The Legend of the Great Wilderness

Chapter 191 Road Tax

After eating too early, the group of people walked on the snow amid Huhu's murmurs that they were not full, and followed Guyi to the Shiyuan construction site and Qingwachang mine for a few days of investigation work, and by the way finalized the "clothing , food, housing, transportation” plan involved in various details.

Take Gu Ning around and let him take a general look at the various factories and mines over [Qingwa Ying], as well as the "oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, sugar, Tea, wine, iron" and other various processing workshops, after having an intuitive concept, Gu Yi led them back to [Sun Palace].

Double the fragrant fruit tea and a plate of snacks, everyone sat together again.

"As the business owner sees, these are the items I can come up with at present. The four aspects of 'clothing, food, housing, and transportation', 'clothing' and 'food' will form a series of group industries,' Living' can be divided into two parts, one is building materials and the other is construction team; and 'walking'..."

Guyi paused for a moment, and frowned: "Until I have a new means of transportation invented, this project cannot be carried out for the time being, but we can carry out certain infrastructure construction first, such as road construction! Merchants want to colonize the world with their goods. Is it a headache for the road conditions in various places? If every city, fort, village, village, dock, and gathering is built with concrete horse roads like our [Qingshi City], think about it, the transportation will be very slow. How convenient has it become?"

A light flashed in Gu Ning's eyes. He, who has been running a business all year round, naturally knows what Gu Yi said.

[Zhongrong County] is surrounded by mountains on three sides, because of the existence of a large number of high mountains and flowing water, the waterway network is very developed, and the water network is almost all over the whole territory. You can reach the place you want to go from any river. Transportation is carried out by large and small boats.

But after all, rivers cannot completely replace roads. Most of the time, the time it takes to transport supplies from one [Fortress] to another [Fortress] by land is even faster than going from one [Scholar City] to another [Scholar City] by water. It takes even longer to transport materials in cities, and the large amount of transportation time delayed on land undoubtedly seriously hinders the circulation of materials.

Not to mention the roads in the wilderness, even in the towns, there are only some symbolic stone slabs laid on the main roads. When the rainy season comes, the whole town becomes a big mud pond. When it got stuck, the whole convoy had to stop to find a way to get the carriages and horses out, which greatly delayed things.

If all the roads can be paved into concrete horse roads like [Qingshi City], the convenience of land transportation will be increased countless times!
but……

Gu Yi saw that Gu Ning was frowning and thinking, and seemed to be stumped by something, so he smiled and said: "The merchant is worried about the money and food for laying the concrete horse road?"

"Yes!"

Gu Ning nodded: "Although the concrete horse road is good, but if you want to pass through the counties, mansions, cities, and forts, even if the business under my name has little money, it may be a drop in the bucket. I can't afford it at all. It's just a place to build. It's not very helpful to the business, this..."

Guyi sweated for a moment, did Gu Ning want to build the entire [Zhongrong County] road by himself?

Shaking his head dumbfounded, Gu Yi said with a smile: "To build the roads of counties and prefectures, there is no need for commercial investment! On the contrary, we not only don't need to invest, but also make a lot of money!"

Gu Ning and the others looked at Gu Yi in puzzlement, not only did they not need to pay, but they also made a lot of money?
"After the cement road is repaired, we are not the only ones to use it. It is impossible for us to pay for the road construction, right?"

Gu Yi explained: "Once the horse road is repaired, it will be a good thing for the counties, prefectures, cities, and forts, right? Whether it is for the circulation of resources between towns, commercial development, or for the mobilization of military forces and the transportation of luggage, it will have a great impact. The business owner can completely treat our cement as a commodity and sell it to the county kings, mansions, city orders, and castles in charge of counties, mansions, cities, and forts, and let them pay for the construction of horse roads!"

Everyone, including Si Xiaonuo, stared at Guyi with weird eyes, and the word "profiteer!" was almost written on his face. This is a typical way of changing concepts secretly, although what he said is correct, The construction of horse trails is indeed beneficial to the commerce and military of the counties and prefectures, but the most profitable ones are undoubtedly merchants like Yu Ning.

But now Gu Yi asked Gu Ning not only to not spend a dime, but also to let others spend money to buy cement to build horse trails for his use. Isn't this a profiteer?
Although Gu Ning was born in the Nanwan merchant family, people in the Great Wilderness are very honest and trustworthy. Even merchants follow the law of promises, and they will never be like the merchants in Guyi's original world. Two, shoddy.

Most of the time, merchants in the Great Wilderness are more important to the integrity and credibility of their business than how much money they can earn. This can be seen from the behavior of Gu Ning when he first exchanged the gold grains from Guyi. One for two hundred is one for two hundred, and Gu Yi will never deliberately lower the price because Gu Yi doesn't know the other functions of Jin Jingli.

Therefore, Gu Ning struggled a lot with Gu Yi's proposal, but the tangled expression made Gu Yi think that he was doubting the feasibility of this matter, so he then analyzed for him: "Of course, if those city orders, Baozheng is short-sighted and can't see the benefits of building the horse trail, or because he doesn't have enough money to get the money and food to build the horse trail, we can use another method to proceed!"

Gu Ning listened intently after hearing the words, although he was a little hard to accept Guyi's proposal, but after changing the concept, he accepted what Guyi said, after the road is repaired, they are not the only ones who use it.

"If the city decree and the fort are unwilling to pay or cannot afford the money and food, we can ask the town manager for preferential policies to build the horse trail! I call this the 'construction industry'."

Gu Yi said with a smile: "Whether it is to let the town manager exempt the business tax of the business, or to approve a piece of land for the business to build various shops in our plan, and to build a bustling road section, or to promise public funds to purchase the business All kinds of goods, or paying in installments in the form of overpaying loans, can all be exchanged for our firm to undertake the construction of the horse trail."

"If it's not possible, you can also ask the town administrators to grant a large number of slave laborers to help the merchants build horse roads. They are embarrassed to not even pay the slave people's rations for this work for them?"

Gu Yi clicked his mouth: "The most important thing is, if our company undertakes the construction of the horse trail, they can't let us suffer, right? Ask them for a policy of charging 'travel tax', and set up card fees on the built horse trail , any pedestrians and vehicles who need to use this horse path will need to pay a 'road tax' to pass until we recover the investment in the construction of the horse path!"

"Of course, we spent a lot of money and food to build horse roads, which will definitely cause a stagnation of the working capital of the commercial bank. Even if it can be recovered through road taxation, it will be a very long process. In this process, due to the stagnation of working capital The losses caused must also be calculated into the cost!"

"Also, the maintenance and repair costs incurred during the use of the Tsushima Road will also be gradually added to the road tax and gradually collected back. This collection process may take as long as several years or even decades..."

Gu Yi said with a smile: "The profit of this, the business owner should be able to estimate it? People who live near the horse road for short distances, we don't need to collect road tax, but horses and vehicles traveling long distances must be charged. ? As for the merchants who transport supplies, we provide them with such a good road environment, so we don’t need to charge more? I think it’s good to collect a road tax of one small gold for a horse and two small gold for a car!”

Gu Ning was dumbfounded, it was just building a road, how could it be like this?

The cost of building roads?
In addition to buying the material called "cement" from [Qingwa City], which can turn mud into stone, and the rations of the slaves recruited to build the horse road, do they have a gross cost?

Don't look at one small gold for a horse, and two small gold for a car. The cost is not high, but you can't stand the crowd!How many people come and go between the two cities every day?
If the floating population is calculated based on one percent of the total local population, a [Rong Fort] with a population of 50 will have to collect a "road tax" of 250 dajin to 20 dajin a day, which is ten dollars a year. [-] to [-] Daikin!
According to what Guyi said, this "trade tax" will be collected for several years or even decades, so it will be calculated as a compromise of ten years. A horse road between two [Rong Forts] can recover 100 million to 200 million yuan. What is the actual cost of Wandajin's profits?
This is still calculated according to the minimum standard!
At present, due to the problem of "difficulty on the road", people generally do not travel far when they have nothing to do, which makes it difficult to leave home for a hundred miles. However, once the road is opened and the road conditions are improved, the business environment and the number of floating population will inevitably appear With the rapid increase in geometric figures, the amount of "trade tax" will inevitably increase sharply!

It was Ruan Ning himself, thinking about it, spending a small amount of money to make the caravan's trucks unimpeded, it is really nothing to merchants like them.

Black!too dark!

The most important thing is that the most fundamental purpose of building the horse road is to provide a good road environment for the business company under the name of Gu Ning, but he didn't spend a penny, and he can still collect decades of "road tax" , Isn't this borrowing other people's chickens to lay their own eggs?

Gu Yi's method of tearing down the east wall to make up for the west made Gu Ning amazed, but this was not the whole plan of Gu Yi.

Gu Yi thought for a while and said: "Of course, the income from the 'road tax' can only be recovered slowly after the horse road is built. We plan to quickly lay the horse road network in the whole [Zhongrong County] in a short period of time. Come on, it won't help much."

(End of this chapter)