Chapter 273: The Confidence of the Super Empire (II)

In fact, luxury goods don't cost much of these upstart industry dividends. A simple account can be calculated, taking the secondary industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang as an example, 10 billion of the investment principal (raw materials, water and electricity rent, personnel salaries, logistics and warehousing, marketing advertising, miscellaneous expenses), the product has recovered 15 billion, and the corporate income tax of 20% is equal to 1 billion profits, and the shareholders have divided 3 billion net profits, leaving 1 billion profits to expand reproduction. Of the 3 billion dividends, 1.8 billion will be distributed to the major shareholder families of more than 900 people, and the average family will get 2 million. You must know that a middle-class family of five will only spend 8,000 yuan to eat and drink well every day, and the housing mortgage loan, education preparation, medical insurance, and pension reserve of the villa will not exceed 10,000 yuan. If these extra revenues are not spent, they will cause serious overcapacity, and the total production and consumption of society and their imbalances will produce a serious economic crisis. 40% of the personal income tax will collect 1.2 billion net profits, and the dividends distributed by the major shareholders will be handed over to the state 720 million yuan of personal tax, (no matter where the income comes from, as long as the cash that goes into the personal account of each citizen will be taxed, once a year) If they do not spend this money year after year, it will lead to a serious gap between the aggregate social demand and the aggregate supply. In this way, the total supply of 150 billion can become the total demand of 15 billion.

Therefore, the crossing crowd encourages every rich person to spend all the money they earn, in order to fill the gap between aggregate demand and aggregate supply. The high-end cosmetics and luxury goods pursued by the nobles and the expensive real estate, famous cars, BMW, polo, football, yachts and other gold-swallowing monster industries pursued by the men are all lucrative and highly taxed. These things are the key industries to rob the rich and help the poor, and they are also the best way for the rich to spend all their savings.

Why are the rich getting richer? The poor are getting poorer? The reason is simple. The rich make a lot of money without living pressure, spend less, and use their savings to invest to make money. The poor must spend their living expenses when they earn them, and without savings, they can only maintain simple reproduction, and with the passage of time, the gap between the rich and the poor will naturally increase. The masters of the empire designed a set of social wealth distribution system based on the idea of a planned economy, why the planned economy has no wealth and poverty and differentiation, the economy can maintain a very high rate of growth, and in 30 years can make a large country with a population of more than 100 million complete industrialization. From a small peasant economy to an industrial power, the national wealth has increased thousands of times, and from a raw material exporter to a world factory and a major exporter of high-precision products. The fundamental reason is that it can convert every penny into capital (equipment, plant, intellectual resources and production capacity) at a very high rate and speed of accumulation in a bitter and then sweet distribution method. It is simply not possible to have funds left unspent.

The rate of growth of wealth and capacity can be consistent with the rate of expansion of reproduction. The percentage of profits that a factory spends on expanding capacity is the growth rate of the economy.

A small factory, with total assets of 1 million, and a turnover of 500,000 a year. It is normal to have a net profit after tax of 200,000. It is very common for shareholders to keep 20,000 yuan for their own consumption, and to take 180,000 yuan to expand reproduction. Then the growth rate of total assets will be 18%, the turnover in the second year will reach 590,000, the after-tax profit will be 236,000, and the growth rate will be 18.3% if 20,000 shareholders continue to be retained and 216,000 will be invested to expand reproduction. If the annual dividend of 20,000 yuan remains unchanged, then the expansion speed of this plant will be faster and faster. Of course, this is only a theoretical growth rate. Constrained by the supply and constraints of talent, management team, and market size, bottlenecks will be encountered after a certain period of time. If the shareholder takes 200,000 in the first year. Then this factory will always be so big, just like the small-scale peasant economy and society, there is no possibility of expanding reproduction, and most of the time, the GDP growth rate can only hover around 0.

In order to better motivate the nobles and wealthy to spend money, the empire implemented the imperial capital tour system. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty spent money on the construction of the Grand Canal and the southern tour of the people, which led to the overdraft of the national strength and the bankruptcy of the central finance. But there is also a political necessity for such tours. The remnants of the Southern Dynasties still have a huge influence in Jiangnan, and in order to win over and deter these people who have a heart of disobedience, it is also necessary to establish a sense of space at close range. It is similar to the migration of the previous dynasty, and the magnates of various places are similar to Kyoto and the construction of two or three capitals. In today's era, with the development of railways and shipping, the connection between various places has surpassed the political needs of the classical era, and the close economic ties have made the division lose the market. Like all the great unified dynasties (the Zhou Dynasty had the east and west capitals of Haojing and Luoyang, the Qin had Yongdu and Xianyang, and the Han to the Sui and Tang dynasties had Chang'an and Luoyang,) it was very necessary to engage in the two capitals in order to supervise and manage the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River (the rulers of the Hao clan in Shandong and the Guanzhong Plain were like opposites, and this opposition was established in the Zhou Dynasty, and the change of dynasty was basically the Guanzhong region had the last laugh). Today's parades are not only parades in the empire's major cities, but also an Olympic-style event that drives the economic development of the region under the guise of discounted royalty and aristocrats.

During the Qing Dynasty, the emperor would patrol Chengde in the hot weather in summer, and after the construction of the Old Summer Palace, he stayed in it all the year round and refused to stay in the Forbidden City, the reason for which he wanted to deepen his relationship and health with the Mongol ally, in addition to maintaining the habit of the Manchu magnates. The same was true of the global parade of the royal family and nobles of the Chinese Empire. The bureaucracy of the empire was completely separate from the aristocracy, and although technical officials and politicians could obtain knighthoods, they could not influence the senate, where the nobles who held power were gathered, and the capitalists were the real masters of the empire. These wealthy people did not stay in a fixed place in the empire, and there were no restrictions on the captivity and personal freedom of previous dynasties and dynasties. They followed the royal family every three years, moving from big city to big city and prime seaside port, just like the Olympics, and each chosen city was fattened by the three years that these magnates were stationed.

The royal family and the aristocracy account for one-fifth of the national income each year (except for the most noble families, which have more than one-third of the national income, this money is almost equal to the dividends paid by the state-owned enterprises). It cannot be used for personal consumption, and it is directly invested in the expansion of reproduction and scientific research, and the living expenses of those who are only able to maintain a slightly higher income than ordinary workers. In order to reduce the economic crisis and promote the balanced development of all parts of the empire, every city selected for the triennial tour of the empire is a temporary capital (only the first-class territory of the mainland), and the emperor has to take a vacation to the southern hemisphere to escape the summer or cold, and all political affairs are handed over to the crown prince (which is the duty of a humanoid stamp anyway). The big capitalists and part-time aristocrats in various fields accompanied them not only to curry favor with the emperor, the only link that crosses the public, but also to participate in the collective activities of the nobles from the perspective of maintaining exposure, heat and interpersonal relationships. Triennial Senior Civil Service Examination (Entrance Examination is held every year. However, promotion to the rank of viscount and above is held every three years) and major events (football, motorsports, horse racing, rowing) are also held in the selected cities. In addition to being famous, these cities can also receive huge amounts of ticket revenue, tourism service income and investment. The level of municipal construction and supporting facilities can generally be raised to a higher level.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, this system led to the rapid prosperity of ten ports on the Pacific coast and the traditional inland cities. Today, it is naturally the turn of Shenyang, Liaoning Province, which has been looking forward to it for three years.

Shenyang, as the center of Shangjing Province in the Liao Kingdom and the capital city of the Jin Kingdom, has always been a multifunctional city, like other lucky ones. A lot of life has been injected into the tourists and elites who have been consumed in large quantities. A steady stream of external funding translates into a guarantee of the city's growing prosperity. The construction of various supporting facilities has been completed, and the software and hardware of various service industries have been established. A large-scale, multi-pillar integrated industrial booming emerging city has emerged in the world.

There are only six municipalities directly under the central government of the empire (the highest administrative level that occupies a dominant position in the local administrative system of the empire, which belongs to the jurisdiction of the government council), the legal capital is Shenjing (Luoyang New City), the economic capital is Xinjing (Shanghai), the military capital is Wudu (Lanzhou), and the cultural capital is Wendu (Bianliang benefits from the status of the capital of the old era, which is extremely advantageous in population density and talent concentration. There are also plenty of arenas, casinos, theaters, museums and art galleries. It has established a status similar to the Bianliang Humanities Center in Las Vegas, which is a part-time Hollywood). The administrative center was a random large city that was constantly moving with the emperor's residence, and the prince and the Academy of Natural Sciences naturally stayed in Guangzhou, the center of science and trade, as a companion capital in case of crisis.

Polycentric empires are very beneficial. Not only because of the vast area or the need for domination, multiple centers can build multiple megacities, and they can have a balanced layout and develop the economy of various places, and Guangzhou as a companion capital is to learn from the advanced experience of Zhu Di of the Ming Empire. Although it did not have the borders of the Mongols in the Ming Empire, the institutions and administrative capitals of the capital were not only able to absorb a large number of officials as transitional positions in the reserve and probationary phases, but also to accommodate a large number of technocrats and politicians for retirement and sabbaticals (you know). This was not possible in the past dynasties, and those who lost the party struggle never had a chance to make a comeback. This companion capital has become a Gu pool that accommodates the political model of the old era and the intrigue between the old and the young. At the same time, it is also a wake-up call to the officials in power, and if something goes wrong, it is most likely that they will be impeached not by the Empire's public prosecutors or external regulators, but by these turnips who want to fill your empty holes.

This model of tripartite supervision has already crossed the limit of what the public can do, there are public prosecutors and prosecutors in the system, there are independent offices and non-governmental media outside the system, and there are a lot of turnips waiting for you to make mistakes on the edge of power, and almost all the actions of the officials of the empire are stared at. This era is the most difficult era for Chinese officials, and the mental pressure is the greatest. The monthly pension is 80% of the salary before retirement, and there is a huge amount of pension fund accumulated during the employment period received in a lump sum, and various benefits in medical care and life are still the same (higher than the national pension benefits). In terms of purchasing power, the salaries of high-ranking officials were at least five times higher than those of the old Song Dynasty, and the salaries of low-level officials were at least ten times higher. All gray and black income is forced out by the system and regulation, and it is necessary to maintain the enthusiasm and efficiency of officials. Then there is the wave of the golden dollar stick that crosses everyone's favorite.

The production efficiency of capitalism is a thousand times that of feudal agriculture, so taxes are naturally a thousand times higher than in the old era. In the old Song Dynasty, when capitalism was in its infancy, the finance and taxation of billions of dollars was at its peak. In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, the highest tax revenue in the feudal era was recorded, and this figure was not surpassed until the end of the Qing Dynasty Westernization Movement, when the population exceeded 400 million and the land area exceeded four times that of the Northern Song Dynasty. What about the Chinese Empire, where capitalism has developed to the stage of imperialism and the productive forces have advanced to the second industrial revolution? In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to implement the revolving door plan (exchanging the national bonds of the new dynasty for the national bonds of the old Song Dynasty), only a few million yuan of tax revenue was added, which was equivalent to an average of 120 million guan (two taels of silver). But now. After the ruling power penetrated into the grassroots villages and communities, the tax system was completely modernized, institutionalized, and made public, and the annual revenue has exceeded 24 billion yuan. This is 40 times the amount of 600 million yuan at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and because of the implementation of reserve forces and the establishment of a mobilization system, it is natural that after the modernization of the armed forces, a large number of disarmaments and changes in the structure of military spending will be carried out.

The increase in revenue has also benefited from a dramatic change in the tax structure, for the simple reason that it is simple. Industrialization and the development of the world market have led to an exponential increase in domestic and foreign trade volume and industrial capacity. The progress of the division of labor and regional characteristics has greatly developed logistics, so the corresponding income tax, business tax, resource tax, value-added tax, customs duties, stamp duty, is naturally explosive growth. In the past, the kind of tax and agricultural tax were simply weak, and in the old Song Dynasty and Yuanyou years, it was already less than one-third of the annual income, that is, less than 200 million yuan, and it didn't hurt to be exempted after the founding of the People's Republic of China. After the abolition of various monopoly and state-owned consumer goods industries (salt, iron, tobacco, wine, tea, sugar, vinegar, alum, incense, medicine, etc.), the income tax, business tax and value-added tax collected by various enterprises are dozens of times that of the original monopoly period. It not only reduces the salary expenses of these salary-consuming state-owned industrial operators, but also allows the common people to benefit from lower prices and improved quality. These private enterprises have also made money, and at the same time, they have driven employment and upstream and downstream development. The benefits to be counted in one fell swoop.

The typical model of national wealth is that the tax structure is healthy and sustainable and large enough to cope with huge national welfare expenditures, and the people's strength is the confidence and healthy structure of the people who can't help but have money in their pockets and spend money. The development of the high-speed economy and the division of labor requires a large amount of human resources to be invested in the continuous expansion of production capacity and new industries, so how can the remuneration package remain low in the late stage of industrialization, when the liberation of the rich rural labor force is almost over? In fact, at the beginning of industrialization, the colonial immigrants and a large number of narrow rural migrants moved to Kuanxiang local immigration movements, which caused the rural labor costs in many originally highly densely populated areas to rise, and the government shared the large expenses of life such as medical care, education, pension, and housing, so naturally there were no worries.

The empire's economy is making rapid progress every day, and there is a booming tide of construction everywhere, and the prosperous picture of the country being rich and the people strong has been maintained for more than 30 years, as if it can be maintained forever, just as the demographic dividend and the industrialization dividend can be eaten forever. This country is like the rising sun spewing endless light and heat to the whole world, and the light of its civilization and prosperity shines on everyone who is willing to be illuminated by it, bringing them an ever-improving standard of living and spiritual quality.

The Chinese Empire changed its limitations since the Anshi Rebellion, swept across the whole of Asia and the world, and completely annihilated, subjugated, integrated, and assimilated all enemies and barbarian peoples who tried to work for nothing, using the infinite high-tech productive forces and the power of industrialized civilization brought by the traversal. This empire could not help but solve all the external troubles that the old dynasties could not solve in history, and also completely solved all the internal worries, such as foreign relatives, eunuchs, kings seizing the heirs, party disputes, power ministers, warlords and towns, peasant uprisings, cults, desertification, locust plagues, droughts, floods, plagues, etc., all of which were eliminated by the empire, and those that could not be eliminated were also weakened to the extreme. It is impossible for a constitutional monarchy with virtual military politics to have a situation in which relatives, eunuchs, kings, and powerful ministers hold great power, and power can only be held in the hands of the Senate, which represents the interests of the capitalists and all strata, the division of warlords and towns has also been eliminated by the modern military system, there is no land annexation and peasant uprising in capitalism, and there is no room for the existence of cults, and the landless peasants have no motive or time to play cults, and they are busy going to the cities to work to earn money or go overseas to dig for gold or open up wasteland. The modern comprehensive organic agriculture demonstration sites throughout the country have also greatly reduced the area of soil erosion and desertification, improved seeds, pesticides, cement leak-proof irrigation ditch networks, diversified management and chemical fertilizers have completely eliminated drought and flood disasters and pests and diseases, a large number of orders can not be busy with the township workshop workers are busy with the back of the head, a large number of meat, eggs, milk, oil, medicinal materials, non-staple foods through the primary processing and deep processing of township enterprises into the city has greatly enriched the dining tables and purses of urban and rural residents (urban people engage in wholesale and retail, Catering services can also make a lot of money).

The internal and external troubles of the empire have been solved, and the domestic and foreign environment is extremely stable, and naturally everything can reach the best operating state, that is, it has reached the success of the work, and the people say: I am naturally in the top state.

The confidence of the unprecedented super multi-ethnic huge empire in the history of this world is also unprecedented, which is far more than that of all dynasties, and the source of this confidence is not the powerful invincible military force or the many small countries of Fanbang that hold stinky feet to come to the court, but the level of citizenship and living welfare that all nations and countries dream of, and the cultural heritage piled up by countless wonder-level buildings and master-level cultural works that are rich to the stars, and it is unparalleled wealth, prosperity, Civilization and splendor create the morale of the people. (To be continued......)