Chapter 167
Seeing that Yao Zheng and Huang Dalang didn't speak when they looked at the gold coin and the money induction, Supervisor Wang also said that the uncle and nephew had never seen such a big amount of money in their lives, and they were shocked, and hurriedly shouted: "Master Yao, I don't know how much this can of Dongpo meat costs?" ”
"Ahh This one...... I don't know about this lower official! Yao Zheng woke up when he was asked, and hurriedly replied: "The canned meat is made by Huang Jie, the nephew of the lower official. ”
Supervisor Wang came to see Huang Dalang, and Huang Dalang also knew that this matter could be concealed now, but he couldn't hide it for a long time, so he said: "Answer Supervisor Wang's words, although Huangzhou pork is cheap, the average price is more than 20 wen a catty." A can of Dongpo meat, with two catties of pork, about 50 yuan, with spices one or two, because there are cinnamon, nutmeg, fennel, cinnamon, fragrant fruit, pepper, star anise...... and more than a dozen kinds of precious materials, the material cost is also about 30 Wen, as for labor, firewood, clay pots and beeswax at least 20 Wen, so the cost is about 100 Wen. Of course, if a workshop is built to produce it in large quantities, the price of spices, labor, and materials should be reduced a lot, but I am afraid that the supply of pork will exceed demand, and the price will rise a lot. ”
"Not bad! When he was in Tokyo, the official family also calculated that the cost of this can of Dongpo meat would really cost hundreds of yuan, and then it would be shipped to Tokyo, and the two places were almost a thousand miles apart. At this time, Supervisor Wang changed his aggressive attitude because of Su Niang's marriage, and said to Huang Dalang with a pleasant face: "When I came, the official family specially entrusted the miscellaneous family, although the canned meat is small, it is related to the state. This side of the pass, is a bitter cold place, the soldiers drink the wind and snow, defend the country and defend the territory, how can two catties of a jar be enough to satisfy the appetite, or can be changed to a ten catties of big cans, the materials must also be sufficient, do not chill the hearts of the soldiers! ”
Huang Dalang laughed secretly when he heard this, this was said in a high-sounding manner, and in the name of the official family, he knew that there would be a follow-up, so he gave him a step according to his wishes: "Even if it is fifty or hundreds of catties and a can, it can be made, but this cost ......."
Sure enough, Supervisor Wang said bluntly: "It's okay! Captain Gao also thought of a way with you, what Captain Gao meant, use these funds to make tens of thousands of cans of small cans of meat before Duanyang next year and ship them to Tokyo for sale, and after getting the money, you can make large cans of meat in two batches and transport them to the border before the August Festival and Chinese New Year's Eve to reward the soldiers, and this trade will be lived. ”
Sure enough, Gao Yu naturally has ideas, but compared to Tong Guan, he is also a lot stronger. Thinking about it, it was still in Su Shi's face, or it had to be added to Su Che's last order to ask Su Lianniang to marry Huang Dalang, so he didn't take it openly, and directly and honestly asked for a share of the profits.
After Supervisor Wang said what Gao Yu meant, he stared at Yao Zheng, but Yao Zheng shook his head and stretched out his hand to allude to Huang Dalang, meaning that Dalang had to call the shots in this matter. On the way to Huangzhou, Supervisor Wang also talked to Su Lianniang, and naturally knew more about the situation than Gao Yu and the official family, and he also saw Huang Dalang's eloquence just now, and he was not surprised to see Yao Zheng say this, so he turned his head to look at him.
Huang Dalang and Yao Zheng had actually predicted the situation that would occur after the canned meat was sacrificed, and the best plan was to let Gao Yu take 20% of the shares, and give another 30% to Zhao Guan's family. Now don't talk about it, as long as the general agent has affordable requirements, the two have really not discussed, and Gao Yu can also be a person, and he also took the initiative to send the start-up capital, and he really doesn't know how to talk about the conditions.
Huang Dalang thought for a while and said: "Don't hide it from Supervisor Wang, now my family has found a Zhuangzi in Macheng County, forty miles north of Huangzhou, and wants to build a workshop in the village. However, now it coincides with the New Year's Festival, the construction has not yet started, and there are only more than 200 piglets collected and stored from everywhere, and tens of thousands of cans are wanted to be produced before Duanyang...... But he didn't dare to agree. ”
"There's no need to worry about that! There is also an edict in the miscellaneous family, and everything related to canned meat can be done cheaply. Supervisor Wang waved his hand, a small supervisor in personal military attire hurriedly took out a small brocade box, opened it and saw that it was a formal decree made of bright yellow silk silk, Supervisor Wang did not read it out directly to Huang Dalang, only to see that the head of the head was "Huainan West Road Zhuyousi", the content is also very concise and to the point, the promotion of Yao Zheng and Huangzhou water and land with the army transport envoy, specializing in supervising the production of military canned meat, all things related to canned meat can be done cheaply.
Compared with the previous edict that was like a private letter codex, this edict that promoted Yao Zheng to the official position is the middle purpose of the Eight Classics, and it has legal and administrative effects.
The official name of this so-called transshipment envoy first came from the Tang Dynasty, and was used as a central or local official in charge of transportation affairs in all subsequent dynasties.
During the Song Taizong of this dynasty, in order to reduce the power of the envoys, he set up transfer envoys in various roads, generally known as "a certain road Zhuzhou water and land transfer envoys", and its official office was called "transfer envoys", commonly known as "Cao Division". At that time, in addition to mastering one or several routes of wealth, the transfer envoys also took over the duties of inspecting local officials, maintaining law and order, counting prisons, and recommending talents.
Before the fourth year of Song Zhenzong's Jingde reign (1007), the post of transfer envoy was expanded, and in fact he became the highest administrator along the way. After that, the Song court successively set up institutions such as the Department of Criminal Prisons and the Department of Pacification to divide the powers of the transfer envoys. However, now, the position of the transshipment envoy is still hot, after all, it is related to Cao Yun, and the state military supplies are involved.
On the other hand, the military transport envoys can be set up according to the situation, and the authority can send a number of transit envoys to various places to provide military supplies, and they can be withdrawn as soon as the matter is completed.
To put it simply, Yao Zheng's "Huangzhou land and water transport envoy" is actually a temporary worker, and he also pointed out that he can only "supervise canned meat", and his rights can only be used in matters related to canned meat.
The edict can't be sealed, but the decree can, but with such a golden doll-like decree, Yao Zheng and Huang Dalang have no reason to seal it back, so they are naturally busy taking it.
It should be said here that according to the regulations of the Great Song Dynasty at this time, only the "holy decree" issued by the edict of the Zhongshu Gate needs to be greeted with incense cases. As for the emperor's official edict and decree, they don't need it, and they don't even need to kneel down to receive the edict and shout long live, and they don't need to thank them.
And as far as the decree that Yao Zheng received at this time is concerned, it is like a work notice at all, and it is just a certificate that allows him to go to work justifiably, how can there be any kindness to thank?
Supervisor Wang saw that Yao Zheng and Huang Dalang were happy to accept the central order, and he was secretly relieved in his heart, so he beckoned Liu Yu and Liu Qi to come forward and introduced: "Yao Transit Envoy, these two are the current Luchuan Military Festival Envoy, Liu Gongzhongwu's son, Wulang Liu Yu, and Jiulang Liu Qi. Now the two of them are listening to the use of the Japanese army, and this time they were assigned by the captain to lead 200 elite infantry soldiers of the Japanese army to escort the miscellaneous family and Su Niangniang to the south, and he was also ordered to listen to the Yao transfer envoy in the future, and asked the Yao transfer envoy to take care of it more. ”
Hearing the origin and purpose of these two people, Yao Zheng and Huang Dalang also changed color.
The reason for the change of color, everyone knows that Liu Zhongwu is a rare famous general in the court who can fight and dare to fight at this time, and his two sons actually came together, what is the situation?
On the other hand, everyone knows that the Japanese army is now the Great Internal Forbidden Army led by Gao Yu, and he sent two hundred elite foot soldiers over, saying that it was under the tent, and the real purpose was not Sima Zhao's heart?
But the decree has been accepted, how can these 200 people be returned?