After the courtiers below had finished thinking about it, Li Ke continued: "Actually, this is just a possibility I raised. When the court does not lack so much funds, there is no need to contract these places to wealthy families or other people. business firms to develop it.”
"The imperial court can make enough profits by running it on its own."
Wei Zheng immediately said: "Your Majesty, I believe that this policy should not be introduced, because once a certain family controls the local area, although the local government affairs and other related aspects will be the responsibility of the imperial court, the tax revenue for this family will also be borne by the imperial court. After the statistics are collected, they will be distributed to them.”
"But there are still many questions, such as local minerals. What should happen if gold, silver and other mineral veins are discovered locally?"
"Their initial expenses must be within a reasonable range, but as long as a large mineral vein appears, these families will definitely make a profit, and they have the first right to purchase the market price of local people's products."
"This means that this family will inevitably invest a lot of its own efforts in the region. At this time, if the officials sent by the court become corrupt and collude with the family's officials and businessmen, the loss of state-owned assets is inevitable."
Wei Zheng directly stated his thoughts as the boss of the judiciary. This model will inevitably bring great challenges to the judiciary.
Li Ke smiled, and then said: "What you said does make sense. How about changing the idea, for example, using the model of a state-owned commercial bank."
"If the imperial court needs to develop Chang'an County, it will need to purchase these people in the early stage and then provide animal power, iron tools, etc., and the later income will be the income from the trade of local minerals, grain and other materials provided by the people."
"If these proceeds are used to establish a separate state-owned commercial bank for operation, 40% or 30% of the shares of the state-owned commercial bank will be sold in the early stage."
"Interested aristocratic families can purchase it directly, and what they get is the future dividend income of this state-owned commercial bank in seventy or even one hundred years. What do you think?" Li Ke asked with a smile.
Wei Zheng was stunned for a moment. This... seems to be somewhat similar to what His Majesty said before, but also somewhat different.
At least the operating subjects are different. The operating subjects of this method are state-owned commercial banks, and state-owned commercial banks have been dispatched by the court from the beginning, or personnel employed by the court, and everything is under the judicial supervision of the court.
Unlike the previous method, the family's private trading firm was operating, and the court could not just supervise the private trading firm.
"I think this method is feasible." Wei Zheng thought for a while, and it was obviously easier to investigate using the method of a state-owned commercial bank. It is much easier to verify the evidence than the previous method.
And the most important thing is that there is no dispute about land and certain ownership of the area. After all, they only have the right to receive dividends, but not the right to make decisions.
"Then let's discuss it." Li Ke waved his hand. In fact, the second method can be said to be a huge pit. It's not that Li Ke wants to trick these or kill these wealthy families.
Instead, we dig a hole to drag them in. As for whether they will be obedient in the future, whether they break the law, etc., there are too many operational aspects of the profits of this state-owned commercial bank.
Of course, you can't do too many things like this, as doing too much will damage the country's credibility, but this is a restriction for these powerful families.
In a country that is developing rapidly, laws, rules, policies, etc. are bound to be unable to keep up with the pace of national development. Certain barbaric orders and gray areas must appear first and then be perfected through laws.
No one can prepare for a rainy day, not even Li Ke. Even if he has various mature laws for later generations to learn from, it won't work, because the circumstances are different, and the final results will naturally be different.
Therefore, Datang must have a path to follow.
In the early stage, Datang's rapid development required a lot of funds.
The method proposed by Li Ke seemed to be an opportunity for wealthy families to make money, but in fact Li Ke was digging a hole for them.
It does not necessarily mean that the profit margins of state-owned commercial banks must be manipulated to dig holes for them. Consuming their funds itself is digging holes and restricting them.
Because Li Keke understands very well that when a country is developing rapidly, as long as these aristocratic families with their own connections and huge funds have a vision, the profits they can make are beyond your imagination.
In this case, the decades-long long-term dividend payment model of state-owned commercial banks is actually the lowest source of profits.
Moreover, this method will also consume a lot of funds from these powerful families in the beginning. Without the funds in their hands, it will be much more difficult to achieve scale in certain industries.
To put it bluntly, Li Ke is taking advantage of the fact that these aristocratic families do not have such a high vision and cannot see the future yet, and they use their traditional thinking to believe that land, minerals, etc. are the best things and can be used to make money. Something that has been passed down in the family for many years.
They will definitely give priority and spare no effort to purchase.
Although such purchases are indeed stable, they will actually lose the opportunity to enter and grasp certain key industries.
Of course, there are many people who have vision and use their small skills to make things bigger and stronger, so this cannot be eliminated.
Li Ke actually did this to limit their first wave of development. By limiting the first wave of development, it would buy enough time for the country's legal and institutional construction.
When the laws and systems are improved and they enter the industry, they will do less harm to the country.
In addition, Li Ke can look forward to seeing how many upstarts can step forward after restricting the traditional wealthy families.
The country is not afraid of the emergence of big, wealthy and powerful families, but it is afraid of the emergence of only a few rich and powerful big families.
As long as there are enough wealthy families, then they are all under the control of the state. This is fundamental.
This is what Li Ke has been thinking about for a while, and is the best way to restrict them.
Otherwise, although the rights of the powerful family have been reduced and their irreplaceability has also been reduced, to be honest. At the current rate of development of the Tang Dynasty, as long as a genius appears in these wealthy families, a family similar to the Rothschilds may appear.
Li Ke didn't want such a family to appear.
Therefore, there can be powerful families, but Li Ke hopes that there will be ten thousand, not a dozen.
The five surnames and Qi Wang were the first to be solved, but in order to show his fairness, Li Ke decided to trick the Li family of Longxi first.
