Chapter 736 The darkest (2)(1/2)
"Your Majesty, that travel agency is not only sponsored by me, but also by some other people." Wang Ji replied generously.
For example, the Duan brothers, Wuman, Ziqi, Luodian and other southern regions supported the Song Dynasty and had a relatively good style.
This can also be easily understood. One of the important functions of starting this travel agency is to drive the economy of the southwest and integrate the southwest. Even because of the arrival of tourists, some good behavior and etiquette have been passed on, which can somewhat change some backward habits in the southwest.
So I won over these people.
Moreover, many areas in the south have barbaric styles, and they also need the cooperation of prestigious local leaders.
As for income, you can't count on that insurance premium.
However, it is not a bottomless pit. Before the founding of the travel agency, this "cooperation group" had already purchased or purchased a large number of inns, restaurants, merchants, and merchants not only sold various commercial goods, but also sold local handicrafts.
But unlike later black travel agencies, it will not have any acts of slaughtering customers or forcing them to buy.
And there are very few tourists just starting out, and the service objects of these inns, restaurants and shops are still mainly locals.
If the price is high, locals will not accept it.
If tourists do not consume in these restaurants, it doesn’t matter. Let it go, but don’t get separated from the team. But this is impossible. As long as the restaurants and shops are done well, they don’t deliberately slaughter customers. As tourists from other places, who is willing to go to unfamiliar restaurants and shops to consume.
After Wang Ju said this, everyone understood it.
That is to use the profits of these inns, wine shops and merchants to make up for their expenses.
However, Wang Ju made another addition.
These inns and restaurants are not only for income, but also for quality and hygiene.
In fact, there were also various counterfeit villages in the Song Dynasty, and the dietary hygiene was even more irregular. Often, braised meat could not be sold. Even if it changed the quality the next day, it would be processed a little and continued to sell it.
Think about what to do once tourists eat this food?
Others are having fun while they are lying in the inn and have diarrhea. That's so depressing.
Therefore, it set up its own wine shop inn. It has set up various strict requirements for food hygiene. Even the inn's quilt is boiled with low-concentration salt water every once in a while and then washed. It is used to disinfect and reduce the possibility of tourists getting sick halfway.
The next is quality. Travel agencies take tourists to other places and goods are also goods from other places, but there must be many counterfeit goods in each residence. It is impossible for every tourist to have this vision.
Therefore, a business was established to take the initiative to keep the quality control for customers.
You should know that people who dare to travel far now are extremely rich and idle.
Therefore, after hearing this, many of the dozens of tourists who "nation travel" asked, if they bought commercial goods in a foreign land, the traveling society would not allow them to carry them. The manager in charge of the travel agency immediately replied that they were allowed to carry them, and they would store and transport them for free under 20 kilograms. If they exceeded 20 kilograms, some fees would be charged. But this fee was not high.
The dozens of people were very happy after hearing this. They immediately went to Feiqiansi to exchange a large amount of Feiqian. When they were about to go to the south, they slaughtered the exquisite barbarian swords, golden silk vines and other famous local specialties and handicrafts.
However, the profits earned by the merchants are still limited, and the main profits are still obtained by local people.
The number of tourists is very small now. If it becomes too many, it will inevitably support tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, and even become rich.
The main reason is that everyone doesn't understand it very much.
After Wang Juyi explained it one by one, almost everyone was fascinated by it.
Therefore, its establishment has many functions, not only to boost the economy of many places and feed many people, but also to integrate into the south and change some ugly customs in the southwest.
There are many functions, just like the northerners have spread the south to a point of demonization now. Especially the miasma, is it that evil?
The high-end statement is to broaden your mind, which makes many people sigh at the magnificence of the mountains and rivers of the Song Dynasty, and makes them love the Song Dynasty even more. This is a bit exaggerated, but it will have some effect.
And the prosperity of tourism will inevitably increase taxes in various places.
So after seeing the court's cold treatment, Wang Ju took some leaders from the southwest to work alone.
But it is not always a loss. Most people still cannot accept it, so they use free methods to encourage some people to dare to try.
Once more people accept it, a small fee can be charged at that time. In addition, the disguised income of inns, restaurants and businesses in various cities can also be directly profitable for tourists.
Even if this direct profit is very little, it will play an immeasurable role in the development of various places.
Wang Ju gave two more examples.
The first one was when Zhu Chuping was in Yazhou. Seeing that the people were living in poverty, he was anxious and wrote a letter to the court to transfer the sacrificial money into ministerial money, and use this to reduce the taxes of the people.
But this is never a solution. Only when the country does not impose any taxes will the people be happy. However, the country has no source of income. How can this huge machine be operated?
So Wang Ju's approach is to allow all sea ships to berth at the port of Zhuya Army, so that they can replenish their supply.
Just a permit order, with almost no investment, revitalized the economy of Qiongzhou Island in an instant.
At the same time, the government also obtained additional tax sources.
The second example is the tourism industry in the past. In fact, the people themselves were also traveling spontaneously, just like the Lantern Festival in the capital. How many people around come to the capital to watch?
When these people come, they have to eat, live, and buy things. How many people in the capital have they supported and how much income has the country obtained?
But we didn't pay attention to it before.
What is open source? What is the people who do not add taxes and use the country for their own use? This is also a true open source.
Not only did the country receive more taxes, but it also benefited many people, and did not impose any taxes on the people.
Wang Anshi said many times that the people did not increase taxes and the country used their own use. How did he do it in the end?
So for a while, these eight words became the eight most disgusted by the Song Dynasty. Even when Wang Ju also said these eight words, some ministers were disgusted by them.
However, two real people have appeared without additional taxes and the country has used it for its own use...
It is not the banking department of the future, one is navigation, and the other is the tourism industry that is about to kick off.
So Wang Ju finished speaking, and many ministers were thinking.
Wang Ju said at the end: "Your Majesty, and I am involved in it. One is that I cannot force myself, and the other is that I will bring it on the right track. After all, if I change it to the government to preside over it, many officials are often afraid of being too troublesome, so they don't care about their own affairs and hang up. Instead, they can't do it well. Once profits occur, my share of the shares will take the initiative to withdraw and hand it over to the three departments or the inner treasury to operate."
This is even more noble.
Don’t doubt that this is how the soju shop is handed over.
Zhao Xu said a little moved: "Wang Qing..."
What else can you say?
But unexpectedly, Wang Ju gave him another surprise. Wang Ju interrupted him and continued, "Your Majesty, and the sugar workshop. Because of the initial establishment, how to operate it is not very perfect, and technology, I and several merchants in Yanzhou also participated in it. Until now, both the operating system and technology have been improved. Therefore, I wrote to the merchants in Yanzhou last year. About one month later, they will send people back and hand it all over to the inner warehouse management."
"Wang Qing, don't use it."
"Your Majesty, there will always be a system in everything, and the country needs a system even more. If the sugar workshop is run by the eldest princess, some royal families, and the inner treasury, it would be reasonable. However, the ministers and merchants will participate in it, it will be incompatible with the system." Wang Ju said this and said to the surrounding officials: "But it was helpless at that time. If it were handed over to the inner treasury at that time, it would probably not have the good profit situation today."
Until now, even Sun Gu can't say anything.
There are many workshops that Wang Juzheng has taught, and they are all large-scale workshops.
First, it was jade salt, so it was sold.
The second is the soju and bamboo paper workshop, one of which was handed over to the court and the other to the Gao family.
Cotton also participated, but Wang Ju did not bring the merchants to pay dividends, but first led the inner warehouse to operate it. Later, it was taken back by Wang Anshi and turned into Kapok Shop.
Then there is the sugar workshop, which is now going to be handed over.
The future tourism agency will now promise to hand it over to the court in the future.
And this was not handed over after it turned into a mess. They were all well-managed and handed over one after another. They were sold for those who were sold, or continued to be exchanged for other investments, or used in a mess.
However, Wang Ju's expenses are not as amazing. Although he is not as simple and simple as Fan Chunren, he is definitely not extravagant. He has not bought a mansion, has not raised a large number of beautiful prostitutes, and has not even had any behavior of visiting prostitutes, nor has he spent every day on delicacies, delicious food, etc.
Some people even wonder if this continues and overseas officials are dispatched again, will Wang Ju hand over the ships under his command to the court in the future?
At this moment, almost everyone almost agreed with Wang Ju in an instant.
Zhao Xu was even more moved.
But at this moment, his heart suddenly moved.
Although the court was about to appoint officials, they finally arrived at only six settlements, and they only saw six leaves on the other side, and could not see the whole.
Especially Wang Ju, how much influence does he have on the other side of the river, how many ships he has in his hands, and how many shares he owns?
If the two families send people to the capital, they can ask in person.
But he was disappointed.
Time passed day by day, and Wang Ju continued to rectify the affairs. Zhao Xu was an insider in this matter.
If you want to further trade tax, the venue business must be rectified. But it cannot be said at the beginning. When the venue business is almost done, Wang Ju also handed over the stock of the sugar workshop contract, and it was very popular for a while. If you propose trade tax, you will reduce the opposition.
But he only guessed half of it.
Wang Ju did not propose until a month later, and he did not propose it after handing over the sugar workshop. The reason for this was to wait until the venue was rectified before it could be proposed, but even if it was proposed at that time, the opposition would not be small...
But if you delay, there are other intentions. The first is that the people who were waiting for Zhang Xingguan and the others to send mobilization have basically completed the mobilization. It is time to return to the ports, and then... it may be the time when the darkest scene in the political arena of the Northern Song Dynasty happened.
This tourism agency was established in a hurry. In addition to what Wang Ju said in Changchao Palace, there is another purpose.
Even if he handed over the sugar workshop, it was a long-term idea that Wang Ju had, because only in this way could he completely separate all the ties in the Song Dynasty.
The second group of overseas guests has arrived.
Ten merchants sent six managers to the house of Wang Ju, who hurriedly rode a horse from Mizhou to the capital.
After hearing this, Zhao Xu immediately sent someone to summon the six managers to the palace.
Several people entered the palace and were taken to the palace by the eunuch. Zhao Xu asked them to sit down. Several people sat down in fear.
To be continued...