Accompanied by the governor of Anlu and a large number of officials, Luo Zhixue visited the development of small and micro enterprises in several counties and towns near Hefei.
As Luo Zhixue expected, it is very difficult for these small places to develop industries due to the lack of sufficient resources, and most of the industries developed are industries with little technical content.
Mainly light industries that do not require any skills, of which the textile industry accounts for the largest proportion. Luo Zhixue saw many small textile factories with only dozens of employees, and most of them only focused on one link in the textile industry chain, such as spinning. Yarn spinning, fabric weaving, printing and dyeing, and some textile products industries, such as ready-made garments, quilts, tents, etc.
In addition to the textile industry, there are also paper making, furniture, glass, wine making, printing, matches, soap and so on.
In addition, there are a small number of mechanical industries, mainly mechanical processing, producing some daily necessities, such as the production of daily hardware, agricultural tools, tools, etc.
Generally speaking, the scale is not large. Those with dozens of people are the most common. There are very few with hundreds of people. There are even some small workshops with a dozen or even a few people.
Luo Zhixue was deeply impressed by one of the small mold workshops. This small mold factory is located in a small county in the suburbs of Hefei. It has only a dozen employees including the boss, but its mold processing technology is very superb.
The small mold factory can actually receive orders from many large enterprises in Hefei City, and even some orders from Yingtianfu Enterprises. The annual output value can reach more than 80,000 yuan.
Considering that there are only about ten people in this mold workshop, the annual output value per person has reached several thousand yuan, which is not a small amount.
Many corporate factories have an annual output value of hundreds of thousands or even millions, but they also have many employees, and the per capita annual output value is only a few hundred yuan.
Even companies with an output value of more than 1,000 yuan per capita are relatively few, and they are basically in high-tech industries.
Generally speaking, the higher the technical content and the higher the degree of equipment application, the greater the per capita output value... because the added value of the product is higher, and a large number of equipment is used to replace manpower...
Although equipment also has costs... when calculating per capita output value, equipment costs are not included.
Although this kind of small mold workshop is small in scale, its boss, as the core founder and technical backbone, generally has relatively good skills, so the technical level is still quite high.
This kind of small workshop not only has a large output value, but also the boss earns more, and the technical staff also earn more.
At the same time, more taxes are paid to local governments.
According to the current series of commercial tax laws of the Great Chu Empire, the total amount of various taxes paid by this small mold workshop every year will not be less than 20,000 Chu Yuan.
Twenty thousand Chu Yuan is not the US$20,000 of later generations. The Yuan of the Great Chu Empire these days is very valuable. Each Chu Yuan is equivalent to 3.5 grams of pure gold.
In most places, the monthly salary of ordinary unskilled workers is only about two or three yuan.
As for some ordinary counties with no special output value and underdeveloped economy, their annual local fiscal revenue is only about 100,000 yuan.
An enterprise that can pay taxes of 20,000 Chu yuan every year deserves the attention of the local county government and even protects it... This kind of enterprise is the god of wealth to local officials... Not only the local development, even the officials Our salaries all depend on the taxes from these tax-paying companies.
Nowadays, many local government offices in the Great Chu Empire are keen on attracting investment and developing the local economy. In addition to developing their own political achievements, it also has something to do with their own jobs.
The economic development of this place is not good. The salary the officials receive is just a basic salary. Why do they still want various benefits? What can I do if I don’t have money?
The salaries of local officials in the Da Chu Empire were not paid by the central finance, but by the local finance. Their wages and benefits were basically divided into three parts. One was the national fixed grade salary. Under the same grade, the grades of national officials The salary is the same.
The second is job salary, such as county magistrate, county magistrate, county section chief, deputy section chief, first-class section member, second-class section member, third-class section member, and then there are special occupations and job subsidies, such as patrol police subsidies, firefighting subsidies Subsidies, there are also some high temperature subsidies, severe cold subsidies, etc.
The salaries of these positions and the prescribed subsidies are generally determined within a large range by the imperial capital, and then each province chooses a range within this range based on its own economic conditions.
Each government determines the scope of job salaries and subsidies within its own government based on the scope set by the province.
Then when each county arrives, the specific amount will be determined by itself based on the salary range requirements set by the government.
This kind of salary and welfare system means that in addition to the level salary being unified across the country, which cannot be more or less, the position salary and legal subsidies are all set by a benchmark number from above, and then given an allowable fluctuation range... Your locality has the money Just choose the one with high standards. If your place doesn’t have the money, choose the one with low standards... The higher-ups usually won’t interfere too much.
Therefore, the specific salaries of local officials in the Dachu Empire are often closely related to local economic conditions.
For example, in places like Songjiang Prefecture, local fiscal revenue is large, so job salaries and various welfare subsidies are determined according to the highest standards in Jiangnan Province.
But in some poor places, they are often based on the lowest standards.
Therefore, even if it is for the sake of one's own salary, it is necessary to develop the local economy.
The local finance department doesn’t have much money, so you can’t afford to pay yourself a high-standard salary even if you want to!
Of course, for the officials who are really in charge of the government, they actually don't care about the salary. What they care more about is political performance.
For example, the governor of Anlu and other senior officials in the Anlu area have reached their level. Ordinary money and the like do not mean much to them. Anyway, they have all the enjoyments they should have and those they should not have. And often... well, if he wants!
These senior officials pursue more power, political achievements, and climbing up!
Otherwise, why is Governor Anlu working so hard on the development of small and micro enterprises? Isn't it because he thinks that His Majesty has paid more attention to the development of small and micro enterprises in recent years, so he just followed suit.
Luo Zhixue is indeed quite satisfied with the development of small and micro enterprises in Anlu.
I visited several counties and towns in a row, and what I saw was that the situation was quite good, although the scale was not large. Moreover, Luo Zhixue also knew that the small and micro enterprises he inspected were basically high-quality enterprises selected from thousands of people. Some small and micro enterprises are actually not doing well.
But this is not important. What is important is that Luo Zhixue has seen that there are many small and micro enterprises, which provide a large number of jobs, which in turn stimulates local consumption and can pay more taxes, allowing the local area to develop faster.
Therefore, Luo Zhixue had a lot of smiles on his face during the inspection, and he also rarely praised the local officials in Anlu.
He also stated that small and micro enterprises are an indispensable part of the imperial economic system. All localities should actively explore more and better development policies to support small and micro enterprises according to local conditions.
In order to create more jobs and solve the problem of feeding more people.
And he emphasized that in local development, jobs and people’s income come first!
The development of enterprises, local policies, etc., should give priority to serving these two.
Only when there are jobs can there be jobs, only when there are jobs can there be income, and only with income can we support our families.
Even with such a simple truth, Luo Zhixue still emphasized it again and again... After all, the empire is so big and there are so many local officials, there will always be some officials with weird ideas who don't take employment and people's income seriously.
Even two years ago, there was a fool who was the county magistrate. He said that White Wolf Xiangrui had appeared in his jurisdiction... and he foolishly made a big deal about sending it to Jinling City to dedicate it to Luo Zhixue.
After Luo Zhixue learned about it, he directly exiled the man to Africa... Since he likes auspiciousness so much, he should go to Africa to find it. There are many animals there, and there must be all kinds of messy white animals.
I don’t know how this person passed the imperial examination in the first place, and also reached the position of the sixth grade county magistrate... It’s not that he is superstitious. There are many feudal and superstitious people in the empire, and even officials. Many people are obsessed with gods and ghosts. , they all maintain the traditional view: keep a respectful distance, sometimes it is better to believe that they are there than to believe that they are not...
Luo Zhixue hired him mainly because he was too stupid... He knew clearly that Luo Zhixue didn't believe in these things. In the past thirty years, no official had been promoted and made a fortune because of sending auspicious auspicious gifts. However, he still gave such auspicious auspiciousness with great fanfare...
He probably feels that no one has been able to find all kinds of so-called auspiciousness in the past thirty years or so, and he is the only one who is lucky enough to find it!
If you keep a low profile and say that you have caught a white wolf, it feels very novel, and you want to present it to His Majesty for a look. Luo Zhixue usually will not refuse... I will smile for Bo Jun and give you all kinds of new things. If there are too many, as long as it does not have a big impact and does not waste money or people, Luo Zhixue will generally not reject the filial piety of his ministers.
However, you can't make a big show of it, and you also link this white wolf with politics, saying it is auspicious, and it has such strong political significance.
If Luo Zhixue doesn't do this, who will you do?
Today we play White Wolf Xiangrui, will we play White Snake Uprising tomorrow?
Luo Zhixue did not allow such absurd things to happen in the imperial political arena, nor did he allow officials to link politics with feudal superstition, so this fool was exiled to Africa...
The Chu Empire was too big and had many officials, so there were all kinds of people. Therefore, Luo Zhixue had always been very relaxed when it came to treating officials.
There are fools, fools, perverts, all kinds of people... Therefore, Luo Zhixue emphasizes as much as possible on some policy directions, and makes his words simpler and more straightforward. This is not because he is afraid of these officials. They didn't understand, but they were afraid that they would think it over. Then when Luo Zhixue clearly said one, they figured out it was two... and looked proud that they had understood the deep spirit of Luo Zhixue's speech!
To be honest, there are quite a few officials who like to speculate on their ideas, and even make mistakes... A large number of them appear every year, and some of them will also make trouble for Luo Zhixue, which makes Luo Zhixue himself quite speechless.
Luo Zhixue said that one plus one equals two, but after some thinking, some officials thought that what Luo Zhixue said was not simply one plus one equals two... As soon as his mind changed... he thought about it and came up with one plus one. One is equal to the king's answer, and he happily implements it, and finally comes to take credit... Whenever Luo Zhixue sees these people, he wants to pry open their heads to see what is in their heads.
I said it plainly... one plus one equals two... you have to compete with yourself and make your brain spin.
There are so many such things, so now Luo Zhixue will use the simplest and most direct words to describe his speeches in daily meetings, outbound inspections, and even some published imperial edicts to ensure that most normal people can understand... As for a very small number If you don’t understand, you have to figure it out... There’s nothing Luo Zhixue can do!
When encountering such idiots, Luo Zhixue would not kill or imprison them, but would usually kick them to overseas territories... to let the natives experience these idiotic ideas.
After all, having fun alone is not as good as having fun together. Luo Zhixue cannot enjoy this kind of good thing alone, but also let the natives enjoy it!
At the same time, overseas territories, especially those in Africa, are short of staff. Many officials are unwilling to go to Africa to serve on rotation... let alone not being able to come back for decades.
So now Luo Zhixue especially likes to relegate officials who have committed crimes but are not serious problems to Africa... He kills multiple birds with one stone, which is good.
In Anlu, Luo Zhixue once again made it clear that he should pay attention to the development of small, medium and micro enterprises, and then took a special train back to Yingtianfu.
After arriving at Jinling Jiangpu Railway Station, we took the Yangtze River ferry back to Jinling Nancheng and returned to the palace after being away for more than a month.
After Luo Zhixue returned to the palace, Prince Luo Li, who stayed in Jinling City temporarily to handle many affairs, also breathed a sigh of relief.
This was the first time that Prince Luo Li sat in Jinling City as the prince and handled all matters when Luo Zhixue left Jinling City.
Well, even though he does not have the official title of supervising the country, he only presides over the normal work of the imperial study in the name of acting in charge of the affairs of the imperial study.
But this was also an unprecedented first for Prince Luo Li.
For more than a month, Prince Luo Jian was quite excited at first, feeling that he finally had a chance to take over the power. Even at night, he would think about the possibility of a coup... Of course, this This fantasy is just a fantasy, and even he knows it is a fantasy... If he really wants to do this, even if he doesn't mention the consequences, I'm afraid not many people will really follow him.
After all, the prestige of Luo Zhixue, the founding emperor of the country, was too high, and his control over the imperial power was very strong.
Without Luo Zhixue's order, the prince would not be able to mobilize even a single soldier of the Guards, and he would not be able to carry out a coup.
So while Luo Zhixue was away from conducting coups, he had very few fantasies.
The real feeling comes more from the excitement of having the power, even though he has no right to decide many things... Urgent matters have to be sent to Anlu one by one, while important matters that are not urgent are waiting for Luo Zhixue to come back and deal with them.
All he can handle are small daily things.
But it was still enough for him at first.
But after getting enough of the addiction, I felt trouble...
Yes, trouble!
Every day, a large number of affairs continued to pour in from outside the palace. Although the Hanlin Academy helped to deal with it, and ministers from various councils were in charge of many affairs, there were still too many various affairs.
If it's just that there are too many things, forget it. If you are tired, you can always finish them.
The key is that many things are interrelated and affect each other. Behind a seemingly small policy, there are often games representing many departments and industries.
At the same time, when Luo Zhixue was building the political structure of the Chu Empire, his core concept was balance... and playing with balance is actually very complicated. As the founding emperor, Luo Zhixue built all kinds of political structures by himself, and there are many ways to do it. He is very familiar with it... because these sects and sects were created by himself.
Moreover, Luo Zhixue also has great prestige, so he can do whatever he wants.
Naturally, there is no problem in achieving a balance... If there is a problem, Luo Zhixue will deal with the person who raised the problem!
But Prince Luo Jian can’t do it!
The political structure of the Dachu Empire was not created by him. It was not easy just to figure out the various sects in it, and he did not have the prestige and power of Luo Zhixue.
It is even more difficult to maintain the balance. A slight carelessness will lead to imbalance.
Although the prince has been observing politics in various departments for many years, and now he has been studying politics in the imperial study room for a period of time, he still needs to understand the operation of the empire's political arena, the many political interests behind it, and the huge system of the empire itself. a period of time.
This also caused the prince to have a lot of headaches when dealing with various affairs. He always felt that going to the left was wrong, and going to the right was wrong... No matter what decision he made, it seemed that it was not good.
After this month, Prince Luo Jian only felt exhausted!
I even felt fear...
It’s hard to sit on the emperor’s throne!
Luo Zhixue didn't know that the complicated political structure he had created to maintain a balance among all parties and maintain monarchy would embarrass his heirs!
But even if you know it, you won't change it... If the prince succeeds in the future and he really can't figure it out and can't maintain the balance according to his own wishes, then don't worry about so much and just be a rubber-stamp emperor. The ministers of factions and departments will naturally maintain the basic balance and the operation of the empire.
Of course... if you don't understand it and still have to go through it, then it's easy to cause problems.
This is also an inherent drawback of a centralized monarchy. It is particularly easy to collapse when you encounter a monarch who likes to do things and is incompetent.
As the saying goes, I am not afraid of your incompetence, but I am afraid of your troubles!
It's just that these are the matters of future generations, and Luo Zhixue doesn't bother to care so much. If there is an emperor who is incompetent and likes to toss in future generations, someone will naturally deal with him.
Revolutionary uprisings and coups are not impossible.
Luo Zhixue never thought that the empire he founded would last forever... No matter how arrogant Luo Zhixue was, he had never had such a dream!
This empire may last for many years, and the Luo royal family may also survive for many years. It depends on the changes of future generations!
But an empire in which the Luo royal family controls actual power... has lasted for hundreds of years. Maybe it will be shorter, maybe it will be over in a hundred years!
After all, as living standards continue to improve, education levels improve, and self-awareness further awakens... I guess no one wants to have an emperor with real power above his head!
Therefore, Luo Zhixue has never been worried about this, let alone made unreasonable changes to the current political structure of the empire for the sake of the so-called eternal life in the future!
That's not necessary!
Anyway, now Luo Zhixue feels that this political structure is very good. As for how future generations will do it, they can do whatever they like...
After all, every era has its own needs. Luo Zhixue lives in the current state of the empire and chooses the political structure that best suits him and the empire. As for what the empire will become in the future...he knows!
In the history of mankind, there has never been a central monarchy empire that was highly industrialized, initiated global colonial expansion, combined state capital with market capital, had traditional Confucian culture, and was highly centralized!
Luo Zhixue can't find a reference!
So, whatever happens in the future, he can’t control it, and he doesn’t have the ability to do it!
(End of chapter)
