Chapter 76                                                             �

After hearing this, Zhou Mengchen raised his eyebrows and said, "What happened?"

"Yes." Lu Yi said: "I looked at the cotton, but the quality was not very good. I don't look like Indian cotton."

"No matter which cotton it is," Zhou Mengchen said: "As long as it is cotton it's fine."

Lu Yi said, "Aunts are wise. Because of the fact that the maritime trade makes money and the bank exchanges, only banks can get the fastest. Therefore, most people are willing to deposit silver into the bank, and even the bank notes of Jiangnan Bank are common overseas. Now the bank notes issued by Jiangnan Bank are more than 30 million taels. This item alone will make no profit."

"These three official stocks are more or less integrated and have a lot of returns, ranging from about three million taels."

"There is another special income, Taiwan Damu."

Zhou Mengchen said: "Taiwanese big wood?"

Lu Yi said, "Yes, the big trees along the coast have almost been cut down, and even if some of them are left, they are not worth using. However, there are many big trees in Taiwan now. And everything in Taiwan belongs to the navy. Just purchasing big trees from Taiwan can offset the military expenses of a lot of the navy."

"However, the commercial tax is really the one that can support half of the sky. Adults should have seen the situation outside. Shanghai Port has expanded almost visible to the naked eye. In addition to warehouses, there are factories and workshops, and at most, timber workshops are ."

"Building ships and building houses also requires wood. It can be said that wood is needed anywhere. How much wood is consumed in Shanghai every day? It is hard to say clearly. The standard box alone is not sure how many millions are needed. Each wooden box has a copper coin tax, which is a tax of hundreds of thousands of taels per door. Because raw materials can be shipped from overseas or from other places, such as Liaodong Damu."

Speaking of this, Lu Yi was a little dazed and said, "Sir, I feel that I seem to see a giant beast, swallowing and spitting all the goods. This is Shanghai."

It can be said that the Shanghai model was proposed by Zhou Mengchen. Lu Yi was responsible for the implementation of the overall framework, while Hai Rui was responsible for the front-line implementation. Finally, it was considered that today's Shanghai was.

But Lu Yi himself seemed to be a little confused and unbelievable.

Because Hai Rui was in charge of the Shanghai County Government, it can be said that the first-class government office in the entire Ming Dynasty, whether it is execution or integrity. It is not as good as the world. But there is no other government office. As the leader of Shanghai gentry, Lu Yi controls the potential power of Shanghai.

He and Hai Rui had a conflict, but the conflict was not as big as the major event of Shanghai Port. So the two sides still cooperated in this matter of Shanghai Port.

With the cooperation between the two sides, Hai Rui wanted to restore the era of Taizu era without collecting the remains and not closing the door at night.

Everything Hai Rui did has reached the peak of governance capabilities under the Ming system. It is this peak that can achieve the refined management that Zhou Mengchen wants. Only by calculating commercial tax, to be precise, business tax and commodity tax. Business tax means that you have to pay money when opening a factory. It has the meaning of real estate tax, which means that a fixed amount of tax is given based on the factory's area and fixed assets, which is generally not high. The other is commodity tax, which is the tax that must be collected when the goods leave the factory.

It’s okay to say that the previous one is, but the latter one needs detailed statistics and surveys. Otherwise, how can accurate data be obtained?

If taxation is convenient, the previous tax should be strengthened, and the commodity tax should be exempted simply because taxation is collected according to the factory, which is convenient and easy to manage. However, Zhou Mengchen knew very well that if taxes are collected in this way, either there would be someone behind the factory and pay it symbolically, or there would be no one behind it. With corrupt officials increasing their investments, it would be a good time to close the door.

With Hairui, the unprecedented success of Shanghai Port Industrial Zone was achieved. Of course, now it is only cotton spinning, shipbuilding, timber processing, and water and land transportation. But it has already given Zhou Mengchen a big surprise.

Lu Yi couldn't believe it anymore. Because if we look at this model, it would be a matter of no suspense to Shanghai's taxes exceeding Suzhou. However, Suzhou and Shanghai are two completely different models. Suzhou is an elegant scholar accumulated over thousands of years. Shanghai seems to have a nouveau riche with the smell of the sea.

When Zhou Mengchen arrived, he knew that Shanghai was different now. But after hearing so much data from Lu Yi, he was even more surprised.

But in his heart, he said to himself: "I hope that all this can continue, no, it must continue."

Good fortune is where misfortune is hidden, and misfortune is where misfortune is leaning.

Although Zhou Mengchen was happy with the rapid development of Shanghai Port in the past six months, he knew better that the Ming Dynasty was a feudal dynasty. The Chinese feudal dynasty should not be analyzed by a narrow feudal dynasty in Western Europe, and specifically demonstrated a feudal dynasty of power. The personal dependence relationship under power.

Simply put, power is the ultimate law for measuring society, and people with power have it together.

Wealth is an accessory to power. Power itself can be interpreted as wealth.

For those with power, they are not ashamed of working hard to make money. The so-called farming and reading is to pass on the family, just to read it yourself and others to farm the fields. The same problem is that Shanghai Port is so huge that no one covets it? Of course, it is not. Lu Yi just said that Xu Pan, also known as Xu Jie's son, has been here. However, Xu Jie stopped him.

Is Xu Jie honest and honest?

No, it's a trade-off.

Zhou Mengchen remembered very clearly how domineering and rampant Xu Jie's Xu family was in Songjiang in the end. If Xu Jie really wanted to control his family, he would not have made such a land, leaving a stigma in history books. From the death of Xu Jie's father, there were only a few dozen acres of thin land, to the end of Xu Jie's span of the prefecture and even the county, Songjiang Prefecture could not accommodate the Xu family's property.

If he was not behind Shanghai Port, Zhou Mengchen, see what Xu Pan would be like.

The economic foundation determines the superstructure and can also be reversed. Not to mention how many problems there are in the promotion of the Shanghai model. Just to put it simply, Shanghai, which is becoming richer and richer, needs a stronger backer. If Zhou Mengchen cannot support all this, his future outcome can be imagined.

It was nothing more than that Mr. Zhou fell and everything he created was eaten up by countless people. Nothing left was left.

Naturally, they have no intention of promoting social development, and they even intentionally restrict technological development. Anyway, they monopolized all interests with their power, and whether technological development or not will be no different for them. Just like the Xu family, if Xu Pan entered the Shanghai Port Area in large numbers and occupied a huge share, the first thing he had to do was to resist taxes. Why should he pay taxes? Paying taxes is not as good as their old man said. In this way, the Ming Dynasty did not get any benefits from the new production model. It would be fine if the financial problems were still unsolvable.

This is a promising king, I am afraid he will be reversing history.

No matter how advanced or better a production model is, if it is unintentional to the country, then in the eyes of state rule, it is a heresy.

Zhou Mengchen was not afraid that his theory would be labeled as heresy. But he was afraid that he would come back and do a lot of things, but his theory would develop outside of China. This is not a joke on Zhou Mengchen. Not to mention anything else, some Japanese people have already studied his actions in Jiuzhou with Zhou Mengchen's works.

The Japanese are never stingy in learning from the strong.

"I have no way out." Zhou Mengchen felt calm. He had figured out this problem many years ago. He must sit down for a while at the cabinet chief. Even if his fate is like Xia Yan and Zhang Juzheng, he ends up in a miserable old age. Many people sigh that some reformers are not seeking their own country. It seems that the two can be achieved at the same time.

But at this moment, Zhou Mengchen realized that before he truly stood in this position, in his heart, those who were willing to be responsible for themselves, for the country, and for history, had no time and energy to be responsible for themselves.

Zhou Mengchen was never so happy and determined, and was willing to embark on the thorny road of fighting for supreme power. Whether it was success or failure, or whether it was covered in wounds, it was implicated in his wife and children. At this moment, Zhou Mengchen also made up his mind to seek a capital official after the resignation of this governor. It would be great if he could enter the cabinet directly, but if he could not compete for one of the six ministers, he would have to compete for one.
Chapter completed!