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Small fish and shrimp, naturally look at the excitement in the front hall of the Purple Grenade Inn, and how many of the big bosses of those rich families are willing to watch with the peddlers? Zhao Pu, the organizer of the investment promotion conference, did not appear in the front hall, but sent a few petty officials from the household department and Zhongshu Men to give everyone propaganda and explain policies in the front hall. Zhao Pu himself sat in the large box on the right side of the courtyard, tasting the best Biluochun, waiting for the fish to automatically take the bait.

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Since Liang and Tang Zhengba (Zhu Wen and ** with father and son), the Central Plains turmoil, Shang Hongyi moved south to Jinling, painstakingly, more than 20 years of operation, to establish a more than 100 stores, involving all walks of life A business kingdom - Dexing. After so many years and twists and turns, it has never been as difficult as it is now. The economy was sluggish, and the landlord's family had no surplus food.

The Dexing is all over the 35 states of Litang, even if it is not a rich country, it is definitely rich. The current predicament is not that the Dexing has no money, he has money, whether it is silver or copper money, he has tens of thousands in his hands, but he hesitates, that is, he does not dare to buy a large number of goods, hoarding Juqi, and cannot sell it at a reduced price, so he stops as soon as possible. The reason is very simple, the current situation is too complicated and weird, he can't understand it, he can't see it clearly.

In fact, since the founding of the Yang family, to the establishment of Li Tang, the price of copper has been rising year by year, remember when Li Yu just ascended the throne, when a tael of silver could be exchanged for 637 copper coins, to Li Jing's accession to the throne, but twelve years of time, a tael of silver can only be exchanged for 598 copper coins, the court has a lot of talk about the big money, but it has not really been implemented.

In the past, he knew the reason why the exchange ratio of copper and silver had increased. Because the price of copper products is very expensive, such as a pound of copper incense burner, the price is 1o taels of silver, but a pound of copper can only be made 1ooo copper coins, such a gap often allows unscrupulous businessmen to secretly collect copper coins, forge bronze without permission, and sell them at a high price. This has caused a shortage of copper coins. Among them, the oil and water are very large, and the imperial court has repeatedly banned them. As a result, the exchange rate between copper and silver gradually increased year by year.

However, the situation has never been like this in the past two years, and it has risen so quickly and so rapidly. The previous year's ratio was 1:588, but this year it has become 1:499, and it continues to rise. As a result, compared with the rise of copper coins, the price of commodities has decreased, although the price is falling and falling, except for someone who bought it at the time when the price was just lowered, it can no longer be sold.

The landlord's family has money, whether it is silver or copper money, he has it, but he does not buy it, first, he wants to wait for the price of commodities to fall further, and second, in addition to weddings, funerals, and daily consumption such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, the landlord's family can basically be self-sufficient. The common people are short of food and clothing, but he has no money in his hands.

Recently, the shops in Jinling, Runzhou, Haizhou and other places have been better, but in Jiangzhou, Yuanzhou, Qianzhou and other places, there has been a phenomenon of ordinary people bartering. The common people just exchange some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, but what can they exchange for it? Nothing more than food? But the grain is not easy to sell now!

What kind of business, buy and sell, and earn the difference in price, this is called a business. But now, if you barter things and exchange all the daily necessities, leaving a pile of food and hoarding it, what can you do? You can't hope for a big drought.

At the moment, even his own man's wages have been in arrears for two months? There's no way around it, the copper money in my hand is reluctant to go down, but I can't use silver to pay them? A few days ago, someone proposed to make a hanging, to put it bluntly, paper money, allowing them to exchange these things for daily necessities in their own shops, but this thing is risky.

Shang Hongyi tossed and turned, couldn't sleep well all day, and lost a lot of his head. At this time, I suddenly heard from the shopkeeper of my own purple pomegranate inn that the senior officials of the Chu State wanted to rent their own inn and hold an investment conference. Shang Hongyi's eyes rolled, and he thought of an idea, he hurried over to probe the bottom of the Chu State.

"Smack... Outside the box, there was a knock on the door, and the corners of Zhao Pu's mouth turned up slightly, revealing a slight smile, and said, "Come in." ”

The door creaked open, one after the other two walked into the room one after another, the person in front of him was in his fifties, with a square head and big ears, but he was melancholy, without a bit of wealth, but the person in the back was the shopkeeper of the Purple Grenade Inn, and before Zhao Pu could speak, the man with the square head and big ears knelt down and said: "The villain Shang Hongyi has seen Lord Zhao." ”

Zhao Pu sat on the chair, stretched out his right hand in front of him, and said, "Mr. Shang, please get up, I don't know what your Excellency is looking for the next official?" ”

Shang Hongyi stood up, but bowed down and replied: "The villain is the proprietor of the Tang Guo Dexing store, I heard that Lord Zhao came to Li Tang to open this investment promotion association, and the villain Mao recommended himself and came to visit." ”

Zhao Pu nodded and said, "Oh, I see. Dexing is one of the top chambers of commerce in Li Tang, and Mr. Shang came to visit, which is really brilliant. Mr. Shang, you may be seated. Sir, have you seen it before? For me Da Chu, if you have any thoughts, you might as well just say it. ”

Shang Hongyi sat down and said, "Lord Zhao doesn't know, the villain has also been to your country, and in Changsha, he also opened a restaurant. ”

"Oh, hehe, then Mr. Shang should know something about my Da Chu, right? The front hall displays the specialties of Dachu 2O Prefecture, I wonder if Mr. Shang has the intention of buying and selling? Zhao Pu said.

"I can't hide it, it is precisely because I know something about your country that the little man comes to visit the adult and has the courage to speak to the adult."

"Oh, hehe, Mr. Shang, if you have something to say, you might as well talk about it."

"The villain has some food in his hands, I don't know if your country needs it?" Shang Hongyi said tentatively.

Zhao Pu thought for a while, and said in embarrassment: "The people take food as the sky, this food, the need is naturally needed, but it also has to be divided, and now it will soon be the summer harvest season, at this time, Mr. Shang sells grain, I'm afraid he can't make too much money." ”

The end of the month is the summer harvest season, Shang Hongyi knows very well in his heart, but it is precisely because of the summer harvest that the people have to pay taxes, in addition to paying grain, there are other taxes such as poll tax, these taxes are all to pay silver, how can the people have silver in their hands, they can only take their own grain to the market in exchange for copper money. There is a set time limit for the government to pay taxes, but now that copper money is in short supply, and second, the people are in a hurry to make a move, they can take the opportunity to lower the price of grain for the people and buy grain at a low price with silver. Then I bought it and went to the state of Chu. As for the copper coins, you can take the opportunity to sell some, and then leave some of them to continue to wait and see. Therefore, he hoped that Chu State could give a good price for grain.

"This... Lord Zhao, the price of grain in your country is cheaper, but can you exchange all of it for us for silver? "Li Tang is the land of fish and rice, and has always had the title of Huainan ripe and full of the world, and the grain price of Li Tang is far lower than that of Chu State. Shang Hongyi is not afraid that grain will not make money, but he is afraid that after it is sold to Chu State, it will not be exchanged for silver.

The year before last, the state of Chu did open the exchange of silver and silk silk, but there were still additional conditions, that is, if you exchange one tael of silver, you will take away goods worth one tael of silver. In other words, for example, if I sell grain and sell 1oooo taels of silver, Chu State only exchanges 5ooo taels of silver, and the rest will be bought into tea or cloth in Chu State. Every time I go to Chu to do business, the Chu government will send someone to evaluate the goods, put exchange coupons, and when the goods are sold, take the exchange coupons and go to the government with iron money to exchange for silver.

Zhao Pu sighed and said: "At present, this method of exchange is indeed not very reasonable, but I have no way to do it, the country of Chu is located in a remote area, there is a shortage of materials, and the stock of silver is also limited, and my king is very helpless." However, my king is now considering gradually deregulating the cloth market, and the object of this opening is you big foreign merchants. ”

"What?" Shang Hongyi's eyes lit up, and he asked, "My lord, what kind of open method is it?" ”

There are several products in the Chu State, which are monitored by the government, such as tea, cloth and salt, which are purchased directly from the people by the government, and merchants are not allowed to buy them privately. It stands to reason that iron money is even less durable, but why is copper money gradually scarce on Li Tang's side, but there is nothing wrong with Chu State, and the most important reason is that Chu State allows ordinary people to directly pay cloth, tea, grain and other materials according to the market price to offset taxes. In this way, for the common people, firstly, there is less exploitation by merchants, and secondly, the demand for iron money in the hands of the common people is not large. In the state of Chu, it is not ordinary people who have opinions about iron money, but those who have money. As soon as the government of Chu did this, the biggest businessman in Chu was the government, and the most profitable was also the government, because if you want to buy tea and cloth, you have to buy it from the government. But now, the state of Chu is going to be reformed.

"That's the case, my king intends to change the right to purchase this tea and cloth from the exclusive ownership of the government to allow the merchants to own a part of it." Zhao Pu said slowly.

Shang Hongyi's eyes rolled, instead of putting all his belongings in Li Tang now and waiting for the situation to change, it was better to take out some of it and transfer it to the Chu State. He asked, "This... Don't know what merchants need to need? What kind of transfer law is this transfer? ”

"The conditions, first, of course, are to have strong funds. Second, it depends on whether you have enough sales channels, and third, it depends on your contribution to the place. As for the transfer, my king is ready to transfer the tea purchase rights of Hengzhou (Hengyang), Minzhou (Shaoyang) and Xiangxiang in advance, and the tea purchase rights of these three places are ready to be transferred to three merchants, or groups of merchants. ”

Shang Hongyi's eyes rolled and asked, "How do you judge these three conditions?" ”

Zhao Pu smiled: "The first one, you have to pay a certain amount of money to the government, just like a deposit, if your business is doing well, the income of the local people has increased, then the deposit will not only be returned intact after three years, but also there will be five thousandths of the interest, if you do it badly, the deposit will be deducted according to a certain proportion to subsidize the tea farmers." The second condition, like the Dexing, should be no problem, as for the third, if the tea is to be transported, the road must be built. The government will come up with some of the funds, and the merchants will also have to come up with some of the funds to build roads and the like. As for the annual tax paid by merchants, it is quite low. In the past, the policy was reduced by 2 percent. ”

Zhao Pu glanced at Shang Hongyi, who was hesitating, and said, "This deposit does not need cash, and it can be offset with materials." ”

Shang Hongyi was a little moved. Grain...

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