Chapter 1088 Mingrun save me

Xiao Xi felt that this thing was already the best, and couldn't help but wonder: "What should the real ice cream look like?"

Su You said: "The real ice cream should be one that can be attached to this small piece of wood. It can be eaten with one hand and has one hand free for riding horses. How can something without viscosity be called a cake?"

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Xiao Xi felt that Su You was right. Indeed, if you can't eat it, it can't be called a cake.

I heard Su You say again: "This Ruoye box is also superfluous. Just make a roll with flour and egg skin, put a spoonful of this on top, and eat the ice and snow and eat egg rolls, how beautiful?"

Xiao Xi was a little amused by Su You's sideways nose and cocky eyes. He had long heard that this boy was the number one food connoisseur in the Song Dynasty. It seemed that this rumor was true.

There is no one else out there who can be so picky about the food and preparations for a majestic prince of a country.

The two of them laughed and talked all the way as they gradually approached Zhouqiao Pier.

The Bianqu canal has abundant water power in June, and the first batch of water boats have arrived, transporting freshwater aquatic products processed from Liangzhe Road.

Canned anchovies, canned fish with black bean paste, and crab roe sauce are all popular in Beijing.

Today, the bulk cargo transported on the Bian Canal is mainly freshwater aquatic products in June, seafood in July, South China Sea transportation in August, Huai salt in September, and grain in October.

After that, it started in the opposite direction, coming from Luoyang, Xijing. In November, felt, wool, sheep fur, cowhide, and flour were sold; in December, the meat season entered.

January to May is the off-season for national reserve allocation, but businesses are busy again.

January is the time for workshops in Beijing to sign orders and prepare materials. Various production materials are shipped on the canal in large quantities. The main ones regulated by the state are coal and iron. Nowadays, various metals such as copper and tin are also added, as well as trisulfide and phosphate.

Alkali cement, potassium fertilizer and other materials.

The real off-season for logistics and transportation is almost March, but at that time the Bianhe River is full of flower boats for spring outings.

It is now the time to adjust warehouses at Bianhe Wharf, and all vendors are busy offering discounts and promotions to free up warehouses.

The sea gang has begun to be shipped from the South China Sea. It only takes ten and a half days to reach Hangzhou and Bianjing in early August, followed by the sea trade fair.

You really can't waste a day.

The fifty-meter-high Zhouqiao Wharf Bell Tower with a stained glass clock face is a major landmark of Bianjing City.

"There is a big bell tower in Bianjing, half of which is stuck in the sky." is a popular nursery rhyme in Bianjing today.

The biggest change at the pier is the dense spider web of rails on the ground.

The railway tracks of the Song Dynasty were first made of wooden rails covered with iron sheets, and later changed to cement-covered iron sheets, and then became n-shaped stamped pure rails. After that, the thickness became larger and larger, and there was a gradual trend of becoming solid rails.

This also witnessed from another perspective the leap process of steel production in the Song Dynasty from gradual change to qualitative change.

This year there is a road that will be the first real railway in the Song Dynasty.

In order to solve the problem of shipping congestion in the Bian River, half of the ships will be stationed at Chenliu, fifty miles east of the Song Dynasty.

A double-track horse-drawn railway will be erected between Bianjingzhouqiao Wharf Storage and Chenliu Wharf Storage.

The rails are nailed to the sleepers through spikes. One meter is 30 kilograms, and for 25 kilometers, 750 tons of steel will be consumed.

Calculated using the kilograms we are used to today, it is almost 1.5 million kilograms!

The steel that can arm an army of 300,000 people has only laid a section of railway of 50 miles!

This is also where the Liao Kingdom was satisfied with the Song Dynasty. In this country, steel was not used to strengthen the army, but to pave the ground. How cowardly!

But now Xiao Xi looked at the scene at Zhouqiao Wharf and felt a little jealous: "How can we in Daliao be so busy..."

Su You comforted him kindly: "Soon, now that the two countries have good relations, as long as trade is interconnected, your two southeastern capitals will soon be prosperous."

Xiao Xi almost fell off his horse: "Emperor Song...has the government agreed to our plan?!"

Su You nodded: "After you left the court yesterday, we discussed it for a long time. His Majesty agreed in principle, but the details need to be discussed patiently."

Xiao Xi was overjoyed: "It's finally done!"

Su You said patiently: "Your Majesty, don't be too happy too early. Trade, trade, mutual trade. Minister, there are really not many things that your country can use to trade with our country..."

"If you just have the idea of ​​exchanging the New Year coins for various goods of equivalent value, Brother Xiao is making a big mistake."

"I'm not a brother. I want to remind you of the infamy of being pro-Liao and anti-Song. It's really... forget it!"

After saying that, he pointed to the Zhou Bridge: "After passing this bridge, opposite is the Daxiangguo Temple. My colander likes to walk across this bridge with me holding him in his arms. The big steep arch is like climbing over a mountain. I giggle every time I go up and down.

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Xiao Xi was speechless at Su You's out-of-the-box thinking: "A colander?"

Su You smiled and said: "It's just a fishnet for fishing for soup cakes! But my little brother also has this nickname. It's easier to make a living with a nickname!"

"Ah? Hahaha..." Xiao Xi couldn't help but laugh: "Mingrun is a dignified girl, why did you give your child a... a... No, let's not talk about your second child. The previous paragraph, what?

What do you mean? Is there anything wrong with exchanging Sui coins for goods?"

"Ah? You really want to exchange the old coins for commercial goods?" Su You looked surprised: "Who proposed this plan to the Liao Emperor? Why didn't your emperor kill him?"

Xiao Xi broke into a cold sweat immediately: "Brother, what do you mean by this...what's wrong with this plan...what's wrong with this plan?"

Su You shook his head and sighed: "Brother Xiao, let me ask you, not counting silk and silk, there are still 250,000 gu of goods left, to whom do you sell them?"

Xiao Xi felt there was no problem: "The nobles of the court..."

"Well, the idea is correct. The rich and powerful must be the main consumers of these goods." Su You nodded: "Then what do they use to buy them?"

"Use...use..." Xiao Xi was suddenly shocked: "Oh, it was a mistake!"

Since the currency of the annual reward is gone, what are the bulk exchange items that the nobles can offer? Cattle, sheep and horses.

Horses could not be traded to the Song Dynasty. According to the imperial edict issued by Emperor Shengzong of the Liao Dynasty, the Liao people secretly sold a horse to the Song people and killed their entire family.

Of course, the kind of smuggling on the two islands cannot be counted, but now it is a national plan, and everything is on the table, so we cannot violate the ancestral system.

Cattle and sheep are useless. The problem of the Liao Emperor is not that there are too few cows and sheep, but that there are too many cows and sheep.

There are so many herdsmen across the country, supplying countless cattle and sheep every year. Is it necessary to replace the important annual income with cattle and sheep?

According to Xiao Xi's original intention, he and the Song Dynasty smuggled food to get quite fat, but he was also a politician and knew that eating alone would never end well.

Then I saw that the Song Dynasty goods in the five capitals were extremely expensive, so I really wanted to make a contribution and convert part of the economic benefits into political benefits.

If the 250,000 guan Sui coins that are not silk are exchanged for goods worth 500,000 guan in Daliao, wouldn't this be equivalent to increasing the sui coins from 500,000 guan to 750,000 guan all at once?

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Xiao Xi was a little stupid: "This... this should obviously be a good thing for both countries..."

"That's a good thing!" Su You agreed: "But there is a prerequisite, that is, you can sell these things in the Liao Kingdom, get back 500,000 copper coins, and complete the entire transaction process."

"Instead of being stuck in some middle link...waiting to die."

Xiao Xi's face suddenly turned pale.

Yelu Hongji has a very down-to-earth character. You can bring benefits to him, and he is also very generous and trusting to you. Yelu Yisun is an example.

But if you cheat him out of so much money... Yelu Hongji has such a violent temper that he can even kill his own uncle and the queen.

Su Mingrun probably didn't mean it, but the last sentence...

The speaker is unintentional and the listener is intentional. Yes, if this deal cannot be completed, it will be really... bah bah bah!

The two horses have reached the highest point of the Bianhezhou Bridge. The scenery on both sides is exceptionally beautiful. In the distance ahead is the Daxiangguo Temple, with its yellow glazed tiles showing the grandeur and splendor of the national temple.

However, Xiao Xi was no longer in the same mood as when he first went out in the morning. At this moment, he wished he could jump off the Zhouqiao Pier.

Su You smiled: "Brother Xiao, there is no need to be so panicked. I am just giving Brother Xiao a warning. In fact, there are many ways to solve this problem."

Xiao Xi suddenly realized that the person next to him was the top economic expert in the Song Dynasty today.

The largest trading organization and financial organization in the world today was the first one he integrated and formed.
Chapter completed!