Chapter 523 The young master was born with a vision
"Fifty-five?"
The old rich man's heart moved.
After he took office as the head military minister, he didn't just do boxing, but he really wanted to do things for the Qing Dynasty.
The biggest problem facing the Qing Dynasty today is not the Fan bandits in Huguang, nor the rebel bandits of the Tiandihui in Taiwan, nor the split within the Eight Banners, but the huge financial deficit.
The old rich man firmly believed that there was nothing in the world that money could not solve.
If you have money, you will have soldiers and food, an army capable of fighting, and a stable rule.
Without money, there is nothing.
The reason why he participated in the counterattack against Qianlong in the first place was not only to avenge Nala Hou, but also to bring Qianlong down. Otherwise, if he continued to let Qianlong squander, sooner or later the Qing Dynasty would be defeated by this prodigal emperor.
Now that the prodigal son is under his control, it is natural to reorganize the finances.
The issue of treasury taxation was studied by the old rich man Yonggui, the Minister of Household Affairs.
At present, the Qing Dynasty's tax revenue, in addition to provincial land taxes, salt taxes, and official donations, the largest revenue comes from the Guangdong Customs Supervision in Guangdong.
This is what Sixth Son Xiandi calls Nanyang a port of trade.
Land taxes and salt taxes are fixed, and official donations, big and small, are not fixed, but the income can be up to several million taels per year. Together, these two items add up to a yearly fiscal revenue of more than 30 million taels for the state treasury.
However, the Thirteenth Bank of Guangdong alone, which is responsible for trade with overseas countries, paid more than six million taels of tax money to the court last year.
This money, coupled with the raid on the Yangzhou salt merchant Lu's family, was able to support Sichuan and Huguang sent troops.
Therefore, in theory, if Tianjin also opened its doors to trade, it could bring at least five million taels of tax money to the court every year.
Even if it is divided in half, there are still 2.5 million taels.
By opening up more resources here and squeezing in more resources there, the financial deficit can be smoothed out little by little.
Thinking of this, the old man began to consider the feasibility of Beiyang trade, and even wanted to transfer this trade power from Zhili to the central government.
A 50-50 won't work, at least a 37 will suffice.
Jia Liu is not worried that the old rich man will not relent and give approval. As the old saying goes, we must oppose what the enemy supports, and we must support what the enemy opposes.
It was Qianlong who abolished multi-port trade. Now that an old rich man is in power, can we still follow Qianlong's old path?
If they really continue to copy Qianlong's policies, then wouldn't the two brothers' efforts be in vain?
Moreover, Jia Liu wanted more, and there was one thing he had to do with Lao Fu.
"The Nanyang trade is really a huge profit, no less than 50 million taels per year. However, the tax money received by the imperial court is only a small amount, and the big amount is in the hands of the Thirteenth Bank."
Jia Liu did not falsely report this. This is the fact. The Qing government's trade in Guangdong created a large number of the world's richest men.
In fact, before the Opium War, the Qing government had a net surplus in trade with Western countries. Every year, most of the silver that Europeans earned overseas through hard work flowed to China.
The problem is that the Qing government only got 10% or 20% from it, which was a real small profit.
Where has Italy gone?
It was in the hands of that group of merchants.
"Thirteen lines?"
The old man thought of something, opened the drawer, and found an investigation report on the Guangdong Thirteenth Bank from a few months ago.
The report mainly talks about the trading methods between the Thirteenth Bank and foreign merchants.
It is very simple, that is, the Thirteenth Bank organized personnel to purchase tea, vegetables, ceramics, silk, silverware and other Chinese specialties from the mainland, signed a comprador agreement with Hurd, a representative of the Dutch East India Company, and designated Dutch merchant ships to sell the Qing goods to Europe.
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At the end of the report, it was mentioned that a fellow scholar in the 32nd year of Qianlong's reign had an income as high as 12 million taels, which was almost as much as the total annual taxes paid to the court by the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi. It was comparable to a wealthy country.
"This is not trade, this is monopoly."
After Jia Liu took the thirteen-line investigation report from the old rich man and read it, he told him a new word called "monopoly".
Because he discovered that the thirteen people in this group were actually doing exclusive business with the Dutch East India Company. The British, Portuguese, and Spanish were all secondary traders of the Dutch East India Company.
This is obviously not conducive to competition and inconsistent with the principles of market economy.
"Since Nanyang Trade is doing business with the Dutch, then our Beiyang Trade is doing business with other foreign merchants,"
Jia Liu officially introduced the foreign powers and told the old rich man that as long as he got the approval, he would organize people to go to Guangdong to attract foreign investment and develop together.
"There are thirteen trades in Nanyang. We don't need so many trades in Beiyang. They are state-run by the Commerce Yamen..."
The pie offered by Jia Liu is quite tempting. The annual income of a literary company in Guangdong is twelve million taels. How much is the annual income of the thirteen companies together?
Now Beiyang is also open to trade, and the trade monopoly power has been taken back from the private sector to the state. As long as the hardware facilities can keep up, you can make as much money as you want in a year.
The old man decided: "The Minister of Commerce and Customs Supervision, and customs supervision must be appointed by the imperial court."
"In your dreams."
Jia Liu refused straight away. He had the idea for a long time, he developed the port, he introduced foreign businessmen, and he organized the procurement of goods. In the end, the general ledger, accountant, and cashier were all your old rich people, so let me play
A hanging.
"My dear brother's behavior makes it hard for me to rest assured."
"Without me, how could eldest brother be where he is today?"
"..."
Some haggling.
The appointment power of the Minister of Trade and Commerce was taken back to the central government by the old rich, but the governor of Zhili was allowed to expand the navy in Tianjin in the name of protecting trade.
Customs supervision was won by Jia Liu, but half of the Tianjin Customs accounting clerks must be sent by the Ministry of Revenue.
Customs Supervisor Jia Liu was ceded to Lao Fu on the condition that Lao Fu must support him in implementing the New Deal in Zhili.
What new deal?
That is to vigorously develop industry.
The old rich man didn't understand what industry was at all. He only knew that Jia Liu wanted the coal and iron franchise. This area itself had a complicated system. Some coal mines and iron plants belonged to the Ministry of Household Affairs, some belonged to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and there were also private contractors. Jia Liu wanted to
Let him integrate it.
The third thing is that Jia Liu wanted full power to appoint directly subordinate officials.
It's "Jia Xuan".
If Jia Liu recommends officials to serve as direct subordinates, the old rich cannot interfere with them for any reason.
"Only for civil servants below the fourth rank and military officers below the third rank."
The old rich man agreed, but it created a ceiling for Jia Xuanguan.
Jia Liu couldn't help but scolded the old rich man: "Brother is such an ungrateful white-eyed wolf."
"Is it?"
The old rich man didn't take it seriously and said, "Brother, I also learned from you."
The words are no longer speculative.
Jia Liu was too lazy to talk to the old rich anymore. Although there were some flaws, it was generally in his interests. In this case, he just packed up his things and left for Baoding.
When the old rich man came out, he immediately called Shuan Zhu: "Go and tell me that we will move to Baoding tomorrow."
"move place?"
Shuan Zhu was stunned and didn't understand what it meant.
Jia Liu raised his eyebrows: "Young master, I have been promoted again and will go to Baoding to be the governor."
"Wow..."
Shuan Zhu looked dumbfounded, "Young Master is really promising. No wonder I said that when you were born, crows were all over the yard and toads were crawling all over the yard."