Chapter 211 Even bandits and bandits have to pay taxes! ! (Please subscribe!) "Yes!" Shui Youxiu nodded, and then said: "After Mr. Ouyang scolded His Majesty the Emperor for a full hour..."

"Stop!"

Zhu Biao quickly stopped, "You can skip the part about scolding the emperor!"

I’m really convinced!You've already saved your life, why don't you continue to seek death?

"Yes!"

Shui Youxiu nodded again and continued: "Then Master Ouyang started scolding Boss Ma again."

Zhu Biao: . Shui Youxiu just imitated Ouyang Lun's tone of voice, "Uncle Ma is so confused! He knew that rapeseed oil would have a big market, but he didn't make full preparations, especially the relationship in the court was not good at all. If you don’t take care of it, Zhu Yuanzhang wants to take away the rapeseed oil, and if all the officials in the court object, and the reason is that the emperor does not strive for the interests of the people, see if Zhu Yuanzhang still dares to intervene!"

"Lao Zhu, Lao Zhu, he is just a fool. When this fool meets a bastard, of course the bastard wins. They are not good people anyway! He actually has the nerve to ask me for [-]% of the profit. I think [-]% is too much. ! If only he had the ability to deal with Zhu Yuanzhang directly! If you encounter a problem, why don’t you ask Madam University to write to me for help? "

"That water is still beautiful, isn't it? I beg you, please stop talking!" Zhu Biao was about to cry.

You are really not afraid of death! Isn’t it good to be alive?If you have to seek death, many people will be implicated.

If I had known this was the case, I would not have brought you to see my father at all.

Zhu Yuanzhang's back molars were almost broken, but he was still enduring it. The reason was very simple. He wanted to hear clearly how Ouyang Lun planned to deal with this 'rapeseed oil incident'.

"You-keep talking!"

"Yes!"

Shui Youxiu nodded and continued: "My Mr. Ouyang was so cursed that his mouth was dry, so he stopped to prepare a reply. However, after writing many times, he tore up the letter directly and asked me to come to the capital overnight. .”

Zhu Biao asked with some confusion: "Why is this? It is obviously more urgent to send letters to Babaili by the messenger than other methods. Why did Ouyang Lun choose to do this?"

Shui Youxiu raised his head and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, and said truthfully: "My Mr. Ouyang is worried that Boss Ma is too stupid to understand the content of his letters, and if written in letters, it will be difficult to scold the emperor and the boss. These will become evidence Yes, if the emperor finds out about it that day, my Mr. Ouyang will be worried that he won’t be able to eat and will have to carry it around!”

Zhu Biao: I shouldn’t have asked! Zhu Yuanzhang: Ouyang Lun, don’t fall into our hands!

"Forget it, keep talking!" Zhu Biao quickly waved his hand. He was deeply afraid that if he continued to ask, he would ask more explosive news, and he would not be able to withstand it at that time.

"Yes!" Shui Youxiu cupped his hands, "Master Ouyang said it. In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang was right. Rapeseed oil is indeed a vital commodity as important as salt. It cannot always be controlled by private businessmen. This is very important to the Ming Dynasty. It’s a very serious risk!”

"The imperial court should indeed step in to control!!"

Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly said: "Listen to what this means, Ouyang Lun is planning to abandon the Ma family trading company and completely cooperate with the court? The Ma family has cooperated with Ouyang Lun for so many years. Seeing that rapeseed oil is booming, he is going to take Ma's business. Kick the house away?"

"Is Ouyang Lun such a ruthless person?"

Shui Youxiu shook his head, "My Mr. Ouyang is obviously the one who values ​​friendship the most, but doing this now is the best decision. With the supervision of the imperial court, except for Beizhili, rapeseed oil in other provinces of Ming Dynasty can be consumed. Safety will be guaranteed, it’s okay to make less money, the key is to be worthy of the people of the world!”

It still sounds like that.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard Shui Youyou's last words, his expression finally softened a little, "Huh, I didn't expect Ouyang Lun to have ordinary people in his eyes."

Zhu Biao also nodded, "Father, I also think that the fourth brother-in-law is a kind and righteous person. He often puts the interests of the people first in his heart. He is a person who truly thinks about the people."

Shui Youxiu shook her head, "Not really. I also asked Mr. Ouyang the same question. His answer was that the common people are the masters of this land, so what about the emperor? He was not selected from the common people. Why the people support Zhu Yuanzhang is not because Zhu Yuanzhang was an ordinary citizen in the past, to be more precise, he was a beggar who was worse than ordinary people, so it is never wrong to stand on the side of the people."

"Well, what the fourth brother-in-law said is so straightforward." Zhu Biao said in shock.

"This is like what that bastard Ouyang Lun said!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, "But Ouyang Lun asked you to come, I'm afraid you are not just here to tell me these nonsense, but also to say everything else. My patience is There is a limit!”

Shui Youxiu continued: "Master Ouyang also said that it is of course okay to hand over rapeseed oil to the court for supervision, and he supports it with both hands, but we must not follow the old path of salt tax!!"

"To put it bluntly, salt merchants are just a group of blood-sucking insects attached to the country of the Ming Dynasty. Most of the profits were eventually made by the salt merchants. The people and the court made very little profit. Moreover, the salt merchants often colluded with officials. The court lost tax revenue and the people We can’t eat good salt! But we have fattened up several families of salt merchants.”

After hearing these words, Zhu Yuanzhang fell into deep thought. How could collusion between officials and businessmen be like what Li Shanchang and his group of ministers were scolding him?

But Ouyang Lun is right about one thing, that is, oil merchants must not be allowed to become salt merchants in the future! According to the method proposed by Li Shanchang and others, they basically copy the management of salt. The list of oil dealers drawn up is no different from the list of salt dealers. Once he agrees, not only will the profits in his hands be reduced, but the oil industry will also be in the future. The control is in the hands of those oil merchants, and the ministers of the DPRK and China are related to those oil merchants, which is equivalent to depriving him of the control of the oil industry in disguise.

But if he disagrees, the hat of the emperor doing business and competing for profits with the people will definitely be put on his head. This is where Zhu Yuanzhang is struggling. "Then how does Ouyang Lun plan to deal with it?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a deep voice.

"My Mr. Ouyang thought about it a lot and spent a lot of effort before he came up with a solution for Mr. Ma! It will not cost you too much profit, but it can also satisfy His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Then hurry up and say it!" Zhu Yuanzhang urged.

"First of all, the imperial court and the Chief Secretary of North Zhili jointly established a trading company responsible for promoting the cultivation of rape. Although North Zhili has a certain number of rape planting bases, if you want to supply the whole country, this is far from enough, and North Zhili It is also impossible to use all the land to grow rapeseed, which is not in line with my Mr. Ouyang’s goal of walking multiple roads and building a strong province with a full industrial system!”

"Walking through multiple roads? Strengthening the province with a complete industrial system? What does this mean? Please explain to me first why the imperial court and the Chief Secretary of Beizhili should jointly establish a trading company. Can't the imperial court directly set up a yamen to take charge of it? What? It’s so troublesome." Zhu Yuanzhang said very puzzled.

Shui Youxiu smiled slightly, "Excuse me, Mr. Ma, what is the value of the imperial court in the matter of rapeseed oil? Rapeseed seeds are in Beizhili, rapeseed planting technology is in Beizhili, and rapeseed pressing technology is still in Beizhili. If Without Northern Zhili, the other thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty and Southern Zhili would not have rapeseed oil to eat, let alone the oil industry and oil tax."

"Beizhili is willing to help the imperial court promote rapeseed oil throughout the country, and let people in the Ming Dynasty eat rapeseed oil, but it is not a big injustice. It sets up a special yamen in the capital. In the future, this yamen will lead Beizhili. , or Beizhili should lead this yamen. If it is the former, my Mr. Ouyang said, then Zhu Yuanzhang can go and have his Spring and Autumn Dream. If it is the latter, then why set up this yamen? Beizhili can have full management. From planting to harvesting to squeezing, making into refined oil, and finally selling it across the country, the court does not need to intervene. Beizhili can completely do it. At that time, a portion of the profits will be handed over to the court every year and let Zhu Yuanzhang take the points himself. This is not the case. better!"

Hearing this, Zhu Biao nodded, "Father, I think what the fourth brother-in-law said makes sense. If you don't want to agree to the suggestions put forward by Li Shanchang and the others, it would be a good idea to let Beizhili fully manage the oil industry. After all, the fourth brother-in-law is our Our own people.”

"Who are you?" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head, "I think this is Ouyang Lun's conspiracy to take the opportunity to extend his reach beyond Beizhili! Don't think that I don't know what his intentions are."

"It is absolutely impossible to let Beizhili have full authority to manage the oil industry!"

Hearing this, Shui Youxiu spread his hands, "So! My Mr. Ouyang had long expected that His Majesty the Emperor would not agree, so he specially came up with the idea of ​​establishing a joint venture company together. Beizhili would provide seeds, cultivation technology, and oil extraction. Technology, the imperial court was responsible for providing markets and funds for the Ming Dynasty's thirteen provinces in the north and south, selecting suitable places across the country to plant rapeseed on a large scale, and building oil pressing plants at the same time. My Mr. Ouyang also gave this joint venture a name, called it the Ming Dynasty. The state-owned edible oil production group, if you don’t think it sounds good, can also be called the Ming State-owned Edible Oil Production Agency, Government, or Ministry. It also has to be determined by a grade, at least from the second-grade yamen.”

"In this way, this is no longer a private trading company, but a state-owned trading company, and no one will compete with the people for profit."

"The second step is that the imperial court has to establish an agency called the National Taxation Bureau, which specializes in tax audits. The scope of management is very wide. In addition to oil tax and salt tax, there are also personal taxes, customs duties, commercial taxes, etc. My Ouyang The master said that in the future, the Internal Revenue Service will be one of the most important departments in the Ming Dynasty. Whether you have money or not depends entirely on the Internal Revenue Service. Even bandits and bandits will have to pay taxes. Tax!!"

"Only by establishing a strong tax department can we make those gentry and wealthy people who maliciously evade taxes obediently pay their taxes! I won't go into details here. My master said that if Uncle Ma is interested, he can go to Beizhili next time and he will give you a lesson. class!"

"What about the third step?" Zhu Biao asked quickly before Zhu Yuanzhang could speak, and he listened with great interest.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say anything, he was quite curious about Ouyang Lun's suggestion. This 'Ming Dynasty State-owned Edible Oil Production Group' is somewhat similar to the various workshops built with money from the imperial court, but there are also differences, that is, 'The Ming State-owned Edible Oil Production Group' The scale of the production group is unprecedentedly large. From the second-grade yamen, it is only half a level lower than the six-level yamen. It is at the same level as the third-level yamen of major provinces and the yamen of the imperial court, such as the Imperial Court and Dali Temple. After all, they are responsible for the whole country. It is reasonable to say that the edible oil is of a higher grade. As for the issue of taxation, the situation is more complicated than that of rapeseed oil, but the idea of ​​an 'Inland Revenue Service' is worth studying.

However, only the first two steps have not completely solved the core of the 'rapeseed oil' problem.

With the 'Da Ming State-owned Edible Oil Production Group', the problems of planting, production and pressing of rapeseed oil will be solved, but the next sales is the most difficult thing. Now the 'Majia Trading Company' is in charge. In the eyes of the officials, it was the emperor doing business and competing for profits with the people. The ministers headed by Li Shanchang proposed to copy the salt industry management plan, and they also wanted a share of the pie, and they would definitely not agree to let the 'Majia Trading Company' monopolize sales.

Zhu Yuanzhang was reluctant to give up a piece of the sales profits.

So what kind of response will Ouyang Lun come up with? This is also what Zhu Yuanzhang is looking forward to most.

At this time, Shui Youxiu also spoke, "Master Ma, Mr. Ma, my master Ouyang also said that it can be solved with a 'Personal Edible Oil Trading Permit'!"

"What's the difference between a personal edible oil trading license and Yanyin?" Zhu Biao asked curiously.

"The difference mainly focuses on the word "individual"." Shui Youxiu said in a deep voice: "Rapeseed oil is used by ordinary people every day. It is most suitable for selling in grocery stores. Simple oil shops can also be used. As long as it meets the conditions, ordinary people can use it. Kai can apply for a 'Personal Edible Oil Trading License'. With this license, they can go to the 'Da Ming State-owned Edible Oil Production Group' to purchase goods, and then the group will distribute the goods. This not only solves the sales problem, but also provides benefits to the people. Providing a way to make a living is not called competing for profits with the people, but sharing benefits with the people!"

"My Mr. Ouyang also emphasized that the application threshold for the 'Personal Edible Oil Trading License' must be low enough, and no one should be allowed to take advantage of the opportunity to monopolize it. The verification mechanism must be strict to prevent anyone from taking the opportunity to seek improper benefits, and ensure that real people can eat To this wave of dividends!”

"In this way, the rapeseed oil business is still firmly in the hands of the imperial court. Mr. Ouyang also asked me to tell Mr. Ma that I can suggest to His Majesty the Emperor to invest in the 'Da Ming State-owned Edible Oil Production Group' in the name of the royal family and become the fourth member of the group. As a major shareholder, this way we can ensure that our own profits are not damaged.”

"The above are all my Mr. Ouyang's opinions on rapeseed oil."

"What a great idea, what a great way!" Zhu Biao clapped his hands after hearing this.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also amazed by this method, and his face finally showed a look of satisfaction.

Ouyang Lun's mind is really good! Establishing a 'Da Ming State-owned Edible Oil Production Group' will solve all problems.

Wait, something is wrong!

Zhu Yuanzhang quickly asked: "You just said that the royal family would participate in investment and become the fourth largest shareholder. Who are the first three shareholders?! How many shareholders are there?"

(End of this chapter)