Within half a month, Ye An saw the amazing potential of Puhui Company in the northwest, and the influx of orders overwhelmed the already fully loaded factory.
Ye An was originally a little skeptical about the consumption power of the northwest, but now even Qin Mumu believes that he can really make a fortune in Liangzhou Prefecture, and it can also make the Puhui business even bigger.
The factory is the main force of Puhui Store, and Puhui Store does not necessarily have so many other stores. Only one Puhui Department Store can sell most of the company's products.
And high-end stores are more suitable to take the exclusive route. In this way, the expansion speed will be astonishingly fast. As long as there is the "fertile" land in the northwest to nourish it, it will not be a problem for Puhui Department Store and Puhui Specialty Store to open throughout the Song Dynasty.
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Ye An and Qin Mumu had never thought of doing this before, but the cost was too high. The transportation problems of this era were enough to collapse any successful chain store in the future. Not only would it cost a lot of labor, but it would also cost countless people.
Countless grains! It would take at least three months to arrive in the south with goods from the northwest. Just the consumption of self-paid grains on the road would scare the average store owner of Puhui Company to tremble!
In this case, it is better to open a local factory and operate through outlets to save money, but the regional person in charge is another problem, so Puhui Business needs a lot of time to accumulate, not only to accumulate wealth, but also to accumulate management
Talent.
The scale of Liangzhou Prefecture is expanding day by day, especially the number of factories of Puhui Company. Ye An and Qin Mumu have never thought that realizing wealth would be such a complicated matter.
A large amount of cattle, sheep and horses flowed into Liangzhou Prefecture through trading, and a large amount of gold and silver were traded in various ways and accumulated in the warehouse of Puhui Company. These are the money earned by Puhui Company, not the money earned by Liangzhou Prefecture.
money.
Such astonishing wealth made Chen Lin jealous. He was an internal official from the palace and was not someone who had never seen the world, but he still felt dizzy looking at the mountains of gold, sand and silver.
This kind of shock was no less than the feeling of a poor person suddenly entering a "high-end club". With chapped lips, he could only say in a dry voice: "This... so much money is simply... comparable to national wealth!"
Ye An shrugged and said: "It's not that exaggerated. The country's annual tax revenue is much higher than this, but a large amount of tax revenue cannot be turned into gold and silver. Don't look at me with such eyes, Puhui Company
The tax in Liangzhou Prefecture is not even a penny less!"
Chen Lin stared at Ye An fiercely and said: "You have to pay a lot! But the tax in Liangzhou Prefecture is already low, and you don't have to set up a sales shop to sell it. Tea, wine, salt, and iron are almost all charged at 30% of the tax."
If you follow the law, your business tax in Liangzhou Prefecture is shockingly low!"
Ye An looked at Chen Lin and said: "Is this all you see? If it weren't for the low business tax here, how could there be so many businessmen here? If we count it based on the market system, let alone my Puhui firm, it would be Liang
The government office in the state capital does not collect much tax! Do you know how important cattle, sheep and horses are to me, the Song Dynasty? There are some things that cannot be bought with money. I have long been separated from the saints. Every year in Liangzhou Prefecture
We have to hand over hundreds of good horses to the imperial court. Is there anyone in the various state capitals who can do this?!"
The sharp questioning left Chen Lin speechless, not knowing how to respond, but he still felt that so much wealth should not belong to Puhui Company, nor should it belong to Ye An, but should be handed over to the court. All the wealth in the world should be
From heaven...
"It is too much for Puhui Company to swallow such a large amount of money for itself. The merchants of the Song Dynasty bought goods from Dangxiang, Uighur, and Tibet from you, and you sold Puhui Company's goods to them. All the money
You earned it all!"
Ye An stared at Chen Lin strangely: "Is there anything wrong with this? Puhui Company is doing business! If there is a sale, it will be bought. We sell goods to foreigners, and naturally we have to buy the goods of foreigners. It is all in exchange for goods.
What’s wrong with me selling cattle, sheep, horses, and various jewelry to merchants in the Song Dynasty? They brought these things back to various state capitals. Farmers need cattle and sheep, and the country needs good horses. I am
It is promoting the circulation of goods in the world!"
Although the mountains of gold and silver are beautiful to look at, it will only be the same after seeing too much. Ye An pulled Chen Lin and walked away. The heavy door slowly closed with the sound of machine guns. The door was already guarded by soldiers of the Western Lie Army.
This treasure house is made of cement. It is impossible to dig tunnels from the ground for a single structure. In this era without crushing machines, the five-meter-thick reinforced concrete outer body must be constructed with gunpowder, not to mention manpower.
I don’t know how long it will take to open, and the gate is a gate-type structure. Once the thick prefabricated plate gate is violently opened, the mechanism will be completely stuck.
Chen Lin was quite reluctant to give up, but when Ye An saw him like that, a fire of ignorance arose in his heart: "Do you think all this money should be turned over to the court?"
"That's natural. If it weren't for the imperial court and the Tianjia, where would you be, Ye An? If it weren't for the support of the saints, how would you have your Puhui business? If it weren't for the saints and officials, how could you establish Siquhe City in this northwest land?
When you make money, you should turn it over to the court, and the government will reward you as much as you want. Only in this way can you be considered loyal to the emperor and serve the country! It is also worth the worry of sharing the emperor's salary with the emperor!"
Bang bang bang... Ye An clapped his hands, looked at Chen Lin and said: "Okay, well said, very well said. It just said what the robber was thinking!"
"you?!"
Chen Lin's face changed greatly. He was the supervisor of the Military and Horse Division and the supervisor of the Imperial City Division. Ye An's words were tantamount to humiliating himself. Not only today, but also since Ye An returned to Liangzhou Prefecture.
This is becoming more and more like this. It seems that he is dissatisfied with himself, but in fact he is dissatisfied with the imperial court!
"Ye An! Do you know what you are talking about? A certain family is ordered to supervise the army. It is true that you raise matters in Ganliang. But Pei Chengwen, the general magistrate of Liangzhou Prefecture, and Guan Wanshan, the commander of the Huaiyuan Army, have all come under your command.
No one but a certain family will interfere with you!"
Ye An was furious and suddenly turned back to Chen Lin and said: "Don't say that, Guan Wanshan really obeys me. As for Pei Chengwen, he doesn't dare to make a mistake! Don't ask me why... and you are simply an idiot for living such a long life.
Don’t you know that there is a saying that there is a sacrifice? Liangzhou Prefecture is what it is because of Siquhe City. Only the tax revenue of Liangzhou Prefecture... How do you think it compares to the previous tax revenue? What would happen if there were no Puhui Firms?
Puhui Company relies on its true ability to make money. The tax paid is not a penny, why should it be turned over to the court? If the tax paid is a high amount, do you think Puhui Company still has the intention to make money? No matter how much it earns, it will be paid.
The imperial court makes money, so what do the apprentices, craftsmen, and clerks of my Puhui Company eat and drink, who do research and development, and who study new equipment? Then what about your thighs!"
Ye An rarely gets angry, and a scholar should be gentle and polite, but this time he couldn't bear it, especially after Chen Lin saw the wealth of Puhui Company and made unreasonable demands. Even if what he said was not true, he could
Ye An is still furious because this is the logic of robbery against private property.
What he is actually more angry about is the thinking of people of this era. Chen Lin is like this, and civil servants are like this. Pei Chengwen has "persuaded" himself more than once to use part of Puhui Company's wealth to please the Tianjia, so that he can gain the Tianjia.