The An Tao incident did not attract much attention.

Most ministers just thought that An Tao had made a small move and was not a serious mistake.

Zhongshu's handling is almost equivalent to a transfer of the same level, and it is also not a serious punishment.

But everyone knows that this is the beginning.

Some people support it, some oppose it, and some people are preparing to move to a small bench to watch the fun...

Wang Ju thought nothing had happened.

Some merchants transported silk materials to the capital, and some people joined the Xin Machinery Alliance Company.

This weird name is Wang Juqi, and it cannot be said that it is inappropriate. They are indeed new machinery, indeed a super alliance, the court accounts for half, and each private person accounts for half.

In addition, Wang Ju asked the other side to demonstrate its interests in detail.

There is no need to worry about the imperial court invading these money. It has invested a lot, such as further research and development, as well as the construction and transformation of various workshops. This transformation action is quite large. It overturned almost all the original smelting and casting processes. It is necessary to build several new large workshops, namely factories, as well as subsequent material costs, promotion costs, operation capital, etc.

So I had to prepare for more than one million chunks of cost before.

However, there is one thing that once their processes are further mature, the court will adopt these new technologies to be used for instrument manufacturing or other aspects, but will not open another workshop to manufacture these new machinery and invest in the market to compete for the profits of this "company".

In addition, the court also has the obligation to keep these technologies confidential.

It is also explained that at the beginning, due to high prices and imperfect technology, the profit is limited, and the real profit is in the future.

Regarding this article, the Lubu also deliberately stated.

So although some people felt magical, they were scared away by these demonstration people's words.

But many people were still interested.

No one is a fool. If you set an example, how can you not understand its future?

Not only irrigation and drainage, but also textiles. In fact, in the past two years, some people have used the new loom in Zuyang to weave cotton. Even if the other side has not found the fine velvet cotton that is suitable for planting in the north and has been popularized gradually to the north. Now it has been popularized to almost the entire Fujian Road, Jiangnan West Road, and Jinghu South Road.

People regard food and clothing as the most important thing, and they occupy a cloth. How big is the prospect?

Besides, it has other uses, such as transportation, printing, etc.

And the threshold it joins is also relatively low.

Therefore, people began to participate one after another. The facts also proved that the court did not want to use it to make profits from merchants in disguise, and obtained the money invested in the first place. Later, the court began to build many workshops on the Bian River and the Wuzhang River outside the capital.

Then these merchants and gentry were invited to send supervisors to participate in construction and account management.

Then the court issued another edict, two clearly stipulated that the first one is that one tael of gold is equivalent to ten taels of silver, and one tael of silver is equivalent to two thousand silk.

This simple edict is to regulate the exchange ratio of gold and silver, and at the same time, the silk is handed over to gold and silver.

Regarding this aspect, the Song Dynasty was almost left alone before, so it was very chaotic.

For example, the price of gold and silver was equivalent to one tael of silver in the early Song Dynasty, and one tael of gold was equivalent to ten thousand people. However, with the surrender of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Fujian Kingdom, gold and silver in the south continued to come, and the price ratio of gold and silver fell accordingly. However, with the prosperity of the country's economy, the civilian gold and silver increased. A small amount of gold and silver flowed out, and the annual gifts to Liao and Xia countries, the price ratio of gold and silver immediately rose steadily.

However, different places are different from other places. Wang Ju did not propose to ban gold and silver before entering the city tax. One tael of silver in Guangnan is only equivalent to one thousand cents, while in some northern areas where gold and silver are scarce, one tael of silver can be equivalent to two thousand five hundred cents.

The court banned the tax on gold and silver entering the city. The price of silver in Guangnan was only about 1,500 ounces, while some areas in the north were still above 2,000 ounces.

Of course, that ban narrowed the gaps in various places and laid the foundation for today's norms.

This is the price of gold and silver, and the chaos of the currency itself.

For example, if the money is called one thousand coins, some areas are more than 770 yuan according to the court regulations, while some areas only have five or six hundred yuan, but it is impossible to mention eight or nine hundred yuan, because copper coins are becoming increasingly tense.

At the same time, there are also a large number of treasures and iron coins in circulation.

But we can't blame the Song Dynasty for not doing anything, so the currency comes. Or issue a large amount of paper payments, just like the Southern Song Dynasty. However, after issuing, there was no gold, silver and sufficient copper coins to cash out, and the credit fell sharply. Well, it became even more chaotic...

Therefore, do not link silk to copper coins, as it will become messy before it starts. Moreover, it is introduced to the market by using gold and silver as its principal.

Therefore, since this regulation was issued, it is equivalent to the uniform standardization of gold and silver and silk. As for various original currencies, such as normal copper coins, treasures, and iron coins, they can fluctuate on this basis.

In fact, once the bank department is successfully established in the future, after the silk exchange is issued to the public, all kinds of iron coins and treasures will be banned one by one, leaving only normal copper coins, and a safe cash rate must be set, that is, the cash rate with silk exchange floats between 90% and 120%.

But what cannot be said now is that the currency is still serious shortage, and the other is that there are too many iron coins among the people, so there is no big problem with treasures. This iron coins are the most troublesome.

Therefore, the second article stipulates that from now on, the money of a unified person must be equivalent to one thousand cents, no longer the seven hundred or ten cents of the past, and this one thousand cents only refer to normal copper coins and has nothing to do with iron coins.

That is, standardize the existing currency.

In fact, the banking department has a huge profit margin, that is, venture capital.

For example, if an industry with a promising prospect and its owner has the skills of operating, the bank can actively invest in it and wait for dividends in the future, which will be much higher than the so-called loan interest income.

There is also such a chaotic money market, which the court will know better than any merchant, so that funds can be withdrawn for speculation, which will also bring greater returns.

However, Wang Ju never said that.

The main thing is that no one understands it. If this kind of confused venture capital is done well, it can bring a lot of profits, but if it is not done well, it will also cause greater chaos.

Moreover, many scholars and officials will use this to make a fuss.

So Wang Ju didn't even say anything, just standardized it.

But there will be turbulence at the beginning, such as the bull.

Some time ago, an edict was issued that the large livestock would not be counted for households, and the court did not forcefully limit the price of plowing oxen, and the price of cattle rose in response to the news.

And even the court knew that the price of bulls below was rising. Some ministers were very worried.

Wang Ju only said one thing: the price of beef reaches 100 cents per pound, which refers to the average, and the actual price of beef in Beijing reaches 150 cents!

How much beef can a beef be taken? Besides, beef tendon and cowhide can also make profits.

So don't go on the Song Dynasty, it's the other side. The price of cattle by merchants to herders reached four or five jin of coins, and then pickled and sold to the Song Dynasty for profit. Therefore, on the one hand, the people were unwilling to raise cattle. On the other hand, many people raised cattle, and just after they were fattened, they died inexplicably, and then entered the people's dining table.

So for so many years, the Song Dynasty has been short of plowing oxen.

However, the population is increasing, and meticulous farming is inevitable. Without plowing oxen, how can meticulous farming be cultivated?

Therefore, if the people want to raise cattle on a large scale, they will not die inexplicably. Only like now is that they do not count large livestock into households, etc. Second, let the market determine the price of cattle, and Third, when the number of people on the other side is greater, the other side can bring more meat. Although it is a pickled product, it is also a supplement to the meat market in the Song Dynasty.

As for the fact that a cow had only four or five stag, it was against the market. Even when Wang Ju was an official in the local area, he directly violated this order and publicly purchased the ox at a higher price and handed it over to the people.

Everyone was speechless. This was a simple account, which everyone could calculate, beef, cow skin, beef tendon, and how about it, a cow could be sold for more than ten cents of money.

However, a live cow only has four or five stale coins. Can this prevent illegal businessmen from colluding with seniors from secretly killing cows for profit?

The prices of wood, bricks and lime are also rising.

Wang Ju welcomed this instead.

The prices of building materials such as bricks, tiles, limes and other construction materials have risen. However, after the banking department is officially established, a large number of brick kilns will be established and the prices can be suppressed.

As for wood, it is even more amazing. The higher the rise, the better it will force the people to build brick-shaped houses instead of wooden-shaped houses. At the same time, the price of wood increases, and maritime trade profits will also increase. Wang Ju brought back so much gold and silver on the other side, which really has no impact on the other side?

So these chaos are benign.

But it's just the beginning...

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Originally, Wang Jurang Zhao Du and the inner trunk managed the sugar workshop, Zhang Quanzhi and others managed the operation of the fleet and the other side.

The sugar workshop is a little better, but as the scale expands, the fleet operation and the other side begin to experience chaos. Therefore, a similar office has been set up in Mizhou, Hangzhou, Quanzhou and Guangzhou to inquire about prices in various places and be responsible for negotiating related businesses with inland merchants.

However, it was still very chaotic, and the court was curious and often sent people to inquire. So when Wang Ju reorganized the other side of Guangnan, he also reorganized maritime trade and banned these "offices" one by one, with a dedicated person responsible for operating and checking the accounts, and the specific trade was responsible for the person headed by each fleet.

In fact, this is equivalent to the current three-provincial system of the imperial court, which is made by the central government, reviewed by the subordinates, and implemented by the Secretary of State.

In fact, the management methods are almost the same, at most, the details and names are different.

As for this, we hired some packages to inquire about the market price. However, this is only an employment relationship, not a superior-level relationship. Not only in the four ports of the Song Dynasty, but also in some other countries, such as Japan, Goryeo, India and Dashi countries, we also hired some packages to inquire about the market.

In fact, as Zhao Du left the sugar workshop, only the so-called travel agencies were left in the inland. Once the travel agencies were transferred to the court, Wang Ju had only trade with the inland ports.

However, this is done step by step, not just a few packages of inquiries. After so many years of operation, the other side has become familiar with merchants in cities where the ports are located. In this case, the so-called office is not very effective, so it can be banned.

The Zhang Mu murder case happened in this context.

He is one of the several leaders of the fleet that came to Hangzhou Port this time.

Since they are the person in charge, they are all powerful generals under Wang Ju. Although they have not yet distributed a large amount of contract shares for distribution, Wang Ju has given these powerful generals a considerable salary, especially when the fleets trade, there must be a large amount of social engagements. Therefore, in addition to the salary, they also allocated a lot of money to deal with these social engagements and additional expenses.

As for whether it is enough, it depends on how much it costs.

If you have big hands, you can spend 100,000 yuan a year.

If you are hard and simple, dozens of trump cards a year will be enough.

So where is the biggest expense? First, buy a lot of luxury goods, and second, buy super luxury houses in various cities and raise many beautiful girls and servants.

However, these two things will not exist for these managers. For example, luxury goods, especially luxury goods from various distant countries, but because the sea fleet is controlled by itself, the actual price is not high. Moreover, Wang Ju will allocate a batch every year to sell it to the responsible persons at "internal prices". It is considered a benefit.

As for buying luxury houses in various cities and raising a large number of beautiful girls, who dares to do that?

However, Wang Ju encouraged them to spend as much as possible within the scope of the permit, such as food and visiting prostitutes.

You are all in charge of the internal affairs, but you are a very wealthy foreign customer.

As long as it is not that excessive, even if the expenses are too much, Wang Ju will allow it.

In fact, it is not only the person in charge, but also because they are floating on the sea. Therefore, the salaries of these captains, helmsmen and sailors are not low.
To be continued...