It's funny to say that the reason why the "Water Margin" of later generations was popular was also promoted by the Japanese people to a certain extent, and for a period of time, "Water Margin" was even treated as a national culture by Japan, and it was a model for learning Chinese language and Chinese culture. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoBecause there is a reason here, "Water Margin" is about the Huizong Dynasty, and the Huizong Dynasty period is also the peak period of Japan's worship of the Great Song Dynasty in all aspects.

This is an era of waiting for transportation to explode, and solving transportation problems is almost everything.

You can really make a fortune by selling goods from A to B. Not to mention the extremely scarce materials such as silver in the Great Song Dynasty, not to mention the most dangerous seafaring trade in this era - therefore, the silver trade from the four countries of Kyushu and even the island of Honshu to the Great Song Dynasty, without asking Jujing Gao Fangping, is also very clear that it is crazy, and it is not just three times the profit.

"What my lord said is yes, just my shopkeeper said at the time that our own profit is three times that of ours. As for how many Song merchants there are, we don't know. Jukyo said.

Gao Fangping smiled and said: "Song Shang is one of the most treacherous profiteers in this era, you all have so many profits, of course they will not be less." They're taking you because of the quality of the silver, right? ”

"Yes, your adult guesses are right." Kikukyo nodded.

"Because the most mature silver smelting technology in this era is in the Great Song Dynasty, and the technology is high added value, which is the top of the food chain." Gao Fangping Road.

"I don't understand this." Kikukyo shook his head.

In the current shortage of copper coins, silver is urgently needed as a supplementary currency, but it is limited to the dangerous sea conditions, and the sea conditions of the East China Sea are not the sunny Mediterranean. These were the conditions that restricted the trade between the Song merchants and the Dongying. And if Dongying delivers goods to the door, the amount is too small, because they have few people and small boats, and a large part of them are drowned in the wind and waves.

Limited to these circumstances, Gao Fangping has a big plan, which is to wait for the big ship with a displacement of 1,200 tons.

But this problem is in a state of being tied with Zhang Shangying, and that is the problem of money.

In the early days, Gao Fangping helped them to supervise a lot of strange tricks, which were designated as royal monopolies and made a lot of money. But the money is royal, and then it's not much at the national level. It is nothing more than Gao Fangping and Zhang Shangying teaming up to fool the emperor, guide the emperor's interests and hobbies, and cut the funds used for the construction of the Shenxiao Wanshou Palace in history to build the "Jingzhao County Wang".

Zhao Ji was also excited about this for a while, listening to Zhang Shangying pulling calves and blowing all kinds of imperial grace and heavenly power, but after Lao Zhang capsized the Jingzhao Junwang, Zhao Ji seemed to be poured some cold water, and his enthusiasm decreased.

As soon as the accounts are settled, the funds spent on this project are still a little unbearable compared to the money that Xiao Gao once helped them get. So in the current situation, the Rongde Emperor Ji still has not stopped work, and it is being rebuilt after learning the experience of overturning, but Zhang Shangying confessed: the official family is already unhappy and has a tendency to pick on children.

As a result, Lao Zhang didn't dare to continue to spend money indiscriminately, unless there was another large amount of income coming in.

The essential oil soap project continues to generate profits, but the music box or something is a trick after all, and it is not a popular product after interest, and the income in this area is limited at present, mainly by the profiteers in Bianjing and used to defraud Hu Shang. Hu Shang took him to Europe to defraud those savages.

However, Zhang Shangying also said that the manufacture of music boxes is not all strange and ingenious, because it involves the so-called "clockwork", which is a kind of high-tech content for this era. In the process of continuing to manufacture music box clockwork, while making money, Zhang Shangying's command has solved some of the key technical processes.

Those technologies are also dry goods in metallurgical processes, and they are really used in large quantities in the construction of key places in large ships.

Then the driver Zhang crossed the river and demolished the bridge. After he had the technology on the 1st, with the reputation of the emperor, it was listed as the top secret of the Great Song Dynasty, and the people in the Ministry of Industry wanted to communicate and were kicked away by Lao Zhang a few times. Not only that, he refused to communicate with Gao Fangping's team technology, and Driver Zhang said that Gao Fangping's those are grassroots technology and grassroots teams, so don't come to communicate with the royal craftsmen.

Gao Fangping is also drunk, it is undeniable that in terms of "fine work", Zhang Shangying's team really has an advantage over Gao Fangping's team. But in terms of practicality and overall view, Gao Fangping can say that his Lao Zhang's team is weak. Gao Fangping directly wrote a letter to scold: The capsizing of the Jingzhao Junwang was because it was too detailed and too local. If you change Lao Tzu's rough team, now the king of Jingzhao County has gone to Honshu Island to import beauties.

After being told by Gao Fangping, Lao Zhang went to talk to Zhao Ji and said: Gao Fangping said wildly, and the official family should not fall for his tricks. He actually didn't have any dry goods, and the loss of capsizing at Bianjing Wharf was much smaller than that in the East China Sea. He Xiaogao mainly wants to cheat the funds and seize the dominance, the Rongde Emperor Ji is royal, and its research and development work can only belong to the royal craftsman.

Zhao Ji said, "Zhang Qing said so, I was relieved, hurry, after the royal research and development was successful, it was handed over to Xiao Gao to transport silver."

When the official said this, Gao Yu's face turned green at that time.

After YY, Gao Fangping said again: "Jujing." ”

"Hey." Kikukyo lowered his head.

"Do you know why prices are inverted in your hometown, goods are expensive, and silver is cheap?" Gao Fangping Road.

"Jujing doesn't understand." She shook her head very cutely, "The shopkeeper doesn't understand either." “

"Because you are not productive, you can produce too little. But silver is naturally abundant, and it is on the earth. Gao Fangping said: "After the trade in the future, in view of the small number of you people, and the silver reserves are inexhaustible. So your standard of living will even be higher than that of the Song people, but the most fatal thing is that you will still not be productive. Those who rely on digging underground resources to survive will never be called developed countries in my concept, and that is just a flash in the pan. equal to one egg. ”

"Jujing understood." She seemed to have realized something: "No wonder you don't want anything now, don't want land, don't want houses, you just want to mobilize the people under your rule to produce." ”

"Yes, anything is fake, only manufacturing is obscene enough." Gao Fangping muttered: "One day in the future, I will treat your hometown and nation well and let them live a richer life than the Great Song Dynasty." I will provide them with everything they need, including food, and they will be able to live a good life as long as they dig up the silver and give it to me. But that's not actually my favorite, I don't blow it to dominate all occasions, I'm trying to forcefully kill Dongying's ability to make things and even grow food, which is called gentle death, gorgeous poisonous honey. ”

Ju Jing said curiously: "This is the original intention of Xianggong to emphasize 'self-reliance and hard work' to Wanmin at that time, right?" ”

"Yes, you are very perceptive."

There is a reason why Gao Fangping suddenly thought of talking to Ju Jing about this issue.

Gao Fangping believes that the Great Song Dynasty government is still not obscene enough, the customs system of the Great Song Dynasty is really weak, and the understanding of the city and parking divisions of those ports is too poor, coupled with the information is not usual, which has caused the inefficiency of the imperial court management on this basis.

How does the current Great Song Dynasty manage customs?

When entering the port, it is enough to extract a small amount of taxes and fees, and sometimes the profiteers in Dongying say that we have no money. Okay, if you don't have money, just submit a certain percentage of your goods to the city. They will be able to obtain a customs ticket and begin to peddle silver in the country.

Limited to the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, the people could not play silver, but this process was equivalent to the fact that the gentry and magnates monopolized the silver market on behalf of the imperial court, resulting in a high price of silver in the Great Song Dynasty. Eventually, a great deal of wealth returned to the gentry's cellar vaults, and did not participate in the circulation of currency in the market, which was one of the causes of deflation.

The chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty is actually one of the reasons.

The biggest problem is that the government in later generations still sells goods from domestic vendors, and the "American knife" in exchange is also in the hands of the government. However, the improper operation of the Great Song Dynasty in this regard is equivalent to these beautiful knives falling into the hands of Song merchants and magnates.

One day, if the customs fall into the hands of the pork level, it will be obscene, is there really no finance? I Xiaogao absolutely dominated the import and export trade market, and established a paper money system based on the "silver standard" with the silver of the Japanese people, so as to solve the problems of the entire imperial court's finances and deflation in minutes.

Of course, these things that need to be solved from the perspective of changing the law are a huge system project. In addition, in Gao Fangping's eyes, although the financial system is extremely important, it is far less important than the "manufacturing industry", so the strong construction of the Dajiangzhou industrial base is the first priority.

However, although this is not Gao Fangping's problem, Gao Fangping has begun to write two policy treatises, "On Customs Law and Trade System" and "On Currency", since a few days ago.

And the two policy arguments are close to the closing stage, and the main idea has been completed, mainly with the help of Xiao Li Gang, to refine the typos and sentences in them.

Customs law and trade, that is the law, and it will touch the interests of the class in particular, so it was not submitted to the imperial court, nor was it publicly announced.

However, due to the increasingly serious "deflation" in the Great Song Dynasty, the outflow of copper money, and the limited development of copper mines, the "Theory of Money" has been submitted to Zhang Shuye in the personal name of Gao Fangping a few days ago. It is recommended to issue banknotes that have broken the reputation in Kai. This is very necessary at a time when Cai Xianggong's "big ten money, big five money" policy has failed, and the deflation in Jiangnan is particularly serious.

Gao Fangping bluntly said to Zhang Shuye in the letter: "At the moment when Cai Jing is in decline, there is no better opportunity to subvert Cai Jing's policy. ”

Gao Fangping really didn't talk nonsense, Cai Jing's momentum was weak, but he hadn't quit yet, and now that the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, the group of sharks who centrifuged Cai Jing would really support Zhang Shuye's change of law to a certain extent. Of course, they hate changing the law, but as long as they rub salt into Cai Jing's wounds, they will at least be silent.

Gao Fangping was worried that he was really waiting for Cai Jing to resign as prime minister, and after their new leader rose, then this group of sharks would take over Cai Jing's banner and continue to fight against Uncle Zhang's night party.

Therefore, in line with the consciousness of scheming, Gao Fangping believes that the change is not that it will not succeed, but that it is necessary to seize the opportunity. Now, it is the opportunity for Lao Cai to "take advantage of his illness to kill him", regardless of which cow, ghost, snake and god rise after he is overthrown, in short, if you have to bite, you will bite one or two to death first, and you are saying that if you don't bite for a long time, it will affect the wolf nature of Lao Tzu's party.

Yes, Gao Fangping directly used this word in his letter to Uncle Zhang.