Although Zhu Yaoyuan is still Guo Dan's secretary, she is no longer like before, sitting in Guo Dan's office every day, and now she is mostly sitting in the financial room, in charge of the accounts of the dental bank.

It is undeniable that this is mainly because of her identity, Guo Dan will arrange for her to be the financial director.

But her own ability is not bad, after all, she was born in the royal family and has received a good education since she was a child, in this regard, many people are not as good as her, plus when she sat in the office before, Guo Dan often taught her how to manage the accounts.

It can be said that he is Guo Dan's big disciple.

After a while, Zhu Yaoyuan took last year's financial report and came to the general manager's office.

"One million three thousand taels."

Guo Dan looked at the salt income on the financial report, and couldn't help frowning, and said, "This is really a bit little!" ”

Aunt Xu said: "It's not just a little less, it's just too much, I don't think it's a problem to double it several times." ”

Guo Dan sighed and asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Aunt Xu said: "In the past, my dynasty implemented the law of opening the middle, that is, every time you send a stone of grain to the border, you can get a certain amount of salt, and you can buy salt with salt, but then the salt profits are encroached upon by the powerful, and the salt merchants transport grain, but they can't get the salt, and the salt tax is also reduced to the minimum." Since the Hongzhi reform, it was changed to pay directly to buy salt, and the tax revenue increased to one million taels. ”

Speaking of this, she frowned slightly, and said: "However, due to the imperfect system and the corruption of officials, salt merchants often sell several times or even more than ten times the amount of salt that is attracted by salt, resulting in the prevalence of private salt, which embezzles a large amount of salt tax. ”

Zhu Yaoyuan said curiously: "Even the laymen know that this should not be a secret, why does the imperial court let it go." ”

Aunt Xu glanced at Zhu Yaoyuan, shook her head and said with a wry smile: "Of course it's not a secret, but those salt officials and salt merchants collude with each other, and their forces are intertwined. ”

Kou Zhuansha said: "There is another reason for the prevalence of private salt, that is, private salt is not only cheap, but also very good. ”

Zhu Yaoyuan was a little confused, "Private salt is cheap and good, official salt is expensive and poor, this... How is this possible? ”

Guo Dan said: "What the imperial court is doing is not expensive and rotten, just like the firearm, the quality can simply move the heavens and the earth, and it is really difficult for our soldiers." And the reason is very simple, the court always wants to spend the least amount of money, let people do the most things, but under the heavy reward, there is a brave man, if it is not profitable, but there is no way to refuse, everyone can only perfunctory, this quality can be good, plus the official salt must go to the official road, there are countless officials, this layer of request, salt can only become sand.

Private salt is different, businessmen do trading, is to use a very reasonable way to calculate the cost and selling price, this salt is not good, people will not buy you, so this private salt must be better and cheaper than official salt. ”

Aunt Xu was surprised: "Have you studied this?" ”

"Of course not, I'm not very interested in the sale of salt and grain."

Guo Dan shook his head and said: "But you apply my words to anything that the imperial court does, it is absolutely very reasonable, this is a imperial court formula, and there is no need to study it." ”

Aunt Xu was speechless.

This is really the case.

The country is huge, but the finances are always stretched, which is very rare in all dynasties, which shows that the poor management is simply jaw-dropping. To say that the wealth is hidden from the people is definitely an exaggeration.

Because there is no country from ancient times to the present, the government is not properly managed, and the people can still live very richly, which is nonsense, the government can be loose in terms of management, or it can be tight, but there must be rules and laws, and there will be no rules, and it will be reduced to a weak and strong society, and most of the people must be weak, how can they live well.

Aunt Xu smiled: "That's why we still expect you to be able to set things right." ”

"Haha! It's useless for you to praise me, after all, I'm a businessman, and this kind of thing can't just be talked about. ”

Guo Dan shook his head and smiled, and said to Zhu Yao: "Fangchen, you go and bring the salt tax account again, remember, try not to let others know, if people know that I am checking the salt tax, those salt officials will not be scared and tremble." ”

Zhu Yao pursed her lips and smiled, "I know." ”

After Zhu Yaoyuan went out, Aunt Xu was curious: "Why do you only look at the salt tax and not the wine and tea, the tax revenue of these two taxes is not very high in my dynasty." ”

Guo Dan sat on the sofa and said to Kou Zhuansha: "Madam, you can tell her." ”

Kou Zhuansha sneered: "Big sister, I think my husband doesn't look at wine and tea, maybe it's because our tooth shop is involved in this business. ”

Guo Dan snorted: "He Cao Ke really doesn't have a backache when he stands and talks, before he came, didn't he investigate how many tea transactions our tooth shop is involved in every year?" Let me increase the tea tax, how is this possible. Among the three major taxes, only salt noodles are not involved in me, so I can only see if there is room for operation in this salt tax. ”

O merchant!

Aunt Xu shook her head disdainfully, sat down, and said, "You and those salt merchants are really the same dog!" ”

"Not so."

Guo Dan said confidently: "We are all businessmen. ”

After Zhu Yaoyuan brought the information about the salt tax, Guo Dan immediately did data analysis.

Before you know it, it's late at night.

But the three beauties in the house were not tired at all, they were very engrossed in watching it, and they all benefited a lot from it.

I also have to say that Guo Dan, who is doing data analysis, is undoubtedly the most charming moment.

Because in front of the data, Guo Dan is high up, and he has to look up to him.

"Three million taels!"

Guo Dan finally hung a blank piece of paper on the wall, wrote this number, and then said: "Don't talk about official salt, official salt is determined by the national treasury, not according to the market, it has no reference value, and the current price of private salt is about six to four cents, and most of the difference is in the transportation cost."

This price is actually very reasonable, because salt is a necessity, and if the price of salt is too high, then a lot of money will be sucked into the salt market, which will lead to the shrinkage of the market for other commodities. And this profit is already several times over, which is very considerable.

According to the population of our dynasty and the amount of salt per capita, the profits of the merchants and the imperial court should be divided in half, and the tax revenue should be increased to three million taels, but due to the imperfection of the current data, especially the loss cannot be calculated, this fluctuation is also relatively large, I think it can reach a maximum of 3.5 million taels, and a minimum of 2.5 million taels. ”

Aunt Xu said: "This is a whole two million taels more, and I have a total of four million taels of silver tax." ”

"But the agricultural tax is converted into 30 million taels." Guo Dan said: "Mixing two million taels into thirty million taels will not have a great effect... Don't mention wine and tea to me, I can't exhaust myself to reduce my profits. ”

Aunt Xu asked, "In other words, Cao Ke's strategy will not work." ”

"Judging by the results, it should be like this."

Guo Dan nodded and said: "For the imperial court, the lack of salt tax is indeed relatively large, because it is impossible for the imperial court to share half of the profits of merchants, and if you are a little ruthless, it is completely possible for the salt tax to exceed four million taels."

But I want to monopolize the salt market, the cost is very high, and the two Huai micro-businesses are not easy to mess with, if you don't take a million taels out, you may not even be able to get on the table, in addition, you also said that the two Huai governments are very dependent on salt profits, and those officials will definitely defend their interests desperately, which is an obstacle to my monopoly.

And over there, the competition between Fengchi Group and Caoyun has entered the white heat, I must concentrate on dealing with Caoyun, I can't spare so much strength to monopolize the salt market for the time being, you must know that the salt market has no conflict with my business, and against them, my business will not go to the next level, but Caoyun is different. ”

Kou Liansha nodded silently, she didn't approve of provoking a new struggle at this time.

Aunt Xu asked, "Why did you suggest that Your Majesty be exempted from privileges?" ”

Guo Dan glanced at Aunt Xu and said with a smile: "You are knowingly asking." ”

First of all, of course, in order to help Wanli extend the imperial power, everything he does is based on Wanli, without the support of the imperial power, he cannot do this, as his plate gets bigger and bigger, the imperial power will inevitably keep up with his pace, if their imperial business combination appears to advance and retreat, then it may be a loss, which must be coordinated.

Secondly, privilege is also a great obstacle for businessmen, and no matter how smart a businessman is, he cannot fight the privileged people.

In the end, the privilege is a bottomless pit, and at the same time the money of the people and the country is sucked in, this treasury has no money, there are only two ways, either to forcibly expropriate and expropriate, or Wanli to take the money out of the advance, no matter which one it is, the damage to Guo Dan is huge.

Aunt Xu said: "Since you know that I am knowingly asking, then you should also know that the new deal is blocked, and you will also face a very big dilemma." ”

Guo Dan frowned, got up again and came to the wall covered with data, he looked at the data, and suddenly said: "You said that if the salt tax is abolished, who will lose the most." ”

Zhu Yaoyuan said: "The abolition of the salt tax is, of course, the biggest loss to the national treasury. ”

"Definitely!"

Guo Dan shook his head.

Kou Zhuansha was puzzled: "The salt tax is the tax revenue of the national treasury, and the abolition of the salt tax is naturally the biggest loss to the national treasury." ”

Guo Danwu smiled to himself and shook his head.

Aunt Xu said thoughtfully: "You mean that officials have the greatest losses?" ”

"Correct solution!"

Guo Dan nodded and said: "The profit of private salt is about five times that of the salt tax, and the magnates and officials have to take at least two million taels from it, and even if the treasury loses all, it will only be one million and three hundred thousand taels." ”

As he spoke, he wrote 1,300,000 taels on a piece of paper.

That's just one million and three hundred thousand taels.

This is the legendary wealth.

The three beauties were all speechless.

Guo Dan continued: "But if the salt tax is abolished, those officials will not be able to make a profit from it, because the salt merchants will not need to pay taxes, so why bother with those officials, then their interests will be reduced to zero." ”

He wrote a zero on the paper and said, "In other words, the court just broke a finger, and the other party is dead." Competition in business is often not about who makes more money, but who loses less, especially when the two sides are equal, as long as I lose less than the other party, then I can fight with the other party until the other party kneels down first. ”

"Who loses less?"

Aunt Xu seemed to have thought of something, but she couldn't say what it was.

Guo Dan said: "In the same way, reducing agricultural taxes, even if it is reduced by fifty percent, but everyone pays the full amount of taxes, and at the same time counts all the tax revenue into the national treasury, in fact, the loss of the treasury is not very much, but the local government is completely out of money, and if you do this, the local government will lose the most." ”

Aunt Xu said: "Don't you want the government?" ”

"Your Majesty can give them money depending on the mood."

Guo Dan smiled slightly, and said, "You guys go and rest first, I may have to stay up all night tonight." ”

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