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Chapter 62 The Queen Mother is immortal (62)

Sang Hongyang's last words played into the hands of Emperor Jianyuan. It is good to hurt his body. Only by hurting his body can his imperial grandmother reunite with his grandfather as soon as possible. His father's imperial mausoleum has been sealed, and his imperial grandfather's imperial mausoleum has been sealed. However, it has not been sealed because the imperial grandmother is still alive.

He left his imperial grandfather alone for decades.

And Bai Sheng's skills, assets, talents, etc. really moved Emperor Jianyuan's heart. The most important thing was that he really felt that Sang Hongyang was right.

The funds in his imperial grandmother's hands could not last long.

If his imperial grandmother had not paid taxes like in the past, she might have been able to survive for a few more years, but now her imperial grandmother paid the maximum amount of tax, and contributed half of her income to the court every year, and the expenses were not small. According to him, It is estimated that if the money is exhausted, there will only be tens of billions of savings left.

With over 200,000 workers to support and various welfare benefits to be guaranteed, how could it possibly last too long if we could only get out but not get in?

Therefore, Emperor Jianyuan was quickly coaxed by Sang Hongyang and decided to do as he said until the Empress Dowager's Chamber of Commerce Workshop was completely brought down before changing the plan.

However, these have little impact on Bai Sheng, who has already mastered several gold and silver mines overseas.

The most she can do is devote more energy and resources to opening up the Maritime Silk Road and building overseas production bases and overseas planting bases. In order to perfect the corresponding plan and prevent Confucianism from making mistakes, Bai Sheng even sent several disciples of the Dou family branch that she trusted very much to take charge. She also asked them to change their appearance and establish a country overseas, and establish and expand the country as old people of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.

Try to occupy as many places as possible that are easy to reach and have not yet been captured by the Daqian Empire.

At present, there is no shortage of technical funds and the like.

The only thing missing is population.

The aboriginal tribes in those places are not only small in number, but also of poor overall quality. They are no better than the savages. Taming and civilizing them does not happen overnight. It is even more difficult to introduce people from Daqian. After all, the places Bai Sheng found are even more remote than the place of exile in Daqian. Nowadays, there are no major natural or man-made disasters in Daqian. Who will starve to death if they can’t eat? Such a big risk, dragging your family and your family away from home!
  If it weren't for Bai Sheng being really good to his subordinates.

The words spoken and the promises made have basically been fulfilled. Many people are very grateful to him. It is estimated that there are not even enough people to be pioneers and explore overseas.

Later, even though they purchased slaves and disguised themselves as pirates to plunder South Vietnam and other countries, and gathered many more people, they were still far away from fully developing those overseas lands.

In addition, mining today also requires a large number of manpower.

Therefore, the shortage of personnel is the biggest problem for overseas development.

But Bai Sheng really had no idea about this, because the slaves and population of Daqian were also limited, and the local governments were very strict. It was almost impossible to get people there through formal channels. If she used informal channels, she could not specialize Human trafficking, so we can only let them think of their own solutions, and she can at most provide more supplies.

By the way, some technical and weapon support will be provided.

The implication is actually very clear, it is to encourage them to expand wildly. If there is no one, go to other countries to grab some people, pretend to be pirates first, and then destroy the country when they are strong enough. As long as those captured can give them relatively good treatment. , and at the same time guaranteed three meals a day, etc., and tried to drive them away, but they refused to leave.

Fortunately, at this time, Daqian basically had no concept of maritime trade, and Emperor Jianyuan's main focus was on the Western Regions, so Bai Sheng secretly transported some supplies and technology to support overseas bases, and also transported some specialties such as dried fish and shrimps. When he came back, he didn't attract anyone's attention.

Even if Emperor Jianyuan found out later, he just thought that his imperial grandmother couldn't survive and was opening up new profit channels, because Bai Sheng was selling those seafood products in a big way.

With this layer of cover, Bai Sheng no longer has to secretly transport supplies to the Dou family members overseas in small ships like before. Instead, he can directly transport supplies in large quantities and then dry them in the sun. The seafood, gold and silver were brought back.

Of course, Bai Sheng, the fishermen in the coastal area, did not let go either. He sent people to sign a contract with them, asking them to fish more, catch shrimps, replenish kelp, abalone and the like, dry them and sell them to her. After all, she could only transport them back. The amount of seafood was large enough to cover up the large amount of various materials she also transported there.

Originally, Bai Sheng just wanted to use this as a cover so that she could support the development of overseas bases and secretly transport back the gold and silver mined from overseas mines. The results will be taken into account at the end of the year and the taxes will be paid.

The seafood business actually made 170,000,000 yuan.

It can barely be considered an unexpected surprise.

As for Bai Sheng making money, Emperor Jianyuan was a little unhappy, and the Confucianists also felt that they could not continue like this, so they quickly played it again. There was a lot of messy foreshadowing, but in the end, the core meaning was just one thing, and that was hope. Bai Sheng's latest profit channel was also nationalized, and the imperial court set up a special agency to collect dry marine products from fishermen, and then went to various places to sell them. It was really shameless and unexpected.

There is no doubt that Bai Sheng can't bear it anymore. If she continues to bear it like this, she will almost become a Ninja Turtle.

So next, she immediately made the decision to leave and no longer continue in this industry. Anyway, after more than a year of crazy transportation of supplies, the overseas base was basically stable, and she had even destroyed several small countries.

New plans can be started.

What followed was of course counterattack and retaliation. The problems that arose during the Yantie official camp's defeat to the draw were all impeached by Baisheng's people one by one, and they were also fully exposed using newspapers. It can be said that the public resentment boiled for a while.

On the surface, these operations may appear to increase fiscal revenue, but in fact, there are many problems.

For example, Yantie Official Camp.

After the official operation, an actual monopoly was formed without any competition mechanism or competitors. In just over a year, in less than two years, the quality of newly produced salt dropped sharply, the price rose, and it was also mixed with soil and even stones. Corruption is rampant in all areas, and private illicit affairs among the people have never been cut off.

Iron is actually a property, and the quality of all kinds of newly produced iron tools has seriously declined. Many farm tools even have gaps after less than a month of use.

The quality of the swords isn't much better either.

There are even more problems with the average loss. In name, the average loss is to transport cheap products from a certain place to a place with a higher price and sell them. It seems that no one loses, and the court can still make enough profits from the price difference, but the actual transportation process Corvenes will be levied, which means that the biggest loss in the process, transportation costs, will all be borne by the people.

What the court earned was not so much the profit difference.

It is better to say that it is the transportation fee for the common people's labor.

There are even more problems with leveling. In name, it is purchased when the price of something is lower than the normal price and sold when the price is higher than the normal price. It is used to stabilize prices and restrict those wealthy businessmen from manipulating the market and hoarding.

But in the actual operation process, the court was just hoarding goods on behalf of wealthy merchants, collecting them at low prices and selling them at high prices for speculation.

The wealthy businessmen were not really restrained.

Corrupt officials can take advantage of the opportunity to line their own pockets.

In the end, those who really suffer are the ordinary people who can only sell products at low prices and buy them at high prices.

Bai Sheng has always insisted on investigating and recording these situational issues. At this time, they were just exposed together.

(End of this chapter)