Chapter 366: A Way to Make Money

"You listen to me when I'm done." Interrupted by Cheng Chuliang, Li Daoyun was not annoyed, and still looked light: "The military expenditure of the Yuezhou fleet is not as much as ours, but do you see Liu Renliang crying to the prince or His Majesty?" ”

“…… That's not true, you mean ......" Li Daoyun reminded him, and Cheng Chuliang also suddenly realized: "The military expenditure of our Quanzhou fleet is a special case, and their Yuezhou fleet is directly according to the military expenses given by the Class A fleet...... I'm in a hurry like this, it stands to reason that Liu Renliang should be more anxious, there is no reason to be so light and light - I know, this old Wang Ba Lizi must have used the money allocated by the imperial court to the naval district to fill the hole...... That's right, it must be so, bastard, there's still half of our money in it. ”

In addition to the military expenses of the fleet, the imperial court also allocated a sum of money to the naval district, although it is not as much as the military expenditure directly given to the fleet, but the amount is also a lot, if Liu Renliang takes out this money and puts it into the Yuezhou fleet, then the Yuezhou fleet really does not have to worry about starving to death, and can even eat enough - this is also the reason why Cheng Chuliang is angry, because since it is money for the naval district, it stands to reason that the two fleets under the jurisdiction of the naval region should have a share, and now Liu Renliang has taken out all the money and gave it to the Yuezhou fleet, which is personally unfair.

"You dare to think about it, but he Liu Renliang also has to have that courage." Li Mingxin immediately gave Cheng Chuliang a reply: "That money is a special military fund for him to form the Lingnan Naval Region, where does he dare to embezzle it without authorization?" His foundation was already unstable, and now many people are staring at his position as the Grand Governor, where does he dare to make mistakes? I said don't interject if you don't understand, let's listen to the political commissar. ”

Cheng Chuliang touched his nose and said, "Okay, political commissar, you can continue." ”

"In fact, this kind of thing is that we are young and just entered the industry, and it is normal for no one to point out clearly, but after a long time, as long as you look more and pay more attention, you can always find out." Li Daoyun's face was still as usual, as if Mount Tai couldn't change his color even if he collapsed in front of him: "Before you joined the navy, you all had your own tasks, and your attention was not on the navy, so naturally you couldn't pay attention to these." On the contrary, he spent the whole day meditating in meditation and had more free time, but he noticed Liu Renliang's method of making money - in fact, as early as last year, or to be precise, after the establishment of the Yuezhou fleet, Liu Renliang didn't need to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for money, and even not only didn't want money, but he could also give back a lot of money to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince every year......

"How is this possible?" Cheng Chuliang shouted: "The navy is a big money-eater, except for the crown prince, no one in this world can feed a fleet by himself...... If this Liu Renliang could have this ability, he would have been rich a long time ago, and he would not have been unknown until he was in his thirties, and finally discovered by His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

Li Daoyun corrected: "You misunderstood what I meant, the feedback I said was not to make money for the prince, but to say that the prince gave him military expenses every year and he had a surplus to return to the prince." ”

"That's impossible, his military spending is not as much as ours, and even if he can do business, he can't make so much money...... In other words, what kind of business does he do? ”

"The business that the Navy can do, that's too much." Li Daoyun said: "As far as I know, as long as it has something to do with the sea, the navy can do it, and it is even more profitable than the private sector - as far as I know, Liu Renliang is involved in a lot of business on the sea, but there are two of them that he is the most profitable, the first is shipping, and the second is escort, if you want to do it, I suggest you do these two things." ”

Cheng Chuliang said suspiciously: "I thought you would say smuggling, no matter how bad it is, you have to resell local products or something, but you actually said shipping and escort?" Does this really make money? ”

"Of course you can make money, not only to make money, but also to make a lot of money." Speaking of this, Li Daoyun finally put away a little bit of a light expression, and said with a little seriousness: "Let's just say that this sea transportation, that is, Liu Renliang uses a warship to help people transport goods, do you know how much you will charge for a trip?" ”

"How do I know this?"

“…… Let me tell you this, but anything that can be transported by a warship is generally a precious cargo, such as rare timber from the South Seas, pearls and gems, spices and medicinal materials, etc., because of the safety of the warship, so Liu Renliang does not collect money according to the quantity at all, he directly takes a commission, according to different items according to different proportions, and the lowest is from five points to the highest thirty percent. You have to know that the owner of the commercial bank can ask the fleet to help transport it, the value of these commodities can be imagined, and the things that may be seen everywhere in the local area will be dozens or hundreds of times the profit as soon as they are transported to the Central Plains, and the amount of each transaction is tens of millions of taels.

And because the navy is a military power, even the city department will not levy too high taxes on them, which has led to countless merchants willing to pay the navy to help them transport goods. It's just that this kind of thing is done by the navy by the way, and it can only be regarded as the extra money earned by the navy itself, and even the imperial court can't take back this money - so in a year, think about how much money Liu Renliang has to make? ”

"Suck!" Cheng Chuliang took a loud breath, swallowed back the saliva that was about to flow out, ignored the strange eyes of everyone looking at him, and asked eagerly: "I really didn't expect that this help to transport goods would have such a big profit, it is really enviable, so we can do this kind of thing?" ”

"Of course, I would have suggested that you do this."

"And what about escorts? Isn't this a bit similar to what you said about sea freight? Is there anything different? Can we do the same? Cheng Chuliang hurriedly asked again, after all, he can only walk steadily on two feet, and eggs can't be put in one basket, he understands these truths.

"Of course not." This time, there was no need for Li Daoyun to speak, Li Mingxin took the initiative to explain: "Shipping is to pay for the navy to help transport the goods, which means that this batch of goods is handed over to the navy to be responsible, if there is a problem in the middle, the navy will have to compensate, so the navy's asking price is very high, and the status of the navy in this is equivalent to a dart game."

The escort is different, although the navy also needs to send warships to escort, but the ship transporting goods is still the merchant's own, in which the main role of the navy is only to protect the merchant ship from being attacked, but if the storm causes the merchant ship to sink and other natural disasters, the loss can only be borne by the merchant ship owner himself, the navy does not need to compensate, and even if the warship is damaged or the navy personnel are injured or injured on the way to escort, the merchant ship owner also needs to pay a sum of money to the navy, where the status of the navy is equivalent to a mercenary.

But don't underestimate the escort business, although the cost of escort is not too high, but it can't support the number of orders, and the navy doesn't need to be as large-scale as shipping, only a few warships need to be sent to basically deter all outlaws, and you can receive many orders at the same time, so on the whole, it's even a little more profitable than shipping - I explain it that way, it should be right? ”

"That's right, that's what the poor road means." looked at Li Mingxin approvingly, this is indeed an empathetic stopper, and he is a person who is naturally suitable to be a staff officer or deputy.

"You mean, we also follow the Yuezhou fleet to do this?" Cheng Chuliang's saliva flowed faster, but his good mood was quickly messed up by a question: "But there is another question, Liu Renliang occupies these two businesses, with the relationship between us, how can he give us the business?" Otherwise, we still do it ourselves from beginning to end, from commodity procurement to sales, so that not only is it more profitable, but also does not even need to file taxes, directly park the cargo ship in our base, and go out from the base, I don't believe that the people of the city dare to come to check the tax. ”

"Yes, yes, but there are a few problems that you have to make sure you can solve." Looking at Cheng Chuliang, Li Mingxin did not refuse directly, but asked a few questions: "First, you want to do it yourself, but where is the cost of commodity procurement?" Overseas colonization is now a craze, but there are also many people dying on the way, according to statistics, at least two out of every ten people who go to Borneo will die for various reasons, which can be described as a crisis. Even if you are an official, it is impossible for a bank to lend you so much money.

In addition, don't tell me that you are going to use the three million taels of military funds as the principal, it is a felony to embezzle military funds without permission, it is good to make money, if you lose money, then you will be a dead end. Even if you can solve the problem of private use of military spending, if we do our own business, then what about this business? Or is it considered to be from the imperial court? If it is our own, but both the principal and the tools to make money are the court's, we have not invested anything except a lot of effort, and even we need to rely on the momentum of the court to do business.

Then the second question also comes, spending the money of the imperial court, using the ships of the imperial court, and relying on the power of the imperial court, is the money earned in this way considered the imperial court or ours? If it goes to the imperial court, then we are tantamount to doing useless work, but if the money is allocated to our own use, what will the imperial court think? The things we have used from the beginning to the end of the court, we just made a lot of effort, if you have the cheek to take this money, the court will not be as you want, at most it is to give you a little hard-earned money, and the big head must still be taken by them.

The third question, doing business is not so simple, you want to do business, up and down must be transparent, not only to have a stable supply of goods above, but also to have a suitable buyer below, the relationship is complicated, if you want to do long-term business, the establishment of a chamber of commerce is imperative, the management of the chamber of commerce is much more troublesome than you manage the fleet, you now even how to manage the fleet has not learned well, you still want to manage the chamber of commerce?

Fourth, and most importantly, you said before that you would take advantage of the military and not need to declare and pay taxes, and the city department would not dare to check you, but have you thought about it? This is already considered tax evasion, once or twice the court may turn a blind eye, but after a long time, do you think they will let you do it? If the imperial court has been ignoring you, it will be even worse, because this is tantamount to a bad start, those merchants already think that the tax collection of the city division is too powerful, if you dare to take the lead in using the power of the army to evade taxes, those distressed businessmen who are about to cry will definitely attach their chamber of commerce to the name of the army. From then on, the failure of the city to collect taxes will inevitably lead to the emptiness of the treasury and the exhaustion of the domestic economy, and the neglect of training in the army due to the busyness of business will also lead to the slackening of armaments, and if something goes wrong at this time, you are a sinner for the ages.

There is also the last one, the imperial court explicitly prohibits officials from doing business, Liu Renliang is just playing a side game, you actually dare to do business openly, is it really good to provoke the laws of the imperial court so blatantly? Do you think the court will spare you when they find out? I'm afraid your father will be the first to tie you up and escort you to His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince...... Mom, after all that, I'm really tired, let me drink saliva and ...... first"

After saying so many words in one breath, Li Mingxin said that his mouth was dry, and he hurriedly took the kettle from the guard next to him and poured it violently, and poured it more than ten times, then put down the kettle, sighed and burped comfortably.

"......" Cheng Chuliang didn't speak, because he was really stumped by Li Mingxin's words, this was indeed his inconsiderate thinking, everything Li Mingxin said was very deadly, if he hadn't discussed it with Li Mingxin in advance, Cheng Chuliang would have been aware of his fate - I'm afraid that if he didn't even prepare for the preparatory work, he would be reported to the court by the political commissar, and then he would wait to go back to prison.

Especially the last one, although they are all doing business, Liu Renliang is still within the acquiescence of the imperial court, but Cheng Chuliang's is really blatant slapping the imperial court in the face, no matter how outstanding he is, he will be killed by the imperial court and set an example...... As soon as he thought of his fate, Cheng Chuliang felt that his back was wet, and he was purely frightened......

"How? Convinced by me, right? Li Mingxin chuckled and said, "But don't be afraid, haven't we done it yet?" Let's just follow Liu Renliang directly, if he doesn't take us, then we will imitate people, and then grab business with him after the business is proficient, and by the way, we will take revenge for being pitted, which is simply very happy. ”

"But will Liu Renliang allow us to do business with him?"

"You don't have to worry about this, do you think that the shipping industry can be eaten by a fleet?" Li Mingxin said with a smile: "You also underestimate our Datang's current maritime trade, not to mention anything else, let's just say that our overseas colonies have three ...... If you count the Spice Islands and Tianzhu, this is already five overseas territories, and any of these territories cannot be eaten by one or two fleets. ”

(End of chapter)