"Several ministers, prime ministers, silk, cloth, wine, salt, iron, paper, tea, oil, ships, etc., all belong to the southeast merchants, and the lower officials have also heard of them. However, this matter is not the fault of the lower officials, but the work of the lower officials. Xia Guan was appointed as the envoy of the sea route city and the governor of Xiu Prefecture, and was in charge of various commercial markets and ports.

Managing the commercial market port well is within the official duty. In the years of the reign of the lower officials, where is the commercial market not the hukou has increased greatly, the taxes have doubled, the people live in peace, the businessmen and the people are happy, the displaced people have returned, and the education has been successful? As for the commercial market, the wealth is widely imported, and the goods reach all directions, and the silk, cloth, wine, salt, iron, paper, tea, oil, ships and other things are cheap and good, which are liked by the people of the world, and are also the credit of the lower officials and the officials of the commercial market!

If officials elsewhere have a surge in household registration, prosperity in industry and commerce, and abundant property, is it not meritorious but excessive? Please make it clear to all the ministers and ministers! ”

Ji Yi, the spokesman of the bourgeoisie of the Great Song Dynasty, talked loudly in the political hall, saying that it was the first and the best, and also made Cai Jing and He Zhizhong, who originally planned to be accountable, speechless.

It is indeed not Ji Yi's fault that the silk, cloth, wine, salt, iron, paper, tea, oil, ships and other commodities from the Southeast Commercial Market are now sold to the 400 state army. Under the leadership of Ji Yiji, the southeast commercial city is cheap and high-quality, and the competitiveness is unprecedentedly strong, is it wrong?

According to this criterion, the increase in local population, the increase in taxes, and the bumper harvest of agricultural products in the future are all the fault of officials? Make the people miserable, but meritorious?

It can't be like this, right?

"But there are 400 military states in the world, how can they all be the exclusive benefits of the southeast merchant markets?" Yu Shen frowned and asked.

"In fact, it is not the southeastern commercial market that is the only one." Ji recalled, "Yu Xianggong should know about Yanshan Iron, Tianjin Cloth, Changlu Salt, Jiehe Boat, and Wine Immortals, right?" ”

What Ji Yi said is the fist product of the foreign trade of the Great Zhou Republic, and it also sells the four hundred state troops of the Great Song Dynasty!

Among them, Yanshan iron is produced from Xuanhua Iron Mountain, and the selected iron ore and Yanshan charcoal are smelted with a special refractory blast furnace, and then smelted by frying steel or crucible technology for secondary smelting to obtain high-quality wrought iron or crucible steel. Only the iron works of Jingdong Shangshi, which used similar technology (using high-quality iron ore and Goryeo charcoal), could compare. However, the cost of Jingdong Iron is higher than that of Yanshan Railway, and the price is also more expensive.

Tianjin cloth is cotton, and cotton began to be introduced in Cangzhou when Mi Youren was in charge of the Hailu City Shipping Division. Up to now, cotton has become one of the main crops in Yandi.

The Agricultural College and Instrument College of Tianjin Yuntai Academy have also regarded the design improvement (including plagiarism) of textile machinery and ginning machines as an important topic, and have also issued high bonuses. There have also been some achievements over the years. Numerous home spinning workshops and home weaving workshops have also appeared in large numbers in the emerging Tianjin Dongshi area. The Tianjin cotton cloth produced is not only very high, but also of very good quality. Of course, Tianjin's textile industry is still far from the level of the industrial revolution, and it is estimated that there will be no industrial revolution without one or two hundred years of development......

Long reed salt is a large-scale dried sea salt! Before Wuhaogu seized Yandi, the Lutai Salt Farm, which was under the jurisdiction of Cangzhou, was a place to produce sea salt. However, at that time, the method of boiling salt was used, which was very costly, and the quality of the salt produced was also poor. Therefore, after Wu Haogu took over the salt farm, he proposed the "salt drying method" and asked the Yuntai Xuegong Natural School to set up a project for research. Four years ago, there was finally a breakthrough and the production of high-quality and low-cost "Changlu salt", which is enough to compete with the high-quality salt (relatively clean) produced by the salt mines such as green salt and jieyan.

Of course, the salt merchants in Jingdong Shang City (Haizhou is also a salt-producing area) quickly copied the salt drying method. The Haizhou salt produced is enough to compete with the long reed salt. After Cai Jing implemented the money introduction method, Changlu Salt and Haizhou Salt ran rampant in the Great Song Dynasty, defeating the well salt, pool salt, and sea salt in other places!

As for the boundary river boat, needless to say, it is definitely the highest level! Only the shipbuilding industry in Quanzhou, which has absorbed the shipbuilding technology of Dashi and Persia, can compete with it.

In addition to high-purity distilled spirits, ordinary soju (low-alcohol liquor that can be heated and drunk) and fruit wine have also developed very well.

Of course, after the reform of Qian Yin, a large number of wineries also appeared in Jingdong Shang Market (originally the Song Dynasty implemented the control of wine and winemaking, but after the reform of Qian Yin, only money was needed to buy rice cakes), and the brewed wine was also sold all over the world.

By the way, the manufacturing industry in East Asia and Southeast Asia is not the only one in the Great Zhou Republic. It can't last long to stand alone, and only with competition can we continue to improve!

The competition for the manufacturing industry of the Great Zhou with Tianjin as the core is the manufacturing industry of the southeast of the Great Song Dynasty with Jingdong Commercial City, Shanghai Commercial Market, Mingzhou Commercial City, Quanzhou Commercial Market and Guangzhou Commercial Market as the core.

In fact, the manufacturing industry in southeast China has always been awesome, from the Song Dynasty to the Industrial Revolution, it is one of the best in the world. The city of Tianjin, which was built by Wu Haogu, is of course impossible to wipe them out.

Moreover, the rise of industry and commerce in Tianjin has actually constituted healthy competition for the southeastern commercial cities. At the same time, the southeastern merchant cities are also imitators of Tianjin, which have absorbed Tianjin's experience and technology by virtue of their own unique conditions, and have the blessing of "rational" universities, and have also benefited greatly from the early arrival of the Age of Discovery.

In addition, Tianjin is also the de facto umbrella of the southeastern merchants......

Ji Yi lifted Tianjin City out, and the privy councillors present were speechless.

If they don't let the southeastern commercial markets make money, won't they let Tianjin gain a lot of profits?

As for the exclusion of Zhou Guo from the Great Song market...... That will definitely trigger the Great Zhou Republican Army to go south!

"Why don't you add more taxes to the southeast merchants!" He Zhizhong said, "The loss of the 400 state army will be added to the southeast merchant market." ”

Due to the impact of handicraft products in the southeast merchants and Tianjin Municipality, especially key commodities such as salt, iron, cloth, silk, and wine, the production of related products in the interior of the Great Song Dynasty was sluggish, which also affected the relevant tax revenue. It is not only the commercial tax in various localities that is affected, but also the summer tax, the agricultural tool tax, the cow leather and horn tax, and the exemption money, all of which are difficult to collect because of the decrease in the income of peasant households.

The reason for the decrease in farmers' income is mainly because the textile industry in the southeast and Yandi has developed too violently, which has impacted the traditional small-scale peasant economy of male farmers and female weavers.

Now in the southeast and Yandi, there is a large area of rice to mulberry, and the other is to change wheat to cotton.

On both sides were large-scale farms, plus the textile industry, which was initially formed (although it was mainly a family workshop, the competitiveness of weavers was much stronger than that of male farmers and women), and a high level of printing and dyeing, which completely overwhelmed the production of homespun cloth in the countryside.

Therefore, the homespun cloth and silk produced by peasant women in various parts of the Great Song Dynasty could only be used at home or sold at low prices, and the income of the peasants was greatly affected. Naturally, I can't afford the summer tax that mainly collects money.

"The Southeast Zhushang City should raise taxes!" Ji Yi smiled, "But you can't fish with all your might!" Because we can increase the tax in the southeast, but what about the tax in Zhou? Our business taxes are going to be collected too much, and the merchants are all going to the Zhou Kingdom, who should the court find to collect the money? ”

Brought Zhou out again......

"Or add the southeast field tax!" Tong Guan interjected, "Didn't you say that there are millions of acres in the southeast that have been converted from rice to mulberry? The income of mulberry fields can be higher than that of rice fields, and the field tax should also be a little higher. ”

The field tax in the Song Dynasty was originally linked to the crops planted, and the income of mulberry fields was several times that of rice fields, and of course the taxes were increased.

But...... Tong Guan was a eunuch from a burgher's background, and he didn't know much about the situation in the southeastern countryside.

Ji Yi just smiled: "Hehe......"

The rest of the Archinal were silent. In the end, Cai Jing shook his head: "Forget it...... Those who change rice to mulberry are all big households, and who dares to not grow grain for ordinary small farmers? What should I do if I starve to death with a hundred kinds of grain? If the imperial court gives more taxes to the southeast, I am afraid that it will be ordinary small farmers who will pay more taxes in the end! ”

It's impossible! As soon as the imperial court brought it up, the following officials and ministers should be arguing - the southeast coast of the Great Song Dynasty is rich in jinshi!

Moreover, the field endowment in the southeast is originally high, which is higher than other places in the Great Song Dynasty. I can't say that I want to add more......

"This matter can be discussed later," Cai Jing paused, "Recall that the official family is ready to practice feudalism in Jiaozhi, with the eighth prince as the king of Jiaozhi, and you will be the minister of state, acting as the king, and also in charge of the affairs of the Nanyang Metropolitan Protectorate...... What do you think? ”

What else? Ji Yi smiled bitterly, and if he didn't go to Jiaozhi, he was afraid that even the Nanyang Dadu would have to lose it......

"In the matter of Jiaozhi, the lower officials should do their best." Ji recalled, "It's just that the shipping system of the sea route city is also very important, if the selection of people is improper, so that the southeast businessmen and people will all return to the Zhou country, there will be a danger of national collapse!" ”

Cai Jing smiled: "The dog Cai You will go to Haizhou to take over as the sea transfer department." In addition, the imperial court will also set up a coastal control department to take charge of maritime affairs. ”

The "super yamen" of the Hailu City Shipping and Purchasing Division is now about to disintegrate.

According to the agreement reached by Cai Jing and Su Chi, the matter of the sea route will be divided into two routes: "transshipment" and "control", the former managing the finances and the latter managing the army.

The two yamen will place their administrative offices in Haizhou, and the envoy of the sea route will also know Haizhou.

"Cai Anju is foolproof to take over the matter of sea transfer," Ji Yi continued, "but sea defense should not be taken lightly...... I don't know who the two provinces belong to? ”

Su Chi said: "Zhang Jizhong will go to Haizhou to take over." ”

Zhang Shuye will be the first envoy of the sea route, needless to say, let him take over the defense of the sea route, which is aimed at the Zhou navy.

Ji Yixin said: Cai Jing and Su Chi must have thought that I was too tolerant of the Zhou Navy...... It seems that you have to suffer a little to know that it is powerful!

Just as he wanted to further inquire about the authority of the Nanyang Metropolitan Protectorate, a Confucian officer of the Privy Council walked in quickly, muttered a few words in Su Chi's ear, and presented the paperwork before leaving quickly.

Su Chi's brows were already furrowed, and he said in a low voice: "There are police in the north!" ”