Guangzhou's Hong Kong Island, now renamed the Golden Island Special Trade Zone, is also nominally the largest foreign smuggling area. This special zone was a smuggling mecca known to the whole of the Great Song Empire but could not be controlled, and all the officials in charge of the area on the entire Guangnan East Road maintained a tacit silence.

Not only through the crowdsourcing tax, but also through the Guangzhou City shipping company instead of reducing but increasing tariffs, all kinds of reasonable but illegal reasons to gag their mouths. The perfect environment bought by throwing money without outside interference, and basically belonging to the secret surname of internal logistics and unified export through the subordinate industries, Southeast Asian countries and wealthy merchants as long as they want to buy high-quality and low-cost Chinese specialties in large quantities must come to this deep-water port to buy. Treasures such as cloisonné, enamel porcelain, pastel porcelain, and glaze red have already appeared in advance, and they have been enthusiastically sought after, and large quantities of treasures such as ivory carvings, wood carvings, lacquerware, glass and glazed ware, and silver-plated glass mirrors have triggered a frenzy.

Of course, all the unique commodities sold here are export-oriented goods that are sold through the industrial monopoly or special production of the goods under the Zhongzhong, and all transactions are settled only by the Chenji money and the copper coins of the Great Song Empire. The Empress Dowager personally issued a decree not to buy with him, and the ministers also passed the latest political axe procurement regulations, coupled with the status of the half-imperial merchant of the Chenji Chamber of Commerce, in the eyes of corrupt officials who are accustomed to obtaining designations and buying goods at low prices or even free of charge, the Chenji Chamber of Commerce is a dynamite arsenal full of wealth.

When the decree was not made before, the internal officials in charge of purchasing palace supplies and consumer goods and the officials in charge of office supplies had specially gone to the Chenji Chamber of Commerce, which sold all kinds of high-end goods, to sweep it, but the next day after returning with a full load, he was told that he was removed from his post for suspected robbery of people's property, and the result of the settlement of the new accounts and old accounts together was naturally taken out as a typical slave purchased by the manor owners who were eager for manpower on the Yunnan-Guizhou border. No matter how the big people behind these fat differences interfered, they were turned a blind eye and deaf ears by the judicial officials hinted at by the Empress Dowager.

With the reminder of the lessons of the previous car, the handling personnel who later purchased naturally converged a lot, and the employees of Chenji were instructed by the public, often giving gifts and giving a variety of small rebates at the preferential price of bulk purchases, and the natural work was very smooth and extremely efficient.

Since the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the national strength has weakened, and the tributary trade that countries have taken advantage of has been forced to change to the market trade by the pressure of reality, and the countries will basically not come to the Central Plains with worthless domestic specialties to deceive the Chinese emperor in return for tribute. The Tang Dynasty was an important turning point in ancient China's overseas trade, and the Tang court established a city-port trade system in Guangzhou, and the number of countries that came to Guangzhou to trade by sea greatly increased. By the Song Dynasty, there were no less than 50 countries and regions that traded with Guangzhou. Guangzhou has become a famous foreign trade port with 'all the world's clothes and endless streams'. A large number of ships of goods are transported from overseas to Guangzhou, and then transported from Guangzhou to all parts of the country. Guangzhou's shipping goods are transported from overseas to Guangzhou, and then from Guangzhou to all parts of the country. Except for some of the foreign goods directly transported north by the imperial court, all the rest were traded in Guangzhou, forming a huge foreign goods market in Guangzhou. Chinese and foreign businessmen have made high profits in this foreign goods market. In 1080, the Song court officially revised the "Guangzhou City Shipping Regulations" and implemented it throughout the country. The provisions are mainly about the management of the entry and exit of sea vessels, the new regulations on taxation, and the regulations on monopoly and monopoly.

The largest volume of trade in Guangzhou is still the Arabian, followed by Sumatra and Java.

In the fourth year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty (971), the city was set up in Guangzhou, and later with the development of overseas trade, the city was successively set up in Hangzhou, Mingzhou (now Ningbo, Zhejiang), Quanzhou and Mizhou (now Zhucheng, Shandong). Naturally, the trade of the city is an unofficial trade dominated by the private sector of the market economy, and it is naturally much larger than before in terms of scale and the richness of the types of goods imported and exported.

In the Song Dynasty, there was no unified and complete regulation on the system of the city and the ship, and the duties of the city ship department mainly included: according to the goods declared by the merchants, the personnel on the ship and the places to be visited, they were issued public certificates (official documents, public inspections), that is, permits to go to sea; people were sent on ships for "spot inspection" to prevent the entrainment of weapons, copper coins, women's mouths, fugitive soldiers, etc.; "read the facts" of ships returning to port; and the import and export goods were divided into two colors, that is, the goods were divided into thick and thin colors, and the government drew a number of copies according to a certain proportion, which was actually a kind of real form of city port taxThe goods to be drawn must be sent to the capital (extraction); certain goods transported by ship (Bomai) should be bought at a prescribed price; after the division and extraction, the goods remaining after the Bo purchase should still be issued to the public according to the standards of the city shipping department before they are allowed to be shipped and sold elsewhere.

The revenue of the city was an important source of fiscal revenue for the Song Dynasty. In the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, the income of the city reached about 420,000 yuan. Song Zhengaxe also increased his income by selling some foreign goods. In the second year of the Taiping Rejuvenation (977), the first incense medicine was replaced, and the profit was 300,000 yuan that year. Those who have mastered advanced experience will naturally use the energy of the 'extra-hospital lobbying group represented by Zhao Shouzhong' to buy the tax collection rights of various city companies. It is naturally impossible for the people to bid lower than the existing tax amount to buy the tax right, and the total amount of tax collected in the four years of Yuan You is about 1.2 million yuan in cash, which is just a drizzle in front of the total tariff of hundreds of billions in the future. The scope of tax reform will naturally increase the tax amount after the previous backward tax collection method in kind is changed to cash tax, so with the addition of a 10-year tax commitment and premium part of the surname package purchase, the cost of crossing the public to obtain the right to operate the city is only 15 million yuan.

The high-quality and sufficient amount of brass money of the mountain of mechanical stamping accepted the package tax forward, and it was so shocked that it was hard to close the mouth. In the past, I have only seen the Guangzhou area responsible for the transshipment of 2 million yuan of taxes, so many copper coins are all brand new Yuan Yu Tongbao, according to the consistent calculation of 5 catties, 10,000 guan is 25 tons, a total of 37,500 tons of copper coins plus the weight of the wooden box and the rope that wears the money, close to 40,000 tons, naturally it is impossible to send it all the way to Bianjing Sansi. A cash check with an oversized denomination was placed in front of the forwarder. Choosing 2,000 square meters of 2.5-meter-high copper coins or a piece of paper obviously won't take too long.

The Chenji Chamber of Commerce, which bought the right to operate the city, has naturally become the leader of foreign trade gathered by the storm, and the major traders with limited financial resources have shown their magic in order to cling to the Chenji Chamber of Commerce, which has the largest power of profiteering sources and export imports. However, Bai Jia's oil and salt are not entered, and no matter how good the gift is, it is impossible for him to enter the magic eye of countless modern commodities. The gifts were piled up, and Bai Jia would at most meet with those foreign trade merchants who were not very familiar with each other and have a meal. All buying and selling behaviors are still in accordance with the standard process, and the auction of the auction, the bidding of the bidding, and the queue for the order to get the goods are still honestly queuing. New products such as pastel porcelain are in short supply, and orders are scheduled for three years.

Since getting the infinite money printing machine, the mint that started at night has continuously turned a large number of copper ingots into copper coins, according to the consistent standard of five catties, a ton of copper ingots can produce 400 guan, and the output of the copper mines and smelters under the public is 50,000 tons a year, although it is only 1% of China's output before the crossing, but it can also produce 20 million guan, which is more than 5 times that of all the mining and metallurgical industries of the Song Empire, which monopolized copper mines before. What is the concept of printing money five times more than the state?

Although it has always been an adjective to describe that an individual has more wealth than the state, in most cases it means that someone has more wealth than the state taxes in a year. For example, the big corrupt official and Shenyi fell, and Emperor Jiaqing confiscated more family wealth than the Qing Empire's taxes in the 10 years at that time, so it was called the Fuke Empire. However, the emperor was rich all over the world, and in the era after the Western Zhou Dynasty, the emperor's treasury and the treasury were separated, the property of the political axe and the property of the monarch were self-financed, and private property was protected by customary law. Therefore, in ancient history, there have been many times when the monarch was overjoyed and renovated, and the palace was out of money, and it was misappropriated from the state treasury, and as a result, it was recorded in the history books and criticized by the scholars and bureaucrats who controlled public opinion. Of course, there have been many instances where the Inner Treasury has allocated funds for disaster relief to make up for the deficit and deficit of the political axe, and has fulfilled the function of the political axe.

There are at least hundreds of tasks left in the history books where the property is more than the emperor. But it is rare to have more wealth than the political axe, and even fewer people with cash flow that exceeds the political axe. In ancient times, most of the emperors and political axes had real estate such as buildings and land, so the real qualification of a rich country should be that the fixed assets exceeded the emperor's imperial fields, imperial villages, royal hunting grounds, imperial property and palaces, as well as real estate such as state-owned land and public buildings. It is extremely difficult to do this, and the crossing crowd is fighting for it.