I want to be emperor

In the past, Song Erniu always heard many people say that there are opportunities to make a fortune overseas, whether it is in the Americas, India, or even poor places like Africa.

In fact, this is indeed the case. For most ordinary people in overseas areas, as long as you are not afraid of hard work and danger and can deal with the indigenous people, regardless of whether you are deceiving or abducting them, you can easily find many opportunities to make a fortune.

Song Erniu himself thinks so, because his own rise in America is a typical example...

However, after returning to the mainland this time, Song Erniu discovered that there were many opportunities to make money in the mainland, even more than overseas in many aspects, and the prospects were broader.

To be honest, it is easy to make small money in overseas areas, but it is difficult to make big money, because the population of Chu in overseas areas is not large, even if the population of Chu in America, Southeast Asia, India, Africa and other places is added together , there are only 3000 to [-] million people at the end of the day, and most of them are still concentrated in various parts of Southeast Asia and the Americas.

In places like India and Africa, there are actually not many Chu people.

There are not many people in Chu State, so the consumer market is naturally not big.

There are many indigenous people, for example, there are at least hundreds of millions of indigenous people in India, but their spending power is too poor.

In such an environment, it is not easy to really make big money overseas... and some industries that are easy to make big money have nothing to do with ordinary people. For example, the most profitable industry recognized overseas is arms... and the arms industry seems to be There are a large number of arms dealers, but in fact the defense industry of the Chu Empire, including the overseas sales link, is directly controlled by official capital.

There are only five major domestic defense production companies. Private capital can get involved in providing some production equipment, raw materials, and parts, but it is absolutely not allowed to get involved in the finished weapons industry, not even investing in stocks.

The arms sales industry is also directly surrounded by these five major arms companies. The restrictions on the arms sales industry in local areas are very strict. Businesses for the military and police are directly faced by the five major arms companies, while a very small number of retail businesses for the private sector are also managed by the five major arms companies. The retail company established by the company itself is responsible.

For arms sales in overseas regions, the five major arms companies jointly funded and established a number of arms trading companies. Each joint stock arms trading company is responsible for a region, and then the arms trading companies set up branches to specialize in multiple regions within their jurisdiction. Responsible for the official arms trade in the jurisdiction, mainly for those indigenous countries, warlords, tribes, etc. Most of the civilian arms markets in overseas territories also adopt the model of direct-controlled retail stores.

Only in non-controlled areas or remote areas will arms retail rights be opened, and private arms dealers will be invited to bid for the underwriting of arms sales in a certain area.

Therefore, the most profitable arms industry in overseas regions actually has nothing to do with ordinary people, because they are not accessible at all. Even if you can get some weapons from informal channels, you can't get a weapons sales license.

Of course, if you obtain weapons through some unconventional channels, and then go directly to an indigenous-controlled area to sell the weapons, no one will check the weapons sales license... but it is very easy to be targeted by overseas military and tax bureaus.

The military is afraid that you will sell weapons indiscriminately and affect the empire's strategic layout in a certain area.

The tax bureau... naturally wants you to pay taxes!

The tax laws of the Great Chu Empire are very interesting. They adopt both the territorial principle and the personal principle...that is, the "territorial and personal principle" commonly adopted in later countries...

As long as you are in the areas controlled by the Chu State, such as those colonies, you have to pay taxes regardless of whether you are a Chu State or aboriginal!
If you are from the Chu State, no matter whether you make money in the mainland or in overseas territories, colonies, or even in indigenous-controlled areas, you still have to pay taxes...

Don't ask why, just don't worry about so much, you just need to know that you have to pay taxes and that's it...

The tax department of the Chu Empire has always been so overbearing!
Of course, the tax laws of the Da Chu Empire have always been to first fill in any tax or loopholes that can be thought of... As for whether it can be implemented in detail, the tax authorities still need to make adjustments based on the actual situation.

For example, people from the state of Chu earn money abroad... according to the tax law, they have to collect taxes, but it is impossible for the tax authorities of the state of Chu to go to the indigenous countries to check the taxes.

Under such circumstances, the taxation of overseas income basically depends on the taxpayer's voluntary declaration. If you do not take the initiative to declare, the tax authorities will not bother to check you... It is also difficult to check.

But these are only limited to individuals, small amounts...if it is a large enterprise...if the amount of tax payable is huge, the tax authorities can be active...you can go all the way overseas, and even check taxes for you in those poor places in Africa...

At the same time, if the business operation has accounting books, it is easy to check.

Of course, if an enterprise or individual has paid taxes in an overseas indigenous country in accordance with local laws, as long as it is detailed and certified by some local indigenous official documents recognized by the official tax authorities of the empire, the tax can also be deducted to avoid repeated collection. Case.

Therefore, there are still many loopholes in the specific process...Basically, few people will take the initiative to declare their overseas income.

However, not reporting or turning a blind eye does not mean anything!
The tax laws of the Dachu Empire are very complete. A large group of tax law officials are thinking about how to improve taxation and plug various loopholes every day... I won't say whether to collect them or not, but at least at the legal level Close the loopholes.

In the future, with the development of technology and the improvement of tax collection methods, will it be possible to collect taxes directly in accordance with tax laws?

This is the same as the personal income tax of the Great Chu Empire. Even today, many ordinary Chu people don't know that there is such a tax, and even fewer understand it clearly...

However, the personal income tax of the Great Chu Empire has been determined long ago. The earliest version of the tax law included personal income tax, but the threshold for personal income tax has been very high for a long time, and the main collection channels are limited to officials and government-run Enterprises and high-income groups in large and medium-sized private enterprises.

Ordinary people with a monthly salary of less than a few yuan are not even qualified to pay taxes!
So to a certain extent, the personal income tax before the Dachu Empire and now is a tax on the rich, which has nothing to do with ordinary people. The total tax amount is also very small and has little impact.

The tax subject of the Dachu Empire is currently the industrial and commercial tax, and the industrial and commercial tax is a very typical indirect tax... that is, the tax is collected directly in the business process of the enterprise, and is not targeted at individuals... so there is no Things like consumption tax.

Therefore, the tax laws of the Dachu Empire appear to be very strict among companies and wealthy people. However, ordinary people do not realize that the taxes are very high... and have even paid taxes throughout their lives.

However, this does not mean that ordinary people do not bear taxes... After all, the wool comes from the sheep, and the taxes paid by those companies will become costs and added to the price of the products. After the final products are sold to consumers, this part The cost of tax is actually borne by consumers.

To put it simply, of the terminal consumer products you buy for one dollar, at least four to five cents are taxes in various links...the rest is the true cost of the product and corporate profits.

It's just that most ordinary people don't know about this indirect tax model, which is mainly oriented to enterprises.

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Chu people mainly do business, so they are unavoidable from paying taxes, and arms dealers overseas are no exception. However, even if they have to pay taxes, the profits from arms are still very high.

This kind of hugely profitable business has nothing to do with ordinary Chu people.

Even if a millionaire like Song Erniu wants to get involved in the arms business, it is impossible. There is no hope of arms production, and arms sales are not easy to do.

There are actually not many channels for overseas Chu people to make money. Those who can make big money are basically covered by state capital and large private capital. There are actually very few opportunities left for ordinary small and medium-sized enterprises and even entrepreneurs. .

Song Erniu was also lucky enough to seize the opportunity of canvas garments, and then quickly opened up the market to become bigger and stronger. Before other big capital could react, he had occupied a large number of garment markets in North America and formed a brand.

When other large capitals also began to enter the low-cost garment market, Song Erniu had become bigger and stronger and had become a large enterprise in the field of garments.

But now in the Americas, it is actually difficult for small businesses to enter the ready-to-wear market and make big money. It is naturally possible to make a small fortune and even make a fortune. There are still many opportunities, but if you want to build a company with a market value of millions of dollars It is impossible to build a garment enterprise.

The ready-made garment market in the Americas is also limited, with a population of just over 1000 million. Even if millions or more immigrants are added in the next year, the population will only be estimated to be 4000 to [-] million in ten years.

With such a small population, the consumer market for ready-made garments is limited. With Song Clothing Company and several other large-scale ready-made garment companies, there is not much cake left for new entrants in other industries.

This is also the reason why Song Erniu wants to return to the local market. The overseas population is too small, the consumption capacity is also limited, and the overall market is too small, far less expansive than the local market.

In any case, the mainland and Nanyang regions combined have a population of [-] million... This is a very scary population figure, and the consumer market is very large.

This is also where the economic model of the Da Chu Empire is different from many global empires in the original time and space... The Da Chu Empire is a typical domestic demand economic model, not an external demand economic model.

Historically, Britain's rapid rise to dominate the earth relied on its huge overseas colonies, which provided raw materials and consumer markets.

Historically, the United States dominated the earth after World War II. In addition to itself, it also helped South America, Europe and many other places.

But the Great Chu Empire is different... Although the Great Chu Empire also has many overseas territories and colonies, and also controls India and Africa, there are also many indigenous people in these places!
Logically speaking, the Chu Empire should also rely on the raw materials and markets in these places to dominate.

But this is not the case!Why?
It's very simple. The Chu Empire has a population of [-] million in its own area. It is also the only industrialized country in the contemporary era. The people's income seems to be very low and their living standards are not good, but in fact it can beat the people of other indigenous countries. Income and living standards.

what does that mean?This means that the native area of ​​the Dachu Empire has a population of [-] million with high consumption power. Its total population exceeds the total population of other indigenous people in the world, and its consumption power far exceeds these indigenous populations.

Although there is no specific value, it can be seen from the total output and export ratio of the cotton spinning industry that of the massive amount of cloth produced by the Chu Empire every year, the amount of cloth exported to various indigenous countries is less than 90.00%... More than [-]% of the remaining cloth was actually consumed by the Chu people themselves.

As for cloth, it is still a relatively special industrialized product that is relatively easy to export.

If it were replaced by other industrial products, then the entire market might be domestic...

Therefore, some industrial countries in history relied on exporting goods to earn foreign exchange to improve their national industry... But this was not the case with the Great Chu Empire. The Great Chu Empire improved its national strength by producing products for its own people.

The existence significance of those overseas colonies and various indigenous countries is most likely to provide various industrial raw materials and agricultural products, which cannot help the Chu Empire consume much industrial products.

Therefore, in the contemporary Chu Empire, the domestic demand economy is the behemoth, and the external demand economy is just an embellishment...

Of course, this does not mean that overseas colonies and those controlled indigenous countries are not important. In fact, they are quite important, especially in the provision of industrial raw materials and agricultural products.

But the spending power of the indigenous people is so poor that it is not easy to make money from them...

Looking at the economic operation model and overseas strategy of the entire empire, it is that the Chu Empire used its absolute military strength as support and exchanged a very small amount of industrial products for massive industrial raw materials and agricultural products from various indigenous countries. In the end, these industrial raw materials and agricultural products were absolutely useless. Most of them will be consumed by the Chu people themselves, and only a few industrial products produced from raw materials will be sold back to indigenous countries to balance the trade deficit, thus forming an economic cycle.

The Chu Empire was like a huge whirlpool, attracting raw materials and agricultural products from all over the world to improve local living standards.

Otherwise, what do you think the Chu Empire relied on to increase the per capita food level to the current level of [-] kilograms?

Just rely on the eighteen provinces of the Central Plains?

how is this possible……

With the current agricultural production technology, it is difficult to feed [-] million people in the original little place, let alone increase the per capita food level to [-] per capita, going straight to the [-] kilogram mark.

Countless merchant ships and even passenger ships that go to sea are basically loaded with various industrial raw materials or agricultural products when they finally return.

Therefore, Songjiang City, the largest port city in the Chu Empire, is not just an ordinary industrial city port. At the same time, Songjiang City is also the largest grain distribution center in the Chu Empire... Every day, countless merchant ships returning from overseas arrive here loaded with grain. .

At the same time, it is also the largest distribution center for cotton and cloth in the Chu Empire and the main distribution center for dozens of bulk materials. Because bulk materials are gathered here, in order to meet the needs of merchants, the financial management agency of the Dachu Empire is trading stocks. After the center moved from Jinling City to Songjiang City, it established the first futures trading market for bulk goods in Songjiang City.

There are so many opportunities in a city like this!

In the local area, the many opportunities in Songjiang City are just one of the most conspicuous ones. Guangzhou and Tianjin are also super cities, as well as many other ordinary big cities, such as Hantian, Suzhou, Yingtian, etc. wait.

In the vast local area, relying on the large high-consuming population and the abundant materials gathered from all over the world, the local area is full of various opportunities.

At least in Song Erniu's view, there are many more opportunities to make a fortune in China than in the Americas, and once successful, it will not be worth 200 million, but tens of millions or even more.

For example, the famous Li family in the business world of the Chu Empire founded Li Iron Steel, a behemoth that was called the largest private enterprise in the Chu Empire and had a market value of more than 2 million Chu yuan.

Although the Li's Steel shares owned by the Li family have continued to reduce their holdings through multiple strategic investments, sales, share exchanges, etc., the family still holds approximately 18.00% of the shares of Li's Steel... plus the The family's investment and management in other fields, its family wealth is conservatively estimated to be 7000 million yuan... It can be said that the country is as rich as the enemy!
This is a very scary data!

It's just that the wealth within the Li family is relatively divided. It is mainly scattered among the five members of the second generation of the Li family and a small amount in the hands of the grandchildren. The wealth of a single family member is actually not that much.

In the Da Chu Empire, there were actually many families whose wealth reached tens of millions. Millionaires like Song Erniu were actually not very impressive in the mainland...

Wang Liqing and his wife were not considered the top class in Songjiang's high society, but they were among the top local celebrities in Songjiang by relying on a Suzhou Creek restaurant.

If the assets of the Wangs and his wife are put aside the huge bank loans and only the net assets are calculated, they are worth several million yuan...

Wang Liqing... Well, to be precise, Wang Liqing's wife's net worth is worth the entire worth of the top five Song Er Niu...

Moreover, most of Mrs. Wang's assets are high-quality real estate in Songjiang City, mainly commercial real estate.

Linjiang North Road, Beicheng District, the most expensive commercial real estate area in Songjiang City, a place where land is really precious, she privately owns more than 20 Linjiang office buildings... and she bought land to build it back then, because Beicheng District had not officially opened up yet. Large-scale development, in fact, she didn’t spend much money when she first bought a house here.

When the first batch of real estates appreciated in value, she used the real estate to mortgage loans, used the loans to buy new land to build buildings and rent them out, and then mortgaged the loans again, and the snowball continued...

Unconsciously, there are more and more real estate properties...

Drinking tea and chatting with other noble ladies every year, taking care of their husbands and children every day, and occasionally going out to buy a building, and then find that they have become a millionaire, and after a few years, their worth has doubled several times.

Two or three years ago, it would have been impossible for Wang Liqing to go home and scream and coax him, and then Mrs. Wang would directly throw out hundreds of thousands of cash to him to support him in his second venture...

Mrs. Wang, you are really rich...

Moreover, Mrs. Wang's money is not, strictly speaking, inherited... The assets that the Wangs inherited from Wang Liqing's father-in-law were mainly textile companies, and this company was handed over to Wang Liqing for management. Mrs. Wang is responsible for the housekeeping...she mainly has cash, national debts and the like on hand.

The upper-class men in the Dachu Empire ran businesses outside to support their families, while the women spent money inside to take care of the house, etc. This was basically the case!

Mrs. Wang originally wanted to invest in real estate to protect her capital, and collect some rent to live on in the future, so that she would have a way out if Wang Liqing's business failed.

But no one thought that land prices in Beicheng District would soar so fast. Coupled with the good growth momentum, Mrs. Wang continued to purchase various real estates and unknowingly owned countless high-quality real estates and became a The premier real estate queen in Songjiang City!

Many large companies from other places want to open branches in Songjiang. Some people will come to Mrs. Wang. Why?
Because the branch of a big company in Songjiang naturally cannot be shabby, at least it has to go to the Linjiang North Road in Beicheng District to set up an office building...

After all, Linjiang North Road is the commercial center of Songjiang City.

Unfortunately, that area is where Mrs. Wang purchased a large amount of land...

It is said that back then, Mrs. Wang had just bought a large piece of tidal flat land beside the Huangpu River in Beicheng District, thinking that if things went bad in the future, she could build a dock, a warehouse, or rent it to shipyards and the like to earn some land rent... but it didn't happen. In the past few years, the government has planned the development plan of Beicheng District and announced a series of preferential policies.

In a short period of time, capital flooded in, and land prices in Beicheng District skyrocketed. The former wasteland on the beach was instantly transformed into a commercial center, and it went from being worthless to being worth every inch of land. This really scared Wang Liqing. Silly!

Nowadays, large companies are coming to Songjiang City to open branches. They want to find a building that can reflect the strength of their company as an office building, so they announce their entry into Songjiang City with a high profile!

Then it would be best for you to find Mrs. Wang, because she owns many office buildings in that area, especially the famous Linjiang North Road!
There are only more than 60 commercial office buildings on Linjiang North Road facing the Huangpu River...more than 20 of them are Mrs. Wang's private properties!
Sometimes, Wang Liqing would raise his head to the sky at 45 degrees at night, just to prevent tears from flowing down: Damn, I have worked so hard for more than [-] years trying to support my family, but in the end, I am not as good as my wife.

Many people think that he is a softie.

He has a conscience, he is really not a softie... and he also knows very well that his wife is not a business person. Apart from buying land and houses, she has never done anything else in so many years...

Even the maintenance of real estate, rent collection, and daily management were all done by Wang Liqing who worked hard to establish a real estate management company. Mrs. Wang really didn't take care of it...

What stands out is a lying win!