Gao Yue suggested that his father-in-law start immediately, quickly occupy a few small salt ponds in the name of the military government, and then hire 300 households to be responsible for salt production for the "pond households", and allocate another 300 soldiers to protect the salt ponds.

A year later, these small salt ponds together can also produce five or six thousand stone of salt, and after entering the official ranks, Gao Yue also asked the caravan of Baili City to buy it alone, and then appraised it upwards, and after returning to Baili City, it was marketed everywhere, and the military merchants immediately shared the profits, so that the Yuanzhou Bank could also get ten thousand dollars of money.

"Very good, just do what Gao Lang said." Cui Ning is overjoyed, now he is the governor of Lingzhou, the envoy of Shuofang Jiedu, and the water transport envoy of the six cities, as long as he is in the salt pond within the jurisdiction, he has the final say, and the hand of the branch of the household department of the imperial court cannot reach here.

Then Cui Ning asked Secretary Shuo Fangzhang to write a handwritten pleading, stuffed it into the talisman again, and said, "This document needs to be transmitted to the entire Gyeongju, so that all party items will know about it." ”

Before he went out of Beijing to be the envoy of the four prefectures of Weibei, he had appeased the local party items, and now his son-in-law Gao Yue has shocked the Dongshan (Gyeongju) and Nanshan (Lingzhou) party items, and now it is time to let the emperor know the "achievements" of our Weng and son-in-law.

Then, the blue-gray horse, once again hanging the jingling talisman, rushed out of the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion and embarked on the return journey back to Jingzhou.

The words "When the road is tired, it will be opened" is written on the talisman cylinder.

As a result, the large and small party items along the road in Lingzhou and Gyeongju were re-received by Cui Ning, the governor of Lingzhou, and at the same time, they also received an order from Cui Ning, the governor of Lingzhou, to ask all the Fanluo to collect and restore all the tributes to the Tang family, which were accepted by the officials and envoys of the prefectures where they were located, and uniformly sealed with white mud seals, and handed over to the Jingzhou Stagecoach Guan Changchang and the flag pavilion, and Gao Yue was delivered to the taste library in the capital by the Jingyuan Zobo Envoy.

"Since it was requested by Governor Cui and Gao Angel, there is nothing to say."

Along the galloping horse, the Namsan party that received the order began to pay tribute to green salt, wild venison, and safflower, and the Dongsan party began to pay tribute to musk deer, antelope horns, and wild pheasants.

After Huo Zhongtang received the emperor's order to severely reprimand Zhai Wenxiu, the superintendent of Suining, he also brought the emperor's edict: according to Gao Yue's words, he would be the "field official" of the "Yima Guanhu Market".

Therefore, now Gao Yue's titles are Quanzhi Yuan Prefecture Xingzai, Lingtai County Order, Duzhi Yuan Prefecture Xing Zai Yingtian Judge, Jingyuan Zhu Zhu Xiang Fan Envoy, Zhijing Yuan Zhuyi, and Field Affairs.

Through the emperor's edict, he finally mastered the Yimaguan mutual market at the junction of Jing, Ning, and Qingzhou, which was enough to take a share of the "Lingzhou Trade Road".

The assassin Shi Du in Gyeongju City was engaged in politics, and he could only "seal the mud" on the tributes that came to Fanluo, and then continue to send them to Baili New Town, and then be counted by Gao Yue, and then transferred to the capital - when the New Year Hanyuan Hall was held, these tributes were to be placed on the main hall to show the emperor's majesty of the world and the tribute from all over the world.

By the time the party Xiang Fanluo sent the tribute to the Yima Pass, Gao Yue had mobilized the soldiers of the camp to build a beacon pavilion barrier on the hill on the west side of the pass, opened up a passage, and also added a large mutual market field, and the merchants and Fanluo of several states, wearing all kinds of clothes, drove and carried goods, gathered here, and traded all kinds of things.

The officials sent by Gao Yue sat in the pavilion in the center of the market, or on the corner tower, and closely monitored the transactions in the market.

Their duties, in addition to the daily price tag, that is, the "official price" of various commodities for reference, were also to search and register passing goods, which, according to Gao Yue's words to the emperor, was to prohibit weapons and metals from entering the hands of the Qing, Ling, and Salt Clans—would the merchants sell these things to the Dang Clans from other channels?

This Gao Yue is not interested, so whatever? Because his purpose is to control the Yima Guanhu market in the name of the above.

Because the mutual market can generate profits just like the land.

"Entering the market for commerce, thirty taxes and one, which is a rent."

"But all transactions, every tax of ten cents, is said to be in addition to strange money."

"Whoever violates the prohibition of the goods will be confiscated as stolen money."

At the beginning of the establishment of Yima Seki Mutual Market, Gao Yue promulgated these three most basic tax orders, the first two of which are the core:

Rent money, that is, as long as a merchant enters the market to trade, and you occupy a stall, you have to pay money, that is, one-thirtieth of the value of the goods you hold, like a field rent;

In addition to Mo Qian (Mo Tong Bai), you don't have to pay if you don't have a business today, but once you have a business, you have to pay "ten cents per dollar", that is, pay money at the rate of one percent of the price of the goods sold, just like a transaction tax.

In addition, in order to stimulate mutual trade, Gao Yue also issued a decree that allowed merchants to use "short money" to travel to and from Yima Pass.

When he and Liu Yan asked each other right before, he had mentioned the problem of "money shortage", and now the Tang Dynasty is making trouble everywhere about this disease - all kinds of "lubricant" copper coins for public and private exchanges ♂ are not enough, which will lead to the bad consequences of "department stores are not accessible, and all merchants are tied", Gao Yue does not have the power to solve this problem fundamentally for the time being, so he adopted a cheap method in the Yima Guanhu market, that is, "short money".

To put it bluntly, for example, in the money shortage, you can use a fixed percentage that everyone recognizes and accepts, so as to reduce the use of copper coins and at the same time, it does not hinder the trade of goods, such as Gao Yue in Yima Guanhu Market stipulates:

"Each pass is divided into 100 texts, and 900 texts are used to complete it. Those who have traded five times, half with cloth. ”

In the market, you can buy goods for 90 wen for 100 wen, and you can actually pay 900 wen for the usual trading volume. Doesn't the merchant who sells the goods feel at a loss? No, because he knew in his heart that he could also buy something that cost 100 yuan from others with the 90 yuan he got in the Stagecoach Pass. Once this "short money" ratio becomes a rule and is observed by all, then no one will feel that there is anything to lose, which will not only ensure the prosperity of commerce, but also alleviate the problem of the lack of copper coins.

In addition, the shortage of money will also lead to "expensive money and cheap goods", once the grain and cloth are low, it will inevitably harm the interests of the people, so Gao Yue also mandatory provisions that "those who have traded five times, half of them use cloth" (if the transaction exceeds five times, half of them will be paid with the cloth on duty), which can maximize the price of cloth and reduce the burden of the people and soldiers.

In fact, not only in the Yimaguan market, but also in the market of Baili New Town, in the Caobi Shuxu market, which mainly traded with Fengxiang Mansion, and in the old city market of Lingtai, Gao Yue uniformly adopted the policy of "short money" and "half silk", so that the Fang market of Jingzhou City was also affected by it and had to follow it automatically - the entire Jingyuan market was unified in this way.

The party in Gyeongju had stopped looting and killing, the tribute of the Lingzhou trade route was restored, and with the exchange of hard currency such as rice, salt, cattle, sheep, and horses, the entire Jingzhou business market prospered rapidly at the end of the first year of Jianzhong.