On the second floor of the Immortal Tower, Du Zhongxiao and Wang Anshi sat opposite each other. A few dishes were ordered on the table, and a pot of wine was next to it.

After drinking for three rounds, Wang Anshi said: "The Chief Secretary has always said that Ye County is difficult to manage, and I don't know what the difficulty lies?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "In fact, it is not right to say that it is difficult to manage. It is just that the factories there have appeared in recent years, but there are no other places, and officials have no experience when they go there. It is difficult because they have never seen these. Simple, the factories have appeared in recent years. Whether it is the factory owner or the workers working in it, the government will set rules for him."

Wang Anshi thought for a while and said, "I wonder how different the current factory is from the previous venues? Do you need to be so serious?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "It cannot be said that the difference is that the quantity and market have undergone fundamental changes. The factory in Ye County emerged and developed with the development of the iron supervision. Compared with the original business, there are several differences. First, they buy raw materials from the iron supervision, process some of them themselves, and produce goods and sell goods. The price of the raw materials and the price of the sold goods are the source of their profits. Another is that there are machines in the factory and they use machines to produce. The value of the factory is mostly determined by the machines they own. There is another point where the factory employs production and pays salaries to the hired people, and there is no need to pay attention to two points. One is that they buy parts and semi-finished products and sell finished products. The difference between the two is crucial to the factory. Another point is that workers are hired and only pay, regardless of the rest."

Wang Anshi thought for a while and felt that it was indeed different from the previous venue. But in terms of feeling, the difference was not as big as Du Zhongxiao said.

Du Zhongxiao said: "There are two conditions for opening a factory. One is to buy parts and semi-finished products, and the other is to have a sales market. Both of them are indispensable. The reason why the factory is collected in Ye County is because the iron supervisor next to it provides these two. The iron supervisor wants to sell goods, and the finished products and parts production capacity does not match. In fact, because most of the machines are dedicated, they cannot be matched. The extra parts have to be sold, otherwise the machines will only be idle there, which is relatively uneconomical. The factory next to it uses these parts to produce things that the iron supervisor does not produce. The iron supervisor's goods are sold to the outside world, attracting merchants across the country and forming a ready-made market."

Wang Anshi nodded: "These two things are indeed not available in other places."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Of course, as long as the railway supervision office in Yezhou is prosperous, it is opened early, and it makes a lot of money, and it is almost complete. There is no need to build a railway supervision in other places. There is no need to build a lot of factories in Ye County because of another reason, scale. A large number of factories gather in one place, which is known to everyone in the world. When you come here, you can buy a certain type of goods so that their goods will not have to worry about selling. As the railway connects the world, Ye County is an important place on the railway line, with convenient transportation and convenient sales to the world. Therefore, as long as the court takes effective measures, there should be more and more factories there."

After hearing this, Wang Anshi couldn't help but smile: "How many can it be? After all, it's just a state."

Du Zhongxiao said: "It's hard to say how much it is now. If there can occupy the world's machine production, the amount will be quite amazing. The ability of industry to generate wealth is not comparable to that of agriculture. One day in the future, the commercial tax there will exceed that of Kaifeng Prefecture, and it is not unfair to think about it."

Wang Anshi was surprised: "How can other places be imagined by the leader of Kaifeng Prefecture?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "There are many commercial taxes in Kaifeng Prefecture, which is nothing more than a large population. The officials and ministers of the world gather here, and there are many rich people. The shops on the market sell goods to these people, so there are many commercial taxes. In Ye County, the market is the world. No matter how many people in Tianfeng Prefecture are, can they compare with the world? It won't take long to go, and Yezhou's commercial taxes exceed Kaifeng Prefecture, and there is nothing strange about it."

In fact, Kaifeng Prefecture has made great progress in recent years through the construction of railways, as the center of the Tianxia Railway. Because it is located in a key area, some factories have been opened here, but it is incomparable to Ye County. Otherwise, Ye County will surpass Kaifeng Prefecture now.

Wang Anshi knew that Ye County had a lot of commercial taxes, but if it was better than Kaifeng Prefecture, it was unimaginable. Now, Ye County factories do not collect much taxes due to the lack of corresponding management measures. In particular, many places have the tradition of collecting practical taxes and insufficient currency, which leads to few benefits from the government.

Seeing that Wang Anshi was still confused, Du Zhongxiao said: "The most important thing you go to Yezhou is to manage the factory. One is to manage the money, how to collect taxes from them. Nowadays, taxes and taxes are generally collected. Bulk goods are built in various states and counties, but factories are not suitable. They buy raw materials and parts from the iron supervisors, but they cannot actually collect taxes. If they sell goods, they are not in the cargo yard, and if they don't take the railway, they cannot collect taxes."

Wang Anshi said: "If this is the case, it is time to send people to collect taxes based on the goods they produce."

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "The factory cannot always send people to stay there in daily life. Besides, when goods are sold, the prices are different. Some make more money, while others make less money. When buying raw materials and parts, the price also changes, so it is not that simple. This matter is actually very complicated and cannot be explained clearly for a while. Only when you get there, you know how the factory operates and produces, how to sell goods, and how to make money. Think of tax methods based on their actual situation. You will not miss the taxes of the court, nor will you affect the development of the factory."

Wang Anshi nodded: "It seems that this matter is not easy. Zhongcheng couldn't explain it clearly for a while, there are not many such things."

Du Zhongxiao said: "It is true. For a moment, I can't think of a complete solution. How to collect the factory taxes is difficult to make them develop healthily and rapidly. For new things, there must be a kind-hearted person and take a while to go well. The most important thing is that we must collect taxes and make the factory profitable, and it will be better to open more and more."

After saying that, he drank a glass of wine with Wang Anshi. He put down his glass and said, "When the world's money is unified and the iron surveillance is issued by the court and all the goods in the iron surveillance will be collected, we can see how important these factories in the iron surveillance are to the court now. In the future, more and more money and grain will be collected from the iron surveillance and private factories. The land tax is not as important as before. So what is the factory, it is becoming more and more important to the future."

Wang Anshi sighed: "Since Zhongcheng went to Yingtian on Jingxi Road, the world has changed a lot in recent years. The court's money and grain have been increasingly from official business, farming, shopping malls, etc., which is no longer the same as before. I am familiar with these, but I only realized that there were places like Ye County, which could be opened. I realized that many places now use machines to farm, which is much better than before."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Jiefu, the world has changed, and many things are no longer like before. Internally, with factories and railways, they have become more powerful in recent years. Outside, like this time Di Qing attacked Lingzhou, just because he was slow to act, he was talking about the court today. But more than ten years ago, hundreds of thousands of troops were helpless against Dangxiang, so what if we were like us, in our prime, we must keep up with the changes. Otherwise, we would be out of place in the court in more than ten years, and we would be embarrassed at that time."

Wang Anshi said: "I think so too. Looking at the current court today, most ministers are dissatisfied with Di Qing's marching because Liu Ji won and Han Qi's army surrounded Ganzhou. As for how to fight this battle, even the ministers of the two prefectures couldn't tell the reason. Including Mr. Wen, they couldn't understand the war on the front line, which is really sad."

Wen Yanbo was just over fifty years old and was in his prime. He should have been proficient in everything. However, when the Party and Xiang war was exposed, he knew nothing about military affairs. But he knew clearly that Han Qi and Liu Ji's victory allowed him to know what strategy to adopt.

Isn’t most court officials like this now? How many people can quickly accept new affairs? As the situation develops, more and more people will not be able to keep up with the situation. Du Zhongxiao and others are in their tenth year of their thirties and forties, and are about to enter the stage of history.

Wang Anshi has been an official in the southeast and missed the fastest development of the Iron Supervision Commission. He didn't know much about industry, which is his weakness. But he is clear and familiar with the people's conditions. If he goes to Yezhou this time, if he does well, he will have a bright future.
Chapter completed!