Chapter 918 Business Reform
At present, there are two main problems in Luoshi's business:
First, the exchange rate issue between gold, silver, copper within the territory and gold, silver and copper of external forces in the territory. Since the Luo family mastered more advanced smelting technology, the quality of gold, silver and copper coins among the private coins minted by the Luo family itself is much better than that of the private coins minted by other forces in the Warring States Period. Therefore, when the Luo family’s internal affairs cabinet trades with external forces, they trade with the other party based on the proportional standard that ensures that the Luo family does not suffer losses.
However, with the continuous expansion of the territory of the Luo Family, it is actually difficult to control the commercial behavior in border areas and even internal areas. Therefore, many merchants tried their best to bypass the Luo Family's internal affairs cabinet and directly traded with the Luo Family's subordinates. The transaction method was to directly use the inferior private money they had and exchanged with the private money issued by the Luo Family internal affairs cabinet at the same price as the surface currency value, and then the subordinates took these inferior private money to the inner affairs cabinet and exchanged it with the Luo Family's private money. In this way, the Luo Family naturally suffered a loss.
Of course, in order to prevent this situation, the Luo family could directly issue new laws to forcibly stop the act of replacing private money from other forces with private money issued by the Luo family. However, this period was a critical period when the Luo family vigorously promoted the circulation of private money from their own minted within the Luo family, thus establishing a complete money system within the Luo family. The way of replacing private money from other forces in the hands of the people is also one of the ways to encourage the Luo family's own coins to deeply grasp the daily lives of the people. For this reason, the Luo family also issued relevant laws. Now it has been suddenly cancelled or even eliminated, which is tantamount to the self-paced face.
Another serious problem is the entanglement of the relationship between the Inner Party and the Luo Family. When the Luo Family started, due to the limited family strength and the limited territory, it is necessary to let the Inner Party directly control the commerce of the territory, which is conducive to the Luo Family concentrating all manpower and material resources in the territory to develop the territory. However, after more than ten years of development, the commercial system in the Luo Family territory has gradually been formed. The Inner Party directly controls the commerce of the territory, which in turn restricts the development of the internal commerce of the territory, and also continuously consumes various materials accumulated by the Luo Family. To put it clearly, in the past, when the Inner Party controlled the commerce of the territory, the income was not as good as paying. The Inner Party's investment expenditure on the territory every year was often greater than the income obtained from commerce.
Due to this for a long time, some of the retainers in the Interior Cabinet have gradually formed the habit of "spend money anyway, just spend it casually", and lack the concept of "making money from money" and earning benefits for the Luo family (in modern civilization, the most prominent example of this situation is the state-owned enterprises of the Celestial Empire). Moreover, because the Interior Cabinet controls the entire process of raw materials, production and sale of commodities, to a certain extent, it also restricts the prosperity of free commerce in the territory. This has further led to the difficulty of forming a "making money from money" system among the people. If the Luo family intends to obtain more commercial income from the territory in the future, this model must be changed.
Moreover, due to the entangled relationship between the internal affairs cabinet and the territorial shopping malls, some problems will arise in it. The problems of this era are not only money or power, but also involve wars with other forces and even the life and death of one's own family.
It was precisely because he had discovered several problems of retainers in the territory from the Territory Intelligence Cabinet and the law enforcement. Zhengliang gradually realized this problem. So Zhengliang decided to establish a new business system that was more suitable for the territory.
In terms of external aspects, this new commercial system must completely change the Luo family from the previous raw materials and finished products to a commercial place where they only sell finished products and continuously absorb raw materials and finished products from external forces. As for the internal raw materials, they must be retained or only opened to the internal. At the same time, by selling their own products, another war against other forces economically and culturally.
In terms of internal affairs, the Inner Court will be completely separated from the Luo Family House. The Inner Court is responsible for comprehensively controlling the various raw materials in the territory and controlling the sale of various raw materials (most raw materials are not allowed to be sold, only a part of raw materials such as salt fields and fishery are allowed to be sold). At the same time, it is responsible for the production of some Luo Family's unique products and important products (such as snow salt, sugar, silk, paper, books, ships, weapons workshops, cement workshops, etc.). In general, the Inner Court is responsible for controlling the production of raw materials and some important products, which not only controls the economy of the territory from the source, but also monitors the development of the territory's economy from the perspective of outsiders, ensures the good development of the territory's economy, and then gives up part of the business and trade power to make profits by the people.
The reason for this is mainly for the development of the Luo family. After all, this era is not a modern civilized society. If we imitate modern society to create a so-called free trade or something, then Zhengliang will be really cramped. If the Luo family still wants to control the territory, prevent the territory's economy from falling into chaos, and provide more support for the development and expansion of the Luo family, then the above aspects will definitely not be allowed to be opened.
As for the Luo Family House, which was separated from the Interior Pavilion, it will trade with the Interior Pavilion as a private merchant house, and at the same time trade with other private merchant houses inside the territory and other merchant houses outside the territory as a merchant house. In this regard, Luo Family House has become a private trade merchant house representing the Luo Family's internal and external business houses.
In addition, Luoshi House will also purchase raw materials that can be sold from the Interior Cabinet to produce some goods that are needed for daily life in the Luoshi family. Overall, Luoshi House has both internal and external trade powers in private trade. It is also the only commercial house that has both internal and foreign trade powers. Since almost all the owners of the commercial house are Zhengliang's women, it is actually an important source of property for Zhengliang's private vault.
As for other shopping malls within the Luo Family Territory, these shopping malls only have the power to trade domestically. They will participate in the trade within the Luo Family in two ways. One is to join a franchise store to become branches of the Luo Family Territory in various places. All sales methods and management methods are strictly followed by the Luo Family House, and the owner will receive dividends for the business of the shopping mall. This was determined by Zhengliang deliberately based on the business methods in the later civilization era.
Chapter completed!