I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 383, The Awakening of Capital
After the new glass is manufactured, the rate of defective products is extremely high, but Xu Wei has no good way to do this. He can only increase his experience by doing more. Fortunately, the broken glass can be remade, and there is not much waste. many!

Xu Wei can only let these new glass workers make some simple glass products, such as glass beads, glass cups, and flat glass!

And complex and precise glass items such as telescopes, primitive microscopes, prisms, test tubes, glass bottles, etc., I am afraid that it will take several years of experience to appear!

In order to take care of the business of the glass factory, Xu Wei himself became the first big customer of the glass factory. He ordered a batch of flat glass to go to Jixian County. It is now November and winter is coming. He plans to build a glass factory in Jixian County. Greenhouse, so that everyone can eat vegetables in winter!Of course, in order not to affect Zhang Baiqi's business, Xu Wei plans to build a glass greenhouse after Zhang Baiqi sells the glass beads!

November of the fourth year of Chuping in the Han Dynasty (AD 193)
The autumn harvest of the entire Dagan has been completely over, and the temperature in the northernmost desert and Liaodong has plummeted to the point where it has frozen!

However, the results of the autumn harvest were not so good. Although Bingzhou, the main grain producing area of ​​Dagan, has a large number of water canals, it still reduced its grain production by 5%. [-]%.It's a pity that Youzhou's population is less than [-]% of Bingzhou's, and the increase in production is far less than the gap.

On the contrary, although Jizhou has the worst drought, it can provide Dagan with 3000 million shi of grain in addition to ensuring that the people of Jizhou are fed.Therefore, the situation of the large grain shortage has been improved.

Dagan's annual National Representative Assembly was held again.Xiang Kai and other councilors also came to Ji County for a meeting again.

As the prime minister of Daqian, Niu Gui reported to all the congressmen the achievements of Daqian in agriculture, industry, commerce, education and other aspects this year.Great financial revenue and financial expenditure.At the same time, this time is more formal than last time. Each councilor has a copy of Niu Gui's report in front of him, so that he can understand the current situation of Daqian more clearly!

Unlike the last time when they were ignorant, the councilors immediately became the envy of everyone when they returned to their hometown. Even the county magistrate and sheriff treated them with courtesy, and the social status of the councilors was greatly improved.In addition to being greatly satisfied, these congressmen also have a sense of ownership.I also have the idea of ​​wanting to fight for some benefits for my hometown!

Especially for a famous person like Xiang Kai, he sees the importance of the parliament to Daqian even more. Now that his official career has been cut off, he has already regarded the parliament as the battlefield for his future struggle!

After listening to Niu Gui's report, Xiang Kai immediately said: "Prime Minister Niu, this year we have collected more than 120 billion in taxes from the textile industry alone, and the textile industry has become the largest industry I have worked on, but you After collecting so much tax, they don’t care about the difficulties of the textile industry. From what I know, there are [-] textile factories in Guangmai this year. This is a large textile factory with more than [-] employees and a family-style workshop. Textile factories, it is even more difficult to count, the surviving textile factories are also struggling, if there is no one to save them, I am afraid that there will be more textile factories going bankrupt!"

However, Xiangkai's words immediately aroused the approval of Yanmen County Councilors: "Master Xiangkai is right, the business of the textile factory is very difficult this year! Everyone's life in Mayi has become difficult! I don't know why, we The woven woolen cloth cannot be sold at all!"

Niu Guidao: "If there are too many textile factories, naturally they will not make money. According to what I know, there are more than one million people in Bingzhou related to the textile industry. With so many people weaving woolen cloth, the quantity of cloth has already exceeded the market. In addition to the drought this year, the general income of the people has dropped, and woolen cloth is naturally difficult to sell!"

"My opinion is that those textile mills that are struggling to survive will switch to other industries. Now we are short of food. Fishing from the sea can not only make more money, but also can supplement our shortage of food. This year, because of Youzhou, The fishing industry in Jizhou has greatly supplemented our lack of food in Dagan, if you also form a fishing fleet, no matter how much sea fish you catch, we will buy them all in Dagan, and you will definitely earn more than the textile industry!"

"As long as some textile factories withdraw from the textile industry, the demand for woolen cloth will be balanced, and business will be better by this time next year!"

Niu Gui also understands this situation, but there is no way to solve it. The textile industry makes money and a lot of money flows into the textile industry. These people push up the purchase price of wool and lower the price of wool cloth, making wool cloth The growth rate is doubled every year. There is not much wool, but the market has decreased due to war and drought. Naturally, this situation has appeared today. In Niu Gui's view, as long as the three-story textile factory is closed, all the funds will be lost. Put it in the fishing industry, and the problem is solved.

But Xiang Kai said: "There are tens of thousands of female workers in these textile factories. Businessmen can reopen factories in Youzhou, but what about these female workers, so that they have no jobs! The old man's opinion is that [-]% of the taxes are too high. The tax is only one out of [-], and I don’t want to talk about learning from the big man, but it should be reduced or exempted!”

Hearing that taxes are going to be lowered, everyone is excited, and paying less is the common idea of ​​everyone!
The councilor of Taiyuan County also said: "Bingzhou is suffering from drought this year, and everyone's income is not good. Even the grain production in the fields has been reduced by more than 2%. The ruling government has reduced or exempted land taxes in Jizhou. We can't just favor one another in Bingzhou like this!"

Councilors from Shangdang County, Xihe County, Yunzhong County and other Bingzhou states wanted Niu Gui to reduce or exempt land taxes. Members from Youzhou and Jizhou did not join in. Jizhou is because they have already reduced or exempted taxes. Greed is not enough, and in Youzhou, Dagan has invested more than tens of billions of money in infrastructure this year, and this does not include the funds for the development of Liaodong. Although they collect taxes, they get more benefits. In this case Now, it is even more difficult to ask for tax cuts or exemptions.

This is also the first time Niu Gui has encountered such a situation. He thought for a long time and said, "The issue of tax reduction is of great importance. Let's go back and discuss it before explaining to everyone!"

But at this time Xiangkai said again: "It's okay not to cut taxes, but Dagan must find a way to conquer Liangzhou and open up the road to the Western Regions!"

Niu Gui asked strangely, "Why did you attack Liangzhou? What does this have to do with the plight of the textile industry?"

Xiang Kai said: "Liangzhou also has textile factories. Although we are not as big as the state, we can still sell millions of woolen cloths every year. It is their competition that makes it difficult for us to do textile business. We only need to overcome Once we conquer Xiliang, we can annex the textile factories in Liangzhou, and if we conquer Xiliang, we can sell woolen cloth to Xiliang. Liangzhou, our woolen cloth from Bingzhou can naturally occupy the market in the Western Regions!"

In fact, Xiangkai cared so much about Bingzhou's textile industry this time because Zhen An and the others asked Xiangkai to propose!
Bingzhou's textile industry reached its apex last year, and everyone's business was hard to do. It was just that Dagan captured Jizhou at that time, which gave Dagan an extra market of 400 million people, and everyone could barely survive.

But this year not only did the market not expand, but because of the drought, the entire Dagan tribe began to save money on food and clothing. Naturally, wool cloth was not easy to sell, and Zhen An’s other big market was even more severely damaged, and the market shrank sharply. The wool cloth produced is not as good as half of last year!
Under such circumstances, the textile industry not only stagnated, but even began to shrink. Big businessmen like Zhen An not only failed to make money, but lost money. They began to think of ways to save themselves. There were two ways they thought of, one was to reduce Tax!It’s hard to tell their senses about Dagan. Although Dagan doesn’t discriminate against their merchants, the tax is too heavy. Dagan takes one out of thirty, while Dagan takes three out of ten. The business tax is 10 times heavier than that of Dahan. This is their Least favorite place!

　This chapter may be a bit foul, so cut it down a bit and make it up in the afternoon!

　　
　
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