Li Hongfei opened a knife on these powerful profiteering industries, but in fact did not cut much meat, but it played a great deterrent effect, and other small traders certainly did not dare to make trouble again, and these large number of small traders, the taxes they paid, are the real big heads. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Lord Li's plan is one after another, and Zhou is impressed by it! If Zhou's expectations are not bad, then the boss of Juwei Zhai was also arranged by Master Li in advance! Zhou Furen said firmly.

After all, the boss of Juwei Zhai was too eager for the account book, but after everyone signed the contract, Li Hongfei said that the account book would be returned to the soldiers one by one later.

"That's right, in fact, I only have the account books of Lichun Courtyard and Juwei Zhai here, and they gave it voluntarily, I am a Ming official, and I am not a copycat bandit, how can I search the houses of ordinary people at will, wouldn't it be true to do so?" Li Hongfei said with a smile.

Before the opening of the two Dongchang stalls that Wang Chengen gave to Li Hongfei, it was easy to settle this group of (harmonious) profiteers, and Li Hongfei is indeed worth being happy about.

As for their repentance?

Everyone has admitted the situation just now, and everyone has confessed to their tax evasion, coupled with the signed tax payment contract, no one will eat the leopard's guts and dare to play scoundrels with the court.

"I didn't expect that Lord Li is not only good at means, but also a rare good official! It seems that I, Zhou, also have to go back, and instruct the account office guys below to bring the account books of the first three years and pay taxes to the yamen. Zhou Furen took the initiative to ask for taxes.

Although Li Hongfei didn't say so, this tax money is nothing to Zhou Furen, the reason why he didn't pay it before was because everyone didn't pay it, Zhou Furen, as the richest man in Suzhou, is naturally not good to be a maverick, otherwise this business will not be able to do.

Now that everyone is paying taxes, he is not good at being special.

"If you become a government-run enterprise, as long as you don't evade taxes in the future, there is no need to make supplementary payments, and the imperial court will not get your forty percent of your industry in vain." Li Hongfei explained.

He didn't ask Cao Hong to pay taxes before, in fact, it was to highlight the special nature of government-run enterprises, so that those businessmen who were still on the sidelines would make up their minds as soon as possible.

Li Hongfei knew that the imperial court was short of money, but it was impossible to challenge the entire Suzhou shopping mall, win over a group, suppress a group, and divide these families, which was the wisest choice.

"Having said that, there are a lot of industries in the hands of the old decay, and it is impossible to join the government-run enterprises, and those who should pay taxes still have to pay, and when it comes to this, please also show the adults, which industry do you want to make the decay in the hands of the government-run enterprises?" Zhou Furen asked.

Seeing that Li Hongfei was deep in thought and did not speak, Zhou Furen added again: "Why don't you let the rice industry under the old man join the Ministry of Commerce, I didn't think that Su Dinghe was very reluctant before, although the rice industry under the old man is average in Suzhou, but the industry is all over the south of the Yangtze River." It's not that the old man is boasting, if he really wants to fight with the Su Dinghe, the signboard of Suzhou's first rice industry can be obtained in less than a month. ”

Zhou Furen can have today's achievements, and he knows that Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, so he has dabbled in all walks of life, but none of the industries has reached the point of dominating one side.

But with his current financial resources, let alone dominating a rice industry, even if he opens a new shop, even if he does not rely on the convenience of the government, just using huge financial resources to pile up, it will not be long before he can easily become the first in Suzhou.

"Old Zhou, now, the official won't hide it from you, and the court doesn't want any of your shops. The official wants you to prepare a large amount of cash and partner with the imperial court to open a new factory, so that the Zhou family will not take a penny of the taxes owed by the imperial court, and the official will also protect your official residence from the sixth grade, the deputy minister of commerce, I don't know what Zhou Lao wants? Li Hongfei, who had been thinking for a long time, finally said his thoughts.

"No need to pay taxes? A lot of cash? Partnering to open a new factory? Official residence from the six products? Please also elaborate on Mr. Lee. Zhou Furen grasped a few of the key points.

Although he is no longer much interested in being an official, Zhou Furen is still a little irresistible when he is smashed down from the six-rank official position, so he hopes that Li Hongfei can solve his doubts.

"Now that we have been fighting for many years and have suffered serious losses in the supply of soldiers, it takes too long to train an elite soldier who can fight well, and the only way is for the whole army to switch to firearms, so that the time for becoming an army can be greatly reduced. The Daming firearms manufacturing industry, mostly concentrated in the north, now only half of the imperial court is left, if you want to build an army quickly, you must solve the firearms problem. Therefore, the official decided to build a heavy industry production base integrating mining, steel smelting and forging. ”

"Such a production base used to be undertaken by the government, but the craftsmen in it did not have much money and status, plus the officials in charge, most of them sought stability and did not have much enterprising, so the firearms industry of the imperial court has stagnated in recent years, and even large-scale killing weapons such as Hongyi cannons have to be imported from Fanbang, is there really no one for my descendants of Yan and Huang?"

"After thinking about it, this official has decided to hand over this new type of heavy industry base to your Zhou family."

"The government of the factory only holds 20% of the shares, and is responsible for the security of the factory, and the remaining 80% of the shares, who is in the hands of the top person in charge of the factory, the official residence from the sixth grade, that is to say, this official position is hereditary."

"You can sell the civilian products produced in the factory freely, and in terms of military products, you will compete with the local ordnance departments to choose the best, so if you want to get military orders, the power of firearms, and the selling price will be the key factors you need to pay attention to." Li Hongfei explained a lot in one breath.

In the past, Li Hongfei tried his best to transform a group of private enterprises into state-owned enterprises, but now he has gone the opposite way, turning the enterprises that were originally fully controlled by the government into private enterprises..........

This is also a helpless move, the government needs a lot of costs to maintain the Ordnance Division, not to mention, the things that come out, but they are always the same, and they don't know how to save costs and innovate at all.

Now that there is a shortage of silver everywhere, Li Hongfei does not want to invest the silver he has obtained with great difficulty into the bottomless pit of firearms research.

Zhou Furen is a businessman, but as a businessman, the pursuit of profit is the first, if businessmen invest in the firearms industry, in order to pursue profits, they will definitely maximize the cost and output.

As for the quality, firearms are equipped with the army, if the businessmen dare to cut corners, causing the army to lose the war because of the quality of the firearms, then these businessmen will be the fastest to die, so in terms of quality, as long as the stakes are informed, presumably the things made must be better than the ordnance department.

More importantly, once the firearms sold by the businessmen surpassed the quality of the firearms of the Ordnance Bureau, it was also a good spur for those craftsmen who ate the imperial grain.

"In terms of mining and smelting, only investment is needed to produce firearms...... We ordinary businessmen don't understand it! Zhou Furen hesitated.

Obviously, he has already been moved, but in terms of firearms, it has always been controlled by the imperial court, and even the craftsmen who make firearms have worked for the imperial court for generations, and private businessmen have no talents in this area at all.

"Don't worry, since the imperial court accounts for 20% of the dry shares, of course it won't just take money and not do anything, this Suzhou Ordnance Division will be handed over to you to manage, which can be regarded as the imperial court's technology shares."

"In addition, as long as our factory is built and you are an official of the imperial court, you can naturally spend a lot of money to recruit firearms talents from other places. You have to remember that the armory divisions of other provinces are all our competitors, so you don't need me to teach you about poaching talents, right? Li Hongfei gave Zhou Furen an idea.

As the richest man in Suzhou, Zhou Furen has never lost in terms of suppressing his peers, if it is really like what Li Hongfei said, he can go to other weapons divisions to poach people, he has nothing to worry about.

"Since Master Li has said this, if I don't agree again, won't it be difficult to get along with money?" Zhou Furen said with a smile.

In fact, the main reason why he agreed to invest in heavy industry was not to make money, but because this can be hereditary from the six-rank official position, which can be regarded as seeking a good future for future generations.