After a while, Zhao Quan hurried over, as an old servant of the Zhao family, he didn't need to be greeted, he sat down and ate.

"Uncle Quan, you don't have to do the affairs of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau so yourself, you still have to eat on time." Zhao Yan said to Zhao Quan, and Zhang also nodded: "Yes!" Just leave the trivial tasks to the people below. ”

"The Industrial and Commercial Bureau is related to financial matters, and it is easy to make chaos if you don't pay attention to it, but it is relatively busy these days, and when the industrial and commercial conference is over, you can be idle." Zhao Quan said with a smile.

"Uncle Quan, how is the preparation of the industrial and commercial conference?" Zhao Yan asked with concern.

"The general system has been set to review the applicants for interest-free loans according to different industries and different scales, and then the tax exemption ranges from one to three years." Zhao Quan reported to Zhao Yan: "According to Childe's meaning, the main industries of tax exemption for large enterprises are concentrated in breeding and shipbuilding, and the tax exemption for handicraft industry is mainly for those small-scale enterprises, which can apply for technical assistance from Denglai Science and Technology Institute and Denglai University at any time. ”

"In addition, the industrial and commercial police brigade that Gongzi asked me to set up has also preliminarily determined the institutional system." Zhao Quan continued: "The industrial and commercial police are usually responsible for maintaining the normal operation of enterprises, so that enterprises are not defrauded and blackmailed, and at the same time, they also have the responsibility to curb the vicious competition between enterprises. Commercial prosecutions can be filed with the courts at any time. The "Regulations on the Administration of Industry and Commerce" is also continuing to be improved, and the draft will be completed in a few days, and then it will be shown to the son. ”

"Then the invitation was sent out, how did Shandong react?" Zhao Yan asked. At this time, Yan Yuyao said: "What the general asked was about the first Shandong Industry and Commerce Conference? ”

"Hmm!" Zhao Yan nodded.

"Since the general sent an invitation in Shandong, all parts of Shandong have been boiling. After all, it was an interest-free loan of 10 million taels, and at the same time, Denglai Bank also had a loan of 5 million taels, and people who were in business wanted to get a piece of the pie. Yan Yuyao said Shandong's reaction.

"That's true, fifteen is not yet fifteen, and many people have already come to Zhaojiabao to inquire about the news." Zhao Quan nodded and said.

"The little woman is unknown, why did the general take out a huge sum of 10 million taels to lend to industry and commerce? Wouldn't it be better to use it in the war against Liao? Yan Yuyao said the confusion in her heart.

According to Zhao Yan's style of vigorous soldiers, instead of using the 10 million taels of silver for military expenses, he took it out and lent it to industry and commerce, which is indeed incomprehensible.

Zhao Yan thought for a while and said to Yan Yuyao: "War is about comprehensive national strength, a country must be rich and strong to be able to afford a war, and the people must be rich and strong to support the war." The development of industry and commerce will make the country rich and strong, and the people will be rich. If war is waged at all costs, it will only make a country weaker and weaker, and the people more and more annoyed they will fight. ”

"The reason why 10 million taels was used as an interest-free loan was just to play a leading role. At present, the rich people in Shandong, even those big businessmen, are all guarding their roots, and the silver they earn is stored in the treasury and moldy, and most of the commercial activities they engage in are sold in other places, and there is not much capital industrialization at all. This time, we threw out 10 million taels of interest-free loans, and only lent them to those businessmen who ran industries, and gave them technical support, in order to let them make money, as long as they made money, they could break through the old ideas, and businessmen who saw the prospects would also invest their funds in industrialization. ”

Zhao Yan explained, but Yan Yuyao didn't understand very well, Zhao Yan smiled and said: "If Miss Yan doesn't understand, to put it bluntly, the fundamental problem of wealth and strength is how much people produce. But someone must buy what is made, if everyone buys it, there is no profit in the middle, and naturally there will be no food to eat, and there must be few people in the world who are willing to run to build a city wall for the government without a full stomach! As long as everyone is willing to spend money to buy things, then more people will be able to find things to do, and everyone will be doing things, and there will be more things to create. ”

"The people have no money in their pockets, and even if they make money, they have to keep it for shortage, so how can they spend all their money to buy things?" Yan Yuyao asked.

"Therefore, the government has to pay money to find the people to do things, such as paying for the people to repair water conservancy, so that the people have something to do, and the silver earned stimulates industry and commerce, and at the same time, a better production environment can also allow the people to earn more silver."

"But what does this have to do with industry and commerce?" Yan Yuyao asked again.

"If Shandong's industry and commerce can overwhelm the industry and commerce of other provinces, gold and silver will flow into Shandong like flowing water, and then the people will have something to do, and they will produce many times more things than other provinces, and the government will have money to collect at the same time. For example, a province in other provinces can only build 10,000 horse-drawn carriages a year, but Shandong can build more than 100,000 horse-drawn carriages, and once war breaks out, Shandong can requisition enough horse-drawn carriages to transport military rations, while the horse-drawn carriages in other provinces are far inferior to Shandong, and there are other steel, grain, population, and so on. ”

"If you want to overwhelm the industry and commerce of other provinces, and at the same time occupy the market of the whole country, there must be enough people engaged in industry and commerce, and someone must come up with enough silver to enter the industry and commerce. So we have to take the lead and get businessmen into industry and commerce and make money, so that more people can enter the industry. ”

The general was very knowledgeable, and the little girl was taught. After listening to Zhao Yan's explanation, Yan Yuyao pondered for a long time and then said to Zhao Yan, and then asked: "What if those businessmen lose money when they enter industry and commerce?" ”

"We will focus on supporting some industries, such as horse breeding, shipbuilding, raising horses, building boats, our Ordnance Bureau will buy them, and naturally they will not be able to accompany the money. As for other industries, our Denley Institute of Science and Technology and Denley University will provide technical assistance to make them more competitive in the market, as long as they are not inferior in business methods, they will not lose money. When the overall situation is very good, more and more wealthy people will invest their money in industry and commerce. Zhao Yan continued, "As for the people who lose money, they have to mortgage their assets when they take out loans, and the risks are borne by themselves. ”

Yan Yuyao smiled and said to Zhao Yan: "The general's words made people stunned. However, the general's hard work, I am afraid that many people do not know, just like a popular saying in the Shandong army: To be a man, you must say and do again, so as not to become a liar and a fool. The general spoke in front of the book and let the world know the truth. ”

"Yes, yes, Yuyao is right, Yan'er, you will write down the truth tomorrow, and you won't let others look at it as fools." Zhang nodded at this time.

"Huh!" Zhao Yan smiled after listening to Yan Yuyao's words, and was reminded by Yan Yuyao that Zhao Yan remembered that he had neglected this important link.

If we want to overturn the current status quo, we must have more advanced ideas and guiding theories in order to extricate the whole society from the current deformed state.

However, it is not enough to just write and say, we must come up with convincing results and use strong force to carry out this new ideology and guiding theory.

Only by saying and doing can we implement correct theories. Otherwise, those diehards will not accept this new theory.

…… After dinner, Zhao Yan and Zhao Quan came to the study and secretly discussed the countermeasures to deal with Chongzhen.

"This time Chongzhen can be said to be a bad comer, not only wants to learn the advanced military system from our Shandong, but also wants to get weapons technology from our hands, but also wants to cut off our financial resources." After Zhao Quan finished reading the one that Zhao Yan handed him, he said calmly: "However, our financial income in Shandong is not all supported by glass mirrors and the textile industry, even if Chongzhen moves these two industries, it will not make us hurt our muscles and bones, but Chongzhen has already done it to us, and we have to take precautions." ”

"Childe, we have been in the army for six years, and it has been almost four years now. In the past four years, we have cleared out bandits and stabilized the place, and entered to suppress the thieves to defend the central capital. But this time the emperor's approach is really chilling. Childe, with our current military strength, it is enough to sweep the Ming Dynasty. In addition, after you are the royal family of the Great Song Dynasty, it is also justified to ascend to the Ninth Five-Year Plan, why bother to give Chongzhen this gas bag. Zhao Quan said suddenly.

"It doesn't matter if you sit in the position of the Ninety-Five, but even if we want to rebel, we have to show great loyalty and righteousness to prevaricate the tongue of the people in the world." Zhao Yan sneered: "If he Chongzhen is unjust to me, why don't I be unkind to him." ”

"What does Childe mean?" Zhao Quan asked puzzled, but he couldn't figure out what Zhao Yan meant, he had always been like this, Zhao Yan's many behaviors made him feel very contradictory, making it difficult for him to figure out Zhao Yan's true intentions for the Ming Dynasty, whether he wanted to be a loyal minister or to hold high the royal banner of the Song Dynasty.

"Even if we want to win the position of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, it is too early at this time, even if we can sweep the Ming Dynasty, even if I am the royal family of the Great Song Dynasty, I will be regarded by the world as a chaotic minister and thief, and I will not be truly convinced." Zhao Yan said what he thought for the first time, "Furthermore, my goal is not the position of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, what I want is the Han Zhongxing and dominate the world, if Chongzhen is willing to cooperate, then I will keep him, if it is in the way, then pull him down from above, and I will be the emperor." ”

This is Zhao Yan's supreme desire, he has seen the rampant Westerners in the future world, the massacre in Nanyang, the partition of China by the great powers, and the massacre created by the Ben.

Everything is the result of backwardness. The root cause of backwardness was the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which completely stifled the opportunity of the Chinese nation.

He came to this era not only for the sake of being a person, but also for what he wanted to leave behind and change.

He wants to use killing and conquest to let the descendants of Yan and Huang face the world with a compassionate face in the future, instead of letting others face the descendants of Yan and Huang with a compassionate face.

"Childe, how do we do it?" Zhao Quan asked.

"Since Chongzhen wants to use me to open the knife, then I will completely suppress him, isn't he afraid of the high merit and shock the master? Then we will kill him completely. Zhao Yan sneered, "As for military reform, if Chongzhen wants to change it, let him change it!" Anyway, those combat concepts and weapons will not be eliminated by us in a short time. ”

Zhao Quan thought about it and nodded, Zhao Yan's military reform has continued, from the initial use of pikemen and longbowmen, and he relied heavily on these two arms.

By now, the longbowmen have been completely eliminated, the pikemen have been much smaller, and the current war has evolved to rely on artillery and cavalry.

"The secret recipe and textile equipment of the glass mirror, we will not give it! If this is given to Chongzhen, then our financial resources will be affected. Zhao Quan said.

"The glass mirror is naturally not given, this is our exclusive secret recipe, and there is a lot of profit to be made, he Chongzhen wants the glass mirror, and he didn't wake up from his dream! However, textile machinery can be given to them, and it won't be long before these hydraulic machines will become a pile of scrap metal. ”

"Why is it scrap metal?" Zhao Quan asked puzzled, "Isn't this thing good?" ”

"Our steam engine is about to come out, and when the time comes, we will have a steam engine, and the hydrotextile machinery will not be our opponent at all. And then let the machinery change a little bit and make it less efficient, so that we can retain the ability to compete in the near future. The more Zhao Yan thought about it, the more it was like this, and his mood suddenly improved.

Let's let Chongzhenkong rejoice!

"Childe, we have a lot of soldiers and horses in our hands, and he Chongzhen will definitely not dare to threaten, so we can take the opportunity to talk about the conditions." Zhao Quan suggested.

"Hmmm! It seems that he was too calm before. Zhao Yan nodded, and said that Liu Zeqing was so good, and he had a lot of and urine in the war, but he actually sealed Dongpingbo, all because he had soldiers at hand.

And the strength in Zhao Yan's hand is not much higher than Liu Zeqing, but Chongzhen dares to move his hands and feet on his head, not to see what he is good at bullying?

At this time, you can't be too weak and deceitful, even if you are obedient, the fate of Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang is a conspicuous example!

"And what are we going to write about it?" Zhao Yan asked Zhao Quan, and he really couldn't think of anything he could get for a while.

Now the most lacking thing in Shandong is people, Liaodong has attacked the city and plundered the land, the population has become seriously insufficient, there is not enough population, how to develop the vast territory of Liaodong, how to immigrate overseas?

However, if you ask Chongzhen for this, it is estimated that you will not be able to ask for it, because he has no excuse.

"Childe, you can ask Chongzhen to collect industrial and commercial taxes, as long as Chongzhen nods, we will be able to collect industrial and commercial taxes justifiably in the future, and pay a little at that time, and most of them will be kept by ourselves." Zhao Quan came up with an idea.

"Okay, then let's do it." Zhao Yan clapped his hands.

How to collect industrial and commercial tax has always been a difficult problem, after all, the Ming Dynasty has such a little industrial and commercial tax, and it is almost no different from time to time, and it is almost no difference whether it is collected or not.

Zhao Yan has now collected industrial and commercial taxes in Shandong, but it is only one of ten taxes, and such a tax amount is far from meeting Zhao Yan's requirements.

…… After making up his mind, Zhao Yan began to order someone to draft the recital.

In the recital, under the pretext of 'ancestral secret recipe', Chongzhen's request for the secret recipe of the glass mirror was rejected in one fell swoop, and at the same time denounced the current collection of industrial and commercial tax.

Chongzhen put a big hat on Zhao Yan in the holy decree of 'competing with the people', and Zhao Yan put on a hat of industrial and commercial tax 'draining the country'.

And a large number of examples of the Han, Tang, Song Dynasty tax system, especially mentioning the degree of commercial prosperity of the Song Dynasty, accusing the current tax system is a 'fallacy through the ages', Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang is light on business taxes and people's profits, all because most of the gold and silver treasures at the beginning of the founding of the country were taken away by the Mongols, and there is nothing to collect in the market.

But now the situation is different, most of the gold and silver treasures of the Mongols have been returned to the Ming Dynasty through trade, and a large amount of silver has flowed into the overseas market.

In such a situation, one tax of ten is no longer appropriate, resulting in serious land annexation and other phenomena.

After such a bitter denunciation, what was fighting with the people for profit was refuted, and at the same time refused to hand over the textile machinery. At the end of the recital, it is mentioned that if Chongzhen is willing to reform the commercial tax, then what textile machinery will be offered with both hands, and the matter of glass mirrors is not mentioned at the end.

After being polished, Zhao Yan asked people to send the chapter.

Then Zhao Yan, with the assistance of Yuan'er and Shalena, began to write and speak, and Shalena learned Yuan'er's ink there, but soon made her face look like a little cat.

Yuan'er is a little funny, she is not exclusive to Shalena, as Zhao Yan, three wives and four concubines are common, even if Shalena is hooked, she is also a European, at most she can only be Zhao Yan's concubine.

Zhao Yan promised her that he would give her a name, and this promise made Yuan'er very relieved, even if the Zhang family was very interested in Yan Yuyao, it couldn't make her feel any threat.

Maybe this is naïve, but this is absolute trust in Zhao Yan.

"Yuan'er, what should you call this book I wrote about industrial and commercial development guidance and management guidance?" Zhao Yan asked Yuan'er.

"In the past, there was not a book called "Merchant Rules", then we called "Industry and Commerce Regulations". Yuan'er said.

""Industrial and Commercial Regulations", hehe! Yuan'er can call it whatever she says, then call it "Industrial and Commercial Regulations"! Zhao Yan directly determined the name.

Then he began to write the outline of the "Theory of Industrial and Commercial Regulations".

He wrote a book and said that this was a more troublesome matter, and it was naturally impossible for him to do it alone, so naturally he would write an outline, and let the others be written by those Confucians in the Ministry of Education.

The "Theory of Industrial and Commercial Regulations" mainly expounds the advantages of capital industrialization, the huge gap between non-local trafficking and production investment, gives arguments on the advantages and disadvantages of storing silver, and lists many detailed production investment methods and concepts.

In addition to the guidance for businessmen, there are also suggestions and explanations on business administration, explaining the benefits of business tax to the country, and the benefits that the country's prosperity brings to individuals.

In addition to these, there are many business common senses that people will know in the future, such as the benefits of circulation, as well as the incentives for industry and commerce, management methods, and so on.

As for those things that exemplify historical phenomena, they have to be handed over to those talents from the Ministry of Education to complete, and Zhao Yan really can't do anything, that is, he doesn't have the talent, and he doesn't have the time.

Zhao Yan asked people to highlight the changes of Wang Anshi and Zhang Juzheng, which can be described as two important changes in Chinese history.

But for various reasons, the two reforms ended in failure, just like Zhang Juzheng's reform, so that the Ming Dynasty's annual tax revenue reached nearly 30 million taels, which gave Wanli the capital of three major levies.

(To be continued)