"The virtuous niece is declining." Liu Yongtong saw that Baniang's eyes were red, and he hurriedly comforted him, this is not the time to talk about personal relationships, so he wanted to change the topic and only looked at Li Yongxing.

Li Yongxing smiled at this time: "If you go back to your lordship, this time you asked your lord to come to the mansion, it is really for the court to borrow money this time." I should have gone to the state office a few days ago to meet my lord, but the caravan was about to return to Hong Kong in the autumn, and there were too many affairs, and because this loan was really a big deal, the villain thought that it would be more appropriate to discuss it with his peers first, and then return to the adult, so it was delayed until today, and I hope that the lord will forgive me. ”

"Oh," Liu Yongtong dragged out his voice, paused for a moment, and then said lightly, "So, Master Li has discussed it with his colleagues in the Chamber of Commerce?" Then let's talk to the official. ”

"Yes. The reason why everyone gathers in the villain's house today is for something. The court is in need, we are the people of the Great Song Dynasty, although the status is humble, but we should also do our best for the country, it is rare that when the court needs us, how dare we not do our best? Fortunately, everyone is willing to do their best to share the worries of adults and make the loan as perfect as possible. ”

Speaking of this, Li Yongxing stopped, but Liu Yongtong didn't answer, only picked up a few teacups and took a sip of tea, waiting for Li Yongxing to continue.

Li Yongxing didn't care, with a smile on his face, he said: "We have agreed on the amount of donations today, and the amount of borrowing that our Quanzhou Chamber of Commerce can determine so far is 614,000 yuan. This is only the money raised by the peers of the various commercial houses who are qualified to participate in the deliberations of the Chamber of Commerce, and if you can give me some more time to persuade the small commercial houses in the city, I can raise some more funds. ”

"You, what did you say? 614,000? ”

Rao is Liu Yongtong has been in the officialdom for many years, and when he heard this number, he was also shocked and almost jumped up from the chair?

What is the concept of 614,000?

The current annual fiscal revenue of the Great Song Kingdom is about 120 million guan, which is also said to be more than 100 million guan, relatively speaking, the figure of 600,000 guan is not eye-catching, but Li Yongtong knows that this more than 120 million guan is all the financial revenue of the country's 392 state capitals, and on average, if the state capital is each month, a state capital is only more than 400,000 guan a year's tax revenue.

In fact, the accounts cannot be counted like this.

Although commercial income accounted for sixty or seventy percent of the tax revenue of the Great Song Dynasty. But in fact, nearly half of them were not collected by the state governments, because many commodities related to the national economy and people's livelihood in the Great Song Dynasty, such as salt, tea, wine, alum, and imported goods, were forbidden to monopolize and buy together, which was a state-run monopoly to put it bluntly. And the profits obtained from these monopolies are more important than commercial taxes in the commercial income of the state.

In other words, the tax revenue of real commercial circulation actually accounts for only about 30% of the total commercial income.

As a Haikou city, Quanzhou's tax revenue is naturally higher than that of ordinary state capitals, but the more than 600,000 yuan is close to the total fiscal revenue of a year. You must know that Quanzhou's annual tax, in addition to one or two percent of agriculture, the remaining eighty or ninety percent, and then deduct the income created by monopoly products, the real commercial tax revenue, although higher than that of other inland cities, is only about 200,000.

And the 200,000 yuan of commercial taxes are not all contributed by Quanzhou merchants, because these commercial taxes, in addition to sitting taxes, there are also commercial taxes from all over the country that pass through Quanzhou.

Quanzhou's economy is prosperous, and the main business is overseas goods, so the country's merchants come and go frequently, and these business taxes, at least among them, account for as much as half.

That is to say, these 610,000 yuan, in addition to the taxes paid by the merchants and the agricultural taxes, are almost the sum of the commercial taxes of at least five years in Quanzhou. It is equivalent to the total fiscal revenue of three or four rich counties for two years.

Moreover, these 610,000 guan were only taken out by these people here. And that's not counting the many more small businesses.

Li Yongxing also said that those small merchants will also come forward by the chamber of commerce to negotiate the amount of loans......

Although the small merchants are small, they are like stars in the sky, and the number is so large, if the Chamber of Commerce really organizes all these people to participate in borrowing and raising funds, what kind of large number will it be?

Liu Yongtong's shock at this time can be imagined. He really couldn't figure out why these merchants in Quanzhou, or Li Yongxing, Lin Zhaoqing, and Banniang, who represented the merchants in Quanzhou, did this?

Therefore, after the shock, what he felt was not joy.

Liu Yong's face was undisguised with surprise, and Banniang was not surprised at all.

Fortunately, the Great Song in which she lives is not the same as the Great Song of the Zhao royal family in her previous life. In the Great Song Kingdom of the Zhao royal family, an alliance of the Yuanyuan, the decadent Great Song Kingdom, the annual contribution to the Northern Liao is 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 horses of silk, although the current Great Song Dynasty is different from the Great Song Kingdom of the Zhao royal family in many places, but according to Lu XVII, who is proficient in history, the level of economic development is almost the same.

At the time of the alliance, the state's annual fiscal revenue was about 22 million yuan, but now, it is more than 122 million yuan, nearly six times more.

Compared with the present, one is that the founding of the country has not been long ago, a year is the founding of the country for nearly a hundred years, the state fiscal revenue has increased sixfold, the increase in the price level, and the increase in the financial people, in fact, is about the same, at the beginning of the founding of the country, a pound of rice was about seven or eight yuan, and now it is thirty or forty yuan. In this way, these 600,000 guan is almost the amount of annual coins contributed by the Great Song Dynasty of the Zhao Dynasty to the Liao State in a year.

It can be seen that the 610,000 yuan loan is an astonishing amount.

Therefore, Liu Yongtong's shock was completely unexpected by Banniang and the others. And she has planned so much, isn't this the effect she wants?

And that's just the beginning. Those small merchants, in the end, the amount that can be raised will not be much worse.

Coupled with the current situation, Banniang has reason to believe that she will make the high-ranking officials and lords of the entire Great Song Kingdom look at the merchants of the Great Song Kingdom with admiration.

She wants to take her business path further in the Great Song Dynasty, but it is impossible to achieve it with her own strength. It is also fundamental to change the country's business environment.

"What do you want?" Liu Yongtong said in a deep voice.

"The adults think too much, and the villains have nothing else to ask for, but they are just willing to do their part for the country." Li Yongxing pretended to be relaxed and replied, "I invited the adults here today, just to let the adults know in their hearts, as for this money, within half a month, it must all be handed over to the adults." ”

"Really?"

"How dare a villain speak in front of an adult?"

Although Liu Yongtong didn't believe that these people would really ask for anything else when they came up with this huge amount of money, there were many people at this time, and even if there were any requirements, they would come to ask for it at this time, so they didn't ask any more. Since Li Yongxing said that the money would be in place within half a month, he didn't find him to play tricks on him. He solved the trouble in front of him, and as for the rest of the matter, he just left it for later.

He still doesn't believe it, he can't play these merchants anymore.

After thinking about it, Liu Yong made up his mind, and then he showed great joy: "If this money can really be delivered as scheduled, this official will definitely go to the court to ask for merit for you." ”

Li Yongxing said with a smile: "Although we are just doing our best for the country in the conscience of a businessman, I didn't expect anything, but if we can really get the court's commendation, it will be a great blessing for us and other businessmen." Regardless of success or not, the villain is here to thank the adults for our businessmen in Quanzhou. ”

So everyone rejoices.

From time to time, stewards came, and the table was arranged, and a group of people went to the banquet hall, and there were six or seven tables. Because it was over, everyone also let go of eating and singing, and the scene was very lively.

Although Banniang is a woman, she has made men's clothes, and the south is not as good as the north, the original atmosphere is open, and women show up to run the industry, which abounds, and when she was in the capital, there is a world of difference because of the inconvenience of women's identity.

As a member of the business community in Quanzhou, and the reason why this happy situation exists this time is completely planned by her, coupled with the personal relationship between her family and Liu Yongtong, she was seated next to Liu Yongtong, the lord of Zhizhou.

At the end of the dinner, it was already the moon rising in the sky, and everyone said goodbye. Banniang originally came with Lin Zhaoqing, because she didn't take a sedan chair, and drank some wine, Li Yongxing was sending her off in the car on the house, but Liu Yongtong said: "The virtuous niece has not come by car, and there is no need to bother with the car in Master Li's house, uncle and you are on the way, you are another girl's house, or I will send you back, it is safer." ”

He is the Lord of Zhizhou, in the city of Quanzhou, as long as he doesn't want to lose his head, who would dare to beat him, the father official's idea? It's really safe. But by the way, it's a bit of a refuge.

Banniang knew what was happening today, he must have wanted to find out something from himself, and besides, he was also nearly sixty people, and because of the relationship between the third uncle and his family, he was always a nephew in front of him. smiled and said: "It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, and then my niece will bother my uncle." ”

Zhizhou is an official rank from the fifth grade. In the Great Song Dynasty as an official, the five products are a threshold, on the five products, if you are lucky, the future official career is bright, such as Liu Yongtong and his uncles, serious officials from the Jinshi department, it is not impossible to enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister in the future. Therefore, the treatment of five-grade officials is worlds different from those below the fifth grade.

Liu Yongtong came by official sedan chair again, the sedan chair is indeed very spacious, Banniang got on the sedan chair, waited for the sedan chair, and walked for a while, Banniang smiled and said: "Uncle must have doubts about today's events, right?" ”

Liu Yongtong said that this girl is really smart, and after a pause, he said: "You are in business, so naturally you know better than your uncle what kind of sum this 610,000 yuan is, how can I not be surprised?" I just ask you, what conditions can the Chamber of Commerce have for this day? ”

Seeing his solemn tone, Banniang sat up straight, and said, "Uncle's worries, my niece can get a glimpse of one or two." But uncle don't have to worry. I didn't dare to hide it from my uncle, the 610,000 yuan, as well as the fact that the Chamber of Commerce came forward to raise funds, was actually facilitated by my niece. ”

She is not a living Lei Feng, she has done good deeds, how can she not leave a name?