"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that if you want to develop our industry, we must first find a way to clearly divide our industrial direction. The minister thought that our country and the emperor's royal family could focus on investing in heavy industry, and then open up light industry to the private sector for investment. Encourage private investment in light industry, and light industry can absorb a large number of working people for employment, and the return on investment cycle is short, the return of funds is relatively easy, and can quickly improve the lives of the people. The most important thing is that the investment in light industry is low, the technology content is relatively low, and the demand for funds is small, which can be affordable by the vast majority of ordinary people. The heavy industry is different, the investment in heavy industry is large, the return rate is slow, and even the technical content is very high, and the most important thing is that it is related to the lifeline of national security, so it is not suitable to be handed over to private businessmen for investment, so the royal family and the country might as well invest together, and then the imperial court will give the policy, and the royal family and the government will invest together. ”

Wang Guorui heard this Xiao Hongsheng's arrangement, which is actually quite reasonable. Light industry can not only absorb a large number of working people, but also has relatively low investment, fast return of funds, and easy to return to capital. Unlike heavy industry, which has a large amount of investment and high technology, it is a capital-intensive and technology-intensive industry, and ordinary people simply do not play well. Even heavy industry is related to the security of the country and has an inseparable relationship with national defense, and if it is easily handed over to private individuals for investment, it may cause very huge security risks.

Wang Guorui even thought that some steel giants and arms companies in the West did not hesitate to encourage the government to go to war in order to promote sales, and then sell their own arms. For example, a certain consortium in the United States that is famous for its arms business, and the United States in World War I and World War II was absolutely indispensable for them to jump behind the United States to start a war. And this kind of heavy industry is related to national security, and once it is controlled by private individuals, it can easily cause danger. Therefore, according to the situation of later generations, heavy industry is generally controlled by state-owned enterprises, and the development of private heavy industry is very slow. And it cannot get the support of the government, and all sides even carry out a certain degree of overt and covert suppression. This is actually the most important one, which is related to the security of the country, and it is not so easy to solve. In later generations, they were generally engaged in light industry, agriculture, and service industries, and other heavy industries were not supported by the state in the first place, and the most important thing was that the investment was large. The return is slow, the return cycle is long, and the technology is too high, so they don't have the confidence to invest.

However, Wang Guorui also thought of another point, this Xiao Hongsheng let the royal family participate in this heavy industry, in fact, it is not a way. If the royal family can invest in heavy industry, then the royal family can obtain a huge stake in the heavy industry, and also have a huge influence, so that it can continue to maintain a significant influence on the country. Although it may not have the power to govern directly in the past. But it can make the royal influence continue to last longer. Wang Guorui knows that there is no dynasty in this world that will not perish, so all Wang Guorui can do is to continue as much as possible. If you can get a huge stake in heavy industry, then you can also continue the power of your descendants as much as possible.

"Alright, I'll ask the royal family to provide a sum of money right away as a fund for the development of heavy industry. And the imperial court also takes out a part of the appropriation every year, and then invests it. And the imperial court gave the policy, and then our royal family also acted as the main funder, and then invested in the development of heavy industry. The development of heavy industry is related to the security of the country. And the investment is large and technology-intensive. The return cycle is long, and the average businessman is not willing to invest, so we will also invest. Of course, our royal family must fulfill its social obligations, so that the people of the whole world can bathe in the emperor's grace! Wang Guorui said.

Wang Guorui felt that he was very hypocritical, because he obviously monopolized the heavy industry, and he also hoped to increase his royal influence by controlling the heavy industry. guaranteed his power, but Wang Guorui said so righteously, obviously as if he had suffered a big loss. Anyway, this world is like this, many times you have to pretend to be a good person, and you have to pretend to be a big loss when you get a benefit. In this way, you can make your benefits last longer. If you get carried away after getting benefits, you will be envied, jealous and hated.

"Your Majesty, we'll talk about this heavy industry later, and the most important thing for us at the moment is the light industry. Light industry, especially imitation garment making and other industries, are also places that require a large number of labor, and we have a population of 400 million people in China, and we are also a huge market! With such a huge market, how can we miss it? Why did the foreigners invade us back then, even the crow sixty years ago. Why is it fought in the film war? In fact, they just want us to open up the country and then be able to get the market. So our market of 400 million people is even more than the population of the whole of Europe. And so many people represent a market demand, we can develop our light industry through domestic demand. Xiao Hongsheng said.

Wang Guorui doesn't know anything else, but he knows that China has a large population, and a large population actually has advantages and disadvantages. For people in the light industry, it's a huge market! With such a market of 400 million people, who is not jealous? Those Westerners have developed technology, why do they want to choose colonization? In fact, the main thing is that their domestic demand is insufficient, they have a small population, and they cannot provide a large number of markets. But their own domestic productivity increased rapidly, and a large amount of material was produced, but no one bought it. Moreover, their native European resources are also greatly depleted with the increase of productivity, and finally the resources are insufficient.

Under the pressure of the market and resources, they began to sail vigorously, and then began to look for resources and markets. And China, with a population of 400 million, and even a country with a population comparable to Europe, is there any bigger market than this? Although China may seem poor, it can't stand the large number of people, and even small profits can be made in huge profits. Moreover, at that time, China's textile, garment-making and other light industries were completely backward, and the advanced textile and other light industry technologies in the West produced a large number of products, and the quality was better than those of China's local products. The quantity is large, the quality is good, and the price is low, so how can it resist?

Wang Guorui immediately added, saying: "We must maintain this market, and we can't let foreigners dump it." In the past, the Manchu government did stupid things on its own, collecting legal taxes and non-taxes and other assessments for its own merchants, but it did not dare to collect taxes at all for foreigners. This not only hinders the rise of our domestic national capital, but also becomes an accomplice of foreigners' products to invade our country. The Manchus did this, that is, they were afraid of foreigners. Externally servile and subservient, but internally vicious as a wolf, this kind of court does not want it. ”

"Not only will we not be able to do this in the future, but we will not only protect our domestic market and prevent foreign goods from entering. And the best way is to charge huge anti-dumping duties on the light industry of foreigners, so that their goods can not be sold after they come in. ”

Of course, Wang Guorui knew about the so-called trade protectionism, which was also used in later generations at home and abroad. China scolds the United States for trade protectionism, and the United States also scolds China for trade protectionism. Even among different provinces in China, there is a certain degree of so-called local economic protection, such as restricting products from other provinces, or squeezing out through some special means. In fact, this kind of trade protectionism can exist in countries and provinces, and even in a township, but the means used are different.

Wang Guorui passed through the world economic crisis a few years ago, and at that time, the country proposed to expand domestic demand, in fact, it was to expand the domestic market, so that various domestic industries could tide over the difficulties. And that also allows the country to shift from foreign exports to expanding domestic demand, so as to ensure the survival of enterprises. Therefore, in a sense, to ensure the domestic market, and then to ensure the survival of enterprises, to ensure the survival of enterprises, to a large extent, is also to ensure the employment of domestic people, and ensuring employment also means that there is income, and having income is to ensure that the family has food.

In fact, this is a cycle, in short, it is to encourage spending money. From a macroeconomic point of view, in fact, protecting the domestic market is also protecting domestic employment and people's income to a certain extent, so that they can form a virtuous circle. At present, the domestic market must be protected. At present, the domestic light industry is almost zero, not only is it technologically backward compared with the West, but there is not enough room for growth. And this market of 400 million people in China is an important factor for them to develop from small to large. Raise the domestic light industry through the domestic market, and then be able to go abroad to compete with foreigners to expand the market.

"Okay, immediately draw up an anti-dumping duty plan for the foreigners' various light industries. As for the relevant products and tax rates, they can also be formulated according to different products. Of course, we must also carefully examine our advantageous and inferior industries, and the anti-dumping duties of our advantageous industries are lower, while those of inferior industries are higher. We are not able to protect all the unprincipled, the so-called born in sorrow and die in peace, if we protect too deeply, then this will also make domestic enterprises have no motivation to move forward, so we can not protect too deeply. And this anti-dumping duty can be adjusted according to the development of our domestic industry, and we must not let foreigners threaten our industry too much, nor can we let our domestic advantageous industries live too comfortably, otherwise there will be no motivation to struggle. (To be continued.) )