Chapter 58 Seller's Infrastructure

However, there are two or three ways to solve any financial crisis. The first is taxation, the second is seller's responsibility, and the third is borrowing. But the third is negligible. After all, in this era, there is no financing platform at all. Without a financial system, where can Zhou Mengchen borrow money?

As for taxation.

Where did Zhou Mengchen go to fight? Datong's family is too weak. There are only more than one million people in full swing. This is what Zhou Mengchen estimates. As for the official statistics of the Ming Dynasty, there are not so many people at all.

With such a small population and underdeveloped agriculture, Zhou Mengchen adopted the method of direct farming. In addition to satisfying the food rations of the people under his command, he could also have a surplus of hundreds of thousands of stones. It is a very great thing. It should be noted that the food received by the court in Shanxi Province was only 20 to 30 million stones.

In the eyes of many people, this is clearly a miracle.

Although Zhou Mengchen hoped that Yang Jisheng would clean up and rectify southern prefectures and counties, Zhou Mengchen knew in his heart that there were actually no more.

The reason is very simple. The wealth of northern prefectures and counties is far less than that of the south. If Zhou Mengchen had Suzhou City in his hands, it would be simple to create one or two million taels from Suzhou City without any means. However, even if the southern prefectures and counties did not suffer much from war, their family background was quite thin. How much did it cost?

The other one is Yang Jisheng.

Yang Jisheng is not an exploiter.

He will definitely check the accounts clearly, but it may not necessarily increase taxes. He may even make adjustments, which is to maintain the original tax amount and reduce the burden on the people. There is no way, this is the traditional civil servant values.

Even if Zhou Mengchen hadn't said the financial crisis so severely, Yang Jisheng would have even lowered the tax amount after he found out.

After all, in Yang Jisheng's view, although officials lived a hard life under his leadership, the people were even more miserable, and they would rather suffer the bureaucrats than the people.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen can only choose one way, which is the seller's foundation.

There are not many options for selling the property. First of all, Zhou Mengchen cannot sell the land. The reason is very simple. Field is not only a production resource, but also the power of the agricultural society. Zhou Mengchen controls so much land, and also controls the people who depend on such land.

From this perspective, Beijing’s suspicion about Zhou Mengchen is not unfounded.

They can even regard the land around Datong as a Zhou-name fortress. The families of tens of thousands of Datong troops are all attached to large-scale military farming organizations. They are incompatible with the current Ming Dynasty. Although it can be said to be the old law of Taizu, Taizu died after all. Now there is no Taizu system. Although everyone respects Taizu Chengzu. But the problem is that whoever really makes Taizu's set will be a heretic who kills all the civil and military officials.

Some slogans are always something that people shout, not something they do.

Land is the foundation, and Zhou Mengchen must not move. Before Zhou Mengchen came, Datong Prefecture had nothing. What kind of family assets could be sold? Except for the Shuozhou Superintendent created by Zhou Mengchen, there was nothing else.

Zhou Mengchen looked at Xu Wei and said, "Sir Xu, do you have contact with Shanxi merchants?"

Zhou Mengchen knew very well that there must be buyers when selling things. Now there is only one buyer around Datong, which is Shanxi merchants.

Of course, it does not mean that there are no other merchants besides the Shanxi merchants. In fact, the Shaanxi merchants were not bad in the Ming Dynasty. For example, the Sanyuan Wang family and the famous Wang Shu. However, Datong was in the Jin territory. Although there were conflicts within the Shanxi merchants, merchants from other provinces came to the Jin territory and crossed the boundaries.

Although Shanxi merchants traveled everywhere across the country, they never felt like they had crossed the boundaries.

Xu Wei seemed not to understand, and Zhou Mengchen had a slight dissatisfaction in his tone. He said, "I am an aide to the position and a certain position. I have to watch all directions. What the adults have noticed, I have to pay attention to, and I have to check for the missing items for the adults. Maybe I have not noticed it. Since the switch, all merchants have been led by Shanxi merchants and are stranded in Datong, and even the girls in Datong are not easy to make up for. Most of them transport all kinds of things to Datong. When they leave Datong, they use iron as a warehouse. In fact, many merchants have noticed Shuozhou iron, and for several years, they have built workshops near Shuozhou. Since this year, at least a dozen craftsmen have left Shuozhou. But they have not left Shuozhou. Where do they think they are?"

"In addition, I have checked the accounts of Shuozhou Supervisor. Do you know what is the biggest income of Shuozhou Supervisor besides selling iron income?"

Zhou Mengchen really never thought of something like this.

For a moment, he felt like he had shot himself in the foot. Nothing else, if he had not completely removed the craftsmanship from the military weapon prison, that is, the craftsmen who worked in the military weapon prison had the status of good people and could be separated from the military weapon prison.

Of course, Zhou Mengchen knew that this was in principle.

After all, even when the reform and opening up in later generations was just now, it was not easy to get rid of the original unit. Not to mention this era. However, there is always a way.

I just don’t know what the price of poaching people has paid.

Zhou Mengchen was angry, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt relieved.

Nothing else, he never made any technical confidentiality in the military weapon prison, and even had the intention of training engineers on a large scale. Even without these craftsmen, some books in Datong Academy have principles. There are even technical manuals for military weapon prisons. I wonder if anyone has noticed it.

Therefore, it will take a moment to spread technology sooner or later. But Zhou Mengchen did not expect that it started in this way.

Zhou Mengchen said, "What income?"

Xu Wei said: "Selling coal, Shuozhou coal. This year, there is at least 50,000 or 60,000 taels of income, which subsidizes a lot of accounts of Shuozhou Supervisors."

In Zhou Mengchen's mind, Shuozhou Supervisor has never been aimed at making profits first. In terms of researching and developing weapons and manufacturing weapons, it is good to have no loss in Datong Town's procurement. Even when Zhou Mengchen's financial situation was in short supply, it directly affected Shuozhou Supervisor.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen also knew that Shuozhou Supervisor did some small business by himself.

For example, the iron selling business.

But I never expected that selling coal would have such a large income.

Xu Wei said: "Actually, if the adults want, the minimum value of Shuozhou coal mine is one million."

Yes, Datong Coal Sea has never lacked coal mines. But the cost of the problem is that other coal mines must be excavated. However, Shuozhou is an open-pit coal mine, and the quality is very good. It also has the convenient transportation established before. Although it is a coal slag road paved by Shuozhou Supervisor, it is close to the Sanggan River. In addition, the lower reaches of the Sanggan River can directly connect to Beijing. It connects the Grand Canal from Beijing and connects the world.

Even in Datong Coal Sea, there may not be any place that is more convenient than Shuozhou Coal Mine.

Moreover, the role of coal is not just to smelter steel. In fact, there are quite a lot of steam engines. Zhou Mengchen estimated that since the first batch of steam engines, the Ming Dynasty has put nearly 100 steam engines in use. This number seems to be not many, but in fact there are quite a lot.

Some of them are Beijing and some are in Datong, and there are almost no other places.

The use of steam engines has also begun to increase the coal price. Although there are coal mines near Beijing, the mining cost of Mentougou coal mine in its original state may not be comparable to that of Shuozhou coal mines that have come from afar.

Zhou Mengchen said: "Shuozhou coal mines are absolutely impossible to move. Such open-pit coal mines are only here in Datong. They are the foundation of Shuozhou supervision. However, other coal mines can do it. During this period, you can touch the background of all coal mines in Datong. You don't have to worry about the small coal mines you use for your own use. But any coal mines sold outside must be recorded in case of taxation."

After the Tartars' ravages, many things were knocked back to their prototypes.

Most of the coal mines that were originally producing were empty. However, it seems that due to the coal market, they are going to be re-mined. Zhou Mengchen is now crazy about money. He relies on the mountains to eat mountains, water to eat water, and only coal can rely on coal.

Zhou Mengchen was still a little uncomfortable with betraying Shuozhou Supervisory. But he had to think that it would be feasible in his heart.
Chapter completed!