Chapter 535: The New Cabinet Deal of the Cabinet surnamed Xu: Economic Stimulus Bill (2)

The silence in the Mandarin Hall lasted for a long time.

The economic stimulus bill proposed by Xu Buji is obviously extremely difficult for the current Ming bureaucracy to completely digest, and some officials may not even understand what Xu Buji is saying.

And this so-called economic stimulus bill is not entirely out of Xu Buji's considerations, and it obviously does not mean that Xu Buji came up with it after taking a turn in Nanjing and researching the so-called prices of various commodities.

As early as not long after Xu Buji took office, Daming Bank and Daming Federation of Industry and Commerce have cooperated to face up to the gap between commodity prices and people's income, and have seriously considered how to improve and shorten it.

Ge An and Da Ming saw that a group of young experts in the economy had been immersed in research for several months before they found Xu Buji with a proposal with mature basic arguments, and the latter just showed up and went to the grassroots level to feel it for himself.

If it really needs to reach the point of policy intervention in the market, then implement it, and if it has not yet arrived, then it will be stranded and suspended.

Obviously, the commercial activities of various factories and industries in Nanjing are closely related to the lives of the people, so Xu Buji feels that it is necessary to carry out policy intervention.

Moreover, taking out cash and silver from the treasury and investing it in the market for production subsidies free of charge will not only not cause inflation, but will even cause a large-scale decline in prices in all walks of life.

The primary purpose of this money investment is not to increase the wealth circulating in the market, because no matter how much gold and silver there is, if the means of production in society are insufficient, then money has no effect.

If you can't buy things with money, it will naturally lead to soaring prices and inflation.

The first step of the economic stimulus bill proposed by Xu Buji is to help the physical production units of various provinces and localities - factories to expand production, and this money is subsidized to factories to expand the scale of production.

The raw materials you want to buy from Minglian overseas are subject to lack of financial resources and cannot directly use ships for large-scale shipping, so you can only deduct seams from the hands of several coastal merchants, and purchase them through intermediaries through water transportation and land transportation, which leads to an increase in the cost of raw materials.

Now the state gives you money, you go directly to the coastal port to place an order or rent a sea vessel, and the state will make up for this cost.

On the other hand, the main tool restricting the input of raw materials is large sea vessels, and the cost of port dock shipyards is mainly large timber and labor costs purchased from home and abroad, because the cost remains high, but the speed of sales is obviously not as fast as rice, flour, grain and oil, which leads to a long payment cycle, considering this factor, the price of a shipping ship will naturally not be cheap.

The imperial court can also give subsidies in this regard.

A shipping ship used to earn 50,000 taels, but now the state directly gives you a handful, and sponsors you 30 to 50 million free of charge.

Well, the first few hundred ships are not a choice to sell in a way that is not profitable.

Can I choose to earn only 10,000 taels of reproduced ones later?

At this time, you can make three chapters of the law, and the state will give you enough subsidies for you to squander, and you can't say that after squandering the state's subsidies, you will continue to earn according to the standard of 50,000 taels if the reproduced ships return to their original prices.

In that case, you won't even be able to earn the 30 or 50 million subsidy money.

You can pick and search and sell 180 ships in a year.

Of course, there will be a more complicated consideration involved, that is, the price of raw materials, with the increase in the purchase volume of Daming, will lead to a shortage and increase the price.

First of all, the problem of reserve supply, it is the 21st century, and the raw materials have not been used up, so it is too early and out of reality to consider this with the current transportation situation and the consumption efficiency of processing and reproduction.

The other is whether the plundering of gold and silver and the large influx into the Ming Dynasty will lead to the depreciation of gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty, resulting in the price of purchasing raw materials from various countries.

Will there be an ore that could have been purchased for one tael now costs two taels of silver?

Is the guide price policy fake, or is the bank fake?

The gold and silver of the Ming Union countries have long been out of use as trading currency, and even the Ming Dynasty is considering how to gradually abolish the exchange system between gold and silver and copper bills.

Gold may be stored as a guarantee of currency exchange, but the value of silver is bound to depreciate wildly.

In order to ensure the smooth landing of the value of silver and avoid the bad situation of the collapse of the private economy, the imperial court has long been exchanging from the private sector in the form of one tael of silver and one thousand copper coins, which has been written long ago.

Now Xu Buji's proposal to use cash and silver to stimulate private production is not really a gold and silver ingot.

One million taels of silver is a full 100,000 catties, how many carts do you need to load?

What is the concept of 100 million taels and 1 billion taels?

I can't even muster the escort.

The cash silver mentioned here refers to the fact that the treasury issues equivalent bank price coupons according to the silver in stock, and then this batch of cash silver is completely sealed and fused, and may flow into the market in the form of jewelry in the future, that is, silver is no longer a currency, but a commodity!

Everything is based on the people, since the main currency of the people is the copper ticket, then the Ming Dynasty will not rashly destroy the monetary value of the copper ticket and hurt the interests of the people.

Allowing silver to depreciate in the treasury seems to be a certain loss of national interests, but in fact, this mountain of silver cannot be put into use in the treasury, which is exactly the same as if it were not.

Rather than this, it is better to put it on the market as a product after the circuit breaker in the future.

Take India's gold as a new hard currency.

And if you want to wait until gold is withdrawing from the stage of international monetary strategic reserves, it may be a few hundred years later, and there is no need to think about it so early.

"First let the price of the ship as a means of transportation reduce the price, drive the price of shipping costs down, and finally make the price of raw materials imported for production fall, plus the subsidy of the imperial court, the price of all production products can be lowered."

Xu Buji elaborated on the possible impact of this policy and the changes to Nanzhili: "The factory can expand production on a large scale when it gets the money from the imperial court, and the more it produces, the more subsidies it will have, and it will inevitably recruit and train a large number of workers."

If all the factories are robbing for people, the labor income of the workers will increase, while the consumption of the people will decrease, and the people's livelihood will tend to be stable.

The actual owners of the subsidized factories, the so-called rich people and big businessmen, will not grab daily necessities from the people with their massive wealth.

Because those cheap necessities will never run out of money in their pockets.

Wealthy chambers of commerce pursue higher consumption patterns.

Gold is expensive in troubled times, and entertainment is prosperous in prosperous times.

According to the rise of the level of living needs, the wealth of this group of wealthy people will be spent on the pursuit of spiritual pleasures, and the princes of Yiyue Pavilion in Nanjing City do not know if they have been there, there is nothing to shy away from talking about, I have been there once. ”

There was a smile on the faces of all the men who knew it.

Buying spring, a dignified cabinet chief assistant occasionally enjoys it, it's a big deal.

But Xu Buji obviously didn't think the same as the big guy: "Listening to a popular drama costs one to three thousand taels, and if you want these famous drama girls to accompany you for a drink, the cost is simply astronomical."

It's just a drink, not a sleep. ”

Everyone chuckled, but then they found that Xu Buji's face was not good, and they were so frightened that they were silent.

"Think about it, a singer has an extremely high income every day, and saying that his annual income exceeds that of me, the head of the cabinet, is like playing, what does this mean?

It shows that these singers have a market to pursue them, so they can have such an overheated high income.

And this kind of industry is the service industry that I mentioned earlier.

Of course, this is a high-end service industry, what is the service industry, not to say that the green house, the theater, the place to listen to the song is the service industry, the tavern, the teahouse, the storytelling, all the places that allow you to get the enjoyment you need by spending money are called the service industry.

The increase in wealth in the market will inevitably bring wealth owners to pursue the service industry and stimulate the prosperity of the service industry.

And we can regain the money that has been invested for free back into the national treasury through the high taxes levied on the service industry.

This is a cycle of wealth, something that can only be done by the state.

Because, the Qinglou Theater will never subsidize the money to the factory for free, and can only do it to the imperial court. ”

First of all, the money should be put into the market, the scale of production should be expanded, and the means of production circulating in the state and society will be increased, and the people will benefit from it, and the merchants will also benefit from it.

The state can take the money back into the treasury through the high tax policy on the service industry, and then continue to put it into the market, subsidize the bottom for free, so that the people can get benefits in various related industries closely related to life.

This is to evenly distribute the wealth at the top to every ordinary person at the bottom through policy guidance.

"What if those merchants don't want to spend their money?"

There were still some officials who raised such a question, which made everyone look at him with disdain.

"A businessman's money is not spent, but invested."

Businessmen are not ordinary people, and they like to watch their savings accumulate over time.

What they want to see more is that their assets are constantly leaping forward, snowballing bigger and bigger.

"It doesn't matter to the imperial court whether the businessmen will spend their money in the service industry, and we don't even want them to spend their money in this field, causing the so-called star-chasing fever that is beginning to emerge in Nanjing City right now."

Xu Buji said: "The money that can't be spent is waste paper for businessmen, and the massive wealth they hold in their hands needs to seek new investment channels, and as long as they invest and turn the wealth into other money-generating machines, production lines, and commodities, then the purpose of the economic stimulus bill will be achieved, and the country's economic market will be highly prosperous."

The expenses of the common people were reduced, and the taxes collected by the imperial court from the commercial field were raised, and the family and the country were happy. ”

After a pause, Xu Buji took a sip of hot tea: "The purpose of promulgating this economic stimulus bill is to form an economic system with the state-owned economy as the mainstay, supplemented by a variety of private economies and common development.

The factories that can get subsidies also need to look at their actual production capacity and production enthusiasm, and coexist in a way that is mainly distributed according to work, supplemented by a variety of subsidy methods, so as to stimulate the vitality of economic entities in various markets and release and develop the productive forces at the shallow and deep levels of society.

Intensify efforts to promote production and marketing, protect the fairness and uniformity of production subsidies, and on this basis, realize the efficient circulation of national wealth and promote the realization of common prosperity. ”

Looking at Xu Buji's eloquent conversation, a group of people present were all bitter.

I really can't keep up with this person's footsteps.

When it comes to politics, everyone here is a good player, but when it comes to politics and economy, then this group of people is completely able to understand six out of seven, and only one of them knows nothing.

Xu Buji is still talking to them about the political economy under the macro level, if he talks about the more detailed market economy and the development of laws under the micro level, I am afraid that this group of people will be directly ashamed to resign.

Of course, Xu Buji probably doesn't understand, he still has these suggestions that Ge An took a large group of people from the bank and the Federation of Industry and Commerce to make a few months to come up with, and he came here to summarize and make a macro guidance report.

"I'm done talking, let's go through this stimulus bill and see if we support or oppose it."

Xu Buji knocked on the table, raised his hand directly, and then looked at the large circle of court ministers attending the cabinet meeting in front of him calmly.

Kuang Yihe, who was once in charge of the supervision of the return of farmland to production in various provinces of the imperial court, and Zeng Wenji, the former political envoy of Zuobu in Guangdong, took the lead in raising their hands to express their support.

Both of them are good at doing the economy.

The cabinet is five, and three agree.

Xia Yuanji and Zhu Gaochi looked at each other, and they both raised their hands in response.

This time, all participants voted unanimously.

"That's it."

Standing up, Xu Buji made a final explanation: "After the General Administration Department prepared the summary report of the meeting, I signed it with several cabinet elders and submitted it to His Majesty for approval. ”

Everyone got up: "Congratulations to the elder pavilion." ”

With Xu Buji's departure, this so-called economic stimulus bill was quickly released and appeared on Zhu Yunwen's imperial case.