Chapter 719: Regent
In fact, all kinds of solutions are just temporary drafts, but it is another matter to actually negotiate.
But for the Hao family, the first thing that is really useful is the so-called free trade and all taxes are exempted.
At least within the Lang San Zheimerang Bureau, almost everyone is most looking forward to this one.
Because it seems that this is very fair. Johor reduces all taxes from Jiaozhi and Dingnan. At the same time, Jiaozhi and Dingnan also reduce all taxes from Johor, but in fact, this is not the case at all.
There are generally two types of chaebols. One is the production chaebol. They provide funds and invest in production and work hard to produce various commodities according to the amount of demand. In the production process, in order to increase efficiency and reduce losses, they must work hard on production technology and production scale. Take the current horse-drawn carriage behavior of Lang Son. In the same production carriage, at the beginning, people bought horse-drawn carriages only for transportation, but gradually, they began to have greater requirements for comfort. But don’t underestimate such a little comfort. Many things only reduce a little bump on the surface, but the effort required is never easy. Without accumulation over time, they cannot afford to hire those top skilled craftsmen, and it is impossible to compete in the Lang Son market.
Now, there are only three car dealers in Lang Son. The carriages of these three car dealers are sold well in half of the Ming Dynasty and the entire Western market, and gradually they have built a reputation. The dignitaries and wealthy people are proud of having such carriages. It is precisely because of the best carriages that the carriages are making great profits. The greater the profits, the more they are willing to work hard on craftsmen and give them better treatment. Almost all the best skilled craftsmen in the world are collected by these three car dealers. Others who want to engage in this industry are basically not competitive. As a result, the more profits the car dealers make, the greater the gap with their subsequent competitors, so far beyond reach.
This is also the case in other industries. Lang Son is basically the productive chaebols. Now their industries have begun to penetrate into Dingnan and Jiaozhi, using their own capital, skills and scale advantages. They produce a large number of various commodities, and at the same time, in the production process, they constantly improve the process and expand the scale.
The same Lang Son cloth is several times more efficient than other places in the production process, and the quality is even more good, but the price is much lower than other cloths. The reason is nothing more than this. Taking advantage of this advantage, these production chaebols can make a lot of money and continue to invest to maintain their existing advantages.
Because once you choose to be conservative, you may be surpassed by other Lang Son's peers. Once you lag behind others in terms of skills, scale and capital investment, you will inevitably be eliminated. For the production chaebols, behind them is an invisible whip, sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat.
However, in addition to the production of chaebols, there is also a kind of chaebol. They are not engaged in production, but they use their personal connections and other advantages to sell goods that produce chaebols. For example, Chinese merchants in Johor, Sumatra, Luzon and other places are mostly such merchants. They also make a lot of money by riding on the rise of Lang Son. However, their way of making money is that on the one hand, they have their own connections in Luzon, Johor and other places. At the same time, they have the same customs and language as Lang Son's chaebols, and they are also the blood of the Han people. With this advantage, they sell Lang Son cloth, furniture, ironware, ceramics, and tea in various countries, making a profit from price difference, thus accumulating a large number of chaebols. Such merchants can be called comprador chaebols.
The characteristic of comprador chaebols is that they have no motivation to engage in production. On the one hand, in their country, there is no production environment. At the same time, if they want to compete with production chaebols, they must recruit skilled craftsmen and invest countless funds. Obviously, these funds are almost astronomical. Not only that, they still find it difficult to compete with the chaebols of Lang Son. If you produce Johor cloth, the craftsmanship is better than you and the reputation is stronger than you. At the same time, because of large-scale production and very popular sales, you produce tens of millions of pieces of cotton every year. The price of purchasing cotton is cheaper than you. If you want to get involved, you not only have to prepare a large amount of silver, but also have to be prepared to lose money for ten years. In this world, no one is willing to do a loss transaction. Moreover, the money from compradors is easier and more comfortable. You only need to maintain a better relationship and you can make a profit from it. Why bother to make trouble?
These compradors will transfer a large amount of goods into their own country, and then acquire local resources and transfer them to workshops in Lang Son and Jiaozhi. In fact, if the chaebols are talking about them, it would be better to say that they are vassals of the chaebols, because they have no bargaining power, and all their transactions are dependent on the chaebols. The chaebols can designate you to represent their goods and ship them to you, but if necessary, they can let another person replace you at any time. If the compradors lose money in business, it will not affect the chaebols. However, once there is a problem with the chaebols, the first one who is unlucky is the comprador.
The problem of Johor is here. If the Johor Authority Bureau wants to compete with Lang Son and cultivate its own production workshop, the only way is to impose high tariffs on Lang Son's goods. Although the local Johor cloth is of poor quality and high cost, if Lang Son cloth is levied twice the tax, the price of Lang Son cloth will inevitably remain high. Johor local cloth can survive at a low price. As long as it is cultivated slowly, as time goes by, ten or twenty years, it will naturally catch up with Lang Son's level.
However, once Johor not only does not increase tariffs, but does the opposite, the price of Lang Son Bull will be cheaper in the Johor market. On the surface, although Johor people who bought Lang Son Bull benefit in the short term, it will be a kind of damage to Johor. This not only makes Johor's initiative in Lang Son's hands, but has to rely on Lang Son's breath, allowing Lang Son's production chaebols to make a big profit, and form a monopoly market in Johor, which has greatly hit the local production chaebols. Today, Johor's production is already behind. If this happens again, then in the long run, when they react, they have found that Lang Son's industries have already surpassed the world. It is difficult to catch up. Apart from being a vassal, becoming a dumping base for Lang Son's goods and a production site for raw materials, there will be almost no choice.
Lang Son's producers understand this truth, so when the covenant was made, the producers had already started lobbying the government, and the Hao family, who represents the interests of Lang Son's chaebols, naturally would not be polite.
This alliance is likely to be determined by the national destiny of Johor in a hundred years or even three hundred years later. However, for Johor, he did not really understand this crisis. A large number of envoys sent by the Johor Authority Bureau arrived, more than half of them were Chinese, and everyone seemed extremely intimate. Hao Zheng personally welcomed and made a full gesture. Then he ordered people to take them to visit various places in Lang Son. The real negotiations were actually over before they even began.
The envoys of Johor accept almost all the conditions, and there is no drag on them at all.
This result is really incredible, because today when Lang Son has achieved such achievements, even anyone with discerning eyes understands that the exemption of tariffs between the two sides in a sense is willing to make Johor automatically become a vassal of Lang Son and completely become a economic colony of Lang Son.
But when you think about it carefully, some people suddenly realized that Lang San's Principal State is full of a group of production chaebols. The interests of these chaebols are endlessly expanding the demand market. They have great prospects for the future, have long-term plans, and are even extremely restless, even fanning the flames and infiltrating everywhere, fearing that the world will not be in chaos. In fact, what they want is nothing more than expanding the market. In this world, where is war conquering the market more pleasant?
However, the vast majority of the Johor government affairs are filled with comprador chaebols. The main transactions of these people are to provide raw materials for Lang Son and bring various products from Lang Son to Johor for sale. For them, if the trade is free, both parties will reduce the tariffs to the lowest level, which will be the most beneficial to them. As for increasing tariffs, it will hinder their interests.
The same is the government affairs, and the same is the same as the businessmen who control the political situation, but the direction of interests is actually the opposite, and the effects produced are completely different, which is also a bit ridiculous.
As for other terms, such as Lang Son will station a military horse in the name of protecting the new Johor, and will recruit a model battalion controlled by the Hao family in Johor. This matter is surprisingly consistent and has been recognized by the envoys. They are not worried about Lang Son's merger. What they are really worried about is the royal party that was suppressed by them. They know in their hearts that if the Hao family did not exercise their strength behind the scenes, with their strength, it would be absolutely impossible to defeat the royal party. In order to prevent the restoration of the royal party, the only way is to completely tie it to the Hao family. Even the envoys made suggestions, saying that after the Johor Advisory Bureau and everyone voted, the Johor Advisory Bureau passed a doctrine. In view of the contribution of the Hao family to the new Johor, it was determined to respect Hao Zheng as the regent of the Johor Advisory Bureau. The Hao family has decided to consent to the new Johor government affairs for generations. The Hao family can even appoint personnel to permanently provide advice to the Johor Advisory Bureau and participate in the military and political affairs of the New Johor.
Of course, this Regent is more of a symbolic meaning, but the influence of the Hao family on New Johor may not be worthy of it. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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