Chapter 341 Technical Fees
Fu Zikang stood up and said, "Your Majesty, this is absolutely impossible."
"Huh?" Ying Zheng frowned, "Why not?"
"Your Majesty." Fu Zikang replied: "Once salt merchants are transformed, most merchants will inevitably produce salt.
As a result, it is difficult to control where the salt goes.
Xirong, Xiongnu, Baiyue, etc. all want the salt of Qin, but we have never sold it to them. In this way, we control their lifeline.
In addition, once the salt is handed over to merchants, the treasury will lose a lot of money, which is a disaster for the treasury.
In order to prevent foreigners from getting our salt, Wei Chen suggested that the salt should be controlled by the court. "
"Master Fu." Feng Quji said, "Haven't you noticed that Xirong, the Xiongnu, Baiyue and other places have all returned to the Qin Dynasty.
Now they are all subjects of the Qin Dynasty. In order to let them return home, the prince has gone to Baiyue, and General Meng Tian has been sitting in charge of the Huns.
Although Xirong has returned home long ago, the imperial court cannot treat everyone equally, and they will rebel sooner or later.
Moreover, it won’t take long for the art of making salt to be spread. Instead of waiting for people to make their own salt for consumption, it is better to directly let merchants set up salt-making workshops.
According to what Emperor Shi said, the brand should be established early so that people would know which brand of salt produced this salt.
This salt is the face of the brand. As long as the salt is good, it means that the brand is good, and more and more people will buy salt in the future.
There are only two things the court has to do, one is to collect taxes, and the other is to maintain market prices.
Daily necessities such as salt, which are needed every day, can be priced cheaper. The government's current price of salt is ten cents per pound.
At present, all poisonous salt mines in the world can produce salt, as well as well salt, lake salt, sea salt, etc. Da Qin's current salt can be said to be inexhaustible.
Under such circumstances, the price of salt for ordinary people should become lower.
With such a low price, asking the court to be responsible is simply a waste of manpower and material resources, and it is also competing with the people for profit.
Your Majesty, Wei Chen suggested that all matters of making and selling salt should be handed over to merchants. In this way, private salt will disappear.
The price of salt was fixed by the imperial court, and no one was allowed to raise or lower it without authorization.
The price of salt must be unified no matter who produces it, so that salt will not cause market chaos. "
Ying Zheng nodded slightly and said, "You can give it a try. Feng Xiangzai is now in charge of the salt workshop, and the investment promotion will be left to you."
"Thank you, Your Majesty. I will definitely live up to Your Majesty's expectations." Feng Quji said.
Li Si stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to say."
"speak."
Li Si responded: "Your Majesty, there is a law on the protection of technology in the "Business Law". It says that whoever creates a technology, as long as it is reported to the court or local government, then the technology belongs to that person and everyone else. Not allowed to be used.
If you want to use it, you can only spend money to buy this technology, and there are two types of technology purchases, one is to buy out.
Even if the technology is sold to businessmen, the person who invented the technology will lose ownership, let alone sell it to others.
Another way is to only sell it to the other party for use, but not completely sell it to the other party, and it can be sold to other people.
In this regard, both parties can sign a contract, a contract protected by the imperial system. "
"Very good. In this way, Great Qin's technology will increase day by day. Sooner or later, Great Qin's flag will be planted all over the world." Ying Zheng said excitedly.
"Your Majesty is wise." Li Si said, "Therefore, Wei Chen suggested that any businessman who wants to set up a salt-making workshop needs to spend a sum of money to purchase the emperor's salt-making technology."
Ying Zheng, Feng Quji and others instantly understood what Li Si meant. He was making money for Qin An.
Since Li Si's daughter Li Yanran followed Qin An, she basically thinks about Qin An. Now she even has to spend money to buy salt-making technology.
You know, this salt production technology has been completely opened up and everyone knows about it.
The only difference is that now all salt is controlled by the imperial court. Although some people make some salt in private, they only eat it for themselves and never dare to sell it privately.
However, it cannot be said that there is no private salt, and there is a lot of it, which is sold by nobles.
Feng Quji also saw this, so he proposed the commercialization of salt. Letting merchants sell it was equivalent to letting nobles sell it.
Originally, after the First Emperor agreed, he could arrange everything, but now Li Si suddenly asked for technical fees, which was equivalent to asking the nobles to pay first and then start the workshop.
Immediately, Feng Quji gave Fu Zikang a wink. It turned out that they were acting just now, and Fu Zikang deliberately discredited Feng Quji to make Ying Zheng think that they were not in the same group.
Fu Zikang understood and immediately said: "Your Majesty, what Li Xiang said makes sense, the emperor's master should be given a sum of money.
But now that this technology is well known to everyone, it would be inappropriate for them to pay the Imperial Master. "
"There's nothing wrong with it," Li Si replied, "After paying the technical fee, they can set up a salt-making workshop and then sell salt. This is protected by the government.
But if you open a salt-making workshop without paying the money, then you are embezzling salt-making technology and need to be punished by commercial law.
Another point is that anyone who opens a salt-making workshop privately without government permission will also be punished.
In addition to fines, all belongings in the workshop may be confiscated, and even jail time may be imposed.
If he didn't want to have his workshop items confiscated or go to jail, he would have to complete all the procedures.
However, there are still fines. This tells all businessmen not to take chances, and it also allows other businessmen to see the protection.
In this way, Da Qin's business will become more and more developed. "
Ying Zheng nodded and said: "Yes, although the court does not prohibit business, it does not allow businessmen who do not follow the rules. The court will only protect businessmen who abide by the rules. The court will severely punish businessmen who break the rules.
Feng Quji followed Li Si's method. If no businessman was willing to open it, the court would do it.
Finally, a thorough investigation was conducted on the illegal salt issue, and all illegal salt sellers were ordered to stop producing illegal salt. If there were still people selling illegal salt within the specified period, they would be dealt with severely. "
"No." Li Si and Feng Quji responded at the same time.
"Your Majesty," Feng Quji said, "I have one more thing to report."
"What's the matter?" Ying Zheng asked.
"Your Majesty, from the emperor's mouth, I learned that the Silk Road is the commercial and trade road between the Qin Dynasty and the countries in the Western Regions.
Therefore, Wei Chen proposed to establish a large caravan in the name of the imperial court to deliver the goods of Qin to the countries in the Western Regions and open up the road to the Western Regions. "
"Road to the Western Regions?" Ying Zheng raised the corner of his mouth and said, "I will go there sooner or later. Since you proposed it, I'll leave it to you."
"promise."
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