Chapter 68: Ding Xian's New Deal

Huang Zicheng said, "Then can you clean up the officials of Ying Tianfu? Act according to the Beijing side and issue new decrees to guarantee the interests of the merchants. Legally levy commercial taxes?"

Ding Xian smiled slightly bitterly and said, "This can't be done."

Without him, the implication is too wide. Nanjing is not Beijing.

Beijing was built by He Xi. It is a high-rise building from flat ground. There is no interest relationship, if there is, He Xi is the biggest interest relationship, Beijing is He Xi's territory, and all interest relations must be distributed by He Xi. Nanjing, on the other hand, is different.

Zhu Yuanzhang has been running Nanjing for more than 30 years. I don't know how many old ministers Zhu Yuanzhang fought with in the world, all of whom live in Nanjing.

Ding Xian also didn't know who was behind a certain official in Nanjing Yingtianfu.

Yes. Ding Xian is now the first assistant, the first civil official, with Zhu Yunwen's endorsement, and he can get him to many people. But this is for one person, but what if the whole of Nanjing is a land snake? Zhu Yunwen may not be able to withstand the pressure.

Not to mention, not all the people in Nanjing City can deal with it.

For example, the Wei Mansion, the Song Mansion, the Korean Mansion, the Yingguo Mansion, and even the Cao Mansion and the Lu Family. A large number of people.

He made drastic reforms and offended all these people. Even if it succeeds in the future, what will happen to you? He is not a person who is willing to kill himself for the sake of Zhu Yunwen and the great future.

Huang Zicheng said, "Then what can you do?"

Ding Xian said, "Naturally, it's a factory."

Huang Zicheng said, "Set up a factory?"

Ding Xian said: "And today, only the factory is the most profitable. The reason why I was able to come to power was because the court was useless, so after I came to power, the first thing I did was to put the world's financial management first."

Huang Zicheng secretly said in his heart: "Financial management, I think it is to accumulate wealth."

Huang Zicheng was dismissive of Ding Xian.

He is qualified to do this, and in his opinion, what He Xi does is financial management. And many of the so-called financial ministers in history are actually just accumulating wealth. Ding Xian is obviously going to follow his old path.

Huang Zicheng poured cold water on him without hesitation and said, "You haven't thought about one thing, that is, where does the money come from? It costs money to set up a factory. In Liaodong that year, the imperial court invested millions of yuan."

Ding Xian said, "It's hard to say how many, but there are still millions."

"Not enough." Huang Zicheng said, "It was the beginning, and now it is now. At the beginning, there was no competition, and when a lot of things were produced, someone would buy them. Even if it is not produced, someone will order it. But what does it look like now? Goods from the north are already everywhere. If you want to have an advantage, the money you invest is definitely not millions. I guess I can't beat tens of millions."

Ding Xian said, "That's tens of millions. I'll figure out how to get the money."

Huang Zicheng said, "Find a way? What can you do?".

Ding Xian said: "There is no such money in the imperial treasury, but others do, such as the nobles who were doing business in Beijing."

Huang Zicheng frowned, a little incomprehensible.

Cutting off people's money, such as killing his parents, does Ding Xian dare to put this matter on the table? It's already an open secret. If you want to move here, the backlash will be no less than that of moving Tianfu.

For a while, Huang Zicheng didn't understand what Ding Xian was thinking.

Ding Xian saw that Huang Zicheng didn't understand, and said with a smile: "I don't want to move these people, but I want them to set up factories near Nanjing. In this way, they make money, and the court will find a way to get a piece of the pie."

Huang Zicheng listened to Ding Xianyi's words, and his heart couldn't help but move. I have to admit that Ding Xian's bottom line is much more flexible than Zhu Yunwen.

The nobles who have fought in Beijing have a certain amount of experience in doing business and running factories. Even if you don't have experience, you can find a way to get experienced people from Beijing. Thus replicating some factories near Nanjing.

After the factory made money, the imperial court tried to find a way to get a piece of the pie, whether it was taxation or shares. It is also possible to use the concession to make up for the gap in the imperial court.

Now, Beijing wants to block it

I can't stop it.

After all, these nobles have deep connections in Beijing, and if Beijing stops them, it is very likely to offend them severely. Politically lost points by a large margin.

Huang Zicheng said: "Not bad idea, but if you want to do it, just do it yourself, what do you want me to do?"

Ding Xian said, "Naturally, I invite you to go out of the mountain, after all, I need a knowledgeable helmsman."

Huang Zicheng said, "I know that if I don't agree, I won't live in peace today. But I won't betray the teacher. So, if you have any questions, send someone to ask me, and I know everything. But let me do things for you, and don't think about it."

Ding Xian wanted to say something more. Huang Zicheng waved his hand and said, "If you don't agree, use all kinds of means. I'll wait."

Ding Xian was silent for a while. His relationship with Huang Zicheng is actually very ordinary. If it weren't for this one thing that only Huang Zicheng could do, killing Huang Zicheng would be just a matter of one sentence.

He heard the resoluteness in Huang Zicheng's words. I also know that I can't be persecuted anymore.

He smiled indifferently and said, "That's good. That's it."

Huang Zicheng also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he said resolutely, in fact, he was also prepared to die. If before that, he actually felt that between the north and the south, the victory or defeat was unpredictable, now he has felt that the north seems to have a better chance of winning.

He is not without resentment towards He Xi, but no matter how big the resentment is, it has almost dissipated in the past two or three years. He's also going to have to think about his future.

He was worried that he would do too much for Ding Xian and get too close to Ding Xian. There will be problems in the future.

This boundary is already the bottom line given by Huang Zicheng in all aspects.

Seeing Ding Xian agree, he was also happy, after all, he didn't want to die. However, there was a question that he couldn't help but ask, and said, "I think Master He is very disciplined in doing things, and before doing things, think about all kinds of things. To develop factories, for the imperial court, it was a tax. It is never easy to collect money reasonably and legally. If you do that, there is a big loophole."

Ding Xian smiled and said, "Thank you Senior Brother for reminding me, don't you rest assured that I have a way?"

Seeing this, Huang Zicheng wanted to say something, but suddenly said secretly in his heart: "Yes, let me remind you, it's fine. What do you do with so much?" Then shut up.

Ding Xian actually saw Huang Zicheng's thoughts. It's just that the starting point of the two of them is completely different, and the things they consider and worry about are also different.

The reason why He Xi first established a sound tax system and then opened up private factories. It was for the sake of the imperial court. If there is no perfect method of taxation, it is too easy to go wrong if industry is taxed in the form of taxation on agriculture.

Whether it was too much or too little, it was a problem, and what was even more terrifying was that the imperial court was out of control over industrial development. If the imperial court cannot get a piece of the pie in industrial development and absorb manpower and material resources in the midst of the rapid industrial development, then it will definitely be eaten by the capitalists in the future.

The ability to collect taxes is actually the ability to manage industry, and the ability to manage industry represents the ruling power of the imperial court. This is not to be sloppy at all.

But it's not that Ding Xian doesn't understand this, but the starting point is different.

He lacks loyalty to Daming and Zhu Yunwen, and he is only loyal to himself. When he thinks about something, he doesn't think about long-term issues at all, he only thinks about the present, thinking about himself and the Ding family.

He wanted to establish a government with a set of industrial management capabilities, but there was too much resistance.

It's good for the court, but it's not good for himself, but it will make a lot of hatred worth. And only the development of factory bans, to be precise, there are no factory bans in Nanjing. It's just that without the support of the government, the development of industry will encounter many problems, which cannot be solved by a single powerful family.

Ding Xian participated, and with the power of Shoufu, he could naturally straighten out many problems, so that these people's factories could be opened.

As for the collection of taxes. As a co-founder, Ding Xian can guarantee that he can get money from these people in various ways. As for what to do in the future? What does it have to do with someone else, when the time comes, someone else will no longer be the first assistant.

Or do you want someone to solve this person's problem, this position of first assistant? Is it for him to sit all the time.