The yamen runners and clerks were a little funny to see Ge Shaohua busy. Anyway, this has happened in the past few years, and there has been no big trouble.

With Ge Shaohua writing to Wang Ju.

It was Wang Ju's order to sell a favor to the court before, and four ships were transported, both of which were four ships, but most of the ships would be rewarded this year.

Ge Shaohua wrote to the court in the name of a maritime merchant, saying that overseas people also needed to trade, but lacked copper coins, and maritime merchants did not dare to mint coins privately, so they transported four ships of copper to exchange for copper coins with the court.

The copper coins of the Song Dynasty were not cast pure copper, but alloys, including lead, tin and copper. Lead and tin were not worth much in the Song Dynasty, so using existing copper to exchange coins would also make the court profitable. This shows that maritime merchants are good citizens who abide by laws and regulations, so there is no need to be so suspicious.

However, there were too many people, Ge Shaohua was still very worried. Wang Ju asked Ge Shaohua to write to the court again, and each sea merchant used his "separate" sea ships as collateral to lend silk worth 5 million knots from the court, which was repaid for two years, and was willing to pay two cents of interest every year. That is, two years later, the court made another two million knots.

After seeing the memorial, Zhao Xu was puzzled. These maritime merchants had money, and they could not afford to donate millions of chunks of high-priced grain. Why were they short of money?

So the ministers of the two prefectures and three ministries were called to discuss.

Everyone agreed together, this is called lending, why bother to collect the young people’s loans? It’s a fool to have money but not make money.

But they didn't understand why these bananas borrowed money.

As a result, the silk was borrowed and transported to Lingnan together to raise military expenses for Wang Ju.

Do such maritime businessmen still need to be guarded against?

Isn’t it just to migrate some extremely poor people? Besides, a few years later, it was handed over to the court to manage one after another. No matter how the court manages it, it proves that they do not have the intention of becoming an overseas king.

However, because of the court's favor, how many good deeds did these maritime merchants do and how many difficulties did they help the court overcome?

Many ministers still agreed, especially Li Changjie's poem spread, and even the gentle ministers were angry.

But when fighting, money has to be used. To date, Wang Ju has not embezzled money from the court. However, how much fiscal revenue can Guangdong and Guangxi have? This is undoubtedly saving a lot of military expenditure for the court.

However, some ministers became even more worried. Wang Ju’s position in the minds of these maritime merchants was too high. Therefore, with this conversation between Wu Chong, it is impossible to say that people are scattered. If they are gathered together, and the people stranded in Quanzhou this year who are ready to migrate overseas can establish a small and medium-sized country. Moreover, there is next year and the next year...

Even a few conservative ministers who were disgusted with Wang Ju threatened that Quanzhou maritime merchants said this year that there was insufficient food to raise, which was intentional. The court was waiting for this batch of food to rescue the disaster, and because of insufficient food, many people starved to death. In this way, large-scale people were forced to migrate overseas.

But no one takes this seriously. They are doing righteous deeds, paying taxes and paying taxes. Do they really owe the imperial court food?

Grain merchants and major owners with food are all there, and they are hoarding food. If they have the ability to donate food, they will not starve to death!

Zhao Xu disdained this statement and denounced several ministers who wrote to the letter. However, it was inevitable that he would have some suspicion. What he wanted was a minister, rather than an overseas king.
Chapter completed!