The Antao incident did not attract much attention.

Most ministers just thought that An Tao had played a petty role, which was not a serious mistake.

The handling of Zhongshu is almost equivalent to a transfer at the same level, which is also not a serious punishment.

But as we all know, this is the beginning.

Some people are in favor, some are against, and some are ready to move to a small bench to watch the excitement......

Wang Ju acted as if nothing had happened.

Some businessmen have shipped silk materials to the capital, and some people have joined the new machinery alliance company.

This strange name is Wang Juqi, and it can't be said that it is inappropriate, they are indeed new machines, and they are indeed a super alliance, with half of the imperial court and half of the private individuals.

And Wang Ju asked the other side to be a demonstrator, and also explained its stakes in detail.

Don't worry about the imperial court encroaching on these money, it has a lot of investment, such as further research and development, as well as the construction and transformation of various workshops, this transformation action is not small, it will almost all the original smelting and casting processes are overthrown, and a number of new large-scale workshops must be built, that is, factories, as well as the cost of materials, promotion costs, working capital, etc.

Therefore, it was necessary to prepare for more than 10 million yuan in cost.

However, there is one rule, once their craftsmanship is further matured, the imperial court will adopt these new technologies for the manufacture of armor or other aspects, but will not open a separate workshop to manufacture these new machinery and put it on the market, competing for the profits of this "company".

In addition, the imperial court is also obliged to keep these technologies secret.

At the same time, it is also clear that it started because of the high price. The technology is not yet perfect, etc. Margins are limited. The real profit is in the future.

Regarding this article, it is also deliberately written on the cloth.

So while some people felt magical, were scared back by a few words from these demonstrators.

But there are still quite a few people who are interested.

Everyone is not stupid, and after making an example, how can they not understand its future.

Not only irrigation and drainage, but also textiles, in fact, in the past two years, some people have used the new loom in Zuyang. The cotton cloth has been woven. Even if the other side does not find the kind of fine staple cotton that is suitable for planting in the north and has better quality, cotton is also gradually popularized in the north, and now it has spread to almost the entire Fujian Road, Jiangnan West Road, and Jinghu South Road in the central and southern parts of the country.

The people take food and clothing as their day, and if they occupy a cloth, how big will the prospects be?

Moreover, it has other uses, such as transportation, printing, and so on.

And the barrier to entry is also relatively low.

Therefore, people began to participate one after another, and the facts also proved that the imperial court did not want to use it to profit from the merchants in disguise. In the front, the money and silk that were invested in the capital were obtained, and the imperial court began to build many workshops on the banks of the Bianshui and Wuzhang rivers on the outskirts of the capital.

Later, he asked these merchants and squires to send stewards. Participate in construction and account management.

Then the imperial court issued another edict, two of which clearly stipulated, the first is that one tael of gold is equivalent to ten taels of silver, and one tael of silver is equivalent to two thousand pieces of silk.

This simple edict was to standardize the exchange ratio of gold and silver, and at the same time link silk to gold and silver.

In this regard, the Song Dynasty had been almost laissez-faire before, so it was very confusing.

For example, the price of gold and silver, in the early Song Dynasty, one tael of silver was equivalent to 1,000 wen, and one tael of gold was equivalent to 10,000 wen, but with the Southern Tang Dynasty and the return of Fujian to Shun, the gold and silver in the south continued to come, and the gold-silver price ratio declined. However, with the prosperity of the country's economy, the increase of civil gold and silver, the outflow of a small amount of gold and silver, and the annual gifts to the two countries of Liaoxia, the price of gold and silver increased immediately.

Before Wang Ju proposed to ban the tax on gold and silver entering the city, one tael of silver in Guangnan was only equivalent to 1,000 wen, while in some northern areas where gold and silver were in short supply, one tael of silver was equivalent to 2,500 wen.

It was the imperial court that banned the tax on gold and silver entering the city, and the price of silver in Guangnan was only about 1,500 wen, and some parts of the north were still above 2,000 wen.

Of course, that ban narrowed the gap between the regions and laid the foundation for today's norms.

This is the price of gold and silver, and the confusion of the currency itself.

For example, it is always a thousand yuan, and some areas are more than 770 wen according to the regulations of the imperial court, and some areas only have 5 or 600 wen, but it is impossible to mention 8 or 900 wen, because copper coins are getting more and more tight.

At the same time, there are also a large number of heavy treasures and iron coins in circulation.

But you can't blame the Song Dynasty for inaction, the currency that came from. Or issue a large number of paper papers, like the Southern Song Dynasty, but after the issuance, there is no gold and silver and sufficient copper coins to cash, and the credit plummets, well, even more chaotic......

Therefore, the silk exchange must not be linked to copper coins, it will be messed up before it has started. Moreover, it itself was pushed out to the market with gold and silver as the principal.

Therefore, since the promulgation of this regulation, it is equivalent to the uniform regulation of gold and silver and silk exchanges, as for various original currencies, such as normal copper coins, heavy treasures, and iron coins, they can fluctuate up and down on this basis.

In fact, in the future, once the banking department is successfully set up, and after the silk exchange is generally issued to the people, all kinds of iron money and heavy treasures will be banned one by one, leaving only the normal copper coins, and a safe cash rate will be placed, that is, the cash rate with the silk exchange will fluctuate between 90 percent and 120 percent.

But this article, what can't be said now, one is that the currency is still seriously insufficient, and the other is that there are too many iron coins among the people, and the problem of heavy treasures is not big, and this iron money is the biggest headache.

Therefore, the second stipulation is that from now on, the consistent money must be equivalent to 1,000 yuan, no longer the previous 700 tens of yuan, and this 1,000 wen only refers to normal copper coins, and has nothing to do with iron coins.

That is, to standardize the existing currency.

In fact, there is another huge profit margin for the banking department, and that is venture capital.

For example, if a promising industry has the skills to operate it, then the bank can take the initiative to invest in it and wait for dividends later, which will be much higher than the so-called loan interest income.

There is also this chaotic currency market, as the imperial court will know better than any businessman, then you can withdraw funds for speculation, and it will also be exchanged for greater returns.

However, Wang Ju never said.

The main thing is that everyone doesn't understand that this kind of confused venture capital can bring a lot of income if it is done well. But it doesn't work. It will also cause greater confusion.

Moreover, there will be many scholars and doctors who will use it to make a fuss.

So Wang Ju didn't say anything. Just rigidly regulate it.

But there will be turmoil at the beginning, such as cattle.

Some time ago, an edict was issued, and the large livestock were not counted as households, and the imperial court did not forcibly limit the price of cattle, and the price of cattle rose in response.

Moreover, even the court knew that the price of cattle below had risen, and some ministers were very worried.

Wang Ju only said one thing, the price of beef reached 100 wen per catty, which refers to the average. The actual price of beef in Beijing reached 150 Wen!

How much beef can a cow take, and there is also beef tendon and cowhide.

So don't be in the Song Dynasty, that is, on the other side, the price of cattle given by merchants to herdsmen reached four or five yuan, and then pickled and trafficked to the Song Dynasty for profit. Therefore, on the one hand, the people are reluctant to raise cattle, and on the other hand, many people raise cattle, and as soon as they are fattened, they die inexplicably, and then enter the people's table.

So for so many years. The Song Dynasty has always lacked ploughing cattle.

However, with the growing population, intensive cultivation is inevitable. Without ploughing cattle, how can you cultivate intensively.

Therefore, if you want the people to raise cattle on a large scale and will not die inexplicably, only like now, one is not to count large livestock into households, the second is to let the market determine the price of cattle, and the third is to wait for the number of people on the other side to be larger, the other side can bring more meat, although it is a pickled product, but it is also a supplement to the meat market in the Song Dynasty.

As for the original only four or five yuan for a cow, it was against the market, so that when Wang Ju was a local official, he directly violated this order and openly purchased the cattle at a higher price and handed them over to the people.

Everyone is speechless, this is a simple account, everyone can calculate it, beef, cowhide, beef tendon, what's the matter, a cow can be sold for more than a dozen dollars.

However, a live cow only has four or five yuan, can this prevent unscrupulous businessmen from colluding with the elders to secretly kill cattle for profit?

In response, the prices of wood, bricks, and lime have risen.

Wang Ju welcomed this.

The price of building materials such as bricks, tiles, lime and so on has risen, but after the official establishment of the banking department, a large number of brick kilns will be established, and the price can be suppressed.

As for the timber, it is even more desperate, the higher the rise, the better, forcing the people to build brick and tile houses, not wooden houses, and at the same time, the price of timber will rise, and the profitability of maritime trade will also increase, Wang Ju will bring back so much gold and silver on the other side, it really has no impact on the other side?

So these chaos, it's benign.

But it's just the beginning......

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Originally, Wang Ju asked Zhao Du and Neiku to manage the sugar cane workshop, and Zhang Quanzhi and others managed the operation of the fleet, as well as the other side.

The sugar factory was a little better, but as the scale expanded, the operation of the fleet began to be chaotic on the other side, so a similar office was set up in Mizhou, Hangzhou, Quanzhou and Guangzhou, to inquire about the prices of goods in various places and to negotiate with inland merchants.

However, it was still very chaotic, and because of curiosity, the imperial court often sent people to inquire about it, so when Wang Ju reorganized the other side of the river in Quang Nam, he also reorganized the maritime trade, banned these "offices" one by one, and put a special person in charge of operating and checking the accounts, and the specific trade was in charge of the leaders of each fleet.

In fact, this is equivalent to the three-province system of the imperial court today, with the middle door making decisions, the subordinates deliberating, and the Shangshu implementing.

In fact, the management methods are all similar, at most the details are different, and the names are different.

As for this side, some bags were hired to inquire and explore the market price, but this is only a relationship between employers and subordinates, not only in the four ports of the Song Dynasty, but also in some other countries, such as the Wa Kingdom, Goryeo, Tianzhu States and Dashi Kingdoms, they also hired some bags to inquire.

In fact, with Zhao Du's departure from the sugar factory, only the so-called travel agency was left in the interior, and once the travel agency was handed over to the imperial court, Wang Ju's connection with the inland was only the trade of a few ports.

However, this is step by step, not just a few bags to inquire, after so many years of operation, because of the transaction, the other side is also familiar with the merchants of the cities where the ports are located, in this case, the so-called office has little effect, so it can also be banned.

It was against this background that Zhang Mu's murder case occurred.

He is one of the several leaders of the fleet that came to Hangzhou Port this time.

Since he is the person in charge, he is also a powerful general under Wang Ju, although he has not yet taken out a large number of deed shares for distribution, but for these powerful generals. Wang Ju gave a lot of salary. Especially when the fleets are traded. There must be a large amount of entertainment, so in addition to the salary, at the same time a large amount of money is allocated to them to deal with these entertainment and additional expenses.

As for whether it is enough, it depends on how it is spent.

If you spend a lot of money, you can spend 100,000 yuan a year.

If it is hard and simple, dozens of times a year are enough.

So where is the biggest expense? One is to buy a lot of luxury goods, and the other is to buy super mansions in various cities and raise many beautiful girls and servants.

However, these two articles are important for these stewards. But it will not exist, such as luxury goods, especially luxury goods from various distant countries, but because the sea fleet is controlled in his own hands, the actual price is not high, and Wang Ju will allocate a batch every year to sell it to each person in charge at an "internal price", which is a benefit.

As for buying luxury houses in various cities and raising a large number of beautiful girls, who would dare.

However, Wang Ju encouraged them to spend as much as they could within the scope of their permission. For example, food, prostitutes.

You are wardens within. But to the outside world, it is a seafarer with a lot of income.

As long as it is not too excessive, even if the cost is a bit too much, Wang Ju will allow it.

In fact, not only the people in charge, because they are floating on the sea, so these captains, helmsmen and sailors, are not paid low.

But when the fleet comes, it will not leave the port immediately, it will have to trade, it will have to wait for the monsoon, and now it will be responsible for the settlement of the migratory people.

Therefore, when the fleet came, the helmsmen and sailors or persons in charge of each ship would often go into the city and spend lavishly, including Zhang Mu.

Wu Nan beat Zhou Xun violently, that was anger, and Zhou Xun went too far.

In fact, these seafarers are usually in peace.

Besides, can Zhang Mu beat Wen Yanbo violently, can the identities of these two people be comparable? Moreover, Hangzhou, including the naval army, has three battalions of forbidden soldiers, and several battalions of soldiers, which can not be compared with Mizhou.

So this time, the fleet stopped at Hangzhou City, and Zhang Mu repeatedly instructed his subordinates not to cause trouble.

We don't cause trouble, but if you take the initiative to find the door, we are not afraid.

In short, this time the people on the ship in Hangzhou are very honest and low-key.

However, Zhang Mu has a good relationship in a green building in the city, not **, just a good one.

This good friend is called Xiuxiu, and he is a well-known leader in the city.

Zhang Mu went to Xiuxiu's small courtyard.

Xiuxiu was also very happy when she saw Zhang Mu coming, the two were just about to talk, and there were strangers outside.

This is very normal, the head of the line is a nice saying, but in fact it is an oiran, a prostitute.

It can't be just Zhang Mu as a guest.

Xiuxiu asked ** to inform the people outside that there were guests here.

However, the guests outside had to see Xiuxiu, and they couldn't persuade them, but after a few words of persuasion, the guests scolded loudly.

Getting along with people is a familiar process first, and after getting acquainted, they begin to inject emotions, or good or bad feelings. If it is a bad feeling, the two are likely to become stranger and stranger, and if it is a good feeling, the relationship between the two may become deeper and deeper.

However, with the deepening of the relationship, often because of different interests, new disputes will arise, the irrational way is to break up, the rational way is to think from the other party's point of view, learn to respect the other party's ideas, in layman's terms, called running-in.

Therefore, whether it is a husband and wife or a friend, the longer they get along, the better the relationship will be, so the clothes are not as good as the new, and the people are not as good as the old. As for the seven-year itch, it's purely to find a reason for cheating, if you get along for seven years, you will get tired of each other, so have you really considered or respected each other's opinions?

Zhang Mu and Xiuxiu have also been dating for several years, how can they have no feelings?

Even Zhang Mu planned to redeem Xiuxiu and take her as a concubine......

This also shows the relationship between the two, so this guest was abusive, Zhang Mu walked out with two subordinates, and then saw a son-in-law with a few house slaves, where he was sprinkling.

Zhang Mu accused a few words, but who knew that the boy brother ordered his domestic slaves to come and beat Zhang Mu.

The two sides fought, and it was not possible to talk about who suffered whose loss, but the boy was the unreasonable party, and when he saw that there were more onlookers, he left with his slaves.

Xiuxiu hurriedly called the doctor to come over and heal Zhang Mu and the others, and then told the origin of the son's brother, who was the second son of Li Yuanwai's family in the city.

There are many people with the surname Li, Zhang Mu asked that Li Yuanwai, and Xiuxiu said that his name was Li He.

Zhang Mu frowned, this Li Henai is a profiteer in Hangzhou, and the two sides still had some cooperation at first, because this person was not honest, and then the two sides broke off cooperation. But Zhang Mu didn't think much about it, if it really doesn't work, he will redeem Xiuxiu.

It wasn't too much of a conflict, but a few days later, the Hangzhou government suddenly sent officials to arrest Zhang Mu, saying that under the beating that day, maybe Zhang Mu and the three of them broke the spleen of the house slave under Zhang Erlang, helped him home, and fell down on the spot, blood spurted from his mouth, and the next day, he died. (To be continued.) )