The result of the lottery was naturally a few happy and some sad, and the merchants who drew the second row could only comfort themselves, at least they were a little better than the third and fourth rows, maybe they could put up the signboard a little higher.

But in any case, at least one hundred and nine plots have clear owners, and now they need to pay for the land and start building shops within three months.

The cost of buying land is very cheap, about two acres per piece of land, a total of ten taels of silver, and then many businessmen can't wait to go to the city to sign the construction agreement, the official in charge of building the house is surnamed Lu, is the eight officials of the overseas economic strategy, he specially prepared twelve sets of shop drawings, the businessman can choose one of them, pay off the construction cost, and the store can be accepted after a month.

At this time, huge warehouses were being built in the warehouse area, all owned by the city, which merchants could rent at low prices, and on the docks, thousands of Japanese laborers were ramming the land, mixing lime and rice milk to lay bricks from the port of Luzon.

Although it is a natural harbor, the land on the shore is uneven, and it is necessary to fill in the low-lying areas, cut off the abrupt stones, and then lay them with large bricks, and install rope posts to form a smooth harbor that is several miles long.

Starting from Kunzhou, almost all ports have to be built in this way, so as to make full use of the advantages of the seaport.

"Fanning, are these warehouses really not for sale?" Akihito cheekily followed behind Fanning.

"I will consider selling part of it in the future, but if I don't sell it now, I have already given you a special shop, and in the name of the Li family, you have got two pieces of land with the best location, you are not satisfied, and you still have to buy a warehouse, isn't this putting me on the fire to roast?"

"Actually, you don't have to announce it publicly!"

"!"

Fanning couldn't help but scold: "You think everyone is a fool, you got the best plot, it will be drawn by lottery?" It's better to publicly announce the privilege and explain the reason clearly, you will naturally be rewarded for your contributions, and everyone will naturally have nothing to say. ”

Akihito scratched his head, "Since Fan's firm has contribution, can't we sell another warehouse?" ”

Fanning sighed and said, "The shop has enough plots, so I only put it up for public auction, but there are only thirty warehouses at present, if everyone wants it, how can I divide it?" The top 10 in the year-end transaction have the right to buy the warehouse, you can do it yourself! ”

"We have always been the number one businessman in Quanzhou Port, and there should be no problem."

"That's not necessarily, there are a lot of big businessmen in Guangzhou Port, you can only rank seventh, and you follow very closely, if you are not careful, you will be thrown behind the tenth."

The corners of Akihito's mouth twitched, it turned out that if you had to count the port of Guangzhou, it would be a lot of pressure.

At this time, one of his subordinates came running to inform Akihito that everyone was going to discuss the matter of the Chamber of Commerce, and asked Akihito to rush to the meeting immediately.

Fanning smiled, "Go ahead!" ”

Akihito ran a few steps, then turned back and said, "I'm going to Luzon to deliver elephants, and then I'm going to Brunei City to buy spices, and then back to Quanzhou, can I go all the way?" ”

Fan Ning shook his head, "I'm not going to Luzon, I'm going back to Quanzhou directly, let's see you in Quanzhou!" ”

"Alright! Then we'll see you in Quanzhou. ”

Akihito waved his hand and galloped away.

Fanning looked at the new port, which was in full swing, and then turned and walked in the direction of the barracks.

Early the next morning, Fanning's fleet left Xingang and returned to Quanzhou.

..........

Two years passed quickly, and it was May of the third year of peace.

Fanning has been an overseas economic envoy for almost two and a half years.

In the past two and a half years, the constant news has made him the focus of attention of millions of people in the capital again and again.

In April of the previous year, Luzon Province was opened up by the Overseas Economic and Tourist Prefecture, and a huge amount of gold of more than one million taels was obtained.

In May, the Overseas Economic Strategy established a new port in Nanyang.

In June, Ryukyu Prefecture and New Taipei Prefecture were established.

In October, the overseas Jinglufu prospecting team discovered a huge amount of silver in Japan, and in the same month, Kunzhou transported 5 million taels of silver and 700,000 taels of gold to the Great Song Dynasty.

In February last year, the Luzon Prefecture transported 500,000 taels of gold to the Great Song Dynasty, and in September last year, the third official trade between the Overseas Economic Strategy and Japan was carried out, and the Great Song Dynasty received a net profit of 3 million taels of silver that year.

In May, the Ryukyu Prefecture achieved food self-sufficiency and sent 800,000 taels of silver to the imperial court for the first time.

Just two months ago, Luzon sent another 900,000 taels of gold to the Great Song Dynasty, and Luzon's gold production reached one million taels in just two years.

Overseas development not only brought huge financial revenues to the imperial court, but also brought a lot of unexpected surprises to the people of the Great Song Dynasty, only from the capital, the price of grain and cloth have dropped by two percent, the cotton that has always been one tael of money in the past, the price has been reduced by 20 times, fifty wen one tael, from the year before last year to last year, the cotton from the Ryukyu Province and the Luzon Province imported into the capital as much as one million quintals.

In the past two years, 17 large looms with 3,000 looms have appeared in the vicinity of the capital alone, recruiting nearly 50,000 young female workers, the Luzon Prefecture has openly recruited 100,000 miners and 50,000 grain workers for two and a half years, and the Ryukyu Prefecture has recruited 100,000 grain workers and cotton pickers.

The official and private shipbuilding workshops recruit hundreds of thousands of craftsmen.

These recruitments brought about an unexpected butterfly effect, the wages of ordinary maids in the capital rose from 80 wen a day in the previous year to 100 wen a day this year, and advertisements for tenant farmers in Bada Grange in Kaifeng Prefecture appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal and the tabloids, and the treatment of tenant farmers rose from 50% of the harvest to 60% of the harvest, and if they signed a contract for a long time, there were also discounts.

For a whole year last year, recruitment became the first hot topic of discussion in the whole capital, and when you open the commercial pages of "Hong Kong Economic Daily" and "Tabloid Newspaper", the dense advertisements are all recruitment.

The huge demand for silk and hemp has made the planting enthusiasm of farmers in the Great Song Dynasty unprecedentedly high.

The economy boomed, military spending was compressed, and finances continued to improve, and last year the Great Song Dynasty achieved its first fiscal surplus in 50 years.

Due to the strong demand for the development of various industries, under pressure, the imperial court discussed for more than a year the reform of the craftsman registration finally surfaced, the Empress Dowager Gao officially decreed to abolish the implementation of the hundreds of years of craftsman registration system, the Song Dynasty millions of craftsmen changed to civilian registration, craftsmen can freely choose to go to private and government-run workshops, but the craftsmen of the ordnance supervision are exceptional, although they have also been canceled as craftsmen, but there is nowhere else to make a living, the imperial court still strictly prohibits the manufacture of weapons by the people.

At noon, as the streets of Tokyo were drizzling with chess, Fanning got out of the carriage and walked into a newly opened restaurant on the street.

It has been 10 days since he entered Beijing, and he has reported to the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao three times, but Gao Taotao still refuses to approve the expansion of his maritime diplomatic powers.

But Fan Ning knew that the problem was not Gao Taotao, but the seven phases of the Zhizheng Hall unanimously resisted this will.

Fan Ning walked into the restaurant, and the guy led him up to the second floor, pushed open the door of a private room, and in the room sat Xiangguo Han Jiang.

"Let Han Xianggong wait for a long time!" Fanning walked into the room and smiled.

A wine lady stepped forward to take off Fanning's coat, and Han Jiang smiled and asked him to sit down, "I guess you're in a depressed mood right now, so I invited you to have a cup of tea, and we'll talk." ”

Fanning sighed and said: "I don't understand, back then, I also got the right to fight against Japan in Kunzhou, why is it so difficult to get this right today?" ”

"Don't you think you have too much power?"

Han Jiang said lightly: "You have the right to buy the county, the right to appoint and dismiss county officials, the right to tax and not to tax, the right to dispose of mines, the military power You have the right to suppress bandits, you have the right to transfer troops, 30,000 sailors are obeying your orders, before, you destroyed the Luzon State without authorization, and there was already a royal history to impeach you, if you hadn't bought the Zhizheng Hall with 1.5 million taels of gold, the Luzon state affairs would not have passed so quickly, this time, you want to fight with the Three Buddhas, and it is normal for the Zhizheng Hall not to support you!" ”

Fan Ning understood a little, and he was silent for a moment and said, "Does the Zhizheng Hall want me to hand over some of my power in exchange for support for the right to fight?" ”

Han Jiang smiled and said: "I might as well be honest with you, the Zhizheng Tang fully supported you before, because you could get gold and silver, and you have the reputation of digging for money, but the development of the Overseas Economic Strategy Mansion to this day, it has made a lot of profits and has a great influence, which is really beyond the expectations of the Zhizheng Tang, and now the Zhi Zheng Tang has been marginalized in the overseas economic strategy, and the Zhi Zheng Tang wants to intervene in the overseas economic strategy, if you can support it, then in the overseas war right, we can not be evildoers." ”

"In what way is the Prefectural Hall going to intervene?"

"The first one, the official trade rights of Japan, from the overseas economic envoy to the Zhizheng Hall under the General Administration of the Department of responsibility, of course, or the use of your valued person, Yu Xiaonian transferred to Honglu Shaoqing, concurrently served as the Yangzhou Trade Bureau, still fully responsible for the official trade with Japan, but the trade official office was changed from Quanzhou to Yangzhou, Yu Xiaonian also changed to report to the Zhizheng Hall."

Fan Ning secretly scolded the Zhizheng Tang for being shameless, Japan had discovered a huge silver mine, and the Zhizheng Tang saw the extremely considerable trade gains, so he wanted to take this piece of fat away.

Fanning nodded, "And then?" ”

"Then Kunzhou and Tanzhou were completely integrated into the imperial court system, and were directly governed by the Zhizheng Hall, except for special military affairs, overseas economic envoys were no longer allowed to intervene in their government affairs."

In the past, all the benefits of Kunzhou were counted on the head of the overseas economic strategy government, and now the Zhizheng Hall wants to be directly under the central government, and it also wants to cut off the fat of Kunzhou, Fan Ning thought for a while and said: "I can agree to these two, but the amount I promised to pay must be reduced by half." ”

Just kidding, who can afford to cut off the two pieces of fat that have the biggest benefits, and to bear the financial quota of 12 million by himself.

Han Jiang smiled and said: "There should be no problem with the 100,000 miners in Luzon Mansion with an annual output of one million taels of gold!" That's 10 million taels of silver, as well as the grain, cotton, spices, timber and other wealth of the Ryukyu and Luzon provinces, and the cotton alone is more than two million, it's good if I don't give you an increase, you still want to go down? ”

"So what's in it for me?" Fanning didn't have a good airway.

"Aren't the benefits obvious? You have the power to attack the friendly neighbors of the Great Song Dynasty. ”