Chapter 918 Business Reform
At present, there are two main problems in the business of the Roche family:
The first is the exchange rate between the gold, silver, and copper within the territory and the gold, silver, and copper of the external forces of the territory. Because the Luo family has mastered more advanced smelting technology, the quality of the gold judgment, silver judgment, and copper money minted by the Luo family itself is much better than that of the private money minted by other forces in the Warring States period. Therefore, when the Luo family's internal affairs cabinet deals with external forces, it is to ensure that the Luo family does not suffer losses to deal with the other party.
It's just that with the continuous expansion of the Luo family's territory, it is actually difficult to control the business behavior in the border areas and even the internal areas. As a result, many merchants tried their best to bypass the Luo family's internal affairs cabinet and trade directly with the Luo family's lords, and the way of trading was to directly use the inferior private money in their hands and the private money issued by the Luo family internally to exchange it at the equivalent of the face value, and then the lords took these inferior private money and ran to the internal cabinet to replace it with the Luo family's private money. In this way, the Luo family will naturally suffer.
Of course, in order to put an end to this situation, the Luo family can directly issue a new decree to forcibly stop this kind of behavior of replacing the private money of other forces with the private money issued by the Luo family. It's just that this period of time is a critical period for the Luo family to vigorously promote the circulation of private money minted by themselves within the Luo family, so as to establish a complete money system within the Luo family. And the method of replacing the private money of other forces in the hands of the people at the same price is also one of the ways to promote the Luo family's own coins to penetrate into the daily life of the people. For this reason, the Luo family also specially issued the relevant laws. Now it has been suddenly canceled or even eliminated, which is tantamount to self-slapping face.
Another strict problem is the entangled relationship between the Internal Affairs Pavilion and the Luo family. At the beginning of the Roche family. Due to the limited strength of the family. And the territory is limited. Therefore, it is necessary to let the Internal Affairs Pavilion directly control the commerce of the territory, which is conducive to the Luo family to concentrate all the manpower and material resources in the territory to develop the territory. It's just that after more than ten years of development, the commercial system in the Luo family's territory has gradually taken shape, and the way the internal affairs cabinet directly controls the commerce of the territory, which in turn restricts the development of commerce within the territory, and constantly consumes all kinds of materials accumulated by the Luo family. To put it bluntly, in the past, when the Cabinet of the Interior controlled the commerce of the territory, it was in terms of overall revenue and expenditure. It is the income that is not paid for it, and the Cabinet often spends more on the investment of the territory each year than the income from commerce.
As a result of this for a long time, some retainers in the Cabinet of Internal Affairs have gradually formed a habit of "anyway, the money is not his, just spend it as you like", lacking the concept of "making money from money" and earning benefits for the Luo family (in modern civilization, the most outstanding example of this situation is the state-owned enterprises of the Celestial Empire). Moreover, since the Cabinet controlled the entire process of raw materials, production, and sale of goods, it also limited the prosperity of free commerce in the territory to a certain extent. This makes it even more difficult for the folk "money to make money" system to form. If the Roche family were to generate more commercial income from within the territory in the future, this model would have to change.
Moreover, because of the entanglement between the interior cabinet and the territorial merchant houses, there will also be some corruption problems in it. And the problem of corruption in this era. It's not just a matter of money and power, but it also involves wars with other forces and even the question of one's own life and death.
It was from the Territorial Intelligence Pavilion and the Fadu Priest that several cases of corruption among the Territory's retainers had been discovered. Zhengliang gradually realized this problem. So Masara decided to build a new commercial system that was more suitable for the territory.
In terms of external affairs, this new business system will completely change the Luo family from the previous production place of raw materials and finished products to a trading place that only sells finished products and continuously absorbs raw materials and finished products from external forces, and retains the internal raw materials or is only open to the inside. At the same time, Tong Guò sells its own products and fights another war against other forces economically and culturally.
Internally, the Cabinet will be completely separated from the Roche House, and the Cabinet will be responsible for the overall control of all kinds of raw materials in the territory and the sale of all kinds of raw materials (most of the raw materials are not allowed to be sold, and only some of the raw materials such as salt pans and fishing grounds are allowed to be sold). At the same time, he is responsible for the production of some Roche unique products and important products (such as snow salt, cane sugar, silk, paper, books, boats, weapons workshop, cement workshop, etc.). In general, that is, the Cabinet of Internal Affairs is responsible for controlling the production of raw materials and some important products, not only controlling the economy of the territory from the source, but also monitoring the development of the territory economy from the perspective of outsiders, ensuring the good development of the territory economy, and then ceding part of the power to operate trade, so that the people can profit.
The reason why this is so is mainly for the needs of the development of the Luo family. After all, this era is not a modern civilized society, and if you imitate modern society to make a so-called free trade or something, then Zhengliang will really have brain cramps. If the Luo family still wants to control the territory, prevent the territorial economy from falling into chaos, and provide more support for the development and expansion of the Luo family, then the above aspects are absolutely not allowed to be opened.
As for the Roche House, which is separated from the Interior Cabinet, it will trade with the Cabinet as a private commercial house, and at the same time trade with other private commercial houses inside the territory and other commercial houses outside the territory as a commercial house. At this point, Roche House, as a normal commercial house, has become a private trading house representing the Roche family internally and externally.
In addition, Roche House will also purchase those raw materials that can be sold from the Cabinet of the Interior to produce some of the goods needed for daily life in the Roche family's territory. On the whole, Roche House has the power to trade both internally and externally in private trade. It is also the only commercial house that has both domestic and foreign trade powers. Since the owners of the commercial house are almost all Masashi women, it is actually an important source of wealth for Masashi's private treasury.
As for the other merchant houses in the Luo family's territory, these merchant houses only have the power of internal trade, and they will participate in the trade within the Luo family in two ways. The first is to become a branch of Roche House in the territory of Roche House in the form of a franchise store, and the sales methods and management methods of Qiē are strictly in accordance with Roche House, and the store owner will receive dividends from the operation of the commercial house. This was determined by the fact that Masahiro deliberately referred to the business methods of the later civilized era.
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