Chapter 859 The most special area of ​​the Song Dynasty - Hebei

That night, Empress Dowager Xiang went to Qingshou Palace to participate in the palace banquet to entertain Xue's return to Beijing.

Zhao Xu naturally would not attend such banquets that women participated in, so as to avoid being suspected of being under the melon field. Zhao Xu was already thirteen years old this year.

A thirteen-year-old male can start a family and start a career in the Middle Ages.

At the grassroots level in the countryside, there are a lot of men who are engaged or even married at the age of thirteen.

As for women who get married at the age of thirteen, there are even more unknown how many women are in this era.

However, Zhao Xu, who stayed in Baoci Palace, was not idle either.

Because today is also the day when I officially bought it.

So, he was waiting for Shi Deyi to report to him about the progress of his purchase today.

This is related to millions of yuan in buying profits.

So, although today, what you bought is only the most inconspicuous among the many.

That is, the nine residences outside the new city.

But Zhao Xu still attaches great importance to it.

It's a good start!

If you can buy one of the nine deposits outside the new city, you can buy one and save it for a high price.

So what about the residences of the Bianjing New City and the inner city?

Zhao Xu, of course, will not think that the money is too small!

Shortly after the palace gate was locked, Liu Weijian came to Zhao Xu and first gave a big gift: "I asked everyone for your care..."

"Well!" Zhao Xu sat on the bed, nodded in a calm manner, and then asked, "Old Chief, will it be smooth to buy a pounce today?"

Liu Weijian reported happily: "I know that everyone is buying pounces today, and all the merchants are actively participating... What I saw with my own eyes, there are hundreds of merchants who came to submit the case for the sacrificial seal..."

Zhao Xu suddenly showed joy and praised: "There are so many people involved?"

"Thank you so hard for the old commander and the left prime minister!"

"After buying this pounce, I will definitely repay the old commander!"

"I dare not!" Liu Weijian said with a bow: "This time I buy a pounce, it depends on everyone's sage virtue. I just have done some effort!"

"The old commander does not need to be praised!" Zhao Xu said: "When the Emperor was there, I taught me to be the leader of the monarch to reward and punish clearly!"

"I should reward the old commander for making contributions to the country!"

Hearing this, Liu Weijian stopped refusing and said, "Everyone is wise!"

"only……"

"What I said is true!"

"If no one issued an edict to reform the system of buying pounces, shorten the time for public announcement, abolish the system of buying pounces again, and send the imperial guards to guard the pile sealing box..."

"All the merchants said: This is the most virtuous and saint!"

"So, we all actively participated, and today's grand occasion!"

This is the truth!

Zhao Xu listened and enjoyed it.

In the Song Dynasty, the buyer (target) is divided into a solid seal (concealed label) and a quota system (based on the purchase amount of previous years, an average value is calculated, and then the merchants will buy it at this price. Of course, this is the treatment only related to the households).

Most of the bids that were bought for this time were bids in a solid form.

That is, the merchants fill a price for buying pony by themselves, and then put it into a special iron box. When the announcement date is made, unboxing and reading the bid under the witness of all buyers. The higher the price will be.

However, in the past, this procedure had a follow-up - after the bid was opened, if the government felt that the bid price was low, it could require all buyers to bid again based on the price of the last winning bid.

This is really not treating merchants as human beings, but just slaughtered as fat pigs.

It is partial, because the final interpretation is in the hands of the government, and most people can only knock down their teeth and swallow them with blood.

This time, Zhao Xu bought a pounce and then publicly abolished the bidding procedure.

A system was established for a bid that would win the higher price.

At the same time, the procedure for public reading of targets has been greatly accelerated.

According to the past system, the bid will generally be announced within 60 days after the bid.

This obviously gives many people the opportunity to operate in secret.

Therefore, Zhao Xu changed it to a public announcement seven days later this time.

At the same time, the bidding box was no longer kept by the government, but was ordered to lead the army to guard it.

Moreover, this imperial guard who guarded the standard box was selected by Zhao Xu ordered Di Yong to draw randomly among the first general of the Dragon.

Various reforms have not only increased the transparency and fairness of buying pony.

At the same time, it also improved the credibility of buying pony this time.

This can be seen from the enthusiastic participation of merchants, and more than a hundred people participated.

It should be noted that in the Song Dynasty, if you want to participate in the government's buying pun, you must have a mortgage and a letter of guarantee.

When buying a pledge deposit this time, the minimum standard for collateral is - 100,000 guan!

Considering that most people cannot have so much cash, they accept real estate and securities (salt banknotes, tea indices, land coupons, etc.).

In addition, there is also a civil servant with a court official or above, or a military servant with a military officer with an ambassador or above.

In other words, these more than 100 merchants who participated in buying puck are all truly powerful people.

"The old commander, get up and talk!" Zhao Xu said, and asked Feng Jing to help Liu Weijian up.

Then he asked, "Let the old commander tell me the number of people who buy money from each station..."

"I guess how much money can I get when I buy nine stakes today?"

Liu Weijian stood up by himself when Feng Jing stepped forward.

He bowed his body and said in humble words: "I know everyone..."

"Today, I bought the pounce, and I and the left prime minister followed the order to limit the nine quotas outside the new city to the merchants who bought the pounce in Shu, Shaanxi, Hebei, and Hedong..."

"Among them, Qingmingfang arrived at the office, and my ministers and others were ordered to only allow merchants from Hebei to participate in buying punts..."

"But there are still more than ten people participating in buying pounces, and they are all guaranteed..."

"Han Yao arrived at the Dangsu, only Yongxing Junlu and Shangzhou were allowed to join the Luozhou Benguan Maipu... More than ten people participated..."

Zhao Xu listened to Liu Weijian's introduction and the corners of his mouth slowly raised up.

"It seems that there are really many rich people in the folk!"

It's normal to think about it carefully.

Since its founding, the Song Dynasty adopted economic policies different from those of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

The so-called "not establishing a land system, not suppressing mergers" is actually just a nice saying. In fact, the economic policy of the Zhao Song Dynasty was the official monopoly economy.

What is an official monopoly economy?

Miyamoto!

The Zhao official family in all dynasties has been fishing for everything in the world, facing the states and counties as much as possible.

Therefore, the Zhao Guan Family was not just the largest landlord in the Song Dynasty. According to Mr. Qi Xia's statistics in "Economic History of the Song Dynasty", in the sixth year of Yuanfeng, the Northern Song Dynasty had about 7.2 million hectares of land reclamation, while the Zhao Guan Family owned more than 320,000 hectares of land, accounting for about 4.3% of the total number of land reclamation in the world.

Whose emperors have owned so much land in all dynasties?

Officials Zhao did it!

In addition to land, the Zhao official family also has a large number of workshops, mining and smelting, ferries, wharfs, etc. throughout the world...

The officials in charge are professional managers who manage these industries for the Zhao Guan family.

The Zhao official family were almost as good as possible, reaching out their hands to all resources that the entire dynasty could control.

It seems that the Zhao official family is fishing so much.

The economy of the Song Dynasty should have collapsed, right?

But the truth is exactly the opposite!

The economy of the Song Dynasty not only did not collapse, but was the dynasty with the highest fiscal revenue in history!

In the first year of Yuanyou, fiscal revenue reached 70 million trump cards!

Why?

Because of the economic foundation, the upper system is determined.

Since the Zhao official family needs to gain profits from the commercial activities of the states and counties in the world.

This means that the Zhao official family must actually relax restrictions on private business.
To be continued...