Why did the Zhao Guan family want to introduce the "Trading Company Law" and rebuild the trading company system?

In the past era, there were no companies in the strict sense of the word.

The first company was the Dutch East India Company created by the Dutch.

It is the beginning of social division of labor.

Later, Adam Smith published "The Wealth of Nations", which improved the theoretical basis of the social division of labor system.

Technological breakthroughs bring about an increase in productivity, while systematic division of labor allows unthinking technologies to be widely used.

The most important organizational carrier in the systematic division of labor is the company.

This is the new trading company model launched by Zhao Ning. Currently, the Song Dynasty Grain Reserve and Tokyo Post belong to the new trading company model, with division of labor, systematization, self-financing, registration, and financial standardization.

From the perspective of a trading company itself, division of labor can improve efficiency.

From a national perspective, restructuring the original yamen into trading companies and making them self-financing can save costs, improve efficiency, and make taxation relatively transparent.

All private trading companies must be registered for more standardized management, including taxation.

Hu Yuzhong's trading company has a trading company certificate, but no registration record with the Commercial Society Bureau. This means that the tax department cannot know that such a trading company exists when collecting taxes.

But it made a lot of money.

In the past, landowners tried to evade taxes by underreporting their property.

Nowadays, business dividends are coming, and the powerful are using their power to conceal the benefits.

This is not just as simple as establishing a chain of interests with the Kingdom of Jin.

If what I have been talking about about armistice and the livelihood of the people of both countries is still at the macro narrative level, then the current tea smuggling and tax evasion have directly brought this matter to the level of specific things.

Systems and laws restrict specific things and cannot reasonably restrict macro narratives.

For example, the powerful class harms the interests of the people. This is a macro narrative. You cannot find any documents on how to bring the "powerful class" to justice in any part of the laws and systems.

However, when a trading company of a certain powerful man in the powerful class evades taxes and smuggles, it goes back to specific things, and there is a law to follow.

To govern a huge country, there must be laws to follow.

Obviously, today's debate in the court was pulled from the grand narrative at the beginning to specific things by Gao Qiu.

This smells like something is going to happen.

Gao Qiu's question was too spicy, and Zhan Dafang was frightened for a while.

It seems like those who are unwilling to go to war have made a lot of money in this.

But this may be true.

"Hu Yuzhong's tax evasion and smuggling are his personal misdeeds. What does it have to do with me?" Zhan Dafang said.

"Then why did Hu Yuzhong say that it was you, Yushi Zhan, who ordered him to go to the palace?"

"He has no evidence..." Zhan Dafang remained calm on the surface.

Gao Qiu continued: "Your Majesty, it seems that what Hu Yuzhong said yesterday evening was not really for the country, but for personal gain..."

When he said this, he blocked the mouths of these people.

"and……"

"And what?" Zhao Ning asked.

"And since it is private and involves Zhan Yushi, is it possible that there are more accomplices?"

"Gao Qiu! You are so slanderous!" Zhan Dafang was furious.

Gao Qiu glanced at Zhan Dafang and said: "Don't worry, Yushi Zhan. I just said it might be related to you, but I didn't say it was definitely related. Doesn't this require follow-up verification? If it really has nothing to do with you, you didn't tell me privately.

If there is trade with the Kingdom of Jin, and there is no false registration of trading companies, or tax evasion, then it is naturally innocent! Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, how can you arbitrarily leave an innocent person?"

"this……"

Gao Qiu's series of operations are truly textbook-level rhetoric for high-level meetings.

For a moment, Liu Wangxian, Wang Qian and others were speechless.

The people from the Kaden jumped out immediately.

"Your Majesty! What Captain Gao said is absolutely true!" The person who spoke was Li Zao from the Admonition Court.

Because of the Luoyang case, Li Zhuo stood up to speak for Li Chunyou and others, but was caught, and Zhao Ning pardoned him.

In fact, from that time on, Zhao Ning began to fortify Qin Hui.

He wanted to use Qin Hui but also guard against Qin Hui.

Li Zhuo continued: "Your Majesty, trading companies are involved in the new law on trading companies, and they are also involved in the treasury taxation. The government is spending a lot of money at the moment. If tax evaders are not severely punished and the rules are implemented, wouldn't they be in danger of collapse?"

"Li Qing, can you speak more clearly?" Zhao Ning looked confused.

Li Zhuo said: "This matter is very involved. Zhan Yushi should cooperate with the court's investigation!"

"Your Majesty! I was wronged..."

"Don't panic, Qing Zhan. I believe you are innocent. You are just assisting the court in its investigation. Is that okay?"

"this……"

"Could it be that Yushi Zhan really has something?" Gao Qiu chuckled.

Zhao Ning hurriedly said: "Those who purify themselves will purify themselves. Zhan Qing is not afraid of your investigation."

"yes……"

Next, there are some cliche things.

After the morning court ended, Zhan Dafang, Wang Qian and Liu Wangxian were invited by the Imperial City Secretary to have tea before they had time to return to their yamen.

This incident immediately caused quite a stir in official circles.

Because this matter may be more complicated than imagined.

It may even involve factional struggles in the imperial court.

Not to mention that the factional struggles in the Song Dynasty were becoming more complicated, but the situation in Song, Jin and Xia was obviously moving in a more complicated direction.

After Wu Jie captured Fuzhou, the army took a short rest. He left 10,000 troops with Guo Hao and asked Guo Hao to be responsible for crossing the Yellow River to take over Fuzhou on the opposite side.

And he himself led the remaining more than 10,000 soldiers and horses and began to return to Taiyuan Prefecture.

On the eighth day of May, Wu Jie received an urgent report from Taiyuan: the Jin army had arrived in Taiyuan City.

After receiving the news, Wu Jie not only was not in a hurry, but also changed the direction of march.

Where is he going?

He plans to go to Daizhou!

That's right, since Wanyan Salihe went to Taiyuan, he will go to Daizhou.

Wanyan Salihe didn't know that Zhe Keqiu would be finished so quickly. Naturally, he couldn't have known that Wu Jie would be able to escape from Fuzhou and fight against his Daizhou.

On the tenth day of the fifth lunar month, however, the news that Wu Jie had regained Fuzhou was quickly placed on Zhao Guan's desk.

After learning the news, Zhao Ning walked back and forth in Wende Hall excitedly for a long time.

His mind was spinning rapidly.

"Is Yu Yunwen back?"

"Yu Yunwen should have gone south and will arrive in Hebei soon."

"Let him go to Fugu quickly for inspection. After the inspection, he will return to the capital. I want to talk to him in detail about the forecourt outside the Great Wall."

"Your Majesty, what about the Jin army's siege of Taiyuan?" Zhang Shuye asked.
Chapter completed!