The Young Master Is Fierce Chapter 851: Lack of money
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The years are relatively quiet.
Fu Xiaoguan canonized Yu Wenyun as queen on the sixth day of March, and the other nine ladies were all noble concubines.
On the seventh day of March, he led his harem and ministers to pay homage to the imperial mausoleum and tell the world.
In this way, in the eyes of the ministers, His Majesty has completely completed the transformation of his identity, marking the official beginning of a new era.
In the blink of an eye, summer has arrived.
In the blink of an eye, the new order of the Wu Dynasty has gradually stabilized.
The outline of the First Five-Year Plan has also been familiar to all officials from top to bottom, and the construction of a market economy is also being implemented slowly and bumpily - this thing is too new, officials are groping, and businessmen are also In adapting, officials inevitably stretched out their hands to interfere, but businessmen did not dare to speak out to resist.
The idea of officialdom is still strong in the minds of businessmen, and the Ministry of Commerce has accelerated the establishment of commercial bureaus in various states. Businessmen need a platform for appeals, and the commercial bureaus must play this role well. This matter is personally supervised by Fu Xiaoguan , Yun Xiyan personally went to various states to hold discussions with businessmen.
Also in this July, news came from the Yu Dynasty that Emperor Xuan abdicated on the eighth day of June, and the fifth prince of the Yu Dynasty, Yu Dao, ascended the throne and was called Emperor Yuan. He also vigorously implemented the New Deal, which was almost exactly the same as the Wu Dynasty's First Five-Year Plan.
"Yu Chao is a very cunning guy, but it doesn't matter. He and Yu Chao can do this to some extent, but it won't be very good."
Fu Xiaoguan did not explain to Nangong Yiyu and others why the same policy in the Yu Dynasty had different effects. He talked about something else:
"The official salt wells of the Wu Dynasty have been reorganized into the United Salt Company. I have appointed Shang Zhuodong to serve as the first general manager of the company, and the Minister of Finance is Li Wan."
Fu Xiaoguan looked at Zhuo Donglai and said, "Remember, all the white salt produced by the salt company is absolutely not allowed to be transported by Lu's water. In addition, the price is still 500 Wen per catty, because the current production capacity is not sufficient. , so this thing cannot be sold openly yet, and can only be sold exclusively. ”
Zhuo Donglai looked at Fu Xiaoguan in confusion, "The so-called monopoly means that you and the salt industry company set up monopoly points to sell only salt! Starting from big cities, as production capacity increases, it gradually sinks to Markets at the township level.”
"The final result I want is for white salt to completely occupy the market. Therefore, no one is allowed to resell and export the salt of the United Salt Industry Company before it can satisfy the Wu Dynasty market."
The market cannot be disrupted. Chilechuan's salt is already being exported in large quantities. As for Wu Dynasty's salt, the first priority is to defeat the Chen's salt mine, and of course it is also for his next plan.
"Remember, if Chen's green salt dares to lower the price, you will follow suit and keep the same price as him until the Chen's Salt Mine closes down."
"In addition, please leave the salt wells acquired from the Yi State untouched for now. Don't make any announcements, let alone let others know that we have taken action."
"Just leave it?"
"Yes, just leave it alone, I will be of great use!"
There was silence in the imperial study room for a while.
After a while, Zhuo Bieli asked: "Can't we just clean up the Chen family?"
Fu Xiaoguan shook his head, "The Chen family and the Lu family are as deep-rooted as a big tree. If you cut it down, the roots below will still sprout and bloom."
"...The emperor means to get rid of it completely?"
Fu Xiaoguan grinned, "No, a big family also has its advantages. With more people, there are also more talents. What is the Wu Dynasty lacking most now? People and talents."
So he did these things just to make these wealthy people surrender?
This is one of the reasons. Fu Xiaoguan also wants to see if these wealthy families can find other opportunities under such cruel market pressure.
Of course, the most important thing is that he is waiting for news.
He really has no interest in killing these people. He needed to make good use of these people and give his brother-in-law Yu Wendao a big surprise.
"By the way..." Fu Xiaoguan turned to look at Shangshu Ling Meng Changping, "How is the progress of shipbuilding at Jiangcheng Wharf?"
Meng Changping cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, we are short of money and progress is slow."
"The road network of the Wu Dynasty, according to His Majesty's design, is now contracted by businessmen in sections for the east-west thoroughfare and the north-south trunk line. However, there are many branch line networks, which together far exceed the east-west, north-south trunk line. The branch line network is in our There are also many contracts for the north and south areas, but there are no contracts for the east and west areas due to many reasons.”
"The main reason for this is that three hundred miles to the east of Guanyun City is the sea, and to the west is the bitter cold land of the five states of the Western Region. This land is extremely vast, almost the same as the six states of Beixiao. But Beixiao The six states are actually located in the northwest and are connected with the five states in the Western Region."
"These two places add up to a total of eleven states, accounting for 30% of our territory, but the population is only about 10%. This is after Emperor Wu immigrated millions of people to the six states of Beixiao."
"So, the entire road network must be financed by the Ministry of Household Finance."
"Your Majesty established the Wuchao National Academy of Sciences in Liluoyuan... Your Majesty, this thing burns too much money. Can't you... slow down for now?"
Fu Xiaoguan expanded the original research institute into the National Academy of Sciences on March 30. This guy subdivided the research directions of the Academy of Sciences, which now involves chemistry, materials science, mechanical mechanics, and even biology, etc.!
The civil and military officials in the dynasty, including the Minister of Industry, were all confused about these new words. On the contrary, the lunatics in the Academy of Sciences became even more fanatical after listening to His Majesty's lectures several times.
His Majesty seems to have a special liking for the Academy of Sciences, and he poured money into it at all costs, which made the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue suffer from heartache.
But His Majesty wants to do more than that. He said...next spring, a university will be built on Liluoyuan!
It’s not Taixue, it’s a little less than Taixue.
Obviously, this university must be another money-burning thing.
Fu Xiaoguan thought for a while and said firmly: "We can't slow down." He turned to look at Zhou Tongtong, "Send two messages, one to Tuoba Kang of Chilechuan, ordering him to **** the tax money to Guan Yuncheng. Also tell Yan Hanyu that I need him to pay tribute of 10 million taels of silver!"
Meng Changping was shocked. In March, the Yi Kingdom had already sent tribute, including five million taels of silver. "This Yi Kingdom... probably doesn't have much silver."
"Squeeze in, there is always something, otherwise Yan Hanyu wouldn't know how much potential he has."
"By the way, it's been half a year. How is Peng Fang's pig doing?"
"Back to Your Majesty... that pig is indeed growing very fast, and now weighs about 1,560 kilograms. Peng Fang said it can grow to 200 kilograms, so he is still raising it."
"Let's go and kill one...Liu Jin, please invite the six ministers to eat pork together in the imperial dining room tonight!"
"By the way, please call my father and the queen. We will only eat pork tonight!"