I Want to Be the Emperor Chapter 694: Investors Arrive

Song Alin is a very old-fashioned name, because his father is an illiterate farmer. Not only his father, but also his three generations of ancestors are illiterate farmers.

In fact, he never had a famous name. When Wang Shi entered Guangdong, he went to join the army. The recruiter asked him what his name was, and he just used the nickname Alin his parents had called him since he was a child. The person in charge of recruiting obviously

I didn't bother to worry about it, so I just filled in Song Alin.

After this registration, Song Alin became his official name.

He served in the army for several years, and retired with the rank of sergeant in the ninth year of Chengshun. While in the army, he studied hard, passed the high school examination, and obtained a high school diploma.

Originally, based on his military rank when he retired, and the preferential treatment given to retired soldiers in the early years, of course, this is also because in the early days of the empire, there was a large lack of grassroots officials with a certain basic culture and a high sense of identification with the empire.<

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Therefore, if he had chosen to change his job at that time, he would have been assigned to a public position in his hometown. I dare not say it was too high, but he would definitely have been a patrol officer, so he would not have to worry about it in this life.

But Song Alin was a thoughtful person. He did not choose to accept the arrangement, but started his own entrepreneurial journey with a higher retirement settlement payment, plus the military pay and trophies he had accumulated over the years of service.
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This situation is actually very common. Many small and medium-sized businessmen in the empire are actually retired soldiers who started their businesses with retirement settlement funds and years of accumulation.

After all, both before and now, all parts of the empire were in full swing. In the early years, people could make a lot of money just by doing anything.

You can even make a fortune by setting up a stall selling breakfast in a big city.

Not to mention that they don’t accept changing jobs and getting resettlement funds to start a business. Even many low-level officials in remote areas have little hope in their official career, and the locals are poor. These low-level officials’ salaries are also low, and they hear about it every day.

So and so made a fortune by working outside, so many people couldn't help but resign from public office and start their own business!

This trend has become very popular in the past ten years.

This is mainly because the Chu Empire started industrialization and there are really many opportunities to make a fortune.

Not to mention the direct investment in industry itself, even if it is due to the urbanization brought about by industrialization itself, these rapidly developing cities have suddenly increased their urban population, and the consumption power of these urban populations is also quite good.

Around these new urban populations, the local real estate industry, food industry, general service industry, etc. are all developing, and these industries can accommodate more employed people.

This chain of links has led to the healthy development of industrial cities one after another.

There are too many opportunities to make a fortune.

Song Alin went to Guangzhou first and seized the opportunities of Guangzhou's early industrialization and urbanization!

The industry he was engaged in at the beginning was not complicated, he just opened a non-staple food store, focusing on all kinds of non-staple food, as well as various dry goods such as fragrant fungus.

He had a close comrade who had been engaged in the non-staple food industry with the support of his family after he retired from the army. He was able to bring Song Alin into the industry.

Riding on the wave of early industrialization and urbanization in Guangzhou, Song Alin's non-staple food business is doing very well. After all, the population in the city is increasing, and what these people need to eat is not only the normal rice, noodles, vegetables and meat, but also natural food.

Cheap and affordable non-staple foods are also indispensable.

Later, his non-staple food business grew bigger and bigger, employing many people, opening many branches, and gradually moved upstream and started to be a wholesaler of various non-staple food products.

After making a lot of money, I found an opportunity to directly acquire several non-staple food processing plants and began to transform into food processing.

The year before last, he integrated his factories, channels, retail and other businesses and established Donglin Food Company.

At this time, Donglin Food was already considered a medium-sized food processing company. It also had certain channel business and retail business, and its annual turnover could reach 500,000 to 600,000 yuan.

This scale is not small in the food processing industry.

However, Song Alin will not stop at the current scale. He has been working hard to expand his business. In addition to expanding the production and sales scale of the existing product lines, he also wants to find new products.

And tea processing is a major category that he values ​​​​.

Although tea is not considered a food, selling tea is actually his main business. In his non-staple food wholesale business, tea is a major product.

However, there are no large-scale and high-quality industrial production areas in Guangdong, and most of the tea is purchased from Fujian and Zhejiang.

It just happened that at this time, I had contacted him in business before. To be precise, an elder who he wanted to ask for came to me through someone. He said that there was a place in northern Guangdong that was very suitable for growing tea, and there was also support for the development of the tea processing industry.

Determined to ask him if he was interested in taking a look.

He said he was asking if he was interested, but the boss said...Song Alin had to go regardless of whether he was interested.

Before setting off, I was mentally prepared. No matter whether the situation was good or bad, I had to invest a little bit, otherwise I would not be able to save my face.

After all, this favor must be repaid!

Besides, he finally got in touch with the senior management of Western Trading Company and sent all kinds of non-staple food from his family into Western Trading Company's purchasing system. He couldn't just ask for help and then kick them away.

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Otherwise, don’t expect to be able to enter the Western Trading Company’s procurement and supply system in the future.

As one of the only two armed trading companies in the Chu Empire, the Western Trading Company is a monopoly trading company with monopoly trade rights in the Indian region. It is the place where various commodities from the Chu Empire enter the Indian, Western, North African and even European markets.

The only channel provider.

Whether it is ordinary goods or weapons, they must be processed through Western Trading Company.

This is the monopoly authority granted to the Western Trading Company by the Great Chu Empire. Without this monopoly authority, the Western Trading Company would not be able to maintain such huge colonial expenditures!

In order to compete with Western colonial companies, fight with local indigenous people to seize various colonies and strongholds, and open up the trade market, in addition to conventional merchant ships and armed merchant ships, the Western Trading Company also has hundreds of professional warships, most of which are on inland rivers.

There are offshore gunboats, but there are also more than 20 warships that can conduct ocean operations, as many as six thousand-ton cruisers, and the rest are professional warships with hundreds of tons in size.

The Western Trading Company fleet is quite powerful.

In addition to warships and a large number of armed merchant ships and ordinary merchant ships, the Western Trading Company also has about 8,000 ground combat troops stationed in various colonies in Bangladesh and India.

The Western Trading Company also owned property rights to most of the land in the colonies.

However, administrative and taxation rights do not belong to them.

Administrative power reflects sovereignty and naturally falls under the unified jurisdiction of the empire. As for taxation, let alone taxation, which is the exclusive domain of the taxation department.

The Taxation Department has always been very powerful in terms of taxation. Let alone the Western Trading Company, even if the bosses of other organizations in Gyeonggi want to get involved in taxation, they will have to face strong tax backlash.

People's backlash is not just a casual shouting, but people will be arrested directly!

And the most disgusting thing is that they usually don’t arrest them casually, but with real evidence. After all, tax evasion and tax evasion are too frequent. Usually, because of the cost of tax inspections, the tax department actually thinks about many tax evasion and tax evasion behaviors.

We have to investigate and deal with it, but we can only catch big fish with limited manpower and resources.

As long as they don't bump into small fish or something, they won't bother to care about them.

After all, there are too many people who evade taxes on a small scale and it is impossible to control them.

But...if the tax agency is really targeting you and you have committed tax evasion, they can basically find out.

Don't underestimate the tax patrol's ability to handle cases. They dare to bring artillery to handle cases...

In fact, many officials have corruption problems. It is estimated that no official is stupid enough to file a tax return on corruption income these days... But for the tax department, they have nothing to do with corruption, but your corruption income

If you don’t file taxes, there will be big problems!

The tax law of the Dachu Empire clearly stipulates that all income needs to be reported, and all income naturally includes illegal income!

In short, the tax department doesn't care where the money comes from. They only collect taxes. If you don't pay taxes on your corrupt income, you are violating the tax law. If you just arrest people, there will be no problem at all.

The empire's top officials dare not say 100%, but most of them have or have had illegal income, and there is a high probability that no one will honestly file tax returns on these illegal incomes...

Therefore, if anyone dares to take advantage of the core power of the tax department, that is, the power of taxation, the tax department will immediately check the taxes of these people... Once the check is accurate, they will be arrested directly, even if they are second-rank ministers.

Catch it correctly.

The tax superintendent in the tax department is much more powerful in arresting officials than the anti-corruption bureau in the inspectorate.

This also led to the fact that Western trading companies that were rampant in India still had to pay taxes when doing business in the Indian colonies...

Most of these colonies were conquered by themselves!

However, the Western Trading Company does not care much about this, because after many integrations and share recycling, the Western Trading Company has become 100% controlled by official capital and is directly under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Cabinet. The supervision of the Western Trading Company is from a second-grade senior official.

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So the money goes in with the left hand and goes out with the right hand, so it doesn’t have much impact.

Such Western trading companies, because of their monopoly position, require domestic products to enter their procurement and supply system before entering the Indian market.

Otherwise, don’t expect to sell goods to India.

Song Alin has always wanted to enter the procurement and supply system of Xiyang Trading Company. After several years of hard work, on the one hand, he improved product quality and cost performance, and on the other hand, he also actively contacted Xiyang Trading Company to facilitate communication.

Finally, I was able to enter the procurement and supply system of Western Trading Company and became one of the suppliers of multiple categories of non-staple food. Although I was only one of a dozen suppliers of similar products, even this qualification was not easy to obtain.<

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Among them, the help of official figures is indispensable.

Otherwise, there are so many domestic manufacturers of non-staple food products, and Donglin Company’s products have no obvious advantages. Why would people buy your non-staple food products and sell them in India?

Are you the only one with a big face?

Therefore, unless there are special circumstances, Song Alin is still unwilling to offend the boss above him. Even if the other party comes with a message and wants him to invest in a quiet place, he will not refuse.

However, even though he was mentally prepared, he was still shocked by the harsh local conditions when he actually came to Heping County.

Damn, there are mountains everywhere!

How can I invest in this crappy place when it has nothing to offer?
To be continued...