Shuzhong's products and economy in the Tang Dynasty are on a par with Huainan Jiangnan, the finance and taxation of the country of abundance has been independently supporting the Tang Dynasty's Western Route Army to resist Tubo, and at the same time it is a strategic place with the comprehensive border of Tubo and Nanban, in this period Chang'an and Shuzhong exchanges are even more than Jiangnan, in the position of Shuzhong is closer to Chang'an, but it can really pass, it is more difficult to go from Chang'an to Shuzhong than to go down to Jiangnan.

The development of the Shuzhong trade road is Li Er's temporary task to Yanglin, and did not let him go to Shuzhong in person, Zhang Liang is responsible for the road, Yanglin is responsible for business, as long as the Yangtze River waterway is alive, Jiangnan and Shuzhong can communicate smoothly, Yanglin can think of the way to make a fortune that is simply too much, Shu is good mountains and rivers, rich in grain rice, silk tea, not only the most suitable for the brewing base, but also the production base of many raw materials in the top ten factories of the East and West, this Yanglin also plans to build a branch, In the future, it will become an important base for commercial erosion of Western countries.

Yanglin's next days were basically spent in the meeting, the economic development along the Yangtze River has long been mentioned by him to the height of the overall strategy of southern Xinjiang, Suzhou's temporary Huainan Navy Marshal's Mansion is now headed by him at the age of about nine, and today's meeting is not only a military meeting, but also a 'consultation', so Yanglin named him 'Political Consultation'.

Among the dozens of seats on the left, there are people from the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce in Huainan, and there are also large businessmen in Suzhou led by the Lu family, and on the right are a small number of generals in the Huainan Navy who did not go to Lingnan, as well as the generals of the Jiangnan Mansion in the Furong Arsenal that Li Er agreed to let him use, this joint meeting has only one goal, that is, how to make money, how to establish a stable money-making mechanism, that is, to make the merchants in Jiangnan make money, but also to make the merchants in Shu profitable, of course, as long as the merchants make money, the imperial court will definitely make money, Why is the military involved? Because Yang Lin saw a business opportunity in the new army of Dongting Sailors that the imperial court was about to form. In terms of personnel, Yanglin's criterion is not to require you to know how to fight, but you will be able to invigorate the local economy, take on the task of transporting the water, and it is very important to be able to contact the businessmen, Yuezhou on the shore of Dongting Lake will be the top priority of the imperial court to develop the central region, and it is also the front station of the imperial court to subdue the various ministries of Xiangxi Miaojiang.

"I think the military's plan to lend merchant assets to build a military port in Dongting Lake is feasible, and the military wants military facilities. equipment, as well as a certain number of ships, merchants first funded to help them build and buy, and after the construction was completed, the military undertook the task of helping merchants protect and transport goods, and collected a part of the commission to slowly deduct the loan, so that the merchants could invest in transporting goods, and the money on hiring guards to help the imperial court build a military port, that is, it was convenient for the imperial court. It is also convenient for merchants, and after the army is built, they will not have nothing to do, as long as the loan is paid off, they can earn some money. Self-sufficient, merchants are also safely guaranteed in the delivery of goods, do not spend more money in vain, and enjoy more affordable security. It does not violate the purpose of the imperial court to build a guard-type inland naval army, and the three are all beautiful, which is wonderful. ”

Lu Bingchang put a proposal that had been negotiated with Yanglin a long time ago, and said it in front of all the merchants and generals. Of course, Li Er does not allow the inland navy to be too strong, now the waterways of Chang'an City are unimpeded, if all the sailors are equipped with water ships, they all have the ability to quickly transport troops to Chang'an, it is very likely to threaten his imperial power, see that the only force with combat effectiveness is now only in the hands of his diehard Zhang Liang can understand his intentions.

Of course, Datang is not completely unbuilt with a super offensive navy, but that is on the sea, the Lingnan Navy and the Liaodong Navy will be dominated by sea ships in the future, it is said that the sea ships will be built very big, so big that they can't enter the canal and waterway, even if the combat effectiveness of the two water armies is strong, they can't enter the inland, and they can't threaten the safety of the inland, and Li Er can rest assured.

Lu Bingchang has the dual identity of Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce and Suzhou landlord, he said good things, naturally there will be a group of people to agree, after Yanglin nodded, this plan is considered to be clear, now it is the turn of the generals of the military and the representatives of the merchant group to discuss the loan amount, as well as the benefits that the merchants can enjoy after the construction of the Dongting Naval Division, in this regard, the people of the army who are illiterate are naturally unable to fight the businessmen, when Xue Cong, the governor of the Dongting Naval Army, stretched out a big scissor hand, The merchants all shook their heads with sighs and sighs.

"How can 200,000 yuan be enough! It will take at least 500,000 to complete the general's port and fleet! Wouldn't General Xue borrow more? You must know that the thousand-ton hydro ship in Chang'an Shipyard is not cheap, even if the military wants to buy it, it can't get one without 350,000 yuan, instead of going to the shipyard to make an IOU in the future, it is better to borrow from us now, and it is convenient to repay it. ”

"That's right, 500,000 guan may not be enough, I think 800,000 guan is more reasonable."

Xue Cong, who was slightly oozing fine sweat on his forehead, thought at first that he had borrowed 200,000 guan was already a lion's big mouth, who would have thought that these businessmen actually thought that they had borrowed less, you must know that the first strong army of the imperial court was built by 10,000 cavalry, and a guard-type inland naval army of 5,000 people, if it took 800,000 guan to build, it would not be much stronger than the main combat force of others.

The merchants were gossiping for Xue Cong to take out more loans, and he was confused, there was no way, who called the price of transporting goods so big in ancient times! In many cases, the investment in guarding and transporting is even more than the value of the goods themselves, seeing that the horse master is silent, the merchants naturally want to lend more money to the military, and the generous returns they enjoy will be greater, if they lend out 800,000 yuan, the savings are likely to be 1.6 million yuan, or even 3.2 million yuan, such a rich interest is very impressive to the businessmen, so they have to work hard to sell the money in their hands.

Yanglin is silent also has his reasons, he naturally did not watch the military being slaughtered, because the military represents the imperial court, but what the businessmen did not expect is that once the real steam steamship is born, the water capacity of Datang will increase exponentially, and the Dongting water army that undertakes the water transportation of the Yangtze River in the imperial court will inevitably be equipped with that kind of steamer, not so much that the merchants want to take advantage of the imperial army, but rather that Xue Cong, who was at a loss by the businessmen, unconsciously took advantage of the businessmen, and the 10,000-ton cargo ship came out, Maybe a year or two after the construction of the Dongting Military Port is completed, he will be able to have a cargo ship of several thousand tons to make money on the water, because Yanglin is very sure that after getting the rubber, he will be able to build a high-power steam engine, and it will be very easy to go anywhere in Datang from the water, at least a cargo ship of several thousand tons can be built.

The result of the discussion was that Xue Cong had an extra paper contract in his arms, and the contract had the seal of Yanglin's and his own navy, in Datang, this was legal, Xue Cong could use this paper contract to ask the businessmen to withdraw money at any time, as much as 800,000 yuan, this is the first contract-style silver ticket similar to Jiaozi in Datang, and Lu Bingchang, who represents the chamber of commerce of the two places, also has the same contract in his arms, and he values more about the various service terms that they will enjoy in the Dongting Lake Navy, which will bring much profit to the businessmen of the two places in the future, immeasurable, but one thing is for sure, for a long time in the future, the trade routes in Shu should be controlled by him, because the largest capacity in and out of Shu is in his hands, and the goods in Shu want to go out, you have to look at his face to act, what to sell, what to receive, his right to speak is very large, the right to speak is large, there is pricing power, these are Yanglin intentionally or unintentionally taught some business knowledge to him when explaining, see that Yanglin today does not have any intention to prevent the two chambers of commerce from making money, It should be more inclined to help merchants open up trade routes.

This topic is over, there is the next topic, the money for the construction of the navy is there, and the manpower and materials also need to be dispatched and planned by businessmen, Yang Lin is planning to make a good preparation in Suzhou before leaving for Yuezhou, now he can imagine that the vicinity of Yuezhou, which has just experienced a big war, is full of corpses and diseases, and after he goes, he will have to bear the heavy responsibility of supporting those surrendered water bandits and their hundreds of thousands of family members, fortunately, the year in the south of the Yangtze River this year is good, After the autumn grain of the imperial court was escorted over, there was still a lot of surplus grain, and Yanglin had already invested in the purchase of some of it.

"Dongting Lake area is more suitable for aquaculture than Hongze Lake, the second branch of Datang aquaculture will be opened around Dongting Lake, which has an industry that is very rich, and there are also gimmicks, crocodile breeding, crocodile is what you call Jiaolong, by the Datang breeding factory out of breeding technology, upstream and downstream production and processing need to be completed by your businessmen to organize manpower, to undertake this project of businessmen, at least for the imperial court to bear 30,000 households, more than 150,000 people resettlement problems, if a cooperation agreement is reached, I will directly go to the court, assign land to him to build a county, and let the merchants themselves take the county order and lead local affairs. ”

Every proposal thrown out by Yanglin will cause a burst of cold air in the tent of the capital marshal, because of his shot, there is no less than 500,000 guan, Yuezhou military port, 800,000 guan, Jianjiaolong County 1.2 million guan, and finally even Yuezhou Chengyanglin will be completely demolished and rebuilt, plus a series of investments such as supermarkets, it is a huge project of up to 3 million guan, these investments and construction will completely make the hundreds of thousands of half-people and half-bandit people entrenched in the vicinity of Dongting Lake move, at least in two or three years. They will only know how to work and get money, and such a large investment, businessmen also need two or three years to operate and digest, until all the large and small projects to be built, as well as materials, manpower arrangements, Yanglin set a time, meet all walks of life to set off to Yuezhou, and this historical meeting, known as the 'Suzhou Political Consultative Conference', has affected the complementary relationship between the merchants and the government of the Tang Dynasty for a long time. (To be continued......)

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