Du Zhongxiao stood under the eaves and watched the snow flying all over the sky. When I came to Bingzhou in August, I was busy, and before I knew it, it was December, and I saw that the New Year was coming. The fur yard in the city is thriving, and the local salt of Yongli Jian has a whereabouts, and even the white salt after making miscanthus has become a sought-after commodity in the city, and large families have bought it. Two problems were solved in one fell swoop, and Xia Zhu was very satisfied.

When Du Zhongxiao was thinking wildly, Tao Qiqi came in from outside with Xia Gui, and said with a forked hand: "Official, Director Xia is here." ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "I haven't seen you for a few months, and the supervisor has always been good?" ”

Xia Gui bowed: "Okay, good." It's been a few months since Yongcheng was gone, and I really miss signing the judgment. ”

While talking, the two went to the flower hall not far away. A large pot of charcoal was placed in the flower hall, which burned red and was as warm as spring.

Xia Gui went to the charcoal basin to roast the fire, and said: "It is said that it is not cold when it snows, how can you bear the wind here in the state, but this is not useful." ”

Du Zhongxiao stood in front of the brazier together, roasted his hands, and gossiped with Xia Gui.

When his body was warm, Du Zhongxiao sat down with Xia Gui and said to him: "The director is here this time, I don't know what happened?" ”

Xia Gui said with a smile: "The judge knows that I am doing business for the Xianggong's family, and at this time, when I come to Bingzhou, Baba will come to you, and I can guess it." In recent months, the fur business has been booming here, and I don't know how many merchants have gathered here. I got the news, and I didn't care about it at first, until I came and saw it with my own eyes, and I didn't know that you were making such a big fuss. Today I went to the yard and it was still very lively, even though it was snowing. Especially the merchants in the Central Plains, they all buy goods one by one, make a lot of money, and they look enviable. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "The supervisor is not short of capital, and he can also sell some furs and sell them back to the capital." ”

Xia Gui shook his head again and again: "Selling goods for thousands of miles, not to mention the hard work, how much money can you make?" According to my knowledge in the freight yard, the best business there is to sell raw hides from Yanmen Village and cook them there. After cooking, it was transported to Yanmen Village and sold to the Khitans. And the state to Yanmen Village, but two or three hundred miles of road, a few days, this small profit is big, and the time is short. ”

Du Zhongxiao said with a smile: "If you do this business, the director will have to live in Bingzhou." ”

"Of course, I have been ordered by my husband to live here with him. Xiang Gong said that there are countless ways to make money, and you can't go wrong with it. However, I feel a little lonely in this business. Sign the judgment, you are not a big family, and the family is short of money to use, why don't you take someone out of your side and do it with me? If the two of us join forces, some people are in Yanmen Village, and some people are in the state, it will be perfect. ”

Listening to Xia Gui's words, Du Zhongxiao was stunned for a while. He never wanted to do business under his rule, and he didn't want to delay his future for this small profit. Although the imperial court only did not allow the purchase of industries under its rule and did not prohibit business, Du Zhongxiao still did not want to mess with it. It is true that officials get into trouble in their official duties because of their own business. And once you do business, it is difficult to avoid being entangled by local forces.

Seeing that Du Zhongxiao didn't speak, Xia Gui smiled and said: "Sign the juvenile, focus on official affairs, and think less about housework, haven't you thought about it?" In fact, it is extremely hard to travel in all directions, and it would be a pity if you don't do some business. I see that Tao Seventeen in your house is shrewd and clever, and if he is allowed to do some business with me, he will definitely be able to make some money. How is it? ”

Du Zhongxiao thought for a while, smiled and shook his head: "If you want to make money, why work so hard?" Xianggong is the governor of the state, I am the judge, and a random sentence in the city of the state, there will be a large amount of money in the account. ”

Xia Gui was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Sign the judgment, there is nothing to make money in business, if you are a traitor, you will not be taken lightly!" ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "If you don't spare Xianggong, I won't do it." What I'm saying is that there are easier ways to make money than by doing business yourself. In the case of the fur yard in the state, as long as you have a heart, it is extremely easy. ”

Xia Gui listened, became interested, and stepped forward and said, "Please also sign the judgment and make it clear." ”

"Now there is a lot of business in the freight yard, so I don't care about raw and cooked skins, and the price is a confused account. There are guilds that set up stalls outside to sell to the people of the city, and there are about a number of them, and the merchants buy and sell large sums of money, but they are all private transactions, and it is difficult for outsiders to know the exactness. Since it is a freight yard, this will not work after all, and it is difficult to make the business bigger. I'm thinking that it should be traded openly and taxed. In the past, the tax collected from fur merchants was one out of ten, and the furs they trafficked directly were collected. As a result, there is a lot of fur backlog in the military arsenal this year. After the public transaction, the money can be collected directly. ”

Xia Gui blinked and said, "It's a public transaction, what benefits can we get?" Where to make money? ”

"The supervisor has the capital, and he can directly buy low and sell high at the price, and he doesn't even need to do business."

Hearing this, Xia Gui thought about it again and again, and finally shook his head: "I don't understand." ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "I'm still planning this matter, and when it is done, the director will naturally understand." Before that, the supervisor only had to go to Yanmen Village to sell furs. From there, raw skins are sold to the state, and then cooked skins are sold from the state, and this business is done. ”

Hedong Road is an area where copper coins and iron coins are parallel, and the money system is extremely chaotic, so it is actually very inconvenient to do business here. At present, the fur business in the state is mainly barter, and the cash used is not much. For example, when you come back from trafficking in raw hides from Yanmen Village, whether you pay the wages for tanning or pay taxes, you use raw hides. Some of the cooked furs are transported back to Yanmen Village for more raw hides, and the other part is sold to merchants in the Central Plains. Merchants in the Central Plains seldom used cash to buy furs, but used silk, tea, porcelain, incense and the like. This trading model has great limitations, so that the business will soon encounter a bottleneck.

In Du Zhongxiao's mind, there are no more than two ways to solve this problem. The first is to learn from Yizhou Jiaozi, issue Jiaozi, and replace copper coins with paper money, so that the currency in commercial activities is sufficient. The other is to establish trading venues and use pricing methods to make a large number of commercial activities without the need for physical currency. There are too many things involved in the issuance of Jiaozi, and it is difficult to do it with Du Zhongxiao's current identity. The next best thing was to establish an open trading venue to minimize the need for money in the process of trading, using the large stocks of furs held by the yamen. In short, it is to use financial means to partially solve the problem of insufficient money, so that the fur business can grow rapidly.

Due to the processing price of raw and cooked hides, there will be price differences due to different time, quality and sales regions. At this time, there is the possibility of using fake transactions for arbitrage on the exchange. What Du Zhongxiao said to Xia Gui is that with the identities of Xia Zhu and Du Zhongxiao, they can even manipulate the price of bulk goods, and it is as easy as drinking cold water to make money from false transactions on the exchange, so why bother to traffic furs.

Du Zhongxiao clearly knows that financial means are the devil in the economy, and once released, the consequences are unpredictable. Almost inevitably, financial instruments will be repeated over and over again, quickly blowing up a bubble and then bursting again. In this system, it will become common for a large number of businessmen to get rich overnight and lose them all overnight. But in such an era, the consequences of such methods are, after all, mainly directed against the merchant class. And it is difficult to say whether it will implode and hurt the Great Song Dynasty, or whether it will explode overseas. And once the yamen joins, it is the biggest player and can solve economic problems as quickly as possible. As for the future, it can only be filled with productivity gains brought about by steam engines and the like.

It has been more than three years since he was a Jinshi, and he is still a shogun, and Du Zhongxiao can't even see the hope of the ruling party. He really has no patience, he is step-by-step in such an era, and he wastes his life on the long official journey. The current Great Song Dynasty is dead and lacking in vitality, which is also the reason why the reform is urgent, and there is nothing to use some fierce medicine.

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