Lu Zhe wants to develop industry, and some people naturally want to occupy an advantageous position, because these people have enough funds in their hands to follow the pace of development.

At present, most of the sources of funds invested in industry are nobles, and the third echelon is from the clans and gentry of the people, but this is really a matter of no way, after all, those who have the background can always take more opportunities.

Who can blame those who have the foundation to take the lead? Anyone's money is not blown by the wind, it often needs a process of accumulation, but some people accumulate fast, some people accumulate slowly, there is never any fairness at all, the fairness of everything is actually the biggest unfairness, is it to let those who work hard to accumulate wealth unconditionally distribute their property equally?

The empire was constantly expanding outward, and the most lucrative occupation was to enlist in the army, because soldiers could keep forty percent of their capture. The result of this phenomenon is that most of the sergeants and soldiers of the army became the first to become wealthy as they continued to expand outward.

The empire is also constantly building its own territory, and if you are willing to sell a little effort, you can find a job, and even some people with flexible brains can accumulate wealth as long as they are willing to work harder for the business of transshipment and sales.

The capital investment in industry is generally large, so it is usually not easy to own your own workshop or factory, and the industrial development in the early imperial period can only rely on the capital class. In fact, the development of industry in any country relies on the old cumulative class.

"Don't create a predatory economic status quo." Lu Zhe's tone was a little low, and he said: "Of course, if the plunder is based on non-national nationals. I welcome them to plunder. ”

Everyone listened attentively, and they could hear the low tone of the emperor's tone, and they understood more that the emperor was worried about something. For example, let those who want to start a business but don't have the capital to participate together.

"There are not many beneficiaries of creating factories and hiring workers." Xiao He thought to himself in his heart: "It is impossible to satisfy everyone with anything, all the ruling team can do is to take care of the interests of as many people as possible." ”

Lu Zhe had previously mentioned that funds should be provided in the form of state loans to people who lack capital but want to start a business, and the topic was in trouble from the beginning.

The state's money comes from the people's taxes, and if the loans are opened, what form should they take? Is it a secured model, or is it not a mortgage model? Once it is a mortgage model. Aren't the people who can borrow money from the state the ones who own fixed assets? If we do not take mortgage loans, how bad will we be to make such state loans, and how much money can the state squander?

A difficult question. Therefore, it goes back to the constraints of early developers, which is to treat workers well when starting a business, and then the order of the market, and so on.

In fact, no one has any experience in how to carry out industrial development. Everything can only be taken one step at a time. It is precisely because they do not know how to develop or plan industry, the officials of the entire center are in a state of confusion, they do not even have a clue how to plan industry, but the emperor is already thinking about the sale of industrial output goods and the benefit of more people.

"A conditional line of credit can do." Lu Zhe looked at the dazed minister on his face and said: "The so-called credit is to be reviewed according to the tax amount, and it is allowed to apply for a loan according to the percentage and times of your tax value. ”

Xiao He immediately said: "Your Majesty, the government ~ government has always been in a fiscal deficit. I'm afraid ......"

"No, it's not a fiscal deficit." Lu Zhe must reverse Xiao He's view of the government~government economy. He said: "The fiscal expenditures and revenues of the empire were calculated only by taxes, not by mining and foreign plunder. ”

It may be a bit funny, but in the past, the ruling government really only calculated how much tax it collected from the private sector in terms of annual revenue, which included 33 percent of the agricultural tax and 67 percent of the commercial tax. In addition to agricultural and commercial taxes, the ruling government did not include other revenues, such as 60 percent of the value of the booty paid by soldiers in the army's expansion and the income from the state-owned mining industries.

Last year, the empire's tax revenue was 27,610,000 guan, an increase of 0.7 percent over the past few years, but the value of the army's booty that was not included in the fiscal revenue was roughly calculated to be 14 million guan, and the benefits of mining were even more frightening.

The spoils of war did not cover the land and natural resources, because it was really difficult to calculate, and the land included about 300,000 square miles of complex terrain in the area near the Junji Mountains in the Hetao, more than 700,000 square meters of plains north of Dai County, and no less than 1.3 million square kilometers of land in the northwest of Longxi County.

The total area of the empire's present territory is 8.2 million square kilometers if you include the many islands and islands in the ocean. And this does not include the Tibetan Plateau in later generations, and even the new ~ Xinjiang in later generations is not included, and the added ones are Chao ~ Xian Peninsula, Vietnam ~ South, Laos, Burma, Luzon Island, and the whole island of Wa Kingdom......

Under the huge area, the resources are beyond imagination, and it is difficult to use a clear data to mark how much wealth is, because some resources can be reused again and again.

"Luzon has provided more than 700,000 tons of copper to the empire mainland last year alone, and this figure is limited to the lack of adequate development of Luzon." Chen Xuan used a tone full of regret: "If Luzon is supported by manpower and material resources similar to that of the Japanese Islands, it will not be difficult to contribute more than two million tons of copper to the empire every year." ”

The imperial units of measurement and weight had been reformed to adopt a modern way of calculating them across the board. One meal is 2,000 catties, considering that copper coins contain lead and a certain amount of tin, one pound of copper can make about 1,200 five-baht coins, then 70 tons of copper is 1.6 billion yuan, and then think about it has always been 1,000 five-baht coins...... This is a very scary number.

What else did Chen Xuan of the Nanyang Fleet say? He said that Luzon's copper production could increase even more, and that the ideal figure should be two million tons, which is dizzying to hear.

Of course, copper isn't just something that can be crafted into coins. In fact, copper is needed in many tools, and copper coins are currently in short supply in the market, and according to the survey, the copper coins required by the entire empire are at least about 30 billion yuan. So......

"It's not just copper, in fact, the carrying capacity of the Nanyang Fleet has always been insufficient." Chen Xuan complained: "We need to transport copper from Luzon to the mainland without stopping, and in addition to copper, we also need to transport spices, fragrant wood and other resources, and we urgently need to increase the number of transportation vessels." ”

The current Nanyang Fleet is a pivotal fleet, and they are constantly generating benefits for the empire, and it is based on this confidence that Chen Xuan dares to complain on important occasions, if it was before...... Chen Xuan could only hide in the corner as an audience. There was no chance of a voice, let alone a justified call for more ships.

The trade of the future is the trade in spices, which Lu Zhe is extremely sure of. The Imperial Center also learned this from the relevant data.

From the appearance of the spices obtained from the South Seas to this year, the transaction volume of spices has exceeded 1.7 million guan, and this is only the digestion within the empire. Future empires and Central Asian countries. Even the empire's trade with the Mediterranean countries, spices and silk, tea were the three fist products. Spices cost less than silk and tea, and were considered by the empire to be one of the most important sources of trade.

Chen Xuan seemed to have finished talking about the contribution of the Nanyang Fleet to the empire, and the debate on the side was a little unable to sit still.

The recent experience of the Beiyang Fleet has not been very good, some capital ships and reconnaissance ships have been repeatedly converted into cargo ships for transport purposes, the Beiyang Fleet's combat warships have been decreasing, and the "surviving" warships, large and small, have only been retained less than 10, which can be as miserable as they are.

“…… To the empire itself, at least 300,000 tons of silver and no less than 80,000 tons of gold were transported annually. Bianliang's face was full of bitterness. said: "But we are a fleet, a fleet." It is not a transport team, and we cannot reduce the combat warships because the Beiyang needs to undertake transportation, and now we may not have a threat from the ocean, but it would be a big mistake to wait for the danger to come back and pay attention to it one day. ”

Xiao He looked at Luo Shao.

Luo Shao blinked at Zhonglang Jiang, who had complained twice, and then made an attitude of "I didn't hear".

The current topic is the calculation of the country's finances, but it is not a grievance meeting, and Luo Shao also feels that the navy really does not know how to look at the timing, so many civilian officials are present to complain about something, which is completely embarrassing the face of the military.

"Lo and behold, not only the agricultural and commercial taxes are calculated, but the annual income of the empire is too much to calculate." Lu Zhe looked at Xiao He, then at all the ministers, and said, "Actually, if the time wasn't ripe, I really wouldn't think there was a need to collect agricultural taxes. ”

It was meant to be! Several important grain-producing areas of the empire are now state-owned, and in fact, the state no longer depends on the grain output of private self-employed individuals, but on the various tuntian corps.

Only 33 percent of the agricultural taxes paid by the private sector are paid. This 33 percent is still the ruling government's algorithm that does not take into account the income other than agricultural and commercial taxes, and if other revenues are included, it is not known to what proportion of agricultural taxes will be reduced.

The so-called immaturity of time mentioned by Lu Zhe is more complicated, and the state cannot suddenly cancel anything without brewing, and the result will be that the state will cancel agricultural taxes, including why the animal husbandry industry and commerce should collect it, and it is not clear how to explain it!

In addition, the abolition of the agricultural tax has another major problem that may be extended, that is, once the agricultural tax is gone, the peasants' hearts will be bought, but the country's industrial construction is estimated to be frustrated, and a large number of workers will run back to dig the soil, and the industrialization process that is about to start will be an out-and-out disaster.

It is necessary to wait until the process of society has reached a certain stage, and then something can be done at the right time.

"The empire is always getting bigger, and the resources we have at our disposal are increasing all the time." Lu Zhe should have been happy, but he frowned. "We need the population, the average population," he said. ”

In 206 B.C., the country's territory of 8.2 million square kilometers was a remarkable achievement, but the troubles that would come with it would also be enormous.

Of the 8.2 million square kilometers of territory, the most densely populated place is in the Central Plains, followed by the Yangtze River Valley, where the population is most diluted...... There are too many to list.

The so-called Central Plains is probably Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan in later generations, and the area of these places is about 600,000 square kilometers, but there are more than 10 million people living on the territory of 600,000 square kilometers.

The Yangtze River basin is relatively large, with a population of about 8 million, but more than 2.5 million are concentrated in Nanjun alone.

By 206 B.C., the Empire's latest census data was 36 million, of which 8.7 million were under the age of 16, 20.4 million were between the ages of 16 and 40, and 6.9 million were over the age of 40.

There will be such an age distribution, especially the population under the age of 16 has as much as 8.7 million, purely because Lu Zhe has encouraged childbearing, and this data has been increasing; The data of 20.4 million is also worth mentioning, which is ten years for the growth of former teenagers, and it is also the strong survival ability of young and strong people in the war; 6.9 million data over 40 years old, in fact, these people were also in the prime of life ten years ago, but now they are old.

In 206 B.C., it was absolutely not a joke to say that forty years old was an old man, because of the relationship between diet and sanitary conditions, the average life expectancy at that time was only about thirty-five years old, which was a very long life when he lived to fifty or sixty years old, so that sixty-year-old people became a rarity, and they could have the "strong privileges" that belonged to the elderly in the local area.

The relevant departments of the ruling government have calculated that the population of the empire will exceed 60 million in the next ten years...... Of course, at least 25 percent of the population will be under the age of 10.

"It may take at least thirty years of cycles for the population of the empire to develop a healthy cycle." Xiao He said this with a relaxed attitude, he had just won the emperor's support, re-planned the annual financial investment, and accepted the so-called deficit operation model. He said: "If we had invested in health care every year, perhaps in less than 30 years, the population of the empire would have exceeded 70 million in 20 years, and then there would be no worries about the sparse population of some areas." (To be continued.) )