The bright prospects for the development of the Special Economic Zone are accompanied by a steady stream of considerable monthly income.

made Emperor Zhu Youzhen's confidence greatly increased, he was extremely excited, and even a little floating, and he began to feel that he could do it again, and he had the strength and hope to challenge any opponent.

After all, the special zone that completely adopts the management model of Xujiazhuang is like a big gold mine, as long as the people who live in it, they will not be able to escape the airtight tax system, and there is also a reward mechanism for reporting tax evasion, and the risk of not wanting to pay taxes is very large, and there are even special tax detectives who have the right to investigate anyone in the special zone, even if it is the head of the special zone, if there is tax evasion and tax evasion of even a silver dollar, they can be investigated and punished, and a good future will be lost.

In addition, even if the comprehensive tax rate borne by the people in the Special Economic Zone is equivalent to 15% of income, the tax burden is not low, which makes people feel a certain sense of oppression and exploitation, and even for those rich and powerful elites, this is simply robbing them of their money and making them feel extremely painful, but after experiencing the extremely convenient, safe and secure life in the Special Economic Zone, they finally have to grit their teeth, recognize this tax and that tax, and bear the obligation to pay taxes, and for the middle class and ordinary rich people, Moving into the SEZ for development has reduced the burden and avoided the trouble of currying favor with this and that, and the lot of time saved can make a lot of money, and at the spiritual level, there is no need to wronged oneself and be forced to bow one's head and beg for others, so that one can live an upright and upright life, with one's head held high, and have one's own dignity.

At last!

Zhu Youzhen was still a little happy, because although the SEZ is extremely prosperous and can receive a lot of taxes, it will also require a lot of investment to maintain the normal operation of the SEZ.

For example, waterworks, power plants, hospitals, kindergartens, schools, nursing homes, biogas digesters and other institutions, most of which do not pursue profits, provide services that the vast majority of people can afford, such as hospitals, general common colds, ordinary surgeries, can be treated, but similar to cancer, tumors and other terminal diseases, most of them can only be treated, can only be sent some painkillers, let the patient go home and wait for death, eat and drink to enjoy the last good time, instead of excessive overdraft of medical resources, in exchange for a few more days and months, such a cost performance is too low, there is no need to continue to force it, no matter who it is, people will be dogs after all.

But even so.

Even if there are various ways to reduce expenses and save costs.

But the salaries of civil servants are not low.

Maintenance of roads.

Maintenance of the pension system.

There is also urban sanitation cleaning, garbage removal, and fecal collection and disposal.

In all aspects, it costs a lot of money (and of course, it also creates a lot of jobs), which is a big financial burden.

Even if it can be maintained normally now, and even there is a lot of surplus every month, but over time, after the time comes, the fiscal revenue will only feel that it is not enough to spend, and it will only begin to produce losses, and it will become impossible to make ends meet.

After all, no matter what the special zone, the income is still relatively single, the tax rate is not high, unless the future productivity, can still develop rapidly, greater than the speed of loss, in order to maintain normally, if the pension, medical care, education gradually become three mountains, into three bottomless pits, even if the tax is high, it will slowly not be maintained, unless the tax continues to increase in the later stage, otherwise the system collapse is a matter of time.

At that time, Zhu Youzhen, as a member of the royal family, will definitely not get much of the special zone commission, but will lose money, and will ask the royal family to give some support, and pay the money backwards.

Of course, the best can live, of course, is still the Jiangnan Xujiazhuang, because after mastering the financial hegemony, as long as the real industry is still developing, the industrial productivity has not been weakened and destroyed, you can according to the number of products produced, additional issuance of a certain amount of banknotes, generally, in a high-speed development of a highly developed society, with the power of financial hegemony, printing more banknotes equivalent to 10% of GDP, there is no big problem, that is, a trillion yuan of income a year, it is possible to print an extra 100 billion additional banknotes, It will not cause more significant inflation.

This is the great benefit of financial hegemony, that is, no matter how much value and wealth others create, you can legally 'plunder' one-tenth by increasing the way of printing money, while other forces can only honestly make money, save money, and spend money, and it is impossible to overdraft on a large scale, which is the way to death.

Xujiazhuang also controls the most advanced productivity, the most core technology patents, such as chips, batteries, solar panels, diesel engines, generators, special steel, special alloys, high-precision core parts, other forces unless they spend a lot of money on research and development, it is impossible to get rid of the dependence on Xujiazhuang, and high-tech and core technology patents, which represents how rich profits, needless to say, anyway, casually, you can earn more than ten times the profits through the high-tech industry.

Finally, the resources of the whole world, such as iron ore, gold ore, silver ore, coal mine, copper ore, rare earth ore, oil and gas, etc., are also in the hands of Xujiazhuang, not only directly control all the high-grade rich ores, but also grasp the pricing power of these resources. It is decided by Xujiazhuang, who buys ore, even if it is gold and silver that can be used as hard currency, how much money is a gram, rare earth metals known as industrial vitamins, whether to sell cabbage or windfall prices, are determined by Xujiazhuang, if the economic development situation is booming, then the ore purchase price will be slightly higher, encouraging people to consume, if the economic situation is not particularly good, Xujiazhuang can't take too much money in his pocket, then it will open a lower price, to buy those ores and resources, Save money, and those mine owners, who can only take a small profit, are forced to live a difficult life, bankruptcy and bankruptcy are possible.

Therefore, Xu Jiazhuang, who has mastered the pricing power of resources, cannot lose no matter what, but it is just the difference between earning more and earning less.

In this way, financial hegemony + technological hegemony + resource pricing power, such a powerful Xujiazhuang, how could the royal family catch up, Zhu Youzhen is still too optimistic, a little happy too early.

The sixteenth year of Chongzhen, September.

On the other hand, look at the distant continent of the Americas.

Central America, in the plains, in a place called Puerto Balta, not far from the western coastline, a small bastion, standing quietly, and then more than 20 miles deeper, you will see a larger city, has been built, and the surrounding large area of land that was originally mostly primeval forest, transformed into farmland, and planted corn, wheat, potatoes and other crops, but also on the hillside terrain, planted some tropical fruit trees, because when it comes to the harvest season, the corn, wheat, Potatoes and so on, are harvested, so you can see truckloads of grain being transported to the city, or into processing plants, where they are processed into food with a long shelf life.

Looking at the output of those crops in the field, they are all super high yields of not less than 1,000 catties, less than 100,000 acres of cultivated land, and the grain produced is enough for the population in the city to eat for more than a year, and can also be used to raise livestock and poultry, which completely solves the problem of possible shortage of food, so that all immigrants put their worries back, and their faces can't help but show a relaxed and happy look.

That's right!

This place is the 'first city in China' that has just been established, also known as 'Huayi City', which is the result of Fang Yizhi's huge development fleet leading a huge development fleet and nearly a year after arriving at this place.

In the process, he overcame countless difficulties, encountered many challenges, defeated three indigenous tribes, wiped out hundreds of Spanish colonists, but also paid thousands of casualties to gain a firm foothold, successfully established the first king's estate here, encircled a large area of high-quality land, and embarked on the right track of development.

Now seeing the grain in the farmland and a large amount of harvest, Fang Yizhi, as the supreme person in charge, breathed a long sigh of relief, and finally felt a trace of joy and relaxation.

No way, this place, 20,000 miles away from Daming, take the fastest steamship, it will take nearly half a year to arrive, and the radio contact system built will often have signal loss, unable to contact the situation, can not report the situation to Xujiazhuang in real time, even if it encounters a greater predicament, it can only rely on its own to carry it, if it can't be carried over, the 98312 person he brought over alive can only be buried forever in this foreign land, so he feels that the burden on his shoulders is extremely heavy. It's like a tight string, and I don't dare to relax for a moment.

Until now, hearing the joy of the harvest and watching the truckloads of grain being sent to warehouses or processing plants, Fang Yizhi has the confidence that in this new continent, he will persevere, take root more firmly, and defeat all challenges, and then wait until the Ming Dynasty to replenish the second and third batches of immigrants and materials, then he feels completely stable, and he doesn't have to worry cautiously anymore, and he can even take the initiative to expand and expand more interests.

Of course!

Fang Yizhi knew that he still couldn't take it too lightly.

Because the local indigenous kingdom, with a history of hundreds of years, and millions of people, has formed a quite distinctive civilization, although it is relatively backward and primitive, but in terms of organization, it has been quite powerful, in the extreme situation, can launch an army of 200,000, come to attack, at the beginning of this year, Fang Yizhi saw a full 100,000 indigenous army, come to attack the scene, although under the firearms of the 30,000 young and strong innocent army led by him, directly killed and wounded 30,000, captured 20,000, and the rest were all scattered, And for a long time did not dare to do it again.

But considering that his foothold was not stable, Fang Yizhi still adopted a prudent strategy, not only ordered the release of most of the captives, but also helped heal the wounded captives, sent people to learn their language, and then also sent a delegation of envoys to visit the king of the indigenous kingdom, sent cloth, silk, watches, swords and other gifts, expressed a request to lease the land, coexistence and development, the result of the negotiation was that the gift was accepted, but the king's strong demand must be withdrawn from the occupied land, where you come from, you can go back.

The two sides did not negotiate, there may be a big war in the future, but the indigenous kingdom did not dare to act rashly, but began to make preparations, and even took out a large amount of gold and silver, found the territory of the Spaniards, wanted to buy guns and gunpowder, and strengthened the preparation of force, but the Spaniards were too greedy and collected gold and silver, but not a single musket was given to the natives, and also sent hundreds of troops to attack Huayi City, but in front of the more advanced muskets, the whole army was wiped out, and no one survived, Because of the virtue of the Spaniards, Fang Yizhi had understood in advance that they were simply a group of robbers and demons, and now that they fell into his hands, naturally none of them wanted to live.

However, in this American continent, the Spaniards are still the strongest overlords, occupying the most territory, owning the most gold and silver mines, and behind the Spanish colonists, there is a huge Spanish Empire that has not been completely weakened, this empire can pull up a legion of hundreds of thousands when it is stimulated, if this legion is established, it is eyeing Fang Yizhi's Huayi City, and carrying a large number of artillery, even if Fang Yizhi is here, it still has the advantage of weapon performance, But with a legion of 30,000 young and strong PK hundreds of thousands, the possibility of defeat is still very high, so Fang Yizhi still doesn't dare to be too high-profile, but wants to develop in a low-key way for another year or two, and wait for the second and third batches of immigrants to come to support, then he can be completely relieved, even in the face of hundreds of thousands of Spanish legions, he is confident that he will defeat and eliminate them.

this day.

South of Huayi City, inside the field hospital.

Indian warrior Apache, male, 22 years old this year, a dark-skinned, tall and sturdy physique, powerful force, was one of the famous warriors in the indigenous kingdom, very strong, the javelin projected far and accurate, once worshipped by many tribesmen.

But in the big battle half a year ago, after a bullet hit his thigh and made him lose his combat effectiveness, he was completely depressed, lost all his fighting spirit, and only frustration and despair in his eyes, after all, in front of that powerful firearm, no matter how brave he was, he was not vulnerable, as long as a small bullet could end all his pride.

So he was decadent, even if his leg injury was almost healed, these foreign strongmen were willing to let him go back, but Apache still shook his head, not wanting to go back, because he was a waste, an incompetent waste, and going back would not play a role, so it was better to stay here, and wait for these foreign strongmen, who were unwilling to waste food to feed him, and then kill him.

But......

After half a year of contact, in the communication with doctors, nurses and nurses, Apache slowly understood the words of these people, and was able to establish relatively smooth communication, and then also accepted the influence of these outsiders, which made him, who was originally extremely confused, actually have a trace of wavering.

Because these outsiders actually said that they were Indians, after the Yin Shang, they were originally pure descendants of Yanhuang, and they migrated here from Shenzhou more than 2,000 years ago.

Everyone is originally of the same race, and they shed the same blood.

Now the Americas where they live, under the attack of European barbarians, have reached the point of danger and are on the verge of extinction, and they cannot ignore the people of their homeland.

So they are here to help, not to burn and loot, but to bring advanced productivity in the future, and then enjoy happiness together, everyone should be a family that loves each other!