After talking for more than half an hour, the lamp oil in the house was weak, and Sanniang instructed the maid to enter the house to change the lamp, and after preparing refreshments, Fang ordered people to retreat. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After the maidservants retreated, Sanniang continued: "Since ancient times, the people have taken food as the sky, and the country has been based on food. After the war this year, Tian Hu scavenged more money and grain, and got more than thousands of rewards from the imperial court, Liangshan this year and a bumper harvest, this time I ordered Jiang Jing to calculate, the money and grain have been greatly rich, can support the whole army for five years, so in addition to the above field governance, I want to exempt Shandong all the way to this year's field tax, so that the people can rest and recuperate. ”

Gongsun Sheng said: "This is another benevolent government, and the people should rejoice." Sanniang said with a smile: "Thanks to the money given by the imperial court, I didn't come to return to Tian Hu's seizure." Everyone laughed.

Then Sanniang motioned to Huang Wenbing to continue, Huang Wenbing cleared his throat and continued: "The third paragraph is the industrial and commercial salt and iron matter. Since the opening of Shandong Road, Shandong Road has encouraged industry and commerce, and has set up a department of industry and commerce to govern industry and commerce. When I think of the rise of Liangshan, thanks to the industrial and commercial affairs, there are many workshop industries in Liangshan and West China, and the commercial goods produced are even exported to the Western Regions. Since the opening of Shandong Road, Liangshan, Huaxi Yiying cottage original workshops, workshops, in addition to the ordnance workshop, the rest of the civilian commercial goods workshops, workshops, are restructured, the introduction of private businessmen into the capital, and gradually for the private businessmen to operate. ”

As soon as these words came out, Lu Junyi was shocked and said: "Senior sister, how can things like glass and wine that are done well be done exclusively for the people?" Isn't this a concession? Sanniang pursed her lips and chuckled: "Senior brother is worthy of being a businessman, and he will not leave the bank." Lu Junyi smiled and said: "What my senior sister said is that I am used to being a businessman, and it hurts to see that I will give away these many industries." ”

Sanniang smiled slightly: "Senior brother don't worry, listen to me." Sanniang got up and took out a few booklets and handed them to Lu Junyi and said: "This is a secret report from all over the country, in several military states in the south of the Yangtze River, there are already people who imitate our bottle of fragrant wine, and also create their own self-brewed wine, that is, the small shop on Jingyanggang back then, can also make fine wine, want to come to the wine, it won't be long before someone can come up with a method of mass production, and it is unprofitable for us to have a bottle of fragrant wine." There is also the glaze, there is a secret report in the Lingnan area, there are actually people there to burn out the transparent glaze, although there are many processes, but the glaze is similar to the glaze produced by me. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Junyi and the others were all taken aback and said, "Could it be that someone in our workshop leaked secrets?" Sanniang shook her head and said: "No, then I also instructed the secret agents to check again and again, all of them were self-created, and no one leaked secrets." ”

Lu Junyi frowned and said, "Is there such a capable person in the world?" Sanniang smiled slightly: "Senior brother, never underestimate the folk, since ancient times, the masters have been in the folk." In fact, the glass is not something that cannot be fathomed, but it is just perseverance, and after hundreds of failures, it will always succeed once. Therefore, sooner or later, our monopoly industry will be imitated and created, or there will always be a day when secrets will be leaked in the future. On the other hand, in our workshop over the years, as we have recruited people, if these industries are exclusively run by the government in the future, over time, they will inevitably become corrupt and slack, operate rigidly, and do not know how to be flexible, and it is difficult to say that they will lose money in the future. At that time, a large number of people working in the workshop will become redundant, and our government will have to pay for them, and it will become a burden. ”

Lu Junyi has been in business for many years, and he was the first to understand, and said thoughtfully: "What my sister means, turn these into private businesses, and private businessmen will seek profits, and they will try their best to make profits." If it is run by the government, it will inevitably be corrupt or stagnant in the future, which will drag down financial resources in the future, so it is better to turn it out at this moment, we only collect commercial taxes, and the profits and losses are taken care of by private businessmen? ”

Sanniang said with a smile: "It's still senior brother who understands people, and he deserves to be an old businessman." However, it is not completely converted to the private sector, if there is surplus money in our government, we can still select powerful businessmen to invest in the capital, divide the industry into a number of shares, how many shares the government holds, how many shares are accounted for by private businessmen, we just invest money, regardless of operation, and dividends according to shares at the end of the year. ”

Lu Junyi and others still didn't understand the matter of shares, so Sanniang patiently explained the system of the joint-stock company, and after a lot of words, everyone understood. Lu Junyi said with a smile: "I also said that my senior brother is a businessman, and it seems that you are the most shrewd businessman, and you will never suffer a loss." ”

Sanniang pouted and said: "Senior brother was ridiculed by me for a night, and only then did he laugh at me for two sentences, can it be regarded as revenge?" Lu Junyi twisted his beard and said with a smile: "Senior sister is small, the master is often teased by you, my senior brother was bullied by you, so naturally I have to rebound." Everyone laughed.

Sanniang said: "There is another thing, in addition to investing in silver money, we can also invest in technology." I still have the technology of running fire, honeycomb coal, and other goods here that can be made in the workshop, and these are all good things. As long as the private businessmen get these technologies in the future, they will be counted as my shares, and after the profits from the operation, they will be able to share my dividends. ”

Lu Junyi exclaimed: "Senior sister is really a ghost, everything and everything, just move your mouth, it will turn into bonus money, when it comes to the ability to make money, senior brother can't catch up with you." The crowd chuckled again.

Later, Huang Wenbing talked about the matter of salt and iron, and naturally all of them were turned into private commercial offices, encouraging the free operation of salt and iron, and the government only collected commercial taxes. This also surprised everyone, Zhu Wu said: "Since ancient times, the salt and iron government has been very strictly governed, and the salt goods made in the Song Dynasty are private property, official collection, official sale, commercial transportation, and commercial sales. Nowadays, all of them are privately run by private businesses, and they are only afraid of losing a lot of taxes. If you let go of the private business, some people have bad intentions and make weapons privately, and it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no chaos. Or it is not fortunate to produce fine iron and sell it to the enemy. ”

Sanniang shook her head and said: "Since ancient times, a country has been strong and prosperous, and the people have been rich, but even if they don't control iron tools, no one will rebel. On the other hand, the Qin State, although at the beginning of the founding of the country, it collected the world's iron tools, cast twelve gold people, and the folk even kitchen knives had to be used by several households, but in the end, it was not exposed by someone and died? The utensils are secondary, and the people who master the utensils are the key, if it is a group of untrained peasants, armed with sharp weapons, but for the battle-hardened soldiers, they are just a pile of chopping wood. ”

Zhu Wu suddenly realized, and Gongsun Sheng also bowed his head and said: "The lord's words are very true, but there is still a suspicion that fine iron flows in the enemy country and is not good for the country." Sanniang shook her head and said: "The saying that fine iron is flowing abroad is just a matter of unfounded worry, as long as I do a good job in internal inspection, and I don't allow businessmen to smuggle, it is a felony to hold it, so how can I worry about it?" Even if it is forbidden to check and a little fine iron is lost, it will always have more advantages than disadvantages for our merchants to pay taxes on the income from operating iron tools. Besides, even if I don't let go of the iron business, will no one smuggle fine iron to the enemy country? ”

Everyone was speechless, and Sanniang said again: "Let's talk about salt goods, at this moment, the Song system is a private property, official revenue, official sale, commercial transportation, and commercial sales. There are many intermediate links, and many people benefit from them, and in the end, the burden is added to the people who eat salt last, which is a bad thing for the ages. Since I encourage industry and commerce, salt and firewood, rice, oil, sauce, vinegar and tea are generally daily needs, and naturally they must be handed over to private businessmen to do their own thing. As for the amount of taxes, if they are not in the government, they are in the government, and when will there be less smuggling of salt? There is also a general loss of fiscal and tax revenues. If the private sector is allowed to run their own salt goods, there will be fewer smugglers of salt, and perhaps more taxes will be paid. ”

Gongsun Sheng clapped his hands and praised: "This is a move to benefit the people, the lord is benevolent, and he will definitely win the hearts of the people." After a pause, Gongsun Sheng said: "It's just that when the official sale was before, there were many businessmen who monopolized, and if they moved this selfish profit, I was afraid that these people would be resentful." ”

Before Sanniang could answer, Huang Wenbing had already said with a wicked smile: "The lord is worried that there is no excuse to clean up this group of people, these people have been very close to the Song court government all the year round, otherwise they would not have obtained a monopoly on salt goods, so they were about to give them an excuse to make trouble, so they could start and clean up together." ”

Gongsun Sheng suddenly realized: "It turns out that the deployment of the lord is step by step, and in the matter of salt and iron, he just buried a trick, and he will clean up these people who have the same heart as the Song Dynasty government. ”

Sanniang smiled: "This is natural, but it also depends on whether those people have eyesight, if you know the situation and know how to stand in line, as long as he doesn't make trouble, I have no excuse to clean him up, and I can let him go." Master Huang, let's go on. ”

Huang Wenbing said: "In addition to salt and iron, there are other minerals to operate, except for gold, silver and copper, the rest of the minerals can be privately operated. Minerals such as gold, silver, and copper are all run by the government. ”

Speaking of which, Sanniang took out a map, which was a map of Shandong Road, and then Sanniang pointed to a place near Ye County, Laizhou: "This is Linglong Mountain, Ye County, Laizhou, there is a red stone cliff here, I have already found someone to explore, there is a gold vein here, and it can be mined on a large scale in the future." ”

Lu Junyi and the others were taken aback and gathered around to watch. It turned out that Sanniang was referring to the famous Linglong gold mine in later generations, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Li Zongdai, Taiwu Lindaotai, Jidong, Shandong Province, with the support of Li Hongzhang, sent people to Zhaoyuan to prospect, which was Ye County in the Song Dynasty. Gold deposits were found at the red stone cliffs of Linglong Mountain, where gold reserves are abundant and suitable for mining. Since then, three generations of Li Zongdai and his son have mined gold in Linglong Mountain for 50 years, spanning the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, which shows that there are many gold reserves here.

Lu Junyi sighed after reading it: "With this gold mine, there is another stable source of wealth. Sanniang said with a smile: "In fact, there are a lot of minerals in Shandong, and there are still many silver and copper minerals, which can be mined only after being proven." Gold, silver and copper mines can only be purchased by the government because of their great value, and other minerals, such as iron, media and other minerals, can be run by private businesses. (To be continued.) )