Chapter 284 The Liao and Song Dynasties
"Can Yelu Hongji agree?"
Zhang Dun asked with a frown.
Jiehe Market is clearly not good for the Liao Kingdom. No matter how close Yelu Hongji is to Song Dynasty, he will not make concessions on such a major issue of principle, right?
"How could he not agree?" Murong Wangyou smiled, "As long as the Liao Kingdom can get a share of the pie, Yelu Hongji is afraid that he will not be able to ask for it?"
"Let the Liao Kingdom get a share of the pie? How to share it?"
"The Liao and Song dynasties are in charge." Murong Wangyou said, "The Great Song Dynasty has drawn a piece of land, so that the Liao Kingdom can also draw a piece of land on the other side of the border river. The two pieces of land are connected by floating bridges to form a large border river market. This market is operated by the Chamber of Commerce, and the Liao Kingdom and the Song Kingdom only care about the money. Isn't that great?"
This plan was a "No. 2 case" discussed by Wu Haogu and Murong Wangyou on the way to Kaifeng Prefecture, and of course it is also the best case.
The Liao and Song dynasties jointly managed a cross-he River market, which was actually "no matter"... The Khitans in the Liao Kingdom did not care about money, and weren't they controlled by the yamen like the Nanjing Road Transportation Department? Maybe it would fall into the hands of the Ma Renwang and Ma Renjie brothers. Even if it was not the Ma family, Old Murong had a way to bribe it. It was not a problem for the Song Dynasty and Wu Haogu.
The civil officials in the Song Dynasty were very policy-oriented when dealing with "international affairs". No matter the new and old party, they would not easily provoke Liao. Therefore, if the Liao people participated, there would be a lot of room for development for the Jiehe Chamber of Commerce.
Jiehe Commercial City, or the chamber of Lighthouse City, according to Wu Haogu's idea, it should be a city-state council. It is not that Wu Haogu is superstitious about the democracy of gold power, but that he cannot engage in dictatorship in Lighthouse City. Instead of letting others take their own sanctions, it is better to develop a democracy of gold power.
In his vision, those who are qualified to participate in this chamber of commerce must be the richest and rich merchants in the Kaifeng Prefecture of the Song Dynasty and the Xijin Prefecture of the Liao Dynasty. In the Liao Dynasty there are families like the Si Yan family, and in the Song Dynasty, they are naturally dominated by a general who does business and art.
In addition to background and backstage, participating in the Chamber of Commerce also requires money to invest. The start-up capital of the market is not allocated by the court, but is invested by the wealthy merchants participating in the Chamber of Commerce.
In other words, this "Jiehe Commercial Market" is actually a joint stock trading company. It is just that there is no controlling shareholder on the surface, and fifteen to twenty shareholders with equivalent shares participate to ensure that the voting rights and investment amount are equivalent. If a new shareholder wants to join, it must obtain the consent of a simple majority or a majority shareholder of the Chamber of Commerce, and at the same time, the corresponding share capital must be paid, and the share capital will also increase with the development of the commercial market.
However, the Chamber of Commerce will not directly participate in the daily management of the commercial city. The Chamber of Commerce is only responsible for deciding major matters, formulating internal regulations of the commercial city, and selecting the mayors, referees, police inspectors, patrol commanders, and so on.
Will Zhang Dun, the treacherous prime minister of the Song Dynasty, agree to this plan? Wu Haogu looked at Prime Minister Zhang nervously.
Zhang Dun thoughtfully and asked: "If you are in charge with the Liao people... If there is something wrong with the Northern Dynasties in the future, can this market be used for me?"
Wu Haogu was delighted when he heard this. He seemed to have not discovered that Jiehe Shangshi was a capitalist ghost!
Murong Wangyou stroked his beard and smiled, "I am not a businessman, so I have to ask Wu Dalang about this."
Zhang Dun knew that Wu Haogu was a big businessman, so he asked, "Dalang, please tell me."
Wu Haogu smiled and said, "As long as the chamber of commerce in Shangshi listens to the Song Dynasty court, Shangshi will naturally be under the control of the Song Dynasty court."
"The Chamber of Commerce in the Market?"
Zhang Dun didn't say nonsense like "Businessmen are profit-oriented", but just frowned.
The two countries jointly manage and the chamber of commerce governs the market... This method sounds a bit unreliable!
Wu Hao Gu Dao: "My husband, the court does not directly manage the business market, but he can still designate merchants to invest in the chamber of commerce. As long as the husband appoints merchants loyal to the court to participate in the Jiehe Chamber of Commerce, the market will naturally obey the orders of the court."
"How do I know if the merchant is loyal to the court?"
Wu Haogu smiled and said, "The officials are businessmen. Among the generals and soldiers in Kaifeng Prefecture, there are children operating business. Behind the 72 main stores in Kaifeng Prefecture and the gold, silver and silk shops in Jiesin Lane, there are actually shares of the nobles of the generals. I believe that businessmen like the following officials, and those who are in the same state, will they be loyal to the court?"
Merchants are profit-oriented and sell the interests of the Song Dynasty in history, such as Pu Shougeng, Quanzhou!
Similarly, examples of merchants spending all their wealth, recruiting soldiers, and serving the king to sacrifice their country also existed in the history of the Song Dynasty, such as Mrs. Xu in Quanzhou and Mrs. Xu's husband Xu Hanqing.
Both Pu Xu families are Fujian maritime merchants and both live in Quanzhou. They seem to be similar, right? However, they took a completely different position when the Song Dynasty was in the late Song Dynasty...
It can be seen that this businessman is both reliable and unreliable.
In Zhang Dun's view, a lot of generals such as the Pan family generals, the Gao family generals, the Cao family generals, the Wang family generals, the Mi family generals, and other prominent families such as the Daming Xiang family, the Sanhuai Wang family, and the Daming Han family, would they be profit-oriented and betray the Song Dynasty because they were engaged in business?
They seem to have shares in the Song Dynasty?
As for businessmen like Wu Haogu, it would not be detrimental to the Song Dynasty.
What is the relationship between Wu Haogu and Zhao Ji now? Zhao Ji will not be the emperor’s father in the future. With Zhao Ji’s advice, the Wu family will be the nobles who will be together with the country sooner or later.
If Yan Yun is restored in the future, Wu Haogu, a hero, will definitely become a "noble official", and his descendants can naturally obtain the corresponding military official position, and may also marry the Zhao family. Moreover, Wu Haogu's fiancée Pan Qiaolian also comes from the Pan family's generals, and his interests with the Song Dynasty are actually tied together.
In Zhang Dun's view, if this market is temporarily controlled by the nobles of the generals, it is actually not much different from being directly controlled by the imperial court.
And as long as Yan Yun is restored, Jiehe Shangshi will be a prefecture or prefecture city in the Song Dynasty... So the key now is to restore Yan Yun's chances of winning.
Even a little more is good!
"There are also great merchants in the Liao Kingdom?" Zhang Dun thought for a while and asked again, "Who will they listen to?"
"Of course I listen to us!" Wu Haogu said.
"Why?" Zhang Dun asked, "Do those big merchants in the Liao Kingdom have no backgrounds as wealthy families in Yandi? Those wealthy families in the Yandi Kingdom are all chosen families in the Liao Kingdom, and they also have a separation with the country, right?"
"Your Majesty is such a bad word," Murong Wangyou interrupted, "The wealthy families in Yan are chosen, and they are also chosen as the same clan as the country. They are not the family." The old man paused and said, "One clan and one family are different! In Liao, there is no single clan that was destroyed by the whole son, but there are countless people who have been destroyed by the struggles in the court. There are so-called "Wari" offices in the eleven palaces of the Liao Kingdom, which are used to control the royal family. The children and children of the families that were destroyed by the destruction of the family. It is not rare to destroy the family as slaves in the Liao Kingdom. Nowadays, no one in power knows whether the next one to destroy the family will be themselves? Who doesn't want to leave a way out for themselves?
Isn’t this Jiehe Market the way for the powerful and powerful people of the Great Liao Dynasty? My husband thought that these powerful and powerful families in the Liao Dynasty who regarded Jiehe Market as the way for the retreat could really live with the Great Liao Dynasty?”
Compared with the fierce political struggles within Liao, the Kaifeng generals and nobles of the Song Dynasty lived in a safe. Since its founding, no one has ever founded the family to be destroyed. What are the county magistrates who destroyed the family and the prefect who destroyed the family? There is no such thing as Bao Heizi's blue sky is awesome in the plays. Who can he destroy in Kaifeng Prefecture in reality?
But it’s different from the Liao Kingdom! The political struggles over there are all bloody storms. Just the case of Prince Zhaohuai has gone over and over again, I don’t know how many families have been destroyed! Seeing that Yelu Hongji is about to die, Yelu Yanxi, a salted fish who turns over and becomes the emperor, I still don’t know how many more treacherous ministers who are involved in frameing Prince Zhaohuai!
Moreover, the country's decline is the Great Liao, not the Great Song Dynasty. By the time the Great Song Dynasty really wanted to go north to Yanyun, the Great Liao had already become a sunken broken ship. Who else would like to rest with him?
Zhang Dun nodded slightly, but did not talk about the market again. Instead, he bowed to Mr. Murong and said, "Sir, it is indeed a talented man. Zhang admires him very much. He will definitely recommend him to the emperor."
He didn't say that he would give Old Man Murong any official, but he thought he wouldn't be young anymore, and he always had a doctor.
Murong Wangyou also returned the tribute and smiled and said, "I'll thank you, my husband."
Zhang Dun looked at Brother Zhao Zhong again, "What a man, I don't want it, I want it in the Song Dynasty... I am a naturalized Zhao Weigong's genealogy and I will be given a gift from a palace."
When he heard that his surname was Zhao, Brother Zhao Zhong immediately showed joy and bowed to Zhang Dun: "Thank you, my husband."
"You are not bad either!" Zhang Dun nodded at Wu Haogu again, "If Yan Yun gets restored in the future, you will make a great contribution. A noble official is indispensable... This time, you will always be the one who is an ambassador."
Zhang Dun opened the golden mouth, and it seemed that the ambassador could finally get it!
Wu Haogu quickly stood up and respectfully bowed to Zhang Dun: "Your Majesty is a mischievous praise, Haogu is just doing his duty."
Zhang Dun smiled: "When it comes to duty, you haven't drawn the full picture of Yanjing yet."
Wu Haogu’s purpose in going north was to spy painting, but he did not expect to make such great achievements by chance. However, the original spy painting mission was not satisfactory.
Wu Haogu bowed again: "Xiaguan has already drawn half of Yanjing this time. If you take the time to go to the rest of the next round, you will definitely draw it perfectly."
Zhang Dun waved his sleeves and smiled, "No need to go in person, teach a few apprentices to come out and let them go. You are the ambassador in the blink of an eye. It's time for you to send a dispatch from the seventh-rank military officer. Where can I ask you to keep painting? Wu Dalang, what do you want to do? Tell me about it."
This is really a huge face! Maybe it is an extra reward for Wu Haogu?
Chapter completed!