In the early days of Quanzhou, due to the abundant tax resources and prosperous overseas trade, until the Qingyuan period, it was not a problem to maintain the expenses of the clan.

However, due to the annexation and encroachment of powerful landlords, the reduction of tax sources, and the decline of trade, this fee became more and more heavy, and the Quanzhou government had no choice but to eat grain and levy taxes in advance for one or two years, which aroused the people's complaints.

The so-called trade recession is not a real recession, in fact, it is just that many trade practices have turned into smuggling, and the imperial court cannot collect taxes.

Later, when Zhende Xiu learned about Quanzhou, he vigorously rectified the sea trade, and the city tax increased, and he took on a larger share of the clan expenses, which slightly alleviated this dilemma.

Of course, the clan is not just waiting for the court to send money.

The Song Dynasty did not enclose the clan as pig breeding, but allowed them to engage in normal occupations, and the best way out was naturally to become officials in the imperial examination.

After the southern crossing, there were more than 4,000 jinshi in Fujian, of which more than 300 were children of the clan, which can be said to be quite high.

The other is to engage in business indirectly or directly.

With the relocation of the clan to Quanzhou, a large number of officials, soldiers, soldiers, Jia, workers, farmers, artists, and miscellaneous personnel also poured into Quanzhou, providing sufficient basic productive resources for Quanzhou's economic development and social transformation.

The clan brought advanced production tools from the Central Plains, brought new products such as Luo, silk, yarn, and silk, and introduced advanced technologies such as weaving, embroidery, coloring, painting, dyeing, and printing, as well as advanced culture, to promote the development of Quanzhou's economy and culture and the prosperity of overseas trade.

In the early days, the clan was only involved in production and operation to provide export products, and in recent decades it has organized ships to go to sea and directly participate in overseas trade.

After all, the Quanzhou government was in financial difficulties and could not afford the expenses of the clan, so the Nanwai Sect Shoji could only use the profits from trade to support the clan members.

Of course, they will enjoy preferential treatment in the open and covert, which is unfair to ordinary maritime merchants, but at least it is better than directly reaching out to the state or exploiting the people.

However, the scale of the clan's maritime trade accounted for a very small proportion of the entire trade, firstly, there were big turbans staring, and secondly, the local powerful and powerful merchants felt that the clan had taken away their own interests, and often united to crowd out the clan.

Therefore, for Zhao Mengqi, the clan is on the same front as him, and it is a reliable force to deal with the powerful merchants.

When I arrived in Quanzhou, I met Zhao Xihan, a 'diehard'.

Zhao Xihan obviously did not approve of Zhao Jujing's defense, "For the benefit of Mao Qian, he was affiliated with Shang Jia Soap, which made the clan miserable, you made some money, but it made more children indulge in arrogance and luxury, competing for those useless Fanbang odd goods, becoming more and more frivolous and prodigal, not thinking of reading and enterprising, if we want to say, we should shut down this city's shipping division, my Great Song Dynasty has its own products, food in the mouth, clothes, daily use, what is not?" And the things that the merchants come from are all fancy and luxurious things such as pearls, spices, ivory, pepper, and precious wood, which cannot support the people, and are not beneficial to the country, but will only corrupt people's hearts, promote greed, and catalyze the trend of extravagance. How many strong armies can be armed with armor? And what can a broken bead do? Even if you can become an immortal after eating, it is not worth the money, not to mention that there is no use for fart, and it is no different from a stone, it is just a thing to show off and compare, it is more and more people who fall into this endless desire to demand, which will make the matter of merger and exploitation more and more serious, if you have the ambition to prosper, become a promising master, you must reshape the atmosphere, sweep away the flashiness, drive away all the merchants of Quanzhou, and then strictly enforce the boundary, promote agriculture and persuasion, and cheer up all industries......"

Zhao Xihan gushed endlessly, venting the dissatisfaction accumulated in his heart, and slapped every word and sentence in the faces of thousands of 'high-end people' present.

His remarks were not completely unreasonable, Haoqiang used the profits obtained from the merger to invest in maritime trade, and after obtaining greater benefits, he in turn intensified the merger, corrupted local officials, and evaded land and commercial taxes, thus creating a vicious circle.

And Zhao Mengqi also agrees that those goods are really useless, that is, to decorate the façade, plus the so-called improvement of the quality of life......

Now that the common people can't even guarantee their survival, and the Great Song Dynasty is on the verge of destroying the country, what qualifications do you have to talk about the quality of life!?

But all this cannot be stopped, because it is human nature to pursue desires.

The so-called full of warmth and lust, with a good one, I want to be better and rarer, people have no self to reflect the sense of superiority, as for the practical value, who cares?

In the hearts of those rich and noble, it is never possible to slightly reduce the quality of life of their own families for the survival of the people and the survival of the country.

But if those luxuries are useless to the state, that is not necessarily true.

After all, there is a gap between the rich and the poor at any time, and this objectively exists and cannot be changed.

If the rich and the poor have the same standard of living, then the wealth in the hands of the rich can only be piled up, like stagnant water.

Luxury goods can make this wealth transfer, re-flow, flow to society for redistribution, and this process will inevitably provide income to the general public, that is, commerce, and then the state will obtain taxes from commercial activities.

The reason why the Song Dynasty was mercantile was actually because unlike other dynasties, the Song Dynasty was established with the support of large landlords, and when the country was founded, it was unable to redistribute the land, and the control over the land was too weak to collect the agricultural taxes required by the sufficient finance, so it focused on commerce that was convenient for the state to control.

Whether it can be beneficial to the state depends on whether it can effectively obtain tax revenue in the process of circulation, and where the tax revenue is finally used.

Zhao Xihan's so-called 'preserving heavenly principles and destroying people's desires' is actually to let everyone maintain their basic living needs, so that the wealth produced by the Chinese people is enough to meet the needs of all people, which is almost the ultimate society of the Confucian pursuit of Datong and the distribution of needs in the dream......

But although Zhao Mengqi is not very clear about Confucian theory, he grew up under the red flag and knows very well that it is just a dream, an eternal dream.

In his understanding, the Song Dynasty's use of commerce to mobilize social wealth was good, but it was not good enough.

In later generations, most of the wealth of society will be transformed into capital through various channels, and then invested in the way of generating new benefits.

In this era, however, most of the wealth of the rich is hidden, no different from waste.

In other words, the Great Song Dynasty does not lack wealth, what is lacking is a channel for these wealth to flow.

What Zhao Mengqi has to do is to establish such channels, such as sugar companies, stock market banks, etc., which are quite successful at present, at least part of the wealth in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has been revitalized.

If he can fulfill the promise of a return on these riches, it will be a true capital circulation, and if he can't, it will be a 'Ponzi scheme'......

Now, he wants to likewise build a Ponzi scheme in Quanzhou... Phew, it's a capital cycle.

This cycle mobilizes not only the wealth within the Great Song Dynasty, but also the wealth of the small half of the world, if it succeeds, it will only destroy and plunder the Mongols who do not know how to build and develop, and can only eat fart.

In fact, if you can grab it, it will definitely be more refreshing than using deception, at least you don't have to spend so much brains, and later imperialism will not be able to grab it before it will begin to replace it with more troublesome hidden means.

In Zhao Mengqi's vision, the clan will be a more important component of his plan, but it seems that Zhao Xihan's influence on the clan is still very large, although Zhao Xihan may not be able to hinder him from acting, but if he can get Zhao Xihan's support, it will naturally be smoother.

It's just that Zhao Mengqi didn't plan to do ideological work for this old man in public, so he said vaguely, "The words of the old man made his nephew feel empowered, and it is indeed worth thinking about, but the battle is really a little haggard, and after the nephew puts down the counterinsurgency, he will ask the old man for advice, do you think it?" ”

Seeing that although King Yan gave himself enough face, he did not give a definite attitude, Zhao Xihan was not satisfied in his heart and wanted to entangle.

At this time, Uncle Xie Fang said, "Zong Weng, Your Highness has not washed the dust, and it is not too early at this hour, so let's welcome His Highness into the city first." ”

Zhao Xihan can rely on the old and sell the old in front of Zhao Mengqi, after all, he has the identity of the old man of the clan, and the Zhao official family does not dare to slack off.

However, in the Great Song Dynasty system, the civil ministers were very detached, and the prime minister was even more courteous, ranking above the prince, and the tradition of nearly three hundred years has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Zhao Xihan himself regarded himself as a literati, so he naturally wanted to give Uncle Xie Fang enough respect, "Xie Xiang reminded him that he was old and confused, and he almost forgot ......"

Immediately, Uncle Xie Fang summoned the car that had been prepared, but Zhao Mengqi refused, "I'll just ride a horse." ”

Uncle Xie Fang frowned, "This is not good, after entering the city, there are hundreds of people waiting for you, and there are mixed fish and dragons, and at the moment, it is very time, in case it ......"

"At this moment, it is still wartime, how can there be a reason to ride a carriage for a general, can your own city be more dangerous than the battlefield? What's more, I'm wearing armor and surrounded by guards, even if I really have a small plot, it won't hurt me. Zhao Mengqi looked calm.

Uncle Xie Fang knew that King Yan's expression meant that he had made up his mind and could not be changed, so he had no choice but to let him go.

At this time, the night loaded in the Shenzhou and the war horses captured from the Pu family were unloaded on the dock.

Then Zhao Mengqi and more than 100 Praetorian guards all turned on their horses, and under the guidance of 200 Eastern Guard infantry, they entered the city through Deji Gate, and they were followed by a long drive of various colors.

Some people died, but not completely......