Chapter 89 What belongs to the public belongs to the world! (Please subscribe)
At dusk.
Xia Zhibai came back dusty.
He is very busy recently.
Hardly stopped.
He has been traveling between Chuzhou, Shouzhou and Yingtianfu.
In the first two months, he and a few people have been poaching people in Chuzhou and Shouzhou, poaching experienced salt workers, other skilled and experienced workers, doctors, etc., in just two months, He almost visited the disaster area.
The effect is also excellent.
Basically all the local salt-making households were dug up.
With the addition of these kitchen households, his salt-making technology has been greatly improved.
Although the price paid is not small.
It’s money.
In two months, Xia Zhibai smashed thousands of taels.
Based on a thousand workers, most people would divide it evenly, and each of them would earn one tael of silver in two months. In reality, it is naturally not that much, but the least one earned was three to four hundred cash. .
For salt workers, Xia Zhibai is very generous.
Anyone who can improve the efficiency of salt production, salt production, quality, salt production safety, or coal mining and coal transportation efficiency, without exception, will receive money and food as long as it can be proposed and recognized and improved by Zhou Ning and others. Reward.
Those who have the same desire, both above and below, will win.
Now the Kyoto Salt Industry founded by Xia Zhibai has achieved the same desire from top to bottom.
They are all here to make money.
Working for Xia Zhibai can indeed make money.
In the past, when these salt workers made their own salt, they could earn less than one or two or five yuan throughout the year, which was barely enough to live a stable life. Now, in less than two months, they have already earned the same amount of harvest as the past year. Naturally, Full of positivity.
In fact, they are now more worried than Xia Zhibai that the Kyoto Salt Industry will go bankrupt.
So salt is made almost day and night.
Thanks to Xia Zhibai, the 'steam engine' manufactured by the Ministry of Industry can be regarded as an 'assembly line' machine, otherwise it would have been scrapped long ago. Even so, many steam engine parts have been replaced within these two months. Changed again and again.
The results are obvious.
In just two months, more than 300,000 kilograms of salt were produced.
The efficiency of the steam engine has also been improved again and again. From the beginning, it was less than half of the human power, but now it has surpassed it by 10 to 20%. More importantly, the brine that the steam engine can pump is higher than that of manual labor. The brine is deeper and more abundant, so the salt production efficiency is also higher.
Because of this.
Xia Zhibai also had to denounce the darkness of the old society.
It’s really too dark.
He did not pay any 'salary', only the rewards that the people deserved.
Because the coal is produced by our own mines, we do not pay any fees. As for the transportation, it is entirely the responsibility of the workers.
This situation is completely squeezing the blood of the people in future generations.
Even so.
The thousands of workers in his hands were grateful to him.
He was even called a great upright official.
He is now very 'exploiting' the local people, but compared to the 'exploitation' of the people by the government, he actually appears to be very 'merciful' and 'kind'.
Because in the eyes of the government, local people are not really human beings, they are just animals that can be squeezed to death at will.
Human life is worth less than grass.
Human power is even worthless.
When these people worked under him, they not only took care of the food, but also gave them real money.
The more you do, the more you produce, and the more money you get.
Because of this.
Kyoto Salt Industry is full of energy at the moment.
This made Xia Zhibai feel deeply ashamed and felt more and more responsible.
Sitting on the chair, Xia Zhibai closed his eyes and rested for a while, then placed several 'deeds' on the table.
This is his business result today.
At this time.
Hei Wa came in with a basin of hot water.
Xia Zhibai stood up, took the hot water, wiped his face comfortably, pointed to the 'deed' on the table, and said: "Heiwa, send these 'deeds' to Fang Mo told him to deliver salt to these restaurants on the 15th of every month."
"They are all our big customers."
Hei Wa nodded, stuffed these 'deeds' into his arms, and then said in confusion: "Brother Xia, our salt is not very cheap. Why does Brother Xia have to go to the meeting himself? No other salt dealer has taken the initiative to provide salt."
Hei Wa was very puzzled.
During this period of time, Xia Zhibai has been running around, mostly in restaurants.
The salt from their Kyoto Salt Industry is already the cheapest.
How could these restaurants not buy it?
Is it unnecessary?
Xia Zhibai laughed and said: "The truth is correct, but you have to remember one thing, taking the initiative will lead to follow-up."
"If you don't take the initiative, these people may not They really know how to choose our salt, and these people are big customers. All I sell is refined salt, fine salt that costs more than fifty cents per pound."
"In the past few days, I have concluded the negotiation. Dozens of orders.”
“The monthly supply reaches several thousand kilograms.”
“The profit in one month is as high as hundreds of taels.”
“Yingtian Mansion, as the capital of the Ming Dynasty, can be said to be the most prosperous place in the world today. "
"There are countless rich people."
"If you don't take the initiative, someone may come to buy it, but if you take the initiative, you can quickly attract business. It can also quickly supply the entire Yingtianfu table salt to the monopoly.”
"Why not?"
"Nowadays, the slightly larger restaurants and other food shops in Yingtianfu have basically chosen to buy our salt. The monthly sales volume has reached tens of thousands of kilograms. , including a lot of high-priced salt. "
"For the people, the Kyoto Salt Industry adopts a small profit but quick turnover method, but the people do not have much money in their pockets."
"Use salt. They are also very cautious.”
“Many are one-time deals.”
"But these restaurants and food shops are different." "They consume more salt every day."
"These are the main customers of Kyoto's salt industry."
"It is also a stable income for the salt shop."
Xia Zhibai wiped his arm with a hot handkerchief before putting it back into the hot water.
Heiwa's thoughts were shared by many people in the Kyoto Salt Industry. They all thought it was completely unnecessary and unnecessary.
But Xia Zhibai never thought so.
His goal has never been to squeeze other salt merchants, nor to actually sell salt, but to gain a market.
After monopolizing the Yingtianfu market, he will not stop, but will continue to expand.
This is also the reason why he has been traveling to Shouzhou and Chuzhou in the past two months.
Be prepared in advance.
He did promise Zhu Biao to only sell Yingtian Mansion.
But he never promised that he would not expand the 'Kingto Salt Industry'. He only occupied Shouzhou Prefecture and Chuzhou Prefecture in the form of 'branch stores', and then expanded step by step to the entire north. .
Finally, head south.
Complete monopoly on the entire salt industry.
But Xia Zhibai also discovered a problem.
It’s just that it’s really hard to make money.
In his past impression, salt was a hugely profitable industry.
When he first got involved, he thought the same way, thinking that he could easily earn tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but in fact it was not the case at all.
Under this model of extremely squeezing people's blood remuneration, after deducting the salt tax and salt import money, his real profit from a pound of salt is only five cents.
Sold five hundred thousand catties.
I can only get more than two million copper coins.
Converted into silver, it is just over two thousand taels of silver.
After one year, apart from the abnormal profits in the first month, the real profits are only 10,000 to 20,000.
This is still a situation where Yingtianfu has a complete monopoly on the supply of salt.
If there are other salt merchants seizing the market, the profits will be even lower. Although it is still a huge profit, it is not the kind of easy one who can earn tens of thousands a month or a million a year. However, Xia Zhibai is not in a hurry, Ying Tianfu The profits from one place are not enough.
But if it is the entire north, or even the entire world.
That's enough.
He once asked the transfer department official privately.
Da Ming currently produces up to 500 million kilograms of salt a year.
If he could occupy most of the world's market, his annual net profit from salt production would reach two to three million taels.
As long as he wants to, if he slightly increases the selling price, he can make a lot of money. However, this is not what Xia Zhibai wants, so he has been deliberately lowering the price, but he just doesn’t want to go down the road of This is an evil way to make money by relying on salt.
He wants to break the existing salt policy system in the world.
At the same time, the method of steam-generated salt will be gradually ‘sold’.
Let the public and private sectors coexist and compete with each other for profit, so that the supply of salt always exceeds demand and the price can be maintained at a relatively low level.
A completely public monopoly is a double-edged sword.
He was also worried about losing control.
The 'salt branches' he will open in various places in the future will be used to ensure the bottom line and regulate the market.
It’s not really about selling salt.
Hei Wa nodded, thoughtfully.
He actually didn't think it through clearly, but Brother Xia must have had his intention when he did this.
He believed in Xia Zhibai's words and firmly believed that Xia Zhibai would not make any mistakes.
Hei Wa helped Xia Zhibai carry out the used hot water, and then quickly ran towards Yingtian Mansion to deliver Xia Zhibai's instructions as soon as possible.
Xia Zhibai shook his head.
He didn't ask about today's sales.
No need to ask.
Even future generations will not be able to withstand this business model, so how can the current generation be able to withstand it?
To give some small shock to the contemporary generation.
What he has to do next is actually to design a salary system. The period of relying on rewards for innovation and improvement to give workers a boost has passed. Workers can think of ways and solutions. Ideas are destined to become fewer and fewer.
Working salary is the ultimate solution to stability.
It's just that Xia Zhibai is hesitating about one thing, which is whether to set up a 'personal tax'.
Personal income tax is very necessary in Xia Zhibai's opinion.
Also very necessary.
In today's Ming Dynasty, it is a big problem that the officials and gentry do not pay food.
The system he wants to establish is to use the 'working class' who 'pay taxes' to enter the court step by step, and eventually expel the 'shi' who do not pay taxes from the court, thereby changing The original tax situation meant that all officials had to pay taxes.
Xia Zhibai paced back and forth in the house.
I finally made up my mind.
You still have to write down your taxes.
The tax standard can be set very high so that no workers in the salt industry can meet it yet, but there must be some.
You can use it, but you can’t live without it.
The current Kyoto Salt Industry, in Xia Zhibai's heart, is a testing ground for systems, used to experiment with various systems. If it encounters too much opposition, it means it is not applicable. If there is not much controversy, then it can Continue to promote.
The night is getting darker.
Xia Zhibai fell asleep on the table while he was thinking about it.
He has been too tired recently.
In his mind, he has been thinking about when to establish a school for workers and peasants, when to promote steam engines, when to compile a systematic set of science textbooks, and when to conduct a literacy campaign.
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It is a crime to have a jade.
Xia Zhibai knew it very early.
In fact, I have always been walking on the edge of life and death.
However, he also has a solution, which is to spread the word about the 'Bi' in his arms, so that everyone in the world knows about it, and everyone can apply what he has learned. Only in this way can he always step on the tightrope, step by step. Promoting the restructuring of the world.
What belongs to the masses is what belongs to the world and has a future.
(End of this chapter)