Zhu Jinglun made the final reservation. I didn’t expect William to be really interested in this.

He immediately asked Zhu Jinglun for help. It turned out that he had long wanted to bring his family to Guangdong. He said that his wife had asthma and the doctor said that tropical climate would help.
But he can’t take his wife because he can’t find a place to live. These Swedish consultants are living in the factory now, but the factory environment is obviously not suitable for his ailing wife. He prefers to buy a piece of land to build a house, but the locals are unwilling to sell the land and don’t want to be neighbors with foreigners. Hurd manages the port area and comes out to the Cape. The land can be sold, but where the environment is too noisy, the land price has also been fried to a sky-high price of 22 thousand yuan per mu, which he can’t afford.
I didn’t know until I asked, that many Swedes have this kind of concern. It is their biggest trouble that it is difficult to integrate into the local society. Not everyone can be like the old Nobel, and their career can overcome all difficulties, such as mixing with the local people.
In fact, it is not difficult to solve this kind of thing. In fact, it is not a discrimination but a deep-rooted prejudice. A group is isolated either out of discrimination or out of fear. China people are afraid that the latter are the majority. Foreigners with red hair and blue eyes make them feel creepy. In this era, China people will never have a sense of beauty in foreigners and call them ghosts. Instead, some China people in later generations firmly believe that "blond hair and blue eyes are good-looking." At this time, cultural discourse is less in China or in the hands of Chinese people rather than in the era of cultural discourse controlled by westerners in later generations
Zhu Jinglun asked Xin ‘an County to handle it. Finally, they bought a piece of land belonging to Chiwan Village in a hillside forest area of Nanshan. This small forest has an area of 20 or 30 mu, but it has not been reclaimed because of more stones and sand. The villagers of Chiwan Village usually firewood and cook here. According to the old township agreement, this is their forest, but it doesn’t belong to one person. They gave Chiwan Village one hundred and twenty silver, and then the land was classified as an arsenal.
When the time comes, a fence will be built, rows of villas will be built inside, and the experts of the arsenal will be used as dormitories. If the local people are in trouble, they can help them or not.
Despite such conditions, all Swedes still didn’t stay. In the end, 30 skilled workers and managers chose to stay, and most of them chose to return to China. It seems that the country is still attached to their native land. It is quite good that China people have lived in Nanyang for hundreds of years, but they have not moved back in batches. Many people stayed at home. When they were 15 or 16 years old, they finished their private schools and then went to Nanyang to help their fathers do business. Then they took over their father’s classes in their 30 s and 40 s, and then their fathers went back to their hometowns to provide for the elderly. Compared with this way,
During this period, apart from the trivial matter of the arsenal, Zhu Jinglun’s other works are progressing in an orderly way. For example, the military training is still going on, and the recruits and flag soldiers in Xin’ an County have followed the main force to the nearby areas to suppress bandits.
In recent years, banditry in Guangdong has continued. It can be said that the government has never stopped from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it has not been able to suppress all the bandits.
The term bandit was formed from this era. In the pre-Qing history, bandits all used the word "bandit" instead of the root without adding a prefix of "earth", and gradually became bandits. It was because of the two names of natives and Hakkas in Guangdong and Guangxi that most bandits originated from people, places, people, population, clan power, more serious economic mergers and more land-lost refugees.
Bandits are not limited to one county, but almost every county is in the western part of Guangdong Province. Many of them fled from Guangxi or the rest of the Heaven and Earth Uprising a few years ago. They ran rampant in Zhanjiang. The government roots did not have the power to clear up many bandits in the most prosperous areas of guangzhou fu. However, the bandits here were mainly associated with the government. When the British and French allied forces captured Guangzhou, Long Yuanxi and other registered country gentry recruited more than 10,000 villagers one after another, but these country gentry and Xianfeng did not want to pay to support Guangzhou. After the city was recovered, Huang Zonghan asked Long Yuanxi and others to disarm more than 10,000 people and
Many of those who have been laid off have no land or jobs. After military training, vagrants turned to be bandits. Some of them are really murderous and arson. Some of them are slightly better. They don’t rob homes. They just go to work. They discuss with nearby villagers and gentry to protect them and ask these people to pay protection.
For the latter kind of harm, Zhu Jinglun advocates that they should be scattered and placed in their own army, and those who have been furious must be completely strangled
It’s not difficult for Zhu Jinglun to find them, but I didn’t expect this kind of unscrupulous bandit to have eyes everywhere to suppress him. When the army arrived, they could receive the news before they found out the situation. There are a large number of local squires who are hard to understand that local squires will collude with this evil gangster, but the fact is that there are such a group of people who help to sell the stolen goods and can actually form a profit.
This kind of bad gentry must also be severely punished. According to the law, the property should be confiscated and beheaded. At the same time, a notice was issued to warn those gentry who are associated with bandits that if they surrender themselves and help the government to suppress bandits, they can be lenient in committing minor crimes. This slowly reversed the situation and gradually suppressed rampant bandits.
On the political front, Hurd has submitted three tax reform plans to Zhu Jinglun successively. Guangdong’s tax revenue still depends on guangzhou fu, but Zhu Jinglun can collect taxes in addition to the annual land tax, so there is also a commercial tax. The collection of commercial tax in Qing Dynasty is quite backward from generation to generation.
For Zhu Jinglun, levying business tax is the reform that touches the whole social structure and has the weakest opposition. After all, the social status of businessmen in cities is not high. If we really want to touch this social core to move rural land, great things will happen and the strength will be as strong as new China. The masses are afraid to confiscate the landlord’s land directly, but they have to go through the hands of farmers to completely break up the rural organizational structure before collecting and organizing farmers. Now Zhu Jinglun is going to move these lands. That is death.
Who better to collect business tax than Hurd? After Hurd reformed the tax system, he completely abolished the system of discriminating between China and foreign countries. After that, he gave Zhu Jinglun a name to express his position. Zhu Jinglun directly ordered him that the Guangdong General Taxation Department was not only responsible for collecting taxes, but all taxes were under his control. Of course, the landlord’s tax was still managed by local governments themselves.
Hurd’s enthusiasm is still high, and Zhu Jinglun is not satisfied with three tax plans.
According to his plan, we can get a lot of tax revenue. For example, he suggested levying business tax on tea shops and high business tax on silk shops. These two industries are the largest in Guangdong at present, but once they are moved, the impact will be on Guangdong’s overall exports, which is a matter of the strength of competition between these two industries and the West.
Advantageous industries and industries in fierce competition Zhu Jinglun hopes to give some protection for the time being, but the money must be collected. It is absolutely not enough for Zhu Jinglun to launch a large-scale military operation on that point.
It can’t affect exports but also impose taxes. Hurd finally suggested that taxes should be eliminated and exported without taxes.
However, Zhu Jinglun believes that it is difficult to implement this tax plan. In the absence of a business culture that pays attention to integrity, there must be tax evasion, and supervision will be another great achievement.
The third scheme is that the western mercantilism prevails in the export tax rebate system, which first collects taxes in other links and finally returns the tax rebate situation at the time of export to protect exports
This plan can go deep into all aspects of tea and silk production, such as taxing tea gardens and tea factories, taxing silk reeling factories, etc. Of course, it is very difficult, because most of China’s small-workshop-style production companies are taxed to a very high level. It seems that Zhu Jinglun has not yet taxed small operators or large operators.
If not, we should encourage Hurd to introduce an industrial incentive law. For businessmen who are willing to buy machinery to run large factories, the government will lend them initial funds to allow them to pay interest for ten years and be taxable for five years. If they are not profitable after five years, they will continue to extend the tax period until they become profitable.
But it seems that no one has applied for this loan yet.
"What has a family?"
Hurd reported to Zhu Jinglun that
There was a squire and businessman in Jiancun, Shunde county who planned to set up a silk reeling factory. After detailed inquiry, he realized that this man was not a luxury businessman, but also a big local businessman. He was one of the few businessmen who had business dealings with the French, so Zhu Jinglun was selected as a representative to travel around the world at that time.
His family mainly engaged in raw silk business. Later, when he arrived in France, he fell in love with the French silk reeling factory at a glance. When others visited other countries, he applied to stay in France for a few months. He lived in the French silk reeling factory almost every day and carefully painted the French silk reeling machine. After returning to China, he planned to copy it. At present, he is going to borrow 2,000 yuan mainly to purchase steam engines for the machines. He found a blacksmith to build them.
This man’s name is Chen Qiyuan, and history is the first time he introduced the silk reeling factory to China. However, he visited the silk reeling factories set up by the French in Vietnam and Thailand, and he also secretly drew pictures to copy the machines and bought them. He really couldn’t build a steam engine himself.
Zhu Jinglun is still very happy to hear the news.
Although there was no fresh reform during this period, the substantive reform has been quietly developed. I didn’t expect the people to spontaneously develop their industries. It seems that it is worthwhile to send those people to the West to get out of those ships.