Chapter 65 Government Industries
Under the instigation of Ercaoyi, the attitude of the rebel forces in Shaobei Town towards the rebel forces in Limicheng changed. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
They united the rebel forces of the five northern towns and moved closer to the rebel forces of Kamijin Castle, hoping to cause a conflict between the rebel forces of Kamijin Castle and the rebel forces of Rimi Castle.
The rebel forces of the five northern towns were fine before, but now they have suddenly fallen to the rebel forces of Kamijin City, which are in competition with the rebel forces of Rimi City, and it is impossible for the rebel forces of Rimi City not to think about it.
The rebel forces in Kamijin Castle were originally very unhappy with the rebel forces in Rimi Castle who suddenly stood up to be the big brother, because Kamijin Castle was the largest Ira city in the Kingdom of Byrons, and the rebel forces in Kamijin Castle thought that they should be the big brother. But before they could stand up and speak, the rebel forces in Rimi City relied on foreign forces to sit in the position of the eldest brother, and this behavior would naturally cause dissatisfaction among the rebel forces in Kamijin City.
However, among the many rebel forces, the rebel forces of Rimi City did suppress the rebel forces of Shangjin City. They relied on Danyun River, a high-ranking ghost, to control the entire city, and also captured a large number of members of the Supervisory Council for the revenge of the whole country for the pleasure of the rebels, and even the leaders of the rebel forces in Shangjin City went to consume.
It is precisely for this reason that the rebel forces of Kamijo, who are ahead of the rebel forces of Rimijo in terms of strength, do not dare to stand up as the big brother. Now that the rebel forces in Rimi City have the support of foreign forces, it is already the trend of the times for them to sit in the position of the eldest brother, and the rebel forces in Rimi City cannot go against the trend, otherwise they will be seized by the rebel forces in Rimi City. Once the rebellion is successful, the rebel forces of Rimi Castle can use this as a reason to put pressure on the rebel forces of Kamijin Castle, or even launch an attack.
Therefore, the rebel forces in Kamijin City cannot work against the rebel forces in Rimi City, at least not on the surface. Now that the rebel forces in the five northern towns have sent them to the door by themselves, they have given the rebel forces in Shangjin City an opportunity to weaken the strength of the rebel forces in Rimi City, and they will naturally not let it go.
In this way, there is a grudge between the rebel forces of Kamijin City and the rebel forces of Rimi City that can be brought to the table to talk. Dan Yunhe was afraid that the conflict between the two rebel forces would affect the final rebellion, so he wanted to mediate.
On September 25, 141 AH, under the leadership of the Danyun River, all the rebel forces of the Ira people in the kingdom of Byron held a secret meeting in a manor near the administrative area of Rimi Castle in the territory of Kamijin Castle. The owner of the estate was a merchant from the rebel forces in Rimi City, but the funds needed to hold the rally were provided by Dan Yoon-ha.
As a big figure in the rebel forces in Shaobei Town, Ercaoyi also participated in this rally. Before leaving, she had wanted to take this opportunity to wipe out the rebel bigwigs, but she didn't do so, and didn't even let Ercao Seventeen go to Byron City to report the news, because she didn't have this opportunity at all.
With the exception of the rebel forces in Kamijin Castle and the rebel forces in Rimi Castle, the other rebel forces did not know the location of the rally. The people were scattered and assembled in the castle of Kamijin or Rimi, and then they were stuffed into a carriage without windows, and no retinue was allowed with them. The carriage stopped and went, and every time it stopped, it was in the wilderness, and the rest time was not long, either enough to eat, or only enough to relieve one's hands. The carriage arrived at its destination in the evening, and everyone was led into the manor by torches, where they were arranged to rest in various rooms.
The rally was held outdoors and there were plenty of round tables and chairs with food and drinks on the round tables for eating and drinking. Nicausa shuttled back and forth in the venue with a wine glass, talking to everyone she met. She didn't deliberately investigate the identity of the other party, but enthusiastically promoted the wine in the store.
The sake of Contentment Distillery is already famous, and the best of them, Fujisa-sake and Shangjin-shu, are available in limited quantities, and as long as they can be restocked, they will be sold. Ercaoyi and all the people who talked to complained that the supply of Ercao-brew and Shangjin brew was originally very large, but the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce forcibly took half of the goods from her, and kept the price very low. In order to recoup the cost, she had to increase the selling price to the outside world.
In fact, Ercaoyi took the initiative to sell half of the limited wine to the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce, and deliberately kept the price very low. When the official in charge of business came out of the contentment winery, the whole person was in a trance. On the way back, he kept pinching his cheeks or thighs, always thinking that he was dreaming.
Ercaoyi never told outsiders about this, until she was approached by the rebel forces in Shaobei Town, and she made up nonsense that the contentment wine shop was squeezed by the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce. She wasn't trying to discredit the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce, but if she didn't, how could she break into the rebel forces as a victim?
When Ercao 1 and 2 Cao 17 founded the Contentment Wine Workshop, they claimed to be from the territory of Rimi Shrine, and they used to be the eldest sister and second sister of an underworld force in Liangyue City, and now they are good and want to do serious business. Ercaiichi had hideous scars on his face, and Ercausa Seventeen was missing an arm, these were not injuries that ordinary women would suffer, so the locals easily believed them.
When the winery first opened, the local gangsters thought that Ercao Yi and Ercao Seventeen were both women and were easier to bully, so they gathered more than a dozen people to collect protection money. To deal with this kind of character who is worse than trash fish, Ercao 1 and Ercao 17 are useless in their martial arts, so they directly pick up the stick and pick it up, and hit whoever they catch. Both of them tried their best to control their strength when they shot, but the gangsters were still beaten and cried for their mothers, and several of them were beaten and broken.
Since then, no one has dared to trouble the Sodament Brewery. Later, Ercaoyi and Ercausa 17 took in some women who could not afford to support themselves and let them work in the winery. After all, Ercaiichi is the great witch of the former Black Shrine, and she has led the existence of tens of thousands of evil witches, and with her means, it is not too easy to make these women loyal to her.
She asked these women to do propaganda for themselves in Shaobei Town, so that everyone knew that they really wanted to change their ways and do serious business, and the business of Contentment Wine Shop became popular at that time. Their competitors are very jealous of this, but they are afraid of the identity of the former members of the underworld forces of Ercao 1 and 2 Cao 17, and dare not do anything to them. It took Aunt Cong a few months to squeeze all the competitors in the town and managed to buy their liquor recipes to increase the variety of wine in the Wine Factory, and since then the wine industry in Shaobei Town has been the dominant Wine Factory.
Although the content winery is strong, it is only strong in the wine industry, and there is no chance of winning against the royal family. In addition to their peers, everyone was very sympathetic to Ercaoyi's experience and expressed their understanding, and some people even gave Ercao an order on the spot. Nikusaichi thanked these people, and then took the opportunity to establish direct contact with the rebels in other towns.
Ercaoyi's action caught Dan Yunha's attention. He felt that Ercao was a talent, so he took the initiative to talk to her, wanting to draw her to the side of the rebel forces in Limi City. In order to win over Ercaoyi, Dan Yunhe came up and explained his identity, saying that if Ercao moved the winery to Limi City, he could find a way to stop the people of the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce from continuing to oppress them.
Ooh! It's actually the head of the Defense Bureau!
Ercaoyi's origin of Danyunhe surprised Ercaoyi, and the rebel forces had actually reached out to local officials, and even made high-ranking officials like the director of the defense bureau defect, which Ercausa did not expect. It was impossible for her to move the brewery to Limi City, but she still pretended to hesitate and asked Dan Yunhe with a worried look.
"Director Dan is from the Defense Bureau, and the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce is not under the control of the Defense Bureau, so you will not be the one who sent troops to threaten the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce, right?"
Although the profits of the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce and the Royal Bank will be put into the treasury, in fact, whether it is the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce or the Royal Bank, they are all the private property of the Byron family, and the He Yan family, who is responsible for managing the Royal Bank and the Royal Chamber of Commerce, only works for the Byrens family. They will not obey the orders of the central finance department, nor will they obey the orders of the local finance bureaus, but will only obey the royal family.
"Boss Ercao can rest assured that in Limi City, not only the Defense Bureau, the Finance Bureau, the Administration Bureau, and the Police Bureau are all our people. When the time comes, you will directly put the property under the name of the Finance Bureau, and the contentment winery will become a 'government-run industry', and as long as you make a little adjustment, you don't even have to pay taxes. ”
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a "government property" in the Kingdom of Byrons. Officials and merchants are officials and merchants, and the only industries operated by officials and merchants are the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce, and the industries under the management of the Chamber of Commerce are owned by the royal family. All the operating income of the Chamber of Commerce shall be handed over to the Royal Bank, which shall hand over the profits and principal to private investors in accordance with the proportion of its capital contribution, and the remaining part shall be transferred to a specific account of the Central Ministry of Finance through transfer with the consent of the Royal Family, and then transferred to the national treasury by a commissioner sent by the Central Ministry of Finance.
If the Byrons do not agree with the Royal Bank to transfer the profits to a specific account of the Central Treasury, then the money is the private property of the Byrons family and has nothing to do with the Central Treasury. However, because the final profits are transferred to the national treasury, and the practitioners of the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce have official positions, people will call the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce "official businessmen".
There is a law in the Kingdom of Byron that prohibits all officials from doing business, except for certain official positions, and the official sector is not allowed to do business. In other words, in the Kingdom of Byrons, there were no "officials and merchants" in the true sense. In other words, the so-called "government-run industries" in Rimicheng are all illegal.
The various departments of Rimicheng have not yet dared to blatantly violate the law and discipline, and the so-called "government-run industry" is only an explanation to be used in negotiations with merchants. In fact, these industries are not under the name of a certain department in Limi City, but they have not been registered and certified at all, or the original registration and certification have been cancelled, so that the merchants are not registered with the Finance Bureau, and naturally they will not become tax payable.
In other words, these so-called "government-run industries" are simply commercial black households, and if they are caught at the lightest, they will be imprisoned for three years and have to pay huge fines. The local authorities in Limi City use "no tax payment" as a bait to coax merchants who have already registered and certified to cancel their registration and certification, become commercial black households, and then collect money from them in the name of "dotting", so as to help these merchants evade taxes and enrich their own pockets.
Since all the high-level local officials in Rimi City have been corrupted, not only will the officials protect each other, but also the departments will protect each other. Not only have they created a grey revenue system of "government-run industries," but each department has also made false accounts and falsely reported expenditures, and the finances run deficits every month.
In the first few months, the Royal Bank will provide an average of about 200 ira money per month to the local departments of Rimijo for financial support and development investment, and the Royal Bank will stop providing financial support to Rimijo because there is no effect after Rimijo takes the money.
Since then, the city has started to build various tofu dregs projects, and in the name of these projects, it has continued to apply for development investment from the Royal Bank. Due to the importance of the construction projects in Rimi City, Royal Bank could not refuse these investment applications and had to provide financial support. Later, the local authorities of Rimi also mortgaged a large amount of government property for loans from the Royal Bank.
There are no longer a few local departments like Rimicheng who use financial support and development investment to defraud the liquidity of the Kingdom Bank in the Kingdom of Byrons, but their actions are relatively small, the amount of money greedy for ink is relatively small, and they are not as rampant as Rimicheng. In addition, many local departments also make false accounts like the local departments in Limicheng, and come up with various ways to embezzle public funds.
Throughout the kingdom of Byrons, except for the capital city of Byrons, no town is clean, and even village-level administrative units have corruption and bribery. These people are justified when they are corrupt, they feel that the country belongs to the Byron family, they are working for the Byron family, and they work hard but do not earn much money. Anyway, the money belongs to the Byron family, and the Byron family is so rich, what can be done if it is a little embezzlement?
The Ombudsman can only evaluate the performance of officials and punish those who have made obvious mistakes, but there is nothing they can do about those who steal gas in the shadows. The Central Ministry of Finance has to send people down every year to check the accounts, but the people below are very good at making false accounts, and it is difficult to find out the problem. In this way, a large amount of money was embezzled by local officials every month, causing property damage to the Kingdom of Byrons.
In fact, this is not the result of centralization and nationalization of industry, but mainly a matter of people. There are still too many greedy people in this world, and too few people who are content with their duties. And the more greedy people are, the more self-motivated, the more content people are, and the more satisfied they are with the status quo. In this way, the greedy people all ran to the top, and the people who were content with their duties stayed at the bottom, and few climbed to the top. Greedy people will naturally do greedy things, corruption and bribery are only the most basic, some people will even reckless human life for the sake of profit, as for the responsibility that the superior needs to bear, they have long forgotten aside.