One day in late October of the second year of the Great Song Yuanfu, it was another afternoon after rain and snow. On the morning of this day, a small servant from Fanglou visited the Lihua Villa where Wu Haogu lived and sent Bai Feifei's invitation letter. So after lunch, Wu Haogu made an excuse and left the courtyard.

The place he was going to was Anfu Lane next to the Zhouqiao Wazi, which was a very secluded alley, not too far from the Pick-up Building, and the high-style roof of the Pick-up Wing-building could be seen from afar.

The alley is very quiet, and when it is close to dusk in the afternoon, it is probably the quietest time in this alley, and only Wu Haogu rides alone in the alley.

The horses' hooves made a crisp "click" sound as they stepped on the gravel pavement, echoing through the alleys. Bai Feifei's house is in the depths of the alley, it is an ordinary house without a yard, and it is a single-family two-story building. When Wu Haogu arrived, the door was closed, and the windows upstairs were also closed, and it seemed very quiet.

This was not the first time Wu Haogu had come, so he didn't knock on the door, but directly led the horse through between the two houses and arrived behind the small building of Bai Feifei's house. There was a slightly open space with a few tethered posts, and a stone manger, and a well next to the mande. Wu Haogu tied a horse he was riding to the leash, fetched a bucket of water from the well and poured it into the manger, and then went to shoot the back door of Bai Feifei's house.

After a while, I heard footsteps in the house, followed by the door creaking open. It was Bai Feifei himself who came out of it, or a white shirt without makeup, it was a thicker one, and now it was winter after all. Bai Feifei was carrying a vegetable basket in his hand, and there was a small half-hanging copper coin in the basket.

"It's unfortunate that the official came, and the slave is going to buy vegetables."

Bai Feifei called Wu Haogu an "official", as if she was Wu Haogu's wife.

She and Wu Haogu had a tryst in advance, so they would come over to buy vegetables and cook, and then wait for Wu Haogu to bathe and go to bed. I have to say, this is a very good servant woman. When he was with her, Wu Haogu had the illusion of "going home".

It seems that this kind of ordinary and comfortable life is real, and all the big things he is busy with all day long are illusory.

There is also an old mother living in this small building, Bai Feifei calls her Sister-in-law Li, who should be a servant. However, Bai Feifei didn't support her much, and usually personally served Wu Haogu, an "official".

"Let's do it together." Wu Haogu smiled, "I haven't bought vegetables for a long time. ”

"Okay." Bai Feifei smiled sweetly, and naturally walked towards the winding alley with Wu Haogu in his arms.

On the way to the vegetable market, Bai Feifei told Wu Haogu with a smile: "Official, there will be guests coming over tonight." ”

Wu Haogu asked, "Guest?" Who? ”

Bai Feifei said: "It's Zhang Shuye and Li Zhong." ”

"Them?" Wu Hao Gu said, "Just the two of them?" ”

Wu Hao Guben asked Bai Feifei to invite characters from all walks of life to gather in Zhufang Building, and he didn't want to come only to Zhang Shuye and Li Zhong, so he was a little disappointed.

Bai Feifei said with a smile: "What is the official anxious? What you want to do now is something big, how can you do it once or twice? ”

Wu Haogu smiled and didn't say much to Bai Feifei.

Can he not be in a hurry now? How many days does the official family of the Great Song Dynasty have to live? The affairs of the Jiehe Merchant City must be finalized while Zhezong is alive. Otherwise, who knows what the Queen Mother thinks? And it's not good to wait for Zhao Ji to be in power, because the Yelu Hongji in the north is also about to die!

As soon as Yelu Hongji hangs, Yelu Yanxi has to avenge his father as soon as he comes to power, and there is inevitably a bloody storm, where is there still the heart to manage the Jiehe Commercial Market? If this commercial market is opened, he will not seal it, if it is not opened...... Just drag it slowly!

Therefore, before the death of the two "faint monarchs" in the north and south, it is very crucial to finalize the Jiehe Commercial Market and sign the "Cheongju Covenant".

As long as the treaty was signed, the two dynasties formed a containment on the issue of the Jiehe commercial market, and no one could unilaterally change it.

And after signing the contract, the Jiangmen capitalists of the Great Song Dynasty and the Han Haoqiang of the Liao State will throw a lot of money at the Jiehe Commercial Market, whoever wants to close this commercial market is undoubtedly blocking people's financial paths, which is equivalent to the deep hatred of killing parents!

Wu Haogu, who was visiting the vegetable market with Bai Feifei, did not know that the holy decree approving the "Cheongju Covenant" had already been drafted by the Hanlin Academy.

This is also the reason why Zhang Shuye and Li Zhong asked Wu Haogu to meet and talk secretly.

The opening of the Jiehe Commercial Market is now a matter of the overall situation, but it is not so easy to open it well and satisfy all parties.

Of course it's not easy!

This is a trading city with 200,000 inhabitants and a high degree of autonomy!

It is not easy to open a grass market, and there are a lot of problems that need to be solved in all aspects, let alone a commercial city with 200,000 residents?

Moreover, the city is still autonomous!

To put it mildly, this is the first time that the Chinese national bourgeoisie has its own political power!

Don't talk about the weakness and incompetence of the Chinese national bourgeoisie. How easy is it to build and lead a regime? Without a process of groping and accumulation, you have to get a full score as soon as you get it, is it possible?

If the bourgeoisie can't do it, the peasant brothers can? There were too many peasant uprisings to mess up the pot, usually when the uprising was huge, and when it came time to establish political power, they became headless flies, and that was still in the street when it was possible to refer to the power of the landlord class.

Therefore, the establishment of a political regime, especially a new type of political regime that is different from the existing political model, requires a process of accumulation and exploration.

This is true in the East, and it is also true in the West. Most of the merchant republics and mercantile city leagues of the Europeans today are weak, with the exception of the Republic of Venice, which was founded in the 8th century AD, which is slightly stronger. The latecomers of the Rhineland, the Swabian League, the Hanseatic League, and the United Republic of the Netherlands did not even qualify as weak, and as for Greater America, it has not yet been discovered...... It can be seen from this that the capitalism of Westerners also has a process of continuous accumulation from weak to strong.

It is impossible to be coaxed from the beginning, let alone capitalism, you just follow the socialist line, what about the Paris Commune? The first proletarian regime in the history of mankind is no longer in the streets. Why aren't you as strong as the USSR? Wouldn't it be as strong as the Soviet Union to beat the French bourgeoisie and Prussian militarism? And even the USSR screwed up in the end......

It can be seen that no matter what the road, there is a process of development, accumulation and exploration. It's impossible to be perfect right from the start, unless it's a regime shrouded in the halo of a protagonist.

Therefore, the significance of the establishment of the Jiehe Commercial Market cannot be overemphasized.

This was the first time that the Chinese bourgeoisie had the opportunity to explore the building of political power, and it was carried out with the support of the Great Song Dynasty.

And it can also get a time window of at least 20 years for stable development.

Moreover, the Great Song Dynasty would also support Jiehe Shang City to make certain military preparations to deal with possible future Northern Expeditions. This is simply a hotbed for the development and growth of the Great Song bourgeoisie led by Wu Haogu!

As the two original founders of this regime, Zhang Shuye and Li Zhong did not think of their historical status at this time, let alone that they were raising a monster with filth all over their body and would devour the lives of countless simple and unkind human beings.

In fact, on the way to Bai Feifei's mansion to talk to Wu Haogu, the two of them never thought about how terrible the bourgeoisie was, and they had to be strictly controlled!

Along the way, they were all discussing where to establish the Jiehe Merchant City and implement the guild system. Of course, there were guilds in the Song Dynasty, and how could there be no guilds? A high degree of free competition does not exist in the whole world in this era.

Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, it was impossible to enter any industry you wanted. Because if you want to enter the industry, you have to get the permission of the guild.

As for the exceptions, of course, there are also exceptions, for example, Wu Haogu's Republic Bank, which is now engaged in the two main businesses of singing and selling and album (magazine) publishing, is a new industry at the moment, and there are no guild restrictions. However, this situation of "free entry" will soon change, because the "singing and selling guild" in Kaifeng Mansion will soon appear, and now the second singing and selling house Poly Virtue and the third singing and selling house Zhenbao have been opened one after another.

Kaifeng Fushi Yiwu has recently asked Christie's, Poly Virtue and Zhenbao to take the lead in launching a singing and selling guild.

That's right, the government actually wants to have guilds. Because of the guilds, the management of the government was convenient. Apportionment, tax collection, and purchase can all be handled by the guild, and the old man only needs to give orders to the head of the guild.

From a certain point of view, the guild and the head system were actually a kind of autonomy - the reason why the commercial taxes of the Song Dynasty were relatively high was actually based on a certain degree of autonomy and contracting.

Such a management method should naturally also be used in the Jiehe Commercial Market.

If there were guilds in all walks of life, then Zhang Shuye and Li Zhong only needed to control the guilds to control all aspects of Jiehe Commercial City.

By the way, the guilds of this era are not industry associations with no coercive ability, but a kind of "bullying gang" that takes both black and white. For practitioners who violate the rules of the industry or challenge the authority of the head of the industry, in most cases (except for the elegant industry of calligraphy and painting), there will be violent punishment.

The subordinates of the leaders usually have a splashy thug (in fact, there are also thugs at the head of the calligraphy and painting line), and now they accompany Wu Haogu to buy vegetables and cook together, as if she is a good family and a beautiful woman, Bai Feifei, who also has a large number of splashes under her who can be instructed, is a female bully wrapped in a gentle appearance......