Chapter 247 Annan Affair [II]

Listening to the tone of this Wei Wang, how do you feel like you want to attack Annan?

Ma Yu coughed, knocked on the side and said: "Lord Wang, Annan is hateful, but for now, let's leave it behind!" An Huaman's affairs are important! ”

Pan Shu also disagreed with this, shook his head and said: "Lord Wang, that Li Foma is the emperor immediately, he has great prestige in Annan, and he has enough soldiers and food!" Although it is not known how many troops there are, they recently attacked the city once, and it is said that 50,000 troops were mobilized! and plundered the people of their capitals, and used them to open up the wasteland. Once the war starts, the strong men from these slaves will be the pioneers, and once the whole country raises troops, there will be no less than 100,000 people! The fierceness of the soldiers and the fierceness of the soldiers can be seen! Now scolding Annan should be a hundred harms and no benefits! ”

After a pause, Pan Shu continued: "The best way is to pretend not to know, and send an envoy to make friends with him, so that he can remove his vigilance and slowly figure it out!" ”

Yan Shiliang hesitated for a moment, and also echoed: "Lord Wang, although Pan Xingjiao's words are not understandable, they are also old words!" ”

Zhao Yu smiled calmly and said, "What you said, how can this king not know?" This king said this, but to make you wary of Annan, and you must not ignore Annan! ”

After a pause, Zhao Yu continued: "The three armies have not moved the grain and grass first, this grain and grass, in the final analysis, is still a matter of money!" The most important thing now is to solve the problem of Xiangshang. ”

"It seems that the prince has already been chosen!" Feng Shenji, as an excellent support, naturally stood up immediately and paved the steps for Zhao Yu's words.

Zhao Yu pretended to be surprised and looked at Feng Shenji and said, "Qi Xian seems to be well-informed!" This king does have a candidate, wood, yam, fur of the three ringing merchants, this king believes that yam is the most suitable for Xingyi business, its big shopkeeper and Dangyang County Lord has some relationship, is the eldest son of the head of Dangyang County, in Bianliang, Qingzhou area is very face-saving. Yams are sold to Bianliang and other places, and the price is not too much! ”

"Lord Wang! This Xingyi firm is too big, isn't it? The lower officials heard that the branches of the Xingyi business are all over the Central Plains, Hebei and other places, and they are afraid that they will bully customers! Xia Guan thinks that Wang Jinfu, a local merchant on Guangnan West Road, is better! Pan Shu was the first to stand up and object.

Wang Ranbo also stood up and said: "Lord Wang, the lower officials also think ......"

Zhao Yu didn't show the appearance of a good gentleman, "Bang! "A bang. The palm of his hand slapped vigorously on the bookcase, and Zhao Yu's originally smiling face turned into a cold winter in December. "What do you think! What do you think? This Guangnan West Road, or is it not the king's final say? Wang Ranbo, what do you think! Do you want this king to catch the messenger who sent the letter to Bianliang City, and ask him where the letter was sent? ”

Wang Ranbo stubbornly said, "Lord Wang, what do you mean by this?" You don't need to ask about that thought, the lower official can answer you and send it to the Yingguo Mansion! What's the matter, the Xiaguan family and the Yingguo family are world friends, send a letter to ask about it, can't it? ”

Zhao Yu smiled coldly and said, "Although this king has no direct evidence, no one is an idiot!" What's wrong? Do you still want to recommend Wang Jinfu? ”

Wang Ranbo was weak in the end, so he didn't dare to carry Zhao Yu to death, so he sat back.

Zhao Yu immediately pointed the finger at Pan Shu again, and said, "Why is Xing Prison so eager about this matter? This kind of work attitude is good! It's just that this king heard that no matter what you do, you must be clear about this thing inside and out, otherwise you will not be qualified to point fingers at this matter! Xing Prison only came back today, how did he know about Xiangshang? Could it be that Xing Prison came back a few days earlier? Or does Xing Prison have henchmen here? Even if Xing Prison is in Vietnam, he always reports to Xing Prison? ”

Partisans? Pan Shu dared to agree!

Today's saints, that is, Song Renzong, are the most afraid of forming a party for personal gain. Don't you see, are great gods like Lu Yijian being degraded because they were impeached by Wang Zeng for forming a party?

He is better than Lu Yijian, what kind of thing is it?

Pan Shu said helplessly: "What the prince said is that Xiaguan is too eager to make a contribution to the development of Guangnan West Road!" ”

Zhao Yu smiled, did not speak, and looked at Ma Yu and the others.

The others had already frightened Zhao Yu with this thunderbolt is means, and he couldn't see it clearly, in the matter of Xiangshang, Zhao Yu did not allow the slightest other opinion to appear.

Feng Shenji naturally stood up in agreement, and said: "The prince was able to connect such a big businessman as Xingyi Business for Guangnan West Road, thinking that he came to think about the development of Guangnan West Road, and the lower officials are really ashamed!" Such a big businessman will definitely not be bad! ”

The next timber was handed over to Song Hai Warehouse. This Songhai warehouse was naturally set up by Zhao Yu in Qingzhou! The fur was handed over to a local merchant on Quang Nam West Road, who had a relatively better reputation and, most importantly, was easy to control.

All the ringing merchants are divided according to the ** open, Guangnan West Road six, and the merchants are forty percent. The goods are provided with the assistance of Quang Nam West Road! That is, in the name of the government, the merchant pays for the purchase of goods. In this way, those barbarians can be suppressed, and they dare not arbitrarily raise the price, and they can even take advantage of the situation to suppress people and lower the price by a few points.

At the same time, in order to prevent false accounts, Guangnan West Road will also send Xu officials who are proficient in arithmetic to follow and serve as deputy account offices, so as to supervise the fairness of income.

In the deputy account room, Zhao Yu immediately promoted the officials from Guozi Academy. Speaking of which, Zhao Yu's influence on Guangnan West Road is not small, and now there are 237 Xu officials from Guozi Academy on Guangnan West Road, in fact, most of the Xu officials from Guozi Academy are assigned here. Because of this, the current college of Guozi Academy is basically only the children of the poor and a small number of ordinary people. The rich and noble families do not want their sons to suffer in these places.

Thinking of these Xu officials from Guozi Academy, Zhao Yu's heart moved, he had been on Guangnan West Road for so long, and he had only met a few leaders of Xu officials from Guozi Academy, but he had never seen ordinary Xu officials from Guozi Academy.

After discussing politics, Zhao Yu lowered his voice and instructed Du Xian: "Arrange it vaguely, and gather the officials of Guozi Academy from all over the country to Guizhou, you don't need too many people, but you can't be less." Preferably a hundred people or less! You can't use the name of this king to let these people from Guozi Academy figure it out for themselves! Then the king will be present at their feast! ”

Du Xiansheng was in high spirits, is the prince going to make a move against the officialdom of Guangnan West Road?

Zhao Yu then said: "Zhou Xin will be here tomorrow, you can take this king to receive it!" When he comes, he will be in charge of the prison business! ”

Zhou Xin is Zhao Yu's old department on Jingdong East Road, and he was in charge of criminal prison affairs at the beginning, and he did a good job in dealing with corrupt officials and corrupt officials. Zhao Yu also recommended him to the eighth prince Zhao Yuanyan, but Zhao Yuanyan had just begun to rely on Zhou Xin, and later slowly alienated the upright Zhou Xin.

Zhao Yu also took advantage of the fact that he was an official on Guangnan West Road this time and asked Zhou Xin to come over. In fact, this request had been made long before the departure from Bianliang City. It's just that Zhang Shixun naturally had a relationship between Zhao Yu and Zhou Xin, and he didn't want to agree, so he dragged it out, and only a month before did Zhou Xin be transferred.

In order to show his attention to Zhou Xin, Zhao Yu also promoted Zhou Xin to the first level and concurrently served as a general judge in Yizhou. However, the actual job is naturally engaged in prison business, which is also Zhao Yu's ** move to Pan Shu.

The next day, Zhao Yu began to prepare for the affairs of Xiangshang, and personally went to Xiangzhou to buy timber, which was very cheap, especially when the government bartered. A miscellaneous tree worth about 30 Wen, if you buy it in Qingzhou with a horse, you only need 900 Wen of Qingzhou silk in exchange, and it stands to reason that it can be exchanged for 30 trees. The actual situation is sixty-seven!

Because Qingzhou silk is 900 yuan to buy in Qingzhou, but Qingzhou silk cloth is the best in the world, and it is more than doubled here on Guangnan West Road!

And the base of the Songhai Warehouse is in the Qingzhou area, you can imagine how much profit the Songhai Warehouse has earned in this in and out! Although Zhao Yu knew, he turned a blind eye, and Song Hai Warehouse had forty percent of his shares in it. Zhao Yu can't be a saint, so naturally it is impossible to reach the point where he treats money like dung.

Zhao Yu designed the Songhai Warehouse into a transportation mode, and at a specific time, the Longjiang area was closed to navigation. Although this time is not short, it can be banned in sections. During the ban on sailing, the timber purchased by the Song Hai Warehouse was tied into a simple raft and directly streamed down the river by the current.

This doesn't seem to be outstanding, and it wasn't even invented by Zhao Yu, but it must be cooperated by the government. Out of the Longjiang River, to the Pearl River, the river will be wide, and then hire people to support the raft to Guangzhou. The sea boats of the Song Hai Cargo Depot docked there, and the precious timber was put into the cabin, and the miscellaneous wood strung together the rafts and dragged them directly by the sea boats.

Wood soaking in seawater can achieve antiseptic effect, of course, if the soak time is too long, it will also rot. But from Guangzhou to Hangzhou, as long as you pick the right one, smooth sailing, you can arrive in seven or eight days at the earliest. Slow down, it's only twenty days!

When you arrive in Hangzhou, it is easy to say, you can process the wood a little locally and sell a lot of wood. The rest started from Hangzhou, entered the Yangtze River from Tongzhou (now Nantong), entered the canal, and went directly to Bianliang City.

Why the massive sell-off in Hangzhou? It is because this section of the canal has a lot of tariffs, and the sea transportation is different, out of Guangzhou, if you don't dock, you don't have to pay taxes at all, and you don't pay taxes until Hangzhou. Although the price of timber in Hangzhou is much cheaper, the surname price ratio is also relatively high.

The important surname of this trade route is second only to metal sales in Zhao Yu's mind. The ability to make money is naturally not much worse. As for the tribute, Zhao Yu is ready to privately mint copper coins. This thing is not just done by Zhao Yu, in fact, the private money in the Song Dynasty market is very flooded. Because the copper content of official money is very large, the actual price is even higher than the copper coin itself.

Many unscrupulous merchants increased their official money to cast bronze ware, and earned more money than they minted. Therefore, it is ironic that most of the coins in circulation at that time were private money. (To be continued.) )