[It's slow to write, a chapter at seven o'clock tomorrow, can only be delayed a little later,]

After a circle in the southern states of Guangxi, when Han Gang returned to Jiaozhou, the sea ship of the Zhang family firm had already run back and forth from Jiaozhou to Quanzhou.

After this trip, the Zhang family made four times the profit, and the total amount reached as much as 100,000 yuan, and it was only because there was only one shipload of incense.

Han Gang could know how much money was made from the spices on this route, and he still relied on someone to give him a thorough understanding. Such a profit, even with Han Gang's vision, can't help but be surprised. In domestic transshipment trade, when it comes to the question of how much money is made, I am afraid that such a trade route is the most.

Since it was such a lucrative business, Han Gang didn't expect the people of the Zhang family to be like Zhang Dian and have a clear enough mind in front of money.

Han Gang had already given up persuasion with interest, anyway, even Zhang Dian couldn't monopolize Jiaozhou's incense trade, Jiaozhou was not a shop opened by the Zhang family after all, and he could buy and sell as he wanted.

After a while, as the merchants came and went more and more frequently, there would be more and more people eyeing the incense trade, and the profit margin would gradually decline. If you can't get out in time, but rent more merchant ships in order to earn more, then it is not impossible to lose all your money in the end.

Although Han Gang had inferred about this in his heart, when he saw Zhang Xun, he didn't mention anything about the incense medicine at all. What should be said has already been said, and there is no point in repeating it. Sometimes, even if it is well-intentioned, others may not appreciate it.

Zhang Xian's age is older than Han Gang, but this eleventh lang of the Zhang family is actually just in the age of establishment. The contours of his appearance are somewhat similar to those of Zhangdun, but he lacks the extraordinary courage of Zhangdun, nor does he have the innate self-confidence that permeates his gestures.

He was already a little impatient waiting for Han Gang in Jiaozhou, after all, this place was like a place of exile, and there was no way to compare it with Fujian, let alone Tokyo City.

However, when he really saw Han Gang, Zhang Sui saluted Han Gang respectfully, just as he and his name came from the same source.

Han Gang couldn't accept Zhang Sui's courtesy as ordered, turned sideways to avoid it, and then changed the salute: "Lao Gong wait for a long time." ”

Zhang Sui was born in a family, and he walks on the rivers and lakes a lot, and as long as it is necessary, he can do things like a spring breeze. It just so happened that Han Gang had just brought back a group of Tan people, so he took the opportunity to praise Han Gang's achievements, "The Tan people have been dissatisfied with Wang Hua for a long time, but now they take the initiative to vote, all of which are the credit of Yukun." ”

"Where." Han Gang shook his head, "If there is no Brother Ling in front of you to make the tribes afraid, how can there be today's barbarian tribes to vote." ”

Zhang Sui said with a smile: "If you can teach the Tan people to farm, then it will be no problem to pass on the method of cultivation to the barbarians." Presumably, Yukun is already confident. ”

"How dare you be confident. It's just one step at a time, and the rest depends on the good words of the public. Han Gang said with a smile, although Zhang Sui's words were just casual words, but it would be great if the result was good.

Although they both teach the cultivation of the tribe that does not have to do anything, the difficulty of the two is different. One is their own hard work, and the other is the hard work of their slave laborers, of course, the latter is easy, and the former is difficult to adapt in a short time.

Han Gang wanted to show his closeness and asked Zhang Sui to accompany him to inspect the settlement arranged for the Tan people. In fact, Zhang Sui is right, if even the Tan people can start farming, then the barbarians will definitely not be worse than them.

When the Fuliang River is about to enter the sea, it divides five or six rivers from one river and divides into several branches to flow into the sea. In total, there are more than 800 families living in three newly built villages. The land allocated to them was on the land formed by the intersecting of two branches after the flow of the river. This piece of land, the land is fertile, and it depends on the river, if the farming level of the Tan people cannot be improved for a while, they can still fish on the river to subsidize their daily households.

But now it looks like it's going well. The houses of the Tan people were specially sent by the state to guide several craftsmen who are good at construction. Basically, they are exactly the same houses, and they use the most economical materials to build a strong enough house.

"I didn't think it was all bamboo." Zhang Sui looked at the past, and every household occupied a bamboo building. It's just the shape and structure of the house, it's all exactly the same. Looking at the past from afar, I can't tell who is who.

"Wood is easy to rot, bamboo is better, and bamboo grows fast, much cheaper than wood. It's just a little rudimentary. ”

"The Tan people have lived on the water all their lives, and there are many things that seem very simple to us, but compared to the small boats on the sea, they are already in the sky and on the earth." Zhang Sui didn't mind patting Han Gang's ass.

"It's not that simple. Since the Tan people live here, they must start building embankments immediately, otherwise the floods and tides alone will wipe these villages off the land. ”

After inspecting the village of the Tan people, Han Gang and Zhang Sui returned to Haimen. But they found that the water patrol here was forcibly boarding, causing chaos in the harbor.

"What's going on?!" Zhang Sui asked in surprise.

"It's just checking the copper ban. For ships trading with the West. It's okay to trade with the Yiren, but you can't let them take them out of the river. ”

At this time, the copper ban is strict, and if you are caught in violation of it, it is directly a capital crime, no matter what the reason is. Therefore, the merchants on the ship were all pale as dirt, although their business was not aimed at outsiders, but how many copper coins were stuffed with them for purchase, if the government wanted to be more serious, no one could escape.

Han Gang didn't want to do anything with these merchants—although according to Taizong's plan, they could all go to the execution platform—and Han Gang suddenly sent someone to reiterate the copper ban.

Since he was in Guangxi, he could not watch a large number of copper coins flow from Haimen Port in Jiaozhou to the surrounding countries in the South Seas.

"The search was really careful." Zhang Sui looked at the figure on the boat and sighed sincerely.

"Of course, you have to be careful, now there is a money shortage in the country, and there is no money to take out the money for outsiders."

"It's good if you go to Nanyang with silk and porcelain, as long as you worry about the direction of the wind, don't worry about anything else. You can also make a lot of money back and forth. When Zhang Sui said this, he was a temptation.

Han Gang shook his head, which can be regarded as a polite refusal. It is true that trade transshipment can make a quick fortune, but Han Gang has a more stable situation. Overseas trade in this era was not of great use to the state.

Although Han Gang doesn't know much about history, he still knows a little about the causes of the Age of Discovery. At first, it was to break through the Turkish monopoly on eastern trade and open up a communication line between the east and west ends of the continent.

Westerners target porcelain, silk and tea, which are Chinese specialties, but spices such as pepper, cardamom and cloves in the Nanyang region are also the targets they strive for. Moreover, these spices are essential seasonings for marinating meat in winter, and they are considered necessities, more important than silk and porcelain, which are considered luxuries in the Western view.

However, in the overseas trade of the Great Song Dynasty, there were no necessities or hard currency exchanged. It was not the era when the Western Great Voyages began a few hundred years later, and a large amount of silver and gold could be exchanged for special products such as silk, porcelain, and tea—that is, the finished products of industry and agriculture, and the benefits to the national economy were self-evident, and they were basically luxury goods.

For businessmen, as long as they can make money, although the risk of sea trade is high, the profit is more than ten times the profit. It would be nice for the government to be able to collect taxes from sea vessels. But for the Great Song Dynasty, the world's largest economy with a population of hundreds of millions, it is basically trading at a loss.

In the maritime trade, the Great Song Dynasty exported not only silk, porcelain and tea, but also currency such as copper coins, which were often shipped out of the country in boats. Song money was so beautifully crafted that it became a major currency in the surrounding countries. This is the case with Cochin, but it is also true in Japan and Goryeo.

After the output,

If the outflow is paper money, it is good, but it is a net outflow of hard currency, and in exchange for luxury goods such as incense and jewelry, it is mainly provided to the upper class, which is not beneficial to the country. The large amount of copper money on the market has been lost, and the national economy is constantly losing blood.

Whether it is Han Gang or the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty today, they all have a clear understanding of the harm of the loss of copper coins.

And this loss is not only limited to foreign countries, but also in the Great Song Dynasty, and there are countless people who like to make money. Burying all the money in the ground like a vole is the most headache.

Coins will play their due role when they enter the circulation link, and the imperial court's sealing warehouse is good to say, the money and silk inside are for war preparedness, but the folk treasured coins are buried in the ground, and I don't know when the sun will be seen.

The expenditure of the annual gift is not a small amount. 200,000 taels of silver for Liao, 70,000 taels for Western Xia - seven years after Xining, the annual gift to Western Xia was never given again - just 200,000 taels given to Liao was already equivalent to most of the country's annual silver production. However, the silver sent to the Liao State basically returned to the side of the Great Song Dynasty through various trades in a month and a half months, but this is not the case with copper coins, and when they arrive in a foreign country, they are immediately circulated, and there is no chance of coming back at all.

The solution that Han Gang can think of is to use paper money, and use paper money with unstable currency value to force people, so he can only consume or invest the paper money in his hand as much as possible. It is not difficult to do this, but the result will only be the indiscriminate issuance of paper money, and people will eventually abandon the currency of the country.