Chapter 184 - Opening of Trade Routes
So Gao Yuan immediately invited Lin Wenqing and asked her to come forward and organize a chamber of commerce, which was responsible for his own business dealings with other countries.
After learning about the plateau's plan, Lin Wenchun was also very happy, because she was not the kind of aristocratic woman who stayed in a wealthy family and only knew how to enjoy comfort and pleasure.
And now Lin Wenqing lives in the mansion on the plateau, although he has no worries about food and clothing, but he does have nothing to do every day, although Li Yinghong and Lin Wenqing have a very good relationship, but Li Yinghong is also busy with a lot of things every day, and it is impossible to have too much time to accompany Lin Wenqing, so Lin Wenqing has nothing else to do except take care of Luo Huan every day, but now Luo Huan also has Jiang Mingxia as a playmate, and he doesn't need to follow Lin Wenqing every day, and now Lin Wenqing can only rely on chatting with Geng Yanyu to pass the time.
In addition, Lin Wenqing also felt that his mother and children always lived in the mansion on the plateau like this, and it was not a long-term solution, Lin Wenqing did not want to return to his old business, but doing business requires capital, most of Lin Wenqing's family property was thrown in Handan City, although he had a little property on hand, but this was the life-saving money for the future of the mother and son, and Lin Wenqing did not dare to take it out lightly.
Therefore, Gao Yuan asked Lin Wenqing to pay the responsibility to form a chamber of commerce, which not only gave full play to Lin Wenqing's expertise, but also suited Lin Wenqing's intentions, and Lin Wenqing could also take the opportunity of forming a chamber of commerce to accumulate some money, and when the conditions were ripe, he would leave the mansion of the plateau and live independently.
However, even if Gao Yuan proposed to establish a chamber of commerce, Lin Wenqing could not help but consider the future business problems, after all, this is not his own business, profit and loss, but in the use of Gao Yuan's capital, of course it is good to make money, in case of loss, so there are some things to say in front.
So Lin Wenqing thought for a while and said: "The lord asked Wenqing to form a chamber of commerce, of course Wenqing will do his best to operate for the lord, but there are some things that Wenqing must explain to the lord." β
Gao Yuan said: "If you have anything to say, Mrs. Wenqing, please just say it directly." β
Lin Wenqing said: "Wenqing is just a female streamer, and it is inconvenient to negotiate business and price, and in the past, Wenqing was able to support a family business in Handan, all because of a few old family members under me, who lived between countries and had dealings with businessmen from various countries, so I also asked the lord to enable these personnel." β
Gao Yuan nodded and said with a smile: "Please rest assured that Mrs. Wenqing is at this point, the personnel of the Chamber of Commerce, operation, although I will mention some suggestions, but Mrs. YiqiΔ Du Xuan decides for herself and does not interfere." β
Lin Wenqing said: "Thank you for your understanding, but the personnel are secondary, and the operation of the Chamber of Commerce also has many difficulties inside and outside." I hope the lord can understand. β
Gao Yuan said: "There are those difficulties. β
Lin Wenqing said: "First of all, let's talk about external difficulties, in the past, our Zhao State and Qin, Yan, Qi, Wei and Han all bordered Xinjiang, and the roads were open, but the business was easy to come and go, with Qi being the largest, Wei and Han second, Qin Zaizhi, and Yan at the end. But now we only have a place in Daijun, we can only communicate with Yan State, between Yan and Zhao, there are not many business exchanges in the past, although we can also use Yan Country to trade with Qi State, but it is not only a long detour, but also through the Yan State checkpoint, and pay an extra checkpoint fee. As far as we are concerned, the commodities that Daijun can get his hands on now are livestock, and the second is fur, and Yan is a cold land in the north, with developed livestock and grazing, and there is no shortage of fur, so it is difficult to sell livestock and fur in Yan in large quantities, and in the past, the livestock and fur of Zhao were sold to Qi State. However, livestock trafficking not only needs to carry a large amount of feed, but also to prevent death on the way, so it is not easy to sell long-distance sales, and can only be based on fur, but now the amount of fur we need in Daijun is also very large, how much can be taken out to sell to the Qi country? If we don't have enough goods to sell, then it will be difficult to make a profit on trade with other countries. β
After listening to Lin Wenqing's words, Gao Yuan also nodded again and again, he really found the right person, and only people who have been in business for a long time can say such things. In this way, it is not easy to realize the idea of opening a trade route to make money, of course, the main problem is the lack of a competitive commodity.
In fact, the development of several competitive commodities, Gao Yuan has also thought about it, and there are several ideas, such as glass, porcelain, paper, etc., but these things are difficult to make in a short period of time, so Gao Yuan also thought about it, and said: "Okay, at present, we still have some gold and jade walls in the house, and I have tried my best to bring out a batch of furs, now we do not seek to make money, but to buy as much food, medicinal herbs, cloth, salt, and iron as possible." Whether it's trading with Yan Qi, open up the trade route first, and as for other things, let's solve them step by step in the future. β
Lin Wenchun also knew that what Gao Yuan said was also the truth, after all, the top priority of Daijun now is to reserve as many basic living materials as possible and make money, so he can only wait for the next step, but fortunately, Daijun still has some valuable things, and he can still support it for a while, so he said: "Okay, Wenqing will immediately set up a chamber of commerce and open up trade routes."
ββββββββ the dividing lineβββββββββ dividing lineββββββββ just after the New Year, Gao Yuan successively issued orders, first of all, to send Sima Shang, Yuan Xuan, Chen Shi and others to send troops to collect the land of Yunzhong, Yanmen, and Shanggu.
After the Qin State destroyed the Zhao State, it only occupied the southern part of the Zhao State, and did not send troops to the north to occupy it, but only sent envoys to various places to declare, asking the officials of the Zhao State to surrender to the Qin State, but the Qin army did not enter the country, mainly because the northern part of the Zhao State was sparsely populated and difficult to manage, and the Qin army sent fewer people, and it was impossible to hold these places at all.
Now the three counties of Yunzhong, Yanmen, and Shanggu have actually fallen into a semi-independent situation. However, there are not many defenders in these three counties, and they are all ministers of the Zhao State, so it is not difficult to collect these three counties.
Subsequently, Takahara issued another order, promulgated the decree that had been formulated, and immediately implemented it in Daigun.
The new decree immediately caused a lot of shock in Daijun, except for the first article to determine the administrative candidates, the next seven articles are closely related to the lives of the people. There are some laws and regulations that the people agree with very much, such as rewarding military merits, rewarding farming, and the complete privatization of land, and the construction of farmland and water conservancy, etc., which are beneficial to the interests of the people, and also provide ordinary people with an upward path to promotion, so they can naturally get the support of the people.
When the Qin State Shang Ying changed the law, the system of rewarding military merits and rewarding cultivation was strongly opposed by the powerful clan forces, because rewarding military merit and farming cut off the promotion path of the clan's younger brothers, but now the Zhao State has been destroyed, and the powerful clan power in the Daijun area is not strong, so naturally no one opposes these systems.
There are also some laws and regulations that do not matter, such as the establishment of a legal system, a household registration system, a tax system, etc., because each country has its own various systems, and after it is clear, the people can respect it.
However, some laws were opposed by the people, mainly prohibiting private fighting and vagrants. Because the people of Zhao State are strong, Ren Xia is brave, and if he doesn't say a word, he can draw his sword, but in some villages, there is a family that is bullied by people from other villages, and often the whole village will mobilize and vent their anger for them, causing a large-scale fight between the entire village. Therefore, the plateau strictly prohibits private fighting, and naturally it will not be approved by the people.
Moreover, with the development of urbanization, unemployed vagrants, local ruffians, and people who rely on helping to make a living will also arise, and they often wander between good and evil, and become unstable elements in society. But to get rid of this group of people, of course, there will also be some opposition.
Another point is the inventory of land. The land annexation situation in Dai County is not strict, mainly because of the remote location, and the land is vast and sparsely populated, so the land contradiction is not large. But people are selfish, although the tax system formulated by the plateau is not high, but no one wants to honestly report their own land, so many people also try their best to hide the amount of their land.
However, Gao Yuan was very resolute in enforcing these decrees, and once discovered, he was not relentless, and after the New Year, within a month, dozens of private fights were investigated and dealt with in the town of Daijun. More than 150 people were arrested, and more than 60 unemployed vagrants were arrested, all of whom were served as hard labor in accordance with the law. Among them, more than 30 people resisted arrest, so it was unceremonious, some were shot dead on the spot, and all those arrested were beheaded in public.
This really shocked the residents of Daijun City, and only then did I know that Gao Yuan issued these orders, not for fun, but for real. Therefore, they are also much more honest, first of all, the unemployed vagrants, who have looked for formal jobs, and some of them are organized by the government to participate in the cultivation of wasteland. And the trend of private fighting among the people has also decreased.
However, the living habits of the Zhao people for hundreds of years are not something that can be changed in a while, although most of the people understand that if there is another private fight, the government will never spare it, but sometimes when there is a dispute, naturally no one will let it, and nine times out of ten they still start fighting, and the result is naturally that they are all arrested and punished with three years of hard labor. Fortunately, when they were detained, the vast majority of people chose to be arrested, and the number of people who dared to resist the government decreased significantly. Therefore, after entering February, many people were still arrested one after another for private fights.
As more and more people were arrested, it soon exceeded three hundred, so Ning Qi and the others also suggested to Gao Yuan that they should relax the decree a little, if it continued like this, at most three months, the prison in Dai County would not be able to accommodate so many people.
However, Gao Yuan did not make concessions at this time, because the most taboo thing about the decree is to change the decree at night, and it is at this time that the decree must not be relaxed, otherwise the government will have no prestige at all, and it will be difficult to implement it if a new decree is issued in the future, so it is necessary to adhere to the habit and absolutely not be soft, the prison must be expanded, and the arrested people cannot be allowed to stay in the prison to eat idle meals, and every day under the organization of the government, they will immediately start the labor work.