Chapter 938 Commercial Deployment
Zhang Shaoqing's concerns, Yang Yue has considered.
The Sassanids may not be able to resist the temptation of huge profits, relying on the fact that it is more convenient for them to travel to the West and drive up prices.
However, from Chang'an to Broken Leaf City, from Broken Leaf City to the West, this trade route, there are not only Sassanids, but also great cannibals.
Once the Sassanids dared to fool the Tang Dynasty merchants and officials as fools, make profits from them, and embezzle the Tang Dynasty's money and grain, the court would not tolerate it.
The Tang army in the Anxi Protectorate is not a vegetarian.
Zhang Shaoqing learned that Yang Yue had his own arrangements for Sasan's affairs, and returned to the court.
"Zuo Servant Shooting, the emperor's plan is far-reaching, and the business is just appeasing the Sassanids, the Turks, and buying time for the Tang Army!" Fan Hengwen moved closer and whispered to Zhang Shaoqing.
Zhang Shaoqing naturally knew what Yang Yue was planning, but the court knew very little about the Western Regions.
However, the Tang Army's plot against the Western countries should indeed be carried out slowly, steadily advancing, focusing on military conquest and supplemented by commercial infiltration, with a two-pronged approach.
"Datang and Sassanid business exchanges, in the next few years, Datang's national strength will continue to flourish, the top priority, speed up the construction of workshops, expand the variety of goods, only the treasury is full of money and grain, the generals are fighting abroad, there is no worries!"
Yang Yue tapped his fingers on the dragon case, slowly expressed his thoughts, and ordered: "Zhang Aiqing, Fan Aiqing, you should deal with this matter quickly, and strive to thoroughly understand the number of workshops and commodity types in Jiangnan, Shudi, and Chang'an before Anthony sends back the news!"
"Yes!"
Zhang Shaoqing, Fan Hengwen clenched his fists.
They expected that the Tang Dynasty and the Sassanid and the Turks would do business, and that the two sides would be paralyzed and temporarily stabilized by the Sassanid and Turkic, and that the battle between the West and Tuyuhun and Tubo would end, and that the commercial alliance between the Tang Dynasty and the Sassanid would turn into a military alliance, and the two sides would flank the Turks.
Second, developed commercial transactions brought huge benefits to the treasury, and when the Tang army went to war, it could reduce the labor and taxes of the common people.
Kill two birds with one stone, so why not.
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Anthony, Gao Xiaoyun, Wen Renyu, signed a commercial covenant at the official office of the Ministry of Households, and Anthony and the mission did not stay in Chang'an for a long time, and went to the Turks non-stop.
Today, Sasanian and Datang signed a commercial pact, and in the next six months, many Datang goods will be circulated to the West through Sasanar, and a steady stream of money and grain will flow into the Sasanian treasury.
At this moment, Anthony can't wait to meet with Argus, once Argus agrees to cooperate with Sassanid and Datang in business, Sassanid has no worries in the East, and can dispatch the elite stationed in the East to quell the rebellion in the South.
About half a month later, Antony sent Abuli back to Chang'an to report to Gao Xiaoyun that the Sassanid and Turks had also reached a commercial alliance, and the two sides had expanded trade routes and accelerated commercial exchanges.
In the palace, Yang Yue heard the news, and Long Yan was happy.
With Sasansanid as the link, the Tang Dynasty, Sasansan, and Turkic carried out commercial alliances, and the Tang army captured Tuyuhun and Tubo.
On the same day, Wen Renyu was sent to post a notice to convey the edict to the merchants of Chang'an, Jiangnan and Shu, and the court built a chamber of commerce in Broken Leaf City, and all merchants could go to Broken Leaf City to do business and strengthen commercial circulation.
The edict came out, causing great waves in Chang'an.
In the past, the people only knew about the countries of the Western Regions, but they did not expect that there was still a vast world outside the Western Regions.
However, the happiest person is none other than the merchants in Chang'an City.
They often bought goods from the West from the Great Cannibals, Sassanids, and sold them to the princes and nobles of Chang'an, the families of the wealthy.
Not to mention the extremely high prices of these commodities, they are often priceless.
Now, the court is allied with Sassanid commerce, and in the future, Western goods will continue to flow into Chang'an, and Datang's goods will also be shipped to the West, which contains huge benefits.
Within a few days, businessmen in Chang'an successively presented excerpts to Yang Yue.
In addition to expressing gratitude and donating money and grain to the household department, most merchants wrote to Yang Yue to ask Yang Yue to relax the scope of business of merchants while doing business with Sasana.
In the document, it was specifically mentioned that it was recommended that the imperial court open up salt, iron, gold and other mines, and allow ordinary merchants to operate.
After all, salt mines, iron mines, gold mines, etc., are very profitable, but they are all in the name of the household department or the chamber of commerce set up in the court.
Ordinary businessmen, unattainable!
Especially in recent years, the Tang army has continued to fight with the Quartet tribes, and the consumption of weapons has been rising.
In addition, with the manufacture of large ordnance such as earth-shaking thunder, catapults, bed crossbows, etc., all kinds of ordnance that launches earth-shaking thunder also consume a large amount of iron ore.
At present, the scale of iron ore development by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households is far from meeting the market demand, resulting in a sharp rise in iron prices and a threat to the business interests of many small workshops.
Salt mines, gold mines, needless to say, the benefits brought are not exaggerated.
Yang Yue browsed the excerpts sent by merchants from all over the world, and was secretly unhappy!
As the emperor, he knew that in the taxes of the treasury, the taxes paid by merchants increased year by year.
If it weren't for this, Datang would not be able to rise rapidly, let alone fight against foreign countries one after another.
Nowadays, with the Sassanid trade, goods circulated to the Western Regions, and the merchant became more and more important in trade, and a steady stream of gold and silver would flow into the treasury.
He had no intention of opening up the mining industry.
After thinking about it for a long time, Yang Yue sent Gao Heng to inform the household officials, and ordered the merchants of Chang'an to come to the palace with the merchants of Jiangnan and Shu who were in Chang'an.
The rise of the Tang Dynasty needs to rely on businessmen, but it must not take into account the interests of businessmen, infringe on the interests of the court, and crisis the capital of the Tang Dynasty.
Wen Renyu received an edict from Gao Heng, and immediately sent household officials to the major chambers of commerce to invite the bosses.
Inside the Wenren family, Wenren Xiange learned that Yang Yue had summoned businessmen into the palace, and his expression became surprised.
In her impression, Yang Yue only at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, the price of grain for merchants in Chang'an rose, and when he personally calmed down the price of grain, he summoned merchants into the palace and personally set rules for merchants.
In recent days, many businessmen in Chang'an have come to visit Wenren's family, suggesting that Wenrenyu make suggestions to the emperor and open up certain commercial areas.
Now, Yang Yue suddenly summoned the boss of the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce to the palace, and he didn't understand very well when he heard the string song, what the emperor meant.
"Third brother, do you know what the emperor means by summoning the merchants to the palace?" Wen Renxian looked at Wen Renyu, who returned to the family and delivered the news to her, and asked curiously.
"Sister, I don't know about this matter, I didn't get any news in advance, but the trade between the imperial court and Sassanid will bring great benefits to the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, I believe that the emperor ordered everyone to go to the palace, what is the bad thing?" Wen Renyu said confusedly.
has been in the court for many years, Wen Renyu is no longer a simple Wen Renyu, don't say that he doesn't know the emperor's intentions, even if he is clear, he easily does not dare to leak secrets to Wen Renxinge.
So as not to bring unnecessary trouble to yourself and your family?