As for what Shi Kefa and even many people said about the people's livelihood being poor, that's not true. The life of ordinary people is not only not bad, but also improved. At least there are not so many excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and there are no rogue officers and soldiers who torture them and rob them over and over again.

Even the common people in the minds of many gentry officials are limited to the gentry.

However, among the wealthy gentry under the rule of the Dachu Empire, except for a very small number of people who had their homes confiscated and exterminated for resisting taxes, there were also a small number of people who resisted taxes and evaded taxes and were arrested and jailed and fined.

Most of the wealthy gentry still pay taxes very honestly. After paying taxes, although their income has been reduced, it is definitely not to the point of bankruptcy.

After all, the Chu Empire only wanted them to pay taxes, and it didn't just confiscate most of their property.

As long as you pay taxes honestly, the Chu Empire will still be very disciplined.

At the same time, although they paid taxes, because of the existence of the Dachu Empire, these gentry and wealthy families no longer had to experience repeated tragedies and thieves, and were tortured by officers and soldiers, let alone worry about what kind of apportionment the government would come to impose, or even the trading firms under their names.

When doing business, you don’t have to go everywhere and pay all kinds of messy customs taxes.

In addition, the Dachu Empire encouraged industry and commerce, especially the gentry and wealthy households to invest in industrial manufacturing. It didn’t matter whether you set up a small workshop to produce cloth, a small iron-making workshop to make iron, or a

What kind of wood furniture or something?

The Dachu Empire officially supports it!

Well, the premise is that you have to pay taxes!

Finally, these wealthy gentry people who are doing business calculated, oh my god, after paying taxes, the overall cost of doing business has actually been reduced...

Therefore, for quite a few of the gentry whose families have other businesses, especially those who are engaged in business, after the security guards came over, instead of making less money, they made more money.

Not to mention some trading houses that have successively established some relationships with the officials of the Dachu Empire and supplied various military supplies to the Dachu Empire. They are making a lot of money every day.

Therefore, many gentry under the rule of the Great Chu Empire are actually living quite a prosperous life, even more prosperous than during the Ming Dynasty.

The Song family in Hanyang County, Hantian Prefecture, is such a wealthy gentry family that lives a very prosperous life.

In the Song family's residence in Hanyang City, seven main members of the Song family gathered together.

The old man of the Song family, Song Hongbao, who was the first person in the Ming Dynasty, is sitting on the first chair. The first person on his left hand side is Song Hongbao's eldest son Song Yinglin. The second seat is Song Hongbao's eldest grandson, Song Yinglin's eldest son Song Qixin, and Song Yinglin's second son Song Qishu.

On the right side are Song Hongbao's third son Song Yingquan, fourth son Song Yingdong, and Song Yingquan's eldest son Song Qiqing.

Old Mrs. Song squinted at the crowd and said, "In addition to the enlightenment, we are all here, let's start!"

"The main reason why I called you all here is to discuss something with you. This matter is related to the future foundation of our Song family. I don't like to be arbitrary. I always want to listen to what you want. After all, this family will be the leader in the future.

Yours!"

Song Qixin, the eldest grandson of the Song family, immediately stood up and said with a charming smile: "Grandpa, if you have any instructions, just give them. My grandson will try his best to do it!"

Old Mrs. Song looked at this eldest grandson with half-squinted eyes, a trace of disgust flashing in his eyes.

This eldest grandson has no abilities and only knows how to play for fun. Although he usually talks sweetly to please his elders, this is of no use.

He is the eldest grandson of the Song family and the future head of the Song family. There is no point in trying to please the elders...

At the age of twenty-three, he has not even passed the county examination. To say that he has no knowledge or skills is just to praise him...

If this person was not his eldest grandson, Song Hongbao would have slapped him to death.

So he didn't pay attention to what this person said, but continued on his own: "Since Master Wang entered Hanyang last year, there have been many turmoils in my family. First, the grain store was robbed by green-skinned gangsters, and the salt sales channel was cut off."
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"However, there are also opportunities in crises. Last year, we took advantage of the wave of spinning and weaving in Hanyang and purchased the Lin family's weaving factory. We dared to join the Hantian Textile Factory two years ago and obtained their low prices.

In terms of cotton yarn supply, we have won orders from several large commercial banks, expanding sales channels."

"With this factory, we can make up for last year's losses!"

"I'm talking to you today about this weaving workshop!"

"You should have heard that the imperial dynasty has officially issued commercial laws. According to the commercial laws, all businesses and workshops must be registered as companies, and the official ownership of the industry and the distribution of shares must be clearly registered!"

"Because the taxes to be paid later need to be paid according to the company according to this commercial law. I don't need to explain the consequences of not paying taxes. You know it."

"Not to mention the consequences of tax evasion, it is difficult to do it in Qijing."

"Well, you should also pay attention to it on weekdays. You have paid all the taxes that are due. It is not easy for Qijing to work in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry now, so don't cause trouble for him."

As he spoke, Song Hongbao stared at everyone again, paused for several seconds before returning to the topic and said: "Now we have to register several of our Song family's businesses and workshops as companies based on this business law."
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"Several other trading companies and workshops are not large in scale, and they were all assigned to you to manage before. So you can register your own trading companies and workshops. After registration, these companies will be considered yours.

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"However, our family invested heavily in purchasing this weaving factory last year, and also spent a huge amount of money to purchase a batch of new looms from the Xiangyang Machinery Factory. It cost a lot of money and is of great value. I have always been in charge of it myself!"

"But I'm getting older, and this weaving factory will be managed by you after all. Let's take advantage of this time to register a company and call everyone over to discuss the distribution of shares after this weaving factory is registered as a company.

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After saying that, Song Hongbao raised his head and looked around.

In his sight, the other six members of the Song family had different expressions. The eldest son Song Yinglin had an expressionless face, the eldest grandson Song Qixin looked greedy and drooling, and the other people had different expressions of joy or happiness.

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But no one dared to say anything at this time.

This Song family weaving factory is the Song family's largest investment in the past ten years. Last year, it spent more than 50,000 taels of silver to accept the goods that originally belonged to the Lin family from the official auction of the Finance Department of the Da Chu Empire.

Weaving factory.

The Lin family in Hanyang had long been uprooted by the Taxation Department of the Da Chu Empire because of their armed resistance to taxation, and the family was confiscated and exterminated. The weaving shop belonging to the Lin family became an official rice speculation asset, and was subsequently auctioned at a public auction.

The factory in Hanyang has a weaving workshop, dyeing workshop, and spinning workshop. It is a one-stop cloth production workshop integrating spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing.

Although it is still a traditional handicraft workshop, the scale is not small, and even if it was confiscated, it is still operating normally.

Have stable sources of raw materials and sales channels for goods.

The Lin family collapsed, but the Lin family weaving factory did not.

The Song family, which had long been interested in getting involved in the textile industry, took advantage of this opportunity to bid directly, bypassing a group of competitors and bidding for the factory at the highest price.

After taking over the factory, the Song family did not operate it as it was.

Instead, Mrs. Song spent a lot of money to order a batch of new looms from the Xiangyang Machinery Factory that had just been developed and were not yet in large-scale operation in several government-run textile factories. He also hired some of their skills with high salaries.

Consultant installs and debugs equipment.

Because these new looms are more than twice as efficient as the original looms.

The same workers produced twice as much cloth, which instantly made the Song family's weaving factory double their profits.

As a result, this weaving factory instantly became the Song family's greatest wealth!

Compared with this weaving factory, other shops and businesses worth only a few thousand taels are not worth mentioning. Even the many farms in the family are not as valuable as this weaving factory.

So when everyone heard that Song Hongbao said that he wanted to register the factory as a company and even allocate shares, the Song family members naturally couldn't help but look strange.

Although they are all members of the Song family, well, even brothers have to settle accounts.

There are only so many shares in this weaving factory. If others take more, why don’t you take less?

Song Hongbao said he was looking for them to discuss, but he spoke directly: "Qi Jing holds 70% of the shares in this weaving factory, and the remaining 30% will be divided equally among the six of you, with each of you taking half."

Hearing this, the six subordinates had different expressions, but even the eldest son Song Yinglin, who had always been expressionless, couldn't help but get excited.

How much property does the Song family have in total? It's only about 200,000 taels. In addition to the land, the other industries add up to about 100,000 taels, and the weaving factory owns 70 to 80% of it.

Nowadays, the majority of the weaving factory is given to Song Qijing, the only son of the late second son. To be honest, he has his own opinions.

Although I am not as good at studying as my younger brother, and my son is not as good at studying as Song Qijing, my nephew, I am the eldest son after all, and Song Qixin is the eldest grandson after all...

Old Mrs. Song can naturally see the changes in their expressions and can even guess their inner thoughts, but this is not important.

The Song family today relies on Song Hongbao, and the Song family in the future will rely on Song Qijing.

As for the six children of the Song family at the moment, they are nothing more than wine and rice bags. Leaving them a part of the shares to support the family is a sign of the father-son relationship.

The old man of the Song family had five sons in his life, the eldest son and the third son. The fourth son is all here today.

The fifth son, his wife and children went to Jiangnan to visit friends last autumn but did not return.

The second son died of illness more than ten years ago.

These two sons are also the favorite sons of Mrs. Song. They have been smart since childhood, studied hard and have great talents.

At the age of only sixteen, he had already passed the examination to become a student member. When he was only nineteen years old, he passed the provincial examination for the first time and passed the examination. He was called a young genius for a while.

However, God was jealous of talents, and not long after his second son passed the examination, he contracted smallpox and died before he had time to take the examination.
Chapter completed!