I want to be emperor

Chapter 831 No reference to the empire
Accompanied by Governor Anlu and a large group of officials, Luo Zhixue visited the development of small and micro enterprises in several counties and towns near Hefei.

As expected by Luo Zhixue, due to the lack of sufficient various resources in these small places, it is very difficult to develop industries, and most of the industries developed are industries with little technical content.

It is mainly some light industries that do not require much technology, among which the textile industry has the largest proportion. Luo Zhixue has seen many small textile factories that employ only a few dozen people, and most of them only focus on one link in the textile industry chain, such as textile industry. Spinning of yarn, weaving of cloth, printing and dyeing of printing and dyeing, and some of the finished textile industry, such as garments, quilts, tents and so on.

In addition to the textile industry, there are paper, furniture, glass, wine, printing, matches, soap and so on.

In addition, there is a small amount of machinery industry, mainly mechanical processing, and the production of some daily necessities, such as the production of daily hardware, farm implements, and tools.

Generally, the scale is not large. The most common is the size of dozens of people, and the number of hundreds of people is rare. There are even some small workshops with a dozen or even a few people.

Luo Zhixue was very impressed by one of the small mold workshops. This small mold factory is located in a small county in the suburbs of Hefei. There are no more than a dozen employees including the boss, but the mold processing technology is very exquisite.

The small mold factory can actually receive orders from many large enterprises in Hefei City, and even some orders from Yingtianfu Enterprises, with an annual output value of more than 8 Chu Yuan.

Considering that there are only a dozen people in this mold workshop, the per capita annual output value has reached several thousand Chu Yuan, which is not a small amount.

Many enterprises and factories don't look at the annual output value of hundreds of thousands or even millions, but they also have a lot of employees, and the per capita annual output value is only a few hundred yuan.

Even enterprises with an output value of thousands of Chu Yuan per capita are relatively rare, and most of them belong to high-tech industries.

Generally speaking, the higher the technical content and the higher the degree of equipment application, the greater the per capita output value...because the added value of the product is higher, and at the same time, a large number of equipment is used to replace manpower...

Although it is said that equipment also has costs... But when calculating the per capita output value, the cost of equipment is not included.

Although the scale of this small mold workshop is small, because its boss is the core founder and technical backbone, the general technology is relatively good, so the technical level is quite high.

This kind of small workshop not only has a large output value, but also the boss earns more, and the technicians also earn more.

At the same time, more taxes are paid to local governments.

According to the current series of business tax laws of the Great Chu Empire, the total amount of taxes paid by this small mold workshop will not be less than [-] Chu Yuan every year.

Twenty thousand Chu yuan, this is not the twenty thousand dollars of later generations, the "yuan" of the Great Chu Empire these days is very valuable, and each Chu yuan is equivalent to [-] grams of pure gold.

In most places, the monthly salary of unskilled ordinary workers is only about two or three Chu Yuan.

And for some ordinary counties with no special output value and underdeveloped economy, the annual local fiscal revenue is actually only one hundred thousand Chu yuan.

An enterprise that pays [-] Chu yuan a year is worthy of the attention of the local county government, and even escorted... This kind of enterprise is the God of Wealth for local officials... not only the local development, even the officials Our salaries have to count on the taxes of these tax-paying companies.

Nowadays, many local government offices in the Great Chu Empire are keen to attract investment and develop the local economy. In addition to developing their own political achievements, it is also related to their own jobs.

The economic development of this place is not good, and the salaries paid by officials are just a basic salary, and they want all kinds of benefits?What do you get if you have no money?

The salaries of local officials in the Great Chu Empire are not paid by the central finance, but by the local finance. The wages and benefits are basically divided into three parts. One is the national fixed grade salary. The salary is the same.

The second is job salary, such as county magistrate, county magistrate, section chief, deputy section chief, first-class staff, second-class staff, third-class staff, and special occupations and job subsidies, such as patrol police subsidies, firefighting subsidies, etc. Subsidies, there are some high temperature subsidies, severe cold subsidies, etc.

The salaries of these positions and the prescribed subsidies are generally determined by the capital of the empire within a large range, and then each province chooses a range within this range according to its own economic conditions.

Each government determines the scope of salary and subsidies for the positions in its own government according to the scope set by the province.

Then in each county, according to the salary range requirements set by the prefecture level, the specific amount will be finalized by itself.

This kind of salary and welfare system means that apart from the fact that grade salary is unified across the country, which cannot be more or less, job salary and statutory subsidies are set at a benchmark figure and then given a permissible fluctuation range...Your place has money You just choose a high standard, and if you don’t have money, you choose a low standard... The higher-ups generally don’t interfere too much.

Therefore, the salaries of local officials in the Great Chu Empire are often closely related to the local economic conditions.

For example, places like Songjiang Prefecture have a lot of local fiscal revenue, so job salaries and various welfare subsidies are determined according to the highest standards in Jiangnan Province.

But in some poor places, it is often based on the minimum standard.

So even if it is for their own wages, it is necessary to develop the local economy.

The local finances don't have much money, and you can't afford to pay yourself a high-standard salary!

Of course, for the officials who are really in charge, they actually don't care about this salary, they care more about their political achievements.

For example, the governor of Anlu and other senior officials in the Anlu area have become officials at their level. Ordinary money and the like are actually not very meaningful to them. Anyway, they have all the enjoyments they should have, and they shouldn’t have them. Often there will be... well, if he wants to!

These high-ranking officials pursue more power, political achievements, and climbing the ladder!

Otherwise, what is the governor of Anlu working so hard to do with the development of small and micro enterprises? Isn't it because he feels that his majesty has paid more attention to the development of small and micro enterprises in recent years, so this is what he likes.

Luo Zhixue was indeed quite satisfied with the development of small and micro enterprises in Anlu.

After walking through several counties and towns in a row, the conditions they saw were pretty good, although the scale was not large, and Luo Zhixue also knew that the small and micro enterprises he inspected were basically high-quality enterprises selected from thousands of people. Some small and micro enterprises are actually not doing well.

But this is not important. The important thing is that Luo Zhixue has seen that there are many small and micro enterprises, providing a large number of jobs, which in turn stimulates local consumption, and can pay more taxes, allowing the local area to develop faster.

Therefore, after Luo Zhixue's inspection along the way, he had many smiles on his face, and he also rarely praised the local officials in Anlu.

He also stated that small and micro enterprises are an indispensable part of the imperial economic system, and all localities should adapt to local conditions and actively explore more development policies to better support small and micro enterprises.

In order to strive to create more jobs and solve the food problem of more people.

And emphasized that in local development, jobs and people's income are the first!
The development of enterprises, local policies, etc., should give priority to serving the two.

Only when there are jobs can there be jobs, only when there are jobs can there be income, and only when there is income can people support their families.

Even with such a simple truth, Luo Zhixue still emphasizes it again and again... After all, the empire is so big and there are so many local officials, there will always be some officials with weird ideas who don't take employment and people's income seriously.

Even in the past two years, there was a foolish county magistrate who said that auspicious white wolves had appeared in the area under his jurisdiction... and foolishly made a big fanfare to send them to Jinling City to dedicate to Luo Zhixue.

After Luo Zhixue found out, he directly exiled this person to Africa... Since he likes Xiangrui so much, let's go to Africa to find it. There are many animals there, and there must be all kinds of messy white animals.

I don’t even know how this person passed the imperial examination, and he even got the position of the sixth-rank magistrate all the way... It’s not that he is feudal and superstitious. There are many feudal superstitious people in the empire, and even officials. , They all maintain the traditional view: keep a respectful distance, sometimes it is better to believe what is there or not to believe what is not... .

Luo Zhixue ran him mainly because he was too stupid... Knowing that Luo Zhixue didn't believe in these things, in the past [-] years or so, no official got promoted and made a fortune because of giving auspicious signs, but he still gave auspicious signs with great fanfare...

He probably felt that no one could find all kinds of so-called auspicious signs in the past thirty years, but he was lucky enough to find them!
If you keep a low profile and say that you caught a white wolf, it feels very novel, and it’s fine if you want to present it to His Majesty, Luo Zhixue will generally not refuse... Your servant smiled for Mr. Bo, and gave all kinds of novelties. If there is too much, Luo Zhixue will generally not reject the filial piety of his subordinates as long as it has no major influence and does not waste people's money.

However, you can't make a big fanfare and link this white wolf with politics, saying it is auspicious, and the political significance is so strong.

If Luo Zhixue does not do this, who will you do!
If you play White Wolf Auspicious today, will you play White Snake Rebellion tomorrow?

Luo Zhixue did not allow such absurd things to happen in the political arena of the empire, and he did not allow officials to link politics with feudal superstitions, so this idiot was exiled to Africa...

The Great Chu Empire is too big and has many officials, so there are all kinds of people. Therefore, Luo Zhixue has always been very relaxed when dealing with officials.

There are idiots, there are fools, there are perverts, there are all kinds of people... Therefore, Luo Zhixue tries to emphasize and re-emphasize some policy directions as much as possible, and keeps his words simple and straightforward. This is not because he is afraid of these officials They don't understand, but they are afraid that they will think about it blindly, and then what Luo Zhixue said is one, they will figure out that it is two... and they also look proud that they have comprehended the deep spirit of Luo Zhixue's speech!

To be honest, there are quite a few officials who like to speculate on what they want, and even speculate on mistakes... There will be a large number of them every year, and some of them will make trouble on Luo Zhixue's side, and Luo Zhixue himself is quite speechless.

Luo Zhi said that one plus one equals two, but after some officials thought about it, they thought that Luo Zhi's theory was not simply that one plus one equals two... When his mind turned around... he came up with a one plus one One is equal to Wang's answer, and he excitedly implements it, and finally comes to claim credit... Whenever Luo Zhixue sees these people, he can't wait to pry open their heads and see what's inside their heads.

What Lao Tzu said is very clear...fucking is that one plus one equals two...you have to compete with yourself and make a sharp turn.

There are many such things, so now Luo Zhixue's daily meeting speeches, inspection speeches, and even some announced imperial decrees will be described in the simplest and most direct words to ensure that most normal people can understand... As for the very few If you don't understand, you have to figure it out...Luo Zhixue can't help it either!

When encountering such a fool, Luo Zhixue would not be killed or imprisoned, but would usually be kicked to an overseas territory... Let the natives also feel these stupid thoughts.

After all, it is better to be alone than to be happy together. This kind of good thing cannot be enjoyed by Luo Zhixue alone, but must be enjoyed by the natives!
At the same time, the overseas territories, especially in Africa, are short of people. Many officials are unwilling to go to Africa for a rotation... let alone not being able to come back after going there for decades.

So now Luo Zhixue likes to relegate officials who have committed crimes, but not serious ones, to Africa... It's good to have multiple actions.

In Anlu, Luo Zhixue once again made it clear that he must pay attention to the development of small, medium and micro enterprises, and then returned to Yingtianfu by special train.

After arriving at Jinling Jiangpu Railway Station, we took the Yangtze River ferry back to Jinling South City and returned to the imperial palace where we had been away for more than a month.

After Luo Zhixue returned to the palace, the crown prince Luo Ji, who stayed in Jinling City temporarily to handle many affairs, also heaved a sigh of relief.

This was the first time that Prince Luo Ji had been in charge of Jinling City as a prince when Luo Zhixue left Jinling City, and dealt with various affairs.

Well, although there is no official name of supervising the country, it is only in the name of acting as an agent for the affairs of the imperial study, and presides over the normal work of the imperial study.

But this is also the first time for Prince Luo Ji.

For more than a month, Prince Luo Ji was very excited at first, feeling that he finally had a chance to take power, and even at night, he would still think about the possibility of a coup d'etat... Of course, this This kind of fantasy is just a fantasy, and even he himself knows it is a fantasy... If he really wants to do this, without mentioning the consequences, I am afraid that few people will really follow him.

After all, the prestige of Luo Zhixue, the founding emperor, was too high, and his control over the imperial power was very strong.

Without Luo Zhixue's order, the prince couldn't even mobilize a single soldier of the Guards, and even if he wanted to carry out a coup d'état.

So when Luo Zhixue was not engaged in coup d'etat, he had very few fantasies.

The real feeling comes more from the excitement of being in power, although he has no right to decide on many things... Urgent matters have to be sent to An Lu one by one, and non-urgent important matters are waiting for Luo Zhixue to come back to deal with.

He can only deal with some small daily things.

But at the beginning, it still made him addicted.

But after getting enough of the addiction, I feel trouble...

Yes, trouble!
Every day, a large number of affairs poured in from outside the palace. Although the Imperial Academy helped to deal with it, and the ministers of the Senate were in charge of many affairs, there were still too many affairs.

If it's just that there are too many things, then forget it, and you can always finish it if you are tired.

The point is that many things are interrelated and affect each other. Behind a seemingly small policy often represents the game of many departments and industries.

At the same time, when Luo Zhixue built the political structure of the Great Chu Empire, the core idea was balance... and balancing is actually very complicated. As the founding emperor, Luo Zhixue created all kinds of political structures by himself. Dao is very familiar with it... because these doorways were created by himself.

Moreover, Luo Zhixue has great prestige, so he can do whatever he wants.

Naturally, there is no problem with the balance... If there is a problem, Luo Zhixue will solve the person who raised the problem!
But Prince Luo Ji can't do it!
The political structure of the Great Chu Empire was not created by him. It is not easy just to figure out the various ways and means in it, and it does not have the prestige and power of Luo Zhixue.

It is even more difficult to maintain the balance in it, and a little carelessness will lead to imbalance.

Although the prince has observed politics in various departments for many years, and now he has studied politics in the imperial study for a period of time, but he still needs to understand the operation of the imperial political arena, the many political interests behind it, and the huge system of the empire itself. a period of time.

This also caused the prince to have a very headache when dealing with various affairs. He always felt that it was wrong to go left, and it was not right to go right... No matter what decision he made, it seemed that it was not good.

After this month's work, the crown prince Luo Ji just feels devastated!
Even gave birth to a heart of fear...

This emperor's throne is not easy to sit on!
Luo Zhixue didn't know that he created such a complex political structure aimed at maintaining the balance of all parties to maintain the monarchy, making it difficult for his heirs!
But even if you know it, you won’t change it... In the future, if the crown prince succeeds to the throne, he really can’t figure it out and can’t maintain the balance according to his own wishes. The courtiers of factions and departments will naturally maintain the basic balance and the operation of the empire.

Of course... If you don't understand and you have to toss, then it's easy to toss and cause problems.

This is also an inherent drawback of a centralized monarchy. It is especially easy to collapse when you meet an incompetent monarch who likes to toss around.

As the saying goes, I am not afraid of your incompetence, but I am afraid of your tossing!

It's just that these are the affairs of future generations, and Luo Zhixue doesn't bother to care about it so much. If the future generations really produce an incompetent and troublesome emperor, someone will naturally take care of him.

Revolutionary uprisings and coups are not impossible.

Luo Zhixue never imagined that the empire he founded would last forever... No matter how arrogant Luo Zhixue was, he never had such a dream!
This empire may last for many years, and the Luo family may also last for many years, depending on some changes in future generations!
But an empire in which the Luo family controlled the actual power... survived for hundreds of years, maybe it would take even less time, maybe 100 years would be over!

After all, as living standards continue to improve, education levels improve, and self-awareness is further awakened... It is estimated that no one wants to have an emperor with real power on his head who speaks out his constitution!

So Luo Zhixue never felt worried about this, let alone make unreasonable changes to the current political structure of the empire for the sake of the so-called eternal life in the future!

It's not necessary!

Anyway, now Luo Zhixue thinks that this political framework is quite good, as for what the future generations will do, they will do it as they like...

After all, each era has its own needs. Luo Zhixue lives in the current state of the empire, and chooses the political structure that best suits him and the empire. As for what the empire will become in the future...he just knows!

In human history, there has never been a highly industrialized, global colonial expansion, a combination of state capital and market capital, traditional Confucian culture, and a highly centralized central monarchy empire!
Luo Zhixue can't find a reference!
So, what should happen in the future, he can't control it anymore, and he doesn't have the ability to control it!

(End of this chapter)