Chapter 713: Remeeting

For foreign merchants, the Song court was quite responsible, not only to ensure their personal safety in the Song Dynasty, but also to protect their property.

The local city bureaucrats would often send troops to protect those foreign merchants who entered the territory of the Song Dynasty, and specially set up escort officials for them to protect their goods along the way, in case they were forcibly bought and sold on the way.

If a foreign ship's ship encountered a natural disaster at sea, the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty had the responsibility to provide humanitarian relief;

If the owner is missing or drowned, the goods should be counted and kept properly until their relatives come to claim them and strictly prevent theft or fraudulent claims;

If there is a disagreement between the buyer and the seller in the course of the trade dealings, they can also report to the police and get a fair ruling.

In the Song Dynasty, the number of coastal trade ports, the sophistication of management methods, and the variety and value of import and export commodities all reached the highest level in all dynasties.

Among them, Guangzhou, Quanzhou and Mingzhou are the most famous, which are the three major foreign trade ports and are undoubtedly world-class ports.

"All nations are clothed and in an endless stream".

There is also a special law on the market, which is the policy of regulating domestic maritime merchants and foreign businessmen coming to China.

For example, the issuance of public certificates and the prohibition of smugglers; Formulating regulations for merchants to limit the return of ships; Extraction and Bomai; Compile the household registration of the ship; Set up Fanfang to manage foreign businessmen in China; conferring official positions on merchants with large trades; The government presides over activities such as praying for the wind and worshiping the sea.

The revenue from the city has been included in the fiscal revenue, and the scale of the maritime trade can be summarized from the government's revenue from the city.

"The benefits of the market are quite helpful to the country", "the benefits are the most generous, if the measures are appropriate, the income will be millions".

The number of countries or regions that had direct or indirect maritime trade with the Song Dynasty had increased from more than 30 in the Tang Dynasty to more than 60.

It is broadly divided into five regions.

One is the Indochina Peninsula countries, such as Cochin, Champong, Chenla and Siam;

the second is the countries of the South Sea Islands, such as Moyi, Srivijaya, Boni and other countries;

the third is the Indian peninsula and neighboring countries, such as Ceylon;

Fourth, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Peninsula and the countries west of it, as far as the Mediterranean Sea and the coast of East Africa, such as Majia, Tierba and other countries;

The fifth is Goryeo and Japan in East Asia.

There are also two main routes.

one from Quanzhou or Guangzhou to the South Asian subcontinent and Southeast Asian countries, or through the Indian Ocean to the Arab countries, and even as far as Egypt, Somalia and Tanzania;

The other departed from Dengju, Miju and Myeongju to Goryeo and Japan.

Of course, this is mainly the period of the Southern Song Dynasty, and today's Guangzhou is often harassed by barbarians, and the state still has doubts about opening up the prosperous core area to the outside world for maritime trade.

Even the Hangzhou City Bosi was reluctantly agreed to trade with Goryeo and Japan after many efforts by the Great Soviet Union.

On the southeast coast, there are occasional cases of maritime merchants from Boni and other areas going ashore to become bandits.

The ship is now quite developed, and a large number of porcelain, ironware, gold, silver, jade, coins, animal and plant wreckage, etc., have been unearthed on the "Nanhai No. 1" salvaged as a whole in later generations.

Among them, there are more than 19,000 sets of porcelain, 180 sets of gold, 183 sets of silver collars, 84 tons of ironware, 170 sets of bronze ware, 85 sets of lead and tin ware, 13 pieces of bamboo, 46 pieces of woodware, 28 pieces of lacquerware, 300 pieces of other items, and 17,000 copper coins.

A boatload is abundant!

Today's Song ships, even if they do not count the Hangzhou type made by Su You, only talk about the common large seafaring merchant ships, which can carry 5,000 materials, that is, 300 tons.

The "Nanhai No. 1" and the Song ship in Houzhu Port, if replaced by the Song people's own measurement habits, are about 3,600 materials, with a deadweight of about 200 tons, which is just a medium-sized model in the Great Song Sea ship.

Even if it is 5,000 materials, it is not the maximum loading capacity of a sea ship in the Song Dynasty.

In history, during the reign of Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty ordered the dock to build two huge ships because of the need to send an embassy to visit Goryeo, one named "Ding Xinli Shehuai Yuan Kangji Shenzhou", and the other named "Flowing Comfort Tongji Shenzhou".

At the same time, the supervision department of Fujian and Zhejiang was entrusted to accompany six "Gu Zhao passenger boats".

The passenger boat is "more than ten zhang long, three zhang deep, two zhang and five feet wide, and can carry 2,000 huhu".

2,000 Hu is equal to 2,000 materials, that is, the load is about 120 tons.

The "Kangji" and "Tongji" Shenzhou, according to the record of the "Xuanhe Envoy Goryeo Tujing", "the length and width of the Shenzhou, the use of various objects, and the number of people are three times that of the passenger boat."

In other words, the loading capacity of a Shenzhou is at least three times that of an accompanying passenger boat! Six thousand! With a load of 360 tons and a displacement of more than 1,000 tons, it is close to the limit that a monolithic keelwood sailing ship can reach.

It is no wonder that the article described the two Shenzhou as "majestic as mountains, floating on the waves, with the head of the brocade sail crane, yielding to the cockroach", and "on the day of the beauty's edict, the country towered and cheered and sighed".

But is that the end of it? Far from it, this kind of Shenzhou may not be the largest ship sailing out of the port of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhou Qufei, a native of the Southern Song Dynasty, described a huge ship called "Mulan Boat" in the "Lingnan Reply", which was a giant merchant ship that sailed from the Great Song Kingdom to the "Mulan Pi Kingdom", that is, the Murabit Kingdom in West Africa.

"Floating in the South China Sea and south, the boat is like a huge room, the sail is like the clouds hanging in the sky, the length of the boat is several zhang, a boat is hundreds of people, accumulating a year's grain, and the pig is making wine."

There is also a larger model.

"His boat has grown in size. A boat can accommodate thousands of people, and there is an organic market on the boat, or if it does not meet the wind, it will reach after a few years, and it is not a huge boat, and it cannot be reached. The so-called Mulan Boat in this world may not be so big as to say it. ”

The huge ship can accommodate 1,000 people, and the cabin can not only raise pigs and make wine, but also be equipped with "machine sticks" and open a "market".

"A boat of hundreds of people, making wine in it, putting life and death at ...... level"

In the face of the vast sea and unlimited sailing period, fresh meat and alcohol have become a great joy of the Song people's sea life.

Therefore, Su You's appointment this time is the best place he has ever taken over in his life.

Today's city is purely a small fight in his eyes, with a tax revenue of only one million yuan a year, and only in the Southern Song Dynasty, it is more than this number, more than five times.

Money, grain, products, and markets are available to make them run efficiently and orderly, which is the strongest point of Suyou.

Of course, the premise of all this is that the basic situation must be stabilized first, that is, the problems of the people's stability and food and clothing must be solved in the first place.

The happiest person is Shen Kuo, who packed and threw the debt of one million guan of the Sitong firm and some half-cut engineering projects, together with the "Detailed Examination of Farmland and Water Conservancy in Liangzhejiang", to Su You, and happily took the appointment of the prince of the imperial court Zhongyun and promoted Si Tianjian to go.

This appointment was recommended by Su You, so when Su You arrived in Suzhou, Shen Kuo rushed to visit.

Shen Kuo was joined by Su Shi, who left for Mizhou, Jiaoxi, and Jia Kang, a local expert who presided over the development of Kunshan's farmland and water conservancy.

Su Shi has now experienced the tempering of Hangzhou's "wine and food hell", with a shy belly and beautiful hair, he is a first-class elegance in the eyes of the Great Song people, and when he sees Su You, he clapped his hands and teased: "The deputy car is coming!" ”

This is an allusion to Zhang Liangbo Langsha, who was supposed to kill Qin Shi Huang, but he mistakenly hit the deputy car. For example, Zheng Xia originally wanted to attack Wang Anshi, but he was released along with Su You.

Su You pointed at him and scolded with a smile: "It is difficult to cover the beard and sharp mouth, and the wide fat is not suitable for upside down." ”

Everyone was stunned, and Shen Kuo said with a smile: "In Dasu's poetry collection, there are many such words. ”

Shen Kuo collected Dasu's poems and sent them to Beijing last year, and many of the words in them lamented the current politics.

The Great Song Dynasty does not scold people with words, and this matter was not as serious as later generations imagined at first, and even the two parties did not take it seriously.

When handing in the work, Shen Kuo just ticked out all the taboo words in Dasu's poems to show that he had been censored, and at most he was clear from the relationship.

And after Da Su found out, he gave him all the new work he had left.

Liu Shu, a famous historian and a good friend of Su Shi who helped Sima Guang compile the "Zizhi Tongjian", even wrote to make fun of Da Su after learning about this, saying that he was using this way to let the emperor know his literary name.

With Shen Cunzhong's small report, Da Su's poems, "Don't worry about progressing." ”