New Shun 1730

Although Liu Yu wanted to treat these merchants as human beings, his erratic methods of dealing with monkeys were really effective.

These merchants have always been like this.

Before doing things, I wish every official was a corrupt official. It would be better if an official could collect money to do things.

After doing things, I wish that every official would be like the sky, not corrupt, not occupying, not withholding, not asking for bribes, not asking for rewards, and not paying taxes.

Dredging trackers’ roads, riverbanks and reefs from Yichang to Chongqing.

They would be very happy to use this money as a power-for-money transaction to buy the monopoly rights from the imperial court and the imperial court's solution to their land rent problem.

If we wait to collect this money from them after they really have a monopoly, they will be complained all day long, thinking that the imperial court is demanding too much: is it our fault to build the Three Gorges Waterway?

Official transportation and commercial sales are ours, but transportation and sales have nothing to do with us. Since the rate of shipwrecks in the Three Gorges is high, the common people won’t eat salt?

As long as we eat salt, we can sell it, so why should we spend money to build the Three Gorges Waterway?

If the imperial court entrusts us with the Three Gorges waterway and we charge a toll tax for every boat passing through it, then we won’t repair it.

Unless there is another way to go, you have to take this waterway whether you want to repair it or not. So why repair it?

So Liu Yu directly used three, four, and four three methods to deal with monkeys. The Shaanxi businessman was indeed very happy.

It depends on whose mouth it comes from.

Even if it is a corrupt official who wants money, there are three levels.

Some of them have clearly marked prices, and if you pay them, they are really doing something. Some even take the money and do nothing.

Liu Yu's credibility with merchants has been based on twenty years of development, and his credibility is very high.

It looks like a power-money deal with the court and the emperor.

Liu Yu was just the emperor's white glove, collecting money for the emperor. The emperor took action after collecting the money, ensuring that these merchants had a monopoly on the salt industry in southern Sichuan, and at the same time using violent machinery to solve the land rent problem.

Then the money is well spent.

"What the Duke said is true."

"We came to Shu from Qin, and we knew that Shu's brocade production did not produce cotton, and the cotton cloth used by the people was all produced in Jianghan. If we can repair the Three Gorges waterway, we in Qin can be regarded as doing some good deeds for the people of Shu."

Liu Yu chuckled and thought, what the hell are you talking about between Qin and Shu? Then your salt is still the salt of Shu people. The first pot of gold you earned by providing military supplies and logistics was still the silver from Jiangnan. Using money from Sichuan salt to build the Three Gorges Waterway, the Qin man who is not a fool is doing good deeds for the Shu people?

However, Liu Yu was too lazy to care about these, and laid out a plan for repairing the Three Gorges waterway and said: "The governor of Kuizhou, the magistrate of Fengjie County, etc. have long ago asked me to repair the Three Gorges waterway. The money consumption of various plans has been finalized."

"It's just that the imperial court is busy repairing the Huaihe River and has priorities, so this matter has been put on hold."

"I did the math and found that the original money spent on repairing the trackers' towpath and building the dangerous shoal was about five hundred thousand taels."

"But now, it's no different than before. The Academy of Sciences has its own explosives designed to blow up rocks, and it also has a method of buoying channels. Adding these together will add another 200,000 taels."

"The maritime merchants in Songjiang Prefecture want the zinc ingots here, so I plan to add a 5% infrastructure tax on the zinc ingots. They were very clever, and they directly signed up for an annual subscription and paid 100,000 taels in advance. ”

"I can't let you all give out the rest. Your Majesty is wise and will give out 20,000 taels of internal money. The household government will give another 80,000 taels, and the merchants of Kuizhou Prefecture will give 100,000 taels. There is still a big portion of 400,000 taels. Take it."

400,000 taels is really not much.

Even if it is the land rent money provided by the court, if it is really implemented, it will cost more than this amount.

This Shaanxi businessman is regarded as the leader of Shaanxi businessmen entering Sichuan. He is quite prestigious among businessmen. He calculated in his mind and felt that he had made a lot of money. He hurriedly said: "We are responsible for the majority of the money. Besides, we are being stupid and do not know how to make money." If you know what else needs to be done, please give me some advice.”

Liu Yu said with a smile: "It doesn't matter anymore. Just your children, don't be in Xijing or Sichuan. Go to the capital or Songjiang Mansion to open your eyes and see the outside world."

"This is not a cross-examination between Zhou and Zheng. You are not qualified to cross-examine. With your little capital, if Jiangnan Capital can just move its fingers, you will be in catastrophe. The court will not need to use court methods to deal with you."

"The one who is near the water first gets the moon. You should understand this truth better than others."

"Salt always has an end. You must learn new ways to make money and trade. Otherwise, the court will not be happy, and I will not be satisfied either."

Shaanxi businessmen could only say yes to this request.

Let’s not talk about the reason behind this for now, just talk about the conditions given by the court, and they have to agree.

They really have no right to bargain now.

First, he took them around the Academy of Sciences, both to promote technology and to intimidate them.

If they don't accept it, then it seems that the court will turn around and support Wang Ermazi and Zhao Sangouzi who are willing to agree to this condition, and it is very easy to support them.

There is no shortage of capital or technology.

As for the truth, Shaanxi businessmen have to admit that what Liu Yu said is indeed the truth.

He also understood what Liu Yu meant.

The fundamental reason why they were able to gain a foothold in Sichuan was that "I have no other choice but my own hands, and Sichuan merchants are not yet familiar with selling salt."

The reason why they are familiar with it is because they used to sell salt in Lianghuai River.

They are the losers in the competition of Lianghuai Salt Industry.

Just as the Shaanxi merchants said to Liu Yu before, some Western frauds and tricks are popular in the southeast first. After the people in the southeast are hard to deceive, they will be able to deceive many people in the north, northwest and southwest easily.

This is the so-called "the one who is close to the water gets the moon first".

The Shaanxi merchants were defeated in the Lianghuai business war, but they couldn't beat the Hui merchants in salt sales, so could they not beat the Sichuan merchants?

As the second most proficient merchant group in the world in salt sales at that time, it is normal that they can't beat the first one, and it is still quite easy to fight the ones behind.

And Liu Yu meant to let their heirs, the legitimate sons of the family, go out and see, and don't just sell salt in this life.

Going deeper, if you only know how to sell salt, it's not right to say so.

Rather, if you have never seen other things and don't open your eyes to other industries, the salt industry will have an end.

After reaching the end, what will the money be used for?

Eat? Drink? Play? Have fun?

How much money do these cost?

If you can monopolize the salt industry, you can spend as much as you want. How much can you spend?

The huge profits earned, without understanding other industries, will inevitably flow in three directions.

Buying land.

Lending.

Imperial examinations - including both hard study and donating money to the court in exchange for fame. If a big salt merchant wants to buy, it usually starts with 100,000 taels of silver.

This kind of donation must be timed. For example, if there is a disaster, at this time, 100,000 shi of grain can be donated. Can the court not give a ticket to the ruling class?

Broadly speaking, buying land and lending are also part of industry and commerce.

You can't throw finance and real estate out of industry and commerce, right?

Buying land is not planting it yourself. How can it not be considered a commercial activity with standard financial attributes?

However, this is not the industry and commerce that Liu Yu wants, nor is it the industry and commerce that the court wants.

Therefore, under the special national conditions of Dashun, buying land and lending are excluded from the concept of industry and commerce.

Therefore, Liu Yu meant that if you only know the "salt industry", which is related to industry and commerce, then you will definitely be stuck with salt in the future. When the salt is finally saturated, you will invest in buying land and lending, which are not industrial and commercial concepts.

Including the Dashun court, no one wants to see this situation.

For the Dashun court and the imperial power, the annexation brought about by buying land is the poison of the dynasty, and every dynasty has some awareness of suppressing annexation.

Although it is useless to keep the land system unchanged, it does not mean that the emperor does not have this awareness.

It seems that Liu Yu is also doing useless work.

It is like Liu Yu is persuading these people to go out and see more, there are many women outside, don't always stare at the few around you.

But the reality is that if you go out and see, there are indeed many women outside.

As a result, when you look back, the few around you are still the most beautiful, so what is the point of going out and seeing?

As for Dashun now, using the objectification of women as an analogy, how many "women" in industry and commerce are more "beautiful" than "buying land, collecting rent, and lending at high interest rates"?

If not, the only solution is to kill the "most beautiful" ones. After killing them, those who were not in the queue before will be attractive enough.

Liu Yu called it Snow White's stepmother theory: If I can't be the most beautiful no matter how I dress up, then killing the most beautiful one by violence is the most effective.

History has given this killing method, and the reality seen in Dashun also cured Liu Yu's last bit of beautiful and naive fantasy: it seems that there is really no other way except that killing method. Success can only move the land, and moving the land can only succeed in that way.

The land demand of the European bourgeoisie is to take land from the nobles, so that capital is king and they can buy land freely; the land reform on the Dashun side is to prevent accumulated capital from eating land. Two completely different directions. Because even if the land is distributed equally, it will be useless. If the land system is not changed after the land is distributed equally, a new round of mergers will start quickly.

Now Liu Yu asked their children to go out and not stay in Sichuan and Shaanxi, just hoping that if there are one or two brains that are not working well, they will not eat, drink, gamble, buy land and collect rent, but actually think about doing industry.

If you cast a wide net, there will be at least three or five people who are not so "normal" and have the heart to revitalize the world and establish industries to strengthen the world.

Moreover, it is also for some large-scale industries and businesses to make money in the future, and the children of these people will play a role in go-between, so as to facilitate the future investment of Sichuan salt capital to some places that Liu Yu hopes to invest.

The significance of this go-between is still very large.

They are all stuck in Sichuan and Shaanxi. After 20 years, they are all a group of dandies. Those who know how to eat and drink, who know how to sit back and enjoy the fruits of others' labor, and who know how to buy land and collect rents will make a steady profit, and the rest will not.

Sichuan is a good place, but you must go to Sichuan. It is better for these people to go out and see and see.

Shaanxi businessmen think that Liu Yu has been doing well in Songjiang Prefecture in recent years. If they can let their family children go and learn, it is not a bad thing.

Just like this group of people, relying on the advantage of being close to the water and getting the moon first, the losers in Lianghuai are invincible in Sichuan. There is no harm in learning, seeing, and getting in touch with some new industries.

Besides, I heard that the new learning also teaches accounting, business and other knowledge. If you take the official imperial examination, you will know how difficult it is. And what you learn in science is not useful for business and other industries, so you can also learn some skills. Even if you come back to inherit the family business in the future, it will be of some benefit.

Besides, I have no choice but to go. Since I have chosen this "shortcut", I have to accept the many conditions of the court. There is no such thing in the world that has only advantages and no disadvantages. If there is such a thing, how can it be my turn?