Chapter 23 Investment Promotion
In this system, if external funds can be used, his burden will be less.
It's just for no reason, if you attract people to invest.
First of all, investing is a new thing. After all, this is related to at least a few thousand taels. For anyone, this is not a small number. It's hard to convince people when you talk empty talk. Naturally, you want your own people to set an example.
He Xi said: "Do you know about Xuanyang Society?"
Yang Zhen said: "I know. What you mean is -----"
He Xi said: "This shipyard should be jointly run by two companies."
When He Xi took so much money from someone, he always had to think about Lan Yu. This shipyard radiates to the Bohai Sea and Liaohe River. Apart from anything else, the Liao River and Songhua River basins probably have no influence on it. It is the width of the Liaosong Canal.
But that's not important.
The reason why there is no construction on the north side of Liaosong Canal is because of the threat of Tatars. The various conditions are no longer enough. When the situation changes, can't we seize the space first?
Not to mention, he also promised Lan Yu in the first place.
Yang Zhen said: "What you said is absolutely true. However, from a student's point of view, Jinghai Company is Jinghai Company, and the He family is the He family. It is best not to involve too much in this matter. My family took over this shipyard and merged it. Xuanyangshe is the one.”
He Xi was stunned and said: "This is not good. Officials cannot buy property in the place where they work."
This article is indeed found in the laws of the Ming Dynasty.
It’s just that not many people do it. Everyone has their own way. After all, there are too many methods available for private transactions. For example, let the people around you hold it on your behalf. What a servant, a concubine. In short, there are ways. It was of some use in the early Ming Dynasty, but in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it was even more useless.
Yang Zhen said: "The shipyard belongs to Xuanyang Society. It has nothing to do with my family. And I can also guess a little bit about your thoughts. There are some benefits that you don't give to your own people. How dare others trust you."
He Xi could only smile bitterly after hearing this.
It is said that He Xi does not care about money, but few people in the world believe that He Xi really does not care about money. After all, everyone loves money. Judging others by oneself, I feel that He Xi must love money. But they don’t know that people in different positions have different scenery in their eyes.
He Xi doesn't care about money, it doesn't mean that he is noble or anything. When he was in later generations, he bought lottery tickets more than once, hoping to win a jackpot worth tens of millions. This is also human nature. Now it was just money, which was completely useless to He Xi.
That's all I don't care about.
However, he also has to be accommodating. Comply with people's hearts. He Xi said: "Okay. You're right. That's how this matter is settled. By the way. You take them to visit some textile factories tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, I will come out in person to talk about business."
When Yang Zhen heard what He Xi said, he immediately said: "Sir, this is not good. I think your so-called pre-Qin production model cannot be kept secret. It can guarantee an advantage of a few years at most. But at least we can monopolize it for a few years first. Why let it be leaked to others? Isn't this just ruining your own job?"
He Xi said: "Yang Zhen, you have been working in the business these years. You have made a lot of money. Are you now worth more than ten thousand taels?"
Yang Zhen said: "No, there are only five thousand taels. The rest will be purchased in my hometown."
He Xi said: "It is good to have a wealth of money. But you have to remember that you are a scholar. You can't put all your thoughts on money. You should read more books." He Xi got up and went to the bookshelf behind him and took out He handed a book to Yang Zhen and said, "Read it carefully."
Yang Zhen took it with both hands. I found the word "economy" written on it.
This is what He Xi compiled based on his practice during this period, and compiled some contents of The Wealth of Nations and Marxist Political Economy. Still a first draft. It's far from being finalized. He Xi even felt that this matter was as important as the construction of Liaodong.
Gein, it is important to succeed in something. But it is more important to elevate the success of this matter to a theoretical level so that others can copy it.
He Xi never forgot the reform.
What is the reform? It is to replace the Confucian governance system with a completely new system of governance. If this cannot be done, it will be difficult for this reform to succeed. Therefore, the theoretical high ground must also be occupied. Although on the shoulders of those who came before. What He Xi knew before was just theory. Only when I reached the practical level did I realize that I had missed too many classes.
Fortunately, He Xi has a first-mover advantage. In a pre-industrial era where supplies were scarce. The cost advantage of industrialization is enough to give He Xi many opportunities for fault tolerance. I just got to where I am now step by step.
Yang Zhen went down to study and didn't mention it.
After He Xi met Yang Zhen. Instead of going back to enjoy family happiness, he had too many things to do. The results of technical research in various aspects, the situation encountered by various guards, the progress of spring plowing, etc., there are too many things that He Xi needs to control.
There are also some things behind the maritime trade in the past few decades that He Xi also needs to sort out and prepare for the meeting the day after tomorrow.
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Time flew by so fast, and in a blink of an eye, it was time for He Xi to meet these people.
These people were waiting in the lobby of Niuzhuang Inn early.
He Xi's superiority is clearly revealed. No matter how much gold and silver they control and influence, they are just ordinary slaves in front of He Xi. All must be respectful.
However, besides being respectful, these people seemed to be in a daze.
So does Yang Zhen.
Yang Zhen only slept for three or four hours in the past two days since he left He Xi that day. The two dark circles under my eyes are now very big. Because He Xi shocked him too much.
When Yang Zhen read He Xi's book, he felt as if he were reading the articles of Li Kui and Shang Yang. There is no other way to express it more than numbers. The pre-Qin Legalists had this characteristic. They talked about the power of the earth, and then there were long paragraphs describing how much one hundred acres of land would produce, etc.
Finally draw a conclusion.
And the same is true for He Xi’s article. Not that He Xi thought so, but mathematics, as the father of science, is reflected in almost all sciences. This is true even in the social and humanities sciences. Marx also used many mathematical tools when analyzing many phenomena.
He Xi even compressed and reduced it a lot.
After all, there is no need to talk too profoundly now, we are just talking about industrialization itself. rather than the laws of capitalism.
Truth has the ability to travel through the past and present. Under such a subversive shock, Yang Zhen was able to fall asleep, which showed that he had good self-control. If this article were placed in front of Fang Xiaoru, Fang Xiaoru would probably go crazy. Or become a monk and escape into Buddhism. than these serious consequences. Not being able to sleep is all too common.
In particular, Fang Xiaoru hates Buddhism the most.
Whenever he had free time, Yang Zhen was scrutinizing these theories, and even saw the sharp increase in production efficiency due to division of labor and cooperation in textile factories. He was even more addicted to it, and he could already feel the huge power in it.
Although these other shopkeepers don't understand the theory, they are the best at settling accounts. Just do the math and you'll understand. How profitable is this textile factory? The truth is complex and complex. It would take a lot of economists to explain.
It's not complicated at all. It seems that the entire management model has not changed much. It’s not just division of labor, use of machines, and a few other things.
They can do it too.
However, after they thought about it for a moment, they realized that it would not be easy to do this outside Liaodong.
The reason is simple: you will encounter resistance.
If nothing else, men will farm and women will weave. Except for Liaodong, there is no place where women do not weave cloth. In fact, women in Liaodong are also weavers. But under military control, individual strength cannot form a wave. Not to mention, He Xi also gave some compensation to the people below. Coupled with the shortage of people in Liaodong, both men and women will be involved in the wave of industrialization. There aren’t that many opinions anymore.
For the common people. Being busy or tired is nothing. Just make more money.
But it's different elsewhere.
Elsewhere there is overpopulation. Can recruit people. But it also ruined more people’s jobs. In a natural economic system where men farmed and women weaved, food was mostly used to maintain livelihoods and pay taxes. The only thing that can bring cash to the family is a woman’s cloth.
Many lower-class scholars only have the opportunity to study because of the cloth woven by their mothers and wives who worked hard day and night.
