Peerless Pirates

"Make money?" Mu Yi and Huang Yue were both stunned, not understanding Song Zheng's intention (Latest Chapter of Super God System).

"Yes, I wonder if you two have ever heard that a cup of wine releases military power?"

"Of course we know this (read the full text of the online game Three Kingdoms: The Great Han Xiongfeng). Song Taizu used fertile land and money in exchange for military power in the hands of generals. However, the current situation of Da Qi is not the same as that of the previous dynasty. Da Qi is surrounded by foreign enemies. If the generals are

We have all been dismissed, so how can we resist foreign enemies?" Mu Yi was also touched by Song Zheng's words and asked a common sense question.

"What we want to release is not the military power of generals, but redundant soldiers. Song Taizu released his military power with a glass of wine, which weakened the Song Dynasty for two hundred years. This is naturally undesirable. However, Daqi has too many redundant soldiers, especially the defense of state capitals.

There is really no need to use so many people in the camp. And with the current situation,

Without a personal ruler, the Prime Minister cannot issue decrees to deal with redundant soldiers, let alone those redundant generals. On the contrary, if the Prime Minister can control enough financial resources, he can completely solve the redundant generals and redundant soldiers through bribery. The problem is,

Now the Prime Minister simply cannot control that much money."

Song Zheng worked step by step and began to gradually approach his goal.

"On the one hand, the major families control the lifeblood of Daqi and are secretly in conflict with the imperial court. As a result, Daqi's tax revenue has not been able to achieve significant growth in recent years. On the other hand, Daqi's sergeants cannot get enough military pay. This is better in Jiangning, but in

Locally, the conflicts between the military and the government are very sharp. The border troops of Daqi are better

, perhaps we can obtain part of the military supplies by smuggling goods. At the local level, the garrison camps in various state capitals have nothing to do and rely entirely on the money provided by the court. Once the military pay is insufficient, I am afraid there will be trouble. These days, I have been reading the Di newspaper, about the local

Annoying complaints about the lack of pay for the garrison camp appeared from time to time."

Song Zheng was not lying. When he was in Mizhou, Lu Hengshan had a dispute with the prefect Hu Tongxue over the issue of military pay. When he was in Licheng, Qiao Zhenchuan asked his general Qiao Quan to indulge in smuggling and extract huge profits to make up for the army.

Zi. And when Song Zheng reads the newspaper these days, the issue of military pay always occupies a place in it.

"The eldest son also knows that when I visited the Prime Minister a few years ago, I talked with him for an entire afternoon. Although it mostly involved Neo-Confucianism, I know that the Prime Minister is a man with great ambitions. He always thinks about Daqi Haiyan Heqing. You know Prime Minister

Why do you advocate Neo-Confucianism? That's because among the officials in Daqi, there are a lot of Jiangnan aristocrats. The prime minister advocated Neo-Confucianism to unify the thoughts of the politicians, so as to consolidate the authority and sort out Daqi (full text of Super Brain System

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Song Zheng first gave Huang Yuandu a high hat, and then said, "But it is very difficult for the Prime Minister to govern. Over the years, even though the Prime Minister has tried his best to use military power, he has had little effect. And the Prime Minister's own support comes from the big families in the south of the Yangtze River. These

All the rich families are extremely rich, but they have lost money to the country. Therefore, the prime minister is trapped in the mud. Even if he tries his best, he can only fight for one pond and one place, and it is difficult to change the overall situation."

Huang Yue realized something and said, "What Xiaolang means is that we take money from the rich people and then use the money to deal with redundant soldiers?"

Song Zheng smiled and said, "I have said so much, it is better for the eldest son to hit the nail on the head."

Huang Yue said nervously, "How could I have considered these issues before? If Xiao Lang didn't tell me, I wouldn't understand either."

"My lord, you must consider these issues now. If a person wants to do great things, he must not only understand the world's affairs, but also understand the destiny of the world. What's more, your father is the prime minister and is in charge of the affairs of Da Qi. If you want to be valued by your father, then

You must look at the problem from your father's perspective and understand what the Prime Minister is thinking."

Huang Yue shook his head and said, "I only care about how to kill Huang Song now. I really don't want to worry about these big things."

Song Zheng couldn't help but feel angry. This Huang Yueren is not stupid, but he is too unambitious. Did I talk in vain today?

Mu Yi thought more and said, "My eldest son, you must know what Xiao Lang said today. Only in this way can you be valued by the prime minister and achieve great things in the future."

"I also know that it should be like this. I heard what Xiaolang just said. It's just... alas!" Huang Yue shook his head, "Xiaolang, continue talking. I have never heard of what you said today, but I haven't heard it yet.

I’ll see the specific means you mentioned.”

Song Zheng also sighed in his heart. It was a bit difficult for a senior dude like Huang Yue to start a career. Anyway, these things were originally meant to be told to Huang Yuandu through Huang Yue's mouth. In the future, Huitong

The growth of the trading house will definitely be through Huang Yue's dealings with Huang Yuandu (rebirth with a divine space). If Huang Yue doesn't know the truth and talks nonsense, the effect will not be achieved.

A trace of disappointment flashed in Mu Yi's eyes, but he hid it well and just lowered his head and took a sip of tea.

Song Zheng let out a long breath and continued, "In the Prime Minister's Mansion, Brother Huang Feng and Huang are in charge of the Imperial Guards; the Second Young Master is in charge of the Dark Eagle, which is the intelligence system. In these two aspects, the eldest Young Master cannot get involved now.

Only in terms of management, the Prime Minister's Mansion does not have such talents. If the eldest son can make achievements in this area, he can make up for this shortcoming. What I said

When I talk about management, I mean to attack these big families and basically control these big families. They control the economic lifeline, so we will control them. In other words, we will control them for the prime minister. In this way, the prime minister will have peace of mind.

If there are more, there will be money to solve the problem of redundant soldiers. In this case, the first step of the eldest son's fight for favor can be completed."

Huang Yue was not very interested in the general situation of the country, so Song Zheng could only explain briefly.

Mu Yi frowned and said, "With the position of Prime Minister, I am afraid it is difficult to control these big families. I wonder what Xiaolang can do to make the eldest son do it?"

Song Zheng smiled and said, "In addition to having countless fertile fields, the most important source of income for several big families is their business. Even though the eldest son has an income of 50,000 to 60,000 taels of silver per year, compared to Ji, Dong, Wei, etc.

How are the big families coming?"

Huang Yue thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "Of course it's not as good as these salt merchants, wine merchants, and money banks, but they have countless amounts of money. I remember the year before last, Ji Yong's nephew came to Beijing to treat me to a meal.

Having the entire Yuxiang House covered was a huge investment. Although I was proud of myself at the time, I felt a little uncomfortable. Now that I think about it, I realize that this discomfort was because I didn’t have as much money as the other party.”

Song Zheng chuckled to himself, people know that you are good-looking and pompous, so they deliberately provide for you. After flattering you, you don't know what is going on, and you don't even think that you are poor.

"Master, why are you doing this? If you can succeed in the following thing, even if you buy the Yuxiang Building and Yuhua Building, what's the problem?"

Huang Yue's eyes lit up, "What kind of business can be so profitable?"

Song Zheng did not speak, but took a pen and paper from the tables next to him, grinded the ink, and started drawing on the paper (the latest chapter of Super Different Dimension). After a while, Song Zheng unfolded the paper and saw several numbers drawn on it.

There are two parallel horizontal lines, and a black dot is dotted in the middle of the horizontal line. At one end of the horizontal line, the names of salt, wine, ironware, etc. are written respectively.

"Hey, what is this?" Huang Yue and Mu Yi both looked at Song Zheng's "Ghost Drawing Talisman" curiously.

Song Zheng said, "If an item wants to be sold, it has to go through three steps, which are production, circulation and sales. How can these big families make huge profits? It's because they control production, and the price they sell for is much higher.

Far higher than what he needs for production. For example, a pound of salt cost them only five cents to produce, but it costs fifty cents to sell.

The price of copper is almost ten times the profit. Merchants from all over the country bought salt for fifty coppers, then transported it to the sales place, and sold it to the salt shop for one hundred coppers. After deducting the cost of carriage and horse, they can earn thirty coppers. And these

The salt is then sold to the common people for one hundred and fifty cash. After deducting the cost of twenty cash, the shop can earn thirty cash. Do you understand what you are saying?"

Huang Yue and Mu Yi both nodded.

"On the surface, the profit from this pound of salt seems to have been earned by different businessmen. This is not the case. Many big families not only control production, but also have their own teams of horses and horses, and their own distribution shops. That is,

It is said that from one pound of salt, the big family earned forty-five plus thirty plus thirty, which is one hundred and five cents. The production of one pound of salt only cost five cents, but they earned one hundred and five cents.

. Even if you pay a tax of ten cents, it will still be ninety-five cents, which is still almost a hundred times the profit!"

Huang Yue's eyes widened, "They can actually make so much money, are they too evil?"

Song Zheng shook his head, "This is not the most evil thing. The most evil thing is that they control the entire salt trade and can raise the price at will. They can raise the price to the highest limit that the people can do. What is salt? That is for everyone.

We must eat. The eldest son may say, if they make so much money, can’t they levy more taxes?”

"Yes, why can't father tax them? I think it would be good to leave them a profit of thirty cents, and the rest will be handed over to the court (Qingya's latest chapter)."

Song Zheng shook his head, "It's easier said than done! These big families are not just the Ji family that deals in salt. They include many families. Although these families have conflicts with each other, they are in the same boat when it comes to making money. They are in the imperial court and local governments.

, there are many sons and daughters of officials. If the prime minister wants to get their support and make his government policies effective, he cannot raise taxes. Once taxes are raised, the prime minister’s policies will be ruined.

The order may not even be able to get out of Jiangning City. Now the eldest son understands why I just talked about the history of the country? These big families are deeply rooted. The history of many big families may be traced back to the Song Dynasty and even the previous Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the Tang Dynasty.

Even the Southern Dynasties and the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Even if there were changes, it was just Zhang San replacing Li Si and Wang Wu replacing Zhao Liu, but the essence of the big family has not changed."

Today was an eye-opener for Mu Yi and Huang Yue. They never thought that things could be so complicated.

"In a certain sense, these big families control the entire Daqi and the prime minister, rather than the prime minister controlling the big families. Coupled with the military's bottomless pit of money, I just said that the prime minister is stuck in the mud.

It’s not an exaggeration at all.” Song Zheng

Sighing, "If Uncle Mu and the eldest son carefully observe the Prime Minister's way of doing politics, they will find that everything the Prime Minister does is always inseparable from this stereotype. Even if the Prime Minister advocates Neo-Confucianism, it is for the sake of

Cure this malady in Daqi."

Through various information from Li Hongniang, Di's newspaper, the detailed "Records of Taizu", and the understanding of history by later generations, Song Zheng was finally able to stand at the height of Huang Yuandu and analyze the problems of Daqi. In fact,

Since winning the Wu Zhuangyuan Order, Song Zheng's main energy has been spent on analyzing the general trend of the court.

Realizing that he was off topic, Song Zheng changed his mind and said, "To deal with these big families, other methods will not work. Then we will cut off the entire process and control their 'waist' in our hands."

Song Zheng took the pen, drew in the middle, connected the black dots on each line, and wrote five big characters below: Huitong Trading Company. Then, he threw the pen away, "This is our business!"

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