According to Song Law, if you smuggle so much, you should be beheaded.

But Zhang Xingguan looked at Sun Gu with a pitiful look, and thought, who is this stupid turtle, it seems that the official is not small.

However, before coming to the Song Dynasty, they had made all the preparations for this trip, including the possibility that someone might use this matter to make things difficult. Therefore, after Zhang Xingguan glanced at Sun Gu, he said calmly: "Your Majesty, this is the case, last year did not bring many commercial goods into the city, there are two reasons, a few years ago, in order to settle the migratory people, and at the request of the prince, to give all kinds of support, we built a lot of ships, which have incurred a lot of expenses, so we violently mined precious wood, coral, and spices. But when the people started to move, they had to think about their children and grandchildren, so mining stopped last year. ”

"In addition, at the request of the prince, let us organize merchant ships to trade directly to Dashi, so as to exchange for a large amount of gold and silver. Listening to the princes, it will be of great use, and it will even make the Song Dynasty extremely prosperous. The Song Dynasty is the master, the other side is the auxiliary, the Song Dynasty is the mother, and the other side is the son. The more prosperous the Song Dynasty was, the more prosperous it was to the other side. ”

This one is relatively easy to understand.

Moreover, Wang Ju often instilled his "new economic ideas" in everyone.

These maritime merchants migrated to the people, not to collect money from the people, the profits came from trade, whether it was planting, breeding, fishing, animal husbandry, processing, spice and jade industry, they could only be transported to the Song Dynasty by boat, in order to make money.

The more wealthy people there were in the Song Dynasty, the faster their production would be sold and the higher the price would be.

Don't ask about the Great Food, Tianzhu or Wa Kingdoms, these countries together may not be as good as the trade volume of the Song Dynasty.

Zhang Xingguan continued: "So we loaded the main commercial ships and sold them at Dashi. So...... Your Majesty. Look at this chart. ”

The earliest perfect sea map was painted by Wang Ju with his memory.

But don't take it seriously. The error was so great that even many of the big island kings were not drawn.

However, the charts were constantly corrected by the ships, and the islands and coastlines gradually became more accurate. At least most of the coastline can be used as a reference.

This is just one of the charts, and there are many charts that are specific to certain terrains, but there is no need to bring them.

The bottom of the chart is a fine silk, very large, not in the solemn early dynasty hall, so Zhao Ji asked Zhang Xingguan to lie directly on the ground and spread out.

Everyone looked at the charts together.

The eastern side of the chart reached what would become the island of New Zealand. But the two huge continents on the other side are not on this chart.

However, the western side is even further away, encompassing almost half of Europe.

These are the maps of Europe that various seafarers got from Da Shi, and then pieced together to form a whole "hemisphere" map. Therefore, it not only marks the territory of Dashi and most of Europe, but also the territory of Liao, Goryeo and Wa, as well as the territory of the Song Dynasty.

That is to say, almost ninety percent of the regions with relatively developed civilizations are marked on this map.

"Your Majesty, please look at this slender bay mouth, in the northwest of which are the Tang Dynasty people called the Great Qin Kingdoms, in fact, there are many countries, including the Great Food and other countries, these countries mostly use gold and silver coinage. as currency. Originally, most of the maritime merchants of our country only arrived in the South China Sea countries, and few ships actually went to the big food trade. Entrusted by the Maharaja. We have officially opened up trade with the other side. ”

We are not smuggling, one is to suspend mining, and the other is to transport it to Da Shi to trade, why is the transaction, we are going to provide a large amount of gold and silver to the Song Dynasty!

Sun Gu was angry and said sharply: "Really? Your Majesty, please ask the Prospective Ministers to investigate this case. ”

Can this be checked?

A cursory look will reveal N pieces of evidence.

Wang Ju walked out and said in the same sharp voice: "Sun Gong, what about private businessmen, don't forget, when there was a great drought that year, who spent countless money to transport a boatload of grain to the north, and how much silk grain they have funded over the years!" Speaking of which, it's not just about the money. But you won't be able to calculate this account! ”

"Sun Qing, you step down, Wang Qing, you step down too." Zhao said.

But more than a dozen seafarers were a little commotion, they didn't care that this was the Yanhe Palace, and the top ministers of the Song Dynasty were standing on both sides, and there was an emperor above, and they began to talk to each other.

Zhao Ji thought for a while and said: "Zhuqing, it's hard work from afar, I will prepare a banquet in the palace, and I should wash the dust for Zhuqing." ”

In fact, Zhao Ji sent someone to secretly investigate a few years ago.

The number of these seafarers who went to the other side was hundreds, and most of them were businessmen from the Quanzhou area. It is the benefit of Wang Ju going to Quanzhou, in general, the Song Dynasty is not strict with household registration management, so Wang Ju took advantage of the loophole and sent someone to do something secretly, so there was information that Zhao Ju heard about it.

These merchants have been engaged in maritime trade for a long time, and at first most of them went overseas by ship.

This carpool also has to go to the government to register.

However, the rules are rules, and there are a few people who follow them seriously.

Even when many ships go to sea or return, they do not go to the government to register at all, otherwise they will be dissolved.

And these people have been overseas for a long time, so the state governments are not very clear about their situation.

Later, Wang Ju went to Quanzhou, probably because of Wang Anshi's market change law, forced Wang Ju to hand over the shochu workshop, and sold the bamboo paper workshop to the Gao family in a fit of anger, and then had the idea of developing the other side. It just so happened that the accumulation of primitive wealth was also completed in the hands of those merchants, so a huge fleet of ten merchants in Yanzhou began to develop the other side.

At first, it may have been mainly for wealth, as Wang Ju said, but as the number of migratory people increased, the focus of these merchants' activities shifted from the Song Dynasty to the other side. Almost all of them migrated their families there, and those who remained inland were only stewards, economists, or servants.

In other words, the state apparatus of the Song Dynasty did not bind them much.

Smuggling at sea is a normal situation, and nine out of ten ships may smuggle in order to avoid the extraction of the city's shipping department, so every time a sea ship takes the initiative to enter the port, the officials of the city's shipping department will personally greet them and set up a banquet to entertain them.

And this map.

The state is not very binding, smuggling is the norm, and this map means that these seafarers can completely avoid the Song Dynasty. Trade with the Wa, Goryeo, the South China Sea Kingdoms, Tianzhu, Dashi, and some other countries with strange names.

And now the imperial court wants these seafarers to take the initiative to pay taxes. It is also necessary to cooperate with the officials sent by the imperial court to govern. and the large quantities of gold and silver that the banking department must prepare in the future.

Sun Gu is stubborn, but Zhao Ji is not stupid. He clearly knew that in fact, today it was the other side of the main business, and the Song Dynasty was the auxiliary.

It was not the seafarers who asked for help from the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty had to win over the seafarers.

Smuggling is inevitable, and what these businessmen said is not a lie, but when they say this, everyone has stepped down.

If Sun Gu holds on to it, he will continue to blame him. It will undoubtedly anger these seafarers, and these seafarers are talking to each other, which is already a bad sign.

That's why Zhao Ji said that he would feast them in the palace.

With that, he walked down from the dragon chair, came to Sun Gu, and whispered, "Sun Qing, focus on the overall situation." ”

Don't make any more fuss.

If it weren't for him, Sun Gu would really have to argue again.

Palace banquet, this is normal, not only the Song Dynasty. In any previous dynasty, the emperor often left his ministers to eat in the palace.

But it was the minister who remained. It's not a businessman, what kind of system is this?

Zhao Ji's words made him close his mouth, but his round eyes widened angrily, and he was very uneven.

Wang Ju scolded in a low voice: "Jumping beam clown." ”

Cai is indeed happy.

Anyway, it has nothing to do with him, just watch a good show. I don't know if this fight continues, whether Wang Ju will fight Sun Gu or Sun Gu will fight Wang Ju.

Come to a side hall in the back.

The eunuchs in the palace were preparing the meal, and it was a while before the feast began.

Zhao asked the group of seafarers to sit down.

They looked at each other.

Zhao Ji said: "This is the palace, there are not so many rules, Zhuqing, sit down." ”

He was very gentle.

The maritime merchants seemed to be moved, and sat down in trepidation.

Zhao Ji looked at Zhang Xingguan again, he saw that this group of people was undoubtedly headed by this person, and then asked: "Zhang Qing, I ask you, you have selected some officials......

"Your Majesty, the grass people have the courage to select officials, they are not officials, they are cadres, and officials can only be appointed by His Majesty."

Zhao Ji smiled dumbly, officials are good cadres, what's the difference. And what is the difference between this province, city, town and township and Luzhou County? This is pure cover-up.

But he was also negligent, so that if he covered it up, no one would catch the handle.

"Okay, then this cadre, how much do you pay?"

"Your Majesty, it is divided into four levels, the provincial level is just an idea, the area on the other side is too large, where more than two million people are scattered, it occupies only one percent of the area. So it's just settlements, and it's not really connected into a big patch. In addition, it is divided into four provinces, and some of the provinces have an area that exceeds the area of our Great Song Dynasty, so they do not work at all. ”

In fact, provincial-level officials and institutions have already been established, and there may be a central-level management body in the future.

But this cannot be said, it already belongs to the core area of the rights on the other side. If the Song Dynasty knew about it, it would definitely send officials in, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

Therefore, although the provincial system was established, it was on the other side, and only the core officials above the municipal level knew about it, and the ordinary people did not know about it.

Zhao Ji was even more unclear, he thought of the area of those large and small islands on the other side of the river, and then compared with the territory of the Song Dynasty, it was indeed too big.

So thinking about this, Zhao Ji didn't doubt it.

"So what about the city...... What is the salary of cadres? ”

"Your Majesty, the annual salary and various benefits of the city-level cadres are about 600 yuan, and the deputy level cadres are about 300 to 500 yuan. Town-level cadres are about 200 to 300 guan. The number of officials is between 50 and 100 guan. If the village chief is a member of the village, he is exempt from tax and some subsidies, and if he is stationed above, it is about 100 yuan. ”

"So little?" Zhao Ji muttered.

This city-level cadre is undoubtedly a state-level official, and in the Song Dynasty, the average salary plus benefits of a governor exceeded 1,000 yuan. At the town level, that is, at the county level, the average number of officials is about 400.

It means that if the Song Dynasty sends officials to govern in the future, the imperial court will have to make up the salary, otherwise with such a low salary, who would want to go to such a distant overseas place.

In fact, this salary is also considered by Wang Ju again and again.

It seems that the salary is low, but compared to the Song Dynasty, the prices there are relatively low. Just like the housing prices in the capital. An ordinary house may cost two or three dollars. But over there, at most, it's a dozen or so materials.

Also, the officials of the Song Dynasty were not paid enough, just like Su Dongpo went to Huangzhou to sell paper bags and farm by himself, but he barely supported his family, and he had time to take a boat to the Yangtze River and sighed: Go to the east of the big river, and the waves are exhausted......

Or if Zhang Zai is in Yunyan County, the salary is pitiful, but he also supports his family and subsidizes the county school.

However, if you spend a lot of time. A salary of 10,000 yuan a year is not enough.

The officials who spend all day and wine, is that what Wang Ju wants?

And the very high salaries of officials in the Song Dynasty were not ordinary officials, but senior officials, just like Wang Ju himself now has a salary plus benefits a year, reaching more than 20,000 yuan. As for Wen Yanbo, it is even more scary, it may be three or four times Wang Ju's salary, which is twenty times the annual salary of the President of the United States, is this normal?

Of course, this salary will increase in the future.

Especially high-ranking officials. Not to mention anything else, at least you have to raise a few doormen to be ears and eyes. Otherwise, it is a closed-door governance of government affairs.

Wang Ju's thoughts are not clear to other officials, and even few officials know the intention of the state to set up officials, thinking that being an official is to be promoted and make a fortune.

However, Zhang Xingguan gave everyone the answer.

He said: "Your Majesty, if you want to get rich, go to business, don't be an official." ”

He took out a pamphlet and said, "Your Majesty, this is the cadre code on the other side. ”

Zhao Ji gasped after seeing it, and then handed it to Wang Qi, and after reading it, Lao Wang passed it to Lu Gong.

But Lao Wang was also inhaling cold air.

There are only 20 cadre rules on it, a few hundred words.

However, it was these few hundred words that frightened all the officials together.

Because these twenty are amazing.

For example, if an official, that is, a cadre mentioned above, embezzles and accepts bribes of 500 yuan, he will be sentenced to beheading. Between 100 and 500 guan, the penalty of mismatching. Twenty times to the most consistent is punishable with a cane. Those with less than 20 major demerits will be recorded once, and those with three major demerits will be immediately removed from all official positions.

Officials must serve a term of three to four years before they can be transferred, but at the end of two years, an investigation team is sent to secretly investigate all groups, and if the satisfaction rate is less than 50 percent, they are immediately dismissed, and between 50 and 70 percent are placed on probation. This group is not just the powerful and powerful, but all the real groups. However, the investigation team shall not contact local officials by any means, or favor or frame them, and if there is any unfairness, they will be immediately discredited.

Officials are not allowed to embezzle any public money for banquets, otherwise they will be punished for the crime of embezzlement and bribery, and they are not allowed to accept any local invitations.

In the case of urgent government affairs and military affairs, officials must give instructions or handle them within three days, and ordinary government affairs and cases must not be delayed for 10 days, otherwise they will be removed from their posts for interrogation, so as to prevent officials from mixing their qualifications and failing to act.

The children or family members of officials may engage in business, but they must not evade taxes by any means, or take advantage of the robbery, or deceive them, and if they do, they will be punished with more severe punishments.

In order to protect the civil prosecutors, the people are allowed to appeal to another municipality in the city where the official is complained, and each city supports two lawyers, specifically for the people who report the official and the whistleblower, and if the lawsuit is successful, a large number of rewards will be given to the people who complain the official.

Wait a minute.

Feng Jing couldn't help but say after seeing it: "This is not an official, but a ministry." ”

Zhang Xingguan grinned and said, "May I ask this noble surname?" ”

"A certain surname is Feng."

"It turned out to be Feng Xianggong, who has been admired for a long time." Zhang Xingguan immediately gave a big gift.

Lao Wang was almost happy, daring to love this group of seafarers are learning from Wang Ju, who is a hedgehog, as long as he does not offend, he is polite to anyone. But if you offend, no matter who you are, you won't be polite.

Zhang Xingguan finished the salute while everyone was crying and laughing, and said: "Feng Xianggong, most of the people who migrated are extremely poor people, so they hate officials so much that they even think in their hearts that the most shameless, darkest and most greedy group of people in the world are officials. ”

"Zhang Dalang, Hugh has to talk nonsense." Wang Ju finally shouted, and then said: "Your Majesty, everyone, it seems to be harsh, but in fact it is not. If you want to take it, you must give it first. If you want the people to love you, you must first learn to love the people. But it is not possible to be reasonable, and it is not okay to increase salaries, just like in our dynasty, the salaries of officials are so high that they are frightening, but how many officials love the people like children? The same is true of governing the country, which is dominated by Confucianism. Supplemented by the Legalist Law. ”

It makes sense.

Wang Ju said again: "It seems to be harsh. But really harsh? For example, this salary. There are also hundreds of times, how much income can ordinary people have a year? For example, the severity of the official's relatives in business, but is it really harsh? Even though there are many restrictions, as relatives of officials, they still have more information and network resources, so the same business seems to be fair or even unfair to the official's family, but it is actually unfair. It's unfair to ordinary businessmen. It can only be said that by making some restrictions, it can be closer to Qi people. ”

"The salaries of officials in our DPRK are very high, why are there still so many officials who are still corrupt and lawless, but the people's hearts are inadequate. Even because of my respect, many officials thought I should do it. Therefore, these rules lower the standard of honor, urge officials to let go of their superiority, and even corrupt ink and lawlessness will produce righteous ideas. Therefore, from the beginning, he proposed that if he wanted to get rich, he should not be an official. Fish and bear's paws. You can't have both, choose for yourself. ”

That's the truth. But in the Song Dynasty it was impossible to execute.

Therefore, when starting from the other side, it is necessary to lay a good foundation.

But everyone didn't know what to think anymore......

Lu Gongzhu asked worriedly: "If the imperial court sends officials, they must also abide by this rule?" ”

"There are cadres over there, and the officials sent by the imperial court are officials, and if the officials are lawless, then dare to assign them...... asked for a beheading, but he could only send it back and ask the court to change an official. Zhang Xingguan replied.

"What right do you have to dismiss the officials?" Sun Gu was annoyed again.

"Your Majesty, for the grass people, both sides are fundamental. The Song Dynasty didn't mention it, there was also production there, and the people had purchasing power, so we could earn the trade difference. But if the officials sent by the imperial court are not good, and the people over there are in turmoil, we will also have nothing. We are just some merchants, and we are not very interested in how to govern the people, and we have been distracted by a lot of energy, so we plan to let the imperial court send officials to take over. However, the people on both sides are different, and the situation is not the same, so they can only open up to the imperial court step by step, and at the same time make some severe restrictions, and defend a very few officials, so that there will be serious turmoil on the other side. If that......"

Zhang Xingguan didn't say anything further, but everyone understood. We're just businessmen, and we're interested in how to make money. Therefore, the imperial court wants to manage, and we do not exclude it.

But we can't mess up that side, and if that's the case, it's better not to hand it over to the imperial court.

If we don't pay, what can the court do to us?

Although it doesn't sound good, people also make it very clear, it's messed up over there, so how can these maritime merchants make money?

This is the foundation of maritime business.

"Besides, the people migrated in the past, although we gave support, but most of them are desperate people, with nothing, after the past, everything is created, and they have to face the burning and looting of the natives, Your Majesty, it is really not easy."

"You have killed many natives, too." Sun Gu sneered.

"Who are you?" A big man with thick eyebrows stood up and said angrily: "Five nonsense, how many Han people have been killed." Anshi Rebellion, how many Han people were killed. There is also the defeat of Qigou Pass, the entire Juma River has blocked the corpses of my soldiers, do you dare to ask Liao for those soldiers to return justice! If it is not of my race, its heart will be different! ”

Sun Gu was so angry that he almost jumped up.

But what can you do with this person? Will you kill him? I believe that if you kill in the first place, you won't be able to talk about it at all. Will the emperor agree?

What this person said made Sun Gu unable to answer.

If you want to be fair, okay, do you dare to crusade against Liao! What kind of ability is the nest.

Sun Gu was so angry that he trembled for a while before he turned his head and said to Wang Ju: "Wang Zi'an, what a family of Fan Han." ”

Wang Ju said lightly: "Don't exclude it, the Tang Dynasty used many Hu people and generals, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was the crown prince of the Xiongnu Hutu before his death. But why is my defense of Tibet like a thief, it is nothing more than the Anshi Rebellion. However, there must be no overkill. An Lushan is a Hu person, and Gao Xianzhi and Ge Shuhan are also Hu people. Could it be that the two brothers are also anti-thieves? Tang Xuanzong let An Lushan serve as a number of festival envoys, and did not do any transfers, stayed in Hebei for more than ten years, and gave him all the rights of military and political finance, and gave him the right to mint money. In addition, Tang Xuanzong was mediocre in his later years and ignored the government affairs, and the national government was first controlled by Li Linfu, and then the more incompetent Yang Guozhong, but the elite army was in the distant Qinghai, and even in the more distant area of the Green Ridge River, the entire inner belly was empty. Don't say that An Lushan is a Hu person, even an ambitious Han person will also have a heart of rebellion. On the contrary, if one of these conditions does not exist, An Lushan may not dare to rebel. ”

"yes, you have to be in moderation." Lu Gong sighed.

"Lu Gong, it's not moderation, it depends on what the situation is. If Qin Shi Huang was not at ease and did not dare to hand over all the 600,000 troops of Qin to Wang Qian, how could Qin unify the six countries. ”

"Qin Shi Huang was a heroic monarch in his early years, but unfortunately in his later years," Cai Qu shook his head. As an emperor, Qin Shi Huang was indeed remarkable in his early years.

"Cai Gong, if it weren't for Qin Shi Huang's unification of China, the unification of weights and measures, writing, and so on, there would be no later dynasties. Therefore, his life is eight points of merit and two points of excess. ”

Great reunification is too important for China.

If it weren't for this great unification, don't mention the Celestial Empire, it would have been swallowed by the Wa Kingdom a long time ago. It was the establishment of the Celestial Empire, and if it were not for the great unification of the Celestial Empire, it would also be torn to pieces by the Soviet Union and the US imperialists.

The opposite example is Europe, if there had been a man of great genius in medieval Europe who united Europe and made all the people recognize this great unified country, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, maybe the whole earth would be occupied by white people.

Therefore, Taizu was seriously crooked in his later years, but the fair evaluation is still three points of merit and seven points of merit, which is precisely the reason.

Wang Ju said: "It is right to flow officials and divide powers, but it also depends on it, and you must not overdo it." If in the south, Your Majesty does not give me full rights, let alone Dali, even Jiaozhi, I may not be able to take it. Of course, it is also necessary to take precautions, and there are the best examples to learn from, just like the Liao State and the Western Xia, we can use the scale of their policies towards the Han people. ”

"Speaking of the Fan Han, there is still a division of the Fan Han in the country, but at this time and at that time, on the other side, the identity of the Fan Han has undergone new changes. They are not Fan Han, barbarians, but Song people. Therefore, relative to the other side, they are all one people, one people, and the natives are alien people. ”

"If you want to be a virgin, the methods of both sides are cruel, and if it falls into the hands of those natives, it is possible that you will not be killed, but eaten. Could it be that we Song people make their food, Sun Gong, and you are happy? Of course, everyone is not arguing, and that is the best. But it's impossible. I don't believe that if our dynasty withdraws all the garrisons in Shaanxi and Hebei and Hedong, it won't be long before the Liao and Western Xia armies will march straight into China and divide up our dynasty. It's the same with another person, such as Sun Gong, I'm afraid the most regrettable thing is that when I came back, those mountain bandits didn't shoot me. ”

"You, you ......"

"What are you, in the same way, I can't wait for Your Majesty to demote you from the court immediately! So the rebellion of the migrants against the natives, do you understand? ”

"Zi'an," Lao Wang persuaded by pulling Wang Ju's sleeve.

"Prince, don't persuade me, the thing I don't like the most in my life is these hypocrites!" Sun Gu's repeated provocations were embarrassing, which really angered Wang Ju. (To be continued.) )