Chapter 591: The Great Tang Dynasty Rich (I)
Huo Gang is very idle here every day, but Li Shimin is completely busy, before the Yuan Festival, the yamen of Datang itself does not work, but Li Shimin still released the news, especially after Huo Gang came to Datang, this is not a secret thing, almost everyone in Datang knows it.
In order to cooperate with Li Shimin, Huo Gang even attended a grand banquet, all the ministers of the main Tang Dynasty in Beijing attended, and invited Huo Gang, such a scene is naturally very curious for the ministers who have not seen Huo Gang, and for those who have seen Huo Gang, they are here to verify Huo Gang's identity.
Although this identity cannot be fake.
After this banquet, Li Shimin directly released the news at the banquet that Dahan was ready to open cement technology to Datang, and Li Shimin made a decision that in addition to the government-run cement plant, each other province would formulate a special cement manufacturing plant according to the size of each road.
To put it bluntly, these factories are win-win, of course, in fact, even if these people want to produce by themselves in this period, they don't have that opportunity at all, so whoever Li Shimin lets produce must be who will produce.
At the same time, these cement factories will also be responsible for the construction of related roads, and the construction of roads will be ordered by the Tang government, including the construction of future railways and so on.
All in all, after the cement plant is built, it is just waiting to make money, and there is no need to worry too much about not making money.
As soon as such news was released, all the gate valve families were sensational in an instant, because they all knew too well what cement was, and Dahan had never covered it up, not to mention that the railway built by Dahan in Datang had used too much cement.
Not only bridges, but also contains a large number of culverts and so on, these cements have already been used in the land of Datang, of course, the most amazing is the Yellow River Bridge near Lanzhou, the Yellow River Bridge that spans hundreds of meters wide, I don't know how many people were stunned, they can't imagine that such a building can be built by human beings.
So I don't know how much of an artifact like cement knows, of course they know how useful cement is, it can be said that it can be used anytime and anywhere in life, as long as the cement plant is built, you don't have to worry about its output not being sold, you can say how much you can produce, how much it can be sold!
And it's not a matter of a few years, decades, if this thing persists, it can be said to be a family heirloom, not to mention an ordinary gate valve family, even if it is a five-surnamed Qiwang, it is impossible to miss such a thing.
So this kind of thing almost instantly caused a sensation in all the families, I have to say that at this time, although all the big gate valve families are in various parts of the Tang Dynasty, but in fact, they all have their own family members living in Chang'an City, in order to know the latest news for the first time, and then pass these news to their own family to avoid missing important things.
So this matter immediately began to stir up from Chang'an City, and it continued to spread in all directions.
Compared with these families, it is naturally more convenient for those who are the main force of the family to be placed in Chang'an City, and the people of these gate valve families have been visiting various officials almost all this time, and of course some officials themselves are members of their own families.
After a visit, they probably figured out the principle of Li Shimin's issuance of cement plants, which is just like the previous salt industry and other industry management rights, and the industrial department of Datang also issued industry business licenses and licenses, and people who do not have these two certificates will be punished by the Datang government if they buy cement factories at will.
But the threshold for entry is also very high, and they know from the general message they receive that a place starts at least two million.
Two million guan, this figure made them all can't help but gasp, because this money is an astronomical amount for many families, and it is impossible to get it at one time, even if a family like Wushi Qiwang wants to take out two million guan at one time...... I'm afraid that except for the two most proficient in business among the five surnames and seven hopes, the other families are estimated to be enough.
Of course, if you say that they have so much money, of course they do, and their land, shops, etc., all add up to far more than this number, but these are real estate, and it takes time to sell them into related property.
What's more, they also received a message that Datang will establish a railway department in its own territory, as the name suggests, it is the same as Dahan's railway department, responsible for all matters of railway operation, but the difference is that Datang's railway department under the profit department will adopt a joint-stock system, and fifty percent of it will be handed over to Dahan.
Among the remaining fifty percent, His Majesty Li Shimin only keeps three percent, and the remaining twenty percent will be sold to these gate valve families.
The term "shares" is now no stranger to all businessmen in Datang, it can be said that Dahan has already influenced the entire Datang through all aspects, that is, in terms of weights and measures, Datang's businessmen are more accustomed to using weights and measures such as kilograms and tons. In the past, terms such as stone and bucket were rarely used by people who often did business.
The only thing that hasn't changed is the catty, but two catties are equal to one kilogram, and one catty is equal to 10 taels. And the scales of Datang are also gradually passed over from the Han Dynasty, and they can be said to be all over Datang.
For this change in weights and measures, Li Shimin actually hesitated at first, and then he simply did not stop it, because the weights and measures of the Han Dynasty are obviously more suitable, and they are not cumbersome to use.
And the new nouns made by those big Han people don't matter even more, and nouns like shares are naturally the same, although there is actually this concept in Chinese from ancient times to the present, but this noun is directly determined.
Now, just the stake in this railway...... It can make all the gate valve families break their heads! Because it's worth more than a cement plant! They don't have to think about the role of railways, as there are more and more railways, the profits of railways will be higher and higher, and the value brought by them will naturally be higher and higher.
It can be said that one percent of the shares are not known how much money to fight for, and many families have started to go back to dig up all the original copper coins from their own warehouses or from the places they buried in the ground.
In addition, because Datang now also collects gold and silver, and has also set a certain proportion, gold and silver have also been collected.
While they were still in action, the second news came quickly, that is, His Majesty Li Shimin allowed them to use their fixed assets such as land deeds, house deeds, and land deeds to be converted into cash directly at the market price in Datang Qianzhuang, of course, this conversion is not an official acquisition, but similar to a mortgage.
When they make their own money, they can redeem it, of course, they need to pay a little interest, but this interest is too low, the annual interest is only 8%, this interest is simply terrible low in this era, each family does not care at all when they hear this interest, countless land deeds, land deeds, and house deeds have been collected.
As for why Li Shimin accepted this, in fact, he thought about it very thoroughly, and he thought of Huo Gang's words, that is, money is only useful when it is circulated, and for the treasury, it is useless to pile so much money in the treasury.
And he will soon use the money to build the main official roads of the Tang Dynasty and build the railway, and when the time comes, he will definitely buy things from these gate valve families, so these things are mortgaged by them, and they directly give them money tickets, and after they buy shares and the quota of the cement factory, the money tickets will return to his hands, and Li Shimin will still use these money tickets to buy things from them.
In this way, the money can be circulated anyway, and a considerable part of this money will flow into the hands of the people, according to Huo Gang, this is called hiding the wealth from the people, and the people will benefit in the end.
Of course, there is also the most important reason, if he does not accept these things, then the amount of money in the hands of these gate valve families is limited, and when they want to buy these shares and cement factory places, the price that can be raised will be very low?
It's inevitable! This thing is a must-buy for them, but when all your buyers have a maximum of only 1,000 yuan, it is naturally impossible for you to sell more than 1,000 yuan.
That's why Li Shimin asked Datang Qianzhuang to give such a policy, when he knew the news, Huo Gang couldn't help but give Li Shimin a praise, sure enough, he deserved to be the emperor, this brain is not bad at all, this Huo Gang didn't remind him, it was all Li Shimin himself who thought of it, Li Shimin clearly wanted to take out all the money in the hands of these families!
Of course, Huo Gang was gossiping behind his back, and these had nothing to do with him, but Huo Gang didn't want to know, but Li Shimin took the initiative to find it, "I'm going to be angry with them." When Li Shimin sat down, he said with some anger.
"What's wrong? Your Majesty, haven't you been proud of the spring breeze lately? It's going to loot the money in their hands, and you're still angry. Huo Gang asked with some curiosity.
"Why don't you get angry, do you know how much money the Taiyuan Wang family has?" Li Shimin looked at Huo Gang and asked.
"How much?" Huo Gang is very interested in this, in the first year of Datang Zhenguan, the annual treasury income was about 3 million guan, and last year, Datang's treasury income has increased several times, about 20 million guan.
Of course, the reason why it was able to grow so ruthlessly in a few years was entirely because of the trade with the Han Dynasty and the opening of commercial taxes, and also because Li Shimin no longer collected grain, but converted all of it into money, so he had such a huge amount of treasury revenue.