Wang Ju looked at more than a dozen officials and said, "I went back to Qingzhou City today and deliberately stayed at the home of a commoner named Zuyang, a Niuzhuang family in Wai'an Town, Huai'an Town for a while."

Then he said the passage.

Some people don’t think so. When doing business, there are profits and losses, just like gambling, and you have to take care of this. Wouldn’t you be full and be full?

Wang Ju looked at everyone's faces and was not angry. The main reason these people really don't understand. Although these people's families are also doing business, they don't know what the meaning of doing business will be and what the difference between business and business is.

He said again: "Everyone, you know how expensive wool products are, but the craftsmanship of Gyeongju is backward and cannot be sold at all. If the craftsmanship keeps up, the price of wool will also keep up. How many people will it support and how much tax will it bring?"

After saying the following sentence, more than a dozen officials suddenly realized.

How expensive were the wool products of the Song Dynasty, so expensive that future generations dared not imagine.

For example, in the fifth year of Xining, the Japanese monk Cheng Xun prepared to go to the cold Hedong, "I have a sweater, a turban, a wool bag, a wool sock, and a wisp of money."

Does anyone say there were sweaters and towels in ancient China?

How to say this? A towel is similar to a towel in later generations, but there must be differences in the materials, and a sweater is not a sweater from later generations.

It is mainly made of hemp and silk, and is made of fabric made of a small amount of wool or camel wool. It is relatively thick, and the ratio of wool to camel wool is also very small, so it cannot be weaved if there are too many.

And because it cannot be twisted into real thread, it feels furry, so it is also called sweaters, towels, and socks, which can also keep warm.

Of course, this kind of sweater towel is not what Wang Ju thought, it is the sweater towel in the eyes of later generations.

This is the thing, worth five cents.

Cheng Xun's translator also bought a hair turban, a hair treasure, and a leather handbag. The three items cost a total of 50 cents.

It is twenty times more expensive than later generations, and it is still an unqualified product.

The specialty of Fengxiang Mansion is a fuzzy strap. It is two feet long and three or four inches thick. It is worth ten cents of coins.

In the late Northern Song Dynasty, there were smart people in Qingzhou who invented the wool twisted by their hands, but this was too troublesome, so they simply learned from the people of Fujian Province, and asked the children to twist the unqualified wool with their hands, and then knitted it into cloth. Then a "wool cloth" weighing only 14 taels is worth 400 guan. At that time, the exchange ratio between iron coins and copper coins was between 10 and 10 and 20, which is worth 20 to 40 guan, and one liang of yarn is worth 10 to 3 guan!

It is this heavy hand twisting yarn technique that has not yet come out.

If a Buddha tribute carpet or a felt is sold on a fall and winter, it is worth more than 30 guan, and those who "sell it randomly" in spring and summer will still cost fifteen guan. Most of them are fake Western Xia ritual carpets from Shaanxi. The authentic Western Xia ritual carpets cannot be bought by ordinary people.

A piece of felt covered on the bed in winter has an area of ​​the same size as a piece of silk. It costs twenty cents of money even if the quality is good, and nearly ten cents of money are poor.

So, can you still not understand when you lead to taxation?

If the Zuyang workshop is supported, even if only two thousand felt blankets are produced a year and only ten cents of coins per bed are sold, the government can collect more than one thousand cents of commercial taxes only if it is taxed or taxed. Moreover, there is also the tax that people sell wool, and they do not collect taxes from Zuyang, but the people always have to pay a three percent of the tax.

Moreover, Wang Ju is preparing to further support Zuyang, intending to deliberately invite skilled Xixia craftsmen from Yanzhou. If the craftsmanship keeps up, the price will be reasonable. The number of sold in a year is more than two thousand beds?

With this tax alone, that interest can be ignored.

However, an official said worriedly: "The prince and the emperor implement the Qingmiao Law. There may be some conflicts in interest."

I charged two cents of interest in that year, and only one cent of interest in this year. The difference is too big. Wang Ju said: "It's okay, the Qingmiao Law of the public is to help farmers and help the poor and crack down on usury. My only support the sunrise industries."

"Sunrise Industry?"

"It is a promising legitimate workshop with bright prospects, the industry does not violate the law, and the operators themselves are good people who abide by the law. At the same time, they are limited to workshops and have nothing to do with business."

In fact, it refers to industry. At this time, these workshops are not regarded as industries, but as business.

"Ming Gong, the interest rate is too low. If it is a two-part profit, it would be great." Another official said.

No matter how Wang Ju interprets the explanation, the emergence of this profit-sharing will inevitably conflict with the Qingmiao method of two-way profit. However, if it is two-way profit, there will be no problem. Even if it is a headache for everyone, the Qingmiao distribution money that will arrive will be resolved immediately. If you don’t pay, you will lend it to the merchants in need.

"Then let me talk about the Qingmiao Law. To be honest, it is a disguised tax increase to make money, so many people oppose it. In addition, it is levied based on the wealth and poverty of each household. The more money it has, the more people are levied. However, first-class households often have power. Usually, no taxes, two taxes, commercial taxes, miscellaneous taxes, and even scientific taxes can be handed over to the state. Besides, they forcibly levied Qingmiao loans to them. These people oppose it, and one person should be opposed by one thousand people, so it seems to be huge."

*Silk can counterattack, that is, the opponent is weak. When the opponent is strong enough, even if there are millions of tap water, it can also be easily killed in seconds.

This is the truth.

"But why does Your Majesty support it? It also has its advantages. You know a little bit about usury. We don't care about usury owed by traders because of gambling. However, many powerful people are using usury to issue usury when the poor people are in urgent need, and then force the poor people to sell their land to them, and even their families become their servants. When annexation reaches a certain point, the country will inevitably perish. Although the Qingmiao Law is making money, to a certain extent, it can at least prevent this bad trend from spreading. It is indeed a part of the hungry people who are also saved. Therefore, the powerful people oppose it and the government supports it."

"Although I am making money, my annual income is only more than four million RMB, and a family of less than 300 RMB, and the rich have a lot of levies, which is not very stressful for the poor. However, the national finance has always been in a difficult situation. If it weren't for financial difficulties, I wouldn't have the opportunity to sit here and talk to you now, but the army continues to go west. It is because of the financial pressure that I have to stop. So the official also silently looked at Mr. Jiefu's wealth."

It is about to be the turn of Qingmiao loans in Qingzhou. Wang Jude made it clear, otherwise there would be chaos under his jurisdiction.

Wang Ju said again: "When the Qingmiao in the court comes here, let the people choose their own way first, and let the rest be levied."

"But what to lend to Zuyang?" another official Cao asked.

This is also a problem. Now Wang Ju has some extra money in his hands, but it can be used to reward soldiers of the three armed forces. It can also be used to pay martyrs' families, or even rebuild their homes and build forts.

They can all be said to be barely reasonable, after all, Qingzhou is a military prefecture.

But moving out to lend money is unreasonable.

"It just so happens that what I'm talking about below. I heard that you have a dispute with the merchants for the sake of salt tax?"

In order to sell more green salt, Wang Ju sent people to secretly threaten in various prefectures that once the construction of the front-line fortresses is completed, you can't imagine that private salt will come to the Song Dynasty in the future.

If you open the new map, it seems like this.

Dozens of fortresses were built, almost blocking all intersections together, and even the Great Wall Ridge Road on the security guards was blocked.

It is actually impossible, and there will be private salt merchants coming in the future.

However, the front line is indeed building civil engineering, and this is also an opportunity to sell green salt openly.

Therefore, news of the front-line victory spread and many merchants rushed over to buy green salt.

This made Wang Ju feel a little regretful. Did he negotiate the price of salt lower? So he proposed to impose a salt tax.

I used to have no salt tax, so I bought salt bills. When I went to a designated location to sell, the salt merchant was still willing to pay the tax? I could buy salt bills instead of private salt. Even if I was worthy of the imperial court.

But that was money salt, now it was green salt, the salt I snatched out! Although they were both salt, their nature was different.

However, the salt tax is also very low. If you pay a tax on the tax and pass the tax, you can sell it in Huanqing Road. As for other places, it has nothing to do with Wang Ju.

And Wang Ju also has a saying...

This time the transaction volume is huge, and the distribution groups of income are also very diverse.

Therefore, Wang Ju made adjustments. For example, some of the officers and soldiers on Fuyan Road were Poche and foreign soldiers on the road, and some of them were forbidden soldiers from the capital. The most scientific method was to give some money and let the soldiers spend money, and some of them turned into goods and daily necessities to the soldiers' families. Especially the tens of thousands of Poche troops from Zheng Baiqu and the soldiers behind Huanqing Road, these goods were handed directly to the managers of each county, and Wang Ju then asked the managers to hand them to the family members of each soldiers, which in turn saved the transportation costs of merchants.

But it is only one aspect. Some of these salt profits are built forts and rebuilding their homes. Therefore, they do not require money, but various materials.

As for the people participating in the transportation, they also need various materials. Now Wang Ju uses materials to stimulate the people of Yanzhou to collect salt, so he needs more materials. Moreover, these materials are very complicated and it is impossible to get money and then buy various materials back in the back.

Therefore, part of the transaction was traded in exchange for salt, and the proportion was quite large.

In fact, it is money, and it is also troublesome. Money includes money, silver, copper coins and iron coins.

The King of Silver is the most popular, and in the future, the proportion of silver in taxes is also increasing. Now, the annual tax revenue of the imperial court accounts for more than 10 million taels.

But how many merchants are willing to trade with money?

However, the remaining three currencies or quasi-currencies are also a headache. Even copper coins, the prices of various types of copper coins are not equal. The copper coins issued during the Renzong period were far inferior to those issued during the Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Kuangyi period.

So Wang Ju asked Yanzhou merchants to help and asked them to send dozens of managers to assist in accounting.

However, the quantity is too large and complicated, and prices are fluctuating continuously.

It still allows various salt merchants to get loopholes from time to time, and reduces the cost of buying salt in disguise.

Everyone is helpless about this. The number is too large and it is hard to guard against it. There is no way to stop it. Besides, who can control the prices?

So after the introduction of the salt tax, all merchants rejected it. These officials were also unwilling to give up and asked, "Do you really pay twenty-two cents per kilogram of salt?"

Anyway, the rear is now quarreling about this matter.

Although officials are a strong group, they are embarrassed to quarrel when they encounter money. So when both sides meet opponents, they will basically tie the good enemy. But either the east wind will overwhelm the west wind, or the west wind will overwhelm the east wind, and the two winds cannot control each other, so how can it not rain?

Therefore, Wang Ju said again: "Do you think from another perspective? Qingzhou itself needs a large amount of supplies. Some are provided by the imperial court, and some are exchanged with green salt. If it is replaced by the government to buy it, with the dullness of the government and the huge quantity, it will be expensive to buy whatever you buy, and it will also delay time. Merchants make money, but we also save money."

This is a bit profound, but some officials still want to understand it.

"As for the increase in commercial tax, you can also explain to them. In fact, it is not much. You only pay a pound of salt for one cent, but after paying this pound of tax, you can sell it openly and with peace of mind."

What happened to this salt? I'm afraid that all the officials of the two prefectures and three departments in the capital now cannot explain it clearly, and these merchants cannot explain it clearly... Then they will feel a little guilty.

Then we can take advantage of their guilty mentality and make them willing to hand over the commercial tax.

"In addition, I'll say to them that I know they must be unwilling to give up, but actually letting them trade with materials instead of money is equivalent to saving them this one-cent tax for them in disguise. People should be content, and at least they should not be treated as a fool."

But this issue is not the focus of Wang Ju today. He continued: "In fact, it is not serious. Merchants themselves are pursuing profits. It is normal for them to argue and argue. But I want to say another thing. Because of the salt transportation, many people will be involved this time. This time will last a long time, maybe two months, or three months..."

In fact, it is equivalent to grabbing money.

The longer you stay, the better, but it is impossible to stay in Yanzhou all the time. Sooner or later, it depends on how the court negotiated with the three Xia envoys, or what Xixia had thoughts, so it is difficult to determine the time king.

"So many people will get a lot of wealth because of this. They cannot use all their income and use supplies to pay together. Therefore, it will take not long to take them, and they will gradually have a lot of extra money in their hands. But the goods they need are mostly obtained by exchanging goods for freight. Where will the remaining money go? There are only two places to go, one is used up, which causes prices in the entire Qingzhou to rise. The other is to hide it at home and even buried under the ground."

Everyone looked at each other, it was always like this, wasn't it right?

"Why can't we provide guidance, such as establishing a ministry department, or calling it the Gyeongju Development Fund."

The drama is about to be staged. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!