Let's talk about what kind of business Yanjing and Great Song Kingdom do? "Zhou Nan is not in a hurry, he happens to have leisure today, and he plans to learn about the economic exchanges between the Liao State and the Great Song Dynasty.

  Li Feixing and his deputy head saw that Zhou Nan wanted to learn about business from Han Cunyi, and they were not interested in listening to it if they stayed, so they retired to Zhou Nan and went back to Li Feixing's place to ask each other about the situation during this period of separation. Xiao Jiu'er went to guard the door.

  Han Cunyi saw that Zhou Nan was a concubine and a general, but he was so interested in this business matter, and talked about it, and said to Zhou Nan: "The Liao and Song dynasties, for more than 100 years, have spent most of their time in densely populated places at the border gates, setting up a field, so that the people in the country can trade and sell in the field. Both dynasties arranged officials in the field, mainly to collect taxes and inspect private goods. ”

  "When it was the most prosperous, Daizhou Yanmen, Feihuling, Baozhou, Dingzhou, Xiongzhou, and Jiuliangjin on Jingdong Road, there were many places with the field, but in some places the field was soon closed, and the scale was very small. Xiongzhou is the largest and oldest of them. Han Cunyi said with a few treasures.

  "What kind of goods are traded?" Zhou Nan is more concerned about the specific varieties of goods.

  "There are a lot of goods, calligraphy and painting, incense, rhino horn, pearls, agate, glass, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, fine weapons, coral, all kinds of things. Only the bulk of the tea sold by the Great Song Dynasty, porcelain, lacquerware, silk, sheep, leather goods, camels, salt, Luo, and linen sold by the Great Liao. It's just that those glass, coral, and iron weapons like a few can only be lucky, not every time you go, you always have to buy when you meet. Han Cunyi said in detail.

  The biggest headache for Zhou Nan is the tea of the Great Song Dynasty, the key is that it is not produced in the north, but it is a necessity of life. Other luxuries such as rhino horn, incense, coral, and even porcelain and lacquerware can be replaced by others. "You said that the bulk goods sold by the Liao State to the Great Song Dynasty still include Fan Luo and linen cloth?" Zhou Nan asked curiously, for a long time, Zhou Nan thought that the silk fabrics of the Great Song Dynasty were the most popular, and he didn't expect that the Liao Kingdom would also sell silk fabrics to the Great Song Dynasty.

  "Exactly. Not to mention the weaving courtyard of the official mansion in Yanjing City, even the weavers in Yanjing City can weave the best silk Luo. The horse, the light Luo wax silk produced in Yanjing City has arrived in Bianjing City, but it is extremely sought-after, and two groups of tea can be exchanged for a wax silk. Han Cunyi said proudly.

  "Then weave more of this silk and make money in the field!" Zhou Nan also said happily.

  "The horse doesn't know that although this silk is a good product, there are too few people who weave it, the number of people who collect it is small, and the profit is high, but after all, it is not as profitable as sheep, camels, and leather goods. Therefore, no one cares about it. In recent years, people have been panicking, and no one has woven it. Han Cunyi said regretfully.

  "What about the sackcloth? Is it also in demand here in Da Song? Zhou Nan asked again.

  "The linen cloth is not sought-after, but the linen cloth produced in the Yanjing area at the beginning was extremely heavy, and it was very popular with the Great Song Dynasty, and it was bought a lot, and it was used as the winter clothes of the Hebei Road sergeant. It's just that later the Great Song Dynasty bought more, and the woven linen cloth was not as good as before, and later the Great Song Dynasty didn't accept much. ”

  "Oh," Zhou Nan is also a pity, but it is a pity that linen cloth is still a primary processed product after all, if you can make linen cloth industrialized, set standards, and reduce costs, you can seize the local linen market in the Great Song Dynasty. Isn't it because the industrial products of the first industrial revolution in later generations can be sold in large quantities in China because the prices are extremely low?

  "Did Da Song also let the salt seller go over?" Zhou Nan thought of another question.

  "At the beginning, it was allowed to be sold, but later the Great Song Dynasty court ordered a ban on trafficking in northern salt, and it was broken. If you want to come to Liao, the northern salt is cheap, and it is not good for the official family of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

  "Are camels also a commodity?" Zhou Nan always felt that camels were the most arid in the northwest, and he didn't expect that they were still a bulk commodity in the Song Liao field.

  "At first, the Great Song Dynasty bought camels, not a lot, just for the rich and noble families to have a full appetite, such as humps, camel hooves are delicious. In this Bianjing City, the imperial court also has a mule camel workshop that specializes in feeding camels. It's just that every time after buying a large flock of sheep from the field and rushing all the way to Bianjing, most of the sheep are already weak, and some die along the way. Originally, the Great Song Dynasty people liked mutton the most, but because they died of illness and emaciation after coming, they only bought 30,000 or 40,000 sheep every year. The rest is to buy camels. What's more, after the camel is bought, it can also be transported instead of mules and horses, and camel hair and camel hair can also be spun and weave carpets. ”

  Zhou Nan nodded, and suddenly smiled: "Like these, do princesses have sales?" ”

  "Han Kee leather goods are mainly leather goods, and there are a few shops below, which are dealing in sheep, camels, and silk. Usually accumulate goods in Yanjing City, and when they have more to do, they will be transported to Xiongzhou or Baozhou to be sold, and then buy back the porcelain, tea, spices and other items of the Great Song Dynasty, and bring them back to the Yanjing store to sell. Han Cunyi said simply.

  "Isn't that going to open many shops in Yanjing City?" If you open one store for each type of goods, you will need more than 10 stores alone.

  "That's not necessary. Sheep and llamas are only resold and temporarily stored outside the city for a short time. Fan Luo and Ma Bu do not have to open stores in Yanjing. The tea, porcelain, lacquerware, etc., of the Great Song Dynasty, were all sold in one shop in order to attract popularity. ”

  "The Song and Liao must have been shut down long ago due to the war between the two countries. And how to trade? Zhou Nan thought of the current situation and asked Han Cunyi.

  "The horse is a nobleman, so naturally he doesn't know about the people below." Han Cunyi said with a smile: "In fact, when there was no meeting a hundred years ago, the people of the two countries had to communicate with each other, and there was already a transaction at that time. It's just a secret deal. ”

  "It turned out to be smuggling." Zhou Nan asked puzzledly, "In the border land, the military inspection and inspection are very strict, how can they avoid it?" Just like when I came to the Great Song Dynasty this time, there were people patrolling on the land and in the Jiehe, like you bought off the official army, and it was okay to do it occasionally, but after a long time, those officers who learned the news had to get a piece of the pie, but I was afraid that even the money they earned would be lost. ”

  "That's exactly what the colt said. After the closure of the field, it was not a long-term plan to find internal responses among the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty and make a living. Historically, there have been two ways for smugglers, on land and at sea. The last time the field was shut down was more than 30 years ago during the reign of the Great Song Dynasty Shenzong, and the young one was not born at that time. It's just that I heard my father say that the land is from Yanjing to the northwest, and the Lingqiu area is everywhere, where there are hills and ravines, the mountains are continuous, deserted, and the officials and soldiers are not easy to inspect, and the border people of the two countries are all Han Chinese, and there is no difference in appearance, and it is the easiest for smugglers to pass. In the sea, it enters the sea from the Bohai Sea in Pingzhou, and goes south to Dengzhou and Laizhou in the Great Song Dynasty. Although it is known as a 400-mile sea route, if the wind is down, you can get there in one day. It's just that in the middle of the sea, there are officers and soldiers in the Great Song Dynasty who take ships to check the sea. Or after entering the sea from the Bohai Sea, he transferred to Goryeo, where he traded with the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, but he had to pay taxes. ”