For mirrors of the same size and packaging quality, the products of Zhaoqing Glass Factory are often only about 70% or 80% of those of European mirrors!
And this point alone allowed the mirrors produced by Zhaoqing Glass Factory to quickly seize the market.
And there is another thing that European mirrors cannot compare with, and that is the size!
Although both European mirrors and Zhaoqing Glass Factory can produce larger mirrors, Zhaoqing Glass Factory is produced locally and is more convenient to transport. It does not need to travel tens of thousands of miles by sea like European mirrors, and it is not easy to break, so it can be
Large-area mirrors are launched locally.
And this is an advantage that European mirrors cannot match!
It's not that they don't have large-area mirrors, but they can't transport them. Or they can, but the transportation and packaging costs are also staggering.
Because they adopted low-price sales to seize the market, the glass from Zhaoqing Glass Factory was sold out after it was put on the market, even though the newly launched goods were not too many. Many businessmen waved checks from the Royal Bank to beg to buy Zhaoqing glass.
Factory mirror!
Zhaoqing Glass Factory is located in the Guangzhou Business District office!
A group of businessmen crowded around several salespeople from glass factories
What, no more mirrors?
How much more is left? I've got it all covered. Come on, take the check!
Oh, whoever robs me, don't rob me, it's all mine, damn, don't take his check, take mine, take mine!
What, the spot goods have been sold out, it’s okay, your glass factory will continue to produce, right? How much your output will be next month, I will cover it all!
What? Your output is so large, what, who said it was all-inclusive? Anyway, I didn’t say that, I only want one-third, no, one-tenth of the output!
What? You bastards, you have already booked all the production for the previous month. Okay, you are cruel enough. Let me take a breath first!
Well, it's fine now. Let me tell you, this is nothing. Just push their orders back and give me next month's production first. I'll increase the price!
What? They have already increased the price. Are you kidding? Who is richer than me? I have nothing but more money. No matter how much they increase, I will always be 10%, no, half a percent more than they are.
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Once the glass was launched on the market, it triggered a rush. To be honest, the output of the Zhaoqing Glass Factory is actually not low. The output in one month is comparable to the output that Europeans shipped to East Asia in ten years. However, the price is cheap, and
The output is sufficient.
Countless people see business opportunities in this and want to make a fortune!
And this has also brought huge profits to Zhaoqing Glass Factory. Their cost and transportation costs are low, but the selling price is only 20 to 30% cheaper than European mirrors that have been transported tens of thousands of miles by sea to East Asia.
, and what does this represent? It represents huge profits!
Its profit margin is higher than that of Zhaoqing Soap Company!
Although the mirror cannot directly promote the national defense of the Tang Dynasty, as a commodity that can earn a lot of profits and pay a lot of taxes, it can still contribute to the national defense of the Tang Dynasty and the Li family dynasty.
Governance plays a positive role.
Most of the taxes it creates and pays will eventually turn into military expenditures, and then into guns, ammunition, and military pay for soldiers.
And this is not just the effect of a commodity such as mirrors. In fact, most products, whether they are traditional commodities or emerging commodities that have emerged in recent years, are mostly like this!
They create jobs, increase people's incomes, and generate tax revenue!
And this is their greatest contribution to the Tang Dynasty!
The surging development of industry and commerce is bringing huge tax revenue to the Tang Dynasty. In the four years of Xuanping, in the fiscal revenue budget, the proportion of tax revenue contributed by industry and commerce has increased to 30%. Although this proportion
It's still not as good as the agricultural tax, but it's almost the same.
And this does not include tariffs and salt tax, the two major taxes!
If they are also added, the proportion of tax revenue contributed by industry and commerce will be even greater!
Thanks to the explosive growth of industry and commerce, it also brought the two local agricultural provinces of Huguang and Jiangxi into the rule. It also made the Ministry of Taxation declare that by next year, that is, the fifth year of Xuanping, with the existing control
According to district calculations, the central fiscal revenue budget will likely exceed 20 million taels by then.
If calculated using per capita tax figures, the average tax per person is a little more than one tael!
And you have to know that the current population under the rule of the Tang Dynasty is not too large. Adding all the currently controlled areas together, the total population estimated by the Ministry of Household Affairs is only between 20 million and 30 million.
Of course, this number is definitely inaccurate, otherwise it would not have given a fluctuating number with a huge gap of 10 million.
Because so far, the Tang Dynasty has not conducted a complete census, and the population data in many places are very inconsistent. To a certain extent, they also refer to official data from the pre-Ming Dynasty. However, the official data from the Ming Dynasty can be trusted.
One or two achievements are good, but if you really want to believe everything, you would be foolish.
Therefore, the exact number of people under the rule of the Tang Dynasty is an unknown number. The Ministry of Revenue estimates that it is between 20 million and 30 million, but the officials of the Ministry of Revenue are not clear about the exact number, and Li Xuan himself is even more confused.
I don’t understand. To get this data, we need to combine various data. For example, the salt sales volume of Datang Salt Company is a very important reference data. Then we can use some imagination and round off a few times.
This approximate figure was obtained.
If you want to know how many people there were under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, you can only know it by conducting a census after the regime is stabilized.
More than 20 million people provide more than 20 million taels of tax revenue. This ratio is actually relatively high. Compared with the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty... Oh, forget it, they only have a few million taels a year, there is no way
For comparison, it is more appropriate to use the Qing Dynasty, which everyone is more familiar with.
In the early stage of the Qing Dynasty, there were about 30 to 40 million taels of silver, and in the later period it reached more than 100 million taels. This number was basically about two or three times the population at that time. In the early days, the population was small, and the taxes were also low. In the later period, the population was large, but the taxes were low.
also increased.
However, it is worth noting that the taxes of the Qing Dynasty included not only regular taxes, but also various additional miscellaneous taxes retained by local governments, and the amount of this part was actually quite huge.
Well, it is also worth noting that when levying these additional taxes, if the government receives one million taels of silver, then the actual burden on the people may reach two million or even three million taels of silver, so the discussion on the burden on the people
At that time, we should not just look at how much money the country received, but how much money the people paid.
If all these miscellaneous taxes are added, the per capita tax burden of the Qing Dynasty would not be lower than that of the Tang Dynasty, or even higher!
As for the people at the bottom, that is, the farmers, Li Xuan can proudly say that the farmers of the Tang Dynasty have a lighter burden than the farmers of any feudal dynasty.
All kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes were levied on the people at the bottom, and the officials and tax collectors who appeared in the process of collecting these exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes levied them privately. This is the real yoke that has weighed on the peasants of the feudal dynasties throughout the ages!
But now, Li Xuan has broken this shackles!
So even though the agricultural tax collected by the Tang Dynasty was higher than that of any feudal dynasty, the farmers were willing and happy. Why? Because as long as they paid the agricultural tax, they no longer had to pay all kinds of messy exorbitant taxes.
Reducing the burden on farmers is what Li Xuan has been doing, and this is also one of the most important policies that Li Xuan has promoted in recent years in terms of people's livelihood. Those who dare to make apportionments, levy miscellaneous taxes, etc. in any name
Once local officials or tax officials find out, they will all be punished with the most severe punishment of confiscating their homes and genocide!
Being an official requires making money to support the family. Although Li Xuan does not say this on the surface, it is understandable. After all, everyone followed him in rebellion, greedy for more money to improve their lives, and marry more concubines. Li Xuan also thinks it is reasonable. After all,
If the water is clear, there will be no fish.
But being greedy for money is greedy, but you need to find the right direction to start. If you want those businessmen to squeeze them occasionally and make some money, Li Xuan can just turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye. But if you dare
If you want to attack those farmers who are already suffering, don't blame Li Xuan for the sharp knife in his hand!
In fact, Li Xuan doesn't understand. You, an official, have so many ways to make money. Why do you have to deal with those miserable farmers who have no profit? You are squeezing thousands of farmers, so you might as well just find a big businessman.
That's a lot of money from squeezing it out.
But there really are such stupid bitches, and they won't kill them. Li Xuan's attitude towards this is firm. He found out that every one of them confiscated their homes and exterminated their clans!
Once these officials who dare to attack the peasants are caught, it will be impossible to behead them, even in this life. They must confiscate their families and exterminate their families, otherwise they will not be able to intimidate those who come after them.
Speaking of which, among the many laws of the Tang Dynasty, many of them are clearly marked, and if a certain law is violated, the family will be confiscated and the family will be exterminated. Of course, innocent people will be implicated in this process, but when these so-called innocent people enjoy the benefits of their father, brother and others
The glory and wealth brought by breaking the law, then when their father and brother are caught, there is no need to say that they are innocent.
It is impossible for an official to be caught for corruption and shot, but his family still took a lot of money to go abroad to live happily. This kind of thing could not happen in the Tang Dynasty, because in the Tang Dynasty, the person himself was naturally Ling Chi or something, while his wife, daughter, and sisters were all
After entering the Jiaofang Division, all brothers and sisters will be beheaded.
If he can still leave a trace of his blood despite being hunted by Hantong's hawks and dogs, he is considered awesome, and Hantong will write a big word "Follow" on his grave!