"Can't find a way to guarantee fair trade?" Xiao Mu's question made Lin Yi confused, as if he had heard the referee of a football match say that he himself could not guarantee fair competition in the game, "What's so difficult about this matter?" ”

Xiao Mu looked like he had a headache, rubbed his head and said, "Think about it, on the issue of this transaction, both parties want to get the maximum benefit, and the less the price to pay, the better, or even not to pay the price." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 For example, Wang Dengku, these merchants of the Ming Dynasty, often think of using shoddy and price gouging tactics to harm tribes like Temur; And the tribes of Mongolia are not necessarily all righteous people, although they do not play those tricks of abduction, but their methods are often more direct, directly robbing the goods, and even do not have to pay the money. ”

"That's why we need you, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, to help them, so that both sides can get a fair deal." Lin Yi listened to Xiao Mu for a long time, but he still didn't talk about the key issues.

"At first, I thought it would be easy, but the more I thought about it, the more complicated it became, and it was basically impossible to ensure fair trade between the Mongols and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty." Lin Yi could hear that this question really bothered Xiao Mu very much.

"Then tell me, what's so difficult about this matter?" However, Lin Yi still didn't believe that this seemingly simple question would really be as complicated as Xiao Mu said.

"Then tell me, what can you do to ensure that both parties follow the rules and trade fairly and equitably?" Xiao Mu didn't answer Lin Yi's question directly, but asked rhetorically.

"Of course, it is necessary to issue a decree stipulating the place and price of the transaction between the two sides, so that the Mongols will not have the opportunity to grab the goods in a fixed place, and the price of the transaction will be stipulated, and it will be difficult for the merchants of the Ming Dynasty to raise prices." Lin Yi said as a matter of course.

"If I, the Ming Emperor's decree, are really so effective, then I don't have to worry so much about this matter, and the imperial court also ordered that it is not allowed to send strategic materials such as grain and iron tools outside the customs. And they were all sold to Huang Taiji in Houjin. Xiao Mu waved his hand, indicating that things were far from being that simple, "In fact, Zhangjiakou is the fixed location you said, but it doesn't solve any problems; As for stipulating the price of transactions, this is obviously even more impossible, and the price of goods is naturally high and low from year to year, so how can it be that a decree can be set to death? ”

"Then the merchants will not be allowed to do these businesses, and the imperial court will come forward to trade directly with the Mongols, so that they will not be afraid of the barbarious Mongol tribes snatching goods, and will not hoard and raise prices, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone? Didn't you just say that the Ming Dynasty is short of money now, and the profits in this business are not small, isn't it a pity that the merchants have made money? Lin Yi thought that he had thought of a good way again, and felt that this must be seamless.

"No, no, no, the same business, businessmen will make money if they do it, but if it is the turn of the imperial court to do it, I don't think it will be a loss." Xiao Mu waved his hand again, it seemed that he had already considered this method, "Didn't we all say just now, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are very low, and they all have to find a way to make some extra money to support their families." Now that the imperial court has found such a lucrative deal, the officials involved are not up to it, and everyone has a share? ”

"Then send someone from the Yushitai to supervise it, and find that the greedy ink will be severely punished." Lin Yi added, believing that the last vulnerability had been fixed, and asked triumphantly, "Is this always possible?" ”

"How can you guarantee that the Imperial History sent by them will not be complicit in them?" Xiao Mu asked another unsolvable question, "In order to monitor whether Yushi has been pulled into the water, I still have to shoot Jinyiwei to monitor, and then I have to worry about whether Jinyiwei is following the greedy ink, I will send people from the East Factory to investigate, and finally I am not at ease with the people from the East Factory, do I still want to reopen the West Factory and send people to monitor?" Although Wei Zhongxian is dead, at that time, I am afraid that there will be Liu Zhongxian and Li Zhongxian......"

"According to what you say, there are no good people in this world, you think of the officials of the Ming Dynasty too shamelessly, such a big country, how can there be so many clean officials, right?" Lin Yi complained, she felt that Xiao Mu was too pessimistic to think about things.

"Okay, according to what you said, even if the person I sent to the court to be in charge of this business didn't have greed for ink, the court wouldn't get much profit." Xiao Mu continued, "After all, merchants are doing their own business, of course, they have to find ways to make money, and a little loss will feel painful. But if the court does this business, it will not be the case, anyway, it is all the money of the court, and they will not care too much if they make or lose, as long as their own bowl of rice is enough to eat, it will be fine, maybe they will have to place their relatives and friends as much as possible to eat this bowl of rice, it will not take long for it to become bloated, inefficient, and the business that was originally profitable cannot make money. ”

"Then let the merchants do this business, and then the imperial court will send officials to supervise the transactions between the two sides, and if there are businessmen who violate discipline, they will be dealt with strictly!" Lin Yi threw out another method, but when he said it, he didn't look very confident.

"That's just to give Wang Dengku and them one more target for bribery, and it's the same as the reason why Yu Shitai was sent to supervise before." Xiao Mu still waved his hand and said helplessly, "I have carefully considered all of this, and finally I found that whether it is a commercial office, an official office, or an official supervision and commercial office, it is difficult to achieve the seemingly simple goal of 'maintaining the fairness of transactions', so I want to discuss with you to see if you have any good methods......

"I've denied all the methods I've said to you one by one, what else can I do?" Lin Yi replied angrily, "I found that the roles of the two of us seem to have been reversed today, usually you put forward immature ideas one by one, and then I denied them, but today it is not like that at all......"

"It's because I've been thinking about this problem for two days, of course I have to think about it a little more, and it's amazing that you can come up with so many solutions when you just understand this problem." Although Lin Yi still didn't come up with the best way, Xiao Mu still praised it.