October is winter, and the wind and snow hit, and the northern land of the Central Plains has turned into a silver-white world overnight.

Zhao Gou looked at the snow-white roof of the Manbian capital, and the whole person was a little wooden.

As long as the day is winter, it will give him a feeling that the end of the year is coming!

And this means that another year has passed, and his time in this era has been another year shorter.

But the great cause has not been accomplished, the great cause has not been accomplished! Zhao Gou once again lamented the shortness of time.

Although this kind of emotion has not been issued once or twice in the past two years, his ability to bear it has long been improved.

Nowadays it's more of a complaint!

"Your Majesty, the Prime Minister of the First Auxiliary Sect asks to see you!"

Zong Ze will be old next year, and his successor Zhao Gou has also been chosen, that is, Zhao Butry.

Although he is not very old, but the 'qualifications' are old, isn't it? What's more, this person is hard-boned, loyal, and his political philosophy is very consistent with Zhao Gou, whether it is a series of internal changes or a step-by-step expansion externally, he is definitely the perfect successor of Zong Ze.

However, Zhao Butry is now serving in Sichuan and Shu, and if he wants to enter Beijing to take over, he will have to wait until next year.

"Xuan!"

Zhao Gou retracted his gaze, and even his scattered thoughts became solemn, because he knew what Zong Ze was going to report today.

"The old minister greets Your Majesty."

Seeing each other on both sides, Zong Ze sat down on the chair that had been prepared on the side, stretched out his hand and took out a fold from the cuff, and Zeng Ze next to him picked it up and presented it to Zhao Gou.

"Your Majesty, the money of the various cities in the autumn has been counted and verified, gold, silver, copper coins, and all kinds of groceries, totaling 2.5 million yuan." Zong Ze doesn't need to look at the excerpts, and he also says that the data of each classification is not bad at all.

Zhao Gou was also very unhappy when he heard this number: "Yes, with this 2.5 million yuan, the income of the city's shipping company will definitely exceed 12 million this year." "It's not a small amount of money that can fill a lot of holes!

As for why the payment for the autumn season is only 2.5 million yuan, and the annual income of the market is 12 million yuan, it is because the current maritime trade is about the time of heaven.

Throughout the year, most Chinese maritime merchants set off for the South Seas in autumn and winter when the northeast monsoon prevails, and wait until the following spring and summer, when the southwest monsoon prevails, and then set off for the return voyage.

In this way, it is the most labor-saving and convenient, and it is safer.

If the foreign merchants want to come to China, they must also follow such a trajectory.

Otherwise, even the spinnale of the Heavenly Man will be difficult to cross the South China Sea smoothly when the wind is headwind, even though the South Ocean seems to be a small area.

Therefore, autumn is the most leisurely time of the year for the city, especially before the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the typhoon at sea has not been extinguished, and the trading ships of this era will not choose this time to set sail at all.

"This is all Your Majesty's foresight, and the thickness of the sea trade is really beyond the expectations of the minister."

Zong Ze has been an official in the inland for most of his life, and his official position is not very high, so he naturally does not know much about maritime trade at the beginning, and he naturally does not look at the problem far.

Zhao Gou is now untying the shackles of the maritime merchants, and the official forces have fully withdrawn from the specific distribution of maritime trade goods, which has directly given a shot of chicken blood to the Chinese and foreign maritime trade.

Because the huge free space represents the huge profit of trade.

The enthusiasm of non-governmental trade has been greatly enhanced, and the benefits of both sides have increased significantly.

In terms of economic benefits alone, the continuous increase in the trade volume between the two sides is a development that has been corrected again and again.

But when Zhao Gou made such a decision, he also suffered huge losses.

Without the 'monopoly' of the Zhao and Song Dynasty governments, and without the procedure of buying low and selling high, the loss of profits would be measured in millions.

But now, with the continuous prosperity of Sino-foreign trade, especially after the development of Nanyang, the annual amount can be as high as 10 million yuan just by virtue of import and export trade tariffs, which Zong Ze never expected at the beginning.

As the chief minister of the Zhao and Song Empire and the head of a country, Zong Ze is old, but his eyes are not dazzling at all.

He was well aware of the benefits that the huge export trade brought to the entire empire.

If a copper is held in the hand and not spent, it can only be a copper plate forever, but when it circulates, the energy it can bring up in society can magnify its own value tenfold -

This is something that any qualified high school graduate in the 21st century can understand.

In recent years, Zhao Song's export volume has been expanding, from the traditional silk porcelain, to the later pen, ink, paper, inkstone, medicinal materials, iron pots and small hardware equipment, as well as the tea that gradually opened up the market, the huge internal driving effect, he can see clearly!

To comprehensively talk about the development of maritime trade, the driving role behind it should also be covered.

But in Zhao Gou's place, those are all things that don't need to be told anymore.

"What about the banks, what is the development now?"

The gold and silver mines on Sado Island are already being mined, and Zhao Gou has already ordered people to mint gold and silver coins. Then, according to the current ratio of gold and silver to copper coins, they were directly distributed as money.

But this is just a small supporting measure, to a certain extent, it can alleviate a little pressure of "money shortage", compared with the biggest role of the bank in the Zhao and Song dynasties - money, it is not worth mentioning at all.

For most of the high-ranking officials in the court, the bank is a tool for creating something out of nothing, and it is not uncommon for a single cent of reserves to easily print two or three cents of banknotes, or even ten cents if they are reckless.

It can easily fill the hole in the imperial court's finances, and it can easily solve all the worries about money for the imperial court.

In comparison, gold and silver coins are just a new gadget.

But in Zhao's plan, banks are the most indispensable financial intermediaries in a country's economy.

Compared with the superpower of banks printing money, Zhao Gou would like to see its credit intermediary, payment intermediary and credit creation functions in the social economy.

In the past two years, he has been working this point, concentrating the idle funds in the society into the banks through the reserve interest rate, and then investing the limited funds in various economic fields in need through the lending of capital, so as to achieve multi-level regulation of economic activities.

And through technical means such as watermarking and micro-engraving, absolute secrecy has been achieved to a certain extent. The remote bill of exchange business was also launched.

In Zhao Gou's understanding, this kind of business can greatly promote business development.

Think about it, how inconvenient and unsafe is it for long-distance business and trade with a large number of goods and copper coins to trade between the two sides?

If you have a money order, you only need to pay a low handling fee, you can withdraw money in another place, and arrive home safely, how good?

But the truth is that the development of this business is not going well.

It's been a year since it was launched last autumn and winter and this summer, and the pace of development has been much slower than he imagined.