Chapter 275: The Tea and Horse Trade (7)
"Miss Cui, just now the emperor and the ministers in the court sent a letter, and he agreed to my plan." Chen Fei said.
And Cui Xiuxiu immediately asked: "What is your plan?" ”
Chen Fei immediately explained: "In fact, it is very simple, that is, we will no longer insist that the imperial court personally come forward to carry out the tea and horse trade, but that those founding heroes of the imperial court will send their families to form a merchant group, and you scholars will also look for some people to organize a merchant group to trade tea and horses with the Turks." This means that there are two organizations in the country that are engaged in the tea and horse trade, and both of them can obtain war horses. As for the ordnance superintendent of the imperial court, an arms procurement bureau was set up to be responsible for the procurement of ordnance. However, this institution is managed by a petty official from a poor family, and other families of the founding heroes of the imperial court cannot send people to manage it, and your scholar clan cannot send people to manage it. ”
Cui Xiuxiu then asked, "Is there any deep meaning in this?" ”
"Actually, this situation is very simple to say, that is, the family and the founding heroes kick the juju together, and the Hanmen clan is the arbitrator, that is, it's that simple!" Chen Fei said jokingly.
"Hehe, your analogy is apt!" Cui Xiuxiu also said.
Cui Xiuxiu heard that Chen Fei was actually making Guanlong Group and Shandong Shizu Group compete with each other in business. The Guanlong Group and the Shandong Shizu Group went together to exchange tea for war horses with the Turks, and both sides also relied on their own abilities, and how many war horses they could exchange for depended on their own skills. And how to maximize their profits is also up to them.
The two groups of Guanlong Group and Shandong Shizu Group compete together, which is equivalent to having rivals in competition with each other, so they are not afraid of monopoly. If one party is allowed to monopolize it, then the final loss will definitely be the country's finances, and the tea farmers who grow tea. Therefore, in order to safeguard the interests of the two sides, it is natural that they cannot be allowed to monopolize the market.
But on the other hand, the imperial court could not allow them to compete. It's not that the more competitive, the better. Because if many people in the country are engaged in this tea and horse trade, it will become a seller's market for the Turks. At that time, if the domestic competition in the Tang Dynasty is too fierce, it will be easy for the Turks to kill each other, sow discord among each other, and finally let them get the maximum benefits. And now Chen Fei proposed that the Guanlong Group and the Shandong Shizu Group compete with each other, so as to maintain the competition is not too fierce, and also maintain a certain degree of competition. In this way, the Tang Dynasty can get greater benefits from the Turks, and then it will not be too bad internally for those tea farmers and those state finances.
As for the Arms Procurement Agency, which allows those poor men to control the arms supervision, in fact, it is also up to the poor officials to choose. Because of the poor officials, they face pressure from both sides. They are often forced to choose the side with low price and good quality. If the price is low and the quality is good, then the poor officials will naturally choose their side in order to save finances. This is equivalent to a poor official as the referee, so that the interests of all parties can be maintained as much as possible. As for the people of the Shi clan and the Long Group, they can also obtain corresponding huge profits.
"Hey, I'm dancing on three eggs, I can't step on any of them!" Chen Fei said helplessly.
"Pss ”
Chen Fei's idea was actually based on taking care of the interests of the Shi clan Guanlong Group and the Hanmen in all aspects, so Chen Fei also laughed at himself for standing on three eggs and dancing, if he stepped on it, it wouldn't work. offended the Guanlong Group. An Chenfei didn't have any future, because Emperor Li Tang was also a member of the Guanlong Group. And although Chen Fei predicted that the Shi clan would decline in a few decades, it was also a matter of decades later, and now the Shi clan is still very prosperous. If you offend the scholars, you will also be unlucky. As for the Hanmen, it is absolutely impossible to offend, if he offends the Hanmen, then Chen Fei will betray his current class, and he will not be a person inside and outside at that time. So. Now Chen Fei is standing on top of three eggs and dancing, stepping on that one. Chen Fei finally had the emotion of Yan Xishan back then, very helpless! The most important thing is that your strength is not strong. So you have to be tied up in everything you do. If Chen Fei had a group of officials who could follow him, he would not have to be so afraid. But now Chen Fei's so-called comrades, either in Shuo County, or in Chang'an, have a few friends, but they can't help themselves.
"Miss Xiuxiu, after a while, you and the emperor will discuss the detailed methods for entering the customs and conducting a large-scale tea and horse trade with the Turks. I hope that you can come up with a plan as soon as possible, that is, whether it is your scholar clan or the Guanlong group of the imperial court, you must exchange horses with the Turks at a unified price, even if there is not too much difference. Otherwise, it will be vicious competition, and in the end, let the Turks get the benefits and look at the joke! Chen Fei said.
"Well, after all, we are all Han Chinese, and if we fight in front of the Turks for money, it will be a shame." Cui Xiuxiu said.
Of course Cui Xiuxiu understands this truth, after all, their Shandong scholars and imperial court are mainly Han people, even if it is the eldest grandson Wuji, they are all Sinicized Xianbei people, and they will all be Han people in the next few generations. Even whether the eldest grandson Wuji is willing to recognize that he is a Xianbei person is also a question. Therefore, since they are all under the same ideology, they naturally can't let the Turks benefit, and they have to look at the jokes of the Tang Dynasty. So uniform pricing, that's inevitable. And everyone is mainly competing internally, through internal concessions, or to improve quality to win orders from the imperial court. And Chen Fei also suggested strictly controlling those privileges meddling in the transactions, if once the privileges intervene, then I am afraid that the whole market will be ruined in the end.
Next, Cui Xiuxiu also continued to take the initiative to receive the funds sent by the imperial court, and the eight hundred horses were bought by the imperial court with money, and the money will be used to buy the family members within the Cui family, so that they can support Cui Fu to ascend to the position of the head of the family, and then they can gradually occupy the righteousness of the family leader, and finally gradually seize power. Now it has reached the most critical moment, and we can't ignore it in the slightest, otherwise the final result may be in vain. (To be continued......)