Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Establishment of Haidong
"In addition to agricultural taxes, commercial taxes should also be introduced. In addition to the 10-out transaction tax, it is necessary to establish a monopoly system for special commodities now. Li Luo said.
Cui Xiuning said: "Salt and iron tea wine franchise? ”
Li Luo smiled: "There is no tea on this island now. But there is sugar cane of good quality, which can be used to make white sugar. So it should be a salt, iron, sugar and wine franchise. The benefits of white sugar will be beyond your imagination. ”
Treasure Island is one of the origins of sugar cane. There are many sugar cane resources on the island. Once the planting is promoted on a large scale, think about it is very beautiful. Compared with glass soap, the process of white sugar is much simpler. And as long as the raw materials are controlled, a monopoly can be achieved.
Cui Xiuning said: "Then at least one more franchise office will be set up, and the director must be the trainees we brought." ”
Li Luo said: "Now the population is small, and the business tax and franchise fee are not much, and this year it will be more than 1,000 taels at most." ”
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The two discussed until late at night, constantly refining and revising the plan, and did not start to rest until they came up with the final plan.
The next morning, Li Luo invited all the village chiefs to discuss matters in the small courtyard.
Li Luo was a newcomer, and he did not have the title of managing the villages, so he was not qualified to convene the village chiefs for deliberations.
However, "power comes out of the barrel of a gun", and he now holds 700 armor soldiers, and he has wiped out two lives in a row like a heavenly soldier, and has a great grace to save the lives of thousands of immigrants. With both the people's will and the righteousness of the people, and the use of force as a shield, it is natural to become the "leader".
Even if he has only been here for a short day, no one dares to disagree.
For the sake of defense, it has become the consensus of everyone to elect a leader and establish a system to protect itself, which is really the trend of the times. Li Luo can be described as the "backbone" sent by God.
Therefore, as soon as he spoke, more than a dozen village chiefs did not dare to slack off, lest General Li find the wrong place and use it to establish his authority.
"I've seen General Lee!"
Seeing the ironclad warrior behind Li Luo standing with his sword, all the village chiefs were apprehensive and saluted together.
It was already very hot in May on this island, Li Luo did not wear armor today, but was dressed as a noble son of the Han family, he was wearing a summer Yanju cross-collared wide-sleeved silk coat, covered with a black Luo shirt, with a net scarf on his head, and kudzu clogs under his feet, which was very chic and Tsinghua.
If you want to talk about appearance, Li Luo is indeed very good, and he is decent when he looks at it horizontally and vertically.
Of course, he did not have a folding fan in his hand, but a pen, and a stack of paper under the pen, with a stamp on the edge of the paper.
This is not Li Luo's official seal of Goryeo, but a private seal he fired with bone china, and there are four seal characters on the seal: Luo Ning Communist.
This is a private print. From today onwards, on this "Haidong Island", it is the official seal!
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the constitution drawn up by this official, and you can express your opinions after reading it." After Li Luo finished writing, he handed a dozen pieces of paper to Lin Biju first.
"Good word!"
Lin Biju was the first to exclaim. He is a senior talent, if it weren't for Meng Yuan's southern invasion, he would have been admitted to the lifting of people, and even won the Jinshi, his talent is naturally good, especially good at calligraphy.
But this Li Luo is so young, but his calligraphy is hidden, he is self-reliant, and his attainments are above himself!
Where is this a word that a military general can write?
This Li Luo is definitely not as simple as a martial artist, at least he is a Confucian general.
Not to mention anything else, Li Luo's calligraphy alone has already convinced Lin Biju.
Immediately after, Lin Biju's eyes lit up again.
"Haidong Company? The name is unheard of, it should be a new creation, but it is not contrary to the same. And don't commit taboos......" Lin Biju immediately thought of Li Luo's intentions.
Even if it is an establishment, it must be as low-key as possible, and it cannot really use the name of the official office, which is easy to cause trouble. What state capitals and counties sound mighty, but when it reaches the ears of the Tartars, it will be troublesome.
The fact that General Li was able to think of this shows that he is very insightful, very pragmatic, and quite generous.
"There is really an official government, but there is no official name! Moreover, the company's various layers of the arrangement can not only unify the power well, but also have a clear division of labor, but also balanced and orderly, compared with the real government is more thoughtful and intelligent, many places can be regarded as a pioneer. Lin Biju thought, very surprised in his heart, this Li Luo actually has a talent for governance!
All of the above, from the small to the big, and the leopard in the tube, it can be seen that Li Luo is very human...... Its ambition is not small!
is his wife, Mrs. Li, who not only has the posture of the country, but also has the spirit of a woman, Yinghua is introverted, contains wisdom, and is an extremely rare virtuous helper at a glance. How can it be simple to have a wife like this?
Lin Biju's previous surrender was mainly because Li Luo had soldiers and horses, and he had the grace to save the people. But now, he is impressed by Li Luo's "talent" from the bones.
"The adults are talented, and the subordinates are obedient." Lin Biju suddenly took a step back and bowed. There was a salute to Cui Xiuning next to him: "Meet Madame!" ”
Not only did he change the title of "General Lee" to "Lord" to refer to himself as a subordinate, but this move was even more unusual.
It was not surprising for Li Luo to watch Lin Biju do this.
This Lin Biju is really a smart person, smarter than he thinks. What he did was a confession of the Lord!
Otherwise, he is a dignified scholar, and he doesn't need to meet "Madame" at all.
"Mr. Lin, please get up! Why should it be! Li Luo pretended to be surprised and hurriedly helped Lin Biju up, and also changed "village chief" to "sir".
Li Luo's meaning is also self-explanatory: I accept you, and I will be my own person in the future.
Cui Xiuning was a little convinced. Fugitives' ability to win hearts and minds is really good!
Mei Quanlu, Wu Zhenlou and other village chiefs are not fools, where do they not know what Lin Biju means?
They took a look at what Li Luo had written, and immediately understood why Lin Biju was like this.
This is the situation, the place, and the people.
"Old and talented, from now on, I am willing to serve the Lord as the Lord!" Mei Quanlu immediately said very knowingly.
Wu Zhenlou and others also said together: "May I serve the Lord as the Lord!" ”
Li Luo smiled: "Okay! With your help, the 400 miles of rivers and mountains on Haidong Island is the paradise of my Han Township! There are only about 5,000 immigrants today, and there will be tens of thousands in a year! There will be hundreds of thousands in a few years! As long as everyone is good at living, why can't you be rich? Even if you leave a name in history in the future, it may not be impossible to ......"
There will be hundreds of thousands of immigrants in a few years!
Then you can build a country overseas!
Everyone couldn't help but be a little excited.
Li Luo continued: "You have all read the charter, what do you think? ”
Lin Biju said: "The lord's charter is impeccable, not flattery from his subordinates, and I really can't see the difference." ”
This is a plan that Li Luo and Cui Xiuning tossed in the middle of the night and constantly revised it, and it is strange that Lin Biju can find faults.
None of the others objected.
"Good. Then Lin Biju was appointed as the manager of Luoning Haidong Company. Li Luo said the topic that everyone was most concerned about, "I am the head of the Luoning Society, what the Luoning Society is, you will know it later." ”
Lin Biju was overjoyed in his heart, "Thank you, Lord Gong!" ”
Mei Quanlu and the others sighed in their hearts, secretly thinking that it was really Lin Biju!
"Manager Lin's responsibility is to grasp the affairs of the head office, and the core is Tuntian. The specific responsibilities are all in the letter of appointment. Li Luo wrote down the letter of appointment and stamped the seal of "Luo Ning Principal".
"Gong Kan was appointed as the supervisor, in addition to supervising the company, he was also in charge of taxation, craftsmen, and franchises."
"Appointed Mei Quanlu as the deputy manager, in charge of culture, education, etiquette and ......"
"Appointed Wu Zhenlou as deputy manager, in charge of adjudication, arbitration, public security ......"
After the letter of appointment was issued, each village chief had a new position, and most of them were the heads of various departments.
All of their village chiefs were null and void. All villages disrupted the original structure, and every 100 households were one village, and a new village head was appointed.
Then, the official release of "Haidong Jianlu".
"Haidong Simplified Law" is a comprehensive simple law that two people stayed up late to rush out, and only stipulated dozens of "laws", including organization, tax rates, rewards and punishments, land ceilings, military service, franchises, meetings, sacrifices, trading, sanitation, public welfare, etc.
It is not difficult to find out through the "Brief Laws of Haidong" that Li Luo wanted to transform the loose rural organization into a semi-military group with a high degree of organization and mobilization.
In the end, Li Luo ordered the construction of the company compound as the company's office place. The headquarters of the Security Corps was built to serve as the command center of the Corps.
The dust has settled on all these arrangements, marking the official beginning of the "Haidong system."
It was the twelfth day of May in the 17th year of the Yuan Dynasty.