Promotion Letter for the Chief Executive

For the arrangement of the cement plant, Ping An has a very detailed plan.

At present, what he needs the help of Eunuch Tian is to publicize what he has seen along the road, so that the officials along the way will be curious about the road to be repaired safely.Then Ping An planned to take advantage of the opportunity of returning to Beijing to build this road all the way to the capital!

The reason for doing this is because Ping An wants to advertise.

That's right, an ad.It is useless to brag about how good the road is. Only when these people see how good it really is, will they be willing to cultivate.

Because Ping An will not pay for the road construction by himself, he wants the government along the road to pay for it.After all, no matter whether it is a cement plant or sand digging, if there is no profit, it will not be able to sustain itself. ——Even if Ping An uses the cheapest labor that does not need to pay wages, there is a cost.

Seeing the benefits of building roads, these people are naturally willing to pay for it.It doesn't matter if you don't want to, Ping An can also give other options, such as contracting this road to his road company.But in this case, if the road is repaired in the future, it will have nothing to do with the government. The road company can set the tolls by itself, and the local government will not be allowed to intervene.

Based on this road, the ultimate goal of Ping An is to establish a Dachu Cement Company and a Dachu Road Company.The company is owned by the state, but the specific operating capital can be raised from the private sector through share capital raising without the court spending a penny.At that time, it will establish subsidiaries in cities across the country, and then undertake road renovation projects in various places, profit from it, and distribute dividends to shareholders.

Because Ping An knew very well that it was impossible for the imperial court to finish everything.Moreover, although this matter is related to the livelihood of the international people, it is not a confidential matter, so it is a good way to let private capital inject.

Everyone earns money together, and it will be much easier to move to other places after the gentry and merchants get used to the benefits.

But Ping An just made a plan, when the time comes, he will recommend Eunuch Tian to be in charge of this matter, and he will not ask any more questions.

As for the construction team of the road company, the captives of Xirong and Beidi must be used as the initial stage.Didn't the emperor ask him to return these people to the local government?Pingan felt that it would be fine to return the ownership to the Northwest Governor's Yamen or Qinzhou Prefecture, and then ask the road company to pay a sum of money to rent out this group of people from the Yamen.

And the group of people used in my iron ore and coal mines can also be handled in the same way, and I will sign a 20-year contract at that time, and I don’t have to worry about new officers coming later to take these people back.

Since he planned to ask Eunuch Tian to do this, Ping An did not hide anything and told him his plan.

Eunuch Tian was very puzzled by the operation, "I received money from the court to build roads, and the money has to be handed over to the court in the end. Wouldn't it be a waste of time to spend all the money? Why not just let the court pay for the repairs?" Road? This will save trouble."

Ping An had no choice but to explain it to him, "But this does not require the imperial court to provide initial capital to operate it for you. You can raise funds from the people, pay workers' wages, purchase materials, etc., and wait until the road is repaired. The local government will settle the bill for you. In this way, the money will come alive. Our purpose is to let private capital join in.”

"But wouldn't that allow those merchants to take advantage of the court?"

Ping An felt a little headache.He is not a liberal arts student, and he is not so clear about ideology, especially when explaining it to others.

But he knew very well that he had to explain clearly, because these words were not only to be spoken to Eunuch Tian, ​​but also to the emperor and the ministers in the future.So - just think of it as yourself to practice now, it's better than hemming and hawing, not being able to understand the logic and making people laugh.

So Ping An began to think about how to persuade Tian Eunuch.

In fact, Ping An thinks it is very magical. The ancients believed that there is a certain amount of wealth in the world.If you earn more, then I must have less.That's why the imperial court always said "do not compete with the people for profit". Apart from blatantly looking down on the merchants and thinking that they stink of copper, it may not have the meaning of pity for the people.Unfortunately, this idea is fundamentally wrong.

What Ping An wants to solve is actually this problem.

"How could this be taking advantage of the court?" Ping An asked Tian eunuch.

Eunuch Tian looked at Ping An with an expression of "Don't lie to me", "Even if I have never done business, I know that business must be profitable. Let those businessmen invest money in that... company for dividends To them, it must be more than the capital they put in. This entry and exit, isn't the dividend all paid by the court?"

"You make sense." Ping An nodded, then shook his head again, "But you overlooked one issue. I said to give them dividends, but I didn't say that I should also return the capital to them."

"Huh?" Eunuch Tian immediately became interested, "How do you say that?"

"As long as the company is still open for a day, this capital will naturally remain in the company and cannot be returned. If they want to return it, they have to sell the shares. At that time, this part of the capital will naturally be borne by the person who bought the shares. "Ping An said.

"But the capital still belongs to the merchants, so what's the difference?"

"The difference is that you let the merchants take out the money." Ping An said with a smile, "Let me ask you, how much capital do we need to raise at the beginning?"

"Of course it is enough to build a road." Eunuch Tian said.

Pingan nodded, "Yes, it must be a lot of money. Let's assume that building a road requires 1 taels of silver. When we have built the road, we will sell it to the court for 2000 taels. The 1000 taels are used for the road construction process. , 1000 taels were distributed to the shareholders as dividends. The capital of 1 taels still belongs to the company, which means it belongs to the imperial court. In this way, a road was built with only 2000 taels.”

Perhaps the eunuch's saying that money is a real thing is true. When Mrs. Tian listened to this, she immediately understood, "In fact, the money from the merchants is taken out and handed over to the court to do things! In this way, as long as the capital is not refunded, the court can always spend only money. In 2000, a road was built.”

Eunuch Tian represented the emperor, so he didn't care about the 2000 taels that the local government had to take out, but they couldn't actually get the 1 taels back. Anyway, the money was still in his hands, and it belonged to the court.

Ping An did not explain, and there is no fixed number of wealth to continue to fool the world.

What is wealth?It is money.But what about when the money is not there yet?At that time, people bartered things, and the so-called wealth was everything that people owned, that is, the means of production.

In ancient times, people drank blood like hair, and the food they got every day was only enough to satisfy their hunger.Later, people learned to grow crops and raise livestock, so that each person can have more means of production than he needs.With the progress and development of society, the research and use of tools, the means of production that each person can produce are much more than what he needs.

It is because of this that people in society are divided into various occupations.For example, if you are an official, you don't need to work in the fields by yourself, you can have food.At that time, the food grown by ordinary people was enough to feed so many people.The social wealth at this time must be much more than that in ancient times.

So, generally speaking, the sum of the means of production is not as constant as everyone thinks, but is constantly increasing.Now that there is growth, the imperial court must occupy and distribute it, and cannot allow most of the wealth to remain in private hands.

The ancient courts often went through such a process. At the beginning, the country was peaceful, Haiyan and Heqing, and the taxes received by the court could continue to develop in this aspect.But as time goes by, the country is stable, and it stands to reason that the people's lives will be better, and the court can receive more taxes, but in reality?

The tax revenue that the imperial court can receive decreases year by year.There are many reasons for this, but the most important point is that these means of production have already been privately owned.

No matter which dynasty it is, it is stipulated that the status of scholars is relatively high. As long as they have fame, they do not need to pay taxes, and they can even receive money and food from the court.Therefore, no matter how poor a scholar is, as long as he has fame and fame, he will soon become rich.

why?

Because many landlords and merchants will take the initiative to name their properties, fields and shops in the name of this famous scholar.In this way, these shops and fields naturally do not have to pay taxes, and the landlords and merchants will "respect" the scholar.

So with the development of the country, there are more and more scholars, the gentry class continues to expand, land annexation becomes more and more serious, and the tax that the imperial court can receive is naturally less and less.In order to ensure sufficient tax revenue, the country had to collect more tax money, but the people who were exploited were not the landlords and gentry, but ordinary people at the bottom.

At the beginning, ordinary people could still have their own land, but later they found that the tax was getting heavier and heavier, and what they got after a year of hard work was only enough for the family to live on.If there is a disaster year, it will be bad, and you can't even pay the taxes, what should you do?sell land.As a result, the landlord had more land, but the people's life became more difficult.When these people can't live on and can't bear it anymore, new wars will naturally break out, the old court will be overthrown, and a new regime will be established.

But as long as this social structure does not change, the new regime will still follow the old path.

Therefore, the purpose of Ping An is to take out the money they eat from the pockets of these businessmen, rich households, and gentry, hang them with a little dividend, and use their money for social development.

Of course, with Eunuch Tian, ​​Ping An cannot be made too obvious.Just grasp one point: the money will not increase if it is put there, but it will become more and more when it is used.If the imperial court can't afford that much money, let these rich people pay for it.

Eunuch Tian was quickly persuaded, so he returned to the capital with a safe plan. ——The benefits are not for nothing, Ping An simply entrusted him with the task of persuading everyone.Is this also a test?Eunuch Tian can persuade the officials along the way, the emperor and ministers in the capital, and it will be much easier to persuade those gentry and wealthy households in the future.

As for Ping An himself, he directed the "employees of the road company" to start building roads!

The bow and arrow factory was handed over to Youtai, and the cement factory was temporarily supervised by the Qinzhou government. Anyway, the cement currently produced was only used by Ping An, and the road was being built in Qinzhou.After an in-depth discussion with Qinzhou Zhizhou, Ping An decided to build roads for Qinzhou free of charge, so the Yamen naturally fully supported him.

Soon, under Ping An Hetian's eunuch's "cooperation from the inside and the outside", the governments along the way basically agreed to pay for road construction.After all, after the road has been built, it is also a good thing for the Yamen to set up checkpoints to collect "road maintenance fees" in the future.What's more, this matter has already been heard by Datian. Hearing what the eunuch Tian said, His Majesty is clearly concerned about this matter. If he doesn't cooperate at this time, I'm afraid this official will be done.

Especially the officials at the back, they were still a little hesitant in their hearts, but seeing that other places have paid for it, they naturally didn't want to do this early bird.Anyway, the road will be repaired first, and if you can't afford the money, you can go to the household department and cry poorly.

Just like that, Ping An took his own construction team along the official road back to Beijing to repair it all the way.Because this matter is really new, wherever it goes, it will definitely attract onlookers. ——The common people are very concerned about this matter, and who doesn't have many relatives?After hearing about it from other places, they all looked forward to Lu Xiu's arrival here, and went up for a walk by himself.

There were even many people who spontaneously organized to bring water and food to the captives who were building the road, hoping that the road would be repaired quickly, and they would be fresh and fresh.

For the management of these captives, Ping An also took a lot of thought.

Because these are rebellious young people, fat and strong, one can easily fight three, but there are too few people in Ping An's hands.Therefore, in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of these people and let them build roads honestly, Ping An has established a competition mechanism.

He divided these people into several groups, and each group was responsible for a section of the road. The first to complete would be rewarded, and the last to complete would be punished.

Of course, here, rewards and punishments refer to food—because they are afraid that these people will mutiny if they eat too much, so Ping An usually pays attention to controlling food, giving them seven or eight percent full at most, and then working a day, Tired and hungry, I fell asleep, and naturally I didn't have the heart to think about anything else.

But it doesn't work all the time.In fact, Ping An has already noticed that after coming to Dachu, the emotions of these captives became more and more stable.

There is no other reason, you can have enough food in Dachu.

When I was on the prairie, I had to work hard, and I often couldn’t get enough to eat.It is precisely because of the lack of resources that it is necessary to go to the Central Plains to rob.Although he is a prisoner now, he is only a coolie and will not receive too much abuse.

These captives are ordinary people without much ambition. They came to rob before to survive, and they were coerced by the tribal leaders.

Life is better now than when they were in the grasslands. If they hadn't worried about the safety of their families, these captives would have wished to just settle down like this.

It's not that no one wants to escape, but now that they have penetrated into the hinterland of Dachu, they are somewhat different from the Central Plains people in appearance and dress, not to mention the problem of accent.Even if he escaped Ping An's control and wanted to return to the grassland, it was still a dream.

Knowing that he couldn't escape, he simply survived.

When the road was being built, it was discovered that the people along the road would come to bring them water and food, which surprised these Xirong Beidi people even more.

In their experience, they had a deep hatred with the Dachu people, and basically they would fight whenever they saw each other.I never thought that one day I would get this kind of hospitality from the people of Da Chu.This also made these aliens feel strange.

In the past, they didn't feel much about the Dachu people, because they were not of the same clan as themselves, so even if they killed or looted casually, they would not have any fluctuations in their hearts.

But it's different now. They found that the ordinary people in Dachu are no different from the Xirong and Beidi people. They have no fighting power and are unarmed, but they are warm and kind, and they work hard to live every day well.

We are all "people".This recognition of identity changed the concept of the captives a little.

After discovering this, Ping An is planning to provide some better welfare benefits so that these Xirong people and Beidi people can settle down in Dachu. ——It is not a good thing to always make people do coolies and see no hope of getting ahead.

For example, if you work for ten years, you will be free, and you will be allocated fields and so on. However, this matter has to be discussed with the Northwest Governor, and Ping An is not in a hurry.At least for a short time, these people will continue to work for nothing.

The reason why the competition mechanism was created is to prevent these people from fooling around.Before, the food that everyone got was barely enough to eat, and everyone was the same, so naturally they didn't have to work so hard.But now that there are rewards and punishments, these people's hearts have just settled down, and they subconsciously want to save more food for themselves, so they will naturally work harder.

With "internal conflicts", they will naturally focus on this instead of thinking about rebelling against the army or running away.

Probably because of this change in mentality, the temperament of these Xirong people and Beidi people has also changed, and they have gradually come into contact with the people of Dachu along the road.Watching this change happen all the way, Ping An couldn't help feeling emotional.

He once read a book called "The Crowd", which said that most people follow the crowd blindly and can be incited and guided.In fact, it is similar. The lives of most ordinary people are boring and boring, and what they want is even less.As long as these needs can be met, then these people can be mobilized.

Even aliens who have hated for generations can carry out this kind of "domestication" process.

Ping An couldn't tell whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.But for him at present, it should be regarded as a good thing, because it can be seen from this that it is possible for him to achieve ethnic integration at the border without bloodshed, resolve possible wars, and resolve the Xirong issue peacefully.

Not to mention anything else, if a few years pass, even if these people are safely released back to the grassland, they will not get used to the life there.

This gives Ping An another way of thinking.Is it possible to put these people back on the grassland and let them divide the grassland tribes?Even if they can't be divided, letting them bring back their family members, relatives and friends can greatly reduce the number of people in Xirong.Through this method, it is impossible to say that there will be Xirong people who can't wait to smuggle to Dachu to live in the future.

At that time, can Xi Rong still rely on the influence of Da Chu?Even if they are still an independent country, are they capable of launching a war against Da Chu?

Because Ping An doesn't mean to be low-key, so people like them can cause a sensation no matter where they go.So much so that before returning to the capital, the capital has already received a lot of news.

Throughout the ages, Ping An is probably the only person who can make such a big show when he returns to Beijing.

But what he did was not a bad thing, so even if someone is dissatisfied, they can't say anything.

Why have rich people always built bridges and paved roads to return to their hometowns?Because this is the closest to the national economy and the people's livelihood, and the place where the effect can be seen the most.Don't say that at this time, even in later generations, road construction is the top priority in municipal construction.Many cities build roads almost every day because it is the easiest achievement to make.

So after the news of what Ping An did, many smart people immediately realized the value of this matter.As long as he has built such a road in his own office, it will be a shining achievement. At this time, if someone wants to prevent Ping An from accomplishing this, he will probably become a target of public criticism instead.

At this time, Ping An didn't know that he had gained countless allies, and he didn't even know that Eunuch Tian, ​​who had returned to the capital, was in a different situation than he had imagined. ——What he has to worry about is not how to convince others to agree to Ping An's approach, but to fight wits and courage with those who want to take away this good job, and seize this good opportunity that can make him famous.

That's right, not only in the palace, but also in the court, many people are watching this matter closely.Several prime ministers even quarreled over this matter several times, and then joined forces to put pressure on the emperor, hoping that he would speak up and hand over this matter to court officials.

As for the supervisor of ceremonies, he naturally had to work hard to help Eunuch Tian keep what had fallen into his hands.The relationship between them and the courtiers was already delicate, but now the atmosphere on both sides became more and more tense.

This matter has been completely out of Ping An's control, and has become a major event that affects the whole body. All the well-informed officials in the court can't help but pay attention.

The reason why it hasn't exploded completely is that everyone is waiting to return to the capital safely.

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