"You see, as long as the factory in the workshop is operational, isn't this a matter of killing two birds with one stone? Then the people's livelihood problem will be solved, you can make money through the workshop, you can also collect taxes, and the national treasury will be full. We can also make a lot of supplies that Datang is in urgent need of now, so it’s not a loss at all.”
"Wait, this workshop still charges taxes?"
"What? You don't have to pay taxes to open a workshop here?"
Tang Ping and Fang Du were both stunned.
After the explanations of Fang Du and Wang Qingluan, Tang Ping found out that in this era, national tax revenue mainly came from agricultural taxes, and even customs duties were exempted at this time.
The commercial tax is only city tax.
The so-called city tax means that the Tang Dynasty stipulated that goods could only be traded in the market.
For example, in the East Market and West Market in Chang'an, merchants had to pay city taxes before they could enter the market to do business. Private transactions were not allowed outside the market.
Therefore, it is strictly illegal for people like Tang Ping to open a convenience store outside Chang'an East and West City to sell goods. However, the goods sold in his convenience store are basically sold to the government, so no one takes care of it. Just him.
The commercial tax situation in East Vietnam is similar.
The main reason is that in this era, business is considered a lowly industry in the eyes of senior officials, but they will do business secretly and use extremely low taxes to obtain profits.
Therefore, after listening to Tang Ping talk about the so-called business income tax and other concepts, the two of them could not answer Tang Ping directly. They only said that they would report it to His Majesty.
This matter is really not a good choice, because although the tax will increase the country's fiscal revenue, on the other hand, because the tax will also increase costs, these businesses will at least raise prices, thus increasing the cost of living for the people of the Tang Dynasty. .
Therefore, taxation is a double-edged sword. They have to wait for them to study it before making a decision.
But now they can continue to discuss raising investment.
"Grandmaster Tang said that after the rich families in the city contribute money to set up the workshop, everyone will share the profits in proportion. But now that the aristocratic families are already powerful, wouldn't this make them even stronger?"
As the emerging nobles who followed Li Shimin, Fang and Du were naturally on the opposite side of those ancient aristocratic families.
They do not want to see the aristocratic family develop.
"It all depends on the sharing ratio! Think about it, if Datang's financial resources are now 3, and the family's financial resources are 6, as long as you can control this sharing ratio, after you make money, Datang's financial resources will become 5, and the financial resources of the aristocratic family have become 7. Although it seems that they have become stronger, is the gap actually smaller?"
In this way, it makes sense, and both of them began to think about the feasibility of this plan.
"Or you can attract foreign investment, or issue national bonds!" Tang Ping threw out two more concepts that Fang and Du didn't understand.
"Attracting foreign investment is simply to attract foreign capital to invest in Datang."
"Didn't someone make that money away?"
"This money must be circulated before it can become more money!"
Tang Ping scratched his head. He was not a professional in this field, and it would be difficult for him to explain this issue to them from a professional perspective, but he knew that it must be correct for the economy to circulate.
After thinking about it seriously, Tang Ping explained in as simple terms as possible: "In the project of promoting the economy, capital, which is what we call money now, is one of the most important factors. You have also seen that without money , we cannot now combine technology and labor to form enterprises and provide jobs."
"But if we have enterprises, we can not only absorb the current surplus labor force, but also monetize our technology, produce products, and promote economic development."
"As for the problem that you two adults are worried about having your money stolen by others, don't worry too much. Those who can invest in the first place must have money in their hands but can't spend it temporarily."
"Their money is stored in the cellar and can only grow moldy, but if they invest in us, they can use the money to make money. And the money they earned in Datang, should they just take it back to their cellar and save it? You know what we are doing There are many things to be produced in this workshop.”
"The scale of production means cost reduction. For example, when they invested in the tung oil factory in Datang, the money they earned could be used to buy cheap cloth from the nearby spinning mill. In this way, would the money return to our country? The Tang Dynasty? And we in the Tang Dynasty can also use this money to buy the things we need."
The words were well-founded and made Fang Du and Wang Qingluan on their side fall into deep thought.
After a long time, Du Ruhui said: "I think it's feasible. Think about the people we saw just now. They can't find a job and will go hungry. But if we don't want people to go hungry, we have to spend more money on disaster relief. Instead of doing this It is better to borrow power. Borrow the power of foreign capital to build our Datang Workshop!"
Tang Ping couldn't help but sigh that Fang Mou Du Duan was indeed well-deserved, and Du Ruhui could make a decision to support him so quickly.
"In this case, I and I will go back to the palace first and inform your majesty that as long as your majesty agrees, Honglu Temple will immediately arrange for envoys from various countries to... carry out this matter of attracting foreign investment."
"Two adults!" Wang Qingluan suddenly spoke: "If possible, I am willing to invest."
Tang Ping looked at Wang Qingluan curiously: "Investment? Well... Miss Wang, this kind of investment is not trivial. You must invest in at least one workshop."
After all, the step is too big, and it is easy to get caught. Tang Ping feels that even if these workshops in Datang need to absorb external funds at this stage, it is better to keep their equity structure as simple as possible.
It was a one-on-one joint venture between the Tang Dynasty government and one investor, rather than several investors coming in from one workshop.
"How much is the investment for this workshop?"
Tang Ping looked at Fang Du and Fang Xuanling, and Fang Xuanling said: "A smaller workshop will cost about 100 guan, while a larger one may cost around a few hundred to a thousand guan."
Speaking of which, only tens of thousands of cash are needed here, which seems very little compared to Datang's annual fiscal revenue of 10 million.
However, the Tang Dynasty bought a lot of grain this year, and also reserved cash salary and military pay. The Ministry of Household Affairs would not use the last bit of wealth under any circumstances.
"In this case, if His Majesty the Tang Dynasty is willing to attract foreign investment, you two adults will no longer have to waste time and effort through Honglu Temple. I am willing to pay 100,000 yuan to run this workshop reasonably with the Tang Dynasty."
Tang Ping's expression at that time was like this: Σ┗(＠ロ＠;)┛!
He never imagined that the girl Wang who lives in his home would be so rich.
