In the Song Dynasty, there was no law or order.

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

During the Yingzong period, Ma Duanlin proposed that except for Fujian wax tea, which was still banned, the other six tea routes in the southeast were traded in parallel.

During the Shenzong period, Wang Anshi advocated privatization of tea merchants. "The state should stop discussing the law of tea and allow the people to sell tea by themselves. It is really convenient now."

However, none of these ideas were adopted except for the six-way trade. The tea sales system in the Song Dynasty was not officially abolished until the second year of Emperor Huizong Zhenghe's reign in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

Moreover, the imperial court did not intervene in the market at that time, taking the lead in establishing tea chambers of commerce or taking shares in large tea merchants to stabilize tea prices. Instead, it continued to let it go, which led to a small number of tea giants with official and business backgrounds starting to operate monopolies in the later period.

After Zhao Jun crossed over, he gave some advice and talked nonsense about the cross-reference method. Zhao Zhen told Li Shen exactly how he dealt with tea merchants, such as canceling monopoly, pulling one faction to fight another, introducing tea stocks, supporting a group of obedient tea merchants, etc.

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

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

After research, Li Zhen felt that there was no problem, and since the government had given such great authority, he was naturally very happy, so he decided to use these methods directly.

certainly.

He was not in a hurry to call off the sale immediately, and directly started to trade all over the country, because this thing was still too involved.

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 into a monopoly. It was because the all-way trade cracked down on the wealthy merchants represented by the big tea merchants and the merchants, and aroused their dissatisfaction. Reformed after Cai Jing.

Therefore, he did not target the senior officials of the imperial court and the family businessmen behind them for the time being. Instead, he first targeted big businessmen like Tian Chang who did not have much background.

Treat him to a treat, then accept him as a dog. As for the other uncooperative big businessmen, the only option is to behead them.

After sucking the blood of the imperial court for so many years, he should be let go.

For Tian Chang, it would not be a loss for him to agree to Li Shen, and he might even make a profit. The first is to embrace the imperial court, almost imperial merchants, and ordinary officials have to think carefully if they want to move them. Second, the share of tea can be increased in the future and it will no longer be subject to sales restrictions. This will definitely not be a loss.

So Tian Chang agreed without much hesitation. Basically, it was similar to the Song Dynasty court recruitment process, except that compared to the recruitment process, merchants had more freedom in status and activities.

Soon in the afternoon, Li Zhen and Tian Chang discussed some issues about the government-owned shares. The detailed terms of the contract will be listed later. Both parties will register at the government office. In this way, the government-owned shares will be settled. It can be regarded as a shareholding for a state-owned enterprise. Large private companies got off to a good start.

After Li Zhen sent Tian Chang away who was happy, he said to Wang Yong: "The officials are very smart. Tian Chang's Tianjia Tea Shop is the largest tea shop in Bianliang. We price merchant stocks there. I think it will benefit the court a lot."

Wang Yong was a cold person and said: "My husband, you should be careful about these unscrupulous businessmen. At that time, the court only allowed private traders to take up to 120,000 kilograms of tea. Now Tian Chang dared to take 200,000 kilograms privately. He has an unusually big appetite. "

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

Li Zhen smiled and said: "As long as he can transport grain to the border, what if I give him 500,000 catties of tea?"

"My official heard that these private businessmen are used to making false accounts to evade taxes and deceive the court."

Wang Yong said again: "My husband, you still have to be careful."

"Of course I know."

Li Zhen nodded and said calmly: "So it's your turn to scare the monkeys."

"I understand."

Wang Yong understood and bowed his hands.

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 merchants of Bashu tea, Yunnan tea, Hunan and Guangxi tea.

Due to the question of the sales system, almost 90% of tea merchants colluded with border officials to falsely estimate the value of goods and embezzle the assets of the imperial court.

Faced with the imperial court's plan to implement the money withdrawal method again, small and medium-sized tea merchants did not object much because they could quickly withdraw funds. However, the large tea merchants united and wanted to resist this policy.

Therefore, after Li Zhen obtained the permission of the imperial court, he did not intend to continue to coddle these tea merchants who had been crazy about sucking the blood of the imperial court. Instead, he started his strategy of pulling together one faction and fighting another.

The tea merchants who were willing to cooperate were recruited, and those who were unwilling would have their tea business cut off at the least, or be punished for bribing border officials, especially those who were the leaders, and their homes and clans would be confiscated and exterminated.

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

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"Ha ha ha ha."

In the early morning of May 24th, in the Chongde Hall of the Song Dynasty Palace, Zhao Zhen looked at the newly delivered zhazi in his hand and was filled with joy.

The establishment of Jiaoziwu indeed attracted the interest of merchants between Chengdu and Bianliang.

Under the vigorous publicity of Lu Yijian Wang Zeng and others, many businessmen came to test the water, and Tian Chang and other tea merchants also deposited money. Soon, Bianliang's Jiaoziwu had more than 500,000 yuan, and the national treasury made a windfall. .

You must know that we are now in a critical period of Li Zhen's reform of the money law. While Li Zhen is cracking down on illegal merchants, he also has to transport money to border customs for settlement. The national treasury needs a large amount of coins to be sent to border customs. This money will help a lot. busy.

Although more than 500,000 yuan may not seem like much, this is just the beginning. After the trial is over and it is found that handing over sub-services is indeed beneficial to the development of the country, major commercial cities across the country will soon open them one after another.

By then, the amount of money deposited into Jiaoziwu will be more than one million? I am afraid that tens of millions of funds will be available. By that time, the court will not only not be short of money, but will even have a surplus. For the Song Dynasty court, this is really like Qin Shihuang touching wires - winning money.

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

Seeing this scene, Lu Yijian felt extremely complicated.

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 so powerful.

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

Therefore, Lu Yijian really didn't want Zhao Jun to give good ideas, even if it made Zhao Zhen doubt him a little, he could use an excuse to persuade him in the future.

But now it seems that just one handover can attract so much money in a short period of time. I am afraid that Zhao Jun will be even more incredible in the future.

Marriage must be done, even if my granddaughter is only nine years old!

Lu Yijian made up his mind.

"It is indeed a great joy. After Jiaoziwu was released, the merchants who frequently traded between Chengdu and Bianliang all deposited money into the treasury. Now I am worried that if they take the banknotes to Chengdu, there will be no money in Chengdu. So much cash was paid.”

Zhao Zhen thought about it and said to Lu Yijian: "Lv Gong, otherwise, let Chengdu intercept this year's Sui Shu first and hand it over to Chengdu's Ziwu Treasury for redemption."

Lu Yijian thought that the officials had really calculated well, so he raised his hands and said, "That's exactly how it should be."

Zhao Zhen said with a smile: "This year, Chengdu Prefecture's annual loss is only about 200,000 guan, but now it has been exchanged for more than 500,000 guan, which is a good deal. And I think the businessmen are not in a hurry to spend money. These 200,000 guan Yu Wanguan can already use it, so let’s keep a portion of it every year.”

"yes."

Lu Yijian agreed.

Taxation in the Song Dynasty was mainly commercial tax, supplemented by agricultural tax. In the Southern Song Dynasty, it even reached more than 80% of the finance.

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

Therefore, the Song Dynasty still needed agricultural taxes to fill the state treasury. The so-called annual tax was the tax sent by each state government every year. It used to be grains and rice, but later it was gradually changed to silk, money, gold, silver and other valuable coins.

Generally, the annual income of state capitals is not that high. For example, in the first year of Jingyou's reign, a natural disaster occurred on Huainan West Road, causing famine. Zhao Zhen exempted Huainan West Road from the annual income of 200,000 pieces of silk.

This was the annual loss of the entire Huainan West Road. According to the price at that time, a piece of silk was probably between three and five guan, and two hundred thousand pieces of silk was worth about 600,000 to one million guan. In other words, the total annual losses of the Eighteenth Road of the Song Dynasty are more than 10 million yuan each year.

Logically speaking, Chengdu Prefecture is only a state capital. There were more than 200 state capitals in the Song Dynasty. On average, each state should pay an annual income of 40,000 to 50,000 guan. But it cannot be tolerated that some states are poor and some are rich, and Chengdu Prefecture is a rich state.

Because of the huge Chengdu Plain, and the fact that the Chengdu Plain rarely suffers from severe droughts, floods and other disasters like Jianghuai, Hebei, Henan and other places, annual losses are much higher than those in poor states.

Now Zhao Zhen decided to pay Chengdu Prefecture's annual losses to Ziwu in Chengdu. In fact, he planned to use the 200,000 guan to exchange his family's more than 500,000 guan.

After all, merchants deposit money into Jiaoziwu and will not take it out again in a short period of time, nor at the same time. Zhao Zhen can use the time difference in the middle to use the money for Li Shen's method of seeing money. When we see that the money method works next year and can earn an additional 6.5 million yuan a year, we will naturally have enough money to embezzle money from the bank.

Zhao Zhen thought of this and felt that it was a good idea to temporarily use Suishu to pay for Jiaozi, so he continued: "If other prefectures also open Jiaozi in the future, we will follow this example and use Suishu to pay for Jiaozi in various places first. It is used for redemption. If there is no surplus, it will be withdrawn from the treasury."

"yes."

Lu Yijian responded again.

"The officials responsible for handing over affairs must also be carefully selected. Handling over affairs is an important weapon of the country, and there must be no shortfalls. Otherwise, it will affect the country's credibility and cause big problems."

"yes."

"Then let's do this for now."

Zhao Zhen nodded.

This is a really good job.

Lu Yijian immediately withdrew. After a while, Wang Shouzhong came to report that Li Zhen wanted to see him.

As for why I wrote it in more detail, it’s because there are a lot of people who are talking about it, and it’s a little bit of science popularization. In the previous chapters, people even talked about steamed buns and whether there were wound suturing techniques in ancient times. I’m really speechless, but since everyone doesn’t want too much science popularization, I will mention it less in the future, and continue to update it twice, with a new book published every day.