Chapter 59: The Sound of Frogs Discusses the Harvest Year (3)
"It is inappropriate to monopolize salt, iron, tea, wine, and sugar, and it is harmful to the people. It will not work if we let it go. The income of the court will be greatly reduced and it will be difficult to maintain. Moreover, such a huge gap cannot be reduced by reducing the expenses of the court. It can be done by abolishing national defense and becoming a quail."
Made up for it.”
At this point, Zhao Si started to complain again, "I have read the memorials from Yuan You and other years. Some ministers stare at the three melons and two dates in the palace every day. Why don't they take the lead in reducing their salaries and official salary fields? Why?
If we don’t reduce the amount of compensation, what about the number of idle officials who are recommended and waiting to receive their salaries?”
"It's other people's business to contribute to the country emotionally, and it's up to others to bear all the hardships; they just speak out for the country, shout slogans, and write a few memorials?"
Listening to the official's words, everyone felt very complicated.
There are indeed people in the Yuanyou old party who are honest and poor, but that is only a part of them. Most of the people in the old party are just neither greedy nor bad. They should take what they deserve, and they have not taken the initiative to apply for exemptions or exemptions.
Besides, no matter how noble your personal conduct is, at most you can only serve as a moral role model, and have you created any actual value for the country and the people? On the contrary, you still stand on a high moral ground, make arbitrary comments on national affairs, and only find problems.
It will never be solved; it only adds to the fire but does not extinguish it.
After all, it comes down to practice.
After hearing this, many people here understood the good intentions of the officials.
Zhao Si complained a few times and then returned to the topic.
"Neither left nor right, so what should we do about the salt affairs?"
Everyone looked at Zhao Si attentively, expecting him to come up with another refreshing and effective method.
"I think we can regulate it by issuing licenses."
Issuing a license? What does it have to do with certain permits?
"Everyone knows what a commercial subject means."
"You know, any industrial, commercial or agricultural entity, as long as it is for profit, must be registered with the Ministry of Finance or the commercial department of the county, state or county, and then go to the tax department to prepare."
"Yes, but this is an ordinary commercial entity. Many industries also need industry licenses, which are often called licenses. Restaurants need to go to the Huimin Bureau to apply for a health license; transshipment agencies need to apply for land transportation or inland waterway shipping.
Permit; the maritime agency needs to apply for a shipping license and go to the Security Department of the Ministry of War to apply for entry and exit preparations..."
"Take the salt industry as an example. The court can control salt production. All commercial entities can apply for a salt production license. As long as you have a place, people, equipment, money and other capital, you can apply. As long as you operate according to the rules and pay taxes according to the law, you can apply.
Can."
Hearing this, Zhang Yi couldn't wait to raise his hand: "Your Majesty, does it mean that there will no longer be an official operation in the salt industry?"
"Official camp, why do we need official camp? In addition to governing the government and appeasing the people, the government is also busy making money. Isn't it too busy?" Zhao Si joked, and then his face turned serious.
"One result that can be seen from Xining's reform in recent years is that the government business is far from as good as expected. When the government tastes the sweetness of making money, it will not hesitate to use the power in its hands to eliminate all ways to make money.
The monopoly was in one's hands. Then, the government took advantage of it and took advantage of the public and private interests. In the end, there were complaints, and the court received not much money but also suffered a lot of infamy."
"Your Majesty, there are still many government-run trading companies and factories in the market."
"No, that's not called a government-owned business, it can only be called a government-owned trading company and factory." Zhao Si explained.
"It is an iron rule that the government cannot be dismissed directly. But some things must be done with the help of the government. For example, the construction of three vertical and one horizontal national highways. If you ask private trading companies to do it, who can do it? Not to mention the huge amount of money required.
It also requires the mobilization of huge labor force, involving the cooperation of dozens of states and counties, who can ordinary private trading companies succeed?"
"Besides, the investment must produce output and gain, otherwise who will be willing to invest in the future? How can the national highway benefit? Of course it is tolled. What toll? Without the help of the government, can the toll be collected? So,
There are some things that the government cannot get involved in, and there are some things that you cannot do without the power of the government. One size does not fit all."
Zhu Shengfei raised his hand and asked: "Your Majesty, I heard that the Ministry of Planning issued bonds and used the money from these bonds as capital to form the Communications Construction Bank. Then the bank funded the establishment of four national highway construction companies, one for each national highway. This
Linked together, can’t we say that the Communications Construction Bank and the National Highway Construction Co., Ltd. are government-owned?”
Zhao Si nodded and motioned for Zhu Shengfei to sit down.
"There is still a difference. The Treasury Department of the Ministry of Planning is the major owner of the Communications Construction Bank, and the Communications Construction Bank is the major owner of the National Highway Construction Co., Ltd. Indeed, as Zhu Qing said, link by link, it seems that the Communications Construction Bank and the National Highway
The construction cooperative is indeed government-run. But what is official-run? It means that the government directly operates it and directly sends people to the commercial entities to be the principal and responsible for the operation."
"Now according to the new system laws, the Treasury Department cannot directly manage or interfere with the operation of Communications Construction Bank. It is only the owner, that is, the shareholder who holds shares, and must operate in accordance with standard commercial laws. This is called official ownership."
Zhao Si started to explain to everyone.
"First of all, all commercial entities have a board of directors elected by the shareholders' meeting. The board of directors is responsible for the daily decision-making of the enterprise. Its members are divided into operating directors and supervisory directors. The operating director, that is, the manager, is the representative of the commercial entity. He leads the management team to
The enterprise conducts business operations and management.”
"The Supervisory Director, that is, the supervisor, is responsible for supervising the personnel recruitment of the management team, daily operations, and monitoring whether there is any violation of the board of directors' decisions or the betrayal of the interests of the company and shareholders. Under normal circumstances, supervision is mostly carried out through finance."
"As the major owner of the Communications and Construction Bank, the Ministry of Planning will only directly send people to serve as supervisory directors of the bank to conduct daily supervision of the bank's financial affairs. At the same time, through the control of the board of directors, it will ensure the interests of the major owner and the hope of Transportation Construction
The bank operates in accordance with the required directions. In addition, there is no interference in the daily operations of the bank, and all operations and management are carried out by hired managers."
"And the Communications Construction Bank similarly controls four national highway construction companies. It invests and supervises, but does not directly operate. I say this, do you understand?"
After Zhao Si finished speaking, he deliberately walked away to drink water so that everyone could have a good discussion below.
When everyone's discussion slowly subsided, Zhao Si walked back to the blackboard and continued: "Salt is very special. It is a necessary daily commodity for people all over the world. The government not only uses it to collect population tax and property tax, but also
The price cannot be too high so that ordinary people cannot afford it."
"Tea is a non-essential daily necessities for people all over the world. It is also exported to the northwest, north and overseas countries, making huge profits. It is also regulated that tea-making companies also need licenses, but compared to the salt industry, it is another
We will adopt a regulatory system to expand exports while trying to meet domestic demand."
"Ironware is a necessity for people all over the world, but one piece can be used for a long time and is not a daily necessities. Moreover, ironware is a national strategic material, and overseas exports need to be strictly controlled. So it is another set of supervision systems. At the same time, refining
Iron requires a complete industrial chain from ore, coal, to smelting plants."
"Not only is the investment huge, but technological innovation is also needed to continuously improve the quality and output of ironware. For this kind of industry, private enterprises can only operate in a small way at present, and the government must invest a lot of money and resources behind it. In addition, the Gewuyuan
Only with scientific and technological support such as smelting plants and the establishment of three to five large-scale steel companies can we smelt steel on a large scale and quickly improve steel quality and output."
Zhao Si's words caused another heated discussion. Afterwards, Li Guang raised his hand and asked: "Your Majesty, the rest of the ministers can understand. It's just the salt industry. How can we keep the price of salt low so that the people can afford it?"
.And can it prevent the proliferation of illegal salt and the loss of royal tax revenue?"
Zhao Si nodded, "Actually, these two questions are actually the same question." This chapter has been completed!
