"It's a long story, and we have to start with Taizu......" Wang Hao didn't let him go, so he had to sit down and open the conversation. As long as the founding marquis is willing to listen to the lecture for as long as it is no problem, I hope that after listening to it, he can dispel the idea of going to Goryeo to run a businessman, it is too cost-effective.

"Yes, uncle, please move to the restaurant, let's talk while drinking." When Hong Tao heard it, he thought about it at the beginning, and it seems that he has met an expert on the Korean issue

Then listen slowly.

Wang Haozhen started with Song Taizu, and he really should say so. The main reason why the maritime merchants of the Song Dynasty prospered was not that the Song people liked to do business, but that they encouraged trade with foreigners from the beginning of the Song Dynasty.

In the second year of Yongxi, Song Taizu promulgated the commercial tax law to legalize business, giving businessmen a legal coat, and they no longer had to worry about changing the order of the dynasty and settling accounts after the autumn.

Is it enough to enact laws to regulate the business environment? Song Taizu felt that it was far from enough, and he had to help the businessmen who had just started with a black eye, so he sent eight chamberlains to Southeast Asia in the fourth year of Yongxi to plan trade routes for the merchants in the name of the country.

This is a bit like the commercial representatives sent by the Ministry of Commerce to embassies and consulates abroad in later generations, specifically to guide domestic businesses to carry out business activities in foreign countries. I have to say that Song Taizu's move was too advanced, so advanced that Hong Tao felt that he was also a traverser.

With the support of the imperial court, the maritime merchants in the coastal area naturally became bolder, and the pace was bigger, thus creating the peak of foreign trade from the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the third year of Jianlong, the Goryeo Dynasty sent Li Xingyou, a squire of Guangping, Li Lixi, a deputy envoy, and Li Bin, a judge, to pay tribute to the Northern Song Dynasty, opening up intermittent, sometimes good and sometimes bad diplomatic relations and trade between the two countries.

Why is it said that it is intermittent, sometimes good and sometimes bad, as Hong Tao thought, Goryeo did not have any goods that could be taken out for trade, and it did not have much economic significance for the Northern Song Dynasty.

However, Goryeo bordered the Liao State, and successive emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty classified diplomatic relations with Goryeo as a grand strategy and had to pay attention to it. As soon as the relations between Song and Liao were tense, the exchanges between the Northern Song Dynasty and Goryeo were close, and as soon as the relations between Song and Liao eased, the exchanges between the Northern Song Dynasty and Goryeo became cold.

The Song Dynasty understood this truth, and the Goryeo people were not stupid, they were trying to survive in the gap between the two big countries, no one wanted to offend, and no one could be too close, and they had to be a wall grass in order to maximize benefits.

In this context, the trade activities of Song Dynasty merchants and Goryeo merchants had to take on political overtones. Once the relationship between Song and Liao was tense and the border gate was closed, the Liao people could not obtain the goods of the Song Dynasty, so the Goryeo merchants became natural second-class dealers.

They bought silk, tea, porcelain, and cloth from the south of the Song Dynasty, saying that they were bringing them back to China for sale, but in fact, most of them were resold and shipped to Liao at higher prices. Sometimes, Song Dynasty craftsmen were hired at a high price to carve engravings, and they were also sent to the Liao State, which was a strict ban on the export of goods by the Song Dynasty City Bosi.

It is not wrong for Goryeo merchants to do this, merchants are profit-seeking. But there were also merchants in the Song Dynasty who only recognized money and did not recognize the country, and they were blushing when they watched the Goryeo merchants sell goods and make a lot of money, so they simply didn't wait for the Goryeo merchants to become second-class dealers, let's do it ourselves. In the name of exporting Goryeo, he obtained the official certificate of the city ship, and then turned a corner at sea and transported it directly to the port of Liao, which was 100% smuggling.

When Su Shi was an official in Hangzhou, he wrote to the imperial court about the smuggling trade between the Song Dynasty and Goryeo, and personally arrested several groups of people.

Emperor Shenzong also issued an edict, at first prohibiting the Song Dynasty's private ships to go to Goryeo to engage in trade activities, and was sentenced to two years for various fines and confiscations.

However, as long as there are sufficient economic interests, it is inevitable that some people will take risks, and non-governmental smuggling will not stop again and again. In order to compete for trade opportunities, these maritime merchants have also come up with crooked tricks in addition to using trade methods. The most common is to collude with local officials in Goryeo to check ships going to and from the sea under various pretexts, and fundamentally crack down on competitors.

Myeongju was the only port that could trade with Goryeo and Japan according to the imperial court, and the local city shipping department was strict and difficult to operate. As a result, the maritime merchants of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou took the lead and became the main force of smuggling to Goryeo.

In addition to the fact that there are too many maritime merchants in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, there is another important reason. There are more people in Quanzhou who are officials in Goryeo, and the villagers are not popular when they see that the villagers are not popular to shoot in the back, and it is the mainstream to help each other.

It is true that Wang Hao is a passerby from Fujian, but he is not in Quanzhou, but in Haikou Town, Zhangzhou, and not only has no relationship with Quanzhou maritime businessmen, but is also a natural competitor.

At the beginning, there were also Zhangzhou maritime merchants who ran the Goryeo route, but they never fought Quanzhou maritime merchants. Since the port of Goryeo has been occupied, and there is no reason to fight desperately, why bother to touch the mold.

Not only did Quanzhou maritime merchants live in the capital of Goryeo all year round, but also Goryeo merchants also settled near Quanzhou, and they also made a settlement in Nan'an County in the middle reaches of the Jinjiang River, which is called Silla Village by the locals.

"And Silla Village? This must be regarded as an expatriate, I wonder if my uncle can find a reliable Korean? After listening to it for a long time, Hong Tao was most interested in this news.

"My lord is going to Goryeo!" Wang Hao picked up the wine glass and didn't let it go, tilted his neck and dried it up, and it took a long time to spit and say in vain.

"Uncle, rest assured, on land, the official doesn't dare to say where he wants to go, and no one can stop him when he gets to the sea. However, opening Beijing is indeed a problem, people stand on their feet first, and it is difficult for a strong dragon to suppress the head snake. If my uncle can find a Korean interpreter, we can find a suitable small port in the south instead of Kaijing, could it be that the merchants of Quanzhou have occupied the whole of Goryeo? ”

Goryeo must go, not only to go, but also to find a way to get a port to settle in, so that Chen Niang and they can develop step by step. Who's going to get this port? I definitely don't have kung fu, Wang Hao is the most suitable. The three children have been returned to their Wang family, and they can't be given for nothing.

"What the adult said is reasonable, but the villain has to say more. The Goryeo people were particularly poor, and there was nowhere else to buy and sell goods except the royal city, and it was in vain to occupy the port. ”

For the suggestion of the founding marquis, Wang Hao was embarrassed to laugh, too layman. The people who have purchasing power in Goryeo are all in the city of Kaeongseong, and the goods that are worth bringing back are also in the royal city. If you can trade at any port, you can still use your ideas here, and the maritime merchants from all over the world have already gone there.

"Uncle, it's short!" Hong Tao raised his eyelids and glanced at Wang Hao, raised the spoon and nodded.

“…… It's short...... What's short, but adults want to change chopsticks? Wang Hao has always wondered why the founding marquis always uses a spoon to eat, thinking that the spoon is too short and he can't get the meat in the pot to eat.

"I'm short-sighted...... Just look at the official and you will understand! Hong Tao simply put down the spoon and dipped his fingers in wine and drew on the table instead.

"This is Goryeo, this should be...... Japan, right? It's also too messy, how to live on so many islands, you have to change boats several times to get a relative......"

What is painted on the table, Wang Hao looked at it for a while and figured it out, as a maritime merchant, although he has not been there, he must know, and he must not turn to get lost, this is his duty.

"Still haven't gotten it? I'm a little disappointed! Hong Tao couldn't wait to throw the wine glass on Wang Hao's face, and after painting for so long, he almost marked the warp and latitude lines and scales, and you can see that it is inconvenient to go to relatives.

"What do you mean...... my lord" Wang Hao blinked his eyes vigorously, staring at the picture on the table and turning around the table for a long time, still not understanding.

"How do I get to Japan on my ship?" Hong Tao put his fingers into the wine glass again, dipped in wine and waited for an answer.

"You can go north to Dengzhou and then to Kaijing. This is the way to walk among the elderly, and now Dengzhou is no longer allowed to dock sea ships, so you can only go from Mingzhou to Kaijing, and then go south...... Adults are going to build a port in Goryeo and transfer to Japan! ”

The question was too simple, there were three sea routes to Japan, two of which had to go north via Dengju or Myeongju, cross the sea, reach Goryeo and then resupply and then go south. There is also a way to go south to Ryukyu for transit, but this sea route is more dangerous, the wind and waves are high, and the ships that are not particularly good dare not go.

But just halfway through speaking, Wang Hao saw the founding marquis point on the south side of the Goryeo Peninsula with his finger, and then there was a sudden click in his head, as if he had been struck by lightning, and his lips trembled.

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