October is winter, and the wind and snow hit, and the northern part of the Central Plains turned into a silver-white world overnight.

Zhao Gou looked at the snow-white roofs all over Bianjing City, and he was a little wooden.

As soon as winter begins, it will give him a feeling that the end of the year is coming!

And this means that another year has passed, and his time in this era has been shorter.

But the great cause has not been achieved, and the great cause has not been achieved! Zhao Gou once again lamented the shortness of time.

Although this kind of emotion has not been expressed once or twice in the past two years, his ability to withstand has long been improved.

Nowadays, there are more complaints!

"Your Majesty, the first minister of the sect is asking for a meeting!"

Zong Ze will die next year, and his successor Zhao Gou has also been selected, but Zhao will not try it.

Although he is not old, he is not "qualified"? More importantly, this person is hard-working and loyal, and his political philosophy is very consistent with Zhao Gou. Whether it is a series of internal changes or a step-by-step expansion to the outside world, he is definitely Zong Ze's perfect successor.

However, Zhao Bushi is currently working in Sichuan and Sichuan. If he wants to go to Beijing to take over, he will have to wait until next year.

"Prince!"

Zhao Gou withdrew his gaze and even his scattered thoughts became solemn because he knew what Zong Ze was going to report today.

"Old minister pays homage to Your Majesty."

When they saw each other, Zong Ze sat down on the chair that had been prepared long ago, reached out to take out a memorial from the cuff, and there was a man next to him who had chosen to pick him up and presented him to Zhao Gou.

"Your Majesty, the funds for each market department in autumn have been counted and verified, including gold, silver, copper coins, and various types of groceries, totaling 2.5 million guan." Zong Ze did not need to read the memorandum, but also said the data of each category without any mistake.

Zhao Gou was also very unhappy after hearing this number: "That's right. With these 2.5 million coins as a base, the annual revenue of the Maritime Manufacturing Corporation will be more than 12 million." This is not a small amount of money, which can fill many holes!

As for why the amount in the autumn season is only 2.5 million guan, while the annual revenue of the market is 12 million guan. That is because the current maritime trade is about time.

All year round, most Chinese maritime merchants set off for the South China Sea when the northeast monsoon prevails in autumn and winter, and then set off for the Southwest monsoon in the spring and summer of the following year.

This way, it is the most labor-saving and more convenient and safer.

If the foreign merchants want to come to China, they must follow this trajectory.

Otherwise, even the large sledge sailboats of Tianfang people would be difficult to cross the South Ocean smoothly when they were against the wind, even if the sea area of ​​the South Ocean seemed not big.

Therefore, autumn is the most leisurely time for the Maritime Bureau in the year, especially before the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the typhoon at sea was not extinguished, the trade ships of this era would not choose this time to set sail.

"This is all his Majesty's far-sighted vision and his maritime trade is indeed expected by the old minister."

Zong Ze has been an official in the inland for most of his life, and his official position is not very high. He naturally didn't know much about maritime trade at the beginning, and he was naturally not lofty in looking at problems.

Zhao Gou has now untied the shackles of the maritime merchants, and the official forces have fully withdrawn from the specific distribution of maritime trade items, and directly gave China and foreign trade a shot of chicken blood.

Because the huge free space represents huge trade profits.

The enthusiasm for private trade has increased significantly, and the benefits of both sides have increased significantly.

From the perspective of economic benefits alone, the continuous increase in trade volume between the two sides is a repeated correct development.

But when Zhao Gou made such a decision, he also suffered huge losses.

Without the "monopoly" of the Zhao Song government, and without the procedures of buying low and selling high, the loss of profit is calculated in a million yuan.

But now with the continuous prosperity of Sino-foreign trade, especially after the development of Nanyang, the annual amount can reach tens of millions of trump sums based on the import and export tariffs alone, which Zong Ze never expected at the beginning.

As the chief minister of the Zhao Song Empire and the prime minister of a country, Zong Ze was old, but his eyes were not at all blurred.

He knew very well the benefits of huge export trade to the entire empire.

A copper is held in the hand without flowers, and it will always be a copper plate. But when it is circulated, the energy it can bring in society can increase its own value ten times-

This is a truth that any qualified high school graduate in the 21st century can understand.

In recent years, Zhao Song's exports have been expanding. He can see clearly the huge driving effect of the inside from traditional silk porcelain to later pens, inkstones, medicinal materials, iron pots and small hardware equipment, as well as tea that gradually opened up its sales!

To fully talk about the development of maritime trade, the driving roles behind it should also be covered.

However, for Zhao Gou, those things are no longer needed to be told.

"What about the bank, what's going on now?"

The gold and silver mine on Sado Island is already under mining, and Zhao Gou has also ordered people to mint gold and silver coins. Then, according to the current ratio of gold and silver to copper coins, it will be distributed directly as salary.

But this is just an inconspicuous supporting measure, which can relieve the pressure of "money shortage" to some extent. Compared with the biggest role of banks in the Zhao Song Dynasty - money, it is not worth mentioning.

For most senior officials in the court, in their eyes, banks are a tool that makes a difference. One cent of reserves can easily print out two cents of money, and even without any consequences, it is not uncommon to print out two cents of money.

It can easily fill the financial holes in the court, and it can easily solve all the worries about money for the court.

In comparison, gold and silver coins are just a fresh gadget.

However, in Zhao Gou's plan, banks are the most indispensable financial intermediary in a country's economy.

Compared with the super power of banks to print money, Zhao Gou hopes to see its credit intermediary, payment intermediary and credit creation functions in the social economy.

In the past two years, he has been working hard on this point, concentrating idle funds in society into banks through reserve interest rates, and then investing limited funds in various economic fields in need through capital lending business to achieve multi-level adjustments to economic activities.

Moreover, through technical means such as watermarking and micro-engraving, absolute confidentiality to a certain extent has been achieved. The remote bill of exchange business has also begun.

In Zhao Gou's understanding, this kind of business can greatly promote business development.

Think about it, how inconvenient and unsafe for both parties to trade with a large amount of goods and copper coins?

If there is a bill of exchange, you only need to pay a low handling fee to withdraw money from another place and get home safely. How good is it?

But the fact is that this business is not going well.
Chapter completed!