Chapter 461: I am doing business in Daqin
"If you can really do it within one year, then I believe that both the prince and the first emperor will give you the greatest power to make the Qin Dynasty rich and powerful. 33
Do you know why the First Emperor wanted to live forever? "Ying Zheng asked.
"He wants to make the Qin Dynasty last forever. In fact, the First Emperor does not want to live forever himself. As long as his descendants are capable of making the Qin Dynasty last forever, then the First Emperor will give this opportunity of immortality to his grandson." Qin An said.
Ying Zheng was so excited that he didn't expect that the person who knew him was not Li Si or Meng Tian, but his son-in-law.
"You...how do you know?"
Qin An said with a smile: "This is not simple, because the First Emperor has always wanted to make the Qin Dynasty immortal, but he has never said that he wants to live forever, and even if he does, it is not many times."
Li Si and Feng Quji then realized that it seemed like the First Emperor had never mentioned his immortality.
Ying Zheng sighed and said, "Go on, what will you do in one year?"
Qin An said: "Of course we will first establish state-owned enterprises and semi-state-owned enterprises, mainly engaged in salt, iron and other state-controlled items.
Next is food, which is a particularly expensive commodity.
Then I will start a semi-state-owned enterprise, which includes the wine I mentioned before, as well as perfumes, toilet water and other products that use wine.
Then from the production of perfume and toilet water, it can be extended to soap, soap and other products.
Each of these items can be sold like crazy.
Especially perfume, it is simply a woman's favorite, something that all women are crazy about.
As for toilet water, it has the effect of repelling mosquitoes and relieving itching. Spray it in summer and your whole body will feel refreshed.
But you can use both in small amounts, otherwise...hehe, you will know after you use them.
Once these industries emerge, I am afraid I will be able to bring income to tens of thousands of families.
Next is the textile industry, which requires the most manpower. Starting from breeding silkworms, until the silkworms spin silk into pupae, then weaving the silk into silk, then dying it, and then making it into clothes, etc. all require manpower.
If Da Qin's craftsmanship at that time was used, a piece of clothing would take at least ten days to complete, so the price would be even more expensive.
But will I do this? I will definitely increase the speed of weaving and making clothes.
Just like the textile factory in the village, there are now four thousand workers. In addition to a series of work procedures such as sericulture, mulberry tree planting, silk drawing, etc., all added up, half of the villagers are working for me, both men and women.
There are also salt-making workshops with two to three hundred people, iron-making workshops, breeding farms, slaughterhouses, etc. Except for those self-employed, basically everyone in the village is working for me.
Just imagine, it only took me less than a year in the village to reach the scale I am today. When I go outside, I open workshops all over the country. Can I expand the number of people ten times or a hundred times? "
"There are too many people." Feng Quji immediately poured cold water on Qin An, "There are too many people, and the ministers will impeach him."
"If they want to impeach me, just impeach me. Anyway, I have the prince's shares, and I will send the profits to the prince's mansion every month.
Besides, they impeached me because I didn’t bring them to make money, so I will start the second step of the plan. "
"What's the plan?" Ying Zheng asked.
"All the nobles are working on a business plan together," Qin An said.
Ying Zheng smiled slightly and said: "You plan to let all the nobles do business together, so that they will not impeach you and even speak for you."
"Yes, but this is only one reason, and the other is to promote the country's business. Only when nobles do business, they will not control other businessmen's business. Only then will the status of businessmen be improved.
As long as everyone does not look at businessmen through colored glasses, the contribution made by businessmen, that is, tax revenue, will be dozens or even hundreds of times that of agricultural taxes.
At that time, the court will realize how pitiful it is for them to keep staring at the grain in the hands of farmers.
According to my idea, the imperial court can cancel the agricultural tax in ten years. "
"Abolition of agricultural tax within ten years?" Everyone was shocked again. "is it possible?"
Gan Luo said: "Sir, you are talking big words. Once the agricultural tax is cancelled, and the court has no food, what should we do?"
"Buy it." Qin An said, "Just let the government collect the grain. Of course, the most important thing here is the land system. Land cannot be privatized, but can only be nationalized.
I have told everyone about this before. If you want to know, you can ask me privately or ask them.
Now we continue to say that I am doing business in Daqin.
The second step is to take the nobles to do business together. But how to do business and what to do, the nobles don't know, but even if they know, because of my relationship, their original workshop productivity is not as high as mine, so their business will not be able to continue. "
"Yes, but how do you do business?"
Qin An smiled and said: "It's very simple, just buy it from me. I have all kinds of business ideas in my mind, but I can't do all the business in the world by myself.
Even if I could do it, the world is so big that I can’t do it alone.
So I plan to sell my business idea. There are two types of sales. One is the agent. After I produce the things, I let them sell them, but they can only be sold in this place.
Didn't the First Emperor set up thirty-six counties? I will run one county myself, and the rest can find thirty-five nobles, each of whom will have a county to help me sell things.
Of course they have to pay, and the thirty-five counties will give the same price according to the degree of prosperity. After they arrive in their respective counties, they can sell it themselves, or they can sell it to merchants from various places like me, and let merchants from various places help them sell it.
In this way, in order to make more money, these nobles will not watch the place become poor.
Once they are poor, no one will buy their goods, so they will think of ways to help local development.
I believe that by then, as long as someone proposes not to collect agricultural taxes, some people will immediately agree and praise the First Emperor for his wisdom. "
"This is impossible." Li Si said.
"How could it be impossible? People no longer have to pay agricultural taxes, which means they own the harvest of the year. So there is so much food, do they want to sell it?"
"Of course." Li Si said, "If we don't sell it, they won't be able to eat so much food."
Qin An said: "Yes, once they sell the grain to the court or the grain merchants, they will have money.
If you have money, you will not spend it, that is, buy things.
Tell me, do those nobles want to see the people have money? "
Some people died, but not completely...
