After all, it is more difficult to touch interests than to touch the soul, and it is impossible for anyone with a high ideological consciousness to be willing to take the initiative to donate their finances to help the imperial court.

Even Xujiazhuang, through the annual tax collection, is only about 100 million silver dollars, and the vast majority of the income is obtained through the operating profits of high-tech industries such as iron and steel mills, shipyards, bicycle factories, and arsenals, accounting for more than half of the income.

The money collected from the hands of the people is very small, and the policy of hiding the wealth from the people is also implemented, which also makes many rich families in the Ming Dynasty set up industries in Xujiazhuang, and it has become a place where rich people from all over the world are more willing to come and settle down, and even if they don't have many outstanding talents, they can only engage in some low-end service industries in the harbor city, such as washing dishes in the middle of the restaurant, becoming a dung digger, cleaner, etc., the class has obviously fallen to a level, and even fallen to the bottom, but how down, rich businessmen from all over the world, The elite class still likes to apply for immigration to Xujiazhuang, which can be said to be rushing.

The main reason why the rich come so much is that Xujiazhuang is indeed more friendly to the rich, the pressure on the rich is less, and there are countless policies to support industry and commerce, as long as they can pay taxes according to law, they are citizens who are protected by the law, and those who pay more taxes get priority protection, and there is a feeling of senior VIP, because of this, in order to pursue a higher social status, many people are taking the initiative to file taxes, and even pay more taxes and donate, it is best to take the qualification of a businessman councilor, you will have the opportunity to participate in the formulation of rules, It is more conducive to their own business development.

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It's a bit of a stretch.

In short, in any case, in the area controlled by the Ming court, in addition to thousands of years of traditional agricultural taxes, which can be received from the people at the bottom, it is very difficult to receive taxes from other classes, and the resistance is extremely huge, and it is very likely that there will be problems, and the Ming court seems to be huge, but in fact it is bloated and weak, and the imperial power does not go to the countryside, it is extremely difficult to collect more taxes, and it is very troublesome, unless it is to establish a high mobilization system like the violent Qin, otherwise the problem of money cannot be solved.

What to do?

Does Zhu Youzhen have the ability to become a figure like Qin Shi Huang? Does he have the courage and skill to quell those disobedient forces, does he have the determination and courage, as well as the cruel character of murder, and the power to control the top talents?

No.

Obviously, Zhu Youzhen is not as good as Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the ages, and he is not even worthy of carrying shoes for Qin Shi Huang, let alone having such ambition and courage, and even a king who keeps the success can not do well, but often breaks a good hand.

What to do?

Make hay.

Zhu Youzhen, who is a little clever in his brain, thought of a good way, that is, to make money, as long as the royal family can earn enough money, it will be used to enhance strength, cultivate the strength of the royal family, and cultivate more teams and basic plates, because as long as there is money, many things will be very easy to do, many talents can be wooed, and many high-quality resources can also be bought.

On the contrary, as long as you have enough money, many things will become very easy to do, and no matter how difficult the big problem is, you can easily solve it, and the difficulty coefficient will be greatly reduced.

For example, to enhance the self-protection ability of the royal family, the number of new royal troops can be increased to 100,000, equipped with the best firearms, arrange the best training, provide the best treatment, and cultivate its combat effectiveness to an extremely strong level, giving priority to the royal family to have the strength of self-protection, as long as the safety of the royal family itself can be guaranteed, with this good premise, especially to ensure the safety of the emperor, no matter how big the action is later, you can let it go, eliminating many worries.

For another example, with money, you can buy talents, win people's hearts, and create some activities to attract attention and win the support of public opinion, so as to gain a good reputation.

There is also the possibility of using money to prepare more back roads, buy and develop more overseas royal estates, so that even if the Ming Dynasty is usurped by someone one day, or destroyed by those who are powerful, it can also be used as the capital for the restoration of the country, so that the future generations can work hard, it is really hopeless to restore the country, then honestly be a rich man, do not consider tossing those meaningless things, it is also a very good option.

And so on and so forth.

In short, money is a really good thing, more than ninety percent of people like it, and there are almost no people who don't like it, and it can do a lot of things, leverage a lot of resources, or it is the goal pursued by countless people, and they have been worried about it all their lives.

Zhu Youzhen thought more than once: If he was Xu Yuan, who was rich and rivaled the country, and the money he earned every year was at least more than one billion silver dollars, and he didn't know how to spend it, what would he do with it? How will you splurge and enjoy? Will it produce an inflated mentality, so that it will be arrogant and excessive, and do some unwise behavior?

But no matter what, the money must be found to get more, and it will never be too little.

Opening of the Royal Factory.

The previous five factories such as the Royal Glass Factory, the Ceramics Factory, and the Paper Mill brought tens of millions of silver dollars to the royal family every year, which can be called a huge profit, and I don't know how many forces are blushing, and even in the palace, there are many eunuchs and maids, hoping to work in these factories, get a bleak salary, and by the way, be the eyes and ears of the emperor, take care of these factories, and not completely be the shopkeeper, let the staff of Xujiazhuang, manage how they want, and hide the profits as they want. The personnel sent by the royal family can play a bigger and better role, instead of being controlled and restricted by Xu Jiazhuang, unable to do what they want, unable to operate independently, and many other problems.

Anyway, the benefits brought by a royal factory are very considerable, so that many related households, officials and even relatives of the emperor want to enter the factory to develop and embrace the extremely huge interests.

But in order to ensure the interests of tens of millions of silver dollars every year, Zhu Youzhen did not agree to the requirements of those eunuchs and palace maids and close ministers, because it is obvious that these people are all rats, they will only do bad things, and they will not do anything good.

Through investigation and understanding, Zhu Youzhen also knew that there were these types of factories in Xujiazhuang, which were extremely profitable industries, and they could earn a lot of silver dollars every year, which was really enviable.

For example, the bicycle factory, any bicycle, the profit is more than 50 silver dollars, if it is one per capita of the people of the Ming Dynasty, it is a huge market of more than 200 million, I don't know how terrible the benefits will be, it may exceed 10 billion.

For example, the fertilizer factory, you must know that today's Daming agriculture, in order to achieve high yield and bumper yield, is inseparable from the support of chemical fertilizer, because a pound of fertilizer, ten pounds of grain, an acre of land as long as a twenty pounds of fertilizer, can increase the output of two hundred pounds, is twice the original output, but also a lot easier, such fertilizer, a silver dollar twenty pounds is wanted, the benefits are obviously more than one silver dollar, and the manufacture of fertilizer factories, there is a lot of profit margins, if there is a royal fertilizer factory, as long as one billion pounds of fertilizer is produced every year, maybe it's a profit of more than five million silver dollars, which is quite good.

Another example is the hardware processing factory, which can process a variety of parts and products to meet the development of the industrial manufacturing industry, and as long as the parts are processed well, the profits are considerable, and it is very easy to earn a million silver dollars a year.

There are also tile factories, marble furniture factories, sofa furniture factories, etc., which are all high-profit industries with very good development prospects.

Some time ago, Xu Yuan, who was from Xujiazhuang, was very close to his sister-in-law Zhang Yan, and it seemed that he had a relationship, and finally established a marriage relationship in a certain sense, which can be described as a higher level, which made Zhu Youzhen greatly relieved, and his heart was suddenly much refreshed, his eyes were also bright, and he saw the cooperation in looking for opportunities.

Then, Zhu Youzhen wrote a more sincere "Cooperation Initiative Letter" and asked Jinyiwei to send it to Xu Yuan to discuss deeper cooperation, hoping to get more advanced factories and seize the opportunity of Xujiazhuang's low-end industry to transfer out, so that the royal family can make a little more money.

This letter fell on Xu Yuan's desk.

Xu Yuan was silent for a moment, and soon wrote a reply, saying that he could transfer the bird industry to the royal family, but industry, especially heavy industry, has the characteristics of large investment risk and low return rate, don't take too much fancy to these industries, although it is currently very profitable, but mainly because there are few factories and lack of competition, products can be sold at a higher price, but many products, if the production capacity goes up, there are too many factories, it is in the predicament of a price war, resulting in an increase in production capacity but not an increase in profits, which is not a very good industry. The stakes are not low.

But for Xu Yuan's reminder and advice, Zhu Youzhen quickly replied: "Risk or something, I think it's nothing, opening a factory is equal to making money, this is the consensus of countless people today, Xu Yuan, you are too modest, this is actually not good, really bad, since my royal family wants to do it, you can give some factories that are facing elimination, in terms of funds, just borrow some funds to build factories, and when you make money in the future, you will slowly pay it back, so many years, there is more and more cooperation between the two sides, why is Xujiazhuang still so conservative, Always reluctant to open his mind and make money, and unwilling to share it, doesn't Xu Jiazhuang often say in the newspaper that only consumption can live? If you don't even want to be busy with this little favor, then you are really disappointed, and you will have to think about the relationship between the two sides, what went wrong, whether you want to make some adjustments, it depends on the sincerity of Xu Jiazhuang's side, and Xu Yuan, my imperial sister-in-law, has been ruined by your bastard thing, you have done a big rebellious thing, the whole world should be spit on you, and the imperial sister-in-law has already told me about this, I am very business, and now if you want to ease the relationship between the two sides, I think, can only be the sincerity of your side! ”

After receiving this letter, which contained many threatening letters.

Xu Yuan couldn't help but smile bitterly, he didn't expect that the current Zhu Youzhen actually regarded him as an honest man who could extort money, and wanted to exert pressure on him in public opinion, and set aside a line, he didn't say anything to death, and his figure was very soft, as for the purpose, it was to get more factories and increase the income of the royal family, and even for these factories, Zhu Youzhen became quite undisciplined, and some low-level intimidation methods were used, these routines were estimated not to have been used three years ago, but now they are for the sake of interests, and all kinds of cruel words can be said. As long as it has the effect of scaring someone, it can be.

Amuse.

Xu Yuan felt that Zhu Youzhen was getting more and more funny, and began to say some nonsensical nonsense, and he still had a sense of self-confidence, and he didn't know how it came about.

However, Xu Yuan still thought about the royal family's application for cooperation, and after thinking about it for a day or two, he still decided: cooperation can also be done, and loans can also be borrowed, but the royal family also has to give up some rights and make some compromises, otherwise I am afraid it will be very difficult.

For example, if there is anything that needs to be used in Xujiazhuang in the future, I hope that Zhu Youzhen will approve it all, and it is best to take a few more seals of the jade seal, on top of the blank holy decree, as for the content, Xujiazhuang will fill it.

For example, in terms of cracking down on criminals and punishing criminals, it is necessary to deepen cooperation with Xujiazhuang, and send all the criminals of Daming to Australia to mine to help solve the problem of insufficient miners in Xujiazhuang.

As for the factories that can be transferred, mainly soap factories, furniture factories, processing factories and other low-end industries, plus a mid-end shipyard, but in the Ming Dynasty, it is still very advanced, and the efficiency does not know how many times it has improved, as for the profit margin, it is obviously relatively high, a factory earns 500,000 silver dollars a year, easily, very promising, and can also receive valuable orders provided by Xujiazhuang, saving the trouble of selling everywhere, which actually saves a lot of costs.

And so on and so forth.

However, there is another problem that the construction cost of these factories is not very low, and the transfer of equipment is a big trouble, and it is necessary to equip some generator facilities, and the total cost is at least 70 million silver dollars, and more than a year, which is a very huge project.

For this.

Zhu Youzhen wrote a letter and said directly in the letter: "In this case, then borrow another 100 million silver dollars for a loan, the interest rate hopes to be low, and it is best to waive the interest!" ”