When the news spread that the imperial court had brought all the money and grain seeds needed to buy the land to Canton, the big landowners who had signed an agreement with the imperial court buzzed like flies that smelled garbage, waving the title deed in their hands, eager to exchange it for real money, and then invest it in the cause of the Great Voyage.

In order to facilitate the return of the fleet, as well as their safety of navigation at night, under the construction of Suning, Feng Ang used a large part of manpower and material resources to build a lighthouse in a very short time, on which a giant candle was placed, which would be lit at nightfall and could be seen from a long distance.

Moreover, due to the large number of returning ships and the number of people who worked all night in the port, Zhao Yuan, the assassin of Guangzhou, canceled the curfew of Guangzhou City according to the joint construction of Suning and Feng An, and also abolished the practice of opening the market in the middle of the day and closing the market at sunset, and Guangzhou City became the first city in the Tang Dynasty without curfew and without closing the market, which was supported by a large number of people, followed by the rapid development of Guangzhou City and the port.

Because there are a lot of fleets coming and going to Guangzhou port every day, after the audit department and the city shipping department opened the port, there are more than 10 fleets here on average every day to obtain the right to go to sea, and then there are more than 10 fleets returning every day, due to the large number of goods, the transaction is inconvenient, so the goods of a fleet often take about two days or even longer from the return voyage to the completion of the transaction, which makes the number of people in the port more, and the stay time is longer.

The wisdom of mankind is beyond doubt. Suning did not intervene in any way, but the bazaar in the port still developed very quickly, open from morning to night, and a large number of food shops and accommodation hotels sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, because there were hungry seafarers or northern merchants who came to find something to eat and find hotels to live in anytime and anywhere, and Suning did not have the authority to manage this matter, because this is not a matter of shipping, but the internal affairs of a state.

However, Zhao Yuan obviously respected Suning's meaning, and Suning was willing to give Zhao Yuan some suggestions. For example, the security department and the tax department are placed directly in the market. The tax department of the Audit Department mainly deals with the transactions of maritime and land merchants, and the large amount of tax generated by the port bazaar every day is not under the jurisdiction of the Audit Department, of course, if Zhao Yuan needs help. The Audit Division is busy though. But one or two officials who are familiar with taxation can also be drawn to help Zhao Yuan establish the tax department.

Zhao Yuan is a relatively enlightened official. There was no prejudice against business, the bazaar produced itself, and Zhao Yuan did not intervene. On the contrary, he encouraged the capable people in Guangzhou City to open restaurants and hotels, and also supported the birth of the port market, but the port market was only an emergency measure for those who could not stay away from the port during the transaction.

Zhao Yuan ordered the counties to encourage the people who have spare money to set up hotels and restaurants to meet the needs of the huge flow of people, and then in response to a series of problems brought about by the sharp increase in the flow of people, Zhao Yuan also made a lot of targeted measures, showing that his ability is very extraordinary, the permanent population of Guangzhou City was only 100,000 in the past, but now the floating population has exceeded 200,000, plus the permanent population of Guangzhou City, the number of people who enter Guangzhou City to stay for more than one day every day exceeds 300,000.

In just a few months, Guangzhou City has been difficult to withstand such a huge flow of people, under the premise of a sharp increase in taxes, Zhao Yuan reported to Li Erma, asking Li Erma Xià to allow the expansion of Guangzhou City, so that it can deal with the huge flow of people in Guangzhou City at any time, Li Erma's instructions on this is to allow this, at that time the imperial court had no financial support, Guangzhou had to find its own way, and the finances of the imperial court had their own use.

Of course, Zhao Yuan does not need the financial expenditure of the imperial court, the tax revenue in Guangzhou has increased sharply these days, and the maritime taxes collected by the audit department are not owned by the audit department itself, but owned by the civil department of the imperial court, and the audit department only collects on behalf of the hands and feet, and supervises the transactions between maritime merchants and land merchants by the way, and one percent of the income tax revenue can be at the disposal of the audit department itself, and three percent is supplied to the Guangzhou Thorn History Mansion, and the remaining sixty percent is directly handed over to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and there are detailed financial expenditure detailed reports every quarter.

With the huge and abundant finance, the development of the city to obtain larger-scale benefits has become a problem that has to be considered, and now Guangzhou's tax revenue is enough to support a city expansion action.

Zhao Yuan is a pragmatic official, he used to be restrained, all because of his cautious character, after Suning personally talked to him, he found that he can indeed be qualified for the position of a state assassin, very capable, and very strong in action, what he said in the morning, can be started or completed in the afternoon, without any delay, in the morning held a meeting of the state assassin to expand the city of Guangzhou, after obtaining the approval of the vast majority, the work began in the afternoon.

Because he was busy with the expansion of Guangzhou City, he lacked skills, so Zhao Yuan personally asked Suning to manage the daily operation of the Guangzhou port market, he really didn't have the extra energy to manage those things now, but the port market continued to expand, there will definitely be some corresponding problems, Li Ermajesty gave Xue Rengui's two thousand soldiers and horses to Suning, just so that Suning could use those soldiers to manage the order of the entire market.

Suning also feels that there will be corresponding problems when a market appears rashly, but the future development trend of Guangzhou must be to expand the city to the seaside, which Suning and Zhao Yuan have reached a consensus after discussion, the city expands to the seaside, and the more it goes to the sea, the more it will be divided into commercial districts, the so-called commercial districts, it needs more energy to manage, to collect taxes, to prevent crime, as the first port market to have more management value in this regard.

If it is well managed, the port market can develop on its own, and it will become bigger and bigger, until it is connected to the city, which will save too many problems, and the large land from the city all the way to the seaside port is wasteland. No one buys it, and no one owns it, so the Guangzhou Thorn History Mansion nationalized this land, and then announced that the people can buy the land from the government, and the government issues the title deed, and the land is yours, and then build a house on it, and do anything, it's up to you.

It is also a good way to mobilize the financial resources of the people and the big family, so that they can build the land themselves. Until it is connected to the construction of the city. The people don't have much wealth, but the big families have a lot of money, and now the port market is developing so fast, many big families have taken a fancy to the market with great potential. The reason why he is so enthusiastic about Suning's money. I really plan to use this money to buy land in the port. Then build a restaurant or an inn or something else to make money.

Suning soon held a land purchase meeting in the compound of the Audit Department, and one by one the big landowners waved the title deed and exchanged money and corresponding seeds and grains with Suning, and were overjoyed. Praise the court for credit, this cooperation is very pleasant, if there is cooperation in this area in the future, we must strongly agree, fully support, etc., Suning took the opportunity to tell them not to worry after receiving the money, wait for a while, there are other things to say in a while.

When the matter was almost done, many people were doubting what Suning was going to do when they left them, and another group of people entered the compound of the Audit Division, those people were land merchants or maritime merchants who came to Guangzhou from all over the north to do business, there were many people, and they had strong financial resources, and they also had a good relationship with many Guangzhou locals after coming to Guangzhou, so many people knew each other, and immediately greeted each other when they saw each other, and then asked each other why they came here.

Suning finished the matter, handed over all the money to the big landlords who sold the land, a lot of land deeds piled up in a room, the first thing was a complete success, and the next thing was the second thing, leaving the other staff to review the number, and he walked into the courtyard and began to announce his reason for letting all these people be present today in front of the bustling crowd.

"Everyone, everyone, please be quiet, be quiet!" Suning spoke, and the scene immediately quieted down, except for a few people such as Feng Anzhi's top figures in Lingnan, most of them looked at Suning with puzzled faces, Suning saw that the scene had settled down, and said with a smile: "Compared to you, you are very puzzled why Benhou wants to keep you, and he also invited businessmen from all over the world to come here."

Ben Hou invited you to come, in fact, there is a very important thing to announce, of course, this matter is not necessary to do, but Ben Hou these days when he inspected the harbor transactions, found a lot of more strict problems, and then Ben Hou made some thoughts on this, thought of some ways, today I will discuss with you, see if you agree, if you agree, let's do this matter, convenient for the big guys, if you don't agree, then Ben Hou has not said anything.

Before Ben Hou wants to talk about this matter, I first have to ask you, these days the harbor is busy, you keep trading, in this process, what do you feel very inconvenient? Is there anything you think needs to be improved? If there is, say it! ”

People looked at each other, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in Suning's gourd, at this time, a merchant who had already greeted him stood up and saluted Suning, and said: "Master Suhou, I won't tell you anything, these days, if you want to make money, we big guys have made a lot of money, and we are very satisfied that the money we have made all year round in the past is not as much as it is now in a month, this is all a favor from the imperial court, and the big guys also remember it."

It's just that when doing business, everything else is fine, but the money is not very convenient to use, in the next is a businessman from Xiangyang, spices are very expensive, from Xiangyang to Guangzhou, the road is very far away, with dozens of cars of copper coins and silk cloth is really inconvenient, copper money is heavy, silk cloth is easy to damage, back and forth between the north and the south are always worried that the road will encounter strongmen killing people and goods, then our lives are not guaranteed, fortunately God blessed, in the next three times, are still safe, but always worry about the heart, worried very much. ”

As soon as these words came out, they immediately resonated with many people, and everyone said that this one is right, and that one said that I am too, and they all nodded in approval of the problem that the merchant said, and felt that this problem was very right, in fact, it was not only the merchants who came and went from all over the world, but even the local and Lingnan merchants in Guangzhou felt that it was cumbersome and unsafe to carry so much money, in case it was robbed, and the efforts of this period of time were in vain.

And being robbed is nothing, those robbers are ruthless, they will definitely report to the official if they are robbed, and then they will be surrounded and suppressed, these strongmen are not stupid, they will definitely kill people, and after killing them all, take away the corpses, so that the family can not find them, and it is just a disappearance, who would have thought that they were killed? Was it robbed? Everyone understands this truth, and it is really unsafe to break into the north and south. (To be continued......)