The Spring Festival of the sixth year of Xuanping was a Spring Festival full of laughter and laughter for the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang monarchs and ministers were extremely happy.

Relying on the industrial and commercial policies of the Tang Dynasty to support the industrial and commercial class, the industrial and commercial class who have made a lot of money in the past few years have also had a big fat year, although at the beginning they were full of opposition and even contempt for the Tang Dynasty, because these industrial and commercial classes in the Tang Dynasty were still strictly speaking the gentry class who owned a lot of land.

The tax policy of the Tang Dynasty made them very dissatisfied.

But now, they are the most supportive of the industrial and commercial policies of the Tang Dynasty, and even firmly support the Tang Dynasty to continue the Northern Expedition, and then completely unify China, because it will allow them to earn more money.

Money, who doesn't like it!

Not to mention those ordinary people, the main policy of the Tang Dynasty in civil affairs can basically be summarized as supporting industry and commerce and reducing the burden on farmers.

The former is aimed at the industrial and commercial industry, while the latter is aimed at farmers, in fact, many of the policies issued by the Tang Dynasty are specifically aimed at farmers.

From the initial unified agricultural tax, to the division of land for joining the army, the renting of official land for purchase, and the tax exemption for land reclamation, these are all policies specially introduced to alleviate the peasants.

Countless peasants under the rule of the Tang Dynasty have benefited from many agricultural policies of the Tang Dynasty, and although many people are still unable to eat, their lives are much better than before.

At the same time, the Tang Dynasty has also been active in providing relief to some of the natural disasters suffered by various places recently, such as typhoons and floods in western Guangdong in the early years, drought in southern Jiangxi, and then many other fragmentary natural disasters, the Tang Dynasty has implemented a wide range of disaster relief activities with the 'cash-for-work' policy as the core.

At the same time, local governments have been asked to organize the construction of water conservancy facilities, dredging rivers, and repairing official roads, and the central government has only given very few symbolic subsidies for these local infrastructure projects, and most of the funds need to be solved locally.

If the local government has money, then most of it is funded by the local government, supplemented by donations from the local gentry, and then local farmers are hired to build it during the slack time.

If the local government has no money, then the only way to mobilize the gentry to contribute money and the peasants to contribute is to carry out a small and limited way, and there are roads, bridges, and water conservancy construction.

This not only improved the infrastructure construction in various places, but also did not cost much, and these infrastructure construction activities also increased the organizational power of the militia organizations of the Tang Dynasty.

Because whether it is through mutual benefit or the government pays people to build official roads, it is basically the local militia organizations that take the lead in pulling the local young people to build them.

In terms of infrastructure construction in various localities, Li Xuan issued an instruction: All localities should adapt measures to local conditions, overcome difficulties, and carry out infrastructure construction related to the people's livelihood as much as possible.

This translates as: the local government has to find its own way to solve it, and it can't be solved if it is not solved!

As for what the central government is doing, in the past, the central government was unable to make ends meet, but since last year, the central government has eased a little, but most of the central finance has been used for some key projects, such as the factories of the Ministry of Industry, the office expenses of the Ministry of Taxation, and then the construction of five trade zones in treaty ports.

As for ordinary localities, the current central government is still unable to give too much support, so it can only give a little symbolic subsidy and let the localities solve the problem as much as possible.

And this self-solution is not to let the local government collect taxes, the power to collect taxes only belongs to the central tax department, and if the local government wants to intervene, it will be to exterminate the family.

However, the local government is not out of the question, if the tax is not good, then it will be charged!

However, there is actually not much to charge for such a thing, because the tax department is staring at it, if you dare to mess up things, the tax department will level the local yamen in a few minutes.

In the end, there was no way, the local government just started to prepare to borrow money!

In order to expand the wharf of the treaty port, the Yamen of Songjiang Mansion directly packaged the Shanghai wharf and nearby warehouses and land through some operations, and established the Shanghai Wharf Company belonging to Songjiang Mansion, and then took the follow-up profit of the Shanghai Port Wharf Company as the repayment plan, and applied for a loan from the Royal Bank with part of the land and wharf of the Shanghai Wharf Company as collateral!

As a policy bank, the presidents of the local Shanghai Royal Bank branch are very politically sensitive, and they feel that there are political risks in this operation of Songjiang Mansion, so they refuse!

But the Songjiang Mansion did not give up, and turned his foot to find the private 'Guangfeng Bank', this Guangfeng Bank, in fact, is a private bank jointly funded by many powerful merchants such as maritime merchants in Guangzhou, although the strength is not weak, but it is naturally incomparable with the Royal Bank.

However, let this group of businessmen who lost money send someone to seriously inspect the assets of the Shanghai Wharf Company, thinking that this is an extremely high-quality asset, and then really agreed to the loan!

However, even if they agreed to the loan, the officials in Songjiang Prefecture did not know whether their operation was feasible, and if they were accused of selling the country's assets to businessmen, then the local officials would be doomed, so they carefully wrote a letter asking Li Xuan to approve their plan, but did not sign the contract directly in private.

When Li Xuan knew about this, he also felt very speechless, the way these local officials make money is really self-taught, regardless of Chinese and foreign, ancient and modern, this one-handed operation, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a means for future generations.

However, Li Xuan did not directly refuse, but asked the cabinet to strictly review it, and at the same time, he also asked the cabinet to come up with a management method for local governments to prepare state-owned enterprises.

You can't say that any local government wants to set up a business, and you can't say that the enterprise can do whatever it wants, what if there is a bold guy who sells the entire state capital?

After the Spring Festival in the sixth year of Xuanping, the first cabinet meeting was to discuss the management methods of this state-owned enterprise!

The Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Taxation, the Ministry of Commerce, and even the Ministry of Officials were all involved, and finally at the meeting, they finally decided on a new plan for the management of state-owned enterprises.

First of all, the Cabinet will set up a new agency called the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises, which will centrally manage all state-owned enterprises and other state-owned assets, whether it is the original Ministry of Industry and the Royal Publishing House of the Ministry of Rites.

The main minority of the above-mentioned enterprises should be officials, recommended by the Ministry of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and implemented by the appointment and dismissal of the Ministry of Officials, while ordinary management personnel and employees are to follow the example of the previous Ministry of Industry enterprises, recruiting from the society, and their business methods are in accordance with the principles of market economy.

All enterprises, like private enterprises, pay taxes normally, and some of the profits of the enterprises leave part of the funds needed for expansion and operation, and the remaining part is directly handed over to the state treasury.

In order to secure the revenue of the national treasury, the Ministry of Taxation will directly dispatch tax officials to the state-owned enterprises to supervise the accounts.

This brand-new organization almost directly split the Ministry of Industry, and in this way, the original Ministry of Industry was almost in name only.

In order to compensate, but also for adjustment, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises will be established on the basis of the original main institutions of the Ministry of Industry, and most of the officials of the Ministry of Industry, such as Shangshu and Youshilang, will be directly transferred to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.

After the Ministry of Industry was stripped of the directly affiliated enterprises, only the original infrastructure construction in various places remained, and its power plummeted, but it can be regarded as a legitimate Ministry of Industry.

At the same time, for the local government's preparation for the establishment of state-owned enterprises, the ownership of provincial-run enterprises and government/state-run enterprises should be vested in the local state-owned assets department, and other management measures are similar to those of state-owned enterprises directly under the central government.

However, when preparing these two types of state-owned enterprises, it is necessary to obtain the approval of the Ministry of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, in principle, only allow the preparation of private enterprises that are unwilling to get involved, or cannot get involved, and are related to the lifeblood of the country.

After waiting for a long time, the officials of Songjiang Prefecture found that the Shanghai Wharf Company, which they had been preparing for a long time, had finally obtained permission to become the first state-owned enterprise of the Tang Dynasty, and then formally signed a loan contract with Guangfeng Bank to borrow 100,000 taels of silver to expand port-related facilities.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, through the Tang Dynasty newspaper, the Tang Dynasty officially announced the establishment of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and issued a new state-owned enterprise management award to the whole world.

And what does this mean, this means that local governments are also able to run state-owned enterprises, although it is not necessarily profitable to run state-owned enterprises, and sometimes they may lose money, but a large state-owned enterprise in the locality, it is not important for officials to make profits, they value more is the tax revenue brought by this large state-owned enterprise and a large number of jobs and can drive related industries.

For a time, all parts of the country were grinding their fists and palms, preparing to set up state-owned enterprises, why can Songjiang Mansion do it, but we can't!

We are poorer here, and we need such large enterprises to drive the local economic development!

In less than a month, the newly established Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises has received hundreds of applications for the establishment of local state-owned enterprises!

However, although there are many applications, because this policy has just been implemented, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises is also very cautious, and only selects ten more typical ones for approval.