Now that Dai Yan, who is backed by Taoqiu Qianzhuang, a prototype of a central bank, it is not too easy for him to make money! However, at this point, he no longer cares about how much money he can make, he focuses on more important things!

Jack Welch, the most famous CEO of the United States in later generations, once said: "As a big man, making money is not the goal, winning is!" ”

Dai Yan thinks so! He's going to win! Rely on this advanced financial system to win all the princes of the world!

Now he has built a financial empire with his own hands, but if any financial empire lacks the support of a strong industry and becomes a hollowed out empire, it may be very easy to collapse. www.biquge.info Dai Yan has not forgotten how the sun set in the "empire where the sun never sets" in later generations; In the time before he traveled, most of the manufacturing industry in the hands of old Europe and American imperialism was transferred to the Red Rabbit Kingdom, and their inability to fight the financial crisis was particularly impressive to Dai Yan.

And compared with the next generation, this era is much more barbaric. In this era, if there is no strong strength to protect the city, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will regard Taoqiu as a huge gold mine!

Therefore, after he established the financial order, he immediately thought of developing the entire Taoqiu industry.

Although Taoqiu was the territory of the Song Kingdom, if you recognize its reality and the situation it faces, you can know that Taoqiu today is actually more like an independent country. First of all, the restrictions of the Treaty of Taoqiu prevented the military forces of the Song State from entering it. Today, Taoqiu's economy is a structure that is completely dependent on international trade between countries under heaven, and its economic ties with the Song Dynasty are really small.

This kind of territory, which relies on waterways and foreign trade to obtain development, is actually very similar to some maritime powers in later generations. If a maritime power does not have a supply of foreign goods, this country cannot obtain sufficient resources, and its strength will inevitably fall into decline, so it is very dependent on the resources supplied by the outside world.

Therefore, Dai Yan's first thought was to integrate the entire Taoqiu shipping industry to increase Taoqiu's ability to obtain resources.

A month later, when the aftermath of the collapse of grain prices in Taoqiu had faded and people had never talked about the collapse again, Dai Yan once again convened a gathering of members of the Heze Club to discuss the consolidation of the shipping industry.

In today's world, at least in the eastern countries of China, most of the commodity trade between countries is transported by ship. Although shipping must rely on the river to travel the distance, and in some places it is even necessary to spare a large circle to travel to the river, but in terms of the number of goods carried and the economy of the journey, shipping is much superior to land transportation!

Take one of the most obvious examples to illustrate that if the goods of Suiyang, the capital of the Song Dynasty, were to be transferred to Taoqiu, although the distance between the two places was less than 200 li by land in a straight line, the merchants were willing to choose to sail along Suishui to the north, all the way to Daliang, the capital of Wei, and then from Daliang down the river along the Jishui River to Taoqiu.

This caused the Song State to be relatively close, although Suiyang was close to Taoqiu, but in terms of close connection, Suiyang was inferior to Pengcheng in the southeast of the Song Kingdom. Because from Pengcheng to Taoqiu, you only need to go north along Surabaya, and then enter Heshui and Heze, you can reach Taoqiu smoothly, and the whole journey is only more than 400 miles. And Suiyang from the waterway to Taoqiu, because of the long road almost walked more than 800 miles, but also to go to the Wei State, need to pay a certain amount of commercial tax, this is far less than Pengcheng to Taoqiu, saving half of the distance and the whole process is in the Song Kingdom to come easily!

And today's shipping industry is actually facing great problems. First of all, the competition between the major commercial houses is extremely fierce, and even real conflicts have broken out on the waterways. Just like the two trading houses to which Yiwei and Bailong belonged, because the objects of trade were mainly the three kingdoms of Wei, Han and Qin in the west, the competition between them was actually very fierce.

The commercial competition in this era, like the wars that broke out in the Warring States Period, is tragic and abnormal, and it is done in every way! Not to mention that these two shops in various countries are often destroyed by each other, but the boats of these two families travel on the river, and once they touch each other, they will fight each other and never die!

In order to solve such a problem, Dai Yan personally handed over Bailong and Yiwei together, and explained the reason to both parties: the competition between the two sides is just a competition of interests, and there is no need to rise to the point of direct conflict! He called on both sides to negotiate with each other to jointly resolve the conflict of interests. Before the negotiation between the two parties, Dai Yan only lightly added a threat, if the conflict of interests between the two companies cannot be resolved, then the dock and exchange of Taoqiu can only say sorry to the two companies: Taoqiu will refuse to let the cargo ships of the two families dock in Taoqiu, and refuse the grain of the two parties to enter the Taoqiu Exchange!

It has to be said that threats are much more useful than good words, and under the pressure given by Dai Yan, the two sides engaged in fierce negotiations, and finally resolved the conflict of interests of both parties, and also made a commitment not to attack each other's ships again. And their statement also provided Dai Yan with ideas to solve other businessmen, and he used this half-persuasion and half-threatening attitude to gradually persuade the big businessmen to limit their competition to the scope of commerce, which greatly reduced the loss of the shipping industry.

The second problem encountered by the shipping industry is that there is a serious waste of capacity between the commercial banks. Like most of the small and medium-sized merchants engaged in trade, the span is only hundreds of miles, and the capacity of their ships is actually not full most of the time, which has to be said to be a serious waste of capacity! There was no problem with this waste in the pre-Taoqiu era, but in today's era of rapid development of the entire city, the urgent need for transportation capacity makes this waste very conspicuous.

So Dai Yan called on all Taoqiu businessmen to form a real chamber of commerce alliance and join this alliance, when we consign goods, if we encounter insufficient capacity, we can coordinate with each other through the chamber of commerce, so that everyone's goods can be accurately transported to the destination.

Because of the money bank alliance before, now the money bank business of the major commercial banks is booming, and everyone has seen that the business alliance is very able to promote business development. In addition, after Dai Yan was in Taoqiu, Yang Zhu advocated that the merchants in the world were one family, and they were all descendants of the remnants of Yin Shang! The origin of commerce comes from Wang Hai, the ancestor of the Shang tribe, and it is believed that Wang Hai is the real ancestor of the Chinese merchants, and his status should not be under the Gaotao who invented the writing and established the law!

With Wang Hai as a common "ancestor", the concept of the world's merchants being a family has also been spread. The businessmen were not resistant to the union, and soon a freight-centric chamber of commerce alliance was established!

As the center of commerce, Taoqiu naturally serves as the headquarters of this alliance of chambers of commerce. And the scope of this chamber of commerce alliance will not only stop at shipping, but also expand its scope!

The last big problem encountered by the shipping industry is that there are too many bandits on the water, which seriously threatens the transportation of merchants! The problem of water bandits in China is not only a stubborn problem that threatens the safety of shipping in this era, but also continues until the Republic of China in the 20th century. Like the later Shanghai as the largest port in the East, but the foreign people are also indifferent to the many bandits on the Huangpu River.

In this era, due to the wars in the world, the number of water bandits was stronger than in later generations. More than 100 years ago, in the era of Confucius, there was even a thief named Thief, who gathered in the mountains and forests, gathered more than 9,000 people, attacked the Lu Wei Qi and Song Kingdoms from the waterway, destroyed the city and destroyed the family, and the princes did not dare to stop it!

Although today, after the destruction of small countries and the rise of large countries, it is rare for water bandits to break cities and destroy families, but the robbery of cargo ships by water bandits on the water is indeed a headache for merchants. This is especially true for a city like Taoqiu, which relies heavily on foreign trade!

For the trade route connecting Taoqiu, the section of the road from Taoqiu to Daliang is easy to say, after all, there is no big lake, although there are scattered water bandits, but under the pressure of the Song and Wei countries, the scale is not too large. The road from Taoqiu to Pengcheng and Qufu of Luguo is also easier to say, the largest lake in this section of the road is Heze next to Taoqiu, since Heze was classified as a forbidden area by Taoqiujun, the entire Heze water bandits have also been eliminated by the way.

And the really troublesome waterway is the section of the road from Taoqiu to Linzi. On this stretch of the road, there is a lake that is a great headache for the neighboring countries of this era, Onozawa.

Onozawa has a long history, and the lake has been around since at least time immemorial. Onozawa is located between the Song, Lu, Qi and Wei four countries, Jishui and Pushui flow through it, about 300 miles long from east to west, about 100 miles wide from north to south, compared to Heze near Taoqiu, it is much larger!

And the piracy in the late Spring and Autumn Period, according to the speculation of later generations, is likely to be based on Onozawa and plundering countries, so that countries have nothing to do with him! After a long period of evolution in later generations, Onozawa became one with Shuibo Liangshan in the Northern Song Dynasty, and finally became the base camp of Liangshan heroes!

Even though Dai Yan is the lord of Taoqiu, he is relatively close to Onozawa, and it is not easy to solve it! However, the trade with the Qi State is too important for Taoqiu, if Dai Yan does not solve the problem of this Da Yeze for a day, the trade between Taoqiu and the Qi State and the Wei Kingdom will not be able to be truly smooth for a day!

When he first settled in Taoqiu, Dai Yanzai took the initiative to sell weapons to the merchants' fleets to arm them. Whenever the merchants went to Qi and Weiguo, Dai Yan would organize the merchants to form a caravan of their merchant ships, and only when the number of ships in the caravan reached a certain number, everyone would pass through Onozawa together!

And he also knows that such a method is not a cure for the target, Dai Yan has been preparing for more than a year, and after having a lot of financial support in his hands, he finally intends to completely cure this problem!

He personally sent people to the land of Wu Yue and invited Wu Yi, the general of the Wu people who had surrendered to him back then, to Taoqiu!

Wu Yi was a general under the Yue King Wujiang back then, and after the fall of the Yue Kingdom, he wanted to rebuild the Wu State, but his soldiers did not get the support of the ordinary Wu people in Yue, and his army was directly defeated in the direct confrontation with the Song army commanded by Dai Yan! Later, due to the intercession of the giant, Dai Yan did not punish him, but left Wu Ying in Wu Yue's hometown, and let the Song nobles who were divided there take more care of him.

The people of Wu Yue have a fierce temperament and the most righteous spirit! As a descendant of the nobles of the former Wu Kingdom, this Wu Yi naturally inherited this characteristic. Therefore, after he was defeated by Dai Yan and released in person, he actually didn't have much illusions about rebuilding the Wu State, and he was really convinced of Dai Yan, a nobleman from the Central Plains! Because of the war in the land of Wuyue, there is absolutely no one like Dai Yan who personally released war criminals!

When Wu Yi arrived in Taoqiu, Dai Yan ordered Wu Yi to form his first army after coming to Taoqiu: the Juye Boat Division!

And the most important job after the establishment of the boat division is to be responsible for waging war against the water bandits of Onozawa, and truly control the waters of Onozawa in their own hands!