This business license was called a "shop book" at the time, which was basically a license to open a shop. Now, after the establishment of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, merchants are allowed to register companies and form private enterprises.
"So what's the specific bidding method?" Tian Chang asked, raising the question he was concerned about. "Is it a direct bidding?"
"Yes."
Zhao Jun said, "The government will evaluate the current monopoly assets, and you will bid on them. The highest bidder will win. However, the court must own at least 40% of the shares. I will then establish the Great Song Dynasty National Assets Bureau, and this 40% will belong to the state. The remaining 60% will belong to you. You can also form a trading company to jointly purchase the shares and appoint one person to lead the management."
Because of the Song Dynasty's monopoly on tea, salt, iron, alum, wine, spices and other items, it controlled the industries of daily necessities, textiles, and alcoholic beverages, resulting in its own extremely large state-owned industries.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in recent days, the assets of various salt fields, tea plantations, iron and alum mines, distilleries, etc., added up to hundreds of millions of strings of cash, not counting the government-run shops across the country and institutional industries such as "food and tea business" and "brewing business".
If all were sold, even though the dozen or so of them were the largest private merchants in Bianliang, they would not be able to buy them all.
So it can only be sold in pieces.
And only a small part of it will be sold, and most of the state-owned assets will be retained temporarily and gradually transitioned in the future.
It can be said that this is just a pilot project to allow Bianliang merchants to participate in state-owned enterprises.
Once the pilot project is successful in the future, the scope will be expanded to the whole country, and the state-owned institutions spread across the Song Dynasty will be dismantled, thus completing the entire state-owned reform.
Although doing so seems to be selling state-owned assets, the current state-owned assets are already a burden, and selling them is not a bad thing.
When the economic environment improves in the future, we will follow the example of later generations and establish a directly managed department that is completely controlled by the state.
In this way, private enterprises and state-owned enterprises will first form joint ventures, which will drive the vigorous development of private enterprises while guiding the correct operation of state-owned enterprises.
When the right time comes and capitalism enters its embryonic stage, Zhao Jun can formally promote steam engine reform and enter the steam age.
In addition, a lot of groundwork can be done before this, such as improving spinning machines, promoting cotton planting, looking for silver inflows, etc.
As for the problem that businessmen have no motivation to reform the steam engine due to the current abundance of human resources, there is no need to worry.
Firstly, there were official promoters, and secondly, in history, when Europe and the United States entered the steam age, there were also black people who were slaves, but they also entered the steam age.
Demand means motivation, and when capital truly operates, it can only move forward. All the imperial court needs to do is put a tight rein on it while it's developing rapidly.
After hearing the proposal put forward by Zhao Jun, the dozen or so businessmen below each found their familiar friends and began to discuss in low voices.
Simply put, this reform was that the imperial court took out some state-owned business rights and sold them in a package to them.
But the overall state-owned operations were still too large for them to handle, so they sold all the state-owned departments in Bianliang, including the operating rights of one or two tea plantations, salt fields, mines, and wineries, as well as the shops and channels in Bianliang, to them.
They can form a group to buy it, or if they have strong financial resources, they can bid individually. For example, in the case of tea, they can directly hand over a tea plantation, tea shop, and tea processing factory to merchants and take it away as a whole.
The prerequisite is that the state must hold 40% of the shares, and this part of the shares will not interfere in their business. The operation will be left to them to handle and they will be responsible for their own profits and losses.
At the same time, since the imperial court holds this 40% share, it will also help them deal with the deliberate obstruction in the officialdom. As long as it is reasonable and legal, then if they want to do business in the future, they will no longer be subject to the various restrictions from officials, businessmen and local governments as before.
This is obviously a good thing for them.
Because before, when they were suppressed, their upper limit was to have assets of one million guan. Now, not only is there no suppression, but they are no longer limited to a certain share of commodity management rights each year as before.
In this way, there is no upper limit to their operations, and the source of goods is no longer as constant as before. As long as they manage the business properly, it is only a matter of time before their assets exceed one million strings of cash.
After realizing this, everyone stopped hesitating and immediately said to Zhao Jun, "We'll leave it to the dean to decide!"
"good."
Zhao Jun nodded and said, "During this time, you can go back and take care of your own household affairs and see how much money you can come up with. Li Xiang will preside over the auction. You can go back and wait for notification."
"Thank you, Zhiyuan!"
Everyone stood up and bowed.
All walks of life are involved in this incident, and the Bianliang monopoly is estimated to be worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of strings of cash. Even if they are wealthy, they certainly cannot afford so much money.
So we must go back and discuss it, and then see whether to invite friends to join or form our own group. That’s another matter.
The description of capitalists in the previous chapter is definitely biased, because not every capitalist is evil, but at least the image of capitalists in society is definitely negative at present, and everyone just needs to understand what I mean.
There have been some problems with my mental state recently. I'm under a lot of pressure, so even if I write, I definitely don't think too much. So far, there haven't been any major mistakes or issues, so I'm temporarily satisfied. If there are any omissions, please point them out and give me some suggestions for revision. Because in my current mental state, I probably can't think too much. At least I don't know how to revise the last chapter.
In addition, the group was reported and closed. I told them to stop posting political messages, but they refused to listen. I can't comment on it. If they don't seek death, they will die. They have brought disaster to my group. I am speechless.
(End of this chapter)
2015
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