Two things, the first thing, the expansion of Guangzhou Port, requires all four to come up with real money, but with the financial resources of the four, any one can be completed, not to mention that now the four are evenly shared.

Since there are four companies needed to expand the port of Guangzhou, it is obvious that the pacification embassy will definitely not pay a penny, which is normal, but the conditions given by Jia Yidao are too good, so good that Qiu Shuyu and others are a little unbelievable.

You must know that the current Great Song Dynasty implemented a tax system of one out of ten, and if the expanded Guangzhou Port has one percent of their molecules, not to mention every year, I am afraid that every day is an astronomical amount. Isn't this the same as giving away the court's silver? Will the imperial court really agree?

Jia Yidao was naturally able to understand the expressions of several people, shook his head with a smile and said: "The Yicheng molecules that the official said do not include commercial taxes, which is the silver of the imperial court, and the official does not have the courage to take the silver of the imperial court as his own profit to you." ”

In the fourth year of the Song Dynasty's Kaibao (971 AD), the Great Song Dynasty first set up the first city in Guangzhou in the Great Song Dynasty at that time, which was responsible for managing overseas trade.

In the beginning, Guangzhou Boshi did not have a strict overseas trade management system, and the "selling" system was implemented at that time.

Selling, to put it simply, is that the foreign merchants or merchants of the Great Song Dynasty who came to the Great Song Dynasty, and those commodities shipped from Southeast Asia, Tianzhu, Dashi and other countries could not be directly unloaded from the ship and sold freely in the Great Song Dynasty.

Of course, at that time, the Guangzhou City Bosi said that it was an acquisition, but in fact, at most, it was only a pitiful little bit of silver on the basis of the cost price of those merchants, to be precise, it was a low-price acquisition in the form of semi-strong buying.

At first, relying on such a practice, the income of Guangzhou Bosi increased sharply, and the Great Song Dynasty relied on the huge price difference in the middle, and the income did increase a lot.

But soon, the drawbacks of selling were exposed.

Merchants have crossed the ocean and risked their lives to transport goods from overseas, originally in order to earn the difference in the price of the goods after they were sold, but now they are replaced by the Guangzhou City Bo Si Yue Fei, taking their lives to run the business, not only can not make money, sometimes even lose money, who will do such a business?

Those merchants were naturally dissatisfied, and dissatisfaction also caused two consequences, either they changed their careers and no longer engaged in maritime trade business, or they directly looked for other places to secretly dock to unload their goods and sell them privately, that is, smuggling.

However, no matter what the consequence is, the final direct result is that the port of Guangzhou has fewer than half of the merchant ships in a short period of time, and there are fewer merchant ships, so the Guangzhou City Shipping Division naturally cannot make much money, and the imperial court naturally does not have much income.

At the same time, the sale also caused another problem, that is, the Great Song Dynasty set up the city to manage overseas trade, not to do business. Guangzhou Bo Si personally does business, and naturally will handle a large amount of silver that has not been recorded in the account, between this in and out, but there is a lot of money to fill his pockets.

To put it simply, when the Guangzhou Shipping Division purchased goods, if the merchant who transported the goods was very discerning and sent enough silver to the officials of the Municipal Shipping Division, the low price would naturally become a high price, and the income of the imperial court would naturally be less; Similarly, when the Guangzhou City Shipping Division auctions the goods shipped, as long as there are bidders who give them enough silver, it is not a matter of a word from the officials of the Municipal Shipping Division to auction or not?

Anyway, no matter which one it is, the final result is that the income of the Great Song Household Department is small, and the officials of the City Department are very rich.

Now that the Great Song Dynasty City Bo Division, an institution that manages overseas trade, is really on the right track and establishes a complete set of tariff systems, there is one person who has to be mentioned, and that is Pan Mei.

This Pan Mei is actually the prototype of Pan Renmei, a famous traitor in the Yang family in later generations.

Of course, the Yang family will not be after all, and it is not a real historical fact. In real history, the Yang family is not so majestic, and Pan Mei is not so cunning and insidious. On the contrary, Pan Meike was a famous general in the world and a good minister with meritorious service. Pan Mei's contribution is not only reflected in the military, but also in the economic field, especially in the field of international trade, that is, maritime trade.

After Pan Mei commanded the army to pacify the Southern Han Dynasty, Song Taizu sent Pan Renmei to take charge of the "Guangzhou City Shipping Division", Pan Mei saw the loopholes in the sales system, and immediately went to the imperial court, suggesting that the sales system should be changed to a tariff system, that is, no longer monopolize the purchase of those goods, but the city shipping department will make a valuation of the goods, and then levy taxes according to one-tenth of the valuation, and after the taxation, foreign businessmen can sell freely after obtaining the certificate of the imperial court.

I have to say that Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, was indeed eloquent and very readily approved Pan Mei's suggestion, so the very "modern" customs system was established in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty.

After such a change, all kinds of sea ships continued to pour into the port of Guangzhou, so that the Guangzhou customs were overwhelmed, and later the Song Dynasty court had to set up municipal shipping departments in Quanzhou, Hangzhou, Mingzhou (that is, Ningbo in later generations) and other places to manage overseas trade.

After all, in addition to the commercial tax charged by the four major ports in the Great Song Dynasty, the taxes collected by the merchants in the Great Song Dynasty can be said to be less than less, which is why Jia Yidao asked Xie Jubo to consider raising taxes on commerce.

However, the tax increase is obviously not a one-and-a-half thing.

Of course, Jia Nidao's Yamen of the General Department of Municipal Shipping, except for the Guangzhou Municipal Shipping Division was allocated by Zhao Yun to the Yamen of the Municipal General Division, the rest of the Municipal Shipping Divisions such as Quanzhou, Mingzhou (Qingyuan Mansion), Dengzhou, and Hangzhou Port are still under the jurisdiction of the Yamen of the Three Divisions, and are not allocated to the Yamen of the Municipal Shipping General Department of Jia Yidao.

In fact, this is one of the reasons why Chen Tong and Yang Duo set up a city ship division yamen in Quanzhou Port and were never allowed to make the trip and were also targeted by Wu Liang. Similarly, Jia Quan'er, the city of Qingyuan Port, is now more like an ornament.

Hearing that Jia Rudao said that it was not a tariff, Qiu Shuyu and the others breathed a sigh of relief, but also a little disappointed. But since it is not that component, what other molecules are there in Guangzhou Port? What's the use of that component?

"After the expansion of Guangzhou Port, there will definitely be more ships to come, and when the warehouses of the port are stored, the storage of goods, the repair of sea ships, etc., will be managed by the Yamen of the Municipal Department of Shipping. These can be counted as the assets of the Yamen of the General Department of the City, so this official will say that there are four of you and one percent. ”

Jia Yidao explained.

In fact, if according to the practice of later generations, merchant ships obviously cannot dock for free, but now in order to bring enough merchant ships to Guangzhou Port, Jia Rudao decided to slow down. At least he won't be able to make the trip until he pockets the rest of the four cities. Otherwise, only collecting money for the docking of ships in Guangzhou Port would be tantamount to handing over the merchant ships to the rest of the ports.

(End of chapter)