On October 18, the sixth year of Chengshun, Luo Zhixue officially approved the plan to build the Songjiang Industrial Base. Once the plan was spread, it quickly caused a stir in the industrial and commercial circles of the empire, especially in the pan-Jiangnan region. Big attention.
However, ordinary people have not had any direct feelings about the construction plan of this industrial base. At most, after the people of Songjiang Prefecture and several surrounding prefectures heard the news, some people will realize that the Songjiang Prefecture Industrial Base will be in line with the local government. Tu Industrial Base is also recruiting a large number of workers.
Many people think that they might be able to find a job in that Songjiang Industrial Base and then support their families in Hukou.
However, due to information dissemination and transportation problems, people with this idea are limited to Songjiang Prefecture and several nearby prefectures and counties. Even if people in other places hear the news, they will treat it as an anecdote at most. Just listen to it.
But for the industrial and commercial circles of the Chu Empire, especially the gentry and big businessmen who owned a lot of capital among the people, this was a shocking thing.
What shocked them was not the industrial base itself. In fact, more than ten industrial bases led by the Ministry of Industry had been established in the Dachu Empire.
For example, the earliest Xiangyang Industrial Base.
Next, it supported the two major industrial bases of the defense industry of the Dachu Empire, namely Daye Industrial Base and Dangtu Industrial Base.
In addition to these two major industrial bases, there are also many medium-sized industrial bases, such as Changsha Industrial Base, Guangzhou Industrial Base, Tianjin Industrial Base, Chang'an Industrial Base, and Chengdu Industrial Base.
Finally, the Ministry of Industry has also established industrial bases in several other large-scale or geographically superior places with relatively superior resources.
So people are not unfamiliar with these industrial bases.
However, it is worth noting that these industrial bases are led by the government, to be precise, led by the Ministry of Industry. The purpose of these industrial zones is not to develop ordinary industry and commerce. Their purpose is simple and pure, which is to build the national defense industry.
The core of every industrial base is an arsenal!
Various supporting facilities were built around the arsenal, and various factories such as steel plants and machinery plants were established.
And these industries, without exception, are all factories under the Ministry of Industry.
Of course, as these industrial zones are established and a large number of factories affiliated with the Ministry of Industry are built here, which brings demand for many goods and services, private gentry businessmen will build their own various workshops or workshops around the industrial zones. Engage in other service industries.
Major industrial bases are actually centralized locations for government-run factories to reduce transportation costs and improve efficiency through centralization. Each industrial base is, to put it bluntly, a huge arsenal.
Therefore, these industrial bases actually have nothing to do with most gentry businessmen!
For example, in recent years, Suqin Textile Company, which has become comparable to Hantian Textile Company in the cotton spinning industry, has no factories in so-called industrial bases.
It's not that I don't want to go, it's that I can't go. Most industrial bases are actually under military control, and outside companies can't go in and open factories...
How should I put it? It is impossible for the Ministry of Industry to let ordinary businessmen open a textile factory near its own arsenal or something like that if it is destroyed.
However, this time the Songjiang Industrial Base approved by the Chu Empire was different. This was an industrial base that allowed private capital to invest in and build factories.
If it were just like this, it would actually not cause a stir. Now many places have gathered a large number of private factories to reduce various costs. For example, Hankou in Hantianfu has gathered a lot of factories represented by the textile industry. Factories include the government-run Hantian Textile Company and many private textile factories.
However, although these places have many factories gathered together, and the local government has also entered into planning according to the industrial zone model, it is only a plan. These so-called industrial zones do not have administrative levels.
Unlike those industrial bases, which are all in a separate administrative region, such as Dangtu Industrial Base, this place is not actually under the jurisdiction of Dangtu County, but directly under the jurisdiction of Yingtian Prefecture, and is of a very high level, with the highest responsibility for the base. Human supervision, fourth grade, much higher than the Dangtu County Magistrate next door...
The same goes for the other dozen or so industrial bases, which belong to serious administrative regions and generally have relatively high administrative levels.
The same is true for Songjiang Industrial Base. After this industrial base is planned, it will directly fall under the jurisdiction of Songjiang Prefecture, and the base supervision will be the fifth grade. It has nothing to do with the neighboring Shanghai County... Although a lot of the land planned was still under the jurisdiction of Songjiang Prefecture. from Shanghai County.
This industrial base will be the first formal official industrial base in the Chu Empire, and private capital will be allowed to invest in and build factories.
Finally, the reason that has aroused widespread concern in industry and commerce and made many gentry businessmen itchy and wondering whether to open a factory is that if you open a factory in Songjiang Industrial Base, you can enjoy certain tax benefits.
It’s not the so-called industrial zones that local governments set up with ill-justified names and provide some tax subsidies or reductions and exemptions for local fiscal expenditures.
In the fiscal system of the Da Chu Empire, fiscal revenue was divided into two major categories. One part was directly attributed to the national treasury, and the other part was divided into various levels of local finance.
If your local government wants to support industry and commerce with tax incentives and reductions, it can only provide tax reductions and exemptions on its own part, but it can at least take money directly from the national treasury or higher-level finance for tax reductions and exemptions.
Furthermore, today's officials in the empire have no intention of tax reduction or exemption to stimulate the development of industry and commerce...the only tax reduction or exemption is usually only for agriculture. For example, if a certain place is hit by a natural disaster, in order to provide disaster relief and restore local people's livelihood, Then local governments often write reports requesting agricultural tax exemptions.
This year alone, the Chu Empire has fully exempted more than a dozen counties that suffered severe droughts or floods from agricultural taxes.
However, don’t expect business tax exemptions.
In view of the traditional Chinese mentality of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce, as well as the custom of raising pigs and killing pigs, those officials were very restrained in not killing the chicken directly and eating it, but keeping it for laying eggs...
Furthermore, there are also some voices in the Great Chu Empire saying that the demise of the Ming Dynasty was not due to natural disasters or foreigners, but to financial corruption.
Unable to collect taxes from wealthy people such as the gentry and wealthy families, the only option is to intensify the squeeze on the poor who don't even have a copper in their pockets. As a result, not only the national treasury is out of money, but also more and more popular uprisings are aroused.
The success of the Chu Empire was precisely because it learned the lessons of the Ming Dynasty and adopted a policy of collecting taxes from the middle and upper classes and adopting a generally low tax or even tax exemption policy for the bottom class.
The abolition of Ding Yin and other messy various taxes and corvées, and the transfer of all farmers' burdens into the unified agricultural tax is a huge manifestation of this policy.
Then, in this way, the burden of a large number of people at the bottom was much lighter. Not only did they enthusiastically support the Dachu Empire, the Dachu Empire also raised more agricultural taxes...
As for industry and commerce, specifically commercial taxes, in the eyes of the senior officials of the Dachu Empire, they were important channels for collecting taxes from the gentry and wealthy households.
Not to mention reducing or exempting industrial and commercial taxes, the empire's top officials are eager to increase taxes...
Otherwise, how would the fiscal revenue of 60 to 70 million taels a year come from... You don't really think that it's all collected from the hands of the Kuhaha people...
Therefore, in the current political and social environment of the Chu Empire, there is actually no such thing as tax exemption for industry and commerce. Only a very small number of local governments will grant tax exemptions and exemptions to some special enterprises for specific interests.
But officials also cherish their feathers. In order to avoid being accused of collusion between government and businessmen, profit transfer, and the like, and being sent to prison, this tax benefit is only limited to government-run enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of Industry.
They are all government-run enterprises, so it is a matter of left hand and right hand. Naturally, there is no corruption or bribery.
At the same time, these tax incentives for government-run enterprises are often limited to the portion of taxes that local finance authorities have the authority to reduce or reduce, and are often provided through tax refunds.
Because it is the tax department that collects taxes, they don’t care what tax policies local officials have promised to those companies, they will collect whatever they should...
After the tax revenue is allocated to local finance, whether your local officials use the money to subsidize tax refunds, pay official salaries, or use it to engage in other public undertakings, the tax department will not care about you.
The tax policy of the Dachu Empire is very strict, and for the industrial and commercial industries, the taxes are actually not low. In order to collect industrial and commercial taxes, the tax department has come up with a lot of messy taxes.
What about stamp duty, business tax, value-added tax, road construction fees, education support fees...
Even the gentry couldn't continue their business, and they were finally forced to sell their properties, and they had to pay taxes on the money they got...
In order to collect business taxes and prevent the big businessmen from evading taxes, the tax officials from the tax department keep an eye on them all day long...
Under such circumstances, it would be too difficult for the Da Chu Empire government to reduce or reduce industrial and commercial taxes to private capital!
At least before, it was impossible.
However, now, the Dachu Empire officially announced that as long as a factory that complies with the policies is opened in the Songjiang Industrial Base, it will enjoy tax benefits, and it will be a full tax benefit, that is, the central finance, Jiangnan Provincial Finance, and Songjiang Prefecture Finance , full exemption from the fourth-level finance of Songjiang Industrial Base.
This is the first time in the Chu Empire that full tax benefits have been truly achieved. In the past, even government-run enterprises, including core enterprises such as Dangtu Arsenal and Hantian Arsenal, did not enjoy such tax benefits. policy.
The tax officials don't care whether you are a government-run enterprise or a private enterprise, the tax you should collect cannot be less!
I don’t know whether your factory is running well, whether it is under great pressure, or whether it will go bankrupt, but the tax official will definitely lose his job if he cannot collect taxes.
Two years of tax exemption and three and a half years of tax exemption, whether government-owned or private-owned, you can enjoy it!
This is the preferential tax policy for Songjiang Industrial Base decided by Luo Zhixue personally!
However, this policy is only limited to high-tech fields. You cannot just set up a workshop with little technical content and apply for this kind of tax preferential policy.
It has to be a technical industry!
As soon as this news came out, not only the private gentry and businessmen were shocked and wondered whether to invest in Songjiang Industrial Base, but also the government-run enterprises under the Ministry of Industry, especially those engaged in civilian supplies. Thinking of opening a factory in Songjiang to reduce tax costs.
But the first one to take advantage was not the government-owned enterprises, but the leader among private enterprises: Su Qin Textile Company!
After the people of the Qin family in Suzhou heard the news, they sent people to both sides. One side sent people to Jinling City to inquire about relevant information and policies, and the other side sent people directly to Songjiang Mansion.
Then, in the Songjiang Industrial Base, which was still deserted and even the land expropriation had not been completed, I found the Supervisor of the Songjiang Base who had just taken office a few days ago!
After hearing the intention of the visitor from the Qin family, Songjiang Industrial Base Supervisor Meng Rumen forced a smile on his plump face: "This is a good thing. If Su Qin Company can come to our base to set up a factory, it will definitely It’s a good thing, don’t worry, as long as you come here, land for setting up factories will be given to you at a preferential rate, and tax exemptions will also be provided for you. Now the machine-made cloth industry is also within the scope of supported industries.”
"But your factory's equipment will have to be better by then. If the production efficiency is too low, it won't pass the review."
At this time, the young master of the Qin family narrowed his eyes and said: "Don't worry about this. We Su Qin and Hantian Machinery Company have a good cooperative relationship. We can use their latest research and development of various mechanical equipment at the first time, whether it is cotton or cotton." This applies to both spinning and weaving machines."
Su Qin Textile Company moved extremely quickly. Before those government-run companies had even started to take action, they had already taken the initiative to come to the door and quickly cut through the mess. They promised an investment amount of up to 100,000 taels of silver and obtained an extremely good geographical location. The land is used for building factories.
What follows Su Qin Textile Company is not other core enterprises of the Ministry of Industry, such as arsenals and machinery factories, but Hantian Textile Company, which is a stepmother in the Ministry of Industry and basically ignores it...
The textile industry is included in the Ministry of Industry's planning, because although this industry seems important, it is not that important. Therefore, official capital basically maintains a small amount of investment in guiding this industry to encourage and support the entry of private capital.
After all, official capital strength is also limited, and it must be limited to meet the investment in core industries such as steel, machinery, chemicals, and military industry, as well as some industries directly related to people's livelihood.
As for other industries, there is basically not much investment. This has nothing to do with making money or not. It is mainly a matter of political positioning.
The Ministry of Industry sets up factories not to make money, but for national defense and people's livelihood!
Once you understand this, you can understand why the Ministry of Industry insists on spending a lot of money to fight against industries such as steel and machinery... but is unwilling to invest money to expand in industries where it is easy to make money.
For example, in the current textile industry represented by cotton spinning, wool spinning and silk spinning, with the emergence of new looms, spinning machines and other new machinery and even water-powered machinery, as long as you open a factory and find a market, you can make money while lying down. .
But the Ministry of Industry and not doing...
Even Hantian Textile Company, this thing's position in the Ministry of Industry is not to make money from ordinary civilian textiles, but to supply various military textiles to the army, such as tents, military uniforms, quilts, blankets, and large-caliber artillery. The silk used in propellant packs...
The propellant packs used by the Chu army's large-caliber naval guns are basically wrapped in raw silk. The main reason is that there is less residue, which improves the performance of the artillery and avoids the risk of subsequent chamber explosions.
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You can also use other materials as propellant packs, such as paper, but the performance of these materials is not as good as raw silk.
As for the price of raw silk, compared with large-caliber artillery shells and propellants, the cost of raw silk is nothing.
In the Navy, everything is expensive...
A battleship cost more than 200,000 yuan to build, and the artillery used were all expensive long-barreled cannons. Even the propellant packs had to be made of raw silk.
Unlike the Army, you can just get some propellant wrapped in paper for field artillery!
Therefore, after the advent of the artillery era, raw silk is also an extremely important strategic material, especially in the era of armored cannons. Without propellant wrapped in raw silk, the performance of the artillery will be compromised...
Even the large-caliber artillery in the 21st century still uses raw silk if it uses separate propellant bags...
Hantian Textile Company has a silk factory that specializes in producing raw silk for military use.
It's just that Hantian Textile Company likes to engage in side businesses. At the beginning, almost all the business in this textile company was conducted around military supplies.
But since they discovered that it was highly profitable to sell the fabrics they produced directly to the public, they plunged into the civilian textile business.
Eventually it became the largest textile company in the empire, until Su Qin Textile Company suddenly emerged and became each other's biggest competitors.
As a competitor, you naturally pay attention to each other's every move!
Su Qin Company went to Songjiang Industrial Base to build a factory. As soon as the agreement on investment and construction of the factory was finalized, Hantian Textile Company followed suit and moved into Songjiang Industrial Base.
So, just a few days after the listing, even the land had not been acquired, and there was no infrastructure construction. Even the supervising office of the industrial base only had a dozen or so people.
The two largest textile companies in the Chu Empire have already come over smelling the blood and killing them!
And they are not the only two textile companies in the Dachu Empire. Ever since Hantian Machinery Factory mass-produced machinery and equipment for various new textiles, the textile industry in the Dachu Empire has undergone major reshuffles and innovations.
A group of traditional workshops that could not keep up with the times declined, but a group of workshop owners who actively embraced new technologies promptly adopted various new equipment, which greatly improved production efficiency. In addition, according to the industrial and commercial regulations of the Great Chu Empire, Administering laws and registration for various types of textile companies.
And they also saw the preferential tax policies of Songjiang Industrial Base and the huge cost advantages it brought!
