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"Isn't it just two million stone rice?"

To be the king in the future, Chen Huaiqing, who is now the prefect of Taiwan in the Ming Dynasty, leaned back in his chair, played with a tea cup produced by Ruyao in his hand, and said in a leisurely manner: "The two observers of Huaidong are close friends with the old man, and they will not listen to Jia Yidao's words. ”

Chen Dexing has already ordered the purchase of 2 million stone brown rice to be shipped north to the Taiwan government. Moreover, he also reminded Chen Huaiqing to pay attention to Jia Rudao's grain embargo -- with Liu Xiaoyuan's spy here, Chen Dexing certainly already knew Kublai Khan's wishful thinking.

However, in Chen Dexing's view, this wishful thinking is simply wishful thinking. Now the territory of the Great Song Dynasty is not Jiangnan, but in Jinghu, Lianghuai, and Sichuan, which are all the territory of the feudal towns. A group of festival envoys and observation envoys were originally at odds with the Great Song Dynasty, how could they listen to Jia's words? And there is no way to listen to it, they are still waiting to sell the grain for money and pay the army. Whoever wants to impose an embargo doesn't want their old lives?

If Jia Rudao dares to block the water transportation of the Yangtze River, it is estimated that there is no need for the Ming Dynasty to send troops, and a group of feudal towns upstream will rebel.

Of course, Chen Huaiqing knew this truth, so he was not in a hurry at all. Because in the past six months, he has made considerable progress in contacting Fang Zhen and the Hao clan in the Southern Dynasty.

Since he became the prefect of Taiwan, his days in Changguo County are very leisurely, and he doesn't take care of much in government affairs, so he throws them to his son Chen Defang and Huang Zhiwen (Huang Zhishen's brother) and Shen Cong'an (the patriarch of Shen's family).

And he himself is busy with a big thing - a big marriage event! It's not that he wants to get married, but he is looking for a suitable marriage partner for the unmarried teenagers of the Anfeng Chen family. Send the women of the Chen family to the unmarried young masters of various feudal towns. At the same time, he also married the ladies of various feudal towns into the Chen family...... A group of Chen family members who have not studied for a few years and were still farming two or three years ago. Now they are all married to the daughter and granddaughter of the Lord of Fang Town!

Moreover, Lao Chen's target is not only the lord of Fang Town, but also the daughter of the Great Song Zhongliang! sent a monk from Putuo Mountain to be a matchmaker. What rooftop Jia's family (Jia seems to be their family). Yinxian Shijia (Shi Miyuan's family), Duchang Jiang family (Jiang Wanli's family), Suizhou Li family (Li Tingzhi's family), Quzhou Confucius family (Kong's Nanzong), Pucheng Zhenjia (Zhendexiu family) and other famous families of the Southern Dynasties, all have Putuo Mountain's monks with his marriage proposal letters to visit.

In the eyes of Chen Huaiqing, who was once a member of the Southern Dynasties, none of these Southern Dynasties would be martyred for the Great Song Dynasty. Now they are against Chen Dexing, it is nothing more than the fear that the disrespectful Chen dynasty will take away their interests.

But if the Chen dynasty can marry them and turn them into relatives of the Chen dynasty. What is it to ensure that one of them retires with the country, and change the surname Chen to be the emperor? Even if the Mongolian Tartars called, Chen Huaiqing didn't believe that these big clans had the backbone to die for the country, and Mongolia was already worthy of the Great Song Dynasty.

"My lord, these 2 million stone meters are not a decimal number, you have to buy it quickly, if it is late, I am afraid that it will not be too late to transport it north."

It was Tran Duc Fong, who had now moved the General Trade Department from Quanzhou to Changguo and Dinghai. A yamen was set up in Dinghai under the Great Song Dynasty and a yamen in the Shen family under the Great Ming Dynasty. The yamen of the Shen family was the mainstay, and the yamen of Dinghai was responsible for dividing the accounts to the Song State.

Although the two sides of Song and Ming are now close to turning faces. However, no one is willing to give up the big fat meat of the sea trade -- the Great Song Dynasty controls the market, and the Ming Dynasty controls the transportation line, and if the two sides do not cooperate, there is no way to eat the big meat of the sea trade. Tens of millions of tax losses a year. Whether it is Chen Dexing or Jia Yidao, there is no way to bear it.

Therefore, the General Trade Division, which straddles the Song and Ming dynasties, has now become a "blind spot". No matter how tense the relationship between the two families is, no one is willing to take this yamen.

In the past two or three years, he has been in charge of things related to maritime trade. Therefore, Tran also understands the maritime business now. Know that once autumn and winter begin, the wind direction changes to the northwest. It is difficult to transport millions of stone grain north.

Chen Huaiqing nodded, "Got it." He turned his head and asked Qu Huajie, the head of Tiandaozhuang, who was sitting in the lobby of his yamen, "Shuijingqu, how much cash can be withdrawn from Tiandaozhuang's account?" ”

Qu Fatzi smiled and said, "Cash?" There are three kinds of cash in the account of Tiandaozhuang: gold, silver and copper coins, and if they are converted into copper coins, there will be about 75,354,640 yuan in the treasury of Shenjiamen General Village alone! That's the same number last month. It should be a little more now. ”

"How much?" Chen Huaiqing didn't seem to hear clearly.

"More than 75 million guan!"

"How can there be so much?" Chen Huaiqing gasped, now the annual income of the Ming Dynasty is less than 15 million yuan, and a small Tiandaozhuang Zongzhuang can actually propose five times the amount, which is also terrifying, right? How many days has the Ming Dynasty occupied Changguo! Shenjiamen's Tiandaozhuang Zongzhuang compound has only been built for a few days? How did you save tens of millions in the blink of an eye?

"Is it much?" Qu Fatzi smiled, and counted with his fat and short fingers, "Actually, it's not much, and the 'gentry' sold by Taiwan alone in the past half a year is no less than 30,000...... Not only are the big businessmen who run to the sea gentry, but even the merchants in Lin'an, Mingzhou, and Quanzhou have quietly settled down to buy land and build houses in Changguo.

So many gentry are wealthy, each person saves a few thousand, isn't there so much? What's more, our Tiandaozhuang has opened branches in Penghu, Yazhou, Goryeo, Japan, Annam, Cham, Ryukyu, Srivijaya, Khmer and Sukhothai. You can fly money (exchange) to and fro, just the precipitation in the flying money (in this era, there is no wire transfer, the remittance time is very long, and there is no interest during the period) There are more than 10 million yuan. ”

It's really not bad money!

Chen Huaiqing picked up the teacup and took a sip, suppressed the surprise in his heart, and smiled for a long time before he smiled: "Mr. Shuijing is doing a good business!" ”

Qu Fatzi said: "Where is this going to do business?" It is clear that we are heavy on business and control the sea, and we share the world with the business gentry. Those maritime merchants who are close to us are willing to naturalize Daming and buy a gentry, and then bring all the accumulated savings to Shenjiamen City and Changguo County, so that they can do business with peace of mind. To put it bluntly, this is our Ming Dynasty that can reassure the wealthy businessmen who run the sea. ”

Da Song is a scholar and a doctor in the world, so he can make readers feel at ease. You can ignore what is going on outside the window and read only the books of the sages. Moreover, because most of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty were scholars, they always looked up to scholars, although they did not give scholars many privileges in law as in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but in practice, scholars still took a great advantage. Therefore, the Great Song Dynasty is the ideal country that the world's scholars yearn for.

However, the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty inevitably became vassals of the scholar class. If there is no certain background, just one and buy can make any wealthy businessman bankrupt. And those merchants who ran to the sea were also businessmen and thieves, all of them had criminal records, and many of them were carrying human lives. In the Song Kingdom, it is not unjust to catch a maritime merchant and then behead him on the charge of piracy.

Why did the Ming and Qing dynasties in history ban China? It's not all because of ignorance, conservatism or bureaucracy trying to monopolize the export trade. It's because overseas is a place where there is no royal law, and the maritime merchants who can crisscross the sea do not have good people who abide by the law at all. None of the merchant ships that went to sea could withstand strict inspection, and the bed crossbows that were forbidden to be possessed by the people and the iron weapons (weapons) that were forbidden to be exported were enough to condemn all the sailors of a shipload to death!

With the advent of the age of H medicine weapons, the armament of maritime merchants will inevitably become more and more powerful, and in the so-called Age of Discovery, no sea ship dares to trade in the open sea without bringing a dozen cannons and hundreds of muskets. The maritime merchants of this era were simply private fleets. The Central Dynasty saw them as heretics and potential threats, and it was not surprising that they were banned.

Although the Great Song Dynasty turned a blind eye to the use of maritime force out of financial necessity (the Song Dynasty practiced a system of special conscription rather than military household serfs). But if you take a copy of the laws of the Great Song Dynasty and flip through them, all of these maritime merchants can be punished with death. So it's very normal for them to be upset.

The gentry (gentry) system introduced by Chen Dexing allowed maritime merchants with the status of gentry (gentry) to legally possess all weapons except bronze cannons. For young and strong maritime merchants who can still navigate the sea, it may not matter whether it is legal or not. But for those middle-aged and elderly maritime pirates who have washed their hands or want to wash their hands of gold, the attraction of "legal" is self-evident. Moreover, the gentry (gentry) also had the privilege of electing county and city councilors, who in turn could elect and impeach county magistrates and supervise the taxation and financial expenditures of each county and city. With this indirect power of deliberation, the gentry (gentry) did not have to worry about being slaughtered as fat sheep by petty officials and officials.

Therefore, in less than a year, it is natural that so much money has flowed into Changguo County and Shenjiamen City. And this process is still ongoing.

Chen Huaiqing laughed and said, "Since it's not bad for money, then I'll leave this matter to the two of you." He pointed to his sons Chen Defang and Shui Jingqu, "The second brother wants 2 million stones, let's get rich again and buy 2.5 million stones." Today is the fifth day of the second month, and within three months, before the fifth day of the fifth month of May, all 2.5 million stone brown rice must be loaded into the north for transportation. ”

"Okay, dare to make a military order, this matter is foolproof!"

"My lord, when the child turns around, he will gather a few sea merchants and ask them to come forward and buy them."

Qu Fatzi patted his chest and packed the ticket, Chen Defang was also full of confidence, none of them thought that there were more than a few people who were not bad for money. (To be continued......)