The world is so big that it is not enough to just use the imperial court to popularize infrastructure. We must rely on the power of these powerful families! Let them follow suit!
Li Ke knew very well that it would be too slow and unrealistic to do these things by himself or by all state-owned commercial banks. Economic development must have its own laws.
You can't make all these powerful families make money, and that's also impossible. It's impossible for Li Ke to monopolize all industries. Since they can all make money, then find a way to make them spend all their money.
It’s not just about spending time on debauchery and entertainment.
In fact, some large aristocratic families have very strict family rules in this regard. Although their disciples are generous, they are not outrageous.
Therefore, it is impossible to get them to spend all their money completely. At this time, it is very important to mobilize their enthusiasm.
The easiest way to attract them to spend money is to give them a project that they can meet and have long-term benefits in the future. This type of project is what these wealthy families want to see most.
In order to achieve this goal, these aristocratic families invest in building official roads. Is it reasonable? They'll figure it out themselves.
Only by pooling the money of everyone in the world to do big things, the progress of the Tang Dynasty's officialdom will become very fast.
Not only roads, but also other construction such as factories and so on.
Therefore, these great grievances, Li Ke, must be brought to an end. For example, Li Kexian used various means such as luxury goods to earn 100 yuan of profit from them at a cost of 1 yuan and gave it to the state treasury.
Then they use national projects to contract projects to these powerful families. However, although the total profit of these projects is 110 yuan, the profit rate is only about 10%.
In this way, you can spend the least money and accomplish the greatest things.
Anyway, Li Ke has many ways to make money, and there are many ways to attract them to invest, so there is no need to worry.
The total number of 100 million acres made everyone a little stunned. Did Datang use so many rubber trees?
"Your Highness, did we use so much rubber?" Feng Ang couldn't help but ask this question. In fact, everyone else also wanted to know. If it is simply planted and cannot be used in the end, wouldn't it be a waste of people and money?
"It takes at least five years for rubber trees to start tapping, and the number of rubber taps after five years is very small. It takes at least eight or nine years for rubber trees to be able to produce large quantities of rubber."
"This also means that if you want to expand to 100 million acres, it may take at least ten or twenty years."
"The current Datang can't use it, but that doesn't mean the future Datang can't use it."
"Have you seen the brand new carriage manufactured by Datang BMW Company? The tires on it are all made of rubber products. What if all Datang's transport caravans use this kind of tires in the future? How much rubber will be needed? "
"Or will there be bigger and more carriages in the future, as well as other machines and equipment? How many do you think are needed?" Li Ke said with a smile.
Many tires in later generations are made of synthetic rubber, and natural rubber is simply not enough. Although Datang's synthetic rubber is estimated to take decades, it was all made of natural rubber in the early stages, so there is no need to worry about not being able to use it.
After the production technology of tires, bearings and the like catches up, bicycles and the like can be arranged. At that time, perhaps after the internal combustion engine appears, cars can also appear.
Anyway, the vast world has a lot to offer.
What's more, rubber is not just for making tires. Rubber needs to be used in too many places. There are too many industries related to it.
With the growth rate of rubber trees and the current expansion rate of rubber trees in Datang, there is no need to worry about anything else.
"We understand." Everyone nodded, and they also had some thoughts in their eyes. If the future of the rubber industry is so promising, should we grow some ourselves?
But it is definitely impossible for them to plant it now, because all the seeds were taken out by His Highness. They cannot use His Highness's seeds casually. They will wait until the tree matures and there are seeds for planting in the future.
Li Ke naturally saw their thoughts. In any industry that can make money and has a future, there is no need to worry about the lack of vision of these powerful families. They can always find people with sufficient vision in their families.
"Well, regarding the large-scale planting of rubber trees in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places that I told you about on the new map, my personal idea is to do it in the form of collective farms." Li Ke said.
"Collective farm?" Everyone was shocked. When His Highness came up with something new, it meant there was a new way to make money, and they had already figured it out.
"Well, collective farms, or collective cooperatives, can also be called. It means setting up a business bank with a village as a unit to operate the planting business. When the time comes to make a profit, everyone will collectively distribute the dividend profits."
"Because some villages are very poor and have no money to buy saplings, curved shaft plows for farming, or even shovels, pickaxes and other tools for planting trees? If someone buys shares at this time, for example, you, Geng Guogong, you and the two The village has signed a collective cooperative for a total of 5,000 acres of rubber trees.”
"They have no money, so you spend money to build roads and buy farm tools for them in the early stage, and they are responsible for planting. And then even when there was no rubber harvest in the past few years, you gave them monthly money to enable them to live a good life."
"Through your early investment, you can, for example, hold 50% of the shares in this collective cooperative."
"In the future, when the rubber trees in the farm make money, you will be able to share 50% of the profits every year, and the villagers will share the other 50%. Of course, the villagers have to work and take care of these rubber trees, so they also have monthly money every day, and this month The money will be paid by the collective cooperative funded by both parties, and after deducting wages, etc., the rest will be dividends." Li Ke gave an example.
As soon as his words came out, Li Ke could see that many of the people here's eyes lit up. They were responsible for planting rubber trees, and they knew very well that there were about 25 rubber trees in one acre of land (currently one acre in Datang is 500 square meters).
Datang's rubber is definitely relatively expensive in the early stage. If calculated in terms of commercial behavior, the profits these rubber trees can earn are not low.
"As for this period, my personal suggestion is to sign it every 50 years. Generally speaking, there should be no problem if a rubber tree is cut for 30 to 50 years." Li Ke added.
"Understood, will this form be expanded to other industries in the future? For example, medicinal materials?" Ning Changzhen asked next to him.
"Yes. In some places that are not suitable for farming, we will encourage the establishment of collective cooperatives to grow some economic crops with some businessmen."
"For example, the raw material business of cotton, linen, silkworms and other silk fabrics." Li Ke gave them an example using what he had already done.
