Dengzhou Tongju chose a good day, brought the month's filial piety money to see Wang Shizhong, retreated left and right, and said that he asked the imperial court to delay the dispatch of envoys to manage the field, Wang Shizhong sneered when he heard it: "Are you all fools in the court?" Who doesn't know that there are disadvantages! ”

The general judge groaned: "Then hide the fact that the field has actually opened first." Let's just say that we have to choose a lot and build a house, and delay it for a year and a half, which is very beneficial to us. Anyway, Dengzhou is far away from the mountains and rivers, and it is not so easy for the imperial court to know the truth. ”

Wang Shizhong was quite moved when he heard this, but he shook his head again and said: "In less than ten days, the imperial court will send another envoy from Haidao to Jinmen, how can you hide it from them at that time!" ”

Tong said: "You don't have to go to sea from the port of Yuchang to go to Jinmen!" There is also the Old Port on this side of the state town. The reason why the field was not opened here at the beginning was that it was difficult to control these people, but now it is convenient for us to take things from it. He also said: "If you are really not at ease, you can send a team of van troops to make an appearance on the coast of Dengzhou Prefecture, and it will be regarded as building a port and a house for the purpose of the field." ”

Wang Shizhong hesitated and said: "If someone sees a flaw......

The general judgment said: "Those businessmen can be snickered at if they can be pumped less money, who will denounce them?" As for the people below, I have already told Liu Qi that if I arrange another group of subordinates to draw money, it will be an extra layer of exploitation - the guys who work below, you and I don't know! Rather than that, it is better to leave it to the businessmen themselves. We set a monthly number, and as long as they pay on time, who cares about what is within the fence walls! ”

Wang Shizhong said: "What can I do if I completely leave it alone and make a mess?" ”

The general judgment said: "As long as there is no lawsuit for human life, it doesn't matter how they make trouble." If you dare to make trouble outside the fence, my people will naturally suppress it! ”

The two discussed many more details, and finally finalized the amount of filial piety money. The general judge went to Liu Qi and increased the price negotiated with Wang Shizhong by 30%.

Liu Jie and other businessmen were all happy after getting the news from Liu Qi, and discussed how to govern this small merchant port, Liu Jie said: "It's better to ask the seventh general to send someone to take care of it." ”

Liu Qidao: "The seventh general said that this is the Great Song Dynasty, and the Ruojin Gate sent officials over, and I am afraid that it will be very inappropriate." provoked the anger of the Great Song Dynasty, we couldn't even stand! ”

Zhao Guan said: "Doesn't that mean we have to take care of it ourselves?" I'm afraid that it will be difficult to convince the public. ”

Lee Sang-ryong, a merchant from Goryeo, said, "I have an idea. The day-to-day affairs of the market on the Jinmen side are also the responsibility of the chamber of commerce itself, but the tax, legal affairs, and public security are firmly in the hands of the government. How about we not invite the officials of Jinmen, but we copy the management methods of Jinmen? ”

Liu Jie said: "Very good, very good." It's just that there is a commercial judge in Jinmen City to mediate various disputes. We don't have judges here today? Who should regulate? ”

Li Xianglong said: "The set of commercial laws in Jinmen is very good, and everyone accepts it, so they use that set of laws and regulations as a guideline." As for the judges, I heard that there are people in the Guanning School who specialize in learning this, so it is better to spend a lot of money to go there and invite a high-ranking person to come over. ”

Liu Jie smiled: "Wonderful! The same goes for taxes. We also invited some skilled people who are proficient in arithmetic from Jinmen to manage this matter, and we will collect taxes ourselves according to the tax rate of Jinmen. ”

Zhao Guan said: "What to do with the money drawn?" ”

Li Xianglong said: "Isn't it to give those managers filial piety money? ”

Zhao Guan said: "I have calculated, even if I pay those filial piety money, there is still a surplus." ”

Li Xianglong said: "We have to hire judges, and we have to hire people to settle taxes, and these people have to spend a lot of money. In addition, I have to ask someone to clean the road and courtyard, and there are more places to spend money. I'm afraid that the tax rate of Jinmen will not be enough. ”

Zhao Guandao: "If it's not enough, you can only add some taxes, but what if there is more?" ”

Liu Jiedao: "Then let's learn from Gushan Temple, build some school houses, Yicang or something, and do good deeds, which can be regarded as accumulating virtue for ourselves." Among the many Liu Jie, he had the highest position, and everyone agreed with him as soon as he said this. Then he talked about who should be elected as the president of the chamber of commerce, pushed back and forth, and finally pushed Liu Jie out. Liu Jie is also an aspiring businessman, so he took the initiative and became the president.

He only worked for a month before he discovered that both the governor and the general judge of Dengzhou had underestimated the potential of Qingyang Port. Although after the opening of the port of Tianjin, a lot of goods from the north have flowed into the south through the merchant ships of Quanzhou and Mingzhou, and at the same time, the goods from the south of the Yangtze River have also found a new market. However, in the hinterland of the Central Plains, which is very far away from Quanzhou and Mingzhou, the amount of direct trade with Jinmen is almost zero. Therefore, once the port of Qingyang on the Shandong Peninsula was opened, although it was short and poorly equipped, the amount of cargo it could handle had already surprised Liu Jie. Wang Shizhong and Dengzhou Tongju thought that the lion opened his mouth, but in fact, what they could swallow was only 30% of the transaction tax in Qingyang Port.

A large amount of money came and went under the nose of Liu Jie, the chairman, but he couldn't resist being greedy for cheap - the merchants of Qingyang Port also moved the financial supervision system of Jinmen, which gave the executive of official duties a lot less loopholes to exploit, and even if he could succeed, the chance of exposure was very large. For Liu Jie, honesty and public gain reputation will be much greater in the future than embezzling the money in front of him.

What's more, Liu Jie was already a rich man, and he became the president more for himself and his family to be more decent. The position of the president of the Jinmen Market Chamber of Commerce has long been taken away by Zhao Lumin, and Liu Jie knows that his friendship with the Han Department is not as long as Zhao Lumin, so he can only be blushing on this matter, and this time it is a comfort to mix a president in the Great Song Dynasty. Therefore, after he became the chairman of the Cheongyang Chamber of Commerce, he not only acted impartially, but also took the initiative to spend a lot of money to repair various public facilities in the new port.

Yang Yingqi soon heard about the Qingyang Port incident, and he wrote an open letter to congratulate Liu Jie on his election. Liu Jie was overjoyed when he received the letter, and some suggestive language in Yang Yingqi's letter made Liu Jie feel that the Seventh General attached much more importance to the Dengzhou Chamber of Commerce than Jinmen, and then he vaguely guessed some of the intentions behind the Seven Generals.

After figuring out this section, Liu Jie worked harder, and Yang Yingqi was also very cooperative with Liu Jie's various requests, almost asking for people and things. The governance of Cheongyang Port is slowly on the right track, and the tax and legal affairs are quite convincing, and by the way, even the state town of Dengzhou is also prosperous.

Unbeknownst to Wang Shizhong, the non-registered peasants on his land were quietly draining overseas, all he saw was that the land was prosperous because of the increase in foreign population. On the eve of the arrival of the imperial court's envoy to the Jin Kingdom, a privately funded Penglai School appeared in Yushan, outside Dengzhou City, this Penglai School is open to students between the ages of 15 and 20 throughout the Shandong Peninsula.

It is a great thing that such a righteous act appeared under the rule, so on the opening day of Penglai School, Wang Shizhong, who was quite romantic, was also invited to attend. The size of the school is still very small, with only seven or eight teachers, and the collection of books is not very large. However, there was a number of books that piqued the interest of the king: they were very well printed, and the editions had never been seen before, but they were of a rather poor variety: only the Analects, Mencius, the Book of Rites, and the First Four Histories.

Wang Shizhong casually picked up the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and flipped through it, only to see that the book was marked with a sentence to read. The last page of the book is printed with the words "Jinmen Bookstore". Looking back at the front end, the name of the general leader of this batch of books was written: Yang Yingqi.

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