Chapter Seventy-Six: Twenty-three years have passed since Hongwu

After Shen Guogong participated in the construction of Beijing, he also made a good start, with Shen Guogong as a backer, Zhang Youzhi's ability was fully exerted, for example, in terms of manpower, there is no need for Shen Guogong to say anything, Zhang Youzhi took the waist card of Shen Guogong's mansion and went to any yamen in Hebei to get strong support.

Moreover, when these yamen do private affairs for Shen Guo, they have to buy more effort than office affairs.

And Zhang Youzhi is also a person who understands the world very well. Naturally, he is also very good at doing things, and he will not treat the officials who do things for him badly.

In He Xi's assessment, this method is more efficient and more effective than directly issuing orders to let the government below cooperate with the recruitment of migrant workers, and it can better ensure the interests of the people, but it is a helpless thing.

After all, if it is official business, the officials involved below will do it leisurely, and even have to dip oil and water in it.

The business is too good this time, what will I do next time? That's pretty much it. And the public business, if you don't get oil and water in it, it's a fool. Don't think that Zhu Yuanzhang's high-pressure disposal will make the people below become honest and honest.

Please don't underestimate the wisdom of the working people. A lot of things are hard to find. My grandmother was in charge of the brigade canteen during the three years of natural disasters, so my father's brothers grew up well. But if it is said to be corruption, there is absolutely none.

Zhu Yuanzhang's is a little too far away for the people at the bottom.

Many things are not corruption, but they are enough to make one thing pay too much. But it's different to do private things for the powerful, plus Zhang Youzhi is a sensible person, so he will naturally give some benefits. The benefits were given, but there were still problems with the work. The sign of the Shenguo Mansion has too many ways to kill a small official, or even a county order.

You don't even need to give a reason, not giving face to the Shenguo Mansion is the best reason.

Some people say that corruption is the lubricant of economic development, and it is probably because of this logic, which is probably not valid in the future when the rule of law is sound. But in this era, it may be true.

After all, it's the difference between rotten and worse.

Anyway, after Shen Guogong was gone, other nobles left one after another, and for a while, there were dozens of construction clubs on the construction site in Beijing. What annoyed He Xi even more was that he set up the three major construction societies in Beijing, which was about to be hollowed out.

Without him, the construction society and the guard army formed by He Xi are actually just a different brand. How much you earn, it's just a matter of putting an account on the books. No more than in private where there are a lot of tricks to play.

He Xi had to come forward to warn many people before the three major construction societies could be maintained.

However, the technical level of the private construction companies has improved very rapidly. On the one hand, although there are many new materials and technologies in construction, on the whole, it is still a job of selling coolies, and the technical content is not high. In terms of improving efficiency, providing technical content, and providing profits, the private sector has a natural pursuit.

On the other hand, they have various nobles behind them, so they have received a lot of technical support.

Where were the most skilled craftsmen who built the city these days? In the army, as long as you look at the cities built by the Ming Dynasty over the years, you will know how much experience the Ming army has in building the city, and the connections of the nobles are all in the army, and it is not too simple to find out some personnel from the army.

Regardless of the situation, it can be regarded as a great help to He Xi. More than 100,000 people have gathered on the construction site in Beijing. He Xi also made some adjustments.

First of all, the profits of the contracted projects have been lowered, and even in the future, when there are more personnel, there will be a bidding to reduce costs. At the same time, an announcement was issued on the matter of taxation, that this year, that is, the 23rd year of Hongwu, it will not be forgotten, and from next year, all the operating income of the club company must be taxed. And let them take the bank statement, take the initiative to go to the planning department to declare, at the end of each year, the imperial court for accounting, if there is no declaration, then fine, serious to confiscate the company and other disposal means.

Of course, this is also the legal regulations temporarily supplemented by He Xi, and there is no one in the new version of the Daming Law.

Based on the commercial tax set by Zhu Yuanzhang, the kind of commodity tax that is related to the people's lives is 30 taxes and 1, not the commercial tax 15 taxes and 1 that is related to the livelihood of the people.

In fact, this clause designed by Zhu Yuanzhang may not be applicable to the company's operation, but He Xi doesn't care. In He Xi's view, the most important thing now is to cultivate the habit of taxation, and it can even be said that it is to release water to raise fish, how to collect it in the future, how to challenge, and adapt measures to local conditions, and then talk about it.

Then there are some adjustments in the bank's policy, and it is not that they cannot give loans to these construction societies. However, there are great changes in the amount and even the process of loan procedures. The plan is not as easy as Zhang Youzhi's loan.

After all, Zhang Youzhi's benefits are all rewards for the brave. It's the advantage of the tuyere, and now the thing is going to be done. It's a different logic.

Even so, He Xi roughly estimated that the tax alone would be as much as one million taels in the Beijing City Project next year. Although it is a silver ticket. However, one million taels of silver is also a large amount, and it is estimated that in addition to Suzhou City, the entire Ming Dynasty can only collect the highest taxes in Beijing City, which has not yet been built.

However, Suzhou City is different from Beijing City, which is an industrial and commercial tax, while Suzhou City is nominally a land tax, but in fact it is a commercial tax. After all, if you farm, no matter how fertile the land in Suzhou is, you can't afford to pay the land endowment.

Only by doing business can you fill the void above.

Both of these are commercially developed, but they are two different models, and as far as it seems, it is not known who is good and who is not.

Of course, He Xi also has a lot of support. If it was silver, the millions of taels of silver allocated by the imperial court had already been used up. Although it passed, the factories in Liaodong and other parties recovered a considerable amount of silver bills, and then there were many silver bills themselves stored in the bank.

Overall, the price of silver tickets is maintained quite well.

Of course, this is also the more widespread circulation of silver tickets. Not to mention other places, just in Hebei and Liaodong, there are bank branches in the so-called capital cities. And with the lowered account opening standard, you can open an account for ten taels.

On the construction site in Beijing, the monthly salary of 100,000 migrant workers is at least 100,000 taels, and many of the wages are transferred to their families through banks. There are also spreads such as loans. Before the tax is levied, the bank is already profitable.

And that's not counting the currency that was put on the market.

In short, make a lot of money.

And before the onset of winter, the planning and even the foundation of Beijing City have been completed. After the arrival of winter, it is not easy to construct, and the work on the construction site will naturally come to an end. Many people have gone home. But there are also people who are engaged in new work.

Nothing else, just some new factories, such as brick factories, are now desperately hoarding bricks. In order to prepare for next year's use, the ceramic factory, He Xi paid special attention to the sewers in Beijing when designing. To use the kind of large pottery pipe that allows people to walk in it, and it needs to be hundreds of kilometers long, after all, the city of Beijing is very large, and there are more twists and turns, and more pottery pipes are needed.

In fact, there are still certain problems in the technology of this kind of pottery pipe. It's not easy to make a lot of things small, but it's not easy to make them big. However, in ceramics, the Chinese in this era said second, no one dared to say first, found some master craftsmen from Jingdezhen, and then cooperated with the use of steam engines and other machinery, and finally came up with a set of production processes, but it is still relatively cumbersome. The production speed is not high.

Fortunately, many craftsmen pointed out that it is not necessary to use all of these clay pipes, and the same passage can be built with bricks. This technique is often used when building tombs. That's the solution.

However, such clay pipes still have to be produced, and then used in a special place.

Overall, He Xi is still relatively busy this winter. But He Xi knows that the busier time should be next spring, next spring, the main project of Beijing City, officially start construction.

He Xi hopes to use a year's work to do this one thing well.

In this way, the twenty-third year of Hongwu quietly ended.