Zhen An and the others thought about it and immediately wrote a new letter to their family in Dahan. Although Zhen An and the others separated from their original family, the connection between the two parties has never been broken.
Zhen An will find a way to get Daqian's goods to Dahan for sale by the Zhen family, and Dahan's silk will also be transported by the Zhen family to Daqian for Zhen An to sell. This is a mutually beneficial relationship, because in Dahan has connections with the Zhen family, and Zhen An is the largest silk seller in the entire Daqian people!
And the Zhen family is not willing to break this relationship. Now the situation in the world is becoming more and more obvious. Lei Gong is the most likely to become the lord of the world. Maybe Zhen An can protect their Zhen family in the future! Both parties are willing to maintain the relationship. Under the circumstances, the Zhen family and Zhen An established a relationship of equal cooperation!
Now Zhen An does not have much working capital due to investing in the Western Regions and building silk textile factories, but the wealth of the Zhen family of the Han Dynasty is several times greater than his own. If they come to buy stocks, it can be considered that the wealth will not go to outsiders.
There are many people like Zhen An in Daqian. In the past, they were white gloves or business managers of powerful noble families, but because of Xu Wei's relationship, they broke away from the family and became a branch of the family. However, the connection between the two parties has not been broken. If Xu Wei really seizes the world, these side branches may become the main branch.
And now, like Zhen An, they are also contacting families in Dahan and asking them to buy shares of Daqian Glass Factory!
Jixian County, the ruling government!
Xu Wei finally came back, and the senior officials in Jixian naturally gathered together to report their work to Xu Wei!
Everyone present was convinced by Xu Wei's ability to make money. They saw with their own eyes that Xu Wei used a glass factory to exchange tens of billions of property, and also made the glass factory more valuable. According to the current stock price, glass The factory has really become a behemoth worth more than 40 billion!
In their eyes, the debt of 80 billion is as huge as Mount Tai, but with their ability to govern and turn everything around, it doesn't seem to be very difficult. A glass factory is worth 40 billion, and at worst, they need to provide a few more factories. stocks, this 80 billion debt will be solved!
But Xu Wei didn't think this was so great. After all, stocks can't produce value, they can only transfer wealth, otherwise Xu Wei wouldn't keep saying he was cutting leeks!
Xu Wei asked calmly: "Have Zhen An and the others contacted the families in the Han Dynasty?"
Jia Xu nodded and said: "The funds in their hands are insufficient, and they can't even compare with those down-and-out noble families. Zhen An and the others can only rely on the wealthy noble families of the Han Dynasty if they want to win back the game. After all, they have deep roots and hundreds of people." Years of accumulation!”
Xu Wei nodded and said: "Attracting funds from big men to develop our Dagan can not only slow down the recovery time of Liu Bei and others, but also accelerate our development. For our Dagan, it can be said to kill two birds with one stone!"
"Wenhe, you can find a big place in Jixian County and build a stock exchange. In the future, stock transactions can be carried out here. Later, we can learn from the methods of glass factories and list all factories such as textile factories and steel factories. I think so This is enough to repay the debt we owe!”
Only Niu Gui was worried: "These are our most profitable factories and can be said to be the pillar industry of our Da Gan. If they are controlled by private individuals, it will be detrimental to our Da Gan!"
In this era, the government-run enterprises of Daqian Army were also a kind of welfare benefits for Daqian. Injured and retired soldiers could enter these factories and get an iron rice bowl. Therefore, every time Daqian recruited soldiers, a large number of people wanted to join the army. This is not only because of the generous rewards, but also because you can get an iron rice bowl!
Wang Ge smiled and said: "What's the disadvantage? They are still under our rule, how dare they rebel!"
But Old Man Wang scolded: "Listen to what you mean, you want to learn from Dong Zhuo! The reason why the big man is what he is now is because people like Dong Zhuo do not follow the rules and are lawless. Geniuses become what they are now. You are like this." Do you want us Da Gan to look like big men?"
Guo Taixian also followed up and said: "We Daqian have the power we have now. It is because we act according to the rules. That's why big businessmen like Zhen An and even our enemies, noble families, are willing to lend us money. Only then can we borrow 80 billion." Money, because they know that we will not swallow up this kind of money. You see, even though Emperor Ling is the emperor, he is not a human king. Who dares to lend him money? This is the consequence of the lack of credibility of the Han court.
If Zhen An and the others pay money now, but are swallowed up by us, the merchants in Daqian will definitely see us as the same as the Han Dynasty, and it will be difficult for us to borrow money from them in the future!"
Xu Wei said calmly: "As long as we control more than half of the shares, these factories will still be in our hands! So our 50% share is our bottom line. At any time, our factories must control more than 50% of the shares, so that these factories will It won’t be out of our control!”
After hearing Xu Wei's opinion, everyone nodded in approval. In this way, they could not only raise funds but also control the factory!
Niu Gui continued: "There is another thing about governing. I want to report to you. Nowadays, factories in various places are getting bigger and bigger, and the funds they control even exceed those of the prefecture and county magistrates. In factories like textile factories, Xu Juan controls more than The funds even exceed those of Liu Shi of Bingzhou Mu, so now the people below are fighting fiercely for control of these factories, and prefectures and magistrates in other places often misappropriate factory funds, causing great trouble to the factories. We must find a solution This issue of business will definitely affect the stability of our work!"
As soon as Niu Gui said these words, the entire conference room fell silent. No one expected that Niu Gui would say this here! If this was not careful, it would be a violent storm within Daqian.
But Niu Gui is also helpless. It is now difficult for him to control the factories under Da Gan's rule.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! You must know that Daqian issues credit currency, and there is no real money or silver to mortgage it. Daqian’s real collateral is the factories and granaries controlled by Daqian’s army. The food in it and the cloth in the textile factory cannot be controlled, and there will be problems with the currency!
Problems have even begun to arise. Due to the war, the currency issued by Daqian has been increasing in recent years. After this war, soldiers had billions more money in their hands, but Daqian did not have corresponding goods. It has already affected commodity prices, and Niu Gui, the prime minister, is under increasing pressure. He must not only ensure the materials for the army's expedition, but also ensure the stability of commodity prices in Hebei.
But even if the industrial productivity of Daqian is growing explosively, it is impossible to grow more than the currency issued. After all, this thing can only be printed, and food needs to be grown for half a year, and woolen cloth also needs to go through more than a dozen processes. Products cannot be printed out as easily as a printing machine!
However, with the emergence of a large amount of money in the market, but no corresponding goods, inflation is inevitable. The three goods currently in the market are grain, cloth and salt, which are strongly controlled by Niu Gui and have not seen much growth. Other goods have not grown much. The prices of goods have begun to rise. Even though Niu Gui doesn't have much economic knowledge, he still realizes that this is caused by too many banknotes! To solve this problem, we must find ways to build banknotes, expand factories, and make the world more prosperous. More goods on board!
But the local shepherds and prefects were not worried. They proposed huge projects one after another, and then required financial allocations. Although Daqian's finances were more than 10 times better than those of Dahan, Niu Gui still felt that he could not make ends meet in the past few years, and even I feel like I'm going bankrupt!
And he also feels that ordinary people will not want these things. To really solve the problem of rising prices, we need to produce more products that people can use, rather than investing in infrastructure construction.
Xu Wei asked in surprise: "Has our economic pressure reached this point?"
"In power, you haven't been in Youzhou in the past few years, so you don't understand the situation here." Niu Guida complained: "Back then, we built a steel plant in Yuyang, using the latest technology. This Yuyang The production capacity of steel plants has increased dozens of times, but so much steel needs to be produced. If it weren't for the large number of steel farm tools and weapons we have manufactured over the years, and our idea of using iron-clad wood to consume some steel. production capacity, otherwise the steel at Yuyang Iron and Steel Plant will pile up like a mountain!"
"But only agricultural tools can recover our currency. Although weapons and rails are important, it will take a long time to show benefits. In the short term, we will suffer losses! We can still bear a small loss, but now The local governors are eager to become fat in one bite. They either want to build canals, renovate roads, or even connect rail lines. They have never thought about whether our finances can support such a large project!"
Niu Gui doesn't have much economic knowledge, but he can feel that only light industries such as fish processing plants and textile mills need to be built to raise funds. Only these things that the people need can stabilize prices, and heavy industries such as manufacturing weapons and rails can , although it is very important and for everyone, we cannot let the people spend money to buy a one-meter track and a set of armor!
Heavy industry has this gap, and it is difficult for the market it needs to directly reach the people. This makes it difficult to sell heavy industry products and collect funds. What the people buy are daily necessities, and it is difficult for them to buy swords and armors to consume steel!
Although Niu Gui's explanation was not very clear, Xu Wei understood that this should be due to overheated investment in infrastructure and heavy industry, which affected the circulation of Dao Daqian banknotes. Although Xu Wei is not very proficient in economic knowledge, he has grown up since he was a child. I have heard a lot about overheated investment when I read the news. If this is not controlled well, it will leave a lot of trouble!
The solution is also very simple. One is to control the circulation of currency and find ways to recycle the excess currency in the market. The other is to increase investment in light industry and allow a large number of goods to be used directly by the people on the market to withdraw funds. !
Now the most acceptable products to the people are civilian products such as grain, cloth, salt, and Daqian canned fish and meat! This requires Niu Gui to have strong means to control the entire Daqian state-owned factory, so that he can control The entire amount of dry goods put in!
Generally speaking, state-owned enterprises in Daqian should be controlled by the court of Daqian, but the actual situation is not certain. For example, Zhang Baiqi basically controlled the Jizhou Glass Factory, and the profits of the glass factory were basically used by Zhang Baiqi. Jizhou's development is high, which means he is senior, and the glass factory was built by Zhang Baiqi from top to bottom, and Jizhou does need funds to support development. After all, the entire Daqian was still short of food at that time, so naturally he had to find a way Food production in Jizhou has been restored, so no one says anything!
But it is different in other places. Just like Bingzhou Mu Liu Shi needs money if he wants to make political achievements. The most profitable enterprises in Bingzhou are textile factories and steel plants, but the director of the textile factory is Xu Juancai. Coincidentally, their qualifications are no worse than Liu Shi's, and most of the people in the textile factory are wives of senior officials of Da Qianjun. Based on this alone, Liu Shi cannot be offended.
The director of the steel plant is Old Man Niu, which is even more incomparable to Liu Shi. Liu Shi naturally wants to control these two factories, but Xu Juan and Old Man Niu do not give Liu Shi face. The three of them want to control the factory. It can be described as an open and covert struggle.
Because Bingzhou was the first territory occupied by Daqian, most of the factory directors there were senior to Daqian, so they could still control the factory! But this was not the case in Youzhou, the officials who came here were senior , the factories built here were built later, so here in Youzhou, county officials can easily control the factories under their own control!
But they are still repulsive to Niu Gui, because Bingzhou is now the richest place in Daqian, and the place with the best infrastructure construction. So in recent years, Niu Gui has been mobilizing Bingzhou's resources to build construction in other prefectures and counties in Hebei. This caused dissatisfaction among Bingzhou officials and factory directors. Although they were fiercely fighting internally, they were surprisingly unanimous in dealing with Niu Gui!"
Therefore, in the past few years after Niu Gui became the prime minister of Daqian, he discovered that the battle between the factory director faction and the official faction, as well as the local faction and the court faction in Daqian was very fierce, and it had begun to affect the normal operation of Daqian.
Local governors and county magistrates also used their relationships to control local enterprises to achieve political achievements on their own without going through him. This made Niu Gui unbearable.
Forget about basic projects like water canals that affect food production, but in Niu Gui's view, renovating roads, building tracks, and expanding cities are projects that are difficult to generate profits in a short time. Daqian's investment is already too much, and it is completely necessary. Cut it off, but in the local area, it happened to be the opposite of him, and it could even be said to be completely opposite. You said this made Niu Gui so endured. It was difficult for Niu Gui to balance the contradiction, so he could only turn to Xu Wei for help. .
Xu Wei was silent after listening. It’s not surprising that factions are fighting! Xu Juan and Niu Laohan have been the top leaders of steel plants and textile factories for a while. They have tens of thousands of workers, and the property they control is even greater than that of Zhou Mudu.
There are more, and the most important thing is that they have not transferred positions, so it is no wonder that mountains are forming!