Chapter 607: My Territory, My Decision
Black-hearted capitalists can't do it......
Of course, saints can't do it either.
Therefore, banks still have to have, industry monopolies must also be there, and even targeted industry heavy taxes are also essential.
The first step of Yang Xin's economic reform was to promote Shoucheng Money Bank to a bank, and it was authorized to have the sole right to mint money and the only right to issue notes.
This should still be issued, anyway, if he doesn't send it, it will be cheaper for those money banks.
So far, silver bills have become the main means of large-value transactions, and have even begun to increase the amount, so it is completely overestimated by the financial capitalists to ask the money bank not to secretly print a few more tickets. Then Yang Xin is simply monopolized by his bank, and the silver bills are not protected, and whether he can cash it out only depends on the business reputation of the bank, in other words, the money bank cannot be cashed out if it fails, and this holder can only consider himself unlucky.
But banks are different.
Banks are not governmental, but are still counted as the private industry of the Yang family, that is, the Yang family does not have to worry about this problem if it does not collapse.
Therefore, it is inconvenient for everyone to carry silver when trading in large quantities, so use banknotes!
But silver is still the main currency.
And there is no amount of banknotes in the plan, one hundred yuan is the start, that is, one hundred taels of silver, free exchange is certain, and the rest is the problem of counterfeit banknotes, which can only be solved by science and technology, new papermaking technology, new ink, etc......
Actually, this has not been a problem.
Don't be the Yang family, even those ordinary money banks have their own anti-counterfeiting methods.
And superbly.
After all, everyone knows about counterfeit banknotes.
It was already very widespread in the Southern Song Dynasty.
In short, the bank is used to complete financial control, of course, the bank is not impossible, but the bank cannot issue banknotes or mint coins, and in the end if you want to operate normally, you can only exchange silver from the bank.
Copper coins are also a truth.
The financial system was controlled, grain was also controlled through surplus grain purchases and monopolies, and the salt industry remained.
Although the modern salt monopoly has been criticized by countless people, in fact it is really necessary.
Yang Xin did not change the salt merchant system, but only controlled the salt farms, because the salt farmers were also militiamen, and all the salt produced by the Lianghuai salt factories could only be sold to his salt company. Then he sold it to the salt merchants, so that the interests of the salt farmers could be guaranteed, and the same way that by controlling the food supply, the purchase price of salt would always ensure the food and clothing of the salt farmers, and the rest was that the more they dried, the more they earned.
As for sales......
Let go of the salt to introduce the school
Whoever has the ability will sell it, but it will be changed to a tax on the supply of gambling salt.
Pay taxes when selling salt, and then do not have to pay any taxes during transportation, and the commercial tax that the local local merchants should pay has nothing to do with the transporters, and the local local merchants are no longer designated to sell......
Anyone can sell it.
It is the salt merchant who transports it to the local area, and he sets up a shop to sell it to the school
The salt industry system of the Ming Dynasty was actually very scientific in the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, and the salt households were also state-owned salt farm workers in a sense. Salt merchants transport grain to Jiubian to exchange salt and lead it to the salt field to support salt, and they are responsible for transporting it to the designated area, which is limited to where it is, and the sales after the more are not under their control, they just transport it over, and then the local officials set the price, and those village officials such as the head of the capital are responsible for dividing according to the number of people in each household.
The latter exchanged food for grain.
You can also take treasure money.
This is called counting dictation salt.
Zhu Yuanzhang used a paternalistic spirit to take care of everything, and formulated a salt industry system that allowed salt farmers and the people who eat salt to suffer losses.
But the interests of the officials in charge of all this were not taken into account......
How do officials make money by playing like this?
Then they worked hard for generations, and finally ruined him completely.
The current system is that the salt merchants go to the household department to pay the money to receive the salt lead, take the salt lead to the salt factory to find the salt household to buy it themselves, and negotiate the price with the local merchants controlled by the local officials and gentry in the designated place, and sell it to the local merchants after determining the price.
No one cares how the local merchants sell.
In this way, the officials have what they have to fish, and the merchants have to make money, but no one cares about the salt farmers and salt eaters, but they also have their own way out, and this way out is the old business of the king of Zhennan, which is also the reason for the flood of private salt in the Ming Dynasty. Now Yang Xin will definitely not rebuild Zhu Yuanzhang's set, the latter has the ability to maintain this system because he dares to peel the skin of corrupt officials, dare to kill countless people in a big prison, and the king of Zhennan, who does not have the courage of the old Zhu, simply legalizes all the illegal salt on the basis of the flood of illegal salt!
Anyone can sell it.
Salt introduction or something has been canceled.
If you want to sell salt, you go to the salt farm to wholesale, which village thinks that the salt sold by the salt merchant is too expensive, and it is a big deal that someone from your village will go to the salt farm to wholesale.
Anyway, the tax is added to the price of salt.
In short, Yang Xin only controls the salt farm, and the salt farmers are not allowed to sell salt by themselves, all the salt is sold to the salt farm, and the rest is none of their business, and they take the money to buy grain at the grain store to go to school
This is Yang Xin's salt industry reform.
It's not too much to touch the interests, anyway, the household department can't control him, the salt merchants in Yangzhou have indeed been affected, but they have perfect transportation and sales channels after all, they have obvious advantages, and even this is not a bad thing for them, at least there is no need to deal with corrupt officials up and down. The rest is to make money with their real skills, and those who have the ability can make a lot of money, in the end, the salt merchants in the past were just serving those corrupt officials in the imperial court, or they were simply officials and businessmen themselves.
But this system completely got rid of the corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and there were no such parasitic vampires as salt merchants, and it was okay to have a higher wholesale price and a lower retail price......
From Dagukou to the capital, there is enough profit space in the era when it can be increased fivefold, and some mountainous areas from Huaiyan to Huguang have even increased dozens of times!
But what about private salt?
In these places, one pound of official salt can often reach the price of forty pounds of private salt.
The latter is the real price.
The former is nothing more than the price of the parasites from all stripes.
The salt merchants really didn't care about this kind of reform.
But another reform can be complained.
Tobacco franchise.
Moreover, the cultivation of tobacco is prohibited among the people.
At this time, there were already a lot of smokers, including the Yang family's cigarettes, which also became popular, and even developed so rapidly that they were eye-popping, and even the fertile land in many places was planted with tobacco, which was also the reason why Chongzhen banned smoking, although his smoking ban was useless.
Yang Xin's system is that tobacco growers in non-designated areas not only destroy tobacco fields, but also collect three times the normal grain output according to the area planted.
Arrest and exile beyond the set standards.
Or mining.
You can smoke, but you can only buy it from the tobacco company, of course, with heavy taxes, and the tobacco of the tobacco company is mainly from outside, in fact, it mainly comes from Yunnan, Guizhou and eastern Sichuan. This system was quickly spread into the fox of Long Xiaozu, after all, those toasts have been widely planted tobacco in recent years, and the king of Zhennan was bewitched by this woman, in order to ensure that the tobacco of those toasts can be sold, so he designed this tobacco monopoly system.
Of course, whatever they do!
Anyway, King Zhennan forced the law to buy his family's high-priced cigarettes.
The other is wine.
This also caused a lot of complaints.
And it was a unanimous complaint, including the cronies of King Zhennan, after all, King Zhennan first forcibly stipulated that they must take the lead in not drinking rice wine, but the thieves understood this very well, after all, they couldn't stand that rice wine.
Also welcome...
In short, a series of reforms of King Zhennan, in support and complaints, were forcibly implemented one by one, even if they did not support it, they could only accept it, and even the gentry accepted the division of land, what are these reforms? It's not a big deal anymore, you are not allowed to drink rice wine, you can drink sorghum wine and sweet potato wine, it is actually not a big deal for ordinary people to come, you are not allowed to grow dry tobacco and smoke, then you go to buy it, although the price is more expensive but nothing more than to smoke less.
It's not like you're going to die if you don't smoke.
However, for other things such as mining, industry, and commerce, the king of Zhennan doesn't care at all, he likes to do what he wants, as long as he pays taxes, and the mines that were previously banned by the imperial court are mined casually, and the restricted industries are completely lifted.
Munitions continue to be made.
Don't make muskets, don't make cannons.
The big arsenals in Songjiang sang and danced, and the silver mines that were divided by the gentry in Zhejiang were also mined casually, but the minted silver had to be minted to the bank after paying taxes, and the bank of course had to charge a little manual fee. But the minted silver coins will still be given to them, and it would be better if they were willing to keep them in the bank, including the mining of copper mines, and whoever likes to pick them up casually, don't forget to give a copy to the king of Zhennan.
As for other coal, steel, textiles, etc., which do not involve the right to mint money, there is no restriction at all.
This is especially true for business.
In short, the king of Zhennan only needs to pay taxes, although he has set a bunch of messy industrial and commercial taxes, but as long as he pays taxes, outside the scope of his limits, then he can do whatever he wants. And there will be no corrupt officials deliberately making things difficult, all systems are clear, as long as the system is abided by, then there will be difficulties to sue.
Including going to the king of Zhennan to sue.
The king of Zhennan followed the example of the Dengwen Drum Courtyard and set up a separate agency in his own official office, and anyone who had a grievance went to complain, and this institution was under the management of Mrs. Long, that is, the identity of the complainant was kept secret, and the investigation of the matter was also kept secret, and only after the facts were found out did he arrest people. So the officials can be scared, because it is difficult for them to know if they have been sued, or if the Longfu Rao agent is secretly investigating him.
However, there is one industry that is restricted.
Publishing industry.
Especially in the newspaper industry.
This must be subject to the supervision and review of a special agency, and newspapers can be run in various localities, but every newspaper must be censored, including published books, and banned books like Datongguo cannot be proliferated in the future.
Of course, this is not very useful.
After all, it was already sold all over the world by this time.
This is how the prosperity of Jiangsu and Zhejiang began.