Guo Song is no longer in Xingqing Palace, but in Daming Palace, so he set off a little earlier than usual, the court does not have an early dynasty now, but there is a special consultation morning meeting, and the special topic is expanded and discussed, from the fourth rank and above officials have to participate, about four to five times a month, generally two days in advance to inform the content of the topic, to give everyone time to prepare.

However, there was no morning meeting today, and Guo Song would usually arrive at Daming Palace at Chenshi, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning.

Guo Song entered the official room, and the tea boy Aqing had already served a cup of fragrant tea.

It has always been a tradition of officialdom to use tea boys, on the one hand, because the official room is not good at using young maids to serve tea, but officials don't like five big and three thick men to cook tea and serve tea, so it is logical to use well-behaved tea boys.

The tea boy is not only responsible for serving tea, but also responsible for running errands, sending a letter to call a person, etc., all of which are for the tea boy to run errands.

"Aqing, do I have any guests?"

Guo Song saw that the guest card was actually erected, which means that someone is waiting to be summoned, but Guo Song can't remember who he wants to summon early this morning?

"Your Highness, it's the proprietor of Zhang, who said that he has a personal matter to look for you!"

The people who can come to Guo Song in the name of private affairs, in addition to his family, are only Zhang Lei, Guo Ping and Ying Caihe, not even Li An.

I haven't seen my senior brother for a long time, Guo Song smiled: "Please wait for a while, I'll go over immediately." ”

Guo Song took a sip of tea, flipped through the table of contents on the table, and then got up and went to the guest hall.

In the guest hall, Zhang Lei was also drinking tea, of course he came for overseas trade, yesterday they had signed a contract, and twenty big ships were in hand, but he didn't know the bottom of his heart, and he came to ask Guo Song today.

"Senior brother came early in the morning, is there anything urgent?"

"Hey! There is a tricky matter, I would like to ask my junior brother. ”

Guo Song sat down and said with a smile: "Senior brother, you might as well say it!" ”

"That's the case, I bought a batch of sea ships with Lao Li yesterday, all of them are 5,000 stones, a total of 20 ships, in fact, we have been talking about these ships for a long time, yesterday we saw the news of the imperial court's recovery of Lingnan, we quickly set the boats."

"It's the Liu family's sea ship, right?" Guo Song asked with a smile.

"Last month, when we sat together and chatted, Liu Shangdong said that he wanted to transfer a batch of sea vessels, and Lao Li and I were tempted, so we decided to buy and form a long-sea fleet."

"Senior brother, your business is doing a lot now, the entire wine of Chang'an is in your hands, you still have so many shops, as well as cabinet shops, and tea gardens, and now you want to go to sea, are you busy?"

"Senior brother, this has been a dream of mine for many years!"

"Stop! Stop! ”

Guo Song hurriedly stopped him, and said with a look of disdain: "Don't talk about this for me, you have too many dreams, it was your dream to marry your senior sister before, and now you want to divorce your senior sister, and it is also your dream to change a wife, you want to go to sea just to go out and try it, don't you think I don't understand your mind?" ”

Zhang Lei's unprecedented old face turned red, and he said for a while: "Anyway, the ship has been bought, and it is imperative to go to sea to trade, so don't discourage my enthusiasm anymore." ”

"Alright! Now that you've decided, why are you looking for me? ”

"I'm not.... Isn't there a clue? ”

Zhang Lei blinked, and said with an innocent face: "Lao Li is the shopkeeper, everything has to be decided by me, but I don't have any experience, so I want to invite a teacher, where to buy goods?" What to buy? ”

Guo Song laughed, pointed at Zhang Lei and said, "Senior brother! Don't pretend in front of me, you bought the Liu family's ship, how to trade, will the Liu family tell you? You're looking for a market! If you want me to buy your seafood, and then let me give you a little privilege, you will be convenient in Guangzhou, right? ”

Zhang Lei smiled and said cheekily: "Since you guessed, then guide me to a clear path, okay?" ”

Guo Song smiled slightly: "You want to be famous!" Why don't you let my eldest sister join in? ”

Zhang Lei immediately slapped himself, "I'll tell Lao Li when I go back, give Sister Guo a thirty-percent share." ”

Guo Song said unhurriedly: "It's best to go to Nanyang to buy goods, don't go too far, spices must be bought, they are very versatile, do rouge, incense powder, sachets, bartending, food, and incense all need good incense, and then precious wood, don't buy cotton, the price of this thing is ten times that of cotton, ordinary people won't buy it, rich people use duck down and cashmere directly, and they won't buy it, and don't buy fruits, it's easy to rot, if possible, get me some rice seeds back, it's best to have two or three seasons of rice seeds a year." ”

"Senior brother, these proprietors have already said this, can you say something nice, such as the spice government is all wanted, and the timber government Qiu is all bought, I love to hear these words."

Guo Song shook his head, "This can only say that you are stupid, the government buys your goods, how much profit do you have left?" ”

"Aren't I worried that I won't be able to sell?"

"You have been in business for so many years, you have such a strong capital, and you are afraid that you will not be able to sell the goods? I remember you didn't have a five-acre shop in your hands? It's the piece of land on Xi'an Gate Street, you use it to open a seafood store, are you afraid that no one will buy it?

Then Guangzhou, Yangzhou, Taiyuan and Chengdu each open a branch, you save the exploitation of the landlord, the price will be advantageous, understand? The shops in Chang'an that want to buy spices will go to you! ”

"And the tax side..... Can? Zhang Lei was really a little difficult to speak.

In fact, this is the main purpose of Zhang Lei to find Guo Song, Chang'an began to restore commercial taxes last year, although it is not much, that is, about five percent of the value of the goods, but if the value of the goods is large, especially the sea goods, usually more than 100,000 guan, a tax of 5,000 guan, a year, also tens of thousands of guan, so Zhang Lei wants to ask Guo Song to give him tax exemption.

Unexpectedly, Guo Song sneered and said: "You have such a huge profit, and you still want to take advantage of my taxes?" Tell you, there is no shortage of overseas commercial taxes, and if you dare to evade taxes, I will remove you and Ang Lee's titles! ”

Zhang Lei stood up listlessly and said, "Okay! I'm going to go to sea, see you in a few months! ”

"Wait!"

Guo Song stopped him and asked, "You want to go to sea?" ”

"I want to go out and have a look, grow a long insight, like you said, go and try it, I haven't lived in vain in this life, in addition, I'm going to bring Xuanwu with me."

"Xuanwu is only fifteen years old, too young!"

Xuanwu is the widow of Yang Yu, the fourth brother of Guo Song, Yang Xuanwu, Yang Yu's mother Zhao Xuan'er was used as a matchmaker by Xue Tao, and remarried to Wang Yue, the commander of the internal guard, and gave birth to a son and a daughter to Wang Yue, Yang Xuanwu was handed over to Zhang Lei to raise, becoming Zhang Lei's righteous son, Zhang Lei asked a famous teacher to teach him to read and practice martial arts since he was seven years old, Yang Xuanwu was only fifteen years old, he grew tall and strong, martial arts were strong, and the article was also well written, a rare civil and military double.

"It's okay, that kid is bent on going out, I can't let him go out alone, so I take him with me, rest assured."

Guo Song did not object again, Yang Xuanwu was Yang Yu's son after all. inherited his father's personality and likes to travel around, but Guo Song will never let him follow his father's old path again.

"If there is anything to discuss with my eldest sister, she has a lively mind, how to sell goods, she will have a better idea!" Guo Song is actually reminding Zhang Lei not to regret what he promised.

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Zhang Lei said goodbye and left, Guo Song returned to the room, he was drinking tea, but he was thinking about overseas trade, overseas trade is very profitable, this is a well-known thing, so the imperial court took Lingnan, and strong capital such as Zhang Lei and Li An immediately participated.

Guo Song is also considering the government's participation in overseas trade, he has received news from Kangbao before, there are also 320 5,000 stone sea ships in Guangzhou, three of which are 20,000 stone giant sea ships, but they have been suspended for many years and need to be completely renovated, and they will not be put into use until next year.

There is no problem in spending money to repair ships, but Guo Song thinks that repairing 320 large sea ships will be put into use next year, Guo Song feels that the time is unrealistic, in addition, Kang Bao also mentioned the naval warships, and there are more than 300 warships with more than 1,000 stones, which really makes Guo Song's heart full of expectations.

Guo Song has always known that there are naval warships in Guangzhou, which is also the main reason why he is eager to take Lingnan, if the Guangzhou naval army is used by a warlord like Wei Chihu, it will be much more difficult to capture Lingnan in the future, and the imperial court has a naval army, it will be much easier to exterminate Yao Guangping in Quanzhou.

At this time, the guards reported at the door, "Pan Xiangguo and Du Xiangguo are here!" ”

"Let them in!"

After a while, Pan Liao and Du You walked in quickly, and Guo Song smiled: "Please sit down first!" ”

The two sat down, and Guo Song took a report from the Ministry of Officials and said: "Regarding the Lingnan Economic Envoy, the Ministry of Officials has recommended seven candidates, and we will talk about Xue Changshou in detail." ”