Chapter 290: Centennial Talks (6)
(TXT ) (TXT ) (TXT ) "It's easy, crush him!
There is a crowd to collapse one, there is a bunch to crowd a pile, if the four of us work together, let alone say that it is a merchant of the Qing Dynasty, it is the ocean of foreigners, and it can't bear our run, and those who are willing to go all the way are kept, and those who are unwilling to be squeezed down, XT.
If they collapse, there will be more businesses to rise, step by step, and integrate the entire mall into a rope, which is what I want to say. ”
Sweet sorghum, sugar making, winemaking, Dachenggong, railway, shipping, in fact, boil down to two words, or shopping malls, how to do the details, this simple, the most critical issue is unity.
Nowadays, there is a monopoly in the shopping malls of foreign devils, and the scattered merchants of the Qing Dynasty are not opponents at all against these monopoly organizations of foreign devils.
For example, the Germans' Shandong Railway and Mining Company, this is a very typical syndicate organization, if Sheng Xuanhuai is right with others, he is not an opponent at all, in addition to the German syndicate, there are many similar organizations of the great powers in the Qing Dynasty.
United Iron and Steel and Standard Oil in the United States have already completed their monopoly, and such a big consortium really knows how powerless and weak it is, and it has abandoned the sweet sorghum matter, and Li Dacheng has also focused the topic on establishing a monopoly organization.
In fact, there are also such organizations in the Qing Dynasty, such as the Thirteen Lines mentioned earlier, the salt merchants of Lianghuai, the ticket number of Shanxi, and the so-called ten merchant gangs, all of which can be regarded as the prototype of monopoly organizations, but these commercial organizations have a common weakness, that is, they are independent and loosely structured.
If these shopping mall forces are integrated together, it is easy to raise billions of assets, and these business gangs cannot form the key to a monopoly organization. In fact, it is not in the hearts of the people, the biggest problem is still in the Qing court, with balance as the core of the governance strategy, which restricts the development of these merchant gangs into real monopoly organizations, once the industry of the merchant gang is too large. The Qing court will suppress it, so the merchants in the Qing shopping malls must also carefully manage their own industries, lest they enter the eyes of the court and become the target of suppression.
There are many ways to compete in the mall, and it is important for the three of them to crush their opponents. I also have personal experience, listening to Li Dacheng's statement that he was crushed, Meng Luochuan's face was a little more dignified, this is really unscrupulous to achieve the goal!
With the current scale of Dachenggong, there is no business in Shandong that can withstand the run of Dachenggong. If you get the gold mine of sweet sorghum sugar again, Li Erye's Dacheng Gong will be invincible.
"Second master, how is the imperial court?"
Negotiation, business, and not involving officialdom, these are what Sheng Xuanhuai said to Zhang Bishi before, but now he found that with the status of several of them in the business world, it is impossible not to involve officialdom.
As an official businessman, Sheng Xuanhuai knows the origin of officials and businessmen best. In the past, when there was no great prosperity in commerce, the merchants of the Qing Dynasty were nothing more than the three major merchants of the two Huai salt merchants, the thirteen lines of Guangzhou, and the Jin merchants, and the salt merchants had special salt officials under their jurisdiction. The Thirteen Lines also directly looked at the eyes of the imperial court, and the Jin merchants had great contributions to the Qing Dynasty, so they were able to develop smoothly for more than two hundred years, but they were also under the attention of the imperial court.
Now although the Qing court said that it could not be done, the businessmen wanted to have the final say, but it still failed. The fault is not that a businessman like Li Erye who holds military power, although he is in the system of officials and businessmen. is also one of the bull's ears, but Sheng Xuanhuai is very good for officials and businessmen. Or the shopping malls under the control of the imperial court do not have much sense of belonging.
He is also a person with great ambitions, the steamship China Merchants Bureau is the first in the world, and only Sheng Xuanhuai knows the difficulties best, if he doesn't really have no choice, he will not have the opportunity to run the steamship China Merchants Bureau.
Now his biggest backer, Li Zhongtang, is in the twilight of the West Mountain, and the newly elected backer Zhang Zhidong is not Jiamu, and the situation is also time for him Sheng Xuanhuai to make a choice.
Before coming to Weishan, Sheng Xuanhuai intended to take refuge in Gui Shun, but Gui Shun did not accept him, in the past two days, after listening to some of the words of General Li Ershen, Sheng Xuanhuai also understood the reason why people did not accept him.
How the court said this, it should not be brought up by him, but should be mentioned by Zhang Bishi, but Zhang Bishi is not a serious person for the other three, his roots are in Nanyang, he is now also known as Nanyang Dashang, the court is dispensable for Zhang Bishi at that time, but for him Sheng Xuanhuai and Meng Luochuan, especially Meng Luochuan, the existence of the Qing court is still necessary.
Zhang Bishiti did not have enough weight in the imperial court, Meng Luochuan would not mention the imperial court, and Li Erye did not have the imperial court in his eyes, in order to plan a way back for himself, Sheng Xuanhuai did not do anything, and formally proposed the relationship between the imperial court and the business community.
Sheng Xuanhuai opened his mouth and changed the topic again, in Li Dacheng's opinion, it should be Zhang Bishi who said it, Sheng Xuanhuai said that it was naturally the best, but this also meant that Sheng Xuanhuai wanted to put aside his official and business hat and cooperate with himself.
In cooperation with Sheng Xuanhuai, Li Dacheng has no plan on his side, in Li Dacheng's eyes, there are enemies on all sides, and his principle of distinguishing friend from foe is also simple, those who do things together are their own families, and they are all enemies.
For Sheng Xuanhuai, Li Dacheng only has a plan for targeting, no plan for cooperation, because Sheng Xuanhuai's relationship with officialdom is too deep, Li Dacheng didn't expect Sheng Xuanhuai, who is over fifty years old, to have such courage, maybe this is also the sugar industry market that Zhang Bishi just said, which stimulated Sheng Xuanhuai, right?
"It's hard for me to say this, how does Meng Siye think Master Sheng's question should be answered?"
Sheng Xuanhuai's abrupt question, Li Dacheng did not answer directly, how is the court, it is not a problem for him, what should the court be, that is, the people in the court are dead and don't care about his?
The same is true for Zhang Bishi in the Qing court, it's a big deal for people to pat their butts and leave, Zhang Bishi, who has a lot of friendship with foreigners, is also a person that the Qing court can't deal with!
As for this issue for Sheng Xuanhuai, it is just a vote, if Sheng Xuanhuai and others really regard the Qing Dynasty as their biological parents in their eyes, there will be no southeast mutual insurance, the hat of officials and businessmen determines Sheng Xuanhuai's rules of action, as long as it is beneficial to the transaction, it doesn't matter what the court is not to Sheng Xuanhuai.
This is also the reason why Li Dacheng adopted a hostile attitude towards Sheng Xuanhuai, the system of officials and businessmen. Most of them are engaged in foreign affairs or foreign trade-related transactions, and they are the most likely to be traitors, and in the case of not distinguishing between friend and foe, Li Dacheng's countermeasure is to treat them as enemies.
Among the four, Meng Luochuan, a traditional businessman, was a die-hard supporter of the Qing Dynasty. This is not determined by personal feelings, but by the position of the position, the Qing Dynasty is the real spokesperson of landlords and merchants, although there is * and there is oppression, but the Qing Dynasty maintains a small peasant economy, so between the Qing Dynasty and traditional businessmen like Meng Luochuan. There is an inseparable bond.
Of course, this court can be the Qing court, the Ming court, or any court, as long as the court protects the interests of landlords and businessmen, traditional businessmen like Meng Luochuan will support it.
It's okay to change the dynasty. The reason why Li Dacheng uses interests to promote the development of things without mentioning any theories is also because of this aspect of the school.
It was not only these landlords and businessmen who defended the Qing Dynasty, but at least half of the population in the Qing Dynasty still supported the Qing court, and if they wanted to fundamentally change people's hearts, the theory would never be good. The only thing that is really good is profit.
No matter what kind of theory it is, if it changes people's hearts, it depends not on the level of the theory. It is the interests behind the theory, which Li Dacheng can clearly grasp.
"If only the donation could be less!"
Sheng Xuanhuai's question, Meng Luochuan can't answer, how is the imperial court? This is clear, these people do business to leave the court and mention the court. Meng Luochuan is most concerned about donations, and the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes make the small people unable to raise their heads. It also makes the merchant unable to raise his head!
Meng Luochuan doesn't know how others are, but his three auspicious. In the past few years, he has also suffered from donations, and in the past few years, he has donated hundreds of thousands.
"Fourth Master Meng's words are wrong, the commercial tax of the Qing Dynasty is not high!"
As soon as Li Dacheng said this, not only the casually perfunctory Meng Luochuan's face changed, but also the faces of Sheng Xuanhuai and Zhang Bishi changed, Li Dacheng's purpose was the most feared problem by everyone.
Li Dacheng is not terrible, what is terrible is the Zhenwei army behind him, the low commercial tax means that Li Erye advocates increasing commercial tax, what is the purpose of increasing commercial tax? Raise soldiers!
How many Zhenwei troops are there, and now the external saying is 300,000, just now Li Dacheng also said personally, now hundreds of thousands of millions in the future, whether it is Li Erye or Li Erye's Dacheng Gong can not afford to raise so many troops, so who should raise this Zhenwei army, just rush the business tax is not high, the three of them have the answer in their hearts, business!
Among the three, Meng Luochuan's status is lower, Sheng Xuanhuai is a red-top businessman, Zhang Bishi is a big businessman summoned by the old ladies, and the two are very familiar with some things at the upper level.
"Dare to ask the second master, how much do you think this business tax is appropriate?"
Li Dacheng proposed that the business tax is not high, and the atmosphere in the tower dropped to the freezing point at once, Zhang Bishi's problem is also the problem of Sheng Xuanhuai and Meng Luochuan, looking at the three people with solemn faces, Li Dacheng smiled and came up with his own response.
"Tithe! All other donations are not paid. ”
After listening to Li Dacheng's statement, the expressions on the faces of the three of them first relaxed and then tightened, tithes, this is a good statement! It's just a pity that it's not realistic.
The centigold system is almost a tithe, but in addition to the centigold, the merchants of the Qing Dynasty also have to pay various donations, most of these donations are passive, you can't do it if you don't pay, if you don't pay the officials will target you, the people don't fight with the officials, and if you want to maintain the tithe, how easy is it?
"Second master, how about we stop this matter for the time being?"
Sheng Xuanhuai believes in Li Dacheng's statement, but if he doesn't accept the donation, he will have to compete with the entire officialdom, which is not suitable at this time.
"Humph! Is Shanda scared?
I think Shanda thinks about this matter, on top of the gold, I wonder if Shanda can have a workaround? For example, the great student of the champion Gong!
Where do businessmen spend most of their donations and returns? This silver was not spent on the court or on the people, so where was the money?
It was spent on corrupt officials and corrupt officials, on their brocade clothes and food, and on their mansions and concubines!
If we follow the example of Dasheng and pay a one-time payment, based on Dacheng, how can we get millions of dollars in a year, if this amount is directly handed over to the imperial court, what will the imperial court say?
So, let's be united! ”
Li Dacheng said the ultimate purpose of donation, Sheng Xuanhuai, as a person in the officialdom, sighed, he was convinced, this Second Master Li is indeed not an ordinary person!
In the eyes of many people, the dead Li Ershen will be just a reckless man, but in the eyes of Li Zhongtang, this Li Ershen will be an immortal material, at first Sheng Xuanhuai also had doubts, these two days of contact, Sheng Xuanhuai did not see in addition to the military might, the peculiarity of this Li Erye, now he understands that this Li Erye's familiarity with the Qing Dynasty is no worse than him and Li Zhongtang, and even surpasses it.
Li Dacheng's meaning, Sheng Xuanhuai understood that it was the financial power that had been delegated to the local government, and part of it was handed over to the imperial court, and as soon as this proposal came out, it was bound to offend the officials of the world, but Gui Shun Gui Beile was not afraid of this, and the Queen Mother Lafayette also supported this.
Things haven't been done yet, everything is on the side of the court, there are no shackles, just wait for Gui Beile to fold, the Queen Mother Lafayette nodded and agreed, when the time comes, the court and the local government are in a mess, who cares about Li Erye's Dacheng Gong or other businesses?
With the will of the imperial court, the gold system in various places will no longer exist, and the merchants will have the imperial court as a backer for a period of time, and the local officials will have nothing to do, and when the local officials understand with the imperial court, it may have changed by then.
"The second master strategizes and wins thousands of miles away!"
When Zhang Bishi and Meng Luochuan didn't understand, Sheng Xuanhuai, who was proficient in officialdom, had already begun to pat himself on the back, and the two of them were a little confused.
"Two, is there a shortage of silver in the Qing Dynasty? If this is said to be an official of the imperial court, it must be lacking, but in fact, the Qing Dynasty did not lack silver, but the silver was not used where it should be.
Where did the Qing Dynasty's seventy or eighty million yuan a year go? What should be spent and used only accounts for a small half of the fiscal and tax expenses, and the remaining more than half has been eaten by the officials, and more than half of this is what the officials deserve, perhaps less than half, and the rest are greedy by them.
A quarter of the fiscal and tax, at least 20 million taels of silver, 20 million a year, the Qing Dynasty has been established for 200 years, and almost every year it has spent 20 million taels of silver, how much is it in 200 years?
Where did the twenty million pieces come from? The people's fat and people's ointment, we are also in this people's word!
There is a saying, what you said is right, this is the Qing Dynasty, so we only need to please some people, 20 million, if we take out 10 million and hand it over to the Queen Mother, and the remaining 10 million, those officials dare to rob us? ”
After a brief explanation, seeing the suddenly realized looks on the faces of Zhang Bishi and Meng Luochuan, Li Dacheng nodded, which can be regarded as a preliminary consensus. (To be continued) ( )
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