to high-tech fields. You cannot just set up a workshop with little technical content and apply for this kind of preferential tax policy.

Must be a skilled industry!

As soon as the news came out, not only the private gentry businessmen were greatly shocked, and then wondered whether to invest in the Songjiang Industrial Base, but even the government-run enterprises under the Ministry of Industry, especially those engaged in civilian products, were also shocked. Thinking of going to Songjiang to open a factory to reduce tax costs.

But the first ones to eat crabs were not those government-run enterprises, but the leader among private enterprises: Su Qin Textile Company!
After the Qin family in Suzhou heard the news, they sent people to Jinling City to inquire about related news and policies, and sent people to Songjiang Mansion directly.

Then, in the Songjiang industrial base, which was still barren and the land acquisition had not yet been completed, I found the supervisor of the Songjiang base who had just taken office a few days ago!

After listening to the intentions of the people from the Qin family, Meng Rumen, the supervisor of Songjiang Industrial Base, squeezed a smile on his chubby face: "This is a good thing. If Su Qin Company can come to our base to set up a factory, it will definitely It’s a good thing, don’t worry, as long as you come here, you will be granted preferential land for setting up factories, tax relief will also help you, and now the machine-made cloth industry is also within the scope of supporting industries.”

"However, the equipment in your factory will have to be improved by then. If the production efficiency is too low, it will not pass the audit."

At this time, the young owner of the Qin family squinted his eyes and said: "Don't worry about this, we Su Qin and Hantian Machinery Company have a good cooperative relationship, and we can use their latest research and development of various mechanical equipment at the first time, whether it is cotton or not. Whether it is the spinning machine or the loom."

Su Qin Textile Company moved very quickly. Before those government-run companies started to act, they had already taken the initiative to find them, and quickly cut through the mess, promised an investment amount of up to 10 taels of silver, and obtained a piece of land with an extremely good geographical location. The land is used for building factories.

And Suqin Textile Company is not the other core enterprises of the Ministry of Industry, such as those arsenals and machinery factories, but Hantian Textile Company, which belongs to the stepmother in the Ministry of Industry and basically ignores it...

The textile industry is in the planning of the Ministry of Industry. Although this industry seems important, it is not that important. Therefore, official capital basically maintains a small amount of investment in this industry to encourage and support the entry of private capital.

After all, official capital power is also limited, and it has to meet the limited investment in core industries such as steel, machinery, chemical industry, military industry, and some industries directly related to people's livelihood.

As for other industries, basically there is not much investment. This has nothing to do with making money or not. It is mainly a matter of political positioning.

The Ministry of Industry runs factories not for making money, but for national defense and people's livelihood!
When you understand this point, you can understand why the Ministry of Industry has to spend a lot of money on steel and machinery industries...but they are unwilling to invest money in expanding industries that are easy to make money.

For example, in the textile industry represented by cotton spinning, wool spinning and silk spinning, with the emergence of new looms, spinning machines and even hydraulic machinery, as long as the factories are opened and a market is found, it is easy to make money. .

But the Ministry of Industry and not doing...

Even Hantian Textile Company, the positioning of this thing in the Ministry of Industry is not to make money from ordinary civilian textiles, but to supply various military textiles to the army, such as tents, military uniforms, quilts, blankets, and large-caliber artillery. The silk used in the propellant pouch...

The propellant packages used by the large-caliber naval guns of the Chu Army are basically wrapped in raw silk, mainly because there are few residues, which improves the performance of the artillery and avoids the risk of subsequent bombing.

Other materials can also be used as propellant packs, such as paper directly, but the performance of these materials is not as good as raw silk.

As for the high price of raw silk, compared with large-caliber shells and propellants, the cost of raw silk is nothing.

Navy, everything is expensive...

The cost of a battleship is 10,000+, and the artillery used are all expensive long-barreled cannons, and even raw silk is used to launch the powder.

Unlike the army, the propellant used for field artillery can just get some paper to wrap it!

Therefore, after the era of artillery, raw silk is also an extremely important strategic material, especially in the era of iron-clad cannons, the performance of artillery has to be discounted if there is no propellant wrapped in raw silk...

Even if it is a large-caliber artillery in the 21st century, if it uses separate propellant packs, it still uses raw silk...

In Hantian Textile Company, there is a silk factory specializing in the production of raw silk for military use.

It's just that Hantian Textile Company likes to engage in sideline business. At the very beginning, almost all the business in this textile company revolved around military supplies.

But since they discovered that it was very profitable to sell the cloth directly to the people, they plunged into the civilian textile business.

In the end, it became the largest textile company in the empire, until the sudden emergence of Su Qin Textile Company, they became the biggest competitors of each other.

As a competitor, it is natural to always pay attention to each other's every move!
Suqin Company went to Songjiang Industrial Base to build a factory, and just after finalizing the agreement to invest and build a factory, Hantian Textile Company followed suit.

As a result, just a few days after the listing, the land has not even been acquired, and there is nothing for various infrastructure constructions, and there are only a few sporadic people in the supervisory office of the industrial base.

The two largest textile companies in the Great Chu Empire have already smelled blood and killed them!
And they are not the only two textile companies in the Great Chu Empire. Ever since the Hantian Machinery Factory mass-produced all kinds of new textile machinery and equipment, the textile industry of the Great Chu Empire has undergone a major reshuffle and innovation.

A group of traditional workshops that cannot keep up with the times have declined, but a group of workshop owners who actively embrace new technologies have adopted various new equipment in a timely manner, which has greatly improved production efficiency. Governing law, registration as various textile companies.

And they also saw the preferential tax policy of Songjiang Industrial Base and the huge cost advantage behind it!
(End of this chapter)