Chapter 783 Concentrating Wealth to Do Great Things
Prince Rui likes two sounds most in his life, one is "You are so big" and the other is "You are so rich".
The previous voice was annoying to hear, because Prince Rui was not the kind of person who was easily complacent, and usually did not take well-intentioned criticism to heart.
But the latter voice is something I never tire of hearing, because Prince Rui likes the feeling of being rich.
The money that Ding Te sent from Wuchang was being put into the warehouse one by one, and it took nearly half an hour to reconcile the CD-ROM account.
More than one million in cash, hundreds of large and small cars, from different regions and different leadership offices, the workload is huge.
Almost all members of the Accounting Department were mobilized, and the sound of counting money, making calculations, and reporting accounts came and went, making it very lively.
Also called Jia Liu, it sounds very pleasant to the ears.
Prince Rui took time out of his busy schedule to come to the Accounting Office to offer condolences. In order not to make people think that he, the general, was superior, he asked Baozhu to move a small stool and sit next to the manager, Accountant Li, holding a cup of bubble tea.
Good ginseng and wolfberry tea, holding a piece of Huangshan Red Square Seal in his mouth, and looking at the silver box into storage attentively.
From time to time, he nodded slightly, showing a happy expression.
Upon seeing this, Deputy Director Ji thought for a moment, then quietly went to Accounting Office Li and whispered a few words.
But this matter is now a dead end.
Precisely because Guangdong's fiscal revenue was considerable, the imperial court established a governor of Guangdong and Guangdong in Guangdong and sent a permanent customs supervisor.
The reason why Guangdong ranks ahead of Zhili is that Guangdong has a trade port and its annual maritime trade revenue is huge.
The feudal production method will definitely not be able to bring much income to the people, because the means of production and production methods have been limited.
This Qing Dynasty is so rich!
Why is it that your Excellency, the President, keeps muttering about how poor the emperor on Meishan Mountain is?
Zhili is the largest province. Although it has very little land, its income in other aspects is greater than that of other provinces. After all, the territory is large enough and the population is large.
But in the final analysis, what these common people earn is not the court's money, nor the money of any big family, but actually Jia Liu's personal savings.
It’s just a matter of no illness or calamity. If you have a minor illness or calamity, it’s really a year’s work in vain.
Without money, it is difficult to move forward.
Baozhu hesitated for a moment, but then said boldly: "Sir, this money is not taken from officials, but from the people."
Going even further, if the imperial court has an annual income of tens of millions, how much of it has been embezzled by the officials?
Including the favorable policies won this time for unruly officials.
Such as Tianjin Port construction, Tianjin maritime trade, customs, market and other projects, industrial parks, military industrial parks, provincial roads, prefecture and county road projects, urban maintenance in various places, etc.
So far, the effect is remarkable.
In particular, the income of people living near major provincial projects has been increasing like sesame seeds blooming.
According to Ding Tepai, these funds are mainly the franchise fees paid by Chairman Chen, who mobilized Hubei provincial officials to pay. It is the first batch, and there will be more later.
Deputy Director Ji explained that this concession fee involved 24 provincial-level officials, 126 prefecture-level officials, more than 540 state and county officials, and a thousand people below the seventh rank in Hubei.
You can't get money through formal channels, so you have to go through sideways.
The wife and children at home farm a few acres of thin land, which can only provide food and clothing, with no extra income.
Jia Liu didn't think he was wrong to do this, because it was the best method based on actual research.
The accounts are consistent with those reported by Ding Tepa.
A large number of engineering teams sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
Therefore, after one year, the total income of this family is the 2,500 Wen that Tang Wenju earned from working for the landlord.
The ratio is about 85 percent.
where is the problem?
Almost all the current engineering projects in Zhili are subsidized by Jia Liuyi. For this reason, he had to ask Chairman Li of Sichuan for help and obtained a high-interest loan of 4 million taels specially approved by Chairman Li.
The great Prince Rui is working for the benefit of all people in the world with his own efforts.
Baozhu couldn't imagine the meaning behind this. To put it bluntly, officials in Hubei had embezzled nearly four times the province's finances.
Jia Liu picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, then glanced at Baozhu who looked shocked: "What all the fuss is about, Hubei Province has a population of more than 27 million, and this amount of money spread out in the whole province is only three coins per person. As for you, it's scary
Is that so?"
For this reason, when Jia Liu was in Cangzhou, he called on officials across the province to increase people's income. How to increase it?
Baozhu thought carefully about the truth. Almost none of the money earned by His Excellency the President over the years has gone into the family, and it has all been dispersed.
Counting another stack, it is also one million taels.
"Um?"
This question is more professional and should be asked to Hubei Governor Zheng Dajin.
After all, the annual income of the big family next door in Sichuan is less than one million taels.
After listening to Deputy Director Ji's reminder, Accountant Li suddenly became energetic and realized that he had made a serious political mistake. He quickly took out the two thick stacks of banknotes that he had just counted from the safe, and then respectfully
He presented them to the prince and said that he was really too busy here and asked the prince to help him count them.
Dig up people's ancestral graves, sell your official position and take bribes, sweep away the emperor and crack down on criminals, and accept money to be lenient.
As long as he can get money, Jia Liu doesn't care what others think of him.
The market price of one tael of silver in private exchange is about 800 to 1,200 wen, and three taels of silver is only three to four hundred wen.
Only by combining Huguang and Huguang can we compete with Zhili.
If Tianjin Sea Trade cannot open next year, Jia may have to go out to hide from debts at night on the 30th of the 6th year of his life.
Deputy Director Ji's preliminary investigation and research showed that the annual income of poor farmers in Hubei is around 20 taels, which means an annual income of about 2,000 taels.
"Baozhu, you have to understand a truth. Well, how do you explain this truth? For example, you and I, Director Ji, and Accountant Li are pushing Pai Gow together. Each of us has one hundred taels of silver, but I have
This big project requires four hundred taels to complete, so I have to win the money from the three of you so that I can start the project."
Jia Liu quickly put down the ginseng and wolfberry tea in his hand, threw half of his unfinished cigarette on the ground, took the banknote casually, wiped his two fingers to his mouth as usual, and then started counting seriously.
Hearing that His Excellency the President was so per capita, Baozhu also felt that he was making too much of a fuss.
Then there is only one way to go: industrialization.
There is still a small pile left, about 400,000 taels.
This also prompted the rich man in charge of the imperial court to agree to the six wise brothers to open up trade in Tianjin, which meant that the North and South Oceans were promoted simultaneously.
"What's wrong? Take it from the officials and use it for the people."
In other words, the prince's policy is aimed at all renegade officials, and no one can be left behind.
In this way, the taxes that Guangdong paid to the court every year were only a fraction of those of maritime merchants.
The Hunan side also has more than one million taels.
"If it is paid to each official, it will be about 4,000 taels. If even those who are not in the eighth or ninth grade are included, then the per capita payment will be less than 2,000 taels."
Jia Liu disagreed: "What's the problem? Whether I take it from officials or from the people, do I use it all for the people in the end?"
"Eight million taels? Good guy!"
The Thirteenth Bank's annual net income is 50 million taels, while the Ministry of Revenue receives less than 6 million taels per year.
"Right."
Baozhu was stunned: Is this official so rich?
Deputy Director Ji, who was in charge of the franchise business, seemed to take it easy. If the prince hadn't given him a slot and didn't give him a chance to perform, it wouldn't be a problem to double this number.
Singing, crying, admirable!
But Mr. Zheng is not here, busy organizing the new Hubei army for General Wang.
After counting the pile, it was exactly one million taels.
"They only collect more than two million taels a year, but these unscrupulous officials can pay more than eight million taels in one go."
Jia Liu's method is very simple, which is to use a large number of projects to make people rich.
"Count it? Ah, okay, okay. I am idle and I am idle. I just want to support your work."
If there is no investigation, then there is no right to speak.
From top to bottom, level by level, level by level, level by level mobilization.
If the water transport was cut off, the Qing Dynasty would be paralyzed as if it had been cramped.
When I thought about it, I thought something was wrong. I couldn't help but remind me: "Your Excellency, it seems to be unseemly."
The average annual income of rich peasants, who are landlords or above, is thirty to fifty taels.
Jia Liu recognized the results of Lao Ji's investigation because he had investigated it when he was in Zhili.
Deputy Director Ji didn't think there was much of a problem. The bulk of the money was concentrated on provincial, prefecture and county officials. None of these people had a net worth of 100,000 or 80,000 yuan.
The annual income of a middle peasant is about sixty taels.
Needless to say, Jiangsu and Zhejiang were the richest people in the world. It can be said that the grain supply in Jiangnan accounted for half of the world in the Qing Dynasty.
Especially those above the prefectural level, who don’t have tens of thousands taels a year, are embarrassed to say that they are officials.
It is conservatively estimated that Hubei province alone can collect franchise fees of about 8 million taels.
Jia Liu actually knew what Baozhu really wanted to say, which was that the officials on one end were paying him, the Qing prince, and they were trying to make up for it from the people on the other end.
"The security guard doesn't know something,"
They are all in the officialdom, so no one knows who is who.
So, he likes money.
"Whoosh", using the index finger and thumb together, the speed and the posture, it seems that he often plays the banker and loses money.
Hubei's annual income of more than 2.4 million taels ranks fifth in the Ministry of Household's annual statistics, which is in line with the facts.
But this is data from two years ago. Now, Hubei’s fiscal revenue is not ranked last in the country, but it should be ranked third from last.
The top four are Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Zhili.
The income is very low, and life at home is very difficult.
Fortunately, Deputy Director Ji has recently studied the financial problems in the Huguang region, so he gave Captain Bao a rough figure, which is that Hubei Province's annual fiscal revenue currently ranks fifth in the Qing Dynasty, about 2.4 million taels.
Baozhu thought of a question and asked out of curiosity: "Director Ji, how much was Hubei's fiscal revenue in the past year?"
During the inspection in Cangzhou, Jia Liu met a day laborer named Tang Wenju. He worked as a helper in the house of a landlord named Zheng, with food and accommodation included. He received a salary of about 2,500 Wen a year, which is about 2,23,4,00 yuan.
Jia Liu pointed out that once his 400-tael project is completed, the output value will reach 4,000 taels, and then a bonus of 200 taels will be given to each of the three losers.
But if he can't win the money and can't complete the project, then the combined money of the four of them will still be 400 taels, and it will never become more.
"If a country wants to develop rapidly at any period, it must have a process of accumulation of primitive wealth. No matter what method is used, this process will hurt the interests of some people.
Otherwise, how can wealth be concentrated? If wealth is not concentrated, how can we concentrate our efforts to do big things? If big things cannot be done, how can we develop rapidly? Without development, how can the people benefit?"