Xu Ping was curious when he heard this, and asked Xu Chang: "Oh, what business?" Let's listen to it, if it is suitable, it is not bad to make it for you to supplement your home. You just have a second child, and you have to plan for it. ”

Like Xu Chang, although he is regarded as a servant in the Xu family, he does not have a clear master-slave relationship, and he can also open a shop and set up a field outside. If you have money, you can be in the first place, and then recruit slaves and maids. This kind of person who helps the master take care of the business and has a certain status is generally called a cadre, and some are even richer than princes.

Speaking of which, the personal dependency relationship in this era is not strong, it is only a money-employment relationship.

Xu Chang said: "It's talking about what kind of shop to open, I just heard about this business, but the family of power can't do it, but I don't know anything about the market, and I don't dare to agree casually." ”

"What? Cross-introduction shop? This business must not be done! The smile on Xu Ping's face instantly dissipated, "If you want money to use, we still have several ways at home." After the year, I and the chief of the stone pavilion will open a glass field for the official's house, this method is originally our family, and then I will ask for the broken glass waste in the field as a condition. If you lead a shop that sells glass products in Beijing, you can make some things out of these broken glasses, and you can also make a lot of profits. ”

Xu Chang saw Xu Ping's expression, and knew that the business of Jiaoyinpu was not simple, so he said: "They came to me, and I don't know what Jiaoyinpu is doing, so I didn't refuse." Since Da Lang said not to do it, then not to do it, and the salary I receive at home is enough for our family to have food and clothing, and I don't have to do anything. ”

Xu Ping looked at Xu Chang, then at Sun Qilang, and said in a deep voice: "I am now working as a deputy envoy of salt and iron in the court, and you should not touch the business related to my duties, so as not to tell the truth." There are many ways to get money in our family, and there is no need to use my official to exchange money, and what to do in the future, remember to discuss it with me. ”

Xu Chang and Sun Qilang saw that Xu Ping was serious, and hurriedly agreed.

The shop specializes in buying and selling some monopoly materials such as salt and tea, and also does foreign exchange business. Since the implementation of the border into China and France, merchants have delivered grain, grass, horns, and other strategic materials at the border, and the border does not directly give money, but gives them a quotation, including tea for tea, salt for salt, and money for direct money. The merchant took these quotations and went to the special goods service set up by the three divisions of the capital to exchange salt tea and cash.

However, there is not always any goods or money in the goods business, so the merchants have to wait in the capital, and some can't afford to wait, so they have to resell the exchange at a low price to the exchange shop. The vast majority of the shops are open next to the goods, so they are naturally not afraid of waiting. In other words, the shop is actually engaged in the securities business, and it has made high profits with strong capital.

In the past, merchants who entered China also needed to exchange cash for the guarantee of the introduction shop, because of the many drawbacks, this system was abolished during the Tiansheng year, and the transfer shop was hit to a certain extent. Despite this, the business of Jiaoyinpu is still the industry with the largest transaction volume in Beijing, and the transaction volume of a business is often tens of millions or hundreds of thousands, which is appalling.

And in the past ten years, the business of Jiaoyinpu has become more and more complicated. Merchants who get money along the border do not come to the capital at all, but sell them in other places, and then resell them again by the second-tier dealers.

When the border entered the middle school at the beginning, the original intention was to induce merchants to sell grain from the interior to the border, and it did play a role at that time. And in recent years, why has there been no grain shipped to Shaanxi? The cross-introduction shop is indispensable.

According to the three arguments that are now implemented, the price of tea can even be inflated by ten times, that is to say, merchants can get ten cents for paying one penny of grain and grass along the border. You must know that the price of grain in Shaanxi is several times that of Beijing, and coupled with the inflated estimate, the profits of this industry have reached an appalling level.

The imperial court spent such a big price, but the result was that there was not a single stone of grain to be shipped to Shaanxi, where did the money go? There are countless people who lie on this chain of interests and suck blood, which is why Xu Ping found out that he was tired, but he was worried and didn't dare to open the shady curtain easily. If he doesn't do it well, he will offend the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

It seems that as long as you have the capital, you can get high profits for nothing, but in fact, it is not. If there are no connections in the court, this business is actually impossible. The Great Song Dynasty court has always been eager to grasp the profits of every copper coin in its own hands, but it has no consciousness of sharing profits with merchants. As long as there is a change in the method of cross-citation, the millions of dollars of the cross-quotation shop merchants can be wiped out overnight.

Therefore, those who open the shop must have great connections in the imperial court, and even if they cannot affect the policies of the imperial court, they can take measures before the policy changes to minimize the losses.

Xu Ping is the deputy envoy of salt and iron, who can compare to him in terms of connections in this industry? As soon as there was a rumor that the tea method was going to be changed, someone made their own idea to drag Xu Chang into the water.

This time is nothing more than a temptation, and if it is rejected, there must be many more means to use it later. The interests involved in this industry are too great, and I don't know how many ministers and nobles are trapped in it, and where it is so easy to shake.

If it weren't for Zhao Zhen asking in person, if it weren't for Xu Ping's fact that he didn't want to lie about this kind of thing, I don't know how long it would take him to make up his mind to lift the lid.

The sun is gradually setting, the winter evening breeze carries a biting coolness, and the once infinite scenery of the greenhouse during the day shivers in the cold wind. Xu Chang and Sun Qilang instructed their subordinates to close the door of the greenhouse and seal it tightly, so that the green in the shed could hide from the cold wind.

Xu Ping stood in the backyard, letting the cold wind blow over him, looking into the distance in a daze.

For the first time, he felt how difficult it was to gain a foothold in officialdom in this era, and Xu Ping was even afraid. In a trance, he even regretted that he was an official, so that he was on the cusp of the storms of this era.

I wanted to live a peaceful and prosperous life, but I didn't want to be in turmoil all the time. Xu Ping is not afraid of doing things, he is a man in two lives, full of knowledge, no matter how difficult things Xu Ping feels he can do. But Xu Ping really doesn't want to fight with others, especially he doesn't want to fight with the top people of this era in this kind of thing, even if he can fight, that kind of life is too tiring. Xu Ping is not Ding Wei, and he can't still enjoy that kind of thing.

Since he visited flowers in high school, Xu Ping has hoped that he can be like Feng Zheng in the previous dynasty, everyone ridiculed him for being uneducated, but in the end he became the prime minister, and he enjoyed honors before and after his death. In the last years of his life, he teamed up with Qian Weiyan to bring down Ding Wei, and teamed up with Wang Zeng to bring down Qian Weiyan, and he also let go of Kou Zhun Yima, who looked down on him all his life, and finally became the prime minister. Even if he is toyed with behind him, and his children and grandchildren are deceived by villains on the street, he is willing.

Originally, he had always taken Ding Wei, a smart man in this era, as a warning, but unconsciously, Xu Ping found that he had taken the wrong path and began to set foot in Ding Wei's footsteps. The errand of the deputy envoy of salt and iron was like this, and the things to be done began to be similar.

(Note: After Feng Zheng died, someone in Kaifeng gave birth to a small donkey, and the word "Feng Zheng" was faintly on the donkey's belly.) In order to avoid being ridiculed, the Feng family bought back the donkey at a high price, and was afraid that it was really the reincarnation of Feng Zheng, and it was good to eat and drink until death. This is actually a common deception, used to ridicule Feng Zheng for being the prime minister, but he has no so-called knowledge. (To be continued.) )