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"Fifty five?"

Lao Fu's heart skipped a beat.

After he took office as the chief minister of military aircraft, he didn't patronize punching, but really wanted to do things for the Qing Dynasty.

The biggest problem facing the Qing Dynasty today is not the bandits in Huguang, nor the Tiandihui in Taiwan, nor the division within the Eight Banners, but the huge financial deficit.

Lao Fu firmly believes that there is nothing in the world that money cannot solve.

With money, there will be soldiers and food, an army capable of fighting, and a stable rule.

Without money, you are nothing.

The reason why he participated in the counterattack against Qianlong back then was not only to avenge Nala, but also to bring Qianlong down. Otherwise, if he was allowed to squander, the Qing Dynasty would be defeated by this prodigal emperor sooner or later.

Now that the prodigal son is under his control, it is natural to reorganize the finances.

The issue of treasury taxation has been studied by Lao Fu and Minister of the Ministry of Households Yonggui.

At present, the tax revenue of the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the provincial land tax, salt tax, and official donations, the largest income comes from the supervision of the Guangdong Customs in Guangdong.

That is, the Nanyang one-stop trade in the mouth of the six virtuous brothers.

The land tax and salt tax are fixed, and although the official donations are not fixed, the income is at most one million taels per year. The combined annual fiscal revenue of these two items is about 30 million taels.

However, the Guangdong Thirteen Bank, which is in charge of trade with overseas countries alone, paid more than 6 million taels of tax to the imperial court last year.

This sum of money, coupled with the inspection of the Lu family of the salt merchant in Yangzhou, was able to support the use of troops in Sichuan and Huguang.

Therefore, in theory, if Tianjin also opens up to trade, it can bring at least 5 million taels of tax money to the court every year.

Even if it is divided in half, there are two hundred and five hundred thousand taels.

Open up a little here, squeeze a little there, and the financial deficit can always be smoothed out little by little.

Thinking of this, Lao Fu began to calculate the feasibility of Beiyang trade, and even wanted to take this trade power from Zhili to the central government.

Fifty-fifty is not enough, at least thirty-seven is enough.

Jia Liu is not worried that the old rich will not let go of his approval. As the old saying goes, we must oppose what the enemy supports, and we must support what the enemy opposes.

It was Qianlong who abolished multi-port trade. Now that the old rich is in power, can he still follow Qianlong's old path?

If you really continue to copy Qianlong's policy, aren't the two brothers doing it for nothing?

Moreover, Jia Liu wanted more, and he had to order a little Lao Fu for one thing.

"Nanyang trade is really a huge profit, not less than 50 million a year, but the tax money received by the imperial court is only a small part, and the big part is in the hands of the thirteen lines."

Jia Liu did not make a false report on this point. This is the fact that the Qing court's business in Guangdong has created a large number of richest men in the world.

In fact, before the Opium War, the Qing court made a net profit in trade with Western countries. Every year, most of the silver earned by Europeans overseas went to China.

The problem is that the Qing court only got [-] to [-]% from it, which is really a small profit.

Where is Italy?
It is in the hands of those merchants.

"Thirteen lines?"

Old Fu thought of something, opened the drawer, and found a copy of the investigation report on the Guangdong Thirteen Bank a few months ago by the sticky pole.

The report mainly talks about the trading methods between Thirteen Bank and foreign merchants.

It is very simple, that is, the Thirteen Banks organized personnel to purchase tea, vegetables, pottery, silk, silverware and other Chinese specialties from the mainland, and signed a comprador agreement with Herd, the representative of the Dutch East India Company, to designate Dutch merchant ships to sell the goods from the Qing Dynasty to Europe .

At the end of the report, it was mentioned that there was a family of Tong Wenxing whose income in the 32 years of Qianlong was as high as 1200 million taels, which was almost the sum of the annual taxes and silver paid to the imperial court by the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi. It was comparable to a wealthy country.

"This is not commerce, this is monopoly."

After Jia Liu took the thirteen-line investigation report from Lao Fu and read it, he said a new word called "monopoly" to Lao Fu.

Because he discovered that the thirteen groups in this meeting turned out to be doing exclusive business with the Dutch East India Company. The British, Portuguese, and Spaniards were all second-tier dealers of the Dutch East India Company.

This is obviously not conducive to competition and does not conform to the principles of market economy.

"Since Nanyang Trading is doing business with the Dutch, then our Beiyang Trading is doing business with other foreign merchants,"

Jia Liu formally introduced foreign powers, and told Lao Fu that as long as he got the approval document, he would organize people to go to Guangdong to attract foreign investment and develop together.

"There are thirteen lines in Nanyang, we don't need so many lines in Beiyang, it is state-run by the Commercial Yamen"

The big cake thrown by Jia Liu is quite attractive. The annual income of a Tongwen company in Guangdong is 2 million taels. How much is the annual income of the thirteen lines?
Now Beiyang is also open to trade, and the trade monopoly power has been nationalized from the private sector. As long as the hardware facilities can keep up, you old and rich think about how much money you can make in a year.

Lao Fu made a final decision: "The Minister of Commerce, Customs Supervision, and Customs Supervision must be appointed by the imperial court."

"In your dreams."

Jia Liu flatly refused. He thought up the idea for a long time, he developed the port, he introduced foreign businessmen, and he organized the purchase of goods. In the end, the general ledger accountant and cashier are all rich people, so I will play. A hanging.

"My brother's behavior makes it hard for me to feel at ease."

"Without me, brother would he be where he is today?"

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Do some bargaining.

The right to appoint ministers of trade and commerce was transferred to the central government by Laofu, but the governor of Zhili was allowed to expand the navy in Tianjin in the name of protecting merchants.

Customs supervision was won by Jia Liu, but half of Tianjin Customs' accounting staff had to be dispatched by the Ministry of Accounts.

Jia Liu, the customs supervisor, gave up to Lao Fu on the condition that Lao Fu must support him in carrying out the New Deal in Zhili.

What New Deal?
That is to vigorously develop industry.

Old Fu doesn’t understand what industry is at all. He only knows that Jia Liu wants the coal and iron franchise. This area itself has a complicated system. Let him do the integration.

The third thing is that Jia Liu wants the full power to appoint Zhili officials.

It is "Jia Xuan".

Fan Jialiu recommended to serve as an official in Zhili, and the old rich could not make things difficult for any reason.

"Only for civil servants below the fourth grade, and military personnel below the third grade."

The old rich agreed, but he built a ceiling for Jia Xuanguan.

Jia Liu couldn't help saying bitterly to Lao Fu: "Brother is really an ungrateful white-eyed wolf."

"Is it?"

Old Fu didn't take it seriously, "I also learned from you as a brother."

The words are no longer speculative.

Jia Liu was too lazy to talk to Lao Fu any more. Although there were some flaws, it was generally in his interest. In this case, pack up your things and go to Baoding.

After hitting the old rich man's house, he immediately called Shuan Zhu: "Go and tell the master to move to Baoding tomorrow."

"move place?"

Shuan Zhu was taken aback for a moment, not understanding what it meant.

Jia Liu frowned: "Your young master, I have been promoted again, and I will go to Baoding to be the governor."

"Wow"

Shuan Zhu was stunned, "Young master is really promising, no wonder the master said that when you were born, there were crows all over the yard, and toads crawled all over the yard."