Chapter 386 Big stick is useless, so give it to carrots

Chapter 386 Big stick is useless, so give it to carrots

Shi Chuan almost sighed to the sky - margins. The ancients never understood their own margins and could not understand what belonged to others. They looked closely at their own things, but they always felt that they had the right to interfere in other people's affairs. For example, parents always liked to interfere in their son's affairs, and local officials always liked to represent all the interests of the people.

OK, I am a gentry, who am I afraid of?

"The extra effort requires additional benefits, which is natural." Shi Chuan stared at the cow's eyes and simply tore open the veil of the warm and gentle speech of the Song people. His face did not blush and his heart did not beat. The price of Hongguoguo offered - if I wanted me to pay extra, I had to pay the price I was moved by. Come and buy me, I'm very cheap... As for everything I have now, it's the income from my hard work, and no one wants to make me selfless dedication.

Zhang Shuye is a tough guy and likes to defeat the strongest. He was angry by Shi Tong's attitude, and his eyebrows were raised to fight back... But unfortunately, Shi Tong was not his enemy, but a friend who has been very helpful to him for a long time, and he was also a "scholar". In the Song Dynasty, scholars should not be regarded as nonsense; in the Song Dynasty, ungratefulness would not be regarded as great and glorious.

More importantly, the man in front of him is still a gentry bully with a stubborn temper. He really wants to be tough, but our hidden thoughts will not be placed on the table. If the two really get into trouble, people will only say that Uncle Zhang is not ungrateful and does not know his kindness...

The national conditions of the Song Dynasty were not special at all. Scholars all talked about reputation and had a moral bottom line.

"Haizhou has been poor in recent years, and the tea market has made extremely bad profits this year..." Zhang Shuye wanted to complain, and wanted to explain in detail the suffering of being a local official in the Song Dynasty - in this place and in this era, no one would give you an umbrella to cover the sun when the young section chief went to the countryside, and he was also angry from "large taxpayers" - that is, gentry - from time to time. Is it easy for me?

Shi Chuan suddenly interrupted: "Oh, a few days ago, I had received the exact news that the merchant ship returning from the West had docked in Guangzhou and was unloading the goods. It will go north within a few days. The destination is Haizhou. It is said that this group of Western merchants were introduced by Mr. Hai, so they will definitely come to Haizhou to park. In this way, Haizhou's city tax and market tax this year will probably not worry about... Well, maybe it will exceed the amount."

Zhang Shuye suddenly felt a little excited: The sea trade is good. Now the agricultural tax in the Song Dynasty only accounts for about 15% of the total tax revenue. Now the sea trade leading to the South Ocean, the western sea trade shrinks, and the Hu merchants of the Dashi have rarely arrived in the Song Dynasty. At present, the Song Dynasty only relies on its way to Japan and Goryeo, and there is a small amount of Nanyang foreign trade income, so it barely maintains its current prosperity. If Haizhou's shipping can be revitalized, then what are we still trying to do on the land?

Zhang Shuye thought secretly: Once the sea trade reopens, tea - piaotianyi - leisurely enjoying the hedonism of the Song Dynasty. This summer, Sun Li was not idle. He led the horse army to sweep across Shuyang and other counties in Haizhou, and immediately extinct the small bandits who were causing trouble in the local area. Lin Chong, Zhang Heng and Zhang Cen were not idle either. Ruan Tong continued to recover from his injuries, but only Jiuwenlong Shi Bin was very idle, but he and Shi could not pee in a pot. Even if both sides met in the tile house, they would play their own things.

At the same time, half a month after that conversation with Zhang Shuye, the fleet from the West passed through the Hangzhou Maritime Warehouse, Quanzhou Maritime Warehouse, Wenzhou Maritime Warehouse, and Taizhou Maritime Warehouse. They were unable to dock.

The former is because Fang La occupied Hangzhou, and the merchant ship was afraid that Fang La would not dare to dock with the tip of the gun. The latter is because the Maritime Warehouse Departments in Quanzhou and other places still adhered to the old concept. Officials checked the ship's lead when they got on the ship. For those stranded overseas and those who did not return for the deadline, they had to "de-register" and arrest them. The merchant ship was so scared that they had to sail and continue northward. When they entered the waters of Haizhou, they enjoyed another treatment.

The Batou Navy was led by Shi Chuan to intercept the fleet on the sea. Then, the sea merchants were overjoyed. The clerks in Donghai County and Haizhou County immediately boarded the ship and handled the "resignation" procedures for these people on the spot. No matter what names the crew missed... Huh, even if it was a Western name, the clerk admitted it without blinking and went through the registration procedures on the spot.

What kind of maritime merchants are this? Some of them are geographical ghosts who have been stranded overseas for many years, opened shopping malls in the local area, and are familiar with the local hydrological and geographical culture; some of them are bold local merchants, including crusaders who are slightly less enthusiastic, as well as the same Arab warriors and merchants. Some of them have just come down from the battlefield and mingled with the same fleet to accompany them. It can only be said that their enthusiasm for money is far better than religion.

These people were warmly welcomed after entering the port... After Haizhou welcomed them in this way, news came out that Guangzhou, Quanzhou and other maritime departments all criticized Haizhou for being despicable. They successively issued memorials to impeach Zhang Shuye, but the profits brought by the merchant fleet were abundant. Emperor Daojun heard that Zhang Shuye collected one million taxes for him in one day, and directly scolded Quanzhou and Guangzhou for being pedantic...

Therefore, Zhang Shuye, who was condoned by the emperor, became even worse and colluded with officials from the Maritime Bureau. He listed the allowed ballast according to the orders he opened at the time - this was equivalent to a duty-free list. Haizhou City was blown up at that time, and merchants bought ships and organized cargo to go to sea, resulting in the backlog of cargo in Wenzhou Taizhou and Yuzhou Shipyards being empty, and even the ships not yet built on the ship were booked.

Of course, after Zhang Shushi's troubles, the pedantic and rigid maritime trade policy of the Song Dynasty gradually loosened. Merchant ships that originally went to sea were prohibited from being equipped with crossbows and other self-defense weapons. However, the soft sailing ships produced in Haizhou were very popular among maritime merchants because of their fish cannons. As a result, the influence of the Taizhou Wenzhou Shipyard also secretly rushed to Yizhou to purchase fish cannons and install them on the fishing boats they produced. Moreover, due to the competition between shipyards, soft sailing ships gradually became popular.

The popularity of soft sailboats also led to a significant increase in the sales of silk. Since the main textiles in the Central Plains at that time were silk and hemp, the linen cloth was not tough enough. After being soaked in seawater, salt particles would be deposited on the fibers of the cloth surface, causing the cloth surface to become harder and brittle, and it was easier to crack when encountering sea breeze. Silk was light and soft, and it was not afraid of being soaked in salt water, and it was full of toughness. Therefore, undyed silk became the first choice for sails.

Immediately afterwards, the trade winds in autumn just started, and the first ships to the Southeast Asia returned, and large bundles of cotton were transported back to Haizhou. At this time, the word "cotton" had not yet been born. People said that cotton mainly used the word "milky flower". Later, Haizhou began to plant cotton seeds. People felt that "the cotton of plants and trees" should be different from "silk cotton" - so the "cotton" next to the word "wood" appeared.

Of course, these are all later... What's important is that with the entry of these maritime trade ships into the port, the trade pattern of the Song Dynasty had undergone major changes.
Chapter completed!