Chapter 17: Sugar Cane Can Move History (2)
Yang reformed and asked the queen's father to organize the Sugar Industry Association, for this, first, to prevent the outflow of technology, and second, to prevent everyone from bargaining casually, monopoly is to make money, and third, it is convenient to collect taxes.
Those old industries Yang Reform estimates that it is difficult to raise taxes and levy taxes, Yang Reform does not have the heart to fight with those Ming Dynasty scholars and elites, fighting for brainpower and energy, or making a fuss in this emerging industry, it is easier to collect taxes, and it will not cause a backlash from those Ming Dynasty scholars and elites.
"The minister understands, and the minister remembers it." When the queen's father heard the emperor's words so "cold", he felt as "refreshing" as falling into an ice cave on the river in spring.
Thinking about it again, this can be regarded as completing a secret mission for the emperor, it can be said that he is the emperor's super confidant, relatives and henchmen, in this Ming Dynasty, what a great honor and authority. In the future, don't you just get someone who doesn't like your eyes?
I thought of the emperor's words again: If I am the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, your daughter will still be the queen of the Ming Dynasty, and you will still be the ruler of the Ming Dynasty...... If the army is defeated and the country is shattered because of the lack of sound, your daughter will have to die with me,...... You are also someone else's crotch slave, and the soles of your feet are ....... The queen's father felt that his back was cold, his neck was stiff, and his scalp was numb, although this was poisonous, but it was clear enough, if the Ming Dynasty was finished, he would be nothing, if the Ming Dynasty was still there, it would be a relative of the emperor, and the heavens would be noble. Thinking of this, the queen's father, Zhou Kui, gritted his teeth and secretly made up his mind: We must not let this Ming Dynasty finish playing, how can we get more military salaries. I want to be a national abbot, not someone else's foot mud......
"Well, that's pretty much it, after you go back, you can hurry up and get it, and strive to make money at the end of this year or the beginning of next year, and drive other people to plant sugarcane, remember, before the sugarcane is planted and the sugar is sold, you are not allowed to squander, you must be thrifty and stingy, and when you sell the sugar, you can squander it vigorously, so that those people know that you have made a fortune by planting sugarcane, understand? Don't miss my big thing. Yang Gai took the trouble to remind the queen's father to put on a tight spell.
"Yes, keep it in mind." The queen's father is already determined this time.
"Well, there is one more thing for you to go to Jiangnan this time...... Alas, forget it, let's talk about it later. Yang Reform's words came to his lips and he didn't want to say anything more. This matter is the task of organizing a group of relatives to brush the "Jiangnan copy", and now the relatives are only the father of Queen Zhou, like the relatives of Concubine Tian and Concubine Yuan, because Concubine Tian and Concubine Yuan have not yet been canonized, so they can't be called the relatives group, Yang Reform plans to wait for the relatives group to "mature", and then brush the "Jiangnan copy".
"Alas...... The queen said yesterday that she was still thinking about you and clamoring to see you, so you should go to see the queen, don't let the queen wait in a hurry. Yang Reform asked the queen's father to go to see the queen, and the intention was also to dispel the queen's father's doubts. so that he can do things for himself with peace of mind.
"Thank you for the emperor's grace." After saying that, the queen's father kowtowed gratefully, and then withdrew, and then went to see the queen.
Yang Gai looked at the figure of the queen's father leaving, thinking of the scene of those landlords and old wealth, large and small merchants, and scholars of the Ming Dynasty rushing to build sugarcane gardens, and his heart was refreshed.
The first benefit that Yang Reform calculated was that he had eighty percent of the profits from the queen's father, although it was nominally for the queen, but the emperor and the queen were not one? What do you and me use? Besides, Queen Zhou's reputation in history is not bad, she belongs to the type of good wife and mother, and she will definitely not object to using her money herself. There is also the possibility of taxing this emerging industry as you wish.
The second benefit: it drives the economy, and it costs money to buy land, right? Making, transporting sugar requires ships and people, right? Personnel come and go and ask for a ship, right? For these people to eat, drink, and Lazar need other industries, or do they also need manpower? Is it to expand shipbuilding capacity? Does it lead to employment? Drove the economy? People in the 21st century (including otaku) know what it means to drive GDP.
The third benefit: it relieves the pressure on the land and the population, so that the pressure on the land and the population has an outlet. Growing sugar cane will definitely require a large population, and this must not be migrated from the hinterland! Where manpower is the cheapest? It must be those in the north who do not have enough to eat and do not have warm clothes for the cheapest manpower.
The fourth benefit: expand the horizons of the Ming Dynasty scholars, in the future they will go to the Ryukyus, to Annam, Cochin, and even beyond, and they will bring the population there, expanding the "territory" of the Ming Dynasty in disguise, they have to grow sugarcane to transport sugar, and they have to deal with pirates and local "natives", and when the time comes, those Ming Dynasty scholars, landlords, and elites who have suffered losses are not crying and shouting and begging themselves to send troops to exterminate those pirates and "natives", so can they build many, many battleships? Can you send many, many soldiers? Is it to create overseas military bases? These military bases have been established, so are there any that are not included in the territory? It seems to be a matter of course.
With a sucrose decolorization technology, the historical trend of the entire Ming Dynasty was leveraged, and Yang reformed the fantasy of his efforts.
Open up new industries to collect taxes, the original iron, salt, silk, tea and other traditional tax areas can not receive more taxes, the Ming Dynasty's taxes will not increase much, with the new tax, you can significantly increase the Ming Dynasty's taxes, and it is in their own hands.
It also leveraged the silver of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the circulation of wealth, buying land, planting sugarcane, making sugar, making money, and then investing in buying land, planting again, and the economy gradually circulated, no longer letting these silver lie in the cellar of the landlord's house and become moldy, just like the blood in the veins of the giant of the Ming Dynasty became energetic again, and the benefits were obvious.
If you are an ordinary businessman, I am afraid that you are not up to this difficult task.
First, there is not enough "official background", and if you want to grow sugarcane in Liangguang or even Annam, I am afraid that the locals will eat no slag, let alone keep the secret of sucrose decolorization.
Second, you can't make enough friends with the Ming Dynasty scholar class, especially those big families, it is difficult for ordinary people to reach them, even if Yang Reform supports one by himself, first, Yang Reform doesn't know a few people in the Ming Dynasty, and second, he doesn't have enough time and energy to support. Ordinary people can't get in touch with those big households and big landlords, so they can't fool them into plantations, and there is no way to naturally make the population and money flow, and they can't organize a sugar industry association with executive power, and they don't have the executive power to collect taxes.
Therefore, this matter is the most suitable to be handed over to the queen's father Zhou Kui, first of all, his background is hard enough, the queen's father, the emperor's father-in-law, and this ** is still his No. 1 father-in-law for the time being, and the emperor's support, this Ming Dynasty has no harder background than him. He is now also a serious Ming Dynasty scholar elite, and is a high-level elite, or a big elite from all walks of life, fooling and leading those Ming Dynasty scholars, landlords, and businessmen to Liangguang, Annam, Ryukyu farming is the best, by him to take the lead in paying taxes and protecting the secret of sugar decolorization, it is really better.
Thinking of this, Yang Gai felt that he was really a genius and thought of such a good way. I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
The snow in the capital in early spring is still very thick and cold, but the sun is shining overhead, and the power of the sun is constantly melting the thick snow, and then looking at the grass and trees in the snow outside the pavilion, Yang Gai feels that this weather scenery is very suitable for his heart.
As for the actions and execution ability of the queen's father Zhou Kui, Yang Reform does not dare to look up to him, he has not left a good name in history, and he is synonymous with stupidity, but he has to try it again, and he will beat him more and scare him more. Yang Reform didn't have anyone around him to discuss, so he could only let him do it first.
This matter, the idea is good, whether it can be achieved or not, Yang Reform is not a score. Today's Yang reform is at a loss in the face of the situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no good way to go, so he can only break through.
The queen is there. There are 200,000 taels of silver tickets left by Yang Reform, which is the start-up capital left by Yang Reform to the queen's father Zhou Kui. As for whether it will work out or not. Yang Reform can only ask God to bless.;