Old man Sun's business in the past two years is getting bigger and bigger, although the Sun family's reputation is not obvious, many people have not even heard of the Sun family, and the Sun family does not have a complete large business house, but people make money every year to earn hand cramps!

Strictly speaking, the Sun family is a smuggling trader, and the main job is to transport the goods of the Ming Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, and then transport the goods of the Tang Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty.

According to the investigation of the Ministry of Commerce, Old Man Sun's smuggling business channels are not only all over the Tang Dynasty, but also in the ruling areas of the Ming Dynasty.

Such a Sun family, in fact, the officials of the Tang Dynasty hated and liked it!

I like it because the Sun family was able to get a large number of blockade materials from the Ming Dynasty, not only strategic materials, but even craftsmen and other technical talents can be collected and sent in large quantities.

But what I hate is that this old man Sun sometimes secretly does some Tang Dynasty ban on exports, and the materials urgently needed by the Ming Dynasty are sold in the Ming Dynasty, of course, this is not the point, the point is that the goods sold by this old man Sun are all at a high price!

Recently, the Sun family has transported a large amount of grain, and its value is more than 1.5 times that of the market, but even so, the Tang Dynasty, which is short of grain, has bought it with a tooth.

In fact, many people are thinking that they will not need this Sun family that day, so they will raid the Sun family and exterminate the family, not for the Sun family's money, but for the sake of exporting anger!

Nima, who dares to blackmail the Tang Dynasty like this, make money from the Tang Dynasty, and make such a ruthless profit, is only Old Man Sun.

But Old Man Sun also felt wronged, Lao Tzu made so much grain from the south of the Yangtze River to Liangguang It is easy for me, how many officials of the Ming Dynasty have to be dealt with along the way, in order to escort these grains, Lao Tzu has used thousands of armed guards, these people don't want to eat or drink!

If it weren't for the disaster in the first half of the Tang Dynasty and the urgent shortage of food, your Ministry of Commerce came to the door and asked him if he could get grain from the Ming Dynasty's ruling area, would he be guilty of engaging in the grain business!

This trip has been hard for several months, using a lot of connections, and the principal spent is astronomical, but in the end, it is just a hard-earned money.

If it weren't for the easing of the relationship with your Ministry of Commerce and even the entire Tang Dynasty, their Sun family would have been so tormented, their Sun family's business network had already been laid out to the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.

As the saying goes, money can make ghosts grind, and the reason why the Sun family has been able to do so much business in recent years has a great relationship with their willingness to spend money!

The Ming Dynasty directly threw money, regardless of whether it was a shirt or a local official, whether it was a civil official or a military general, everything that could be smashed with money would be smashed, 10,000 taels would be 20,000 if it was not enough, and if 20,000 was not enough, it would be smashed by another person.

In the past two years, the filial piety of the Sun family has been sent to the cabinet bosses of the Ming Dynasty!

On the side of the Tang Dynasty, it is a fair bribe!

How to bribe!

Their Sun family is the number one taxpayer in the Tang Dynasty!

In the second year of Xuanping, the firm under the name of Old Man Sun paid more than 200,000 taels of silver to the tax department of the Tang Dynasty alone, and at the same time cooperated with the commercial banks and factories invested by the major royal families, and transported at least 300,000 taels of silver in net profits.

Combined, that's 500,000 taels of silver!

And you have to know that the Sun family is actually a smuggling business, and it is unseemly to be sneaky, and the purpose of the existence of those superficial commercial houses is not to do business, but just to pay taxes and transfer profits to the Tang royal family!

If it weren't for the rise of the Tang Dynasty, even if the Sun family could toss, it would not be able to toss.

But no matter how much you can toss, the Sun family is just a businessman, and recently watching the continuous rise of the Tang Dynasty, it is also constantly easing the relationship with the Tang Dynasty, this grain trade is actually a supplementary strategy!

But can this dispel the idea of the Tang officials wanting to exterminate the Sun family?

No!

Especially the officials of the Ministry of Commerce, they all dreamed of destroying the Sun family!

So recently, the Sun family is actively embarking on the upper route, not only to send taxes to the Ministry of Taxation as performance, but also to send profits to the royal family, at least the Empress Dowager Bai is very appreciative of the Sun family, and thinks that such a businessman is a good businessman, and he will not forget the royal family when he is developed, and he will greatly drop the good people!

Li Xuan also knows about the situation of the Sun family, but he doesn't care, now the Sun family is still useful for the Tang Dynasty, and in the future, the Sun family is still useful, and the Sun family's smuggling talent can be used between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty now, and it can also be used between the Tang Dynasty and other foreign countries in the future.

There are always some businesses that are not suitable for the upright and enterprising, and need to be led by these smugglers, such as opium.

Li Xuan is very much looking forward to shipping boatloads of opium to Europe for sale in the future, to see if he can get a European jackal, if he can get it, it can be regarded as revenge for the people of the original time and space, and by the way, he can also earn a lot of money, why not!

It's a big deal to fight a few withdrawal versions of the Opium War!

Of course, this is all in the future, and now Li Xuan only thinks about it occasionally, and now he is more concerned about the development of commerce and trade under the rule of Datang!

With the great improvement of the public security environment in the central and western coastal areas of Guangdong, and the news of the opening of Guangdong's ports in the past two years, Guangzhou and Lianzhou began to usher in a large number of maritime merchants.

Not only were the maritime merchants who had been active in East Asia, but also the Arabs and Europeans who were gradually arriving on a large scale, the most notable of which were the Spaniards.

Since the last group of Spaniards came to Guangzhou, Datang's reputation for being willing to do business with Europeans has spread.

It's good that you don't come, but you will find business opportunities everywhere!

Porcelain and silk, which Europeans need most, are open for sale, and you can even find a large number of spices that are special to the South Seas!

At this time, Guangzhou has become a trading port, not only a large number of goods from the Tang Dynasty, but also a large number of goods from the Ming Dynasty, and even the special goods of Japan and small countries in the South Seas can be found in the commercial port of Guangzhou.

Every merchant ship that came to the port of Guangzhou was full of debts when it left!

And this directly stimulates the development of Datang's industry and commerce!

In the face of such business opportunities, private businessmen are grinding their fists, building factories and opening workshops, which has become the first choice of many businessmen!

The prosperity of industry and commerce also directly led to a large number of peasants, especially landless peasants, moving to the cities to work.

Although the factory in these years is very exploitative, the working hours are long, and the income is meager, no matter what, it will not be worse than being a tenant, at least you can barely make ends meet!

And being able to eat enough is already the greatest pursuit of the vast majority of contemporary people!

And this leads to another result!

Although tenants began to move into the city, many rural areas close to Guangzhou, Lianzhou, Zhaoqing and other rural areas with relatively busy industry and commerce began to have a 'tenant shortage'.

Those tenants have gone to the city to work, so it is naturally impossible to farm, coupled with the rent-to-purchase issued by the Tang Dynasty, many tenants even if they farm, they are also sore to rent official land, so that many landlords, especially those who have relatively high rent collections, can not find anyone to plant.

But those landlords couldn't find anyone to farm, and after the fields were abandoned, the agricultural tax still had to be paid!

In order to retain tenants, many landlords had to lower their rents, from 70 or even 80 percent in the past to 50 or 60 percent.

In this case, the land price in a few areas under the rule of the Tang Dynasty turned out to be a negative growth!

The price of general fields will be reduced when there is a disaster, and the wind and rain will rise, and there will be no war in Liangguang now, although there is a typhoon disaster in the first half of the year, but the impact is only in the western part of Guangdong, but other places have no impact, so according to tradition, the price of this field will rise.

However, the increase is very small, and the land price in a few areas has not only not risen, but has also fallen!

Of course, everyone knows that this situation is somewhat abnormal, and it cannot last long, but it is also a lot of psychological pressure on those landlords who own a lot of land.

When the income from the land was not as good as that of building workshops and factories, when the land could not even be found by tenants, and when all these wastelands had to pay agricultural taxes, a very small number of bold landlords began to sell their fields to recoup their funds, and then invested them in industry and commerce.

In view of this situation, Li Xuan naturally had a supportive attitude, and even issued a decree to give guidance and tax incentives to these new businessmen who had just left the status of landlords and joined industry and commerce.

In short, the current Tang Dynasty encouraged landlords to strip their assets from the land and invest them in industry and commerce.

Various policy support has also allowed many new businessmen to appear, and some of them have done well!

For example, recently in the private business community of Zhaoqing, the Chen family, a grain merchant who is very strong, is one of them!

In the past, the Chen family was not a grain merchant, but a traditional landlord and gentry family, with hundreds of acres of land and several shops.

How could it suddenly become strong, naturally because it took advantage of Datang's encouragement of industry and commerce!

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