There is a reason why Sun Xiangfu deliberately left Koji Zhisheng to dry for a few days, because he had already learned some intentions about Gaochang Kingdom from the Hu merchant Arsak in the Western Regions, and the Gaochang Kingdom, which was backed by the Western Turks, wanted to fight the autumn wind of the Tang Dynasty, and after being completely crushed by the Tang Dynasty in commodity competition, they thought of setting up customs to collect taxes, and scraping a layer of oil and water on the Hu merchants of the Western Regions and the Han merchants who went to the Western Regions.

If this matter is seen in the future generations, it is understandable, and it is normal for your goods to pass through my country, and I collect a tax, but in this day and age, it is not normal.

Because, the Tang Dynasty is strong and has a big fist, only the big countries collect taxes from small countries, and the strong countries collect taxes from weak countries, so there is a reason why small countries collect taxes from strong countries.

Gaochang's land area is not one-third of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, and the army is only a few tens of thousands, not a professional army like the Anbei Army, if according to their military standards, Sun Xiangfu can instantly pull out two or three hundred thousand soldiers and horses in his own jurisdiction, you know, the entire Turkic plus the population and territory of the Hui are now under the rule of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate.

Gao Chang is like a rabbit, not hiding to the side to eat grass, but shouting, come to a male lion to collect taxes, isn't it funny?

Let Koji Zhisheng first see the strength of Shanyang and weigh his own weight, which is the purpose of Sun Xiangfu to dry him for a few days.

And how powerful Shanyang is, after participating in today's banquet, Koji Zhisheng will have a general understanding, at least at the economic level, he has a cognition of Datang, Shanyang is just an important town in the northern border of Datang.

The first part of the banquet was that under the witness of the government, those merchants who borrowed goods from Shanyang last year paid off the goods with interest to the Datang merchants who lent them the goods.

The group of numbers on the IOU was read aloud by Chu Suiliang, and then, Hu Shang, who had been prepared for a long time, took out the deposit notes of gold, silver, copper coins and other precious metals directly linked to the Datang copper coins in Shanyang Cabinet Workshop, and settled them face to face with the Shanyang merchants who lent them goods last year.

Only halfway through the reading, Koji Zhisheng showed a shocked expression, because the total repayment amount of those merchants has exceeded one million, what kind of concept is this? They Gaochangguo also knew the value of Datang copper coins, and the annual tax revenue was less than the value of 200,000 copper coins in Tang Kingdom, and Datang was just a transaction between Shanyang City and Hu Shang, which was ten times the annual tax revenue of their Gaochang Kingdom?

The answer is yes, last year, in order to make the greatest possible profit, Hu Shang had enough capital to prepare the goods that Sun Xiangfu wanted, so as to obtain the reward of the mirror, and basically emptied Shanyang's goods, which is not counting cash purchases, and barter goods, the value of pure borrowed goods alone is more than one million.

And this year, having tasted the sweetness, they are expected to purchase goods on a larger scale, and the transaction volume will go to a higher level.

However, this is not what Koji Zhisheng is most worried about, what he is most worried about now is the relationship between these merchants in the west and the Tang Dynasty, since Li Shimin sent troops to protect them to do business, they rely on the Tang Dynasty a lot, and they have established a relatively strong relationship, and the goods worth more than one million guan can actually borrow from each other with a piece of paper, which is something that they Gao Changguo dare not think of.

"No wonder, no wonder those businessmen don't buy our Gaochang goods, the business that can be done without capital is not willing to do it!" Koji Zhisheng muttered to himself.

He didn't know that the establishment of credit was mutual, and Hu Shang in the Western Regions bought Datang's treasury bonds when Datang was in the most difficult time to help Datang tide over the difficulties, so that Li Shimin's trust in them finally made this lending model come into being.

Of course, the generation of this lending model is also based on the confidence of the merchants of the Tang Dynasty in the goods they produce, and they are sure that these merchants from the Western Regions can make money after trafficking their products back to China, so they dare to lend them goods.

Doing business, there is a risk, the person who dares to take risks, will get the harvest, last year borrowed the goods out of the Datang merchants, this year got a group of trust in their own customers, they do not have to worry about their own output of goods will not be sold, because, last year, those people, this year when the purchase, will definitely find him for the first time, because there is mutual credit as a guarantee, this mode of doing business, in the future is very common.

Of course, this is just talking about ordinary goods, and for those goods that are in demand, you have to rely on cash or other things.

After Chu Suiliang sorted out all the loan contracts, he began to sort out the bill of goods handed over by Hu Shang with a smile, for Shanyang, these are taxes!

In the hall of the restaurant, there is a large wooden board that has been prepared a long time ago, with a white paper cover on it, Chu Suiliang picked up a pen and began to write on the wooden board according to the name of the scarce goods requested by Sun Xiangfu last year.

Then, the names of the Hu merchants, and the quantities of goods they provided, were written under those names, which may not be fair because of the different types, but they were open and just.

When all the data is listed, the total value is combined, and the person with the highest value will be rewarded with that mirror.

After some statistics, Arsak finally got the reward of the mirror, in fact, this is also a little reward given by Sun Xiangfu to him for providing information about Gao Changguo, and deliberately set the price of the most iron ore he got a little higher, which is equivalent to helping him.

While beating their chests, many businessmen did not have any doubts about this round of evaluation at all, because the price of iron ore in Datang was also high in the past, and they only hated that they were not as lucky as Arsake, and they got thousands of boxes of high-quality iron ore.

Of course, the banquet will not end because of the end of the competition, the mirror was sent out in front of everyone, and while everyone was there, Sun Xiangfu released the name of next year's shortage of goods.

Minerals and precious metals are still preferred, followed by slaves, etc., and for the merchant who sells the most goods needed by Shanyang next year, Sun Xiangfu will not only reward him with a mirror, but also reward him with the purchase right of a thousand bottles of perfume.

You know, last year, everyone grabbed their heads for perfume, and they all wanted to get more to sell back, but Shanyang's shipments are limited, and the purchase right of this thousand bottles of perfume represents the interests of tens of thousands, which is a huge profit for a single Hu businessman, who doesn't want it?

Then, the businessmen were even more excited, and they raised their glasses one after another, toasting the officials of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate represented by Sun Xiangfu, and swore that they would definitely get more goods that Datang needed next year.

And this lively scene made Koji Zhisheng, who had always wanted to communicate with Sun Xiangfu, unable to speak, since he entered this restaurant, he felt aggrieved, and the feeling of being ignored was very uncomfortable.

Sun Xiangfu naturally can't keep hanging him, and when he puts his posture right, he is still very willing to talk to this prince, although he is not directly bordered by Gaochang State, but in order to ensure the export of goods, he still has to talk to them, if it is not necessary, Datang does not want to start a war with the Western Turks behind him, because the economy is not solid enough.

"Prince Gaochang, most of my family governors are invited."

Xu Jingzong is the preparatory assassin of Tai'an City, an important town in the northwest of the Tang Dynasty in the future, and is the closest city under the jurisdiction of Gaochang Kingdom, so he was arranged by Sun Xiangfu to deal with Koji Zhisheng.

"Hmph, most of you are rude." After all, Koji Zhisheng was young, he was hung by Sun Xiangfu for three days, and he was already holding back his belly, and now, in front of him, he was fighting with those businessmen in the west, ignoring him, what was the status of the businessman in Datang before, he knew, this was simply humiliating for him.

"Really? I don't think so! Hu Shang can bring millions of benefits to Shanyang, so he is naturally a distinguished guest of Shanyang, could it be that your Gaochangguo is more expensive than them? ”

Xu Jingzong's words are a naked irony, however, for such a sarcasm, Ko Zhisheng is speechless to fight back, even if they Gao Changguo adds up the output of the whole country, it is not worth millions, and it is really expensive for no one.

"Hmph, this prince represents a country, and he is a guest from afar, is this how you Tang Kingdom is hospitality?" Koji Zhisheng still complained a little unwillingly.

"Hehe, for my Datang, it may not be a guest who comes from afar, but a guest must have good wine to entertain, if it is a jackal, it may be a butcher's knife."

Fighting with people like Xu Jingzong, it is difficult for Koji Zhisheng to bargain, when Lao Xu was eating in the complex Central Plains society, Koji Zhisheng was estimated to be a milk baby, and after two sentences, his face turned red.

Of course, Xu Jingzong's performance in front of him was naturally the result of Sun Xiangfu's discussion with several resourceful people under him, he sang a black face, Sun Xiangfu sang a darker face, and when Li Shimin came, he could sing a red face!

After a while, Xu Jingzong led Ko Zhisheng to Sun Xiangfu's seat, and as for those Hu merchants, they were invited to the side to chat by a few of Sun Xiangfu's subordinates.

I once thought that Sun Xiangfu didn't give him a polite greeting or anything, and the big stabbing one sat on the seat and waited for him to come to the ceremony.

"Is this how the officials of the Tang State show their prestige to the monarchs of neighboring countries?"

The young Koji Zhisheng quit and asked him to salute a courtier of the Tang Kingdom with a prince of Gaochang, which was impossible.

"Manga said that you are not the lord of Gaochang yet, even if it is, a small country, seeing the important ministers of the Celestial Empire, there is a rule of not being polite?"

Sun Xiangfu said very contemptuously, now, he has not been in a high position for a day or two, when the aura is released, even a pampered prince like Ko Zhisheng also feels the pressure, besides, what he said is not wrong at all, even if he is the king of Gaochang, the land he controls, for Sun Xiangfu, the governor of Anbei, it is just a small land, and their royal city of Gaochang is not worse than Shanyang.

"Hmph, you don't respect me, I don't have to respect you, this prince is here to negotiate taxes with your Tang Kingdom."

"Negotiate the tax of the egg, and the last general will ask the governor to give an order to raise 50,000 troops immediately to destroy this small country."

Su Dingfang, who was sitting under Sun Xiangfu, didn't wait for Koji Zhisheng to finish speaking, so he slapped the table and got up and shouted.

"Hehe, I think it's okay, General Su, you will personally lead the troops to attack, Gaochang Liwentai, I'm afraid that I will follow in the footsteps of Jieli and Tuli"

Sun Xiangfu's chuckle made Ko Zhisheng's face pale, this hasn't started yet! Is there going to be a war? This rhythm is completely different from what I expected!