Yang Jianpi didn't smile, glanced at Cai Xing, and wondered how this little traitor would deal with it.

The Goryeo envoys have been jumping up and down in Beijing for several months, and although the Donghai Chamber of Commerce and the gang have blocked the news very strictly, how can they completely hide it from the officials.

Not to mention anything else, the spies of the Imperial City Division are not vegetarians.

"The official family also knows about this? I heard that the islanders of an island in the sea originally called Goryeo a vassal, but they were forced by pirates and Goryeo could not protect them, so they asked my Great Song for help. When the Haizhou coastal envoy heard about this, he told the thieves that those among the thieves who had a heart for the court were willing to be recruited. When the Koreans saw that the thieves had been pacified, they came again to ask for the island, but the islanders refused to ......"

Cai Xing told the whole story, and Zhao Ji laughed when he heard it: "Didn't these Goryeo people have a heart for benevolence and righteousness, and they also sent students to study in the Great Song Dynasty...... Zhou Quan's secret play with me, the envoy of the native people to offer Tunatu, has arrived in Haizhou! ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Ji had some pride in his voice.

As an emperor, even if it is a very absurd emperor, it is an ideal to expand the territory. Overseas island countries, Natu is a vassal, this kind of glory, is not often found.

As for Goryeo's attitude towards this......

Zhao Ji did not hesitate to ignore that countries such as Goryeo were courteous and inward-looking, and the imperial court had previously wanted to get in touch with the Jurchens through them, but it had refused. Since it was the natives who donated the soil themselves, and there was no need for the court to send troops and money, Zhao Ji certainly accepted this flattery.

When Yang Jian heard this, he was stunned.

Zhou Quan is good at using swords overseas, and with his own strength, he can defeat a country by force, which can be said to be a taboo for any son of heaven. But Zhao Ji let go like this, as if he didn't care at all!

"Has the envoy of Goryeo Hechun come?" Zhao Ji asked again.

"The minister doesn't know about it." Cai Xingdao.

"People who are disappointed, let's not let him appear in front of me." Zhao Ji said.

Everyone nodded again and again, Cai Xing was young, and couldn't hold back a smile: Sure enough, as Zhou Quan said, the official family heard that someone offered land to be a minister, and they definitely didn't care what the Goryeo people thought, but accepted it first.

Of course, it is also related to the support of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce, this year, the Donghai Chamber of Commerce paid taxes as high as 150,000 or 600,000 guan, except for 300,000 guan directly into the private treasury of the official family, the rest of the part, all converted into copper into the treasury, so that the treasury has enough copper material to mint copper coins.

Although the Great Song Dynasty was a benevolent and righteous country, it would not be stupid enough to care about interests, and only a few words of flattery from Goryeo pushed away the new territory of sacrificing land and being a vassal!

Therefore, poor Li Ziliang could only wait slowly behind the rockery, waiting for Zhao Ji, the official of the Great Song Dynasty, who could not pass by that road at all.

Yang Jian secretly said to himself in his heart, among the people who Zhao Ji favored him, he was relatively distant from Zhou Quan, even if he had the heart to hand over two sentences and make some trouble for Zhou Quan, he didn't dare to speak easily now.

Because Zhao Ji's favored ministers now understand that Zhou Quan's ambition is not to compete with them for Zhao Ji's favor, but to make money outside!

"Yes, we made money, and very much!"

Just like last year, before the Shangyuan Festival in the fifth year of Zhenghe, Zhou Quan returned to Beijing.

On the side of the Xiatu Bridge on the bank of the Bianhe River outside the East Water Gate of Jingshi, in a house with a plaque of "Donghai Chamber of Commerce", facing the people in front of him, Zhou Quan can be described as full of spirit.

The mansion had just been bought, and was intended to serve as the headquarters of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, as well as a sales point for the Donghai Chamber of Commerce. Today, the house has been leveled, and a three-storey masonry and steel building is under construction. Now, Zhou Quan is on the edge of this construction site and holds the annual meeting of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce for five years.

This annual meeting is not only a summary of last year, but also a prospect for this year.

"The Chamber of Commerce made a net profit of 9 million yuan last year." Zhou Quan reported a number, and then the people around him were in a commotion.

Everyone present, either the steward of a powerful family, or a concubine, like Cai Xing and other big officials, simply appeared in person.

They had all seen the market, but they were still intimidated by the number of nine million.

"Strictly speaking, the net profit is 9.41 million and 372 yuan, so the national tax paid last year was more than 1.5 million yuan."

"Is this overseas trade really so profitable?" Zhao Youzhang's eyes sparkled.

"Yes, according to our original contract, fifty percent of the profits will be distributed by everyone, and fifty percent will remain in the Chamber of Commerce and put into the operation of the following year, so everyone can calculate how much they can share in the profits of 4.7 million yuan."

There was a buzz all around, 4.7 million guan, at the beginning, all the shares of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce were 1,000 shares, and Zhou Quan himself monopolized 400 shares, that is to say, he alone wanted to take away 40% of the profits, which was converted into a total of 1.9 million guan!

Liang Shicheng controlled the snow sugar trade, but how much money could he make a year from snow sugar? 800,000 to the top, less than half of Zhou Quan!

Last year, the tax and trade profits obtained by the Great Song Dynasty through Rongcheng were only five million yuan, which was only slightly higher than half of the income of the Chamber of Commerce!

"Last year's most profitable business was the Battle of Jeju Island, where we spent less than 400,000 guan and earned 2.6 million guan. The second is the trade with Japan, glass, cotton cloth, ironware, porcelain, as well as books, Buddhist utensils, are also extremely popular, the income reached 4.4 million yuan. The third is trade with Goryeo, with a profit of 1,100,000 guan, and then trade with the rest of the merchants, as well as the sale of ships to the country, etc., with a profit of 1,300,000 guan......"

Zhou Quan reported the data one by one, and he knew that soon these numbers would spread all over the Jingshi, and then, more people would set their sights on the sea under the stimulus of money.

This will add a lot of competitors to the Donghai Chamber of Commerce, but Zhou Quan doesn't care, at present, the Donghai Chamber of Commerce has an absolute advantage in the supply and market, these competitors can either only eat what they don't eat, or open up another source and market.

The eyes of Zhao Youzhang, Zheng Tong and other imperial relatives flashed with greed.

These emperors, relatives, look beautiful, but they are actually in an embarrassing position in the Great Song Dynasty. There is no real power at all, and it is stared at by the officials, and they will be beaten at every turn. That being the case, it is only right to use your identity to make more money.

Like Zhao Youzhang, before coming today, several uncles in the clan, or princesses who recruited horses, came to inquire, and it is said that they also have the heart to set up a Great Song Dynasty Royal Chamber of Commerce.

Zhao Youzhang disagreed.

"The profits I gave you have also been brought back...... However, because copper coins are hard to come by, this is what I brought back. ”

Zhou Quan said as someone presented the brocade box.

With Zhou Quan's call, representatives of various families stepped forward one after another, and when Zhao Youzhang came up, he saw Zhou Quan take out a few pieces of paper from the brocade box.

The paper is of excellent quality, and each sheet is beautifully printed, and it looks far superior to the engraving plates on the market today, both in terms of style and ink.

"The payment voucher of the Huaxia Donghai Chamber of Commerce - worth 100,000 yuan."

"What is this?" Everyone held a piece of paper worth 100,000 yuan each, and some did not know what to do.

"There is too much money to be pledged to Jingshi, millions of yuan, and it can't be shipped for a while, so I will use this as a certificate, and within three months, all the money will go to Jingshi, and after that, you can use this as a certificate to withdraw it from the money village of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce."

"It turned out to be a meeting." There was a slight hesitation in everyone's hearts.

This kind of voucher is not a new thing in the Great Song Dynasty, and various banknotes such as huizi, jiaozi, and qian yin have appeared for a long time.

It's just that this thing really doesn't hold its value, if it weren't for Zhou Quan's reputation, I'm afraid everyone would doubt the credibility of this thing.

"Rest assured, look."

Zhou Quan clapped his hands again, and saw a few strong men, puffing and puffing to carry the two big boxes in.

Zhou Quan walked over and lifted the two large boxes, and when everyone looked at them, they all changed color.

Gold!

In the whole box, there were neatly stacked gold bricks!

At this time, the main currency in circulation in the Great Song Dynasty was copper coins, which were also sandwiched with iron coins, and the currency used in various places was inconsistent. But no matter what currency is used, the value of gold is strong!

"The two boxes are a total of 500 gold bricks, each weighing a catty, at the current market price, each two pieces of gold are worth 20 yuan, and here a total of 160,000 yuan. There are a total of ten such big boxes that came to Beijing with me this time. ”

Zhou Quan's words seemed to be calm and clear, two boxes are five hundred catties of yellow catties, then ten boxes are two thousand five hundred catties of gold - at this time, the price of gold in the capital has soared, twice as much as when the true sect was in the past, such ten boxes of gold, but 800,000 yuan!

Of course, Zhou Quan would not tell them that among the ten big boxes, only these two contained gold bricks, and the other eight were silver ingots.

Trade with Japan did bring a huge amount of gold and silver to the Donghai Chamber of Commerce, but if this gold and silver could not be turned into productive forces and real materials, then it would only depreciate, but it would impact the already fragile economic system of the Great Song Dynasty.

Moreover, Zhou Quan is also very interested in another thing.

Minting rights!

"Alas, Brother Zhou, just tell us what you want to do!" After turning around twice in his mind, and he didn't understand Zhou Quan's intentions, Zheng Tong coughed and said.

"In this house, I want to build three buildings, the first of which is a shopping mall, where groceries from the north and south and overseas products can be gathered; The second building is a money bank, which can be used for currency exchange, and can also be used to fly money for the convenience of merchants. For example, you can use the Huizi voucher in your hand to exchange it for gold or silver in the bank, or you can take it to Xuzhou or Haizhou and cash it out in the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce there! ”

Qian Zhuang was Zhou Quan's first step in obtaining the right to mint money, but this required sufficient gold, silver and precious metals as reserves, and in the case of the Great Song Dynasty issuing banknotes in Sichuan, he had to prepare at least 28 percent of the amount of currency issued.

Relying only on the gold, silver and copper exchanged from the Japanese trade is far from enough, Zhou Quan's eyes at this time are already focused on the gold mine that is flowing! (To be continued.) )