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Zhang Guoan wanted to take care of it, but then he thought about it, it was a matter of people's wishful thinking, what qualifications did he have to take care of? !

He had to pretend not to see.

The second group of small traders who came to the Badao estuary area to do business were some small traders, who sold some common daily necessities, and every holiday, the number of small traders increased.

Of course, Zhang Guoan can't treat them as trade objects, the economy is too small.

But he couldn't ignore it, and he couldn't let them run around the houses, so he set aside a place for them, erected a bamboo shed, and ordered them not to go to the door to sell them.

Over time, a small market was formed.

The collection of taxes on them gave Zhang Guoan a headache, and his 10% tax was all aimed at large-scale merchants, and small merchants like them had too little meat.

simply symbolically only charge their stall money, and building a bamboo shed can be regarded as a payment, so there is something in return.

These people all came from Lin'an Province in groups with merchant ships, and it seemed that the harvest was good, and they also bought some rosin, camphor and leather goods here to bring back.

Then, from Wenzhou, Fuzhou, and Thorn Tong, some traders also crossed the sea, and even small and medium-sized smugglers of smuggled salt and skin.

For such small and medium-sized smugglers, Zhang Guoan does not affirm or deny them, and treats them as normal transactions.

It's not a dangerous good, so he doesn't have to worry about where other people's goods go.

However, Zhang Guoan felt that it was necessary to build a customs agency, so that it had all kinds of powers to collect taxes and commerce, otherwise he might be entangled in the trivial matters of commerce, and there would be no other time.

He singled out Gu Jianshan and Guo Ziren to be responsible for the formation of the Liuqiu Customs.

Gu Jianshan immediately said in surprise: "Can you skip classes or lectures?" ”

Zhang Guoan said: "No, as long as there is time. I still have to go to class, and I don't need you to give lectures. ”

Guo Ziren said: "Just the two of us?!" ”

Zhang Guoan said at the time: "No, I have already arranged for someone to recruit the accounting accountant and others, I believe that they will be recruited soon------ I will tell you about the work of the customs now------

After listening to Zhang Guoan's explanation and getting the work outline he wrote, Gu Jianshan smiled. said: "Isn't this the city's division!" ”

Zhang Guoan didn't smile at all, and said: "It's different, the flow of customs is under my control; The city is under the control of the Great Song Dynasty! ”

Guo Ziren immediately interjected and said: "Master, that's exactly the case! ”

Zhang Guoan is ready to start thinking about the second stage of development, how to use the Great Song Dynasty to promote his own development.

This time, he aimed at Thornton City, that is, Quanzhou.

During the two Song dynasties, Quanzhou Port experienced three leaps, two of which were in the Southern Song Dynasty, namely: the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty. The port of Quanzhou catches up with the port of Guangzhou and goes hand in hand with the port of Guangzhou; At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou Port surpassed Guangzhou Port, thus entering a heyday.

The southward relocation of the Song Dynasty brought Quanzhou closer to the political center and consumption center at that time, and accelerated the development of Quanzhou Port.

Most of the goods imported from overseas in the Song Dynasty were luxury goods such as incense and jewelry, which were very marketable in the Great Song Dynasty.

So. The Great Song Dynasty government implemented a monopoly on some of the more profitable items imported from overseas, such as frankincense and other incense medicines, which were monopolized by the government. It was acquired by the city.

It costs a lot of money to transport imported goods from overseas to Lin'an City, so the Great Song Dynasty government hoped that the port of importing incense medicine would be as close as possible to Lin'an.

According to the regulations of the Southern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou City's shipping company is limited to three months to Lin'an, and Guangzhou is limited to six months, so Quanzhou is more convenient than Guangzhou. It can reduce the cost of shipping goods.

Therefore, the Southern Song Dynasty court attached great importance to and supported Quanzhou's overseas trade, and Quanzhou Port became a core port close to the consumption center in one fell swoop.

If you say, in the eyes of some small traders, people here are stupid and have a lot of money. So in Zhang Guoan's eyes, Thornton City is the place where real people are stupid and have a lot of money, and most of the money is copper money, but unfortunately it is buried in the soil and is becoming a copper mine again.

After the Great Song Dynasty moved south, the Southern Foreign Sect moved from Zhenjiang to Quanzhou.

With them, there were a large number of sons and women, and they also set up a "Zongxue" to educate the children of the royal family in the east of the Kuifang Mu Sect in the southwest of Quanzhou Prefecture.

After the Southern Foreign Sect and the Western Foreign Sect moved to Quanzhou and Fuzhou, a large number of imperial princes and nobles settled in Quanzhou and Fuzhou, and many scholars and doctors took refuge in Fujian.

Such upper-class people like to enjoy overseas spice treasures, so they have a greater sales outlet in Fujian, especially Quanzhou, and become the main spice market in the country.

This is also a factor in Quanzhou's attraction to overseas trade.

The prosperity of Quanzhou Port in the Southern Song Dynasty also had external reasons.

The unprecedented economic prosperity of Southeast Asia during the Song Dynasty and the prosperity of the Arab maritime trade both required a huge seaport, and the port of Quanzhou was located in the middle and had a superior port historical foundation, which could meet the needs of both Southeast Asia and the Arab maritime trade.

Zhang Guoan listened to Liu Qian, the head of the bank, introduce the situation of the Tibetan people there.

At that time, Liu Qian, the head of the bank, said: "In the harbor of the land of Thorn Tong is the merchants of all countries, and in the market, you can see the people of the ten states ------."

Zhang Guoan knew that at this time, the cultural development of Quanzhou was eclectic, and the advanced culture of all parts of the country could take root and multiply, blossom and bear fruit in the land of Quanzhou, coupled with the economic take-off of the port of Thorn Tong, making Quanzhou the "world center" of the country's opening up and cultural exchanges.

The open Quanzhou has infinite appeal.

All kinds of people from other parts of the country also came to Quanzhou along the "Maritime Silk Road", and those Arabs, Africans, Europeans, Central Asians, Indians, Japanese, Nanyangs, etc., came one after another, making it a veritable international metropolis.

Of course, Zhang Guoan designed a new product for them.

The first is a product based on various flavors.

The wildflowers on the island are endless, and as long as they are simply distilled and combined with high alcohol, they are the best perfumes.

Quiet and often rubbed soap by-products glycerin products should also be counted as one.

There is also a fist product, that is, cooling oil, as long as there is camphor and beeswax, Zhang Guoan can get it.

Add fragrance to soap and it's soap, and add sulfur and it's sulfur soap!

There is also sulfur-based dyes, alcohol dyes and their ingredients, and he wants to see if they will say this in the future when tons of chemical dyes appear in front of those people or religions who claim to like white.

Of course, leather goods products are also important products.

Jing Jing participated in Zhang Guoan's plan, she said: "You don't want to go yourself, it's better to let those small traders sell it themselves." ”

Zhang Guoan said: "The level of the small trader is not enough, and he handed over the things to Liu Qian, the head of the bank, and he knew how to operate it at first sight. After all, he knows the merchants of this era better than we do. ”

"Now the Pu family is the most powerful in Quanzhou City, right?"

"No, they're still waiting for a chance, hmph, they may not have a chance!"

Jing Jing obviously didn't want Zhang Guoan to go to Quanzhou in person, and he was happy to see that he didn't plan to go.

At this time, they never thought that the crown prince of the Ryukyu Islands Nakayama Kingdom would be able to come here. (To be continued.) )