Chapter 265: The reform of counterfeit currency dealers

These days, it was not only Su Shi and Zhao Xing who became sinners. In that month, Huang Tingjian, the last uninvolved disciple of Su Shi, was officially exiled. This month, Cai Bian and others re-revised the "Records of the Emperor Shenzong" and defeated all astronomy.

However, can the strict literary inquisition and policy of insemination really stop others' yearning? Zhao Xing looked at the students who were studying in the mountains and shook his head gently and replied: "When the teacher was in Huangzhou, I slaughtered a cow to the teacher. Today's love reminds me of the past. When someone came to the countryside to buy two strong cows, he said that the official compensated him for four strong cows in the spring."

Su Shi did not stop this time because he saw the Indian strong cows transported by Zhao Xing from India when he was in Hangzhou. He knew that winter is idle now, farmers cannot use cattle for the time being, and they still have to waste food and grass. If Zhao Xing compensates the farmers for two cows after the beginning of spring, it will be a good thing for farmers. This is exactly what Zhao Xing has the ability to do.

Huizhou has a hot climate and meat is not convenient for storage. Officials can eat meat every ten days, and the people can even eat meat for a hundred years. These two cows gave Su Shi a full meal. At the same time, the students who came to visit Su Shi also had a good taste.

After lingering with Su Shi for a few days, Prefect Zhan Fan rushed to Baihefeng after hearing the news. This time he became more intimate with Su Shi. He readily agreed to Zhao Xing's request, so that Baihefeng was also qualified to buy mutton in the Huizhou market.

"It's not enough to kill only one sheep in ten days. I will transport 20,000 people to Huizhou in January. Prefect Zhan will arrange them so that they can reclaim land smoothly. In addition, I also plan to transport 10,000 pig seedlings to Huizhou, and first use the custom of the Qing Seedling Law to pay the money to the people. I won't ask you to ask for this money, Prefect Zhan will do it yourself." Zhao Xing warned meaningfully.

In fact, Zhan Fan has discovered during this period that Zhaoxing's military farming is essentially different from previous officials. The group of civilians he hired adopted the "mutant exemption law" to place them, which is a wage labor force. When these people were dispatched, they would receive a set of labor tools and furniture from the government. The former includes shovels, hammers, hoes, scissors, pliers, rakes, plows, etc., while the latter includes pots, pans, etc.

No one has ever been so luxurious to resettle refugees and reclaim land. It is said that the government did not spend a single money from beginning to end, nor did it pay any taxes to the people for this. It is said that it was a loan given by a certain "bank", and Zhao Xing's accounting level is well-known in the officialdom. It is said that few people can understand the accounts left by him, but for so many years, everyone in Mizhou has been extremely satisfied with that way of sharing accounts.

Over time, many people have studied Zhao Xing's accounting methods. Many people discovered countless financial mysteries from it after researching it, and were all impressed. People who couldn't understand began to learn to pretend to be deaf and praise him with compliments. Therefore, no one dared to question Zhao Xing's handling of refugees now, and everyone is waiting for the final announcement of the account results. However, local farmers in Guangnan looked at the treatment of immigrants and wanted to go to Zhao Xing to apply for immigration treatment.

This situation also made Zhan Fan understand that Zhao Xing immigrated on a large scale, and the local government did not have to pay for it themselves. The immigrants filled their local household registration and reclaimed a large number of wasteland, which was equivalent to adding new tax sources to the local government. Now Zhao Xing's preferred immigration resettlement site is Huizhou, which is a rare treatment. If his teacher was not demoted to Huizhou, Huizhou might not be able to get this benefit.

Therefore, Zhan Fan was grateful to Zhao Xing's instructions, and he stood up and bowed to thank him repeatedly: "Don't worry, my lord, I will count the wastelands in the country before the New Year. By January, I will prepare the land booklet and wait for the adults to deal with it."

Zhao Xing stared at the other party with a silent voice. Zhan Fan immediately realized it. He quickly added: "There are 700 people in Huizhou. I will send them all to Baihefeng for training tomorrow. The training content is to build roads and houses. Please rest assured. I will not treat Baihefeng badly anyway."

Zhao Xing nodded with satisfaction and added: "Huizhou is about to build a large-scale house. The hard work of the group training team can't treat them unfairly. I immediately hired a few stonemasons and kiln workers from nearby to guide the construction of brick kilns and quarries. I can't treat them unfairly - I have never treated my friends unfairly."

Zhao Xing's last sentence was meaningful, and Zhan Fan understood it. The two did not mention Su Shi during the conversation, but Zhan Fan promised to take care of Bai Hefeng, which had already expressed his attitude. They understood it. After saying this, they smiled silly at the same time.

After laughing, Zhan Fan asked tentatively: "Sir, is it really necessary to build a brick kiln quarry?"

Zhao Xing replied meaningfully: "Ten thousand people moved to Huizhou, and the bricks and stones needed are 100 million yuan. In addition, Huizhou needs to build a wharf and pave stone roads in the city, and the stones needed are also innumerable. However, Huizhou has few people and cannot supply materials. These materials rely on external transportation, and the price of external transportation..."

Zhao Xing dragged his voice, Zhan Fan immediately understood. He nodded with understanding and echoed: "There are few people in Huizhou, but few people can't do anything. The wife's wife's family has some idle people. If the lower officials summon some idle people from his wife's family, they will not be summoned to invite some idle people from his wife's family. No matter what they come to Huizhou for, it will be considered a little help to the adults."

Zhao Xing took the opportunity to add: "Ten thousand people are pioneering here, and no matter what they do, it is a big investment. Even those who raise pigs, sell cloth, or even sell needles and threads can make a lot of profits."

One person cannot do the task of transforming the world, so Zhao Xing wanted to incite more people to join this ranks as much as possible. In other words, tie more people to his chariot and become his community of interests. The officials have great power to attract friends. As long as a local government takes action, the first level of the Domino Ancient Card will fall...

Zhan Fan understood it, and he wanted to ask for some specific content. Wan Qiyong was already urging him: "Sir, the people from Fumin Qianjian are already waiting in a hurry, please leave quickly."

Zhan Fan quickly made way and bowed and said, "The Lord Zhao respectfully."

In the Fumin Money Supervision Bureau, several officials from the Money Cricketing Department welcomed Zhao Xing respectfully. After inspecting the money field, Zhao Xing shook his head and sighed: "It's too backward. This is all the technology from four thousand years ago. It's so backward... In the Money Supervision Bureau, all the money minting work has stopped, rebuild the factory, and demolish all your small charcoal furnaces for me. The site is leveled and the large factory building is built. In January, the new machine I ordered is coming. You try to build the new factory for me in January."

The Money Supervision Commission said in embarrassment: "Sir, the date of delivery to the court in February has arrived, but our Money Supervision Commission has not completed 80% of the tasks. At this critical moment, the adults stopped the work of minting money..."

Zhao Xing interrupted the other party impatiently and replied: "How long does it take for your small crucible to dissolve a furnace of copper and tin? Half a day? Or a day? Let me tell you that the new big machine is a steam coin machine. When the boiler is boiled, the amount of coins you have to cast in these furnaces at one time. How much wood is spent on burning a furnace of copper and tin? The new machine only needs one punch, and it can be completed in a blink of an eye.

In the future, you don’t need to deal with coal in a job of minting money, you have to stay in a large factory, clean and tidy... Wait, how much is the fire consumption in the money jail now?"

The Qianjian Supervision Commission hesitated for a moment and said carefully: "The fire consumption of my Fumin Qianjian is quite low, only 25%!"

Zhao Xing nodded: "After installing the new machine, there is no problem with fire consumption in the money surveillance. The scraps stamped are the biggest fire consumption. These scraps can be recycled and melted into copper plates and recast. I will give you two choices. One is that the scraps belong to you. You have ready-made technology to dissolve the scraps into copper plates for stamping. The copper plates made of this batch of scraps belong to your money surveillance, and the 25% of the fire consumption belongs to me. I want to use them to resettle immigrants, start new schools, and build roads.

Or, this matter is reversed, you take 15% of the fire, and I will recycle all the scraps - don't think you are a money manager who can tamper with the scraps. How much copper plates I buy every month, the scraps you recycle must be so much, I will deduct them from your money."

Wan Qiyong added next to it: "According to calculations, the scraps stamped are about 30% of the stamped material, and these three costs will be lost in continuous melting. However, now using a stamping machine to press the copper plate at one time, the rest can be left."

Qian Jian immediately made a decision: "Sir, since I say that, I want those copper plates and those scraps, I just want one to leave behind when the charcoal furnace is demolished."

Zhao Xing nodded: "I left you more than one boiler. Each press must be equipped with a boiler. Once the water in the boiler is heated, you can melt the scraps with residual heat. The residual temperature during the melting process can maintain the normal operation of the boiler..."

When he was given a money surveillance, Wan Qi Yong was a little confused. He asked carefully: "Sir, this algorithm is wrong. Scrap materials account for 30%. In other words, only 70% of the copper plates are stamped into coins, and the remaining 30% are returned to the Fumin Money Supervision. So where can we still consume 30% of the fire?"

Zhao Xing replied with a smile: "It's not such an algorithm. In the past, thousands of small charcoal furnaces in the money supervision were burning together. How much does the coal consumed every day? Now, only a few boilers are concentrated, how much is the coal money saved by light?

In addition, we have to calculate the manpower. There are about 10,000 workers in a capital. After using a new machine, at most, only 1,000 people can exceed the original output by more than ten times. Because the new machine has improved the effectiveness of hundreds of times, it only takes one-tenth of the original manpower. So in total, the fire consumption has been reduced by more than 30%...

Forget it, I can't explain this problem to you. As long as you know that I'm the best at minting money, I'll take 30% of the fire consumption, which is on the surface. In fact, after using the new machine, a money supervision will be maintained at only one-tenth of the past investment. Fumin Money Supervision is not clear about this. To be honest, I was worried that he would not share the scraps with me just by counting those scraps. Because just by counting those scraps, my management staff will increase and the investment cost will increase. And he took away the scraps and saved me money. From now on, I only need to transport the copper plates that can be minted in the money supervision. As for the specific fire consumption reduction, I won't let Fumin Money Supervision know."

Next, Zhao Xing walked all over Guangnan East Road like a whirlwind, and stipulated that the copper mines and tin mines could be used to make copper plates that can be used to cast coins instead of copper ingots. In this way, when the standard customized copper plates enter the money supervision, all the money supervision needs to do is stamp. Each copper plate is a standard "one model", and the "one model" can be stamped into 81 copper plates, which is easy to count and manage.

After moving to Guangnan, Zhao Xing brought people from the entrance of the Hainan Yanzha at Lingdingyang and visited the Liying Academy in the Yanzha. Zhao Xing called Rwanda, who was following him and pointed to the location of Hainan Yanzha. So: "This location is very important. He just stuck at the entrance of Lingdingyang and could reach Guangzhou by entering Lingdingyang. The people who chose this place had a good vision. I heard that there was also a salt field on the land opposite Lingdingyang, called the Jindou Salt Field. It is also a good place.

We can't get involved in Guangzhou Maritime Warehouse. Without the tax revenue of Guangzhou Maritime Warehouse, there is no way to talk about large-scale immigration. Hainan Yanzha and Jindou Salt Field are located in excellent locations. The boundary of which is located is densely covered with bays. The construction of a wharf can accommodate hundreds of thousands of ships to berth and enter and exit at the same time. I am planning to establish a county seat in these two places. Hainan Yanzha is called Hong Kong County, and you, Rwanda, are the county magistrate here.

This place is a treasure land. Just level the beach and it will be a salt field, which is enough to support large-scale immigration. When the dock is not enough, you can level the salt field and bend the boat dock, and you will still make money every day.

I plan to fill the immigrants here with landless farmers in Mizhou. In addition, I plan to find another group of people from Liaodong. County Magistrate Lu has experience in managing Liaodong and happens to deal with them. When the spring next year, I will build a road leading to this from Guangzhou to ensure the smooth flow of goods here. When the road is completed, you will be able to have a good time..."

Rwanda looked at the county under his jurisdiction with a ready-made salt farm that would not be so difficult when he started. He looked around and asked immediately: "Sir, the people in the salt farm may not be willing to add a salt farm. Isn't this a snatch of their jobs?"

Zhao Xing nodded: "It's okay, the market is big. As long as the roads are built, their shipments will also increase. I am only worried that their production capacity will be insufficient. I will ask Yanzha's outsourcing. I'll give you a few words..."

Salt is a high-tax commodity. When the output of salt increases, Zhao Xing only smiled happily. He called the head of the salt grid, described the local plan to repair the dock to them, and then drew a big cake for them: "I have experimented with a new method of salt drying in Mizhou. It does not require fire. The cost is low, and the salt produced is as white as snow. I plan to repair the dock and call Jianghuai boats to Hong Kong after I ask them to transport the salt you produce directly through the sea and land to the Grand Canal, and then transport it to the inland through the canal. This time, there are dozens of times the profits, so I am afraid that your output will not be enough, and I plan to dig more salt fields nearby.

My new salt farm is designed using a new method. When building a new salt farm, you are allowed to send someone to watch it. If you don’t understand something, you can ask directly.

In addition, I plan to open a salt ban in Guangnan. No matter whoever can buy salt in the salt farm, you can bring it to the management department. I will give you a salt ban whenever he pays taxes. I will not care whether he is a salt merchant or not.”

Several gangsters in the salt grid were trembling excitedly. As long as the salt ban was opened, they were only worried that their output was not enough, so how could they care about the emergence of competitors? Several gangsters shook their eyes and asked tentatively: "Master, the little people plan to purchase a few acres of beach land. I wonder if the government is required?"

"How many acres?" Zhao Xing asked back.

"Maybe... tens of thousands of acres will it be?"

Zhao Xing nodded: "The beach is in the seaside and the government does not prohibit the development of tidal flats. However, the government will change the tax method in the future and no longer focus on the output of your salt farm. Instead, it will calculate the number of acres of salt fields. The amount of tax should be paid per acre will be bid by the owner of the salt farm. What do you think is appropriate and pay taxes to the government in the future. Be diligent and you will produce more salt. If you like to collect salt fields, buy the salt fields and dry them. As long as he pays taxes as usual, the official will not interfere.

The bidding for the salt field is based on five years. The bidder allows him to operate the salt field for five years. Five years later, the next round of bidding will be held, and the higher the price will be. In this way, the management of this official is simple. I will impose taxes on how many acres there are, and I don’t have to stare at you every day to count how many shovels of salt you shoveled. You are also simple. You don’t have to bribe the insatiable tax collector. You just sell the salt when you see someone, and pay taxes at the end of the year. I only need to repair the wharf and roads here to let your salt be sold unimpeded. How about it? It’s simple."

It's really simple. With this change in the tax calculation method, Zhao Xing's administrative costs have been reduced, and the operating space of corrupt officials has also reduced the operating space of corrupt officials. The owners of several salt farms were first stunned at Zhao Xing with a gray face, but then an old man among them revealed the secret in a strange dialect. He said: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we have at least five years. When the adults are just here, he has no idea how much salt is produced per mu of salt field. We are not sure how much tax is paid. When five years later, no one can find the way to do this salt industry. In my opinion, we have at least ten years of good situation. When we make ten years of money, will anyone dare to compete with us? Is this obviously giving us money?"

Seeing that others still don’t understand, the old man reminded: “The salt ban is opened, and we will pay the salt tax in the future. As long as we issue a certificate for selling salt, the government will issue salt intake. In this way, not all salt merchants in the world will get us to buy salt here. Without it, everyone can participate and everyone has the opportunity to make money. In the future, our salt output will only be larger. Tell the adults that we will buy 30,000 acres of salt fields first, and the rest will go back immediately, and how many people can be recruited, and some people can be recruited. Also, send a few smart people to follow the adults to build a new salt field. Those who can help them and try to understand the new salt field..."

Zhao Xing couldn't understand the other party's dialect either, because there were too many Chinese dialects, so he couldn't understand them all. Only after seeing the old man said that, the salt merchant's expression was ready to move, and he smiled proudly.

Seeing the trouble resolved, Rwanda happily approached Zhao Xing and asked repeatedly: "Sir, your immigrants will be here. I am now a bare-sized county magistrate... By the way, the adult said that the county seat was also established in the Jindou Salt Field opposite the sea. I wonder what the adults plan to call the new county?"
Chapter completed!