Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 983 Selling Illegal Salt
Now, anyway, he is also a senior member of the party - a full member of the Senate.In fact, Guo Yi puts more emphasis on the latter point. The senior officials now listen to the prestige, and they will not be so rare in the future: no matter how useless the old man is, it will not be a problem to get a colonial governor in the future.In contrast, the elder is the most valuable identity.

"These two things are different." Guo Yi skipped the sad thing, "I know your plan, you are going to engage in peaceful evolution." As he spoke, he pulled the rope that tied the bell, and the carriage started immediately.

This carriage is a high-end luxury carriage specially manufactured by the vehicle factory for Guo Yi. It adopts a four-wheel structure, leaf springs for shock absorption, and the interior decoration is extremely luxurious.As soon as he showed up on the road, everyone knew that Dongzhu Guo was coming.

Hong Huangnan's keen plan to use the carriage 4S store as a cover to set up a preset logistics supply point in the enemy-occupied area was aborted due to fierce opposition from the Planning Institute and the military.However, its commercial part was picked up by Skade.

Skaide equipped Guo Yi with such a carriage to use him as a live advertisement.

The carriage quickly left the busy city and headed for the "Guo's House" on Huifu Street.

Along the way, from time to time, neatly dressed people of all colors could be seen standing respectfully by the side of the road, welcoming Dongzhu Guo's carriage to pass by.Skaide knows that these people are employees and partners of various related companies under the Zishi Group in Guangzhou Station.He feels that Guo Yi is now more and more like a Japanese chaebol.

The residence on Huifu Street has been renovated since they returned to Guangzhou. In order to fully reflect the power and wealth of "Guo Dongzhu", Zheng Shangjie renovated the residence on Huifu Street to be magnificent.Not only all kinds of building materials, plumbing hardware and hardware are ordered from Lingao, but also all kinds of high-quality building materials that can be obtained locally are piled up without hesitation.

The two sat down in the luxuriously decorated "smoking room".This is the place Guo Yi used to entertain "distinguished guests".It was very quiet around.He took out two bottles of iced kvass from the cabinet, and the two continued the conversation just now while smoking cigars.

The core topic is money and food, and it is precisely for these two that Skaide came to Guangzhou on purpose.

A Southeast Asian business group from the Ministry of Colonial Trade has left Lingao not long ago. Their mission is to explore the shipping lanes and trade conditions of Siam, Cambodia, Vietnam and other places, and check whether there are local partners by the way.Rice in Southeast Asia has always been the coveted target of the Planning Institute.

"...Guo Sir, although we have sent a business group to Southeast Asia, it is not easy to establish a food channel." Skaide said, "Since we made an agreement, the Dutch have brought us a lot of food. There is less rice in Southeast Asia, but it all depends on real money to buy..."

The trade between the senators and the Dutch was generally excellent.The Senate used Guangzhou as a window to purchase a large number of various specialties of Ming Dynasty and then resold them to the Dutch.The types of goods sold by the Dutch to the Senate are relatively limited. Apart from spices, the Senate is mainly interested in bulk commodities, namely rice, timber and industrial raw materials-these are far from being able to compensate for the exports of the Senate. Therefore, the Dutch also paid a large amount of precious metal currency.

It is precisely because of the large amount of silver paid by the Dutch that Lingao can currently pay for such a large-scale operation as the engine operation.But fiscal revenues from exports alone are always limited. Compared with the huge appetite for engine operations and industrialization, the payments that the Dutch and British paid for Chinese goods were far from enough.

In order to export to the Dutch and the British, the Ministry of Colonization and Trade had to establish a commercial network on the mainland, and running this commercial network took up a lot of money.In Leizhou alone, the working capital occupied at the peak was as high as 30 taels.Moreover, as Wentong continues to expand the sugarcane planting area in Leizhou and expand the sugar production capacity, Leizhou Sugar's occupation of funds and time is constantly increasing.This further exacerbates the funding gap.

If the Senate is currently superior to European merchants, then the Senate is completely in a state of superiority to Daming.

There is no doubt that Lingao currently exports goods to Guangdong, except for a small part of re-exports from Southeast Asia, the rest are industrial products manufactured by itself, while the goods imported from Daming are almost all industrial raw materials and agricultural products— -primary product.Judging from the types of goods traded and the profits of the two parties, the Lingao-Guangdong trade is simply a typical "post-colonial trade system", and the scissors gap is astonishingly wide.

The problem is that the industrial system and new social system that Lingao is building have too much appetite for primary products, so big that it completely devours the huge profits brought by the scissors difference.

Lingao's industrial production capacity is relatively small, and its own demand is too large.There is not enough production capacity to produce cheap consumer goods for export, and the market demand in Daming is deformed, and the overall demand is relatively small.All these restrict the further expansion of exports to Daming.In general, the revenue growth of Guangzhou Station has become weak in the follow-up.

"Do you want to expand the scale of import and export?" Guo Yi expressed concern, "It has almost reached its limit now. If we can't directly set up a factory in Guangzhou for production, I am afraid it will be difficult to have a large room for expansion."

Not setting up a local factory means that commodities and production materials still have to be transported in two directions for thousands of miles, and it is impossible to further reduce production costs.

"Of course, of course. The spread of light industrial enterprises to Guangdong must be done, but not now." Skaide nodded, "You also know that all departments are working in 24-hour shifts, so the order is like this The production tasks cannot be arranged, and it is impossible to manufacture additional machinery and equipment.”

"Then what's the point of growth?" Guo Yi asked.The smoke-free industry is highly profitable: the profit margin of Ziminglou is the highest among all the enterprises directly under the Senate, but this kind of enterprise cannot flourish everywhere-the consumer group is fixed.

"salt."

Guo Yi was a little disapproving.It is true that table salt was the main source of funds for the Senate at the beginning. At the beginning, it was through the capture of the salt field in Ma Niao that the channel for the export of bulk commodities was opened and a stable economic income was obtained.Up to now, Lingao's salt export is still a major source of income for the Finance Director's Department.

Since the salt trade was managed by the Monopoly Bureau, the salt merchants who dealt with Lingao also went directly to Lingao for transactions.Guangzhou Station only handles some sporadic business, so he knows little about the whole salt trade.

For now, the salt sold in Lingao is all private salt, and the profit is quite considerable.But suffer from the lack of sales channels.At present, except for Hainan, it is only limited to Guangdong Province for sales.Some also flow into Guangxi.Unfortunately, due to the suitable natural conditions in Hainan and Haibei, there are many sun-dried salt fields, and the competition for private salt is also fierce.

After the second anti-encirclement victory, the navy took advantage of the victory to actually control the Qiongzhou Strait, bringing the Leizhou Peninsula and other coastal areas into its sphere of influence, and in essence controlling the two major salt-producing areas in Guangdong, Hainan and Haibei.In this way, it becomes possible to control the production and sales of salt in Guangdong.

Beginning a few months ago, the Ministry of Colonization and Trade took the sale of table salt as an important breakthrough to increase exports.After some investigation, it was decided to export to Guangxi and Fujian on a large scale.These two places are salt-deficient provinces, and illegal salt trafficking is already rampant.It is easy to get high profits by entering these two markets.

"The quality of our table salt is much better than other places," said Skade. "The profit of table salt is very high. And now we have more than one salt farm."

According to the calculation of the Finance Director's Department, once the channel is opened, the existing salt field facilities can be used to guarantee an annual income of 30 taels.If we further improve each salt field, increase manpower and equipment, and develop new salt fields, it is not a dream to earn one million taels of salt last year.

The famous Tianjin Jiuda Refined Salt Factory in the history of old China used 5 silver dollars as its share capital and 5 acres of salt field as its production facilities. It adopted modern salt-making methods, with a daily output of 60 tons of refined salt and an annual profit of more than 5 million yuan. With a capital of 1 yuan, it can pay 1 to 5 dividends every year.The profits are huge.

The production level and technology of the salt factory located in Maniao are even more advanced than that of the Jiuda Refined Salt Factory in 1911.The salt and soda produced are of high quality.

The opinion of the Ministry of Colonization and Trade is to set up a salt sales center in Guangzhou and transport the salt from Hainan Island and Leizhou here for sale.The advantages of the port of Guangzhou spread to the whole of Guangdong and Fujian.

Limited by the production scale of the Maniao Salt Factory, it is impossible to refine and reprocess the sea salt produced by all the saltworks under its control, but this can also increase the distance between products.

"You know that the so-called Monopoly Bureau under the Ministry of Finance is nothing more than an empty shelf, with only one veteran in charge. The specific sales in Guangzhou are still carried out by the Guangzhou station."

Guo Yi said: "However, if it is located in Guangzhou, it may be too much to openly wholesale private salt. Besides, salt requires a large warehouse-it cannot be hidden from anyone."

"It can be set up on Hong Kong Island or a closer island. The government has neither control nor dare to control it. You only need to collect money and issue invoices here. The private salt dealers take the invoices to Hong Kong to pick up the goods - directly ship them away, we can still Agent logistics..."

"What about the government and other private salt dealers? I'm afraid they won't just leave so willingly."

Skade has a well-thought-out plan: "There is no problem with private salt dealers. They are our customers and distribution channels, not our enemies. As long as we control the salt field, we can't let them be disobedient—otherwise they will sell private salt even if the supply is cut off. If you encounter a disobedient thorn, just click it and it's over."

(End of this chapter)