Chapter 270: sugar war
Chapter 270 Sugar War
The east and west cities naturally want to continue to maintain and develop, but the positioning of the east and west cities is a large centralized market, which is equivalent to the wholesale trading center of Chang'an, while each square is some commercial streets.
Because the situation this year is quite optimistic, the imperial court has now lifted the alcohol ban and allowed the sale of alcohol, but wine making is still prohibited in the Guanzhong area, and only wine shipped from outside the Guanzhong is allowed to be sold. Qin Lang's Guogong winery is still quite hit, and now he can only set up wineries in Shannan, Shuzhong, Huainan, Jiangnan and other places, and then transport the wine to Guanzhong for sale.
But now that the business has just stabilized, the imperial court has begun to prepare for the collection of tea and wine monopoly tax.
Regarding the way of collecting wine tax, there have been constant disputes during the recent court meeting. There are mainly three views. One is monopoly, that is, all wine, whether it is brewed by the government or privately, must be handed over to the government for sale, which is the same as the salt government. . After the government buys it, it sells it with additional money. In fact, the added money is the wine tax.
The other is that it should be a semi-monopoly, that is, not to buy directly, but to stipulate that the koji must be purchased from the imperial court, and the koji is sold at a high price. The actual koji is equivalent to a wine tax levied on wine merchants.
The last tax law is mainly proposed by Qin Lang. He thinks that the first two methods are not suitable for wine. The first monopoly method, the cost of the government is too high, and the cost is artificially increased, which is not cost-effective. The second method of selling koji is not very good, because the key to many wines is koji. Different wines use different koji recipes. How can the court master all the koji?
Qin Lang insisted that the business monopoly policy should be implemented.
It means that if a merchant wants to sell alcohol, he must obtain a special license before he can brew and sell alcohol. Those without a license cannot brew and sell alcohol, and the tax is levied according to the sales volume of the merchant.
At the same time, the imperial court also practiced liquor, that is, the imperial court’s Changping warehouse would also buy some wine, and then sell it, such as transporting it to border markets, and trading with barbarians and barbarians.
This is actually equivalent to export, and the profit of export must be high, so this part of the profit of export wine is in the hands of the court, or part of it.
In short, it's all about making money.
is to increase national fiscal revenue.
According to Qin Lang's speculative report, the wine tax and wine sales can earn at least one million guan a year.
Li Shimin's heart was moved as soon as he heard it, and in the end he still preferred Qin Lang's liquor tax law.
Once this tax law is implemented, the price of alcohol will definitely rise a lot in the future. For those who are good at wine, every sip of wine they drink in the future will be equivalent to contributing to the tax revenue of Datang.
Li Shimin has tasted the sweetness. Although the wine tax of one million guan a year is only on paper, it is indeed attractive. Therefore, Li Shimin has been working hard these days to include all five commodities, such as salt, iron, tea, wine and sugar, into the special tax.
Sugar was never let go by him, Qin Lang was also a little helpless.
I am obviously a sugar merchant and wine merchant now, but in the end I frantically waved my **** to dig my own roots, and I couldn't die if I didn't do anything.
But this is also the trend of the times, so Qin Lang is not reluctant. If he eats meat himself, he must share some soup with the court.
In short, the tax has not yet started to be collected, but Chang Ping, the transshipment department, has planned to add four warehouses for salt, wine, tea, and sugar in addition to the granary and cloth warehouses.
They all want to use the country's macro-control capabilities to make money, to put it bluntly, to compete with the people for profit.
But because the current prime ministers in the political affairs hall are all people who look for money, this is Wei Zheng's original words, so although Wei Zheng sprays Li Shimin and Qin Lang every day to fight for the interests of the people, it is useless.
Wei Zheng hopped to spray Li Shimin as a fool more than once, but now Li Shimin is used to it, let him spray it.
It is absolutely impossible to have no money. Now not only can you save 100,000 guan of money for destroying Liang and sealing piles every month, but you can also save 100,000 guan of reserve funds for destroying Turks. The amount of money in the emperor's own small treasury is also increasing , The treasury also began to have a surplus, why did Li Shimin stop?
The sale of salt, wine, tea and sugar is increasing the weapons, grain and grass reserves of several major border towns in Lingzhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Liangzhou.
If this goes on, don’t talk about destroying the beams in three years, the plan to destroy the beams can be launched next year.
Let him spit out Wei Zheng's saliva. When I destroy Liang Shidu and then the Turks, you will in turn praise my wisdom and greatness.
But maybe it was because he found out that the selling method really made money, so Li Shimin is not so pure now. He actually asked Qin Lang to think about setting up an inner workshop. The sugar warehouse is also sold for sale.
As for the money earned, it is naturally his private money in the internal treasury.
Qin Lang himself has the exclusive profit from sugar processing. Of course, it's hard to say that Li Shimin looks ugly. The upstream industry of sugar is now mainly controlled by a group of old guys such as Gao Shilian. Qin Lang has to get all the sugar from them. , The price has been raised several times this year, and Qin Lang has no choice but to think about sending someone to Annan Lingnan to build a sugar cane plantation or something.
The downstream distribution is mainly done by upstarts like Changsun Wuji Cheng Yaojin.
In short, everyone has money to earn together, and no one should eat for free. In this industrial chain, everyone cooperates tacitly.
Now that Li Shimin can't sit still anymore, he wants to step in and get a share of the pie. Qin Lang has no objections.
Hello, hello, everyone, everyone gets a share, everyone makes money, the court gets taxes, and the emperor gets some.
Because of this candy, Gao Shilian, who was dismissed and kicked to Annan, is now reluctant to leave. Originally, the emperor intended to transfer him back. The last time he was kicked out of the group, it was also because he was the uncle of the emperor's wife, but his **** insisted. Sit with Feng Deyi, Wei Ting, Wang Gui and others to offend the emperor as a warning.
And now that Gao Shilian has become the governor of Anzhou and the envoy of the Lingnan Economic Strategy, he has already strongly inserted himself into the sugarcane industry in the Lingnan area. It turns out that those in control of the upstream sugar industry have seized the share.
Qin Lang doesn't care, he wants anyone who gives him candy, anyway, now he exclusively owns this technology, and if others don't give him candy, they can't compete with him.
Qin’s white sugar has even become a trump card of Datang’s foreign trade. Not only is it extremely popular in China, it has even become the favorite of barbarian merchants in Guangzhou and Jiaozhi Port.
In the past, Tianzhu frosted sugar dominated things, but now Tianzhu businessmen are buying Datang white sugar with a lot of money.
Now the imperial court even has a lot of rumors. Some guys who have sugar cane interests in Lingnan are calling for the imperial court to build additional military offices in Lingnan, especially in the Annan area, to strengthen the control of the Annan land.
In fact, they want to suppress those wealthy chieftains and barbarians, want more sugarcane gardens, get more barbarians to grow sugar cane, and make more money.
Qin Lang is very happy to see such a situation. Places like Lingnan and Annan have always been underestimated by the Central Plains. As long as they are willing to pay tribute and surrender, the central government will be satisfied. As for the actual control and so on, they don’t bother to care about it. Therefore, the Lingnan side is still mainly controlled by local emperors such as Feng An, Ningxuan and Chen Shulong, and the imperial courts in some coastal ports such as Guangzhou and Jiaozhi can be regarded as relatively strict.
In the past, it was a land of miasma, a place where people in the Central Plains talked about it, and it was also a place of exile for those who lost political struggles. But now, Lingnan can grow sugar cane, squeeze sugar, and make a lot of money.
So Lingnan has become a treasure land. In the past, no one looked down on it and didn't bother to manage it. Now everyone is willing to lie on the map and take a second look.
Compared with maltose and honey, white sugar has great advantages, and the market demand is also high. In addition, sugar has always been an important commodity in China's foreign trade in history. Well, the kings and nobles of England and Spain can't let go of eating sugar yet.
So now that Datang White Sugar has completely surpassed Tianzhu Frosted Sugar, it means that it has won the entire market in the East and West, which is a huge market.
Based on the current amount of sugarcane planted, it is still too little, too little.
Lingnan, Yunnan and other places suitable for planting sugarcane are still the kind of areas that the imperial court cannot really fully and effectively control.
In the Tai Chi Palace.
Li Shimin held a teacup in his hand, drinking tea while reporting the number, while an ivory abacus was placed in front of Empress Changsun.
"If the tax on salt, iron, tea, wine and sugar is levied, plus the profit from the sales, the imperial court will earn a lot of money every year. The imperial court will take out a sum of money every year, and then I will make up a part of the income from the internal treasury. Maid Guanyin, how long would it take me to save enough money if I build a palace in the northeast of Miyagi for the Supreme Emperor to live in?"
Empress Changsun is planning to learn well now, she borrowed Zheng Shisanniang from Qin Lang to teach her, and now she is doing well, but there is an accident that after Li Shimin met Zheng Wanyan several times in Empress Changsun's palace, she finally gave Zheng Wanyan Qin Lang sent ten beauties, and then left Zheng Wanyan.
After being lucky, Zheng Wanyan was given the title of talented person.
"According to Erlang's idea, if the Yong'an Palace is to be built, it will cost no less than 300,000 guan, and hundreds of thousands of craftsmen and civilians will be employed. Money and manpower are second. To build a palace, materials must be prepared before construction. Stone components and The selection and transportation of wood and the firing of bricks and tiles are very time-consuming, and the busy farming season must be avoided.”
The eldest grandson knew that her husband wanted to build a new palace for his father-in-law, but the Hongyi Palace was still too simple and small, and the Supreme Emperor lived there, so it was inevitable that people would discuss it. But if you want to build a new palace like Taiji Palace, you will spend more than a little money and manpower.
"Erlang, within three to five years, it is not appropriate to start large-scale construction projects."
"Can't you save enough money?" Li Shimin asked.
"You can't do repairs with money alone, and you have to recruit hundreds of thousands of craftsmen and civilians. The slaves are too much."
Li Shimin sighed helplessly, "Then I asked the general supervisor to go to the head office of the drawing first?"
"You said, if Qin Lang is in charge of repairing Yong'an Palace, will it work?"
The maidservant Guanyin hurriedly persuaded the emperor to give up this idea for the time being, "Sanlang is busy with the imperial examinations and presiding over the reform now, so he has no spare energy to spend on building the palace, so let's wrong the emperor for a few years."
"That's the only way to go, Guanyin servant girl, you can choose some beauties and send them to the Supreme Emperor."
The Guanyin servant girl whispered to her husband, "Recently, there have been successive harem pregnancies in the Supreme Emperor's palace."
Li Shimin was helpless.
He also knows about this, but can it be stopped? The Supreme Emperor can be his Supreme Emperor in Hongyi Palace without worrying about world affairs, which is already very ideal.
(end of this chapter)