Chapter 1126 Construction and Results
After passing Yingyin, Xuchang is dozens of miles eastward.
There is a skull in the northeast of this city and a Jingfu Gang in the southeast, which is adjacent to the Fubao manor.
King Shao Yan of Han completed the inspection of the warehouse on the tenth day of July and found that there were actually 377,000 hu of grain stored, and more than 378,000 should be 378,000 hu of grain stored. The difference is not much, so let the officials make up as soon as possible, and they will not be investigated.
On July 15th, he arrived in Jingfu Cang again. While inspecting, he was preparing to visit his sister, but he learned that she had gone to Xiangyang...
Shao Yan's brothers, King Zhao Shaoxu, are in Xiangyang.
He has been here for a while and has been planning to build a market, and 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 is not used this year. Currently, there are merchants who trade here. The first day of the month and the sunset will open for one day. Shaofu will randomly charge some commercial tax as the next stage of construction costs.
At the time of Si, Shao Xu, accompanied by the Zhao King's army Pei Zhan, climbed a high platform and looked at the market.
Pei Zhan joined the army of the former General's Office. Being appointed as 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 the 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 the Si hour, with a passionate "market opening drum", Xiangyang Market opened again after half a month.
The Shi Ling took Ding Zhuang, who was temporarily recruited, and first came 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 yin version of the Liangzhou Shangtu, which sells ambergris, which is known as a treasure in the Western Regions. It is actually a mixed pine resin with spices. The smoke is thick and the taste is thorny, which makes people cough and sore..."
"The nanmu comb sold by Liu Yuan, a merchant in Jingzhou, said that it can circulate menstruation and revitalize the meridians. It is actually an ordinary willow tree with gold paint. It has been used for only a few days. The paint fell and cracked, which only hurts the hair and skin..."
"The Yangzhou Shangtutor Kong Xiu sold night pearls, boasting that he could illuminate at night, but it was actually a fish eye mixed with pearls and coated with fluorescent powder. At first, the light flashed, and soon it became dim and dull..."
"Yuzhou Shangtutor..."
After reading it, everyone was angry and scolded.
The city order waited for everyone to curse and said loudly: "All the people selling counterfeit goods have been verified. Your Highness King Zhao ordered that the goods be exposed at the market and brought to justice to double the value of the goods. If there are still unscrupulous merchants selling counterfeit goods in the future, they can be reported as soon as possible, and your Highness will never tolerate it."
After hearing this, the merchants applauded, and then flocked in with the merchant flag. "Your Highness's reputation has spread all over Jingxiang." Pei Zhan smiled as he looked at the gradually bustling market. "This is not the only one person's contribution." Shao Xu said humbly: "The Xiangyang Market has only been open for two months, and it has already made 300,000 yuan. The great benefits here are the most important of the court, so we have to be careful."
Under his eyes, the merchants arrived at their respective shops and hung their own business banners.
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, costing 300 yuan a month.
Only after having a shop and a shopping banner 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 Shao Xu planned to build the Xiangyang market. If you dare to sell counterfeit goods, you will confiscate the commercial banner and recover the losses.
If there are any defects in the goods sold, they will be exposed outside the city, so that everyone can distinguish it. This system existed during the Jin Dynasty, but it was not popularized. After Shao Xu's analysis, he decided to popularize this exposure system within his jurisdiction.
In addition, Shao Xu also introduced a system he had figured out when he was in Yecheng: Estimation (official guide price).
This is to prevent foreign merchants from shouting prices, cheating on unknown people, and maintaining the business environment, but the buyer and seller are allowed not to make a transaction at the estimation price. Anyway, it is just to give a reference price so that you can know how much the thing you want to buy is about.
The merchant list, price control, quality supervision and other means have been put into use. It is Shao Xu's purpose to try his best to maintain a good business order.
The court aims to collect market rent and commercial tax. Only when the merchants are willing to come and make large transactions can the court receive more money. Shao Xu has talked about such a simple truth many times without getting tired of it, and has compiled it into a book and written a book of "City Laws" as the benchmark for the future market trading system. As the Shaofu Municipal Supervisor, Shao Xu feels that this is the place where he is most likely to excel and achieve success, and the officials of the royal palace also agree with it. "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 Xu looked at the market again, stood up and left.
As soon 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.
A few 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, more and more tea is planted, more and more yields are produced, and more and more varieties are becoming more and more abundant. As this continues, the originally high prices begin to slowly fall because the growth of output is always greater than the growth of demand. In time, this will inevitably be a good deal, and the imperial court has lenient tax collection.
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 Xu 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 gauze cloth to the north." Pei Zhan said, "That family alone had tens of thousands of japonica rice flowing into Nanjun, which was all the contribution of your highness."
"It's past, it's past." Shao Xu smiled gently.
He was still very happy when he said so.
My father always hoped that the rich people in the north would go south to reduce the resistance to the land. But it is not that simple to open up land and open up a lot of manpower and food.
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. I have been mentally prepared for a long time. The most prominent contradiction is the lack of manpower and food.
Insufficient manpower will lead to poor destruction. The poor land reclamation and poor grain production are directly related to the number of people that can be raised, not to mention that the military rations needed for Jiangling's waters and land soldiers - this priority is higher.
So, 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., and sold them to Xiangyang.
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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 that of land reclamation and farming, so many people have set their minds on this.
After Shao Xu went south, he thought this was not a bad thing, and he should encourage him to respond. It would be best to let Xiangyang people use grain to buy 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.
Like the newly sold kudzu, the price basically reached the price in the early Taishi period of Jin Dynasty, which was much lower than the end of Jin Dynasty. It can be seen that kudzu vines and kudzu began to supply a large amount of stable supply to the north.
Especially in this hot summer, it is the time when the demand for gullies is the most intense. The price has dropped to two hu of millet per piece. Can the uncle of the mansion not afford it? Don't joke.
Shao Xu was also very happy.
Originally, it was just something that only a wealthy man 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 money, and no one can share the trouble."
When everyone drank the cooked tea, the second transaction was reported: Nanjun merchants sold 200 stones of salt and exchanged 500 hu of rice.
This is another typical transaction of using local salt springs to exchange for grain.
In addition, although there has been a specialty for salt and iron since the Han Dynasty and has made a lot of money, the salt these days is really not expensive, and the money earned on salt since the Han, Wei and Jin 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 added the tax rate of "salt money" 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, with prices rising ten times or twenty times. Salt really became a highly profitable commodity, so that Guanzhong, the traditional market of Hedong salt, was smuggled and dumped by the rough-quality Xixia green salt. The Northern Song Dynasty could not ban it, which was also a strange story.
Now, one stone of salt is exchanged for two stones and five dou of rice, which is really cheap...
After a moment, the third transaction newspaper came: Jiangling merchants exchanged a thousand baskets of honey-stained oranges for food...
Shao Xu looked at it and said, "Sun Quan sent an envoy to Wei to tell oranges. Wei Wenzhan said, 'There are oranges in the south, and the oxalwood is cracking people's teeth, and there are sweet ears at times.' I have sent people to buy thousands of orange orchards in Jianping and Badong. The food tastes strong and sweet. Wei Wen has passed. This honey-stained orange is sold to the north and can be sold out within a few days."
"Your Highness said very much." Pei Zhan agreed, "I heard that the Kuai family sold oranges and wuzhang to Luoyang. When they arrived in Luonan, they bought all the soldiers of the Zuo Xiaoqiguwei's palace and had to go to Luoyang empty. "
"It's not just the Kuai family!" Shao Xu 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 in just a few months, you can collect two million yuan of rent and tax, and you will also get a special book."
The servant Li Yong also said: "Your Majesty will collect the two countries of Cheng and Jin in the future, and focus on food and grass, and also on people's livelihood and commercial affairs. Your Highness may explain it from this and follow His Majesty's preferences. He emphasizes that merchants sell grain south and carries goods to the north. Henan people have cotton clothes in winter and cool clothes in summer, which will greatly benefit."
The right-level attendant Song Heng suggested: "You may join the business and the field to mention it, and Your Majesty will also have heavy field."
Everyone talked about it and mentioned it in every aspect, and was always inseparable from Shao Xun's most important policy and expressed his achievements around it, which was professional.
In short, Shao Zhe has been figured out.
Shao Xu nodded frequently when he heard this, and said, "I will go to Caizhou tomorrow, or return the next day. I will discuss it carefully at that time."
(The end of this chapter)