Cangzhou Lucheng County was valued by Guo Song during this time, not because of the Yantian property rights dispute, he paid attention to Lucheng County, because of the shipyard and wharf at the mouth of the Zhanghe River, especially the wharf, it can be said that the estuary wharf is the first wharf to go to sea in the Jin Kingdom, which is of great significance.

He has ordered the Hebei Salt and Iron Transshipment Department and the Cangzhou government to repair the Hekou wharf as soon as possible, so that the first seaport in the north can be rejuvenated.

There is a reason why Guo Song has been paying attention to the seaport recently, in order to attack Hebei, Zhu Zhu began to increase taxes last year to supplement the increasingly tight military spending, which led to a large number of bankruptcies of the middle class, in order to alleviate the social contradictions in the capital, and more tax collection, Zhu Zhu extended his clutches to Yangzhou, which has always been rich, and began to fight the idea of Yangzhou's rich, and the first batch of families targeted was the famous maritime merchant Liu family.

In the official room, Guo Song was listening to the report of Dugu Mingli, the third son of Dugu Qiu, who was originally the chief of the palace Qianniuwei, and after the Jingyuan mutiny, he resigned from the palace and was in charge of the business of the Dugu family's Jianghuai Jiangnan.

Almost all the royal relatives have business in Yangzhou, and the Dugu family is no exception, Dugu Mingli has been stationed in Yangzhou for many years, doing some business for the family, but he is also Guo Song's brother-in-law, Guo Song named him the Yangzhou envoy of the Municipal Shipping Administration, and he is also Guo Song's subordinate.

Guo Song has no brothers, and since Guo Ziyi's death, the Guo family has been relatively cold to him, and does not regard him as a clansman like Guo Ziyi, on the contrary, the Guo family values the orthodoxy of the Tang Dynasty more and almost moved to Chengdu.

is also for this reason, Guo Song does not have much reuse of the Guo family, and as for the Lingzhou Guo family, it is even more useless.

On the contrary, Guo Song attaches great importance to the Dugu family, although they are Guanlong nobles, but this family is more pragmatic and loyal to themselves, Dugu Qiu's five sons are all shrewd and capable, and the eldest son, Dugu Mingren, has been promoted to the Taichang Signing Order, in charge of sacrifices.

There is also five sons, Dugu Qian, who is in charge of several major industries of the Dugu family, and is also an external professor of business in Taixue.

The Dugu Mingli in front of him is the second son, who has been in Yangzhou for many years and is very familiar with overseas trade, so Guo Song intends to train him in the direction of the Municipal Shipping Bureau.

"Your Royal Highness, Liu Shangdong has not been able to make up his mind for two reasons, one is that Liu Sigu tried to persuade Zhu Zhu not to fish with all his might, so during this time, the pressure on the rich in Yangzhou has been much lighter, and the other reason is that Han Yun, who appeased the two Zhejiang provinces, is also persuading Liu Shangdong to transfer the family business to Mingzhou, and the bargaining chips are not low, as if he promised not to be taxed within ten years, and he will sell a special wharf to the Liu family cheaply, which makes Liu Shangdong quite tempted."

Guo Song smiled faintly: "Although Liu Shangdong was tempted, he didn't promise to go to Mingzhou, why?" ”

"He is afraid of offending His Highness!"

"That's right, Liu Shangdong still has some eyesight, we should still have a chance."

Guo Song walked a few steps with his hands in his hand, turned around and said: "You go back to Yangzhou immediately and tell Liu Shangdong that if his family is willing to come to Chang'an to live for a long time, I can sell him a garden house of thirty acres."

Secondly, his family's ships can be divided into the northern fleet and the southern fleet, the northern fleet is placed in Hekou Port, if their family's fleet can make meritorious contributions to the Jin army, I will even consider giving him a knighthood. ”

Dugu Mingli scratched his head and said, "Your Highness had better write a handwritten letter and promise him in writing, I think it will be more effective." ”

"Yes!"

Guo Song happily agreed, "I'll write a letter to you right away, you work hard, it's best to set off today, this matter can't be delayed for too long, so as not to have too many dreams at night." ”

The reason why Guo Song spent his blood to pull Liu Shangdong, and even sold a garden house to his family, which only powerful and meritorious people could live in, mainly played the role of buying bones with a thousand dollars and attracting more wealthy people from Yangzhou to settle in Chang'an.

Another reason is that Guo Song took a fancy to the hundreds of sea ships of the Liu family, which were of great significance to his attack on Liaodong and the capture of Quanzhou and Lingnan.

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On the one hand, Zhu Zhu levied high commercial taxes, as well as miscellaneous taxes such as shelf tax, salt tax, and wine tax, which put great pressure on the tax of the people and merchants in Yangzhou.

On the other hand, Zhu Zhu carried out invisible exploitation of Yangzhou merchants, for example, Zhu Zhu purchased goods in Yangzhou, paid very slowly, not to mention, and paid with new money, this new money contains only sixty percent of copper, and it is legal tender, merchants do not accept it, but the merchants are not willing to save this currency, will try to exchange it for gold and silver, or exchange it for old money, which leads to the merchants will lose about two percent in currency.

If there were only these two aspects of exploitation, the businessmen could endure it, but what scared the big businessmen in Yangzhou was that Zhu Zhu took a fancy to their wealth and would use open and secret means to loot the wealth of the big businessmen.

In November last year, a list secretly appeared in the merchant circle in Yangzhou, a total of 20 big businessmen, and it was rumored that they would be the first batch of people plundered by Zhu Jun.

But the rumors soon became a reality, Cheng Dingguo, a famous silk merchant in Yangzhou, was accused of fornicating with Li Na, Cheng Dingguo was arrested, the family's three mansions and more than 20 shops were raided, and 300,000 horses of fine silk were stolen, as well as countless gold, silver and copper coins, as well as a large number of jade jewelry and other property.

Cheng Dingguo's experience made the wealthy people in Yangzhou frightened, and they tried every possible way to transfer money and assets, and Liu Shangdong's ten 8,000-stone sea ships were sold to the Dugu family and the Dou family in this context.

The 8,000 stone is definitely a strategic asset of the army, and the year before last, Zhu Zhu requisitioned 20 sea ships of the Liu family to deliver goods to Zhu Tao, but the ships were seized by Zhu Tao, which was actually occupied.

The Liu family was afraid of repeating the mistakes of the past, so they sold ten ships worth 8,000 stones cheaply, and the Dugu family and the Dou family bought them at the price of 8,000 yuan each.

Liu Shangdong is about 50 years old this year, and he followed his father to trade at sea when he was a teenager, and it was not until he took over as the head of the family ten years ago that he no longer went to sea.

Liu Shangdong, like other wealthy families, has decided to leave Yangzhou with his family, as for where to leave Chang'an, everyone has not thought clearly, some people want to go to Suzhou and Hangzhou, some people want to go to Chang'an, and some people want to go to Chengdu.

But everyone was hesitant to wait and see, and recently Zhu Jun eased the high-pressure measures, so that everyone could take a breather.

Liu Shangdong originally wanted to move his family to Hangzhou or Yuezhou, and move the fleet to Mingzhou, which was a good plan, and most of his family members were more supportive, Liu Shangdong suddenly became very hesitant, because Guo Song was also recruiting him, so that he did not dare to act rashly, he didn't want to offend King Jin and bring ruin to his family in the future.

On this afternoon, Liu Shangdong was reading the newspaper in the study, he liked to read the "Chang'an Express", especially the second edition has a column about jade, and an author named Anxi Meiyu is talking about various ways to play jade.

Liu Shangdong is extremely obsessed with jade, he collected a large number of jade, after reading the column, he knew that the jade of Anxi is not the same as the jade of the Central Plains, the jade produced in Liaodong is called Xiuyu, and the jade produced in the East China Sea is actually crystal.

Only then did Liu Shangdong realize that almost all the thousands of pieces of jade he collected were Liaodong Xiuyu, Nanyang Dushan jade and Lantian jade, but there was no Khotanese jade, which made him regret it in his heart.

At this time, the housekeeper came to report, "Dugu Gongzi is here again!" ”

Liu Shangdong was stunned, what did Dugu Mingli do, could it be that the ship's quality was not qualified? The other party wants to return the goods?

But as soon as he thought about it, he understood, a wry smile appeared on the corner of Liu Shangdong's mouth, and King Jin really refused to give up.

He hurriedly ordered: "Please ask him to sit in the guest hall for a while, and I will come over immediately." ”

Not long after, Liu Shangdong came to the Guike Hall, Dugu Mingli was drinking tea in the Guike Hall, he was in the dust, and he came directly as soon as he entered the city.

Although the long journey was very tiring, but the lonely Mingli was very excited in his heart, he could feel the trust of the King of Jin in him, the King of Jin put his heart into him, and told him the real intention of winning over the Liu family, to lead the rich people of Yangzhou to Chang'an, as long as the Liu family succeeded, the people behind would naturally follow.

Dugu Mingli was full of confidence in this persuasion, and King Jin showed sincerity, believing that the Liu family would not have the same ambiguous attitude as the last two times.

"Ahem! Cough! ”

There were two heavy coughs from the hall, Liu Shangdong walked into the lobby with his hands, and Dugu Mingli hurriedly got up and said with a smile: "The little nephew is here to disturb Uncle Shi again." ”