The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 198 Excess Issuance and Commodity Distribution Centers

When China Heavy Industry only had a steam engine factory, the accounting office only needed to keep accounts, purchase raw materials, workers' wages, factory expenses, profit balance, etc.

Later, a coke refinery, engineering team, and railway engineering team were established...

From the separate account rooms of each factory, gradually merged, responsible for the total income, expenditure and procurement of all factories, the workload became more complicated.

If there are changes, there will be improvements. In daily affairs, the accounting office will eventually become the financial department, and the prototype of many financial systems in later generations will emerge accordingly.

Cai Wen briefly introduced the recent work situation, the cooperation with the food stamp bank, and the details of the issuance of food stamps.

"The issuance of food stamps is greater than the exchange. The money savings in silver warehouses is not a big problem. The main ones are granaries, which are not easy to store and consume a lot of maintenance. Is it possible to set up a grain bank?"

Hearing this, Zhu Gaochi was more cautious.

Finance is very important, and the bigger the scale, the more important finance is.

There are many institutional problems in Daming. From an economic point of view, the core of Daming's problems is the unsound finances.

Zhu Gaochi has read a professional book about the finance of Ming Dynasty.

Because of the thick general book and the content is relatively boring, Zhu Gaochi only skimmed the outline.

It mentioned that from the beginning to the end of the Ming Dynasty, a complete and dedicated financial department was not established, which led to many economic problems.

This is also the advantage of all people in future generations. Even if they are not proficient, they will always be exposed to all kinds of information because of the information explosion.

Just like war.

Ordinary people in Ming Dynasty can only understand it from books and rely on their own imagination, while ordinary people in later generations have already been bombarded by various blockbuster movies, and even developed their own war ideas through some excellent war games.

It looks like a joke, but fundamentally, it has exceeded the level of ordinary people in Daming by an unknown amount.

As well as various experts and textbooks' summaries of Daming's problems, they can be compared to outstanding officials when it comes to raising questions.

Therefore, Cai Wen's question involved specific affairs, so Zhu Gaochi was more cautious and did not force himself to guide the work.

"In the general direction, we can put forward opinions, but on the specific issues of financial affairs, Mr. Cai understands better than us, so we can only give pointers." Zhu Gaochi laughed.

Cai Wen also smiled afterwards.

The saint, the prince and the little prince, the three generations have different styles of doing things.

The character of the sage in doing things is that he pays attention to everything, manages everything himself, and requires people to do things according to his regulations.

Later, Cai Wen came to the palace and became Zhu Di's vassal.

The prince acts like a father, but he is not as persistent as a saint.

In the generation of the young prince, the young prince likes to delegate power and leave things to experienced people. He is only responsible for general direction guidance and daily supervision.

The three generations have a distinct style of doing things, which is in the shape of a ladder. Cai Wen likes the style of the young prince, so he was invited by the young prince to join China Heavy Industries, and he agreed without hesitation.

The establishment of the entire financial system was an idea proposed by the little prince, and it was Cai Wen who created the idea and integrated it into China Heavy Industry.

"Because of the unique status of China Heavy Industry and the advantages of the industrial chain, although the overall profit is declining, the inflow of money in the industry is greater than the expenditure."

"This has led to the fullness of the silver warehouses and granaries, but if this situation is maintained, it will not only be detrimental to the finances of the headquarters, but will also increase expenses."

"So my subordinates believe that a reasonable reduction of positions is conducive to the healthy development of the financial system." Cai Wen introduced in detail.

Zhu Gaochi understood what Cai Wen meant, and asked cautiously, "Will spreading the word affect the reputation of the food stamps?"

Cai Wen shook his head, with a confident expression on his face, "The issuance of food stamps is one-to-one with money and food. Because of the good market returns from the headquarters, under the current food stamp system, more food stamps can be issued."

"From an economic point of view, it is beneficial to the food stamp system. It does not affect the inside, but outsiders will be more or less worried, so the subordinates came up with a method that can not only solve this problem, but also increase the number of people. Confidence in food stamps."

Cai Wen's words successfully aroused Zhu Gaochi's interest.

He established food stamps, and sooner or later he will embark on this path. If the food stamps are successfully recognized by the people, they will be able to play a leveraged role in industrial development.

"What's Mr. Cai's idea?" Zhu Gaochi asked curiously.

"The government's land reclamation plan started last year, and a lot of new land has been reclaimed this year. We can monopolize the surplus grain in these new fields and set up a grain bank in Beiping Province."

Zhu Gaochi shook his head and sighed, "I'm afraid it won't be easy."

Northern Parallel Province is very large, and there are many households in the central and southern regions, which are self-sufficient in food and rich, but in the north, especially everywhere, most of them are guards, and food needs to be supplied from the south.

Then even if Beiping has new fields, the surplus food, in addition to paying taxes, will be distributed to the northern border guards by the government.

As well as tools such as armored bows, arrows, firearms, gunpowder, beans, grains, livestock baskets, hemp ropes and other tools distributed to the Beiping guards every year, all require the support of the government.

"Essentially, even if it's just an aisle hand, it's also beneficial to the grain bank." Cai Wen said with a smile, and patiently explained.

It turned out that Zhu Gaochi understood what Cai Wen meant.

Even if food is still supplied to the frontier guards, there are many more things that can be used in the process, which is the same as the later generations of Internet treasures.

Relying on this advantage, the status of food stamps can be stabilized and people can trust food stamps more. Then combined with the current balance, food stamps can be issued in excess.

One to one, becomes one to two.

What is important is not the extra money. In essence, it is not the money of China Heavy Industries. The food stamps with multiple hair styles are tantamount to invisible IOUs.

Instead, by using food stamps, China Heavy Industries has the right to use them.

A book of 5 taels can do 5 taels of things, and a book of 5 taels can do what [-] taels of food stamps can do.

With the development, it gradually becomes one to three, four for one stroke, ten for one stroke... Even without that one, you can do impossible things.

Whether it is binding gold and silver, or food, or the United States abolished the gold standard in later generations, and developed to control oil, etc., one of the main reasons is to protect the status of "food stamps".

"This matter can be handled, but I'm afraid the government will be troublesome." Zhu Gaochi said with a frown. In fact, the best partner for cooperation is military households.

However, in recent years, there have been too many cooperation matters between the palace and the guards. If it continues, the gains will not be worth the losses, which will arouse the vigilance of the court.

The "honeymoon period" of the palace and the government has also come to an end with the appointment of a large number of chief officials. In order to prolong this "honeymoon period" as much as possible, Zhu Gaochi is not willing to pierce it.

"The grain business has existed since ancient times, and the forces behind it are complicated. There are countless grain businesses in the Jianghuai area. Merchants who opened China and France buy countless grains every year. It is not a big deal for the palace to intervene." Cai Wen disagrees.

Zhu Gaochi understood, which is why he was asked to be in charge of the finance department.

In addition to Cai Wen's professional ability, he also has the status of a miscellaneous official, and he dares to open his mouth in front of the government when he speaks more than Baishen.

"Mr. Cai is responsible for this matter, try not to cause new problems." Zhu Gaochi hesitated for a moment, and finally supported the other party.

There must be risks in doing something, and this matter will not threaten the palace. Zhu Gaochi is willing to take risks compared to the benefits he can get.

"And Xiao Jiu filed a complaint with us, what happened to the funding of the R&D department?"

Cai Wen smiled: "Master Xiaojiu has nothing to say about his skills, but the management is still a little insufficient. The funds of the R&D department have been reported by Master Xiaojiu very early, but the result is always exceeded every time."

"The R&D department has a lot of problems. We have also considered whether to find someone with deep experience to take care of the R&D department."

Zhu Gaochi said slowly: "But the work of the R&D department is unusual, and it can't be followed step by step. It still focuses on technology."

"For some things, you should take more care and take care of them. You must control and encourage them."

"My subordinates understand what the little prince means. Don't worry, the little prince. Please leave the problems of the R&D department to the subordinates."

After Cai Wen was sent to the building, Zhu Gaochi and Cai Wen separated, left the Finance Department, and returned to Beiping City.

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Beiping City, the Jishuitan in the upper reaches of Tonghui Hebei, was the end point of water transportation. Until the Yongle period, when Beiping City was rebuilt, water boats could no longer enter Jishuitan.

present.

In an open space at the pier, this place has also been turned into a construction site.

Using masonry, cement and iron bar technology, a series of low-rise buildings were built, roughly in the shape of a hundred or so.

It is laid out in the shape of a "well", and the largest building in the middle is kept by China Heavy Industry for its own use.

The foundation has already been fixed and is still a few months away from completion.

Xu Ning, Ma Lin and others accompanied Zhu Gaochi to inspect the progress of the construction site, and several houses had already been built.

One of the three-story houses, where someone was transporting wood, seemed to be being renovated.

"Who struck so fast?" Zhu Gaochi asked curiously.

Marin on the side hurried forward and replied with a smile: "The owner of Baiwei Restaurant."

"Huizhou merchants are courageous."

Zhu Gaochi praised, he himself didn't know if he could succeed.

His plan was originally to build a commodity distribution center here to replace part of the functions of Beipingfang City.

Considered Tianjin, but still chose Peiping.

The population and consumption of Beiping are larger than that of Tianjin. The current Tianjin economy has not yet developed and has not reached the ideal state of Zhu Gaochi.

In the future, merchants traveling from south to north can buy all goods here and become the center of bulk commodity trade.

It is not a new thing, similar to the trading center of medicinal materials in "The Mansion Gate", but Zhu Gaochi's plan is more sound and larger.

Then there is the warehouse built, which can solve the warehouse problem of merchants.

"The management of the warehouse must be transparent, there must be no behavior of bullying the market, and if it is found, it will be dealt with severely."

Zhu Gaochi gave orders as he walked, and the stewards behind him took notes one after another, looking good.

According to the principle of economic development, with the current market level, the construction of a bulk commodity trading center here meets the needs of businessmen and the needs of China Heavy Industry.

Even without China Heavy Industries, after Beiping becomes Beijing, there will still be similar temple fairs.

(End of this chapter)