Chapter XVII Economic Policy

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The rest time was always limited, and after an hour, Chen Xin returned to his king's office to continue his day's work.

In the next few days, Chen Xin officially began to perform the duties of the king, constantly receiving his subordinates, arranging various tasks, and approving various documents.

And the subordinate units at all levels are also slowly being formed.

Chen Xin's subordinate departments are divided into three categories: cabinet ministries, the Privy Council, and directly subordinate units.

Among them, the State Council was the first to be established among the departments under the first major category of cabinets.

Because it is a direct executive body of the Cabinet, it can be established directly from the Military Management Commission.

The day after Chen Xin ordered the formation of the cabinet, he could stumble to work.

Next, the second one to be established is the Ministry of Commerce.

Half a year ago, when there was a naval conflict between the kingdom and the Dutch, Chen Xin made a plan to raid Dayuan and occupy all the Dutch colonies in Dayuan.

At that time, in order to be able to have a reliable logistics base during the expedition, Lu Ming, who was originally responsible for opening up trade routes, was also sent as a diplomatic envoy to contact the Spaniards in the city of Santo Domingo, hoping to rent their port as a logistics base to retaliate against the Dutch.

However, later, because the domestic economy, materials, population and other conditions were dragging behind, the ministers of the Military Management Commission also believed that there were too many enemies and it was not suitable for expeditions, so Chen Xin's raid plan could only be invalidated.

However, Lu Ming, who received the order to give up continuing negotiations, unexpectedly found an opportunity for business cooperation with the Spaniards.

The Spaniards had a financial crisis due to the influx of gold and silver from the American continent and the inability of the European continent to provide sufficient commodities, and urgently needed the help of the great production capacity of the United Kingdom of China, which was industrializing.

It was at that time that the Ministry of Commerce slowly formed its own prototype in the commercial negotiations with the Spaniards.

Now, the Ministry of Commerce is the fastest unit to be formed.

However, in Chen Xin's plan, in addition to being in charge of trade, the Ministry of Commerce was also responsible for coordinating the industrial system in the kingdom so that they could have a good space for development.

Why didn't Chen Xin set up a ministry of industry, but put industry in business? Here, the economic system of the kingdom is involved.

Chen Xin was a believer in the public-owned economic system in the original time and space.

It is not the single pure public ownership system that was changed before, but the public ownership system that includes the mixed ownership economic system in the later period.

However, because Chen Xin did not study economic management, although he greatly admired the public ownership economy, he did not dare to practice public ownership in a country where he was still eradicating illiteracy.

You must know that in later generations, after the reform, it took more than 20 years for the country to initially smooth out the doorway and put the country's economy on the fast track.

But in those 20 years, how many losses have been suffered, how much money, time, and opportunities have been wasted?

In those 20 years, how many experts, scholars, and leaders have put their hearts and souls into it?

Chen Xin really didn't dare to experiment with the people of the whole country for the sake of his own little preference in this nascent country that was still in the process of eradicating illiteracy.

Chen Xin did not have the strong ability of the leaders of later generations and the collective under their leadership.

At the same time, Chen Xin did not have that kind of powerful proletarian ideology as a weapon, and the universities of later generations, such as Marxism-Leninism, Mao Si, Deng Xuan, etc., all became things to cope with the examination, and Chen Xin did not understand much, and did not dare to make an axe.

In addition, the kind of strict supervision and management system required by public ownership will not be able to be developed by Chen Xin in the short term.

Therefore, at a time when there can be no waste in the slightest and no halt in the pace of development, Chen Xin can only implement a private economic system that conforms to the productive forces of this era.

However, whether it is in terms of the current identity of the supreme leader of a feudal country or the identity of an ordinary otaku in later generations, Chen Xin really has no good impression of capitalists.

Moreover, the future of the United Kingdom of China will definitely move towards the road of public ownership, so during this period, Chen Xin is not willing to cultivate a group of capitalists who are likely to be unstable factors in the future.

In this case, Chen Xin scattered the tiger ben under his command who were more active, and acted as the owner of each factory.

Let them compete with the merchants who have not yet reached the level of capitalists.

With the help of Chen Xin, the supreme ruler of the country, the help of a large amount of royal money, and the assistance of various emerging technologies, these tiger bents have slowly moved closer to the capitalists, and stood at the top of that class, promoting the progress of industry for Chen Xin, while suppressing the rise of those new capitalists.

The words of Toyo Denning, quoted by Lao Ma in Capital, are not wrong at all: "If there is a 10% profit, capital is guaranteed to be used everywhere;

With 20% of the profits, capital is active;

With 50% of the profits, capital is desperate;

For the sake of 100% profit, capital dares to trample on all human laws;

With a 300% profit, capital dares to commit any crime, even at the risk of hanging his head. ”

After the introduction of the private system, even without the addition of ideology, the semi-literate workers still created extremely objective profits for the capitalists.

And these profits, in addition to a part of the maintenance of factory operations, expansion of scale, and the renewal of equipment, most of the funds are used by these loyal tigers to invest in national construction.

This can be regarded as a kind of public ownership in private.

However, in the future, when the time is ripe, these big capitalists who are loyal to Chen Xin will actively respond to Chen Xin's call, so that the country can quickly and smoothly officially embark on the road of public ownership.

Of course, Chen Xin did not give up on this aspect of management, and put all his hopes on these tiger ben.

In the Privy Council, he also formed advisory bodies such as the Council of Economic Advisers, the Council of Science and Technology Policy Clerks, and the National Policy Committee.

These consulting departments, which are slowly being established, will assist him, the king, to carry out macroeconomic regulation and control of the market through various departments and various administrative means.

At the same time, Chen Xin was also prepared to support a new class that had the same interests as him, the king, or could be said to rely on the king to obtain benefits, to fight against the small and medium-sized capitalist forces that were likely to take shape in the future.

In Chen Xin's plan, the spearhead of the capitalists should be shifted in one direction and not aimed at him.

This will not only ease the contradictions, but also give him time to see clearly who the enemy really is, so that it is convenient to take corresponding measures.