Chapter 172 FOB price and CIF price

Although the planned economy has many disadvantages, such as the disconnection between production and demand, the inability to reasonably adjust the interest relationships between various internal economic entities, etc., its many advantages cannot be ignored. It can effectively avoid the market economy.

The blindness and uncertainty of development, as well as the uncontrolled consumption of natural resources, and the ability to scientifically allocate and fully utilize limited human resources to maximize the benefits they generate.

Of course, there is another effect that the Executive Committee values ​​​​that is that the planned economy can effectively control the gap between the rich and the poor in society and maintain a stable social situation. This is very important for the cross-country group that needs to absorb a large number of poor people in its early expansion. For the vast majority of

For people, regardless of their cultural level, there is a psychological existence that worries not about scarcity but inequality. If everyone's living conditions are similar, the hardship will be bitter, and it will be over if you endure it. But if a group of people are suffering, they will be miserable.

If there is a local rich man living there, it will inevitably arouse the hostility of the people. The Executive Committee will publicize all land and means of production under its rule, and implement a planned economic system internally, precisely to eliminate the excessive gap between the rich and the poor among the people.

Of course, the planned economy cannot prevent the emergence of the privileged class. In fact, these more than 400 time-travelers are now the privilege holders in this social environment. In order to avoid the situation of people and governments being destroyed and falling apart, the key departments and key units of the time-traveling group are in

It must be in the hands of the time-travelers and their immediate descendants for two or three generations, and this will inevitably create a privileged class. However, for the overall environment in which the time-travel group will operate in the future, a small number of people will become a privileged class.

It won't cause much trouble - compared with the troubles that Ming Dynasty will face in the next ten years, this is nothing more than sesame seeds and mung beans.

Li Nai didn't understand what a planned economy was, let alone what a social welfare security system was, but he could tell from Jiang San's answer how much the local people agreed with the way the Haihan people governed. After listening

According to Jiang San's statement, Li Nai even felt a little bit like God was unfair.

Regarding the governance measures that Jiang San later added, Li Nai was certain that not only in Yazhou, but also in the entire Ming Dynasty, there would be no other place that could do this like Victory Port. A hired worker had to bear the burden of food, clothing, housing, transportation, birth, old age, sickness and death.

All the expenses, this expenditure is not a small amount. In most industries that Li Nai knows, this level of welfare guarantee will make the boss jump directly. Of course, not to mention the government and other things, they do not charge money.

Do you really treat your parents and officials as the biological parents of ordinary people when you still distribute money to the people?

The local treatment of ordinary people is so good, Li Nai doesn't even need to ask, he can think that there must be no taxes and fees for ordinary people here. Such a costly policy can only be done by being good at running trade.

It is possible for the Haihan people who own various high-profit export products to do it. Although Li Nai couldn't figure out how the Haihan people operated economically to ensure the smooth operation of this social system, it was obvious that the Haihan people had better means than the Ming Dynasty.

The local government is many times higher. Judging from the people's situation here, it will only take two or three years at most. In order to enjoy such a high-welfare life, the people here will definitely consider themselves Han people instead of Ming people.

However, no matter how good the Haihan people are at winning over the people, Li Nai doesn't think they will do anything outrageous here. At best, they will build Victory Port into a large smuggling port in the South China Sea. As for Haihan

Li Nai also felt that there was no big problem in man-made guns and cannons and even organized militia groups to replace local governments. Some large merchants in the coastal areas of Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang also adopted a similar approach and built their own ports and terminals for maritime trade.

But the scale is not as big as Victory Port.

After listening to Jiang San's words, Anxi was already smiling. He secretly thought that the usual mass education work was really effective. He didn't expect that a peasant like Jiang San who couldn't read a bunch of words could actually say such a truth. Commendation

, this must be commended afterwards. It just so happens that the members' mutual aid association still needs a person in charge, and Jiang San seems to be very suitable for this position.

Under Anxi's persuasion, everyone stayed at the Saltworks Commune for lunch. In addition to the various seafood caught just this morning, there were also several saltworks-style dishes on the table - salted fried meat, salted fish and

All kinds of pickles. When Tao Dong came to ask Li Nai if he wanted some wine, Li Nai's expression immediately changed, and he waved his hands and said you're welcome. The night before, he was fed a lot of food by several Haihan chieftains, and he felt so uncomfortable.

How could he dare to challenge his limits again before it was over?

After the five flavors were over, Li Nai took the initiative to bring up the sale of private salt: "The quality and price of the refined salt you sent last time were very good. I am willing to sell the refined salt produced by you in the Fuguang area. I don't know what you think.

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"Should we go by the 10,000 kilograms per month that your bank said before?" Schneider asked meaningfully. Almost everything that needs to be seen has been seen, and everything that needs to be discussed has been discussed. If Li Nai has reached this point, he still can't let it go.

If there is any manipulation, then the Executive Committee may have to consider finding another agent in the mainland to handle this private salt sale.

Sure enough, Li Nai shook his head and said: "I underestimated your refined salt production before, so I only proposed a trading volume of 10,000 jins per month. But after visiting the salt farm today, I think this trading volume should be at least five jins per month."

Ten thousand kilograms, and then you can make adjustments based on the market conditions.”

Compared with the arms export agreement reached the day before, the total amount of the monthly salt order of 50,000 jins is not much. Calculated based on the previous wholesale price of 50 yuan per 1,000 jins, that is, two hundred twenty-seven pieces were sold.

matchlock gun. But what the executive committee values ​​is not the profit of a single transaction, but the long-term returns of the salt business.

Guangzhou Prefecture and its surrounding areas alone have a population of nearly one million. Such a population consumes far more than 50,000 kilograms of salt per month, not to mention that "Furuifeng" has the ability to traffic illegal salt to further distances.

Sales in inland Guangdong and Fujian, the Executive Committee believes that the market that can be developed in the future is very worth looking forward to. For labor-intensive industries such as salt production, as long as there is a labor force, the Executive Committee can continue to expand production capacity without being affected by raw materials.

Troubled by insufficient supply or technical personnel, and due to the superior production efficiency, Chuan Chuan Group's salt can control costs at extremely low levels, and the mainland is simply unable to resist planned large-scale dumping.

The consequences of this will definitely bring about the bankruptcy of a large number of salt farms and salt households in coastal areas, and the official salt tax in Fujian and Guangzhou will also be sharply reduced. But this is exactly the effect that the Executive Committee wants to achieve - directly transfer these salt taxes.

The road becomes one's own, leaving others with no way to go. When such a situation occurs, the executive committee will try to recruit bankrupt salt households from the local area to move to the Sanya area to serve as a labor force for the development of Hainan Island.

There may be various overt and covert struggles due to huge interests, such as between salt merchants, between salt merchants and the salt class promotion department, between salt merchants and salt farms, etc., but the Executive Committee believes that with the help of the Cross Group

With backing support, agents like "Furuifeng" will never suffer big losses in the battle - if you want guns and cannons, there won't be a second private group with such powerful equipment in the entire southeastern coastal area.

Salt traders exist.

However, to successfully conclude this transaction, there is still a small problem that must be solved first. Schneider said: "Fifty thousand kilograms per month is no problem, but the delivery location must be determined. I think Mr. Li also knows that our current

Maritime transportation capacity is very tight, and I am afraid that for the time being we cannot allocate ships to Guangzhou specifically to transport salt or other goods, so the commodity prices we quoted before were all FOB prices."

Li Nai puzzled: "The delivery location is easy to negotiate, but what is the FOB price?"

Only then did Schneider realize that Li Nai probably couldn't understand this later international trade term, and quickly explained: "The FOB price is the price of the seller's goods after they are shipped and before they leave the port, which means that the delivery location is the port of shipment.

, the transaction ends when we complete the inventory of the goods and money during shipment. Another way is the CIF price. The delivery location is the port of destination specified by the buyer. Because of the transportation cost, the CIF price will be higher than the CIF price.

The shore price is just a little higher.”

Li Nai nodded and said: "Mr. Shi's explanation, this FOB to CIF statement is easy to understand. So, may I ask Mr. Shi, is the trade in Victory Port the same as before, without tax?"

Schneider nodded repeatedly, thinking that this rich second generation was really not that kind of uneducated playboy, and he did not ignore details such as tariffs just because the transaction went smoothly. The executive committee had used Victory Port as the starting point of planning.

It is positioned as a duty-free free port, so there is no tariff setting. The benefits of duty-free ports in increasing import and export trade volume have been proven by history and there is no need to repeat them here.

As for the situation that makes local industries vulnerable to the impact of imported goods, the Executive Committee is not worried. When it comes to production efficiency and production costs, no one in this era can do better than Chuanchuan Group. As long as it is local manufacturing and production in Sanya

Industry, its product prices can definitely be lower than those of its contemporary competitors. What's more, most of the imported goods of Chuanchuan Group are mainly raw materials, while the export goods are mainly industrial finished products. This kind of commodity import and export structure

It will be more profitable to conduct trade through duty-free ports.

However, compared with the simple and clear tax-free policy of Victory Port, the relevant policies and tax system of the Ming Dynasty are much more complicated, and it is not even a problem that can be solved by simply adding freight. That is why Schneider raised the issue of determining the delivery location first.

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Chapter completed!