Lu Jia asked about living in his son-in-law's house these days, and while he was sad and sad, he was thinking about how to provoke the struggle between Wu Haogu and the New Party - in his opinion, both sides were traitorous parties! Wu Haogu, Pan Xiao'an, and Gao Yu are traitorous villains! And Zeng Bu and Zhao Tingzhi are traitorous hypocrites. Only himself, as well as Liu Kui, Jian Xuchen, Jiang Zhiqi, and An Tao are the real gentlemen.

There are so few gentlemen in the Great Song Dynasty now! Therefore, it is necessary to use a little villain to defeat all kinds of traitors.

And the villain's method that Lu Jia asked is to let the traitorous party and the new party, and even the old party eat dog! No matter who bites him to death, he has removed the giant rape for the Great Song Dynasty. If you can lose both, it will be a blessing for Da Song.

Just when he made up his mind, the "Wenqu Xingxun Bao" began to advocate the transportation of grain from the north to the south. Lu Jiawen, who was very keen on economic issues, immediately thought that Wu Haogu was preparing to make huge profits through the transportation of grain from the north to the south.

However, he didn't know the situation in Liaodong Province in Liaoguo, and he didn't know how Liao's domestic economy was circulating, so he didn't expect that Wu Haogu would prepare the simplest "shoddy" method to replace high-priced Jianghuai wheat with cheap Liaodong wheat.

However, he, a gentleman, thought of a way to make money that Wu Haogu himself had not expected - to manipulate the introduction of salt and tea to control the finance of the Great Song Dynasty!

In order to control the finance of the Great Song Dynasty, salt and tea are the entrances, and these "two introductions" are not indiscriminately issued, but according to the production and marketing of salt and tea, the bills that are appropriately overissued. There are two ways to obtain salt and tea, one is to spend money to buy it, and buy it from the traffic introduction shop or the designated field service; Second, after the grain is delivered to the designated place, it will be sent by the cargo service.

"Although there is an over-occurrence of salt and tea, there are a number of them after all." Lu Jiawen frowned and said, "And the imperial court has always had the practice of loosening and tightening copper coins. Anyone who can use salt and tea to pay the bill will not use copper coins. In other words, if Wu Haogu can really transport 1 million stone rice grains to Luoyang Baibo a year, then he can get at least 2 million yuan worth of cross-references, and considering the discount of cross-references, the face value of these cross-references can reach at least 2.7 million yuan.

If all the tea citations are used, Wu Haogu will be able to control more than forty percent of the total number of tea quotations issued by the imperial court within a year. ”

Lu Jia asked and stroked his beard, revealing a little color, "With this forty percent of the tea introduction, whether the price of tea quotation rises or falls, he can have the final say." When the time comes, the wealthy businessmen who are sitting on the gold and silver mountains in Jieshen Lane will all have to look at their own heads! Just by manipulating the price of tea, you can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars every year!

And once the head of Jieshen Lane is taken by Wu Haogu, then he can manipulate not only the price of tea in the future, but even the exchange price of copper coins, iron coins, gold and silver, and silk silk...... The Jiehe Commercial Market run by Wu Haogu is based on silk! If silk can become the foundation of all kinds of money in the world, I am afraid that the financial resources of the traitorous party can really be the enemy of the country! ”

Manipulating the tea introduction is already a huge profit! However, compared with silk silk, the scale of tea is much smaller.

And it's just a bill or a voucher or something like that, which can be used as a substitute for currency at some point, but it's not really money. In the late Northern Song Dynasty, silk still had the status of currency, and in the Jiehe Shang City and the Liao State and the Goryeo Kingdom, the monetary status of the silk silk was even no less than that of copper coins.

However, due to the two major problems of indiscriminate issuance of large amounts of money and cutting corners, there has always been the problem that the value of copper coins fluctuates too drastically. In other words, copper money is obviously a metal currency, but because of the minting of large coins and the reduction of materials, it has gradually become a semi-metallic and semi-credit currency.

The value of copper coins has also begun to be unstable. So much so that in the Song-Liao diplomacy, the status of copper coins was even inferior to silk silk - the 500,000-year-old coins paid by the Northern Song Dynasty to the Liao State were half silver and half silk, and there was nothing to do with copper coins. Empress Dowager Xiao is not a fool, how could she accept those copper coins of uneven quality from the Song Kingdom? And it's impossible to let the Khitan uncle inspect the copper coins one by one, right? This matter is also quite complicated, the Khitan people are honest, you will definitely be deceived by the Song people.

This is also the reason why Wu Haogu engaged in the "silk standard" in the Jiehe commercial market - silk silk is still relatively easy to figure out compared with copper coins, and there are standards for length, width and weight, and the fineness is also easy to define.

In contrast, copper coins are not easy to say. How much weight, how is the fineness, how is the material, and how many big coins are folded (when it was issued, it was ten dollars, and later it was folded three or two for circulation), and in some places there are also cast iron coins (Sichuan, Fujian), which is really complicated, even if it is the account room of Jieshen Lane, it is a headache.

Moreover, the value of copper coins is low, and the slightly larger ones are tens of thousands of coins. Who can check the money one by one? Even if they borrow the alley, they can't verify it, and the copper coins that come in and out of them every day are tens of millions of dollars. I can't count them, let alone test them.

So copper coins are a headache for all big businessmen, and of course they like it, but it's too troublesome to count and test......

As for the "bankers" in the Alley, they cannot mint money themselves, and therefore cannot control the quality of it. There is also a phenomenon of bad money driving out good money in the market, so the money that circulates in their hands is often of poor quality. It is inevitable that there will be losses when all the orders are collected, and the cost of inspecting them one by one is too high.

Therefore, the ideal state is to use silk as the basis (the stock of gold and silver was too small in the Song Dynasty to be the capital of money), and at the same time issue "silk private relations" (large negotiable certificates of deposit). First, the value of silk is high, light weight, and suitable for large transactions; Second, silk was privately produced in the Great Song Dynasty, the quality was controllable, the output was limited, and there was no "top ten silk", and it was impossible to use linen cloth to fill silk (similar to iron money).

"If you can control the tea introduction, you can lead the Jieshen Alley, you can lead the Jieshen Alley, and Wu Haogu will be able to promote the silk standard to the world sooner or later!"

Relying on his solid financial skills, Lu Jiawen has now thought of Wu Haogu's front, and he said with great certainty: "Once the silk standard is implemented, then the lifeblood of the country will be controlled by profiteers!" ”

"Isn't the silk standard bad?" An Tao's economic acumen is relatively poor, and he didn't understand it for a while, "The copper coins on the market are uneven, which is really a headache." ”

Jiang Zhiqi, who had been the six-way shipping envoy for a long time, wrinkled his brows and said: "The copper coin is a headache, but it is officially minted!" And silk is the production of the people, if the people's silk replaces the government's money to become the financial foundation, then the world's financial resources will not fall into the hands of private profiteers? ”

Lu Jiawen nodded, and added: "The people have always had the bad habit of saving good money and using bad money, so most of the money handed over to the official treasury is bad money. Once the silk is the foundation, then the bad money in the official treasury is likely to depreciate significantly. ”

"I see!" An Tao nodded, "What a traitor!" He glanced at Jiang Zhiqi, "Uncle Ying, it's better for us to play together, and don't let Jiehe City Bosi win the business of transporting grain from the north to the south." ”

"No!"

It was Lu Jia who spoke.

"Hope?" An Tao looked at Lu Jia and asked, only to see that the other party's face was gloomy and terrifying.

Lu Jia asked in a deep voice: "Has Houqing forgotten the fire in the military camp in the north of the state?" He almost gritted his teeth and spoke, "The transportation of grain from the north to the south must pass through the Jiehe commercial market, because there is no way for sea ships to enter the Yellow River, and they must be replaced by inland river boats in the Jiehe." And the boundary river ...... But the territory of the thieves of the ancient Wuhao! Will he let the Sixth Route Shipping Division smoothly transport the rice and grain across the Jiehe Commercial Market? ”

An Tao and Jiang Zhiqi took a breath at the same time, and almost fell into the trap of Wu Haogu! If the Sixth Route Shipping Division is allowed to handle it, Wu Haogu has too many ways to make it impossible to transport these rice grains to the place on time. When that time comes, he will naturally be able to eat this big deal in his hands in a grand manner, just like what he did in Kaifeng Mansion!

An Tao said: "It seems that if you want to successfully control the transportation of northern grain to the south, you have to take the Jiehe Commercial Market!" ”

Lu Jia asked coldly, "Can you take it?"

Jiehe Commercial Market was co-founded by Song Liao! Will the Khitans promise to let me take over the merchant market? And what kind of people are those shareholders in the market? Are they willing to spit out the fat that they eat in their mouths? ”

Although Jiehe Commercial Market is still in the period of concentrated construction, the Jiehe Chamber of Commerce has not begun to pay dividends to shareholders. But the future of the market is already very clear - the future is very good! It will not only become a transit station for grain transshipment between Song and Liao, but also a transit station for the southern transportation of livestock and timber from Liao! It will also become a trading center for furs, medicinal herbs, and eagle harriers produced in Tokyo Province, Liaoguo. Moreover, there are a large number of nobles from the Liao Kingdom, who are operating the Jiehe Commercial Market as a retreat...... These few benefits alone are enough to turn the Jiehe Commercial Market into a fat business? Who will hand it over?

Snatching people's wealth is like killing your parents! The Great Song Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, and so many rich and powerful "filial sons" in Mankaifeng Mansion still didn't look for An Tao and Jiang Zhiqi to work hard?

"So what to do?" An Tao asked, "Is it possible to watch the traitorous party grow big like this?" ”

"Humph!" Lu Jia asked a cold snort, and then said to the two visitors: "Can you let my son-in-law be the six-way shipping envoy?" ”

"Wangzhi," Jiang Zhiqi understood a little, "You mean to let Zhizhi withhold the rice grain of the Southeast Sixth Road and not give it to the Shipper of Jiehe City?" ”

"Of course not," Lu Jia asked and sneered, "If that's the case, the surname Wu will have something to say." ”

"Lookout, what are you going to do?"

Lu Jia asked: "Of course, the Jiehe City Shipping Division is fully responsible for the purchase and transportation...... Didn't the surnamed Wu want tea? Then give him tea.

The two are privy secretaries, and the Northwest Army has been short of food for a long time, so you just happened to play the official's house, and used the northern grain to fill the granary of the Northwest Sixth Road.

Next year, let Wu Haogu transport 1 million stone rice grain to Luoyang Baibo, if it is overdue and misses the northwest military affairs, then it will be done by military law! He's a military attaché! ”