Chapter 746 Tang En’s Simple Capital
Human beings are social creatures, but also selfish creatures. If you tell a person, please dedicate yourself to a great goal, you will definitely be regarded as a fool.
But if you say I give you money and you give me a job, it is natural.
When productivity continues to grow and wealth privatization occurs, classes emerge.
The gap between rich and poor will widen the distance between classes, increase a large number of irreconcilable contradictions, and eventually lead to the outbreak of war...
Of course, what we want to discuss is not the issue of social form and contradictions. What we need to discuss is the role of wealth in society.
In the eyes of many people, wealth is wealth, a symbol of a person's status and power. If you have wealth, you have everything.
This idea is both correct and incorrect.
Wealth is certainly a symbol of status, but this idea is too narrow.
Wealth can be used to purchase labor power.
For a person who only focuses on the present and has a narrow vision, occupying wealth is just to occupy more social resources so that he can achieve a superior life and enjoy life better.
For rulers, wealth is the catalyst and lubricant of society. The ruled country continues to develop due to the circulation of wealth. Everyone contributes their labor and creativity in order to obtain more wealth.
However, for a truly ambitious person, wealth is actually a power to redistribute social resources.
Once you master wealth, you have the qualifications to allocate social resources.
When a person has enough wealth, he will have a certain say in the development direction of the entire society.
By adjusting the direction of wealth circulation, it indirectly guides the structural transformation of the entire social industry, so that the society can develop in the direction he wants.
In fact, this influence has always existed in the process of human development, but many people have not discovered it.
For example, the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War caused Soviet society to completely lean toward the development of heavy industry. The complete disconnect between light industry and agriculture led to the final tragic outcome.
Don't think it's incredible. After all, the vast majority of human beings are short-sighted. They will only instinctively pursue immediate interests. It is too difficult for them to have foresight and consider the overall situation.
And what Tang En is currently doing in Purandal is actually like this.
Create industry monopolies through inspiration and technology, gain a large amount of wealth through industry monopolies, and then guide the society to develop in his ideal direction through the redistribution of wealth...
In this process, collecting money is important, but it is not the most important. The most important thing is how to spend the money where it should be spent.
Ellington's industrial foundation is becoming more and more solid, and the number of things it produces is getting larger and larger, and the quality is getting better and better, from the mint candy mint essential oil soap at the beginning to now various magic furniture and unique Harley-Davidson motorcycles, etc., the product lines of Datang Chamber of Commerce have spanned all fields from low-end to high-end.
However, although high-end products can greatly promote the development process of society, it would be embarrassing if the per capita income is too low to afford the price of such products.
So what Tang En needs to do is to build factories in various cities, then hire a large number of employees to work for him, and at the same time increase the overall salary level, allowing people's income to further increase rapidly.
The higher their income, the stronger their sense of identification with Twain, the wider the sales of those products, and the better they develop.
"If you want to expand the factory, you can consider moving some products with low technical content to other places for production."
Tang En reminded Fiona: "Just like our glass factory, it is much better to build it on the Preston side of Stone City than in Ellington."
Fiona said very proudly: "The residents of Preston are now very grateful to the Datang Chamber of Commerce. The jobs we provided have supported nearly one-third of the poor there. Now glass has become one of Preston's specialties. One, Earl Haydon has proposed more than once to further expand the production capacity of quartz mines and glass factories.”
Tang En burst into laughter: "Does he want all the unemployed people in Preston to work in the glass factory?"
"After all, no chamber of commerce can provide so many jobs except us."
What Fiona said is the truth. In the current social environment of Purandal, in addition to large-scale industrial production that requires so many people, so many people are only needed in mines and farmland.
But going to the mines to mine? The mortality rate of miners entering the mines without protective measures is as high as 30%!
Those people would rather farm.
The quartz mine situation in Preston is much better, because Ellington provides a complete set of mana mining equipment, from rails, mine carts, lighting miner helmets to mana drills, etc. With these equipment, the mining of quartz ore The speed has more than doubled, and the safety level has also been improved a lot.
The city lord, Earl Haydn, was of course happy.
“Since it works well, let’s keep doing it.”
Tang En knocked on the table, pondered for a moment, and then said: "Ellington's future development will mainly focus on heavy industry, oh, it refers to the magic machinery and finishing industries. What we have to do is to lead the development of the entire Purandal. , as for those light industries, such as food, textiles, leather, papermaking, daily necessities, culture, education, art, sports goods and other related industries, the production is gradually transferred to other cities, promoting each city to have its own unique characteristic industries, so as to enhance market response capabilities. "
"These industries are basically controlled by the big chambers of commerce, and they may not be willing to follow our arrangements."
Tang En smiled slightly and pointed to the documents on the table: "Sometimes, the arms cannot twist the thighs, and a piece of policy can make them bow their heads. Do you believe it?"
Fiona was startled, and then she suddenly realized: "Do you want to control the transfer of industries by issuing urban support policies?"
"bingo."
Tang En said with a smile: "Don't forget, businessmen are profit-seeking. As long as there are sufficiently favorable policies, they will take action without us asking."
Fiona nodded and asked another question: "But now the city lords have great autonomy, and the imperial capital's laws may not be enforceable by them."
"So," Tang En's smile became a little weird, "the technology we just broke through allows us to govern territories thousands of miles away even in the imperial capital..."
Of course, what Tang En is talking about is the magic communicator developed based on the micro magic circle and magic wave theory. Once this kind of magic modified mobile phone really appears on the market, its functions will be even more powerful than the phone - this thing has been around since the beginning. You can bring your own video calls right from the start!
When Fiona heard this, she finally understood the significance of what Tang En had been constantly urging the institute to do.
The backwardness of communication means resulted in low centralized control over local governments. Even if an order was sent between two cities using a flying monster, it would often take several days. This delay was very fatal.
If messages can reach their destination instantly, it means that the central government has unprecedentedly strong control over local governments.
"In other words, because our technology has made a breakthrough, you no longer have to worry about the city lords becoming independent after becoming powerful, so you plan to increase investment in other cities?"
"That's understandable."
Fiona tapped her forehead lightly with the pen in her hand, constantly thinking about the gains and losses in her mind.
If we only relied on Ellington, it would undoubtedly be fanciful to reach the industrial age that Twain aimed for. It would take too long, and Twain couldn't afford to wait.
Now that the micro-magic array replica technology has made a breakthrough, as long as the problems of the central server and the laying of signal towers are solved, the magic phone can be launched on the market immediately.
Once the magic phone becomes popular, the information exchange in the entire Purandar will be instantly upgraded to another level, and the frequency and quantity of exchanges will be greatly increased. In this process, countless thinking collisions will bring great benefits to the world. push.
Whenever he thought that all this was brought about by himself, Tang En would feel inexplicably excited.
"Okay, I took note of it."
Fiona summarized the ideas put forward by Tang En. First, she would spend money to open a driving school in Ellington to train drivers and a group of driving school teachers, and then she would spend money to open driving schools in other cities to prepare for the sales of Magic Cars. , then spend money to build buses, spend money to improve transportation in Yalinks, and then spend money to invest in supporting light industries in other cities and revitalize the overall economic situation of the Illus Empire...
To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that Harley motorcycles were about to be sold and a large amount of gold coins would be earned, Fiona really wanted to reject all the ideas he put forward.
Because the stall is too big, funds are tight!
Don’t forget, the Datang Chamber of Commerce is not just making money, it is still burning money every day!
Although they say that if you want to get rich, you must first plant trees...ah, build roads first, but how many people know the cost of building roads?
Although the cooperation with Star Diamond Bank saves a lot of capital investment, there must be no less money spent in the early stage.
Although the Magic Energy Engineering Research Institute has developed many products, it also burns a lot of gold coins every month. Those expensive magic materials are not only provided by Tang En, but a large part of them are purchased from the market—— There was no way, Tang En didn't prepare the low-end materials at all, or in other words, the gods didn't arrange the low-end materials that could be purchased for him in the first place.
There is also the construction of Ellington, which may require a lot of money. Don't think that those workers' faith-like worship of Tang En does not require spending money. If you dare to delay wages, they will let you know how fragile this faith is. .
In addition, there are a large number of workers' monthly salaries. Now the total salary paid by the Datang Chamber of Commerce every month has exceeded the tens of millions of gold coins. The Datang Chamber of Commerce has completely become the second largest company after Purandar. The giant chain of Star Diamond Bank.
No matter how reluctant Fiona is, the money has to be spent.
Fortunately, Harley motorcycles are about to go on the market, and the Datang Chamber of Commerce will have a lot of income again.