Historically, the Tang government set up the City Shipping Department to manage international trade, and at that time Quanzhou had become the third trading port for China's foreign traffic after Guangzhou and Jiaozhou, but the Tang Dynasty government did not set up the "City Shipping Envoy" in Quanzhou.

Later, during the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms of Fujian, the king of Fujian, who had seized Fujian, attached great importance to overseas trade, and the local officials of Quanzhou regarded sending ships overseas to do business as the financial source of the government, and Quanzhou's overseas trade gradually flourished.

After Wang Zhenzhi's death, the successors to the throne were tyrants, civil strife was endless, and it was defeated by the Southern Tang Dynasty in 945. It has been 15 years since the two prefectures of Quannan have been self-governing for 15 years, and the rapid economic development of the two prefectures of Quannan depends on the development of the port.

Quanzhou's status as the city's bureau was established in the second year of Yuanyou of the Northern Song Dynasty (1087) by the imperial court. And now it is still the first year of Song Jianlong (960), if this matter is successful, Quanzhou will become a big port of the Great Song Dynasty.

However, now the two prefectures of Quannan are nominally under the jurisdiction of the Tang government, but in fact they are in control of autonomy in order to stay in force. Liu Congxiao sent Huang Yuxi to Kaifeng to congratulate him, so he wanted to win over the Great Song State and prevent Quannan Erzhou from becoming the puppet of the Tang State.

After Zhao Dezhao left, he thought about it while reminiscing, and came to some conclusions.

Soon after, Zhao Dezhao returned to the dormitory, bathed, put on a prince's clothes, wore a long-winged hat, and came to the Jiying Hall early.

Now that the time has come to [Shen Shi], the time of the evening eclipse, and the Zaifu and the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the imperial court have come one after another. And the seats have been neatly arranged, all lined up, the main seat is the seat of the Son of Heaven, and the closer to the Son of Heaven is the important minister of the court.

At the beginning of the [unitary time], all the officials in the capital who could enter the palace went to the banquet, all of them had long-winged hats, and all the officials sat down. As an envoy, don't drive Huang Yuxi to sit under the Son of Heaven, and the officials sit down and wait for the return of the Son of Heaven.

At this moment, Zhang Dejun snorted a male duck voice, shook the dust, and shouted: "Your Majesty has arrived-"

The officials in the seats all stood, "Your Majesty greets—"

"Ministers take their seats!"

"Your Majesty—"

The officials all sat down.

Zhao Kuangyin looked at Quanzhou below Don't drive Huang Yuxi, and said: "Today, the Qingyuan Festival of Quannan Erzhou sent the envoy Huang Beijia to make my Great Song Dynasty, which is intended to connect with the Great Song Dynasty. This cup I first congratulate the envoys of Quanzhou and Nanzhou! ”

"Hey!"

Immediately, Zhao Kuangyin picked up the cup, and the minister of civil and military affairs picked up the wine glass on the table, and drank a glass.

Immediately, Zhao Kuangyin picked up the cup again, "This second cup congratulates me on the friendship between the Great Song Dynasty and Quannan, congratulations-"

Then another glass.

After two glasses, sit down.

At this time, Huang Yuxi stood up from his seat, arched his hands and said: "Today, the ministers sent the Great Song Dynasty, and I left the festival to make an order, and the Great Song Dynasty friendship, the Great Song Dynasty is the state of the Central Plains, the kingdom of the Heavenly Empire, I Quannan voluntarily went to the table, and from then on I paid tribute to the Great Song Dynasty every year!" ”

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Leave the envoy to the righteousness, and from now on, I will accept the good intentions of Quannan Erzhou!" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister has a word, I just heard what King Liang said, to set up a city department in Quanzhou, I don't know what Your Majesty thinks?"

"Ichibu?" Zhao Kuangyin has only heard of this term between the classics of the Tang Dynasty, it is said that during the Xuanzong period of the Tang Dynasty, there was a "City Ship Division" in Guangzhou, and the chief of the City Ship Division was served by eunuchs, today I heard Huang Yuxi mention that it was proposed by his son, his eyelids were tight, looking at Zhao Dezhao who was sitting at the bottom, and wanted to ask why Zhao Dezhao would propose to open a city division in Quanzhou.

And Zhao Dezhao looked indifferent, he saw Zhao Kuangyin's eyes coming over, so he got up from his seat and arched his hand: "Father, that's what the son said when he met Huang Beijia today and proposed to open the City Ship Division, but Huang Beijia didn't know the City Ship Division, so he came to verify his father!" ”

"Oh?"

Huang Yuxi turned around, looked at King Liang, and said, "Regarding the opening of the City Division, I don't know what His Highness thinks?" ”

Zhao Dezhao said: "Father, Huang Envoy, all the ministers, the opening of the city shipping department is to manage maritime trade, and now I heard that the affairs of Quanzhou port are quite complicated, foreigners are the majority, it is difficult to manage, and the collection of commercial taxes is not regulated, and there will inevitably be some loopholes." However, Erchen only proposed, if the envoy of Quannan Qingyuan Jiedu thought that this method could be used, it would be fine. ”

Zhao Dezhao only mentioned this method, but did not propose how to operate it, and Zhao Kuangyin, who was at the top, also looked at the two people below suspiciously, and said, "King Liang, what should you do with this specific operation?" Tell Huang Yuanjun to listen! ”

"The sons obey the order, if Huang Envoy Jun disagrees, he can just listen to it."

"Your Highness, please speak, and your subordinates will listen to you."

"Ahem-" Zhao Dezhao cleared his throat, and then looked at the ministers of the Jiying Palace, the emperor and Huang Yuxi, he told the management regulations and methods of managing the city during the Yuan Dynasty, "Father, Huang Envoy, all ministers!" The establishment of the city's bureau should be under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court. Each division is set up to lift two people, from the five grades. The establishment of the Quanfu Department (Yuan) in the central government to manage the merchants who operated business for the state, and also to manage the affairs of the market, but it was not long. “

Zhao Dezhao talked eloquently and said all the responsibilities of the Municipal Shipping Division, "The main responsibilities of the Municipal Shipping Division are: according to the application of the shipping merchant, issue the certificate of maritime trade (notarization, public certificate); inspect ships that are allowed to go to sea for prohibited items such as gold, silver, copper coins, weapons, horses, and people; On the way back to port, the ship sent someone to block (seal the goods) and escort it back to port; After arriving at the shore, the officer will supervise and move all the goods into the warehouse, and search and inspect all the crew members to prevent unauthorized entrainment of foreign goods; The foreign goods are divided, and the fine color (precious goods) is taken out of ten, and the coarse color (general goods) is taken out of fifteen. ”

In the end, Zhao Dezhao said: "For foreign merchant ships that come to the Great Song Dynasty to trade, the Municipal Shipping Department also adopts similar management methods. Of course, this is just the setting up of the city and some operations, and the others still need to be perfected by the imperial court, I don't know what my father, Huang Yuanjun and the ministers think of what Dezhao said? ”

The ministers nodded in satisfaction as they listened, but some of them they did not quite understand.

At this time, Zhao Pu, the counselor and privy counselor, stood up and said, "Your Highness, Zeping doesn't understand something, how should this tax be distributed?" Zeping knows that now the two states of Quannan have just been attached to my Great Song Dynasty, if it is unfair, I am afraid it will be harmful to my Great Song Dynasty and Quannan Two Prefectures! ”

In fact, like Zhao Pu, many ministers also have this doubt in their hearts, and Zhao Pu directly saw this contradiction from the issue of interests, which is really worthy of being called "half of the treatise on ruling the world".

And the emperor and ministers in the palace also felt that what Zhao Pu said was reasonable, after all, the two states of Quannan were only attached to the Great Song Dynasty, if the Great Song Dynasty inadvertently damaged the interests of the two states of Quannan, I am afraid that this is also a heart jam for staying in the effect.

If you set up a city department, you will have to take a good road at the beginning, which is also what Zhao Kuangyin is worried about, and now the local power is too heavy, which greatly damages the interests of the imperial court, which is also a problem that Zhao Kuangyin is currently facing. As for financial power, it is the basic guarantee for the existence of the state, and if financial power is controlled in the hands of the local government, it will be curbed step by step.

However, Quannan is a special case, after all, it is not the land of the Great Song Dynasty, it would be better if he got some taxes from the two states of Quannan, and it would be good if he didn't, anyway, Huang Yuxi had already paid tribute to himself when he came this time, and as for other places in the Great Song Dynasty, he should not act like this.

Zhao Dezhao also knew what the ministers thought, and he said: "Father, Huang Envoy Jun and all the ministers, it is better to set up a special city department in Quanzhou and Nanzhou, which will be appointed by the envoy and appointed by the local officials in Quanzhou and Nanzhou for a three-year term. As for the extraction of taxes, there are local agreements, but they must be expressly announced, and our court only owns one cent of the profit, and the other nine cents belong to the localities. After that, the two states of Quannan did not need to pay tribute to the imperial court, but only needed to give a share of the profits under the jurisdiction of the special city to my Great Song Dynasty. Of course, this is only the case in the two states of Quannan, and it is different in other parts of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"It's just one point!" Huang Yuxi thought, after all, he is not in charge of finance and taxation, he doesn't know anything about finance, and he has nothing to do with Quannan and the two states.

"A penny?" The minister on the seat began to whisper, but Miao Xun, Zhao Pu and the others were sitting upright, and they must have agreed with Zhao Dezhao in their hearts.

"A penny?" Zhao Kuangyin looked at Zhao Dezhao with some pain, he didn't believe that this sentence came out of Zhao Dezhao's mouth, after all, Zhao Dezhao could be regarded as a businessman before, how could he propose this, it is estimated that Huang Yuxi was also laughing in his heart after hearing it.

Then Zhao Kuangyin looked at Zhao Dezhao embarrassedly, but a trace of a businessman's shrewd eyes flashed in Zhao Dezhao's eyes, and he looked calm, presumably he had been prepared.

Zhao Dezhao squinted his eyes, this point is also a big income, if a few ports are added in Quanzhou to allow merchants to trade freely, I am afraid that this income is not a little bit that Huang Yuxi thinks.

However, after Quanzhou and Nanzhou officially became the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, he proposed that the imperial court withdraw the special city and replace it with the city and ship department under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court, and the collection of tax laws was also determined according to other city and port divisions.

"Father, Huang Envoy Jun and the ministers, this law is just Xiao Wang's words, if there is a mistake, when there are ministers to refute, and Huang Envoy Jun can also go back and stay with the envoy of the festival, if you agree with this law, you can send someone to the imperial court, sign the terms, after all, this matter is a local matter in Quannan Erzhou, what I Zhao Dezhao said may be wrong, you can ask Huang Envoy Jun to go back and talk about it carefully."

At this time, Huang Yuxi arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, this matter is very important, why don't you let the imperial court send an additional envoy to Quanzhou with me to go south with me, and talk to the envoy of Liujiedu?" ”

"Hmm! It's okay to do this, everyone, I don't know who wants to go to Quanzhou and accompany Huang Beijia? Zhao Kuangyin looked at the ministers in the hall and asked.

At this moment, Zhao Dezhao looked at Liu Han, Liu Han was excited, so he got up from his seat and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, I am willing to go!" ”

It was Liu Han of Honglu Temple who spoke.

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Well, then Liu Sicheng will send an envoy to the land of Quanzhou." ”

After the envoys were assigned, the night banquet officially began, and the hall began to sing and dance.

When the feast was over, the crowd dispersed.

PS. City Division

During the Kaiyuan period of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (713~741), Guangzhou had a city envoy, which was generally served by eunuchs, which was the predecessor of the city ship division.

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).