Although the planned economy has many drawbacks, such as the disconnection between production and demand, and the inability to rationally adjust the interest relations between various internal economic subjects, it also cannot be ignored its many advantages. It can effectively avoid the blindness and uncertainty of the development of the market economy, as well as the uncontrolled consumption of natural resources, and can scientifically allocate and make full use of limited human resources to maximize the benefits it produces.

Of course, there is another important effect of the Executive Committee, that is, the planned economy can effectively control the gap between the rich and the poor in society and maintain a stable social situation, which is very important for the crossing group that needs to absorb a large number of poor people in the early stage of expansion. For the vast majority of people, regardless of their cultural level, there is a kind of psychological existence that does not suffer from widowhood but suffers from unevenness, if everyone's living conditions are similar, the hardship will be bitter, and the forbearance will pass, but if a group of bitter people live in a rich man, it will inevitably cause the hostility of the people. The Executive Committee's public ownership of all land and means of production under its rule and the implementation of a planned economic system within the Executive Committee were precisely aimed at eliminating the excessively large gap between the rich and the poor among the people.

Of course, the planned economy cannot prevent the emergence of a privileged class, and in fact these more than 400 travelers are now the privileged holders in this social environment. In order to avoid the collapse of the people, the key departments and key units of the traversal group must be in the hands of the traverser and his immediate descendants within two or three generations, and this will inevitably create a privileged class. However, for the entire environment of the group's future operation, it will not cause much trouble for a small number of people to become a privileged class, compared to the troubles that Daming will face in the next ten years, this is simply a matter of sesame mung beans.

Li Nai didn't understand what a planned economy was, let alone what a social welfare system was, but he could hear from Jiang San's answer how much the local people agreed with the way the Haihan people were governed. After listening to Jiang San's statement, Li Nai even felt a little unfair about heaven.

Regarding these administrative measures that Jiang San later added, Li Nai could be sure that not only in Yazhou, but even in the entire Ming Dynasty, there would not be a second place like Shengli Port. To bear all the expenses of food, clothing, housing, transportation, birth, old age, sickness and death of an employee, this expenditure is not a small amount, and in most of the industries that Li Nai knows, this kind of welfare guarantee will make the boss jump directly. Of course, the government is not to mention anything, not to mention that it does not collect money and sends money to the people, do you really regard your parents as the biological parents of the people?

The local treatment of ordinary people is so good, Li Nai doesn't even need to ask, he can think that all kinds of taxes and fees for ordinary people here must not be there. Such a costly policy can only be achieved by Haihan, who is good at trade and has a variety of high-profit export products. Although Li Nai couldn't understand for a while how the Haihan people operated economically to ensure the smooth operation of this social system, it was obvious that the means of the Haihan people were many times higher than those of the local government of the Ming Dynasty.

However, no matter how good the Haihan people are at winning over the hearts of the people, Li Nai does not think that they will do anything against the sky here, at best, they will only build the place of Shengli Port into a large smuggling port in the South China Sea. As for the Haihan man-made guns and cannons, and even the organization of militia groups to replace the local government to perform its functions, Li Nai also felt that there was not much of a problem, and some maritime merchants in the coastal areas of Fujian, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang also adopted a similar approach, building ports and wharves for maritime trade on their own, but the scale was not as large as that of Shengli Port.

After listening to Jiang San's words, Anxi was already smiling, and secretly said in his heart that the usual mass education work was really effective, and he couldn't imagine that a peasant like Jiang San, who couldn't read a lot of words, could still say such a truth. Commendation, this must be commended afterwards, it just so happens that the Mutual Aid Association of the Society still needs a person in charge, Jiang San seems to be very suitable for this son.

Under the retention of Anxi, everyone stayed at Yanchang Commune to eat at noon. In addition to the various seafood that was only caught this morning, there are also several salt-fried meat, salted fish and various pickles on the table. When Tao Dong came to ask Li Nai if he wanted some wine, Li Nai's face immediately changed, and he waved his hand again and again saying that he didn't have to be polite. The uncomfortable feeling of being poured meat and vegetables by several Haihan leaders the night before had not passed, how dare he challenge his limits again.

After the five flavors of the dish, Li Nai took the initiative to mention the sale of private salt: "The quality and price of the refined salt you sent last time are very good, and I am willing to sell the refined salt produced by you in the Fuguang area, I don't know what you think?"

"Or 10,000 catties a month as your bank said before?" Schneider asked meaningfully. If Li Nai still can't let go of his hands and feet in this role, then the executive committee may have to consider finding another agent in the mainland to do this private salt business.

Sure enough, Li Nai shook his head and said, "Previously, I underestimated your refined salt production, and only proposed a monthly transaction volume of 10,000 catties. But after going to the salt field today, I think that this transaction volume should be at least 50,000 catties per month, and then it can be adjusted with the market. ”

Compared with the arms export agreement reached the day before, the total amount of the 50,000 catties of salt order per month is not much, and according to the previous wholesale price of 50 yuan per 1,000 catties, that is, the level of 200 Type 27 arquebuses sold. But what the Executive Committee is interested in is not the profit of a single transaction, but the long-term profit of the salt business.

Guangzhou Prefecture and its surrounding areas alone, the population is nearly one million, so many people can consume far more than 50,000 catties of salt a month, not to mention the ability of "Fu Ruifeng" to traffic private salt to the inland of Guangdong and Fujian for sale, the executive committee believes that the market that can be developed in the future is very worth looking forward to. In a labor-intensive industry such as salt production, as long as there is labor, the Executive Committee can continue to expand production capacity without being troubled by the supply of raw materials or the shortage of technical personnel, and because of the superiority of production efficiency, the salt of the Crossing Group can control the cost at a very low level, and the mainland region is simply unable to resist planned large-scale dumping.

The consequence of this will certainly lead to the bankruptcy of a large number of salt farms and salt farmers in the coastal areas, and the official salt tax in Fuzhou and Guangzhou will also be sharply reduced. But this is exactly what the Executive Committee wants to achieve, directly turning this road into its own way, so that others have no way out. When that happens, the Executive Committee will try to recruit bankrupt salt farmers from the local area to move into Sanya and serve as a labor force for the development of Hainan Island.

There may be various open and secret battles due to huge interests, such as between salt merchants, between salt merchants and salt department promotion divisions, between salt merchants and salt farms, etc., but the executive committee believes that with the support of the crossing group, agents like "Fu Ruifeng" will definitely not suffer a big loss in the struggle, and there will be no second smuggler with such a strong equipment in the entire southeast coastal area.

However, there is still a small problem that must be resolved in order to close this deal. Schneider said: "There is no problem with 50,000 catties per month, but the place of delivery must be determined." I think Mr. Li also knows that our current sea capacity is very tight, and I am afraid that we will not be able to send ships to Guangzhou to transport salt or other goods for the time being, so the commodity prices we quoted before are all FOB prices. ”

Li Nai was puzzled: "The place of delivery is easy to discuss, but what is the FOB price?"

Schneider realized that Li Nai could not understand this kind of incoterms in later generations, and quickly explained: "The FOB price is the price of the seller's goods before they leave the port after they are loaded on the ship, that is, the place of delivery is the port of shipment, and we complete the inventory of the goods and money when we load the ship, which is considered the end of the transaction." Another way is the CIF price, the place of delivery is the port of destination specified by the buyer, because of the transportation costs, the CIF price will be more expensive than the FOB price. ”

Li Nai nodded and said: "Mr. Shi explained like this, this FOB to CIF price is easy to understand. Then may I ask Mr. Shi, the trade in Shengli Harbor is the same as before, and there is no tax?"

Schneider nodded again and again, and said in his heart that this rich second generation is really not the kind of gentleman who does not learn and has no skills, and he did not ignore the details of tariffs because of the smooth progress of the transaction. From the beginning of the planning, the Executive Committee positioned Shengli Port as a duty-free free port, so there was no tariff setting. The benefits of duty-free ports for increasing the volume of import and export trade have been proven in history and need not be repeated here.

As for the situation that it is easy for the local industry to suffer from the impact of imported goods, the Executive Committee is not worried, in terms of production efficiency and production costs, no one in this era can do better than the crossing group, as long as it is the local manufacturing and production industry in Sanya, its product prices will definitely be lower than that of its competitors of the same era. What's more, most of the imported goods through the group are mainly raw materials, while the export goods are mainly industrial manufactured goods, and this commodity import and export structure will be more profitable to trade in the form of a duty-free port.

However, compared with the simple and straightforward tax exemption policy of Shengli Port, the relevant policies and tax system of the Ming Dynasty were much more complicated, and even a problem that could be solved by simply adding freight, so Schneider raised the problem of determining the place of delivery first.