I want to be emperor

Chapter 278

As for what Shi Kefa and many people said about the people’s poor livelihood, that’s not the case. The lives of ordinary people are not only not bad, but have also improved. At least there are not so many exorbitant taxes, and there are no thieves and officers and soldiers who abuse them and rob them over and over again.

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

However, among the big gentry under the rule of the Great Chu Empire, except for a very small number of people who resisted taxes with arms and their families were ransacked, and a small number of people who resisted taxes and evaded taxes were arrested and fined.

Most of the big gentry still pay taxes honestly, and after paying taxes, although their income has decreased, they are definitely not to the point where they cannot survive and go bankrupt.

After all, the Great 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 Great Chu Empire is still very disciplined.

At the same time, although they have paid taxes, because of the existence of the Great Chu Empire, these gentry and big households no longer have to experience repeated various thieves, officers and soldiers abuse, let alone worry about what apportionment will be made by the government, and even the business houses under their names Doing business doesn't need to be done everywhere, and you don't have to pay various checkpoint taxes everywhere.

In addition, the Great Chu Empire encouraged industry and commerce, especially the big gentry to invest their funds in industrial manufacturing, regardless of whether you set up a small workshop to produce cloth, or set up a small ironmaking workshop to make iron, or engage in What kind of wood furniture or something.

The Great Chu Empire officially supports it!
Well, the premise is that you have to pay taxes!
In the end, these big business gentry households calculated, oh my god, after paying taxes, the overall cost of doing business has actually been reduced...

Therefore, for quite a few families who have other businesses, especially the big gentry who do business, after the security thieves came, they did not make less money, but made more money.

Not to mention some of the business houses that have successively established relationships with the Great Chu Empire's officials to supply various military supplies for the Great Chu Empire.

Therefore, many gentry under the rule of the Great Chu Empire are actually living quite well, even more moistly than under the rule of the Ming court.

The Song family in Hanyang County, Hantian Prefecture, is such a rich and well-off gentry family.

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

Song Hongbao, the old man of the Song family, was seated at the head of the throne. On the left hand side was Song Hongbao's eldest son, Song Yinglin. The second seat was Song Hongbao's eldest grandson, Song Qixin, Song Yinglin's eldest son, and Song Yinglin's second son, Song Qishu.

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

Old Master Song looked at the crowd with squinted eyes and said: "In addition to the scriptures, it is also counted, let's start!"

"The reason why I called you all here is mainly to discuss something with you. This matter is related to the future foundation of my Song family. I can't be arbitrary. I always want to listen to what you think. After all, this family will always be Yours!"

Song Qixin, the eldest grandson of the Song family, immediately stood up with a charming smile and said, "Grandfather, if you have any orders, just ask, grandson will do his best!"

Old Master Song looked at the eldest grandson with half-closed eyes, and a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes.

This eldest grandson, who has no fart skills, knows how to play for fun. Although he usually speaks sweetly to please the elders, there is a fart use.

He is the eldest grandson of the Song family, the future Patriarch of the Song family, he will please the elders for a fart...

At the age of 23, he didn't even pass the county exam. To say that he is ignorant and incompetent is flattering him...

If this person wasn't the eldest grandson, Song Hongbao would have slapped him to death long ago.

So he ignored the man's words, but continued on his own: "Since Mr. Wang entered Hanyang last year, there have been many disturbances in my family. First, the grain store was robbed by gangsters, and the salt sales channel was cut off."

"However, there are also opportunities in the crisis. We took advantage of the wave of spinning and weaving in Hanyang last year and purchased the Lin family's weaving factory. We dared to take the line of Hantian Textile Factory a few years ago and obtained their cheap For the supply of cotton yarn, we won orders from several big commercial firms and expanded sales channels.”

"Relying on this factory, it can be regarded as making up for last year's losses!"

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

"You should have heard that Guochao has officially issued a commercial law. According to the commercial law, all commercial firms and workshops must be registered as companies, and the official registration of industry ownership and share allocation must be clearly registered!"

"Because paying taxes later, you also need to pay according to the company according to this business law, and you don't need to say more about the consequences of not paying taxes."

"Not to mention the consequences of tax evasion, but Qijing's side is not easy to do."

"Well, you should also pay attention on weekdays. You have paid all the taxes that should be paid. It is not easy for Qi Jing to work in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Don't make trouble for him."

While talking, Song Hongbao stared at the crowd again, and after a pause for a few seconds, he returned to the topic and said, "Now we have to register the Song family's commercial firms and workshops as companies according to this business law."

"The other companies and workshops are not too big, and they were assigned to you before, so you will register the companies and workshops under your control. After registration, these companies will be considered as your own. .”

"However, this weaving factory was purchased by our family last year, and it also spent a huge sum of money to buy a batch of new looms from Xiangyang Machinery Factory. It is expensive and valuable. I have been in charge of it myself before!"

"But I'm getting old, and this weaving factory is for you to take care of. Taking advantage of the company registration this time, call everyone over to discuss the distribution of shares after the weaving factory is registered as a company. !"

After finishing speaking, Song Hongbao raised his head and looked around.

In his line of sight, the other six members of the Song family had different expressions. The eldest son Song Yinglin was expressionless, the eldest grandson Song Qixin was drooling greedily, and the others had different expressions of happiness or admiration.

But no one dared to say anything at this time.

This Song family weaving factory is the largest investment of the Song family in the past ten years. Last year, it spent more than 5 taels of silver. Weaving factory.

The Lin family in Hanyang was uprooted by the Taxation Department of the Great Chu Empire long ago because of their armed resistance to taxes. The family ransacked the family and exterminated the family. The weaving business belonging to the Lin family became the official fried rice property and was subsequently auctioned publicly.

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

Although it is still a traditional manual workshop model, the scale is not small, and even if it is copied, it is still in normal operation.

Have a stable source of raw materials and sales channels for goods.

The Lin family went down, but the Lin family weaving factory did not.

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

After accepting 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 newly developed new looms from the Xiangyang Machinery Factory. Even several government-run textile factories have not yet operated large-scale new looms, and hired some of their skilled workers with high salaries. Consultants install and debug equipment.

Because these new looms have more than doubled the efficiency of the original looms.

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

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

Compared with this weaving factory, other shops and businesses worth only a few thousand taels are not worth mentioning, and even the many farms at home 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 distribute the shares, these Song family members couldn't help showing strange expressions.

Although they are all from the Song family, well, even brothers can settle accounts clearly.

There are only so many shares in this weaving factory. If others take more, they themselves will take less.

Song Hongbao said he was looking for them to discuss, but he said straight away: "Qi Jing holds [-]% of the shares in this weaving factory, and the remaining [-]% will be shared equally among the six of you, with each of you having half."

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

The total property of the Song family is only about 10,000+ taels. Except for land property, other industries add up to about 10 taels, and the weaving factory occupies [-] to [-]% of it.

Now the head of the weaving factory is given to Song Qijing, the only son of the deceased second child, and he has objections in his heart.

Although I am not as good as this younger brother in reading, and my son is not as good as Song Qijing's nephew, but I am the eldest son, and Song Qixin is the eldest grandson...

Old Master Song could also see the changes in their expressions, and he could even guess what they were thinking, but it was not important.

Today's Song family relies on him, Song Hongbao, and the future Song family will rely on Song Qijing.

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

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

The fifth son, with 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 Mr. Song's favorite sons. They are smart since childhood, study hard and have great talents.

At the age of 19, he passed the entrance examination for student members, and at the age of [-], he passed the Juren examination for the first time when he took the provincial examination. He was called a young genius for a while.

But heaven is jealous of talents, the second son contracted smallpox and died not long after he passed the exam, and before he had time to take the exam.

Only one son Song Qijing, who was only one year old at the time, was left behind, which made Song Hongbao mourn for a long time!
(End of this chapter)