"Dalang...What's going on in this Jiehe Market?"

Ji Yi and Ji Daren suddenly spoke, interrupting Wu Haogu, who was about to talk about Jiehe Commercial City's plan.

The relationship between Jiehe Commercial Market and the shareholders of the Republican Bank is very unusual, because most of the shareholders of the Republican Bank are preparing to invest in Jiehe Commercial Market under the lobbying of Wu Haogu. Ji Yi, who asked the question, has agreed to invest in the shares before, but this Ji Daguan is from a maritime business family and is quite familiar with the lawlessness of merchants. Therefore, when he was reviewing the books of sages at home, he always felt that something was wrong!

Merchants were originally profit-oriented, and the maritime merchants had a more lawless (historically, Venice, Genoa, and the Dutch, the early capitalist free states and union provinces, were all lawless maritime merchants), and they also had to absorb a group of frustrated children of the Liao family. What good people can those children of the Liao family have? Either Khitan barbarians or Yanyun soldiers--Ji Yi, who had been walking around the Liao country for a long time, has already figured out the details of the Yanyun family, and these people are not at all.

What kind of family is it? It is not a family, but a soldier! Most of them are descendants of the Youzhou Zhenya Bing Group of Five Dynasties in the Tang Dynasty! Some are descendants of other soldiers who were slightly back when the Liao Kingdom invaded the Central Plains in their early years. They obtained the privilege of selecting officials from the Liao Kingdom, but most of them still hold military positions, and they are actually a group of soldiers and generals. To put it bluntly, a group of barbarian warriors who were not disciplined read a little and then became a family of families. It has a very meaning of being a monkey-like man.

Jiehe Merchants City actually wanted to bring together the lawless maritime merchants, the barbaric and vicious Liao family, and perhaps some unknown slaves! And it was not strictly controlled... What exactly did this want to do?

Wu Haogu pondered for a while and replied: "The Jiehe Market was established to deal with the sudden changes of the Liao Kingdom in the future. I remembered that the Liao Kingdom had been in trouble for several months. I should know that the Liao Kingdom's confidant had collapsed and the chaos was only 10 or 20 years, right?"

Ji Yi thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "But Jiehe Commercial City is autonomous by the Chamber of Commerce, it is always inappropriate."

"Well?"

Wu Haogu couldn't help but say, "Why is it inappropriate?"

"Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce are the last.

Moreover, merchants are profit-oriented and have little knowledge of loyalty and righteousness, and do not have much intention of serving the country. If the market is dominated by industry and commerce, the court will probably not be used for the purpose of resuscitation of Yan in the future when the court is in the north to restore Yan, but will be a constraint.

So there is something wrong with Jiehe Market."

Ji Yi's words surprised Wu Haogu. Isn't the Ji family a maritime merchant family? Isn't Ji Yi himself a businessman? Why do you seem to have been cheated by some kind of profiteer?

“Brother Yizhi means…”

"There must be a time limit for the commerce to govern the market."

"Time limit? How long is it?"

"Ten years." Ji Yi said, "After the completion of Jiehe Shang City, the businessmen's investment should be rewarded with great success, and then it would be better to become a prefecture and county of the court."

"Ten years?"

Wu Haogu heard what Ji Yi said, frowned slightly. Ji Yi was not a pedantic person, and was born as a wealthy businessman, so she didn't want to see a city dominated by merchants appear. It seems that this businessman is really unpopular.

"Ten years are too short!" Wu Haogu shook his head, "Twenty years will last, and another five years will be completed, a total of twenty-five years."

This year is 1099. If the agreement can be signed within the year, the construction project will be almost done next year. With another 25 years, it will be 1125. By then, Xuan and the Northern Expedition have been played. If the Liao Kingdom is really defeated and reclaimed the land of Yanyun, Jiehe Commercial City will only become a prefecture and county.

The bourgeois free country, a beast, should be put in a cage!

If the Song Dynasty was still the same... By 1125 (the seventh year of Xuanhe), the Jin army would divide the east and west routes to attack the Song Dynasty. I am afraid no one would take Jiehe Shangshi and Kaifeng Prefecture to take it seriously.

"It's a little longer than 25 years..." Ji Yi thought about it, "But it's better than being self-governed forever." He looked at Wu Haogu, "Dalang, you and I are both from merchants, and we should know that industry and commerce can never bear great responsibilities. Merchants are profit-oriented, and workers gather together. It's not easy to control them. If the Jiehe Shang City gathers 100,000 people and there are no imperial officials to suppress them, it's easy to cause trouble."

His words are not unreasonable, and later history also proved this. The cities with industrial and commercial classes gathered always had a huge threat to feudal rulers.

If such a city does not have a strong bureaucratic army to suppress it, it will only take a while to have an accident!

"I know," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "The market naturally needs to be managed. Although the court is not good for directly garrisoning troops, it is only necessary to change the name to allow hundreds or thousands of Kaifeng imperial guards to enter."

It is certain that Kaifeng Imperial Army has entered Jiehe Commercial Market! After all, many of the shareholders of Jiehe Commercial Market are from Kaifeng Generals!

"This must be available, at least 1,000 Kaifeng Imperial Forces, so as to ensure that there is no worry."

Can the combat power of the Kaifeng Imperial Army suppress a modern military academy?

Wu Haogu was having a big question in his heart, but he kept echoing in his face: "It's okay, after all, there are Hebei imperial guards nearby.

In addition, I plan to dig a trench around Jiehe Shang City to separate it from the land in Cangzhou, and then set up a maritime checkpoint and strictly guard it."

"Yes, that's what it should be."

Ji Yi nodded repeatedly, and most of the worries in her heart were dispersed. 1,000 soldiers were secretly stationed in the Shang City, and thousands of elite Hebei imperial guards were placed outside the Shang City, which would be a big deal.

"What about the daily public security in the shopping mall?" Su Dalang interrupted and asked, "Is it under the control of Kaifeng's imperial guards?"

"That's not possible," Wu Haogu shook his head, "How can the imperial guards manage this? They have to set up offices such as the police patrol, water police, refereeship, city taxation, real estate, school affairs, construction affairs, and sweeping. There must be a general office for the Zhishi Municipal Administration. The Zhishi Municipal Administration is elected by the Chamber of Commerce, and the officials of each official will be nominated by the Zhishi Municipal Administration and recognized by the Chamber of Commerce. The first Zhishi Municipal Administration will be appointed by me."

Wu Haogu came in accordance with the name of the city management agency in later generations and was preparing to establish a municipal government, while the chamber of commerce would become a municipal council - it was the highest authority, but it did not engage in judicial independence because there was no law now!

As for the first Zhishi, because the market itself was still in the process of creating, it was impossible to follow the principle of republic, so Wu Haogu could only come by himself. Moreover, the official Zhao Xu also gave him a name that also managed Jiehe Market, so Wu Haogu certainly refused to give in.

"Is the laws carried out by the market the same as those carried out in the Song Dynasty?" Ji Yi thought of the issue of legislation again at this time.

"Different." Wuhao Ancient Road, "If it is the same, the market will not be built."

“How is it different?”

"The biggest difference is that there are slaves in the market and freedom in the market."

"Freedom?" Ji Yi asked, "Is it because of her own intention?"

"Yes," Wu Hao Gudao, "It's not because of external forces, it's your own decision."

Ji Yi asked in confusion: "How come slaves and freedom are put together?"

"The free is free, and the slave is slave." Wu Haogu said lightly, "The market is a place where freedom is not equal, so freedom is not something that is born as a human being!"

Free City is not a place where everyone is free! Otherwise, how to do the business of spending money to buy prisoners of war? Now, buy more barbarian slaves from the north, and in the future, there will be less barbarian warriors when the Jurchen invades the south. If the training is done properly, there will be one more "Mamruk" to defend Free City in the future. Moreover, there will be many projects to be done in the Free City, which requires a large army of slave laborers.

In addition, the Song people may also become contract slaves in the free market. The way of hiring contract slaves was very common in the Song Dynasty. Most of the "low-end positions" that needed to work in other places were used contract slaves. If it were not for a large "slave labor contract" that paid a large amount of settlement fees in advance, who would go out to work with you hundreds or thousands of miles? If you want to hire a large number of free workers, only in cities with developed and populated populations can this be possible.

So in Lighthouse Free City or overseas colonies that may appear in the future, indentured slaves are necessary. If there is no indentured slave, you don’t have even a sailor! Don’t think about going to sea...

Therefore, the bourgeois free market that Wu Haogu was going to establish is an evil city from the inside out, with blood and dirty things dripping in every place, and it will also give birth to even more evil militarism!

"Who decides the laws of the market?"

Ji Yi finally asked a very sensitive question!

Who is the legislative power of the commercial city?

If the legislative power belongs to the court, then the market will not be opened. Just a legislative issue can be discussed for decades, and there will be no discussion in the Southern Song Dynasty.

If Wu Haogu said that the legislative power belongs to the chamber of commerce, then the market will definitely be difficult to produce!

Wuhao Ancient Road: "The commercial laws of the commercial city were drafted by the Chamber of Commerce and were personally approved by the official imperial writer."

Ji Yi asked: "The internal order is issued?"

"Yes! It's just a surrender."

The so-called internal surrender is an edict issued directly by the emperor from the palace. The full name is an edict of internal surrender, a letter of internal surrender, a command of internal surrender, and a written word of internal surrender. In addition, there are some alias of internal surrender, such as central edict, internal approval, imperial edict, imperial letter, imperial pen, etc. These internal surrenders have a common feature, which is that they are directly issued without being reviewed by the Secretary of the Central Committee and the Privy Council. According to the convention of the Song Dynasty, this internal surrender is illegal in principle.

However, it is not absolute. As long as the ministers do not resist, the Hanlin scholars do not refuse to be drafted, and internal surrender can also become a special legal edict.

The reason why Wu Haogu came up with an internal edict to approve the commercial laws of the Shang and the city was to set a precedent - Zhang Dun, who is in power now, would naturally allow the Shang and the city to handle special laws. However, after Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty came to power in the future, if the affairs of the Shang and the city were discussed by the two governments, Wu Haogu would have a big headache. At the end of the discussion, Guan and Zhang Daji were not sure.
Chapter completed!