Chapter 1748: Dream Test Story

Buzz buzz buzz... The steam engine used on the ship drives dozens of puffing machines at the same time to burn coal.

Next to a machine is a woman selling vegetables across from Bashui.

They calculated wages based on time, four dollars an hour, and were only allowed to work for two hours, that is, one hour.

If you are a part-time worker, it will be too hot next to the machine. If you work for a long time, you will get burnt.

Each person has a meter stick. After cleaning it, he pinches the rice popcorn sticks, one stick per meter.

In fact, it is okay to use a stick to compare, but if you compare too much, there will always be oversights and it will not be accurate enough.

If you keep the same stick in your hand, it will break easily. If you change it, the accuracy will be poor.

The meter stick is made of wood. It is accurate and has small errors during operation.

The villagers don't do this work, and even the people in Zhangjia Village don't do it. It's a waste of time.

Four dollars for one hour, ninety-six dollars for twenty-four hours? Women’s jobs in Zhangjia Village are not at this price either.

The vegetable seller Xing Xing earns eight qian an hour, and he still works in Lijiazhuangzi.

Some contain millet, some contain sorghum, wheat, rice, bran...

Change according to the customer's needs. The processing fee is 8 to 1. Weigh the rice popsicles first. Sometimes they are not accurate.

It doesn’t matter, you will get an extra rice popsicle from Fanzi, and one for every ten other rice popsicles.

Even if a pound of sorghum is exchanged for a pound of rice popsicle sticks, the difference is one cent and fourteen taels, and the people will not feel a loss if they get a few more bran sticks.

"Xiao Yi, can the cost be recovered?" Bi Gou finished his meal and saw that Li Yi had fulfilled his dream of being a disciple, and he was very sensitive to the output-input ratio.

These are all occupational diseases. When you see something, you first consider the cost, profit, whether to collect taxes, what proportion of taxes to collect, and what if others don’t pay taxes?

"The newly made steam engine is better than the previous one and has more horsepower. I have to test the machine and keep it running."

Li Yi didn't answer the cost. How to calculate the cost? Machine cost is not a cost? How long does it take to pay back the capital?

Just counting the labor cost of hiring people and the profit from exchange, it is a cost, because there are also transportation costs.

Lijiazhuangzi didn't make any money on this matter, but he could still work despite testing the machine. This was extra profit.

"Tell me more specifically." Bi Gou is eager to learn. He is always afraid of being deceived by others, but Xiao Yi is still interesting.

"For example, my steam engine is used to make rice popsicles. If you want to collect taxes from me, you have to deduct the equipment production cost and technology cost.

And I am now in a trial run. The profits generated at this time should not be included in the tax collection.

It is part of my cost, and the input cost is also a cost, with additional deductions.

But when I calculate the profits, this part of the profits is guaranteed to be my own. In the process of making profits, I bear the risk of trial run failure. "

Li Yi explained it to Bi Gou and the people around him. He was familiar with these operations.

In the future, Datang's tax system will gradually improve and need to be used. Anyone who wants to evade taxes and make false accounts in front of him must be the professional accountant he was at that time.

Even then, it is nothing more than exploiting a loophole, and there is no lawless situation.

“All loopholes can be patched, and there will be new loopholes after patching. Let’s not dwell on this issue.

In fact, I can not hire them, but add a small combination of parts to automatically cut off the popcorn pops.

It's hot, so people don't like to go out much. They can't sell anything, and I can't give them money directly. "

Li Yi said as he drew a simple gear bearing set on the ground with his fingers, put it on the equipment, and rotated it once every time.

The distance can be controlled, and the rice popsicle sticks will be exactly one meter long. The small slices can be rotated in a circle, and there is no need to use a ruler to measure and hold them with your hands.

The popcorn pops are soft and hot when they come out, and they break when touched.

After everyone saw the pictures drawn by Li Yi and listened to what he said... they were indifferent.

It’s normal! It is routine for you, Li Yi, to do good deeds. Otherwise, why would the people give you some mosquito coils?

"Then do you pay taxes?" Bi Gou cleared away all the confusion.

"Pay it. I sold the equipment to the court. After the court gave me the money, I paid the tax." Li Yi agreed.

"Does that mean the court has lost money? The court bought your things and collected your taxes, and you still have a profit." Su Ting calculated the accounts.

"Read the book!" Li Yi didn't bother to explain. It was already written in the book. Aren't you very good at writing poems? One sentence per person.

Could it be that the imperial court bought it and left it alone? Oh, this does happen.

For example, state-owned enterprises buy a bunch of useless equipment and just throw it away. Anyway, a group of people benefit from it.

In fact, when the imperial court buys things, there is business and profit.

Even if the rice popsicles are processed for free for the people, it is still considered a welfare.

Welfare does not exist alone. It will promote social development. Profit is not calculated directly. Social stability and the subjective initiative of the people must be taken into account.

"Why not sell it to the court?" Song Jing did not agree with the court buying it. He read books and knew the situation, but why should the court bear the burden? Anyway, you have Li Yi.

"Look, Lao Song was smarter. He shifted the state's responsibility to private companies and turned it into corporate responsibility. The state could get more benefits while paying less.

There is no financial subsidy from the court, and no policy concessions are given. Instead, as long as you run the business, you will be charged taxes. "

Li Yi glanced at Song Jing, are you playing this trick with me? You are still young.

"Strength and softness, this method is not feasible?" Zhang Jiuling said.

"Okay! I will pay the tax directly, and then I will build the ship. The sea is very rough and the waves are gone.

Then a fleet that came out of nowhere began to trade freely on the sea. No one knew where the fleet was based.

How much money and where the fleet made money was a mystery.

Sometimes they even attacked the Tang merchant fleet. Whenever the Tang navy went to encircle and suppress them, they would disappear without a trace. "

Li Yi was like telling a story, but the content of the narration was not interesting at all.

"The court bought it." Song Jing responded naturally.

"The court can train seamen. I never thought of making money for myself when I built a good steam engine.

Build the ship and install it. You wrote poems saying that I was the only one who did it! I was scared.

Try the rice popcorn sticks. They are a little hot when they are new. Find some that are dried. "

Li Yi said as he went to get the rice popcorn sticks, mainly made with sorghum rice, which was the most delicious. Corn ones would also be good in the future.

He gave one to each person and held three in his hand.

While others were eating, he broke them into pieces, dipped them in saliva and put them together to make a submachine gun.

Put them together again, and they made a leaky boat, which looked like a boat.

"This is the essence of eating rice popcorn sticks. Eating is actually secondary. Bang, bang, bang, bang."

Li Yi held a rice popcorn stick that looked like an assault rifle and pointed it at Qingsong and others next to him.

"Ahhh, ahhh!" The others were stunned, only Qingsong cooperated, leaning his upper body back and swinging his hands vigorously.

"Okay, I'll give you 100 kilograms. If others don't have it, send someone to send it back and let your family share it with the neighbors. "

Li Yi was satisfied. Look, this is called vision. Others can't do it.

Qingsong was happy at first, then stunned. The palace maids and eunuchs who were stunned before nodded. Yes, the owner wanted to reward Qingsong.

"Owner, our family lives in the same place. If I take them back to my neighbors, isn't it just giving them to them?" Qingsong felt that he was being taken advantage of.