In the first year of the Great Song Dynasty and the second year of Jin Tianfu, there was another big news in the Great Song Dynasty business circles: Dengzhou was about to open a field. This news is like a pigeon with wings flying around, and half of the Song Dynasty will know it in ten days and a half months.

But this place, which caused a sensation in the business world under some kind of planning, was actually very simple, just a fence along a natural harbor, on a wasteland, and tents were erected in the fence, and there were a few tents, and there were a few northern merchants.

Some of these merchants sell ginseng, some sell mink, some sell iron tools, some sell leather goods, and a few merchants sell some strange food, called corn, sweet potatoes and so on. However, the most striking thing was the 200 or so horses running around the harbor!

The demand for horses in the Great Song Dynasty was simply endless, and as long as there were horses for sale in a place, merchants could smell them from a thousand miles away.

Originally, the wasteland fenced off by the fence was very small, and the land was very convenient for the horses to disembark. Other goods could be put away, stacked, or even placed on the ship, but the horses had to make room for their provisions, or they would have to get sick. Therefore, Liu Qi went to ask Wang Shizhong to make the place bigger. The Wang Shi Center wanted to buy horses to benefit the country, so they agreed and asked Dengzhou to go to the demarcation.

The horse merchant secretly bribed the general to ten good horses, and the general sentence turned a blind eye, so that they surrounded a large wasteland, which was not suitable for farming, fishing, or salt, and no one wanted it. Later, the circle of horse merchants grew larger and larger, and later the area was large enough for two hundred horses to run back and forth.

The racecourse is also connected to the horse farm by the port, and the merchants of the horse farm feel that there is not enough space, so they slowly occupy the place on the horse farm. And the horse merchants actually cooperated to give up space one after another. Later, the horse farm was connected together, and it became a large-scale village.

After this group of people came, they had to eat, drink, wear and live, so they needed to buy food and cloth from Dengzhou people, and they had to hire Dengzhou man-made house carts. They are not forced to buy and sell, buy things, hire people at very fair prices, slowly Dengzhou people found that their work increased, the fence in the field became more and more lively day by day, and there were constantly poor people in Dengzhou coming in to find work to do, or to be a buddy, or to be a coolie, and to be a bodyguard. Later, not only the poor, but even some Xiangjun soldiers on Jingdong Road also came to work. Some of the poor people could not be resettled, so Liu Qi quietly lured them onto the boat, and took advantage of the southward monsoon to carry them to Daliuqiu Island, where large tracts of uncultivated land and farm tools awaited them.

Dengzhou's general judgment may not have been aware of these things, but he turned a blind eye and did not interfere, because since the opening of this field, he has received a large amount of filial piety money every month. And Dengzhou Zhizhou Wang Shizhong has never set foot in the field, he is a typical administrative mediocrity, all the paperwork is handled very well, but it is difficult to be regarded as a capable official. After finishing his official work every day, he drank and had fun in the garden behind the official office, and he had been the governor of Dengzhou for so long, and he had not stepped out of the state city a few times. And that field is near the mouth of the Qingyang River in Dengzhou, which is quite a distance away from the city of Dengzhou, and it takes a whole day to arrive at the speed of Wang Shizhong's horse, so it is not easy to invite him to inspect it. However, the general judgment was beneficial, but he didn't dare to forget to leave him a copy, and Wang Shizhong did not resist this.

With the increasing prosperity of this field, which is known as Qingyang Port, all kinds of characters from the three sects and nine streams on Jingdong East Road gradually poured here, and there were more and more hooligans, and the things that harassed the merchants happened sporadically.

The people in the coastal area of the Shandong Peninsula are fierce, and there are the benefits of fish and salt, some people who do not obey the king or sell smuggled salt, or do pirates, usually dare to be rampant and domineering in Dengzhou Prefecture, and the wind is tight and flees into the sea. Over time, even the government did not want to provoke them easily, and only hoped that they would not make a big deal and live in peace with each other.

Therefore, the Dengzhou general judge couldn't help but get big when he heard Liu Qi's request, and asked with prevarication: "But did there be any murder?" Hearing that Liu Qi said that he hadn't done it yet, he said helplessly: "According to the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, if you don't commit a crime, you can't be easily detained, but Lord Liu wants me to suppress them?" ”

Liu Qidao: "In that case, can the merchants hire some local people to patrol the field?" ”

"As long as you can afford to spend this money, why not?" ”

Liu Qi said again: "In addition, there is one more thing: according to the rules of the Great Song Dynasty, whenever a field is opened, the imperial court will inevitably appoint officials to monitor it. The imperial court had to buy the goods needed first, and then distribute the rest to the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty. This should have been, but our field is still too small, and there are less than a few dozen businessmen coming and going. If such a small place also has to bother, the imperial court will send people down, but I am afraid that it will cost a lot of money. Can you please talk to Lord Tongju and Lord Zhizhou, and ask him to go up to the table to make it clear that the matter of the imperial court's extraction of gold will be slightly delayed. ”

According to the rules of Quanzhou Zhugang in the Great Song Dynasty, the transactions of the Yongchang must be carried out under the supervision of the official uniform, and the imperial court must take a cut of each transaction. Therefore, when the general judge heard this, he knew that these businessmen clearly did not want to be pumped by the imperial court! How can it be so easy in the world? He sneered at the moment: "Drawing gold is the rule of the imperial court!" How can it be delayed! ”

Liu Qi has dealt with him a lot these days, and he already knew what kind of character the other party was, but when he saw him speaking sharply, as if he was a loyal minister of the Great Song Dynasty, he also understood in his heart that he was the officialdom habit of beating first and then reaching out, so he laughed and said: "If the court draws money, I am afraid that the filial piety to Lord Zhizhou will be reduced, and at that time, Lord Zhizhou will be angry, and we can't afford to bear it." If the control of the imperial court is loosened, the business will definitely be better next month, and the filial piety to the Lord Zhizhou may be increased by fifty percent. ”

The filial piety money that the general judgment gets every month is twice as much as that of Zhizhou, Liu Qi is talking about Zhizhou on the surface, but in fact he is referring to the general judgment. The general judge listened to it and said in a deep voice: "Lord Zhizhou, as an official of the imperial court, how can he abolish the public for personal reasons. ”

Liu Qi knew that he was going to raise the price, and his face was embarrassed, so he finally gritted his teeth and said: "The businessmen have a hard time making a living, so please raise your noble hand." In this way, I will take out my share and give it an extra fifty percent of the filial piety money. This really can't be more, and it's better to let the court directly draw the gold. "The financial supervision of the Han Department is very strict, Liu Qi actually did not dare to accept the filial piety of the merchants, not only afraid of the strict law of the Han Department, but also afraid of losing a big one because of a small - Yang Yingqi left another share for Liu Qi in the glass house, as long as Liu Qi did not break the law, that share was enough for him to enjoy his life.

After listening to Liu Qi's words, the general judge smiled and said: "Lord Liu really loves the people like a son, in fact, we also hope that it will be convenient for each other." In this case, I will go and talk to Lord Wang, and as for the outcome, it will depend on how Lord Wang and the court decide. ”

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