For Emperor Chongzhen's additional land tax.

Xu Yuan actually has no real feeling, although hundreds of people will live even worse because of this, and even starve to death and become refugee thieves.

But it did not have much negative impact on the interests of his Xu Jiazhuang.

Instead, there are many benefits.

Because there are more bankrupt homesteaders, the number of people that Xujiazhuang can absorb has increased, and it is easier to grasp more human resources.

When the land is abandoned, there is room for collective estates to be established, and even the landlords have to sell their land to collective estates, because land that no one cultivates is worthless, and even if millions of acres are annexed, it is useless.

Shaanxi, Shanxi will be thousands of miles away, to become no one ghosts, many counties have appeared wolves and tigers, which proves that the natural ecological environment has begun to recover, and then prohibit development for decades, and so the temperature warms up, maybe it will become a paradise-like place, become a 5A-level ecological reserve, can vigorously develop tourism - this is the benefit of population reduction to the ecological environment.

The world is dynamically balanced, there are dangers and opportunities, and there are many good things behind the bad things.

Therefore, the more mediocre Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen behaves, the more opportunities Xu Jiazhuang has to gain benefits from it, and the greater the loopholes that can be exploited.

From the perspective of his own interests, Xu Yuan could not find a reason to strongly oppose the imperial court's increase in land tax, and the huge interests in it greatly weakened his sympathy for the peasants.

Of course, Xu Yuan is not a cold-blooded animal, Xujiazhuang's efforts to recruit displaced people have been increasing, with an average of more than 5,000 people per month, and more after the beginning of spring next year.

Other than that.

Compared with the tax increase of the imperial court, what Xu Yuan cares about and attaches the most importance to recently is his ten monopoly plans.

Not only are these plans important, but once they are fully realized, the benefits will be unimaginable.

What are the 10 monopoly plans?

They are ranked according to the difficulty of implementation, first easy and then difficult.

The first is the grain monopoly program.

Whoever controls the food controls everyone!

Xu Yuan planned to control almost all the food in the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, so that no matter what the force was, as long as there was no food provided by Xu Jiazhuang, they would starve, starve to death, and collapse without a fight.

Outside the Ming Dynasty can not be controlled, for the time being, try to control the food in the Ming Dynasty, from the consumption side of the analysis, assuming that the Ming Dynasty has a population of 200 million, the average per person consumes a minimum of three stones of grain per year (375 catties), and the annual demand is 600 million stones.

At present, the land owned by Xujiazhuang is about 150,000 mu, with an annual output of 2 million stone of grain (including coarse grain and fine grain), plus more than 1 million stone grain collected from surrounding villages and towns, totaling about 3 million stone, only 0.5% of the grain monopoly plan has been completed, and even less than 1%, so it can be said that the road ahead is long and there is still a very long distance.

Unless the land that can be directly controlled is increased to 30 million mu, and the annual grain output reaches 400 million stones, and then 200 million stones of grain are absorbed from the surrounding villages and towns through the manor economic circle, the goal of monopolizing grain will be basically achieved.

Therefore, in terms of land area alone, the Xu family manor has to expand at least two hundred times.

The second is the liquor monopoly plan.

Because after having enough grain, it is impossible for the farmers to eat it alone, and it is not even possible to sell it all.

Therefore, it is possible to establish a large-scale industrial distillery, consume part of the old grain, and make some people love to drink wine, such as liquor, rice wine, shochu, etc., but also to make famous brands, operate the high-end market, so as to bring very huge benefits with a fairly low cost of winemaking.

It's not even less than selling hundreds of millions of stone of grain.

In the brewing market, the profit margin is really huge, and there is a need for monopoly, even if it is not 100% monopoly, with the advantages of industrialization, it is no problem to monopolize more than eighty percent.

The third is the salt monopoly plan.

Yangzhou Mansion is a heavy place of salt production, Rugao County in the east of Xinghua County, there is a long coastline, a large number of salt farms are distributed on the flat beach, millions of stones of salt are produced every year, at least tens of millions of taels of silver are brought to the benefit, so that Yangzhou City has become the richest city in the world, the wealth of Yangzhou salt merchants, and even brought Yangzhou thin horses and other deformed groups, specifically in response to the perverted preferences of salt merchants.

If Xujiazhuang goes to Rugao County to set up a modern salt factory, with the production capacity of a small salt factory in modern society, there is no problem with an annual output of 1 million tons of salt, which can meet the salt needs of 200 million ancient people, and can smash all the rice bowls of Yangzhou salt merchants.

The huge profits of tens of millions of taels of silver every year are all owned by Xujiazhuang.

However, the risk of this practice is too high, not only will it offend the salt merchants, but also hundreds of thousands of salt workers and salt farmers who survive by drying salt and boiling salt, I am afraid that they will also fight hard with Xujiazhuang.

Therefore, the monopoly salt plan must be carried out cautiously, and the salt merchants who cannot be forced to unite with the gentry and noble military attachés must be forced to smash millions of taels of silver, and they must gather forces to kill Xujiazhuang - the backlash of the vested interests is not weaker than the rebellion at the bottom.

It is necessary to be smart enough to deal with the salt merchant community and ensure that the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people are not destroyed before the monopoly of salt can be realized.

The fourth is the tea monopoly plan.

The importance of tea in ancient societies can be called the level of nuclear deterrence.

On the one hand, in this late Ming world, there are only local teas such as the south of the Ming Dynasty and Yunnan-Guizhou in the world, and there is no tea in other places.

The reason why it is called nuclear deterrence is because the nomads in the north and the Tibetan plateau in the west, all the nomadic populations are unable to lack tea, because their usual diet based on meat and milk leads to a lack of intake of cereals and vegetables, and it is easy to have problems such as flatulence and constipation, which can only be solved by drinking tea, and some vitamins can also be supplemented.

If there is a lack of tea in life, people who make a living from farming will only lack the drink to entertain guests; But herdsmen who live as nomads are really going to die.

With the help of tea as a nuclear deterrent, Tibet in the west has never launched an invasion since the end of the Tang Dynasty, and the northern Mongolia has invaded the nine sides many times, the purpose is also to reopen the mutual market, so as to obtain tea, rhubarb and other things.

In addition, the upper class in Europe has long been aware of the benefits of tea, and every year at a high price of 16 taels of silver per pound, they buy hundreds of thousands of catties of tea, even if they consume a lot of real money, they will no longer hesitate, because they really can't do without this drink.

If you contract hundreds of thousands of acres, and then introduce improved varieties from modern society, introduce industrialized production methods, and destroy the East India Company's efforts to try to plant tea trees in India, so that tea can only be produced in the Ming Dynasty, so as to monopolize most of the tea market, and the annual profits will not be less than that of bringing Britain to sell opium to me in the Qing Dynasty.

The fifth is the bank monopoly plan.

As mentioned earlier, this plan is being promoted, and 11 banks that can be banked will be officially opened in a few days after completing staff training.

There are several plans in the future, which have not yet been implemented and promoted, and can only be implemented when the time is ripe, namely-

Monopoly White Sugar Program.

Monopoly steel schemes.

Monopoly tobacco programs.

Monopoly on energy and transportation programs.

Monopoly of global gold and silver mines and oil mine plans.

All in all.

In this late Ming Dynasty world, as long as Xu Yuan's Xujiazhuang can monopolize the top ten industries, it is almost equivalent to controlling all the resources and wealth, and others can drink some soup and gnaw some bones at most, and it is impossible to compete with Xujiazhuang in terms of financial and material resources.

Of course, there are many other industries that make money, but Xu Yuan only focuses on these ten items, and will not intervene in any industry, such as the textile industry, sand mining, coal mining, logging industry, etc., Xu Yuan will not focus on these, he has to leave food for others, otherwise all the money will be earned by him alone, and the whole world will rebel against him.

And the ten monopoly plans were formulated.

For Xu Yuan, how to develop next, he will not be at a loss, but will have a general direction, and then exert force in this direction.

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January 20, 2025.

Modern society, Taizhou.

Xu Yuan came back again, bringing a large box of jewelry, jade, jade and other treasures, all of which were of incalculable value, maybe worth 100 yuan, or 1 million yuan.

Xu Yuan also plans to hand over this batch of jewelry and jade to Song Jiayun to deal with, and he can sell them through any channel, he only hopes that their value will not be lower than that of gold of the same weight.

Of course, pouring these belongings is one thing, on the side of modern society, it is also about to pass the Lunar New Year, Xu Yuan has to call his relatives at home, send a few big red envelopes, and then tell them not to go home for the New Year, wishing them a happy New Year.

Why didn't Xu Yuan go home? He has a father and a mother, isn't he an orphan protagonist, and in order to keep his personal secrets, he doesn't even go back to his hometown?

But Xu Yuan has parents, but they divorced more than ten years ago, and each formed a new family, Xu Yuan's position in their hearts is very embarrassing, rather than going back to disturb their family, it is better to call and say hello, and then send a red envelope.

So he is a more reasonable parental divorce type protagonist.

It's just that the people at home can't disturb him, but Song Jiayun sent him a message for help: "Brother Xu, recently my parents have been frantically urging me to go on a blind date and urge me to get married, are you here to pretend to be my male ticket company?" We've been working together for so many years, please do me a favor! ”