The commodity economy is fundamentally different from the natural economy, which is introverted and tends to be conservative after stabilization. www.biquge.info The nature of the commodity economy is to expand, to produce, exchange, and obtain profits and then expand reproduction, and the more and more products are produced, and the market for demand will naturally become larger and larger.

In fact, the sugar business built by Xu Ping in Yongzhou has this nature, and at the beginning it was mainly transported to the mainland market, and a large number of profits were left in the mainland, and everyone still didn't think it. When the expansion of the mainland market slowed down, Pang Ji immediately turned the direction of market expansion to the ocean after taking over there. It's not that Pang Ji wants to do this, it's the nature of the sugar business that forces him to do this. Cultivating land suitable for growing sugarcane on land will produce more and more sugar, and naturally there will be a need for a broader and broader market. The Nanyang Trade Route is the direction of the expansion of the sugar business. From this point of view, Champa is not as good as Jiaozhi before, if Jiaozhi is honest, it is actually very safe, and Champa blocked the trade route of cane sugar and must be defeated.

Sucane looks somewhat similar to the manors of the previous Wei and Jin dynasties, but in fact it is completely different. The manors of the natural economy are self-sufficient, while the manors of the commodity economy of sugar cane are completely self-sufficient, and must sell the sugar they produce and buy back the grain and various consumer goods they need. This difference determines that one of them is conservative and the other is naturally inclined to expand. This difference is precisely the epoch-making difference between capitalism and feudalism.

By establishing such an estate in Quang Nam, Xu Ping was not worried that they would develop a sense of independence, and that the Civil War would occur in the United States in the previous life, because the two were fundamentally different. Regardless of the sugar cane business in Yongzhou, or similar manors that will be produced in the future, their main market and main source of commodities are the Central Plains. The Central Plains is their foundation. Those economic entities of the manor system are just branches and branches of the big trees in the Central Plains, and without the Central Plains, they will have no soil for survival. The large planters of the southern part of the United States have the largest market in Europe, and the largest source of commodities is also in Europe, and economically speaking, they are one with Europe, which is the root cause of the South's independence and their economic foundation.

The economic base determines the superstructure, and social existence determines social consciousness, and as long as there is an economic basis of a large unified economic market, there is no need to worry about the south having different manor owners, which is the logic of the commodity economy.

The cane sugar merchants of Yong Lang Road were looking for a new market for themselves, and the spearhead had already been taken at Champa, and it was only a matter of time before they annexed there to completely control the Nanyang Trade Road. The current situation is fundamentally different from when Xu Ping was in Yongzhou, when Xu Ping did not have the initiative to annex Jiaozhi, and the development direction of the sugar industry was still towards the country, and he only responded passively. Now the foundation of the sugar cane business has moved to the south of Langzhou, and it has become instinct to develop southward.

To the south, Xu Ping also needed to open up markets for new cotton cloth and the old silk industry, which was why he was particularly interested in the trade routes of Goryeo and Japan. There is no way, Southeast Asia is too hot, the indigenous people are too poor, wearing clothes is a dispensable thing for them, and it is really difficult to develop the textile market. Unless the Nanyang trade route leads to Europe, it will find a large market for textiles, which is not known in which year and month, and far from quenching the thirst.

Talking with Wang Wen, Xu Ping also learned about the current situation in Northeast Asia. There, the Khitan power was stronger than that of the Great Song Dynasty, but the Khitan was also a barbarian after all, and there was a psychological obstacle for Goryeo to surrender. The current Goryeo is factually neutral and cannot be offended in either way, but culturally, it is still biased towards the Great Song Dynasty. The Bingong students who had studied in the Guozijian in Kaifeng, especially those who were given the background of Jinshi, were also remarkable figures when they returned to Goryeo, and at least they could do the six ministers of the Central Plains and other ministries. The Wang family is one of the most powerful families in Goryeo, and there have always been people in the clan who hold ministries such as the Great Song Dynasty. As for Wang Bin, who stayed in the Central Plains as an official, he was a jinshi who was tested with his real ability, and he was not a binggong student who was given a jinshi, so of course he disdained to return to the place where the bird didn't to be an official. Now it is the face of the Goryeo royal family, which is more glorious than being the prime minister in Goryeo.

Unlike the situation in nearby Japan and Goryeo, the country has been closed off since the Fifth Dynasty, and the domestic situation is not particularly stable, for fear of being affected by the Central Plains regime, the political situation is unstable, and maritime exchanges are strictly prohibited. It is not so strictly isolated from Goryeo and the Great Song Dynasty, and the trade route has always been open, but the scale is not too large. Now the Han people who go to the sea route of Japan are either pretending to be in the name of the Koreans, or they simply find a few women in Japan and build a home, which is considered Japanese.

After asking these questions clearly, Xu Ping said to Wang Wen: "Goryeo is sparsely populated, you just transport cotton cloth and cotton clothes to sell there, but I'm afraid you won't be able to sell much." If you make it big in the future, it will be inconvenient after all. ”

Wang Wen said with a smile: "Du Cao is right, no matter how small Goryeo is, there are several states in the Central Plains and hundreds of thousands of households. How many cotton clothes can be made in Xijing City, so that the Korean people can't buy them! ”

Xu Ping smiled slightly: "Hundreds of thousands of households, how many people can afford it?" With the wealth of the Central Plains, Jingxi Road is not yet able to afford cotton clothes, and Goryeo is only afraid that it will be even worse. As for how many cotton and cotton clothes there are in Xijing City, tomorrow I will ask you to take you to the freight yard to take a look, I dare not say more, it is enough for the whole country of Goryeo to have a few clothes. ”

Wang Wen was stunned for a while, and did not speak for a while, and finally said with a disbelieving face: "Luoyang is just a city, how can there be so many cloths?" We have hundreds of thousands of people in Goryeo—"

Huang Jinbiao knocked on the table impatiently: "I'll just say that you are a barbarian, and there are hundreds of thousands of people?" There are one or two million households in Kaifeng Prefecture! Don't talk about the capital, let's talk about our Yongzhou, which also has hundreds of thousands of households, and it is still a frontier land! ”

Wang Wen was taken aback: "Even the contemptible land of Yongzhou has hundreds of thousands of people? Don't fool me! ”

"The Ducao officials are here, you ask, how many people were there at that time?"

Xu Ping said with a smile: "Huang Jinbiao didn't say much about this, there are indeed hundreds of thousands of households in Yongzhou." At that time, there were 200,000 or 300,000 households in the Tu Dynasty, plus the number of households in several counties, plus the sugar cane business, it was really not necessarily less than the number of households in Goryeo. ”

When Xu Ping was in Lingnan, Yongzhou was much larger than Nanning in later generations, almost equivalent to most of Guangxi later. At this time, there were not many crops suitable for planting in the high-latitude areas of Goryeo, and the weather was cold, which was far less than the population carrying capacity of Yongzhou, and it was normal for the population to be similar to Yongzhou.

Wang Wen was a little discouraged: "Okay, Goryeo is a remote and small state, and there are few households, so naturally it can't be compared with the prosperity and wealth of the Central Plains." But no matter how small it is, there is a business to do, and listening to the meaning of the Ducao officials, is it because they think that Goryeo is barren and poor, and they can't look down on the transactions there? ”

Xu Ping waved his hand: "How can I mean that, if I really think so, I won't care about your convenience everywhere." What I'm saying is that if you want to do big business, Goryeo will still be small after all, and the money you can earn is limited. I've heard people say that Japan has a lot more land than Goryeo, and there are many more households, so if you do business, you can only get a lot of interest! ”

Wang Wen shook his head: "The officials don't know that the business in Japan is not easy to do, and they are very protective against outsiders. The reason for the trade route with Goryeo is that there are not many goods coming and going, and if there are too many of them, it may be possible to find a way to cut off the trade route. ”

Hearing this, Xu Ping asked with concern, "Oh, is it really so strong?" I also heard that Japan banned maritime merchants, but it was not completely cut off, but it was only allowed to pass the Song Dynasty maritime merchants once every three years, and recently I heard that the most I heard was four times a year. It's just that the control there is too strict, and private traders are not allowed, and the maritime merchants have to let their government sell the goods when they get there. ”

"The officials of the capital only know one thing, but they don't know the other. Japanese people naturally like goods from the Central Plains, for example, they also produce silk there, and the quality is not bad, and it has been sold to our Goryeo over the years. But officials and nobles, but anyone with a little status, must wear the silk sold in the Central Plains, and even the maids of rich families must have an identity in this way. I think Japan's domestic paper is also famous in the Central Plains, and it is regarded as a treasure in many places. But they are different, and the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone must be transported from the Central Plains, otherwise they will be looked down upon. Xiao Ke said this, which means that there are naturally people who want to buy goods from the Great Song Dynasty, but the government is strict, and once there are more, they will try their best to ban them. The maritime merchants here in the Great Song Dynasty always find all kinds of excuses, such as encountering a storm at sea and drifting to Japan, and want to use this statement to make a deal. When encountering such merchants, most of the Japanese countries were not allowed to get off the ship, and they were sent away with the goods. They do business, and once they get bigger, they are suspicious. ”

Xu Ping only inquired about these maritime affairs from the mouths of the Central Plains people in this era, and he always did not know clearly. In fact, at this time, the Great Song Dynasty did not have a clear understanding of the political situation in Japan, and there was no channel for understanding.

Listening to Wang Wen's words, Xu Ping couldn't help asking: "Since they like the goods of the Central Plains, why are they so well guarded?" ”

"Although there is a king in Japan today, the power is not in the hands of the king. In their country, there is a noble family surnamed Fujiwara--official, and people in Japan have this kind of surname, and most of them are two-character surnames. This Fujiwara family is a relative, and generally the king's biological mother is a member of their family. The Fujiwara family controlled the affairs of the country, and when the king was young, he was called 'regent', that is, he handled state affairs on behalf of the king. When the king came of age, he was reappointed as 'Guan Bai' - this 'Guan Bai' was also a ministry in their country, and the real power was especially more important than that of the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, so it can be said that all state affairs are unified. Therefore, the Fujiwara family, often referred to as 'Regent', was in fact in charge of Japan, and their king was just a decoration. ”