Chapter 296: Daming Central Bank
The weather is getting colder and colder, but this year there is still no snow in Beizhili, and there has been no snow in Beizhili for two consecutive years.
Such rumors are very marketable in being stranded, and the reputation of the Donglin Party in Beizhili is indeed completely stinky at this time. Such rumors were obviously released by the 'water army' of the factory guard.
After all, in recent years, ordinary people have associated these strange phenomena with politics, or those cultural classes with ulterior motives often rely on this thing to spread rumors, which has led to this habit of thinking. Zhu Youxiao simply returned the favor with his way and continued to blacken the Donglin Party to death.
There was a warm charcoal fire burning in the palace, but it didn't feel cold.
Ordinary people or something, they don't panic when they have food at home. The economy of Beizhili has developed relatively well, and the people's livelihood has been greatly improved in the past few years.
The people of the northern provinces, who were affected by the disaster, have been given relief and will be able to survive this winter.
The cold weather is not a big problem, even if it is a few tens of degrees, people can survive the winter safely. Although the cold climate has some impact on agriculture, it is actually not that big. The greatest impact is the abnormal climate during the Xiaoice period, which led to frequent natural disasters, and natural disasters have the greatest destructive power on agriculture.
Zhu Youxiao was no longer very worried about the climate of this Xiaoice River at this time, and as long as he grasped agricultural production well, avoided deflation in the market, and then engaged in disaster relief and grain supply, the natural disaster could still survive.
The most feared thing is that unscrupulous profiteers will stock up on food when the famine breaks out, which will immediately lead to serious deflation in the local area. Because the money of ordinary people is spent in order to buy these high-priced grains, it runs into the hands of a small number of people. The local people have no money. The next year, I couldn't afford to buy food. Local agricultural production is immediately becoming less market-scale due to a lack of markets.
Once you enter such a vicious circle. Naturally, more people will have no food to eat, so they will have to rebel.
Zhu Youxiao now maintains the stability of grain prices through government relief and the monopoly of the grain supply market by the Jimin Grain Bank.
At the same time, we will prepare for famine by popularizing sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes. In addition, through the monopoly of liquor and the taxation of the liquor industry, the consumption of liquor was reduced, and the food wasted on liquor was reduced.
The Spring Festival is coming again, and there are a lot of tributes to Guanglu Temple during the Spring Festival this year, in addition to the delicacies of the mountains and seas and high-quality agricultural products from all over the country. There were also tributes from the Northeast, Mongolia, Zhendong Province, Taiwan, and Luzon.
To talk about the benefits of being an emperor. This is the most delicious thing in the world this year. Even if those merchants are extremely poor and luxurious, it is impossible for them to have such a complete range of delicacies from the mountains and seas.
And the people in the market, there are more pickled fish on the table.
This thing is cheap, this kind of pickled fish in coastal port areas only costs 4 yuan a catty, and in some inland places, it costs 5 yuan a catty.
The price can be described as very cheap.
At the same time, Beizhili directly imported rice and sucrose from Taiwan, and the rice imported into Beizhili in the sixth year of the Apocalypse reached 8 million stones, and the scale of sugarcane imported into the mainland provinces reached nearly 160 million catties, of which nearly 100 million catties were transported back to Beizhili.
The prices of rock sugar and white sugar have dropped significantly, and ordinary people can afford them. This thing also provides calories for people, which can reduce food consumption.
These cane sugars are only about a million acres of output. Next year, Taiwan's sugarcane planting area and rice planting area will continue to increase.
After several years of hard work in the Ming Dynasty to develop Taiwan, Taiwan has become a commercial grain base at this time, and it is also the first commercial grain production base established by Zhu Youxiao, as well as the first commercial sugar production base.
Because of the grain import from Taiwan and the large amount of fishery from Zhendong Province, the grain supply in Beizhili and Liaodong is very sufficient.
Wheat and other grains from the northern provinces are being exported to other northern provinces, especially in the disaster-stricken areas. As a result, a stable food supply has been basically achieved.
During the Spring Festival this year, Zhu Youxiao had a stable year, or he did not toss those corrupt officials and old interest groups during the New Year.
But as soon as the New Year was over, a shocking news came out.
First of all, Zhu Youxiao reorganized the Daming Royal Bank into the 'Daming Central Bank', 95% of the shares were nationalized, and the royal family only held 5% of the shares.
This was followed by various direct holding companies under the Royal Bank, which also became state-owned enterprises. Like the Royal Agricultural Company, it was reorganized into the Daming Agricultural Company. The Royal Iron and Steel Company was also reorganized into Daming Iron and Steel Company.
There have been no major personnel changes in the reorganization, but the management of these enterprises has been given the establishment of public institutions. With regard to the newly added concept of the establishment of public institutions, the grade system has also been adopted.
Of course, this so-called industrial and commercial leader is not a businessman as an official, but the industrial and commercial management in a state-owned institution can become an industrial and commercial official. But if they want to become the management of state-owned enterprises, they are also forbidden to do business with their families.
At the same time, the Industrial and Commercial University was also established, and in the future, the management of state-owned enterprises was mainly selected from the Industrial and Commercial University.
As soon as the news was announced, major newspapers reported the news one after another, and it quickly became a front-page headline.
A private financial newspaper in Beizhili commented: "The reorganization of the Royal Bank into a state-owned bank means that the imperial court will return to the commercial field, which will be larger than at the beginning of the founding of the country, and the private economic field will be further compressed." ”
In the past, royal capital used policies to monopolize the industry, but after the reorganization of state-owned banks, enterprises can directly use policies to monopolize the industry.
For those private enterprises that have joint ventures with Royal Capital, it has little impact. Because they have already obtained industry access qualifications.
These red-top businessmen who have entered the monopoly industry, they do not have many shares, generally only 10~20% of the shares, mainly to increase healthy competition.
Among the several state-owned enterprises that have been added, finance, iron and steel, mining, military industry, machinery, shipbuilding, agriculture, salt industry, and transportation are relatively large industries.
There is also a whole host of state-owned joint ventures in light industry.
After the reorganization, it became a different situation, a 'state-owned consortium' with state-owned enterprises as the lead and joint ventures and private enterprises following behind.
After years of monopolizing and digesting resources, this consortium has monopolized most of the resources and major markets of Beizhili.
Since the announcement of the Minxun system, the businessmen in the consortium have donated the Minxun. Zhu Youxiao also rewarded the people for their contributions to the country.
With Minxun's businessmen, it means that there is an industry entry threshold.
If you are willing to pay taxes and contribute, the imperial court will give you resources to let you operate, and whether you can get rich depends on yourself. And those private businessmen who have not entered this circle can only mix in the general industry, and they can't get more resources at all, it's okay to make a little money, but it's not very possible for the business to become bigger.
Subsequently, the imperial court announced the issuance of 'Apocalypse Treasure Banknotes' in the New Deal area, and silver was no longer used for direct currency circulation in the New Deal area.
The Apocalypse banknote is pegged to silver, and the exchange ratio between the Apocalypse banknote and the silver dollar is 1:1, with the minimum face value of the Apocalypse banknote being 1 yuan and the maximum face value being 500 yuan.
When the Apocalypse Treasure Banknote circulates in the New Deal area, it is not exchanged for silver dollars in the New Deal area, and only the funds that leave the New Deal area can be exchanged for silver dollars at the bank.
At the same time, it is stipulated that the illegal transportation of silver out of the New Deal area is an act of 'illegal smuggling', and the government can confiscate the smuggled silver and impose a fine.
The chains have been tightened, and now it is not so easy for merchants to escape from the New Deal area.
If silver can be exchanged normally, only foreign trade enterprises. Merchants who want to withdraw funds and exchange silver from the bank can only be subject to a high tax evasion.
Underground money banks will definitely appear, but the imperial court can also crack down. The imperial court really wants to crack down, and there are few underground banks that can escape, and the imperial court is just willing to let these underground banks have problems. (To be continued.) )