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Chapter 112 Reopening

Zhang Shixun was sarcastic in Xu Ping's words and was angry. But when he looked around, no one was helping him speak. Even the emperor Zhao Zhen, who was sitting on it, had a look of displeasure on his face. Even the old minister of the Eastern Palace could not mess around at this time. Moreover, when it comes to his relationship with the emperor, Xu Ping was closer to his family than Zhang Shixun because of Li Yong.

Thinking of Li Di, who was dismissed from preaching not long ago, was the teacher when the emperor was the crown prince. Zhang Shixun was shocked and stopped talking.

"Xu Ping, according to your intention, is it necessary to implement the Yongzhou tea method nationwide?"

Lu Yijian seemed not to see what Zhang Shixun had just seen, and asked in a deep voice.

Xu Ping: "You can learn from it, but you can't learn it all. Yongzhou is just a frontier, and it's different from the mainland."

There is another saying that Xu Ping did not say that the main part of Yongzhou's tea profit comes from foreign trade, and it earns money from Dali and Tubo. The mainland obviously does not have this condition. Although there are tea and horse markets in the northwest, the main part of the market is still within the Song Dynasty.

He bowed to Zhao Zhen, who was at the top, and Xu Ping said loudly: "I think that the tea method cannot last longer now, so I plan early. I would like to allocate three of the thirteen Southeast tea farms to change to official businessmen, recruiting people to plant and harvest. The tea harvested in these three games is no longer sold to merchants in the tea farms, but is sold to various places by officials. In the prefectures and counties that sell these three games, officialdoms are established. Since the people are allowed to buy tea with money, merchants may sell it in large quantities and give reasonable discounts."

Zhao Zhen nodded and looked at Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng sitting on both sides.

Lu Yijian said: "What about the remaining ten games?"

"Always follow the old tea method, you can change it as much as you should. In the future, the effects of the three and ten old teas of the new law will be compared. If the three games benefit significantly more than the other ten games, it will gradually expand. The new and old methods will not cause chaos all at once. If this method is obviously not suitable for Southeast tea farms, you can also correct it in time."

At this time, Han Yi, the chief censor who has not spoken since entering the palace, said: "The key to running a teahouse is to take care of the officials in charge of the venue. If you are not good at doing things and be deceived by the minor officials, it is probably difficult to handle it."

Xu Ping laughed in his heart. Han Yi was afraid that his son would be thrown away by Xu Ping to take care of the tea, so he brought it up in time. As Xu Ping's subordinate for many years, Han Zong is now a person Xu Ping relied on, but Han Yi didn't want his son to do this job. Although the judge Yan and Iron were busy, he might be attracted by the big guys in the capital.

Since it was mentioned, Xu Ping said: "I have a candidate for the official who brought the teahouse. I don't know what Your Majesty and the ministers think it is appropriate."

Zhao Zhen said: "But it's okay."

"Fang Tianyan, the former chief clerk of Taiping County, Yongzhou, once managed nearby tea farms. He was familiar with the various system rules and techniques of making tea, and should be competent."

A chief clerk who was still far away in Yongzhou was appointed by the transshipment envoy of the road. Who would have heard of these court ministers here? However, Xu Ping made the appointment of this candidate and decided to be the official of the teahouse, and he could serve as a supervisor, or even the candidates and military officials.

At this time, Han Yi was appointed as the Chief Censor and the Chief of the Ministry of Personnel. When Xu Ping mentioned a selection, he nodded immediately: "Yes, Taiping has been promoted to the prefecture and Fugu County's chief clerk is unnecessary, so you can save it."

Such an insignificant candidate would not have made the Zai Zhi worry, so he immediately settled down and asked Fang Tianyan to preside over the teahouse.

Lu Yijian said: "The tea farms are separated, and the distribution areas must be separated. Since it is an official sale, it is not appropriate to be too far away. So, the Northwest Road of Jingxi Road during the Taiping Xingguo period, plus the tea from Henan Prefecture and Zhengzhou. Since it is a new law, we will take the test every year to see how the effect is, and then decide."

During the Taiping Xingguo period, Jingxi Road was divided into North and South Roads for a short time, but it did not include Xijing Luoyang and Zhengzhou at that time. Because the Southeast Tea Farm is basically located in the south of Jingxi Road, it is located near the north of Jingxi Road as the sales area.

Xu Ping said: "This is the best, but someone has to give some advice on the distribution, so the judge of the salt and iron is also appointed by Guo Zi, and the Jingxi Road Transport Department Office will assist you."

This is the manpower distribution of Xu Ping's own department. Besides, Guo Zi was in charge of the salt, tea and iron. What else could others say? He decided to do it now.

In fact, what Xu Ping cares most is not the tea farm. As long as he is a clear-headed official who can use his talents correctly, there will be no problem there. Fang Tianyan has long been used to Xu Ping's data management in Yongzhou and has many years of experience at the grassroots level. The minor officials below cannot make any waves.

What Xu Ping really wants to do is the tea distribution system.

At this time, business was basically unrestricted, and in this era, it developed quite well. However, in order to manage the government, the government divided the country into many areas, basically. There were also some restrictions, such as collecting taxes on long-distance travel with copper coins, which was not cost-effective, and essentially restricting the circulation of currency.

According to the experience of previous life, the more sufficient commercial circulation, the greater the profits it brings, and the higher the tax revenue of the regime. Xu Ping wanted to use the tea distribution system to break through these constraints and build a unified national market. Even relying on this system to establish a national supply and marketing system like in previous life, it will definitely greatly promote the development of business.

In this era, relying solely on the spontaneous power of private capital, this kind of national commerce circulation is difficult to form, and the simplest way is to rely on the power of the country. Since there is a department like Sansi that governs the world's economy, it would be a pity not to form a national market. The world's financial power is concentrated here, and of course we must concentrate our efforts to do big things.

The tea distribution system is the first step.

At this point, the general direction of tea method reform has been determined. In addition to the original old system, Xu Ping opened a new system to see the future effect and then decide which system to focus on.

The tea method involves too much profit, and I don’t know how many officials and powerful people are involved in the entire system. Xu Ping is not so noble yet. He uses his future in the officialdom as a bet and fights to the death with these people. He would rather start the fire again, even if it would be harder, it would be better than fighting against those mixed forces.

Xu Ping followed suit and returned to his seat and sat down.

Kou nodded to Xu Ping, performing better than expected today and encounter less resistance than expected.

Seeing Xu Ping sit down, Wang Zeng said to Li Zi beside him: "Since the Sansi has agreed to you to preside over the change of the tea method, I will talk about it in detail, especially what chaos may occur and how to prevent it."

After saying that, he said to Lu Yijian and Kou Wang: "Grandpa Lu, Master Kou, how about it?"

The two nodded: "Make."

Every time the tea method changes, it will cause chaos in the capital for a while. Those who are instructed to make a fortune by taking the opportunity to make a fortune, while some lose all their money. These people are involved in the powerful and powerful family, and often have channels to reach the emperor directly, which may lead to some accidents and have to be prevented early. This is also an important part of the tea method changes.

Among the officials of the three departments, the three departments were naturally the highest commander, and the three deputy envoys also had high or low status. According to the rules, the deputy envoy of salt and iron was higher than the deputy envoys of the other two departments. Xu Ping started the tea method and actually took himself out, so Kou Yu had to arrange a special person to cooperate with Li Zi.

Li Zi stood up, bowed to the emperor and the prime minister, and said aloud: "When the tea method is changed, the most affected are naturally the merchants who entered the middle school, and the relay shops in the capital. The merchants are just fine. As long as the rules are set, the relay this time will be much more generous than the first year of Tiansheng. I think nothing can happen. If something unexpected happens, the only relay shops in the capital."

When it comes to the exchange shop, the people present, including the Emperor Zhao Zhen, have a heavy face. Obviously, they all know that behind these huge capitals is not simple, and they are not as simple as ordinary businessmen, so they can continue to do it in one sentence.

Li Zi said again: "When the 'three statements' were practiced in the past, there were many conflicts between the northern merchants and the southern merchants. The main thing about the southern merchants was the exchange shops in the capital, and Huainan tea merchants were second. The northern merchants entered COFCO and grass for tea in exchange for tea attractions. Most of them did not really go to Huainan to sell tea, but resold them nearby. The exchange shops colluded with the southern merchants to lower the exchange price. Moreover, they used goods to enter the Chinese merchants to have to have exchange shops as a guarantee to calculate tea. They tried to extort everything, and the Chinese merchants had already complained."

The people who are in the transfer shop colluded with those who are in the outside world. If they want to exchange tea for tea, it is not okay not to give them a big benefit. In the production, transportation and sales chain of tea, there is actually no place for the transfer shop. However, they rely on their special relationship with the government and the fact that it is not so easy to transfer to physical goods, they actually gained the largest share of profit.

Li Zhixing’s “Cash Money Method” is largely about cracking down on the transfer shop, using cash, no longer using transfer, and seeing where they can make money! However, the fact is that they can’t avoid it in the end, and they can always take advantage of loopholes.

This time, Li Zi changed the tea method again, so he simply cut off the firewood from the cauldron, and even the goods service was not required to be handed over to the shop for protection.

After listening to Li Zi's explanation, Cai Qi, the deputy general manager, said: "The shop is really unbearable. It makes the profits of the Chinese businessmen lose their capital in vain. But they don't need to protect the goods in the future. If a merchant holds fake tea intake, or makes a false amount, and then goes far away after receiving the money, the goods in vain lose money in vain?"

The cancellation of insurance actually hit the interests of the Nanshang merchants, but some risks were transferred from the exchange shops to the government. How to avoid these risks has to be considered. This link of exchange shops is similar to the insurers in Xu Ping's previous life, but they were too greedy and the insurance premiums they collected were a little too high.

Li Zi said: "If you don't need to hand over the shop as a guarantee, you can let the Chinese merchants protect each other. If something happens to a family, several companies will hold them accountable. In this way, the merchants will not dare to take it lightly, and they will force themselves to hand over the shop as a gift."

The insurance costs of the transfer shop are actually transferred to the merchants who entered the middle school. Since this is the case, it is better to directly give the merchants who entered the middle school to take responsibility. They are all merchants and it is convenient to supervise each other.

However, this completely eliminated the reliance of the escort shop, which was a fatal blow to their business.

Xu Ping couldn't help but think of the Grand Master Liu that Xu Chang had told him. Li Zi didn't know whether those people were clear or not. I think they should be clear. Even his new deputy salt and iron envoy came to him, and he didn't hide it from him at all. What's more, the old man from Li Zi, the three departments, has much more qualifications than him.

A group of important officials of the Empire were talking lively in this Chongzheng Hall. I wonder what those people are now, are they also holding an emergency meeting and discussing what results will come out.

This is a showdown between officials and officials, let’s see if Li Zi can overwhelm these sloppy officials.
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