"Second brother, our Huaishang Jiangmen are all concurrently engaged in business, and the main business is Huai rice, sea salt and northern and southern goods. Among them, Huai rice is the foundation, Huaishang has few people and more land, who is not sitting on tens of thousands of acres of fertile land? The rice and grain grown must be transported to Lin'an for sale. This kind of business is not allowed by ordinary businessmen, because there are countless tax cards on the canal from Lianghuai to Zhejiang, and if they have to pay taxes according to the regulations, the income from selling rice is not enough to pay taxes! When I arrived in Lin'an, there was one and bought. Therefore, the one who can sell grain for thousands of miles is the one who is Huai Shangmen. You are now in charge of the Thunderbolt Navy in front of the palace, and with such an identity, the tax cards along the canal do not dare to make things difficult, and the buying and selling of rice and grain can be done.

The business of sea salt is a little hot, and the salt class has always been related to the state, and the imperial court is very close. Selling rice to Lin'an can reduce the price of rice in Zhejiang, make life easier for the small people, and evade some taxes, and the court will turn a blind eye. But private salt is different, even if it is two Huai generals, you can't get too much.

The north and south goods are the places where the two Huai Jiangmen really make a windfall. Although the Great Song Dynasty and the Northern Captives fought for more than 100 years, the northern land has never been short of silk and porcelain in the south of the Yangtze River, and the southern part of the Yangtze River has not been short of the furs and medicinal materials in the northern land. It's just that the iron, sulfur, and flame of the south of the Yangtze River cannot be exported to the north, and the good horses of the north cannot be sold to the south. And the trade of goods from the north and south, here in the Great Song Dynasty, at least eighty percent of them are from the two Huai Jiangmen. Our Chen family's Materia Medicao Hall used to be a little bit marginal, but now with the identity of the second brother, it can naturally become bigger......"

Guo Fu'er was full of joy in the cabin of the official ship, holding the account book and dutifully explaining the business experience of the two Huai Jiangmen to Chen Dexing. She has been in Yangzhou for more than ten years, and she has supported the family business of Nuoda alone, and she can really be called good at management. I have long had a thorough understanding of the business experience of this era in the Southern Song Dynasty - how big the background is and how big the business is!

Guo Fuer's original background could support a crude medicine shop and occupy more than 1,000 acres of land outside Yangzhou, but it was impossible to get a glimpse of the big cake of Huaimi's southern transportation and north-south trade. But now, with Chen Dexing's rampant official and the identity of the military leader who supports Wanfu, is there any business on the ground that she Guo Ruren can't do?

The pretty lady said with her eyebrows fluttering, but Chen Dexing still listened a little bored, about the economy and commerce of the Song Dynasty, it was already a beautiful legend in his time. It is as if the Great Song Dynasty in the Middle Ages was already an economic power standing on the threshold of capitalism. But in Chen Dexing's view, two more words have to be added in front of this capitalist threshold - bureaucracy!

However, unlike the Ming Dynasty in history, the Southern Song Dynasty court still has a way to extract a certain amount of benefits from the commercial activities that are almost controlled by the bureaucracy to maintain the country and the army. This is also the reason why the Southern Song Dynasty was able to resist the Mongols for more than forty years, but the Southern Ming Dynasty quickly collapsed under the attack of the Manchus.

But Chen Dexing now clearly feels that the financial resources of the Southern Song Dynasty court are close to collapse! The military salaries and official salaries issued were all paper money that depreciated rapidly, and the face value of 20 guan could not be used as a copper coin. Fortunately, it can also be used to pay taxes and buy forbidden goods (in the foreign trade system of the Song Dynasty, some foreign trade goods needed to be bought by the government at a low price, and then resold to merchants at a higher price), so it could still maintain a certain value. It's just that in the case of indiscriminate issuance of paper money, the value of the currency is still depreciating, and it is a matter of time before it becomes waste paper.

And such a situation has both advantages and disadvantages for yourself! On the one hand, the collapse of the Song Dynasty's finances prevented Chen Dexing's Imperial Thunderbolt Army from getting enough military expenses to raise troops and build weapons, although the imperial court would still supply military supplies at any cost in order to understand the danger of Sichuan, but once the Mongols were defeated, it would become inevitable to reduce military spending. Without sufficient military spending, it is difficult to build and maintain a truly strong navy.

But on the other hand, the Southern Song court's control over the army, which could not pay enough military salaries, was also significantly declining. The collapse of the northern Sichuan defense line and the fall of the Chengdu Plain were not so much caused by the powerful offensive of the Mongol army, but rather a precursor to the Southern Song court's loss of control over the army! This point, as the commander of the Thunderbolt Navy before the Emperor, Chen Dexing also has a personal feeling. The chief officers at all levels of the Perak Navy Army-all commanders, commanders, generals, generals, and team generals, are all Chen people from the artillery army, and the core is the Qionghualou brothers. Although the imperial court will definitely send some military attachés to serve as deputies, the power of the Perak Navy must be firmly controlled by itself.

In such a situation, not to mention the Northern Song Dynasty, which was peaceful in the world, even in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, it could not be done. If Yue Fei's control of the army could reach his current level, Emperor Gaozong would not dare to harm him no matter what.

However, in order to firmly control the army for a long time, it was not enough to rely on the weakening of the financial resources of the Southern Song court. Chen Dexing, who is still familiar with Chinese history, especially the turbulent times of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, knows very well that only warlords who can afford to raise an army can firmly control the army under their command, and if they have stronger financial resources, they can even buy other people's armies......

If you want the officers and soldiers under your command to work hard, you can't just rely on political and ideological work - now it's the Southern Song Dynasty after all, but there is no GCD, there is no truth to liberate all mankind - they must be allowed to get real benefits!

Needless to say, the matter of expanding the army in the future is to feed the 10,000 soldiers of the current Thunderbolt Army, and at least 500,000 yuan must be taken out every year—not huizi, but copper coins or the equivalent of these copper coins. If you want to build your own ships and equipment, you have to set up workshops, buy raw materials, recruit good craftsmen, and establish a system independent of the official handicraft industry of the Southern Song Dynasty...... At least this expenditure has to be doubled, and a million yuan can be spent every year.

Although he can pull the team away to join Li Pu at the right time, how much financial resources does that Yidu Xianggong have? Can you give yourself a million to raise soldiers? It's impossible to think about it.

So this annual cost of millions of yuan, you can only use your own brains to figure it out! But what can I do? Or...... Let's ask the pretty girl.

"One...... A million copper coins! Guo Fu'er coughed a few times in a row, "Second brother, are you going to be a copper coin?" It's so good to make money there! In the entire Great Song Dynasty, in addition to the official family, there is probably only the Quanzhou Pu family who can earn millions of dollars a year! ”

"Quanzhou Pujia? Pu Shou Geng? Chen Dexing frowned slightly, this name he had heard in his later life. How did he make so much money? ”

"Sea trade, spices!" Guo Fu'er said, "The real incense, sandalwood, ashenxiang, frankincense, dragon incense, pepper and other things in the country are all transported from the south by the Pu family's fleet, and I heard that there are no less than 2,000 sea ships in the Pu family's trading house!" Millions of dollars a year are not a problem. How can we compare with the Pu family? The family is a wealthy businessman that stretches for six generations. ”

"2,000 sea ships, millions of ...... a year" Chen Dexing's face suddenly became complicated, and he didn't know what to think about for a while, and after a while, he heard him mutter: "The overlord of the South Seas is in Quanzhou!" Mother, I already know where to go to get these million copper coins! ”