Chapter 596: Changes in the City (Part 2)
"Occursing Wang Jiefu..." Wang Ju shook his head.
If offending had been said to have been offended, Wang Anshi asked Wang Ju to preside over the three departments' regulations. Wang Ju took the initiative to retreat and offended Wang Anshi at that time. As for impeachment of Wang Anli, Wang Ju didn't know whether he had offended Wang Anshi.
But Wang Ju did not have a head-on conflict with Wang Anshi. It was on the spot, and Wang Anshi didn't have to deal with Wang Ju. Wouldn't that let Wen Yanbo watch a joke on the side? Therefore, he said: "The main reason is that these four workshops have huge profits. I have repeatedly put their profits on the state, and the profits were exposed, which made Wang Jiefu excited. However, it violated his purpose of the market law, so he deliberately asked Chen Xiang to go to Hangzhou and forced me to bow his head."
The Shiyi Law simply puts it as a national comprador.
But it's not that simple either.
First of all, we must start with the League. The founding of the Song Dynasty supported merchants to organize Leagues to facilitate scientific and technological cooperation and purchases. The Leagues can also help each other, and at the same time engage in local protectionism to make local merchants strong.
A product that has both pros and cons.
However, as time goes by, the nature of the group business has also changed. Because various dignitaries join, or local tyrants take the initiative to join the group business, they immediately take control of the group business. This has caused many bad habits. First, the country's scientific and technological support and purchases are allocated to small and medium-sized merchants without power, which increases the burden on small and medium-sized merchants. In order to facilitate the allocation, there is even a phenomenon of people being involved in the industry. That is, as a businessman, you will force you to join the group business if you don't join the group business, otherwise you will not want to do business.
Secondly, they jointly oppressed the prices of goods from foreign merchants, and then monopolized them and sold them at high prices, causing many foreign merchants to go bankrupt. The cost of living in the city increased rapidly.
In addition, because of the strong power of joining forces, the government had to bow its head, which accelerated the spread of usury, quality stores (pawn houses), land mergers and other phenomena.
So there was a scene that the people in the capital wanted to buy but could not buy them, but these commercial goods were piled up in other places and prefectures. They wanted to sell but couldn't sell them.
This is the reason why Wang Anshi introduced the equal-to-export method.
Of course, if this method is introduced, it will definitely make all the powerful people in the capital anxious.
But if Wang Anshi is really selfless, this selflessness does not mean putting money in his pocket, but rather not aiming to make money, but just for the convenience of the people, then there will not be so much trouble.
However, this is also impossible. If so, there would be no leftover money in the exemption law.
The equal-loss method declared a failure amid opposition.
Wang Anshi transferred Xue Xiang to the south to take charge of the southern dispatch, which was actually equivalent to a larger scale. However, the equalization method of movement and stillness was smaller. Xue Xiang had always done a good job in the south with his personal ability.
Until this spring. Two things happened.
The first thing happened was that there was no war last year and there were no major disasters, and the country immediately generated a large amount of surplus.
It is a good thing to have a surplus. The national treasury is not empty, so everyone is not panicked. Besides, there are still accumulated owes and they have to repay them. Wang Ju doesn’t know whether there are accumulated owes or not, but the national treasury has a lot of money, which means that Wang Anshi has a lot of capital to call, rather than the beginning. The national treasury is empty, and he can’t do anything he wants to do.
Secondly, Wang Ju set up a development fund in Qingzhou.
It seems good, but the interest rate difference is too low. If you cannot recover it, you will definitely lose money. Wang Anshi dares to regard it as a loan shark. The interest rate of usury is so high that many debts cannot be recovered.
The main reason was Wang Anshi in the capital, and Wang Ju didn't report it. He was confused, so he tried it and asked the inner treasury to transfer money to lend money for a four-point profit.
The result of this four-point profit is imagined. Either it cannot be taken back or it cannot be released.
But Wang Ju's actions undoubtedly made many people see another path, which seemed to be a brighter road and more profitable road than Qingmiao Method. However, almost everyone felt that they saw it clearly but did not, so they silently observed the changes in Qingzhou.
Then we arrived at Wang Shao's market law.
This can be easily seen clearly, but in fact it is a replica of the equal-loss method, and the returns are indeed very good.
A civilian named Wei Jizong saw this situation and wrote a very long memorial to the court. The memorial was specifically about the harm of group business and the great merchants, as well as the laws of the market.
It comes at the right time.
Wang Anshi immediately established the Municipal Yiwu and asked Wei Jizong to participate. He then changed the Municipal Yiwu into the Municipal Yishi, and set up branch points for major important commercial cities, which were also named Municipal Yiwu.
The market law begins.
There are twelve items in total, three main items: each city has two supervisors, one supervisor and one official. Local businessmen can serve as supervisors or official officials, and jointly supervise and restrain the officials sent by the court, and "acquire or sell" some unsold commercial goods at a fair price. In addition, the government recruits business shops, yaren and other economic people in the capital, and they are fully responsible for the specific goods purchase and sale.
If the goods sold in other places are unsold, they can hand them over to the Municipal Services. They will be promoted to the official, the tooth and the merchant will evaluate them by themselves. They will be purchased by the Municipal Services and then distributed to local shops for sale.
A large businessman who serves as a supervisor and a pedestrian who joins the e-civilian affairs can borrow money from the government to expand his business, but he must use his own homestead and other assets, or borrow gold and silver from others to mortgage him. The repayer pays the government one cent for one year, and a two cent for one year. If he does not repay after a year, he will be fined two cents for a month. That is, he must pay it within one year. Otherwise, the sky will collapse, and the principal will be two cents for a fine of two cents, and four cents for a four cents for an interest! Moreover, in order to avoid the merchants’ return, the pedestrians who invest in e-civilian affairs must be insured with one person, and one person will not repay, and the other four must repay it for him.
Then I won’t lend it?
Okay, the mediocre show is here.
The nature of the Municipal Yi Law is actually a super comprador of a country, an enlarged version of the equalization method, a super big group business.
Can you escape without borrowing it?
Therefore, this article is also stipulated. The state invests in buying back the "unsold" commercial goods, but will Wang Anshi sell them? That is impossible. These commercial goods are evenly distributed to various pedestrians, that is, merchants, and "please ask for credit" to various shops, and they sell them. The "credit loan" will be paid within half a year. One cent of interest will be paid. If it is more than half a year, it will be two cents of interest. If it is not sold for more than a year, wait for the fire pit.
Indeed, some places of the Market and Easy Law slightly complement each other, and stabilize prices.
There are other positive sides, such as the city of Beijing actively borrowed capital from the city’s Yiwu and set up fruit stalls on both sides of Yu Street to sell them. The government gained benefits and the people also had an opportunity to make a living.
but……
First of all, can it truly complement each other? Because the monopoly of the group business has caused some local merchants to be unable to sell. On the other hand, commercial goods cannot be bought. But this is a minority. If it weren't for the very few cases, the reason for this is actually the backwardness of information in this era.
Can the government do it? For example, the Qinjiao in Yuzhou is booming and the local sales are unsalable. I send someone to report to the capital. This is not a national event, and it is impossible to pass it on with special feet. When it is delivered to the capital, the capital will make a judgment. Then it is sent to Yuzhou and then transport the goods to the capital. That is unknown how many days have passed. Maybe Qinjiao from all over the country has flocked to the capital.
The second is to help small and medium-sized businessmen and avoid big businessmen suppressing them. But why are there two-point profits?
In fact, it has not been implemented. For example, in history, the principal was nearly 5.9 million jin in the nine to ten years of Xining, with an interest rate of more than 1.43 million, and a market price of nearly 100,000, and a market price of up to 22%.
Don’t worry, this is just a number on the books of the city’s e-commerce business. When it comes to the bottom, is there no officials embezzling and extorting?
Therefore, when Yuanyou banned the market law, Kaifeng only had 27,155 households with owed market affairs, with 2.37 million guan. Among them, there were 27,093 households with a total of 830,000 guan, and 2,535 households with a total of owed less than 200 guan, which was 460,000 guan.
Who is the attack on the Market Yi Law?
Don’t cover up for Wang Anshi, it’s the small and medium-sized businessmen he wants to help!
Why this situation is caused by this two-point profit.
If the merchant goods are sold smoothly, that's fine. But if the merchants sell well, even the merchants cannot make a judgment. How can the government make a judgment? Besides, the government is responsible for buying the goods back and then spreading them on "credit loan" to each merchant. How much responsibility can they have? So what if they don't sell well? They have to share them. Big merchants can use their means to convert risks, or transfer them to other places to avoid losses or backlogs of funds. However, what about small and medium-sized merchants? They can't sell them and start to owe the government usury.
In order to prevent the owed households from escaping, the municipal affairs "sent people to be escorted" during the day and "banned" at night. For the owed households, "there is money they will be released, and if there is no money, they will be banned. If there is no money, they will be beaten and tied up, so what will not be done."
Its harms are more than just one.
Just like its purpose, it is to purchase unsold goods from all over the country to give people more vitality. The intention is good, but when it is implemented, do you really buy unsold goods from all over the country?
To give a metaphor, this year's weather is good, oranges are harvested well, and they cannot be sold everywhere. Will the Market Affairs Office buy it for a fair price and then sell it?
Don't take this seriously. Just like when the Qingmiao Law was implemented, we will never force the people to borrow money. As a result, the whole country is forcibly levied.
So some benign commercial goods have been targeted one after another, just like the four major workshops under Wang Ju. Are bamboo paper, sugar, soju and fireworks also unsold commercial goods?
Even if there are no such ills, if there is a country responsible for all the goods, please see the tragic era of tickets in the 1960s and 1970s in the Celestial Empire...
It can be said that the market law was a serious regression in the commercial history of the Song Dynasty!
The goal is not that great, mainly to make further money!
"Mr. Jie Fu is stupid? These workshops are all conscientious workshops." Li Zhen asked in confusion.
Under the leadership of Wang Ju, some new nouns appeared in the Song Dynasty, including the word conscience.
Just like after New Year's Day last year, Wang Ju has drawn more than 700,000 yuan from various workshops and distributed it to various soldiers and martyrs' families.
However, this money is not owned by Wang Ju.
Among them, the soju workshop has an income of nearly 300,000 yuan, and the other three workshops Wang Ju have paid more than 200,000 yuan in dividends. The remaining ones are donated by ten merchants.
This is just a part of it. For example, the money and silk used to make armors in Zheng Baiqu one after another two years were not only the dividends from Wang Ju, but also 60% of them were also the dividends from ten merchants, all of which were used to donate.
Count forward and donate carefully.
For example, in the soju shop, ten merchants have no contributions and have worked hard. According to the principle, the soju shop must also have their shares. However, Wang Ju said that all its income was transferred to the state, and the ten merchants gave up all their profits without saying a word.
In addition, the bamboo paper workshop takes out so much bamboo paper every year and donates it to some poor prefectures and counties for free.
The tax that should be paid is not small, and it is paid to the court as much as possible. This tax is not a small number. The four workshops put together, and the tax paid every year has reached hundreds of thousands of chunks!
If Wang Ju donated 95% of his income to the country in disguise, these merchants would also transfer 60% of the income from Wang Ju to the state.
Wang Anshi was obviously crazy about money, and he was so embarrassed to do something like this kind of workshop.
"Uncle, you don't understand. Although it is also used for the country, it is used in my hands to support my name, not the name of Jiefu."
“That’s it…”
"That's it," Wang Judao.
In fact, Wang Ju had long expected that the Market Yi Fa meeting would have an adverse impact on several workshops, and even expected that Wang Anshi might buy bamboo paper from the bamboo paper workshop several years ago.
However, Wang Anshi deliberately transferred Chen Xiang to Hangzhou in order to force himself.
"Shiyi, Shiyi..." Wang Ju couldn't help but shook his head. No wonder even an honest minister like Li Suzhi expressed dissatisfaction with Wang Anshi.
This method to bury Wang Anshi's reform!
How to deal with it now? (To be continued...) i1292
Chapter completed!