Chapter 108: Maritime Merchants, Pirates, and Navies Ask for Collection
Millions of dollars a year! It's not RMB, it's not a huizi, it's a million copper coins from the Southern Song Dynasty!
It's almost an impossible task, at least in Guo Fu'er's opinion.
Guo Fu'er sighed softly and said, "Second brother, if I didn't pour cold water on you, the annual income of a million-yuan deal is not something that our Chen family can do, or even the privy counsellor can't do this kind of business." Even the Pu family in Quanzhou, I don't know how many people are sharing accounts behind the millions of dollars this year! ”
"I know, I know all ......" Chen Dexing nodded, he really knew what was behind the Pu family's wealthy family? It's not a backstage, and it's not an official body!
Although there are also people in the Pu family who are officials, Pu Shougeng himself and his brother Pu Shousheng both have official status, the former also served as a director of Quanzhou City, and the latter served as the governor of Meizhou, Guangdong. But an official at this level can't cover up the income of millions of yuan a year...... The emperor of the Zhao family and the bureaucrats of the Southern Song Dynasty were not fuel-efficient lamps! The reason why they didn't move the Pu family was not because they were soft-hearted, and it wasn't because the Pu family had already taken out enough wealth to feed the official family and the high-ranking officials and dignitaries of the Great Song Dynasty -- this was an impossible task!
The reason why no one has wiped out the wealth of the Pu family is because they don't dare, because they can't!
The biggest difference between the Pu family in Quanzhou and the thirteen lines of the Qing Dynasty in later generations is that they have 2,000 sea boats, and they do not sit in Quanzhou and wait for business to come to their door, but go to sea to do business. These 2,000 sea ships are actually an armed force! The sea in this era is a place where there is no royal law, if the Pu family's ship is robbed at sea, don't expect the Great Song Dynasty Navy to help out.
They relied on their own force to forge a sea trade route! Because of the use of force, there is maritime trade, monopoly on spice imports, and the current rich people of the Pu family in Quanzhou.
Therefore, the Quanzhou Pu family, which has 2,000 sea ships, is not only a businessman, but also a military group that is rampant on the South Sea Sea! Although the military power of the Pu family could not go to war with the land forces of the Southern Song Dynasty. But in the Nanyang area, it must be a force that can run amok.
Moreover, the Southern Song Dynasty did not really have a navy that could be used in the ocean, once they tore their faces with the Pu family, their sea power should not harass the southeast coast, as long as they temporarily locked the Nanyang trade route, they could let the Great Song Dynasty, which was on the verge of financial bankruptcy, drink a pot......
Therefore, the Great Song Dynasty would rather issue Chu coins indiscriminately than slaughter the Pu family in Quanzhou as a fat pig. Otherwise, the Pu family would have been killed and turned into pirates, and the cities on the southeast coast of the Southern Song Dynasty would have been sending money to the increasingly scarce purse of the Zhao official family for a long time.
Chen Dexing smiled coldly and said, "What the Pu family can do, I can also do, and I will do it better than them!" This year's millions of copper coins, I can earn sooner or later! ”
Guo Fu'er turned sideways slightly, looking at Chen Dexing with some uncertainty, the income of one million copper coins a year is a hot number, and she also knows that Chen Dexing is not an insatiable person, if he needs so much copper money, there must be millions of expenses, how much money to get in is not easy, to spend it, I am afraid it is even more difficult......
Guo Fu'er raised her eyebrows slightly, her silver teeth lightly devoured her red lips, and said, "Second brother, I know that you have great ambitions, and I also know that your great ambitions are difficult and dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will ...... But I'm your mother, and I'm here to help you no matter what! ”
Chen Dexing looked at this mother, who was only seven years older than his biological age in this life, and his pretty face showed a kind of firmness that he had never seen before-this woman is always one with herself!
"Mother," Chen Dexing was really moved, he nodded, "With your words, the child will rest assured...... As for what the child should do, it is inconvenient to tell the mother now, but the child can promise the mother that he will not let the mother take the slightest risk no matter what...... Even if the child is crushed! ”
He was already thinking about sending Guo Fu'er out of the country when necessary, maybe to Dongying, or to a more distant place.
Guo Fu'er's eyes flickered, but she shook her head slightly: "Second brother, what are you talking about?" If you are crushed, how can your mother live alone? If you really want to be crushed, your mother will suffer with you! ”
This is the true oneness, advancing and retreating together, living and dying together! Chen Dexing's heart suddenly rose a warm current.
Chen Dexing nodded heavily and said solemnly: "Okay!" We're all together! ”
"Second brother, what do you want your mother to do, just say it!"
"Well," Chen Dexing stared at Guo Fu'er and said slowly: "Mother, although the child's goal is to replace the Pu family, no matter how big the business is, it starts from a small place. The big deal of spices is not something that my family can touch for the time being, and I can't reach Nanyang at the moment when I am under the control of the Thunderbolt Naval Army. But I have something to do with it in the Northland...... Mother, is there any money to be made in the trade with the Northland? ”
"Northland relations?" Guo Fu'er was stunned. "Who is it?"
Chen Dexing spit out two words in a low voice: "Yidu!" ”
Guo Fu'er's eyes lit up: "Is it reliable?" ”
"Very reliable!" Chen Dexing lowered his voice, "The monk has already gone to Yidu, and the contact is with the big man of the Li family in Yidu." ”
Guo Fu'er said: "That's true, medicinal herbs, fur, cattle and sheep, and pearls and jade can all make a lot of money...... It's just that the fields in Chuzhou and Xuyi are in the hands of the Xia family, and we want to take goods from there, and we have to buy and collect taxes according to the rules. ”
The commerce of the Song Dynasty was developed, but the commercial tax was extremely heavy! The taxation of foreign trade was even more severe, and the commercial tax of the Southern Song Dynasty was divided into two types: a monetary tax and a de facto tax in kind. Among them, the currency tax has become less heavy due to the continuous depreciation of the Huizi. However, buying (and buying) is a very heavy burden, which can reach up to 50% of the imported commercial goods! Of course, Chen Dexing's background is there, and it is impossible for someone to buy (and buy) like this.
But I can still smoke Guo Fuer's flesh pain - and the field is just the beginning, I want to transport the goods to Yangzhou and Lin'an, and there are still many tax cards waiting to be drawn along the way.
Chen Dexing lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "What if you don't go through the field?" I have a navy in my hand, and I can directly deliver the freight to the Gua Chau wharf...... Is this okay? ”
Of course, there is no problem with directly transporting the goods to the naval wharf, and the thunderbolt naval army in front of the emperor is still afraid that the local naval army in Tongzhou, Yangzhou and Lianghuai will come to investigate? Besides...... How many water armies in the Great Song Dynasty did not rely on water? However, Chen Dexing also knows that smuggling is also very professional, especially large-scale smuggling, which cannot be rough and hard, otherwise it will be against the entire Southern Song Dynasty!
Guo Fu'er shook her head and said: "There is no problem with the smuggling of the navy, but if there are too many private goods, it is not easy to sell...... Shopping malls have always been like battlefields, if we throw out a large number of private goods at once, it will definitely damage the wealth of others. If you say that we sell private goods, it is not private, they can give you a private one! ”
"Only small?" Chen Dexing frowned, "How big a deal can you make?" ”
Guo Fu'er pondered for a moment and pondered: "You can't earn a million guan a year, but forty or fifty thousand guan, and then disperse it into a few transactions such as medicinal herbs, furs, and pearls, then it will be foolproof." But...... These benefits cannot be monopolized by my family, at least half of them must be distributed to subordinates and superiors, and it would be good to be able to get 25,000 yuan in the end. ”
Guo Fu'er thought for a while, and then looked at Chen Dexing: "If you really want to be big, you have to have good things that others can't get!" For example, exchanging iron for war horses! ”