The problem of salt tax was solved, followed by the problem of iron smelting.

Iron ore is not a very rare resource for Liaodong. One of the eight major iron ore sources in later generations, Liaodong is listed. Angang, Benxi Steel, Fushun Special Steel, and Yingkou Steel, which are well-known 1,800 years later, are all from Liaodong and are best sold all over the country.

As a steel seller who has been working in the steel industry for nearly ten years in his previous life, Gongsun Xiu is very familiar with this aspect.

Liaodong has abundant iron ore resources, but its iron smelting capacity is low. The weapons and agricultural tools they build are shoddy. Due to the limitations of the times, the quality is not very good.

Gongsun Xiu read the files from previous years and was very puzzled: "Lao Jia, why are the farm tools excavated, forged and sold by iron officials from mines? In this way, wouldn't they be monopolized by the government all links?"

Jia Fan said: "The king, iron is an important material and should not be given to the people easily. Otherwise, if someone casts weapons and intends to rebel, it will become the root of the national turmoil. In addition, if the government digs iron ore, then casts agricultural tools with iron ore, and then sells them uniformly, the profits of each link will be taxes from the government. Wouldn't this be better?"

Gongsun Xiu laughed in surprise and said, "Isn't this behavior competing for profit with the people?"

Jia Fan was stunned: "But you can't hand over the mine to private businessmen, right?"

"Of course not. The mine is owned by the government, but casting and selling are left to private merchants for free for sale."

He thought carefully before he decided.

Jia Fan couldn't help but be surprised: "Why is this?"

Gongsun Xiudao: "Since this year, Sima Yi's Long March in Liaodong has been almost in dire straits, and most of the people are displaced and unable to make a living. Their own rights to cast and sell are transferred to the households."

Jia Fan couldn't help but open his mouth: "Will the country's taxes be gone?"

"not necessarily."

He gave a tentative example and smiled: "Iron ore is from the government. Iron ore is sold to the households to forge it into agricultural tools. When defining property rights, selling licenses, and giving the right to sell to merchants, the government can collect ten zhu coins for each agricultural tool. In this way, the displaced people will have a living to do, and the merchants have something to sell, and the government will not have to spend national efforts to make iron tools when taxes are obtained, and the three parties will benefit."

Jia Fan was confused and said in surprise: "Your Majesty, what does this 'definition property rights' mean? Which classic is it from?"

Gongsun Xiu laughed, "No scriptures and no books are created by himself. For example, the whole of Liaodong is waiting for winter plowing, and urgently needs shovels, plows, shovels, hoes and other agricultural tools. After the people have made farm tools, we can hand over the right to sell agricultural tools to merchants. But we do not sell them at will. If you want to get this quota, you need to join - no, it is a 'tributor' to the government, once a year. This tribute does not need to be much, you can pay 50,000 yuan a year."

"There are four counties in Liaodong, Liaodong County, Xuantu County, Lelang County, and Daifang County. Each county and county are divided into areas to sell licenses and sales certificates. You can probably plan how many of them to implement. Anyway, the more the better. For each additional one, the more tribute will be 50,000 yuan. If the merchant obtains the sales license, he will naturally find a way to sell agricultural tools."

After explaining this detailed explanation, Jia Fan understood: "The king's plan means to use labor for relief, right?"

Gongsun Xiu nodded and said, "Yes, you understand the meaning of Gu, but not everything."

The raw material of iron tools is iron ore. The iron ore is in the hands of the government, and the government becomes the upstream of the entire supply chain. The iron ore sold each time contains taxes, which is also the iron ore profit of Yan State.

The displaced people will not hang out idle and get a meager wage without having to distribute food to disaster relief one by one if they have to go to the government to distribute food and disaster relief one by one.

The most important thing is that merchants. If a merchant wants to become an agent for selling iron tools, they must pay tribute first. The tribute of a merchant is 50,000 yuan, and the tribute of a hundred merchants is 5 million yuan. The government almost does not need to produce any equipment, information, and manpower to get 5 million yuan out of thin air. Moreover, every piece of agricultural tools sold by the merchant needs to pay a fee of ten yuan. After the small amount of ten yuan increases, it can also become a terrifying number.

Here we need to distinguish between state-owned and private. Since ancient times, the efficiency and innovation of state-owned enterprises have always been lower than that of private enterprises. There is no other reason, because there is no incentive mechanism, the state-owned enterprises (i.e., the government) do not have the enthusiasm to implement it seriously, and it is not their own if they make money. Many times, the state-owned enterprises do not aim at profit as their goal, which has always been true since ancient times.

It's different now. It has become a market economy. Merchants sell agricultural tools. Smart and merciless merchants will inevitably come up with ways to make money.

In less than a year, the government will increase the tax on iron smelting by a little, and the people will not be unemployed, and merchants will make money. As long as the people have money on hand, the government will not be afraid of not being able to collect taxes, but is afraid of being poor and destitute and having no oil or water to make.

Emperor Wu of Han saw that after the reign of Wen and Jing, he was rich in the people, so he made a calculating order and sued the corrupt government, which could bankrupt the middle-class families in the country. First, he made a calculating order so that the family had assets such as carriages and houses had to be paid taxes on their own. Later, he made a calculating order. The people reported that others had property but did not pay taxes, and the calculating person could also get a share of the pie. However, after the calculating person sued the corrupt officials, he became rich, and he was inevitably not a calculating property. He was reported by others. After several rounds of struggle, the private property was all in the treasury.

Jia Fan admired him very much, which made the entire Liaodong merchants and households active, and praised: "The king followed this law to solve the three major strategies for disaster relief, taxation, and enriching the people."

If Ronald Cos, the Nobel Prize winner in 1991, could hear Jafan's praise, he would probably be even more excited than winning the Nobel Prize.

He went behind him, slept on the dragon bed, crossed his legs, and said with a smile: "It is usually the most difficult thing for a wise ruler to govern. Perhaps the government orders were released from the palace, and the original intention was good, but because an edict went through level 18 or even level 20 to implement it to the people of the people. What changes are there? Corruption and misuse are unimaginable."

Jia Fan also nodded: "It is true that only by making politics clear and from top to bottom can politics be well-versed."

Gongsun Xiu turned over and said with a smile: "I will tell Mr. Jia a story about the fact that after the Kingdom of India was enslaved by the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of England sent a governor to govern India. At that time, the Government of England was full of snakes. The Governor of England was very angry and ordered that if someone caught a snake, he would be rewarded with money and silk. Guess what happened later?"

Jia Fan knew that India was the ancient general term for India and the Indian subcontinent, but English was unknown. He understood the story and replied tentatively: "The Governor promised money and silk rewards. There must be warriors who caught snakes one after another. I can't imagine that there will be no snakes in India in a few years."

Gongsun Xiu shook his head: "In the first two years, there were indeed fewer snakes, but there were more snakes in India after that, and it was impossible to cut off."

After hearing this, Jia Fan couldn't help but whispered, "Why does snakes increase instead of reducing their value? Could it be that the governor went back on his word, or the Indians feared snakes like tigers and dared not capture them?"

He couldn't help laughing to the sky and waved his hand, "No, the Governor of England keeps his promise. Whenever someone catches a snake, he will collect it according to the price and will never deny it."
Chapter completed!