Chapter 835: King Pingxi who eats soft rice
In half a month, the Spring Festival of the ninth year of Guangxi will be ushered in. -- () King Pingxi was as generous as ever, and still distributed New Year red envelopes to the increasing population of more than 10 million under his rule. This seems to have become a habit in his life.
This time, the gift package used 30 million taels of silver from the outer warehouse of the Pingxi Prince's Mansion, but Zhao Xing didn't even blink. The so-called outer warehouse refers to the dividend income returned by all industries that the Zhao family once invested in.
Zhao Xing asked Liu Jili and Qin Yilu to spend 10 million taels to purchase New Year's goods worth one tael of silver for each household, and cleared all the meat products and consumables accumulated in the treasury in various places; he injected two million taels of silver into the established "Serious Illness Medical Fund", "Poverty Alleviation and Relief Fund" and "Doctory Pension Fund" respectively, so that these three funds cover all regions, including the Northeast and the Western Regions.
A new "Education Popularization Fund" was established, with a one-time investment of 4 million taels of silver, mainly used to promote six-year popularization of education and carry out the national literacy campaign; a new "Technology Innovation Fund" was established, with a two million taels of silver, mainly used to support the in-depth development of various handicraft industries to "high-end and sophisticated"; a new "Women and Children Relief Fund" was established, mainly used to popularize maternal and child health and reproductive health, with a two million taels of silver; a new "Outdoor Development Support Fund" was established, mainly for the business travelers around the world to engage in various commercial and development activities outside the territory of the Han Dynasty, and invested 6 million taels of silver.
In the past, people did not understand what "chicken gold" was. Now after a year of operation, many people have received benefits and help from it. Everyone understands that what King Pingxi gave to everyone is indeed a big gift. This year, four funds were established again, and representatives from all parties who wanted to be the head of this fund were already squeezed out. (_--) Everyone did not make a profit, but wanted to have a good reputation that would last forever!
The annual income of the outer warehouse of Pingxi Wangfu comes from dividends from various industries directly invested by Pingxi Wang. These industries include not only huge farmers, soldiers, merchants, and gold shops, fat Liuyou Di Xu's Winery, Wohu Commercial Printing and Bookstore, Xianyang Snowflake Salt Field, but also a variety of workshops opened with Pingxi Wang's creative designs, such as Shangdang Dental Fittings, Jinyang Printing and Dyeing Field, Xihe Meat Connection Factory, Wuyuan Coal Floor, etc.
Zhao Xing was actually unwilling to participate in the matter of investing in various new industries and sharing dividends later on. Because he knew very well that these industry workshops opened under his direct guidance or instruction would definitely receive generous returns. In recent years, Qin Yilu, Liu Jili, Mi Zhu and others made too much money for him. When the whole world was about to fall into his hands, he did not have much interest in paying much attention to the "small things" of getting rich.
However, it seems that the heads of guilds, local governments and small shareholders of all emerging industries are very determined to demand that King Pingxi must invest, even if they only earn 10%, they will feel at ease and at ease. Because countless facts have proved that as long as King Pingxi is brought into this industry, they will surely prosper. This is an idea that is almost superstitious and blindly obedient from the people, but Zhao Xing cannot destroy the trust and enthusiasm of the people, so he has to bite the bullet and sign his name on various dividend confirmations again and again.
What made Zhao Xing even more speechless was that in the middle of the headquarters hall of these emerging industries, there must be a beautifully mounted confirmation letter signed by Zhao Xing. In this time and space, it seems that this thing is more effective than the business licenses of later generations. It is said that a thousand years later, many still prosperous industry associations regard the confirmation letter signed by "Xinghe Emperor" as a treasure of the township, and specially build a museum for protection and storage.
Zhao Xing should also like it in all walks of life. Look at how well the name is. The word "xing" symbolizes prosperity and prosperity in business; not to mention that Zhao Xing's character "Guochang", does not mean that the word "chang" means prosperity and prosperity.
Because King Pingxi has a higher prestige among the people than God of Wealth, even though Zhao Xing insisted on occupying only a small part of the equity in all industries, the annual income of all thousands of workshops, workshops, and factories combined was also a huge amount of income. According to Qin Yilu and Liu Jili, who were full of joy, came to report to Zhao Xing, this year, the input of the external warehouse alone will reach 90 million taels! Next year, it is estimated that it will reach an astonishing 120 million taels!
This is the generous reward from Zhao Xing's low-key implementation of the strategy of rest and hiding wealth among the people. He watched him become the boy who was scattered every year, but he could get endless money every year.
The reason is very simple. When the people become rich and live a comfortable life, they will naturally spend and spend money in different ways. After all this money is spent, they will become more energetic and hopefully create more wealth. In this virtuous cycle, the new wealth in the territory under Zhao Xing's rule is increasing at an astonishing rate every year. The richer the people are, the more consumption capacity will be, and the wealth flowing to Zhao Xing's treasury will be more considerable.
Of course, this rapid growth is not always sustainable. When social productivity is greatly improved and people create more new material products than the overall consumption level of society, Zhao Xing will find ways to control overproduction.
However, based on Zhao Xing's analysis, as long as there is no problem within the Han Empire, this rapid expansion can last for at least fifty years, because there are too many territory and potential consumption capacity outside the Han Dynasty that can be developed.
Just imagine how brilliant and shocking it would be when the various commodities produced by the Han Empire filled the entire world with the continuous expansion of the Han army, and the cultural thoughts of the Han Empire spread across continents with the Han scholars!
Since the Pingxi Prince's Mansion has an external warehouse, it corresponds to an internal warehouse. The income from the external warehouse is mainly used to provide Zhao Xing with the hearts of the people of the world, support the army, and maintain the internal expenses of the Zhao clan. This Zhao clan now includes the families of many core aides and generals under Zhao Xing.
The inner treasury of the Pingxi Prince's Mansion is mainly managed by Mi Zhen, and the scale is much smaller than that of the outer treasury. The income of the inner treasury mainly comes from some businesses run by Zhao Xing and the royalties of Zhang Xin and Cai Yan. For example, the second wife Myolie Wu is good at riding horses and martial arts, so she set up an equestrian association outside the city and recruited a group of Huang Xuan women who were good at riding horses, and was responsible for teaching Han women riding horses and shooting archery. Her monthly income was quite considerable;
The third wife Ren Hongchang (Diao Chan) was good at singing and dancing, so she opened a singing and dancing troupe in Wohu City, recruiting some girls who can sing and dance to come in, choreograph some good dances, teaches some very good songs, and then performs in various places, and even performs condolences in various teams. Although Zhao Xing can sing popular songs as good as Mai Ba, he still remembers a hundred and ten songs, and all Diao Chan took out of his mind, and then it turned into the income of the singing and dancing troupe.
The fifth wife Mi Zhen is good at managing finances, so she is responsible for reinvesting the money earned by several wives. As a result, the income of the inner treasury has increased year by year, and now it has reached millions of taels. All the daily expenses of the Pingxi Prince's Mansion are taken from the inner treasury. If the world knows this, I will be surprised to lose my chin. The wealthy King Pingxi, who is as rich as a country, is actually supported by a group of women? This is too outrageous!
To describe it in popular words in the Wohu City, Zhao Xing is completely "soft-hearted"! However, if the people of the world can have such a good "king" who can eat soft-heartedly for generations, it would be a great blessing.
Chapter completed!