After passing Yingyin, you will reach Xuchang dozens of miles east.
There is a warehouse in the northeast of this city and Jingfu Cang in the southeast, which is adjacent to Fubao's manor.
King Shao Yan of Han inspected the warehouse on the tenth day of July and found that there were actually 377,000 hu of grain stored, and more than 37 to 8,000 grain stored. The difference was not much, so the officials ordered them to make up as soon as possible.
No more investigation.
On July 15, he arrived in Jingfu Cang again. While inspecting, he was preparing to visit his sister. He learned that she had gone to Xiangyang-·
Shao Yan’s brother, Zhao Wang Shao, is in Xiangyang.
He has been here for a while and has been planning to build a market, but now he has already begun to take shape.
Xiangyang Fangcheng City will not be officially opened next year, but it does not mean that it will not be used this year. Currently, there are merchants who trade here.
On the first day of each month, each day will be open for one day. Shaofu will randomly charge some commercial tax as the next stage of construction costs.
At that time, accompanied by Pei Zhan, the King of Zhao, Shao climbed up to a high platform and looked at the market.
Pei Zhan joined the army in the former General's Mansion, and becoming the Zhao King's Army was considered a family decision. It was a little regretful for him. After all, he could not show his abilities in the court, but it was also a good choice.
Lieutenant Xue Tao took two hundred soldiers to escort under the high platform.
He was a former Ningwu Order. He was entrusted by the Pei family and carefully selected a hundred heroes from the Xue family in Fenyin. Together with the hundreds of people selected by the Pei family, he formed the main military force of the Zhao Prince's Mansion.
At the beginning of time, with a burst of intense "market opening drum", Xiangyang Market, which was half a month later, has opened again.
The city ruler led Ding Zhuang, who was temporarily recruited, first out of the main entrance and hung wooden signs on the wall.
When the merchants saw it, they were stunned at first, and then silently read the words on the wooden sign: "There is a Liangzhou Shangtu Yin version, selling ambergris, known as the treasure of the Western Regions, but it is actually mixed with spices, and the smoke is thick.
The smell is irritating, making people cough and asthma—"
"The nanmu comb sold by Liu Yuan, a merchant in Jingzhou, said that it can activate the meridians and revitalize the meridians, but it is actually an ordinary willow tree with gold paint.
It only takes a few days to use it, and the paint falls and cracks the wood, which will only hurt the hair and skin-"
"Kong Xiu, a merchant from Yangzhou, sold night pearls and boasted that he could illuminate the night. He was actually mixed with fish eyes and applied with fluorescent powder.
At first, the light flashed, and soon it became dim and dull."
"Yuzhou merchant disciple."
After reading it, everyone became angry and scolded.
The city order was waiting for everyone to scold and said loudly: "The above people selling counterfeit goods have been verified. His Royal Highness Zhao ordered that his goods be exposed in the market and brought them to justice to pay the value of the goods. If there are still tyrant merchants in the future
If you sell fake goods, you can report it quickly, and your Highness will never tolerate it."
When the merchants heard this, they applauded and then flocked in with the merchant flag.
"Your Highness's reputation has spread all over Jingxiang." Pei Zhan smiled at the gradually bustling market.
"This is not the only one person's contribution." Shao Qian said softly: "The Xiangyang Market has only been open for two months and has already made a profit of 300,000 yuan. The great benefits here are the most important of the court, so I have to be careful."
Under his eyes, the merchants arrived at their respective shops and hung their own business flags.
The Shang Banner is produced by Xiangyang Fangshi, and is distributed after registration and is hung in front of the shop.
The shop is rented, and it costs 300 yuan a month.
Only after having shops and business banners can the transaction be officially started, otherwise it will not work.
There are also other markets in the city, but the commercial banner system was introduced after Shaochao built Xiangyang market. If you dare to sell counterfeit goods, you will confiscate the commercial banner and recover the losses.
If the goods sold have flaws, they will be exposed outside the city, so that everyone can tell that this system will be common, but it is not popular. After Shao Yan judged it, he decided to popularize this exposure system within his jurisdiction.
In addition, Shao also introduced a system he had learned about when he was in Yecheng: Estimation (official guide price).
This is to prevent foreign merchants from shouting prices, cheating on unknown foreigners, and maintaining the business environment, but the buyer and seller are allowed not to make a transaction at the estimated price. Anyway, it is just a reference price to let you know what you want to buy.
How much is it worth.
Merchant list, price control, quality supervision and other means have been put into use. It is Shao’s goal to try his best to maintain a good business order.
The court aims to collect market rent and commercial taxes. Only when the merchants are willing to come and make a large transaction can the court receive more money. Shao has talked about such a simple truth many times and compiled it into
He wrote a book and wrote a book called "City Law" as the benchmark for the future market trading system. He was the Shaofu Municipal Supervisor. Shao felt that this was the place where he was most likely to excel and achieve success, and the officials of the royal palace also agreed.
"The merchants are all drinking tea, and we can't sit there, Your Highness————" Pei Zhan looked at it for a while, then wiped his sweat with a scarf and suggested.
"Okay." Shao looked at the market again, got up and left.
Just as the market drums rang, someone in the market set up a breeze stove, threw the grated tea cakes into boiling water, and began to cook tea.
Several years after the founding of the Daliang Dynasty, the trend of drinking tea has become increasingly intense under the strong push of the emperor. Correspondingly, tea planting is growing more and more, the yield is growing, and the variety is becoming more and more abundant. If this continues, it is already high above.
Prices start to slowly decline because output growth is always greater than demand growth.
In time, this will inevitably be a good deal, and the imperial court has leniently collected taxes.
The group got off the platform, found a pavilion and sat down, and started cooking tea and chatting. During this period, people kept sending the latest transaction quantity and price of goods to the municipal supervisor for information.
When Shao heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "The first delivery transaction today was that someone bought ten pieces of gauze cloth with twenty hu of japonica rice. The buyer was a merchant from Xiangyang, and the seller came from Huarong."
"As far as I know, some merchants in Nanjun rented three boats and transported thousands of ghettos to the north." Pei Zhan said, "This family has hu of japonica rice flowing into Nanjun, which is all the contribution of your highness."
"It's past, it's past." Shao smiled gently.
He was still very happy when he said so.
My father always wanted the rich people from the north to go south to reduce the resistance to landing. However, it is not that simple to open up land.
It has been a year and a half since the war ended, and the process of land reclamation is not satisfactory. I won’t talk about diseases or something.
That was a long time ago, and the most prominent contradiction was insufficient manpower and food.
If the manpower is insufficient, the land reclamation will not be effective. If the land reclamation is not effective, the grain production will not be abundant, which in turn is directly related to the number of people that can be raised, not to mention that it must ensure that the military rations of Jiangling, land and military soldiers need higher priority.
Therefore, in order to reduce early investment, many families began to make quick money, that is, harvesting local natural resources.
Such as wild silkworm cocoons, medicinal materials, kudzu vines, fruits, etc., they are sold to Xiangyang.
These resources are all wild, all over the mountains and fields, with a huge number and no one can pick them up. The manpower required to harvest these resources is far less than those who cultivate land, so many people have their ideas on this.
After Shao Nan went to the scene, he thought this was not a bad thing, and he should encourage him to respond. It is best to let Xiangyang people use grain to purchase these goods and then resell them to the north.
In this way, the northerners obtained southern goods, and the pioneers obtained food, and the two benefited each other.
For example, the price of the newly sold kudzu has basically reached the price in the Puchu Taishi period, which has been lowered much compared to Puma. It can be seen that kudzu vines and kudzu have begun to supply a large amount of stable supply to the north.
Especially in this hot summer, the demand for kudzu is the most intense. The price has dropped to two hu of millet per piece.
Can't you afford to buy it? Don't joke.
Shao was also very happy.
Originally, it was only something that wealthy families could enjoy, and slowly walked into the homes of ordinary people. This was the original meaning of Guang Chengze mentioned when discussing Taoism, "The world is not worried about no wealth, and no one can share the problem."
When everyone drank the cooked tea, the second transaction was reported: Nanjun merchants sold 200 stones of salt,
Change five hundred hu of rice.
This is another typical transaction of using local salt springs to exchange for grain.
In addition, although there was a special sale of salt and iron since the Han Dynasty and he also made a lot of money, the salt these days is really not expensive, and the money earned on salt since the Han and Wei Dynasties is really not easy to compare with later generations.
In fact, in the Tang Dynasty, the Hedong Salt Pond was still collected by officials and the people. It was not until the middle and late Tang Dynasty that the court repeatedly increased the tax rate of "right salt money" and began to become a relatively important income. At that time, the private salt dealer Huang Chao finally appeared.
But at that time, salt was still not expensive, and the real price increase was about to reach the Northern Song Dynasty, which increased ten times or twenty times. Salt really became a highly profitable commodity, so that the traditional market of Hedong salt, Guanzhong, was actually caused by the rough-quality Western Xia.
The large amount of green salt was smuggled and dumped, and the Northern Song Dynasty court could not ban it, which was also a strange story.
Now that one stone of salt is exchanged for two stones and five dou of rice, it is really cheap ·—
A moment later, the third transaction newspaper came: Jiangling merchants exchanged baskets of honey and oranges for grain-
Shao looked at it and said, "Sun Quan sent an envoy to Wei Zhiju. Wei Wenzhao said, "There are oranges in the south, and they are cracking their teeth, and there are sweet ears at the time." I sent people to Jianping, and each of Badong bought a thousand plants.
The orange orchard is delicious and sweet, and Wei Wen has passed. This honey-stained orange is sold in the north and can be sold out within a few days."
"Your Highness said very much." Pei Zhan agreed, "When I heard that my family sold oranges to Luoyang, I went to Luonan,
That is, the soldiers of the Zuo Xiaoqi Guard soldiers bought them all and had to go to Luoyang with empty carts."
"It's more than just home!" Shao smiled and said, "Even my sister, I've made a profit in selling oranges."
Everyone followed and laughed a few times.
After Pei Zhan finished laughing, he reminded: "Your Highness, the book "City Law" must be compiled as soon as possible and submitted to the emperor's desk. Xiangyang Fangcheng City will only be officially launched next year, but this year will only take a few months to collect 200 taxes.
Ten thousand yuan can also get a big book."
Li Yidao, the servant of the servant, said: "Your Majesty will conquer the two countries in the future, and focus on food and grass, and on people's livelihood and business.
Your Highness may explain from this and follow His Majesty’s preferences. He focused on the traders who traded grain south and returned north. The people of Henan had cotton clothes in winter and cool clothes in summer, which made great gains.”
The right attendant Song Heng suggested, "Maybe you can bring up the business and the field to mention it, and Your Majesty will also be in heavy field."
Everyone talked about it and mentioned it in all aspects, and was always inseparable from Shao Xun's most important policy and expressed his achievements around it. It was professional.
In short, Shao Zhe has been figured out.
Chapter completed!