The first thousand three hundred and eighty-sixth chapter is a smart businessman
The residence of Prince Zhuo and Sun in Qili is brightly lit at this moment. Tian Lai Novels | 2
The finest whale candles illuminated the entire Zhuo Mansion as if it were daytime.
Rows of singers danced to the music. Amidst the melodious music, wealthy businessmen exchanged cups and cups, with bright smiles on everyone's faces.
"Gentlemen, today we are here to discuss important matters..." As the master, Zhuo Wangsun held up the wine bottle with a smile and said: "Come... I wish us great wealth and eternal prosperity!"
After hearing this, everyone stood up one after another, held up their wine bottles and said, "I don't dare, but I will obey Duke Zhuo's orders!"
This time, the world's wealthy businessmen gathered in Chang'an to plot the foundation of Guanzhong. The founder, liaison and planner was the father-in-law of the emperor, Lord Guiping of the Han Empire, one of the supreme emperors of the southwestern Yi, and a well-deserved leader of the empire.
The grandson of Prince Fu Zhuo.
No one knows how much money Zhuo has now.
In his mines alone, tens of thousands of slave workers work hard under the whips of overseers every day.
At the foot of the mine, there are many blast furnaces, tens of thousands of slave workers and thousands of craftsmen, smelting iron day and night.
Every day's income is a wealth that is as great as the sky!
What's more, Zhuo Wangsun's business is now more than just smelting iron.
He is also one of the largest slave traders in the world.
In the past few years, he and Cheng Zhengying provided one-third of the world's slave labor.
This is because the Zhao family in South Vietnam has been working hard in the past two years to catch savages in Jiaozhi County and Rinan County and compete with them for business.
Not to mention, Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying are still the largest suppliers of Bo slaves to the Han family.
In addition, the markets of the southwestern Yi countries are entirely theirs.
These two terrifying businessmen have almost driven the entire southwestern barbarian kingdoms to a state of ecstasy.
The once powerful Dian Kingdom was now on its last legs.
Legend has it that even the kings have changed three times...
Another powerful country, the Yelang Kingdom, hugged the thigh of the South Vietnamese King Zhao Hu and desperately tried to deliver memorials to the emperor through Zhao Hu's channels.
At the beginning, King Yelang coyly said, "I am originally a barbarian. I have been in the southern barbarians for a long time and I don't know anything about China...", trying to gain status by acting cute.
But now, the Yelang King has been throwing things around and said directly in the memorial: "This small barbarian country admires the power of the Holy King of China. Please send your Majesty to send officials, send envoys, collect atlases, and be the concubine of the Han Dynasty forever..."
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However, the emperor never had time to take care of the southwestern Yi.
Therefore, all the memorials written by King Yelang fell into the sea without even a bubble popping up.
And the reason why Yelang Wang is like this is because he was frightened by Cheng Zhengying and Zhuo Wangsun, and it caused a psychological shadow!
Over the years, the Yelang Kingdom, which was once one of the most powerful countries in the southwestern barbarians, has now become a hawk under Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying.
The dignified King Yelang, when facing a representative of the Zhuo family and the Cheng Zheng family, could only serve him with trepidation and serve him like a father, for fear that if he made the slightest mistake, he would suffer the same fate as those three Dian kings.
And these things, in today's world, can be hidden from the common people, but they cannot be hidden from these wealthy businessmen.
Everyone has many news channels.
Some people can even get news from the palace.
Therefore, most of the people present now envied Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying, but also feared these two people.
Everyone knows that compared with these two heads of state, their own methods and skills are simply inferior!
Fortunately, in the future, the Han army will conquer the Western Regions and even attack the more distant Shendu, Daxia.
by that time……
"We might as well learn from Zhuo's and Cheng Zheng's methods..."
Thinking like this, these people became excited.
There are thirty-six countries in the Western Region, so they should have a population of several million, right?
As for the lands outside the Western Regions, the Shendu and Daxia lands, it is said that the population is no longer lower than that of China.
If the king's army advances westward in the future, wherever the Han army goes, it will be the place where they can even gain wealth!
That's why I had this idea.
So over the past year or so, especially in the last month or two, these big businessmen have started to actively pay taxes!
They no longer need the lord and captain to urge them again and again, and they no longer need the lord and captain's yamen to send troops to collect taxes by force.
They themselves voluntarily and consciously sent the taxes they should pay to the Lord Duwei Yamen.
Some people even began to deliberately pay more taxes - according to the "Ping Law", only merchants with tens of millions of family members can enjoy the right to petition. But now, many big merchants, in order to obtain this power and honor, are trying to make a fool of themselves.
Deliberately falsely reported his profits. Anyway, the tax is not very high. Using 10 million as the standard, the actual tax paid is probably only 100,000, or at most 200,000 or 300,000 (although the Ping Law stipulates that the industrial and commercial tax rate
It is unified into five calculations, that is, a commodity worth ten thousand yuan is levied 600 yuan, and the tax rate is 6% of a million, but the family income includes movable and real estate. Therefore, a businessman with a family fortune of tens of millions, he sells 600 yuan in a year.
goods must be less than one’s total assets).
Such a low tax rate, on the one hand, ensures the profits of industry and commerce, but on the other hand, it also gives the world's big businessmen, especially those who are interested in establishing a relationship with the emperor, room to manipulate.
For example, the Tian family of Qi State was originally just a businessman in Surabaya. His ancestors earned millions of dollars in shipping business. Therefore, when he was a child, the current head of the Tian family was able to be classmates with Liu She, the current Shaofu Ling.
-But it actually doesn't matter. After Liu She arrived in Chang'an, he almost forgot that he had such a classmate.
Tian's business also spread from Sishui to Qi State, and he settled in Linzi.
But at that time, the combined assets of the Tian family were only two to three million!
However, when the Ping Law was promulgated, Tian Wei, the head of the Tian family and now the legendary businessman of Qi State, saw the opportunity.
He decisively took out 200,000 yuan and boasted that he had made millions by selling cloth and transporting goods last year.
At that time, when the Lord Commander's Yamen was first established, the Tian family jumped out and boasted that they had paid enough taxes.
Then, he was regarded as a typical example.
National orders came in a steady stream. Even Gongsun Hongming, the Lord Commander and Lieutenant, knew that the Tian family was bragging, but he also wrote to King Jiangdu and asked him to take care of him.
At that time, it was actually a matter of thousands of dollars to buy horse bones.
But King Jiangdu doesn’t know!
He thought that this Tian family was a household related to Gongsun Hong and his father Yan, so he gave the green light.
Not only were fifteen fake ships given to Tian Wei, but the transportation rights for the official trade between Jiangdu and Nanyue were also given to Tian Wei.
In just two years, the wealth of Lao Tian's family swelled like a balloon.
Last year, all the loans and interest on the fake ships from Jiangdu were paid off, and orders were placed for twenty more ships, three of which were even cargo ships capable of offshore shipping!
According to a conservative estimate, Tian's family has at least 80 million people now!
But Tian Wei is used to bragging, claiming to the outside world that his annual business income exceeds tens of millions, and this guy actually pays taxes!
He even framed his tax records and the voucher given by the Lord Commander's Yamen and posted them in his residence in Linzi, Qi State.
Whenever a customer comes to discuss business, take him to see your tax certificate first.
The merchant took a look - last year, Tian's business income exceeded 10 million? There is also a tax payment certificate from the lord and captain's Yamen?
You can’t go wrong for sure!
If the goods are transported by Tianjia, they will be safe and absolutely insured!
As a result, Tian's business grew bigger and bigger.
Last year, Tian's fleet only wandered around the Yangtze River.
This year, we have reached both sides of the river, and we may even be able to cross the sea next year.
The cloth and silk produced in Tian's workshop were constantly sold to various places through their fleet.
Especially in South Vietnam, Tian's cloth has even become a trademark.
When people in South Vietnam buy cloth now, they only want Tien cloth!
Other people's fabrics all felt like there was something wrong with them.
As a result, merchants like Wang and Zhang who were also engaged in the cloth business had to claim that theirs was also Tian's cloth in order to sell it in South Vietnam...
This time, as soon as Zhuo Wangsun greeted him, Tian Wei immediately abandoned his business and came to Chang'an in person with his nephew.
After arriving in Chang'an, because all his property and assets were in the south.
He himself only carried a few hundred gold.
But this guy is smart and good at research. When he heard that the shops in the nine cities of Chang'an might be subject to bidding.
Tian Wei immediately went to find his former classmates. Relying on this relationship, Tian Wei met Liu She, and then started to cheat again - he took the tax receipt he gave to the Lord Commander's Yamen and the confirmation issued by the Lord Commander
Official documents and official documents proving his property (these prove that he indeed has tens of millions of property, and has always had a good tax record, never defaulted on taxes, and paid taxes on time).
Then, relying on these pieces of paper, he got a piece of paper from the Shaofu - a certificate that allowed him to borrow a total of only 70 million yuan from the treasury of the Shaofu anytime and anywhere, and the interest rate was horribly low, only 10 million yuan.
Just one!
Then, he handed the piece of paper back to the Shaofu and got the ticket to bid for shops in nine cities in Chang'an.
In other words, Tian Wei did nothing.
But with just a mouth and a few pieces of paper, I got a 70 million loan with nothing.
Moreover, a well-informed person heard about this matter and even alarmed the Emperor. This loan was personally approved by the Emperor on that day!
In other words, with a mouth and a few pieces of paper, Tian Wei not only got a huge state loan totaling 70 million, but also got the tickets to the nine Chang'an cities that Guandong merchants dreamed of.
Even if he spends all his wealth, he still wants the emperor's attention...
This really makes countless people envious and jealous!
You have to know that in the current Han business world, the most powerful people are not the so-called rich people like Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying, nor are they the Shishi who can make money just by lying down.
It’s the emperor who hides behind these wealthy people!
Today, in the hearts of wealthy businessmen who know the inside story, he is a character ten thousand times more powerful than the founder, Tao Zhugong!
He nuzzled his lips, and the Shi family got the right to operate the track. Although at the beginning, many people thought that the Shi family was overestimating this time, but in the end, everyone was shocked.
And now, if the emperor is willing to grant a second track franchise, all the businessmen in the world will be willing to bankrupt their fortunes at all costs!
But it's a pity...
The tracks are all state-owned from now on.
Private capital is no longer difficult to get involved in!
Also like Cheng Zhengying and Zhuo Wangsun of Linqiong.
At the beginning, these two guys presented their daughter and family property in front of Jin Shang.
The Baoxie Road project is like a Mount Tai, making the whole world feel suffocated.
Countless people thought that the final outcome of the Zhuo family and the Cheng Zheng family might be very bleak.
But now, these two are not only not being dragged down by the project.
On the contrary, the family property keeps growing like a snowball, and more importantly, they now have a layer of tiger skin covering them as 'relatives of the emperor'.
Among all the merchants in the world, they are the most prestigious.
In the southwestern Yi, they are the supreme emperors and the masterminds behind the scenes.
In Shu County, they are the guests of the county governor and the good people sought after by the people in the county.
Even in Guanzhong, their reputation is very good.
Because of the construction of the Baoxie Road, even the common people no longer think that they are profiteers who are unkind for the sake of wealth.
Even the Legalist bureaucrats had respect for these two men, thinking that although they were businessmen, they were righteous businessmen, benevolent businessmen, and good businessmen like Bai Gui who assisted Li Kui in his reform.
This really makes countless businessmen jealous!
In this world, money can buy many things.
But the only thing you can't buy is fame!
In the Han Dynasty, reputation could determine many things, even enough to determine a person's life or death!
Apart from other things, in stories and jokes circulated in the market, there are many stories about someone who met a thief on the road and thought he would die, but after telling his name, the thief immediately stopped and gave back all his wealth.
, the story of escorting him all the way to a safe area.
And these stories, businessmen all know that they are true.
These days, the gangsters and gangsters who commit plagiarism all have very professional ethics.
As long as they are not extremely evil people, they generally will not kill people, and even if they are extremely evil people, they will definitely show mercy when facing a well-known righteous man and filial son, and they will not even dare to offend!
As for Zhuo and Cheng Zheng, these two bastards whose hands were stained with blood and who could do all kinds of evil, now have the title of righteous businessmen and gentleman businessmen.
How can this not make people jealous?
And whether it is the Shi family, the Zhuo family, or the Cheng Zheng family, they all relied on the rise of the current emperor to become what they are today.
otherwise……
They were already withered bones in the grave, so dead that not even the dregs were left.
And now, Tian became the fourth merchant to gain the emperor's attention and attention.
Everyone knows that the rise of the Tian family is already around the corner.
Tian Wei's success also inspired others.
On the one hand, these guys immediately asked people to go to their homes to get their tax certificates - unfortunately, they didn't have Tian Wei's cleverness or bragging. They all paid taxes honestly, and some even tried every means to evade taxes.
But now it seems that this is undoubtedly a failure.
So, they started to take action one after another.
I tried my best to find connections in the lord and captain's yamen. In short, I wanted to find a way to see if I could make up for the "accumulated debt" of the previous year.
but……
Tian Wei had already drank the first sip.
Everyone else also knows that it is almost impossible for the emperor to pay attention to followers like himself anymore.
But it doesn't matter. If you can't get what you want most, the next best thing is to get a mortgage loan from the Shaofu.
