During the reign of Renzong, Ouyang Xiu proposed that the tea market should be run together with private merchants.

During the Yingzong period, Ma Duanlin proposed that in addition to Fujian wax tea, which was still forbidden in the southeast tea, the remaining six roads were traded in parallel.

During the period of Shenzong, Wang Anshi strongly advocated the private ownership of tea merchants, "the state should abolish the law of tea, and let the people sell it themselves, which is really convenient for Fang Jin".

However, these proposals were not approved except for the Six Routes of Commerce, and it was not until the second year of the Song Hui Zongzheng and the late Northern Song Dynasty that the monopoly system was officially abolished.

Moreover, at that time, the imperial court did not intervene in the market, taking the lead in setting up a tea chamber of commerce or investing in large tea merchants to stabilize tea prices, but continued to let it go, resulting in a small number of tea giants with official and business backgrounds in the later period began to operate monopolies.

After Zhao Jun crossed over, he pointed out the country and talked nonsense about some opinions on the cross-citation method. Zhao Zhen told Li Zheng about his methods for dealing with tea merchants, such as canceling the monopoly, pulling one faction to fight another, introducing tea stocks, and supporting a group of obedient tea merchants.

These ideas coincide with Ouyang Xiu, Ma Duanlin, Wang Anshi and others, but Ouyang Xiu and Ma Duanlin Wang Anshi are not so radical to the government to suppress those disobedient tea merchants, maybe there are, but there is no historical record.

Zhao Zhen's original intention was to ask Li Zheng to study whether the method was feasible first, and if it was feasible, it would not be too late to implement it.

After researching it, Li Zheng felt that there was no problem, and since the official family had given him such a large authority, he was naturally very happy, so he decided to use these methods directly.

Of course.

He didn't rush to ask for a stop selling immediately, and directly started trading all the way, because this thing was still too big.

Not only the interests of big businessmen, but also the interests of high-ranking officials.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Cai Jing reformed the tea law, and changed the six-way trade law originally proposed by Ma Duanlin to a franchise.

Therefore, he did not attack the high-ranking officials of the imperial court and the family businessmen represented behind them for the time being, but first made a fuss about big businessmen like Tian Chang who did not have much background.

Treat yourself and then accept it as a dog. As for the rest of the big businessmen who don't cooperate, there is naturally only one way to go.

After sucking the blood of the imperial court for so many years, it should also be released.

And for Tian Chang, he promised Li Jian that he would not lose anything, and even make money by blood. One is to hug the thigh of the imperial court, almost imperial businessmen, and ordinary officials have to weigh them if they want to move. Second, in the future, the share of tea can be increased, and it will no longer be restricted by sales, which is absolutely not a loss.

So Tian Chang didn't hesitate too long before agreeing. Basically, it is similar to the process of recruiting security in the Song Dynasty, except that compared with Zhao'an, the status and activities of merchants are more free.

Soon in the afternoon, Li Zheng and Tian Chang agreed on some issues of government-run shareholding, and then the detailed contract terms would be listed, and the two parties would register them in the government office, so that the matter of government-run shareholding would be decided, which could be regarded as a good start for state-owned enterprises to participate in large private enterprises.

After Li Jian sent away the happy Tian Chang, he said to Wang Yong: "The official family is very clever, Tian Chang's Tian family tea shop is the largest tea shop in Bianliang, and we can make a lot of profits for the imperial court in the future." ”

Wang Yong was relatively cold, and said: "Xianggong still has to be careful of these unscrupulous profiteers, back then, the imperial court only allowed private merchants to take a maximum of 120,000 catties of tea, and this Tian Chang dared to take 200,000 yuan privately, and his appetite was not ordinary." ”

"I'm not afraid that he has a big appetite, but I'm afraid that he is timid."

Li Zheng smiled and said: "As long as he can transport grain to the border pass, what if he gives him 500,000 catties of tea?" ”

"The lower officials heard that these private businessmen are accustomed to making false accounts to evade taxes and deceive the court."

Wang Yong said again: "Xianggong should still be careful. ”

"Of course I know."

Li Zheng nodded and said lightly: "So it's time for you to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys." ”

"Xia Guan understands."

Wang Yong understood and bowed.

There are many tea merchants in Bianliang, in addition to Tian Chang, who specializes in tea business in Jianghuai, Hangzhou and other places, there are also Bashu tea, Yunnan tea, two lakes and two Guangxi tea merchants.

Due to the relationship between the sales system, almost more than ninety percent of the tea merchants colluded with the border officials to falsely estimate the value of the goods and embezzle the assets of the imperial court.

In the face of the imperial court's intention to implement the money law again, the small and medium-sized tea merchants did not oppose much because they could quickly return the funds, but the big tea merchants united and wanted to resist this policy.

Therefore, after obtaining the permission of the imperial court, Li Jian did not intend to continue to get used to these tea merchants who used to frantically suck the blood of the imperial court, but began his strategy of pulling one faction and fighting another.

The tea merchants who are willing to cooperate are recruited, and those who are unwilling will be cut off from the tea introduction, and the crime of bribing border officials will be punished, especially those who are the leaders, they will have to raid their homes and exterminate their families.

After a combination of punches, presumably the tea merchants in Bianliang estimate that it will not take long to understand what the general trend is.

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"Hahahaha."

In the early morning of May 24, in the Chongde Hall of the Great Song Palace, Zhao Zhen looked at the new slash sent by Sheng Du in his hand, and his joy blossomed.

The establishment of Jiaoziwu did attract the interest of merchants who came and went between Chengdu and Bianliang.

Under the propaganda of Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and others, many businessmen came to test the waters, and Tian Chang and other tea merchants also saved money to enter, and soon Bianliang's Jiaozi affairs had more than 500,000 yuan, and the treasury made a windfall.

You must know that we are now in the critical period of Li Qianjian's reform of the money law, and Li Jian has to transport money to the border gate for settlement while cracking down on illegal businessmen, and the treasury needs a large amount of money to be sent to the border gate, and this money will help a lot.

Although more than 500,000 is not much, but this is just the beginning, and when the test is over, it is found that Jiaoziwu is indeed conducive to the development of the country, and the major commercial cities in the country will soon be opened.

At that time, how much money will be deposited into the children's affairs? I'm afraid that tens of millions of funds are available, and by that time the court will not only not be short of money, but will even have a surplus, which is really Qin Shi Huang touching the wire for the Song Dynasty court - winning hemp.

"Congratulations to the official family, congratulations to the official family."

When Lu Yijian saw this scene, he was in a complicated mood.

In fact, he knew that Zhao Jun would definitely be reused in the future, but Lu Yijian still hoped that Zhao Jun would not be as powerful as that.

Because in the future, Zhao Jun will definitely reform the rule of officials, just like the Qingli New Deal, which will seriously damage their interests, and then his disciples and grandchildren will suffer.

Therefore, Lu Yijian didn't want Zhao Jun to give a good idea, even if Zhao Zhen was a little suspicious, he could also use an excuse to persuade him in the future.

But now it seems that just one Jiaozi can absorb so much money in a short period of time, and I am afraid that Zhao Jun will be even more unfortunate in the future.

Marriage, must be married, even if your granddaughter is only nine years old!

Lu Yijian made up his mind.

"It is indeed a great joy, after the delivery of the son, the merchants who traded frequently between Chengdu and Bianliang have saved money into the treasury, and now I am worried that if they take the silver ticket to Chengdu, there will not be so much cash to pay in Chengdu."

Zhao Zhen thought about it, so he said to Lu Yijian: "Lu Gong, otherwise let the Chengdu side intercept this year's New Year's loss first, and put it in the Chengdu Jiaozi Mansion Treasury for cash." ”

Lu Yi Jian said that the official family was really good at it, so he arched his hand and said, "It should be like this." ”

Zhao Zhen said with a smile: "This year, the Chengdu Mansion has lost about 200,000 yuan, but now it has been replaced by more than 500,000 yuan, but it is a good deal." And I think that businessmen are not in a hurry to use the money, these more than 200,000 yuan can already be used, and then a part of the annual loss will be intercepted. ”

"Yes."

Lu Yijian responded.

The tax revenue of the Great Song Dynasty was mainly based on commercial tax, supplemented by agricultural tax. During the Southern Song Dynasty, it even reached more than 80% of the finances at one time.

However, the proportion in the Northern Song Dynasty was not so large, and the official income still accounted for three-fifths. No matter how bad state-owned enterprises are, after all, they are monopolistic operations, and private businessmen actually still have to take goods from them and become second-hand dealers.

Therefore, the Great Song Dynasty still needed agricultural taxes to fill the treasury, and the so-called annual loss was the tax sent by the state capitals every year, which used to be grain and rice, but later gradually changed to silk, money, gold, silver and other price coins.

Generally, the annual loss of the state capital is not so high, such as the natural disaster on Huainan West Road in the first year of Jingyou, which caused famine, and Zhao Zhen exempted 200,000 horses of silk on Huainan West Road.

According to the price at that time, a horse of silk was about three to five yuan, and 200,000 horses of silk were worth about 600,000 to one million yuan. That is to say, the total annual loss of the 18th Road of the Great Song Dynasty is about 10 million or more.

Chengdu Prefecture is only a state capital level, and there are more than 200 state capitals in the Great Song Dynasty, and on average, each state should pay 40,000 or 50,000 yuan. But it can't stand the fact that some states are poor and some states are rich, and Chengdu is a rich state.

Because there is a huge Chengdu Plain, and the Chengdu Plain rarely has major droughts, floods and other disasters like Jianghuai, Hebei, Henan and other places, so it loses a lot more every year than poor states.

Now Zhao Zhen decided to put the Chengdu Mansion in Chengdu to pay for the New Year, in fact, he planned to use the 200,000 yuan to set the more than 500,000 yuan of people's money.

After all, the businessmen deposit the money into the handover business, and they will not take it out again in a short period of time, nor will they take it out at the same time, so Zhao Zhen can take advantage of the time difference in the middle to use the money in Li Zheng's money method, and wait until next year's money law is effective, and he can have an extra 6.5 million yuan per year, which is naturally not bad for embezzling the bank's money.

Thinking of this, Zhao Zhen felt that it was really a good idea to use the year to temporarily make the payment of the child, so he continued: "If the rest of the government also opens the payment in the future, according to this example, use the year to pay the child service in various places first, and if there is no surplus, then transfer it from the treasury." ”

"Yes."

Lu Yijian answered again.

"There are also officials who are responsible for handing over the affairs of the country, and they must also be selected, this handover is the important weapon of the country, and there must be no deficit, otherwise it will affect the credibility of the country, and there will be big problems."

"Yes."

"So let's do it first."

Zhao Zhen nodded.

This is really good.

At that moment, Lu Yijian retreated, and after a while, Wang Shouzhong came to report that Li Jian had asked to see him.