Chapter 109 Emperor Lao Tzu also wants to take a cut
After the talks were reached on the Xining Prefecture, the delegation sent by Yunzhou County rushed to other disaster-stricken prefectures in Liaobei County.
This delegation is headed by Yun Li, the big shopkeeper in the northeast region of Feiyun Commercial Bank, and Yun Li, who is used to doing business, has a clear understanding of the thoughts in the hearts of these officials.
There are not many Qing officials in the entire Liaobei County, but the corrupt officials are a lot of them, so their actions will actually be very smooth this time.
But if it goes well, when talking about business with these officials, you can't reveal your bottom line too early, otherwise with their greedy nature, I am afraid that it will be more.
Therefore, when talking, it is necessary to give a relatively low price first, lower the expectations of the other party, and raise the price back to the original price according to the situation, only in this way can you get what you want at the official price given by Yunzhou County.
Just like Zhao Jun's previous life, which genius said, Chinese people have always liked compromise.
If you tell him at the beginning that you want to open a window, then he will not allow it, but if you want to open a door, then if you ask to open the window if he does not allow it, he will most likely agree.
The same is true for doing business the other way around.
People are greedy and only want more.
If you give a lot at the beginning, then he will definitely want more, and if you give less at the beginning, then if you raise it a little more, then he will be satisfied.
Relying on this set of grasp of human nature, the delegation soon visited all the prefectures and cities of Liaobei County, and won the human trafficking in most of the disaster-stricken prefectures.
There are only a few prefects who refuse to do such a thing, and they are absolutely sorry for the people and the sages.
And this kind of is undoubtedly that kind of clean official, and Yun Li and the others are not reluctant to do this, but they are just missing a few mansions' business, and it is not a big deal.
Leave is it.
In this way, soon most of the state capitals in Liaobei County began to prepare for the transportation of people, and a large number of promises and food were constantly sent to the home of the guard general of Liaoyun Pass, only to frighten the guard general who had just taken office, and did not understand what medicine these prefects had taken wrong?
After understanding the situation clearly, he immediately reported the news, and several other prefects who did not agree also reported the information.
What happened in Liaobei County soon spread to Bianjing, to the emperor, and to the ears of all forces.
And this is what Zhao Jun wants to see, otherwise he would not have let the visiting group go into the customs with such fanfare to find a prefect to cooperate with the buyer, and he could have sent someone to do it secretly in private.
"What do you want to do?"
Looking at the notebook presented by the Liaoyun Pass Guard in his hand, Emperor Zhao Duan of the Song Dynasty frowned.
He has received three copies of the same transcript today.
One was submitted by the Liaoyun Pass guards, the other was a secret report from the Imperial City Division, and the other was a joint report from the local prefects who had rejected the delegation through formal channels.
These excerpts are all about the same thing.
His sixth son actually sent someone to Liaobei County to buy people with grain!
And those local officials who killed a thousand knives actually agreed to his business and started a human trafficking with him!
also tried to give the guards some profits, so that the guards let people out of the customs!
Fortunately, the current guard is the person he replaced, and he is quite loyal to him, so he stopped the people who had been sent to the pass.
But now the people gathered in the Liaoyun Pass, day by day, other governments in Liaobei County are still sending people to the pass, and the guards are afraid that something will go wrong, so they hurriedly go to this book to explain the cause and effect of the matter.
Tapping his fingers lightly on the tabletop, Zhao Duan suddenly asked:
"Cao Shuang, since the sixth man is looking for those people to buy people, there must be a lot of grain in order to promise food, but isn't there not much land in Yunzhou County that can be cultivated?
So where did he get his food?
And what does he want so many people for?
Does the Imperial City Division have any information on this? ”
Cao Shuang, who was asked, was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then recalled for a moment, and then cautiously guessed: "According to the information collected by the Imperial City Division over the years, Yunzhou County seems to have a very developed iron-smelting industry in recent years, and there are not a few kinds of iron and iron tools sold into the customs by Feiyun Commercial Bank every year.
According to those people from the Feiyun Trading Company who came out of Yunzhou County to do business, Yunzhou County seems to have discovered iron ore in the local area, and the six princes vigorously developed the iron smelting industry in Yunzhou County on iron ore, and supplemented other places with the profits of the iron smelting industry, and the life of the people of Yunzhou County has become better and better over the years.
However, the development of the iron-smelting industry inevitably means that a large number of people are needed, and the local number of people in Yunzhou County is too small, even if the four princes got 300,000 people before, it is not enough, so this time the six princes may see the opportunity to take advantage of the disaster in the customs to replenish the population of Yunzhou County with the grain exchanged for selling iron. ”
After hearing this, Zhao Duan nodded slightly and said, "That's the past." ”
At this time, Cao Shuang seemed to suddenly remember something, and hurriedly said:
"By the way, Your Majesty, the slave maid heard that the Tatars who belonged to Yunzhou County before seemed to be a little unstable, and the number of Song people in Yunzhou County was too small.
The slave maid estimated that the six princes' move was probably to supplement the lack of labor in Yunzhong County, and on the other hand, it was also to increase the number of Song people in Yunzhou County, so as to deter those Tatars who had returned. ”
Zhao Duan's face immediately sank after hearing this, and he said with a cold face: "Hmph! If it is not my race, its heart will be different! ”
Immediately, Zhao Duan sighed again and said:
"It's also a bitter sixth child, and he has to face this situation when he is an adult, but since he was born in the royal family, as the vassal king of the domain, this is also his responsibility."
Hearing this, Cao Shuang only stood respectfully and did not interject.
Sighing for a while, Zhao Duan thought for a moment and then said: "Since he wants people, and Liaobei County has no way to solve the victims caused by this drought, then give him people."
As for the commission given to him by the prefects of Liaobei Province, tell him to let him take two or five percent more, and he will keep one percent for himself, and the rest will return to me, and my son's money and grain will still be transported by me, so I can't get nothing, right?
You tell him that he can tell the prefects that I know what they have done, what to do with them, whether to deal with them or not depends on whether they can do anything!
In addition, after that, the iron materials of Yunzhou County entered the customs and were sold in the customs, and they were tax-free within three years, which can be regarded as a little support for Lao Tzu's son. ”
"Slave understands!"
The great eunuch Cao Shuang hurriedly wrote down the matter, respectfully.
Soon the emperor's orders and meanings were conveyed to Liaobei County, and all the prefects of Liaobei County who participated in the buying and selling of human beings wailed that they had earned less, but they didn't dare not give the sixty percent of the commission, and finally they could only look at the forty percent of the remaining forty percent in their hands and lament.
And Li Wei, the guard of Liaoyun Pass, had no scruples after receiving the order, and after collecting the commission, he opened the gate of the pass and released a large number of people gathered outside the pass.
Outside the gate, the people who came to meet Yunzhou County had been waiting for a long time, and after handing over these people, they began to take these people back to Yunzhou County in rounds......
(End of chapter)