There can be profiteering industries, but they should never be material industries that are closely related to the production and life of the people.

As soon as this idea came out, Liu Xing immediately looked sideways at the captain of the personal soldiers: "You go to preach the order to Lei Zhen on my behalf and tell him to give orders to the world on my behalf." Starting this year, each state capital and county must identify a certain amount of land for soybeans. Under the condition of ensuring local grain production, the yamen in various localities were ordered to vigorously promote the cultivation of soya beans. ”

At this point, he lowered his head and thought for a while, and Liu Xing continued: "As long as it is a farmer who has changed to soybean, the output of soybeans will be preferentially purchased by the imperial reserve warehouses in various places according to the price of the market, and it will be regarded as receiving the same materials as rice and wheat. All farmers who have changed to planting soybean will be co-ordinated by the local yamen to purchase seeds without seeds in the first year. At the time of its sale, an additional 30% agricultural subsidy will be given by the Ministry of Households. ”

The words stopped again at this point, and Liu Xing looked up at the captain and continued to say his decision.

Liu Xing's decision is roughly as follows: The first aspect is to help farmers change the source of seeds, which Liu Xing identified as the establishment of improved seed companies in each state capital under the direct responsibility of the crown prince to provide seeds for those farmers who are willing to switch to soybean.

All seed selection and distribution must be carried out with the basic criteria of openness, fairness and justice, and the double guarantee of quality and quantity.

No one is allowed to take advantage of the opportunity to extort or extort peasant households by means of shoddy or prevarication and refusal to sell improved seeds, and once it is discovered that anyone dares to do such illegal things, he will be punished severely, severely, and quickly.

The price of seeds should not be higher than the market price of the seeds. Whoever dares to maliciously raise the price of soybean seeds, the local yamen has the right to seize his property, and then conduct a trial and severe punishment.

The second aspect. Converting farmland to farmland means that capital investment is required. In funding. He ordered the Great Song Dynasty Agricultural Grain Money to give long-term, low-interest loans to those farmers who switched to production. In order to do the transformation of production support.

At the same time, before the farmers change production, they need to declare to the local farmland management yamen, and after reporting, the household department will allocate direct subsidy funds to give subsidy support, and one and a half of the value of the market value of the soybean market will be given to each mu of land as a direct agricultural production subsidy.

After the mushrooms are ripe, when they are sold to the local crown princes, the household department will directly allocate special agricultural production subsidies. According to the price of the market of one and a half pounds of mushrooms, the household department will directly allocate special supplements.

These two kinds of subsidies will not go through the local yamen at all levels, but will be sent by the household department to send special personnel to transport them and go to the fields to distribute them directly to the peasant households.

With agricultural subsidies for planting, there is a need for enough oil mills to process soybean oil to avoid unnecessary losses and losses caused by excessive backlog of raw materials.

At this point, Liu Xing also made a clear provision: encourage small private oil mills to carry out joint stock mergers. A large oil mill was formed. For the large oil mills formed by the merger of joint shares, all of them will be given preferential treatment of tax exemption for one year.

If there are oil mill owners who are unwilling to merge their own oil mills with other people's oil mills, there is also a way. The agricultural and grain money number will give an industrial loan of up to seven years, and the interest rate shall not exceed eight cents for support.

For the soybean oil produced by all oil mills, if the oil mill owner is willing to purchase raw materials, he can sign a pre-sale contract with the local imperial grain reserve agency in advance, and the imperial grain reserve agency will pay a deposit of up to 30% to support its production, and at the same time ensure that the finished food oil produced by the oil mill owner can be sold without worry.

In addition, for every pound of soybean oil produced by each oil mill owner, the household department can directly allocate grain and oil production subsidies after declaration and approval. The amount of such subsidies shall be controlled within 20% of the market exchange price.

Other words. If an oil mill owner no longer processes and produces other edible oils, he will go all out to process and produce soybean oil. Then before he goes into production. First, there is a deposit of 30% from the imperial grain reserve agency for support.

When it started production, it was helped by the loan money issued by the agricultural grain money number. When it produces edible oil and sells it to the Imperial Grain Reserve Agency, in addition to the seventy percent final payment given by the Imperial Grain Reserve Agency, it can also get a subsidy of two percent.

In this way, it is equivalent to giving the oil mill owner a full guarantee, and at the same time, the imperial grain storage agency can be used to control the market price of soybean oil......

Since it is to let the household department and the imperial grain storage agency play the leading role in the edible oil industry, Liu Xing naturally has follow-up considerations, that is, in the future, the supply of grain and oil in all cities in the country will be banned one after another.

In the future, all the people in the city only need to go to the government-run grain and oil stores to buy grain and oil at affordable prices, and they no longer need to worry about the sharp rise in grain and oil prices.

As a result, the formation of a one-stop production, supply and marketing mechanism of farmers, processing manufacturers, imperial grain storage institutions, and government-run grain and oil stores is a large-scale industrial operation, so as to ensure the long-term stable and steady benign development of grain and oil production and supply links in the Northern Dynasties to the greatest extent.

Since all this grain and oil will be in the hands of the crown prince of the household department, it will naturally be much more convenient to use oil in armaments. After having a sufficient source of oil, when defending and attacking the city in the future, the Great Song Dynasty King naturally did not have to worry about running out of oil to burn the city and burn the enemy.

However, the Crown Prince Department is not a yamen that serves only the Privy Council. In the end, Liu Xing also made a hard and fast rule, that is, when the Privy Council and the Ministry of War needed to transfer grain and oil from the Crown Prince's Department, they could only purchase it at a price that was one-twentieth to one-tenth higher than the market price.

The specific purchase price is to be negotiated between the Ministry of Household and the Privy Council, or between the Crown Prince and the Ministry of War. In short, it is a basic criterion: to ensure that the crown prince does not run a deficit due to military needs, so as to ensure that it is profitable beyond the appropriation, and thus can develop and grow healthily and sustainably......

Armament is only one goal, and the largest link in the sale and support of grain and oil is bound to be in the civilian sector. Since the unified supply of grain and oil to all the people in the city has been carried out, in order to avoid corruption in the process of operation, Liu Xing also deliberately made clear regulations on the price fluctuation and decline of grain and oil supply.

The basic criterion of this provision is to increase or decrease in a timely manner in accordance with the rules of the market, but the proportion shall not exceed one-twentieth of the upper or lower levels. In addition, in the operation of the grain and oil industry, the imperial grain reserve institutions must also pay business taxes to all localities.

In this way, it can not only ensure that the grain and oil will be stable for a long time under the control of the government, so that the people can feel worry-free. As long as the grain and oil shops in any place dare to raise prices privately, the local government can check and balance the grain and oil shops through the mode of household taxes.

Of course, if those grain and oil stores go too far, the local governor Yamen has the right to issue fines. The amount of the fine depends on the proportion of the local grain and oil companies that raise prices, and the maximum limit is that the governor's yamen can impose a fine of 20 times the market price of the products it operates.

Moreover, at the same time as issuing fines, the governors of each province have the right to directly dismiss the responsible persons at all levels of the grain and oil stores concerned, and to bring them to prison and punish them in accordance with the law. (To be continued.) )