1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 172 FOB and CIF

Although the planned economy has many disadvantages, such as the disconnection between production and demand, and the inability to reasonably adjust the interests of various internal economic entities, etc., its numerous advantages cannot be ignored.It can effectively avoid the blindness and uncertainty of market economy development, as well as the unrestrained consumption of natural resources, and can scientifically allocate and make full use of limited human resources to maximize the benefits it generates.

Of course, there is one more effect that the executive committee values, that is, the planned economy can effectively control the gap between the rich and the poor in society and maintain a stable social situation. This is very important for the early expansion of the travel group that needs to absorb a large number of poor people.For the vast majority of people, regardless of their level of education, there is a psychological existence of not worrying about the few but the unevenness. If everyone’s living conditions are similar, the hardships will be the hardships, and the patience will pass. But if There is a local rich man living in a group of bitter hahas, which is bound to arouse the hostility of the people.The Executive Committee publicized all the land and means of production under its rule, and implemented the planned economy system internally, precisely to prevent the excessive gap between the rich and the poor among the people.

Of course, the planned economy cannot prevent the emergence of the privileged class. In fact, these more than 400 traversers are now privileged holders in this social environment.In order to avoid death and disintegration, the key departments and units of the time-traveling group must be in the hands of the time-travelers and their immediate descendants within two or three generations, and this will inevitably create a privileged class.However, for the overall environment in which the Transverse Group will operate in the future, it will not cause too much trouble if a small number of people become the privileged class. things.

Li Nai didn't know what a planned economy was, let alone what the social welfare system was, but he could hear from Jiang San's answer how much the local people agreed with the Haihan people's way of governing.After hearing what Jiang San said, Li Nai even felt that the law of heaven was unfair.

With regard to the ruling measures that Jiang San added later, Li Nai can be sure that not only in Yazhou, but even in the whole of Ming Dynasty, there will be no other place that can do this like Shengli Port.To bear all the expenses of food, clothing, housing, transportation, birth, old age, sickness and death of an hired worker, this expenditure is not a small amount. In most of the businesses that Li Nai knows, this level of welfare protection will make the boss jump.Of course, let alone the government, if they don’t collect money and give money to the people, do they really regard the parents and officials as the real parents of the people?
The treatment of ordinary people in the local area is so good, Li Nai didn't even need to ask, he could think that there must be no taxes and fees for ordinary people here.Such a costly policy can only be implemented by Haihan talents who are good at managing trade and have various high-profit export products.Although Li Nai couldn't figure out how the Haihan people operate economically to ensure the smooth operation of this social system, it is clear that the Haihan people's means are many times higher than that of the local government in Daming. Judging from the people's sentiments here, In two or three years at most, the people here will definitely think of themselves as Haihan people instead of Ming people in order to enjoy such a high-welfare life.

But no matter how good the Haihan people are at winning people's hearts, Li Nai doesn't think they will do anything against the sky here. At best, they will turn Shengli Port into a large smuggling port in the South China Sea.As for Haihan's man-made guns and cannons, and even organizing militias to replace the local government to perform functions, Li Nai also thinks that there is no big problem. Some big merchants in the coastal areas of Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have also adopted a similar approach, building their own ports for maritime trade. The wharf is just not as big as Victory Port.

After listening to Jiang San's words, Anxi was already smiling, thinking to himself that the usual mass education work was really effective, and he didn't expect that a peasant like Jiang San, who was so illiterate, would be able to say such a truth.Commendation, this must be commended after the fact. It just so happens that the member mutual aid association is short of a person in charge, and Jiang San seems to be very suitable for this position.

Under Anxi's persuasion, everyone stayed at the Salt Field Commune for lunch at noon.In addition to the various types of seafood that were brought ashore this morning, there are also a few salt farm-style dishes on the table—salted fried meat, salted fish, and various pickled vegetables.When Tao Donglai asked Li Nai if he wanted some wine, Li Nai's face immediately changed, and he waved his hands again and again, saying that you are welcome.The uncomfortable feeling of being bullied by several Haihan leaders the night before has not passed, how dare he challenge his limit again.

After the dishes were over, Li Nai took the initiative to bring up the sale of private salt: "The refined salt you sent last time was of good quality and price, and I would like to sell your refined salt in Fuguang area as an agent. I don't know what you think. ?”

"Or according to the [-] catties per month that your bank said before?" Schneider asked meaningfully.Almost everything that needs to be seen has been read, and everything that needs to be discussed has been discussed. If Li Nai still can't let go, then the executive committee may have to consider finding another agent in the mainland to do this privately. Salt was bought and sold.

Sure enough, Li Nai shook his head and said: "Before, I underestimated your refined salt production, so I only proposed a monthly trading volume of [-] catties. But after visiting the salt field today, I think this trading volume should be at least five catties per month. Ten thousand catties, after that, you can make adjustments according to the market.”

Compared with the arms export agreement reached the day before, the total amount of the monthly salt order of 50 catties is not much. Based on the previous wholesale price of [-] yuan per kilo, that is to say, [-] pieces of Erqi Shi were sold. Matchlock level.But what the executive committee values ​​is not the profit of a single transaction, but the long-term benefits of the salt business.

The population of Guangzhou Prefecture and its surrounding areas alone is close to one million. The salt consumption of such a large population is far more than [-] catties a month, not to mention that "Furuifeng" has the ability to traffic illegal salt farther The inland of Guangdong and Fujian are sold, and the Executive Committee believes that the market that can be developed in the future is very worth looking forward to.For labor-intensive industries such as salt production, as long as there is a labor force, the executive committee can continue to expand production capacity without being troubled by raw material supply or shortage of technical personnel. The cost is controlled at an extremely low level, and the mainland region cannot resist planned large-scale dumping at all.

The consequences of doing so will definitely bring about the bankruptcy of a large number of salt farms and salt households in the coastal areas, and the official salt tax in Fuzhou and Guangzhou will also drop sharply.But this is exactly what the Executive Committee wants to achieve—to directly turn this path into one's own path, so that others have nowhere to go.After such a situation arises, the Executive Committee will try to attract bankrupt salt households from the local area to move to Sanya area, and serve as a labor force for the development of Hainan Island.

There may be all kinds of open and secret struggles due to huge interests, such as between salt merchants, between salt merchants and salt class promotion department, between salt merchants and salt farms, etc., but the executive committee believes that there is a cross-border group. With the backing support, agents like "Furuifeng" will never suffer a big loss in the battle - if you want a gun, you have a gun, and if you want a gun, you have a gun, and there will be no second private company with such powerful equipment in the southeast coastal area. Saltmongers exist.

However, in order to successfully conclude this transaction, there is still a small problem that must be resolved first.Schneider said: "There is no problem with [-] catties per month, but the delivery location must be determined. I think Mr. Li also knows that our current sea transportation capacity is very tight, and I am afraid that it is not possible to allocate ships to Guangzhou to transport salt or It is to transport other goods, so the commodity prices we quoted before are all FOB prices."

Li Nai was puzzled and said, "The location of the delivery is easy to discuss, but what is the FOB price?"

It was only then that Schneider realized that this kind of international trade term of later generations might not be understood by Li Nai, so he quickly explained: "The FOB price is the price of the seller's goods after they are shipped and before they leave the port. That is to say, the place of delivery is the port of shipment. , we complete the counting of the goods and money at the time of shipment, which is considered to be the end of the transaction. Another way is CIF, and the place of delivery is the destination port designated by the buyer. Because of the relationship between transportation costs, CIF will be cheaper The shore price should be more expensive.”

Li Nai nodded and said, "Mr. Shi's explanation makes it easy to understand the FOB-CIF price. Then I would like to ask Mr. Shi, the trade in Shengli Port is the same as before, and there is no need to collect taxes?"

Schneider nodded again and again, thinking that this rich second generation is really not that kind of ignorant dude, and he didn't ignore the details of tariffs because of the smooth progress of the transaction.From the very beginning of planning, the Executive Committee has positioned Victory Port as a tax-free free port, so there is no tariff setting.The benefits of duty-free ports in increasing the volume of import and export trade have been proven historically, so there is no need to repeat them here.

As for the situation that it is easy for the local industry to suffer from the impact of imported goods, the executive committee is not worried. In terms of production efficiency and production cost, no one in this era can do better than the crossover group, as long as it is Sanya's local manufacturing and production industry, its product prices will certainly be lower than those of its contemporary competitors.What's more, most of the imported commodities of the Transit Group are mainly raw materials, while the exported commodities are mainly industrial products. This kind of commodity import and export structure is traded in the way of a duty-free port, but it will be more profitable. .

However, compared with the simple and clear tax exemption policy of Shengli Port, the relevant policies and tax system of the Ming Dynasty are much more complicated, and it is not even a problem that can be solved simply by adding shipping costs. That is why Schneider proposed the need to determine the delivery location first. .

(End of this chapter)