Guangnan East Road, Guangzhou Prefecture Xinhui County Supervisor Town Dunn. Looking at the conspicuous words on the sticker, Zhao Xin showed a smile.
"My third envoy, you are really struggling to make progress now!"
Guangnan East Road was Guangdong in later generations, while Xinhui was the core of Chaoshan.
This place has been home to countless adventurers since ancient times, and it was especially prosperous in the Song Dynasty.
The Xinhui Deng family is the best among these people.
Zhao Xin thought of the autobiography of the three envoys in his previous life: Chen Zu, his fellow countrymen Wang An, Guangzhou Li Quan, etc., sent out two ships and paid 130,000 tangerine peels and 200 shi as the basis, and they formed a fighting knot.
At the age of ten, the profit was a hundredfold, so he was delighted, bought another big ship, and hired more villagers...
When I met my father, I inherited the business and continued to protect my ancestral property, as promised. When I was born, my family's property already amounted to three hundred thousand yuan!
Douniu is a form of business alliance in the Song Dynasty.
Its general form is that ten people form an alliance, each contributes capital, labor and goods, signs a contract and guarantees it, and asks the government to notarize it and make it a document.
Therefore, ten people hold this principal and take turns to be the banker every year, doing business and making profits. At the end of the year, they will settle the accounts and distribute dividends.
Nowadays, most tea merchants, salt merchants, and silk silk merchants in the Song Dynasty use this method to operate.
Because if you don’t do this, you won’t be able to do much business.
No matter how powerful one person is, how can he beat ten people working together?
It should be noted that there are local snakes, shrewd businessmen, and the children of high-ranking officials in all fights.
People from both the underworld and the white world can enjoy it.
As a result, in the feudal society of the Northern Song Dynasty, countless prototypes of later joint-stock companies appeared.
From Guangzhou to Damingfu, from Yizhou to Guangnan.
Douniu are blooming everywhere, and the prosperity is incredible.
In addition to Dou Niu, Zhao Xin also knew that the earliest futures trading should also appear now.
This was created by merchants on Fujian Road and Southwest Guangnan to sell lychees and longans.
Because these two commodities are so popular that demand exceeds supply, in order to seize farmers' lychees and longans in advance, these smart people bring money directly to farmers' homes every year when lychees and longans bloom, and follow the instructions of lychees and longans.
The flowering status of the longan tree is used to estimate its yield, and then a deed is signed, a deposit is paid, and the entire yield of these lychee and longan trees this year is calculated.
Not only in business, but also in civil affairs, agriculture and even military affairs, partners appeared in the Song Dynasty.
For example, farmers at the bottom, several or more than a dozen households, enter into a bond and contract to purchase cattle and farming tools together, and share their use and profits.
If the archers along the border don't have money to buy horses, then a dozen families of people in the same situation will form a society to buy horses.
Even the government engaged in this kind of thing. In the Song Dynasty, official land was leased to civilian households. They also made contracts with the civilian households and set various provisions to agree on how much rent to pay according to the output. If it exceeded a certain standard, there would be advantages.
Free and rewards.
In Zhao Xin's previous life, in the middle of his reign, the Song Dynasty even had the earliest professional manager Gan Ren.
but……
There must be a but in everything.
During the Song Dynasty, commerce was indeed developed, cities were prosperous, and trade was at its peak.
However……
After all, the Northern Song Dynasty was a unified and centralized feudal dynasty!
Officials are the real masters of this country.
Moreover, after experiencing the chaos from the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties, scholar-bureaucrats paid special attention to centralization of power.
Almost all scholar-bureaucrats believed that the chaos in the Five Dynasties was the result of the lack of authority of the central government.
Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, the central government controlled all power.
Not only political power and military power, but also economic power!
Therefore, commerce in the Song Dynasty could develop, handicrafts could develop, and cities could prosper.
However, the big merchants would beat each one to death when they saw one, or in other words, they would tuck one into wool until they were swathed to death!
It is not easy for an official to kill a mere private businessman.
During the reign of Taizu, the general Li Hanchao was guarding the border. Li Hanchao was greedy and lustful. As soon as he arrived at the border, he would herd sheep and act arrogantly and do evil.
So, he kidnapped the daughter of a big local businessman as his concubine and forced the latter to lend a large sum of money to Li Hanchao.
The sufferer couldn't bear it anymore, so he went to Beijing to file a lawsuit against the emperor, and the lawsuit was brought before the emperor.
Guess what Song Taizu did?
The answer is not processed at all!
Song Taizu only asked the suffering master two questions at that time.
First: When Li Hanchao was away, did the Liao people often invade, and you were so worried that you couldn't sleep day and night?
The answer is: yes.
So Song Taizu scolded the sufferer on the spot: Han Chao is my general and has made great contributions to the country. What's wrong with him lending you some money now? Ah! Besides, it is your blessing that your daughter can be Li Hanchao's concubine.
.Why don’t you cherish it?
What else can the sufferer say?
Although later, Song Taizu secretly summoned Li Hanchao and secretly ordered him to pay back the money to his daughter.
Naturally, you can think of it with your buttocks, and Li Hanchao will definitely do it. Likewise, you can think of the fate of the sufferer with your buttocks.
Li Hanchao was a military general, but he looked ugly.
But the civil servants are not much better.
Liu Pan, a famous minister of Taizong, supervised the tea tax in Huainan and invented his own fishing law enforcement technology. He often disguised himself as a businessman and went to the homes of local farmers and merchants to discuss business.
The moment the money and goods were delivered, the officials who had been waiting in ambush swarmed in and arrested the owner. Sorry, you have broken the law!
Because private trade in tea was prohibited in the Northern Song Dynasty.
During the reign of Zhenzong, Lin Te, the deputy envoy of salt and iron, presided over the reform of the tea law, which suppressed the profits of tea merchants overnight to less than 10% of the original value. Countless merchants went bankrupt, but Lin Te relied on this only temporary benefit, but it was actually a public and private enterprise.
The tea method of two evils turned the color of his robe into purple.
Salt merchants are even worse!
This is because national regulations change at any time.
But the worst offenders are Oritos, because the state often conscripts and forcibly buys their people and products.
Under the government, apart from those close to the emperor and the nobles, what do ordinary people fight with? How do they fight?
Therefore, the other side of the prosperity of business and private economy in the Northern Song Dynasty was the pervasive supervision and exfiltration under official power.
Small business is okay, but once the business becomes big, unfortunately, if the backer is not strong enough, you will immediately find countless people reaching out to you.
Catching a sheep to death is a characteristic of the Song Dynasty.
Naturally, the struggle between the Deng family and his partners became bigger, and countless people came to the rescue.
Some people even don't want wool for mattresses, and want to simply kill the goose and get the eggs, so that they can have a good time.
Fortunately, the Deng family and his friends were lucky. They met a good official who was a doctor in the Ministry of Industry. Duan Shaolian, the minister of Tianzhang Pavilion, happened to be dismissed from Guangzhou.
Duan Shaolian is fair, strict, honest, and his style is simple and serious.
Naturally, he couldn't stand such dirty things, so he decisively called for a stop, thus saving the Deng family from this catastrophe!
However, this incident also awakened Dunn and made him understand a truth. In this world, money is not everything, but power is everything!
Therefore, he decisively took the road of accepting grain as an official, and then embarked on a long road to seek official positions.
In Zhao Xin's previous life, this extremely capable official spent twenty years and countless money before he finally became a Beijing official.
But at that time, he was already fifty-six years old.
Then, he met Zhao Xin, who had just ascended the throne and intended to open up overseas trade channels and earn overseas money to enrich the national treasury.
As soon as the monarch and his ministers met, they immediately clicked together.
In three years, Dunn established a complete and efficient trading system for Zhao Xin in Guangzhou and Quanzhou, and established multiple state-owned merchant fleets.
Five years later, Dunn moved to the left to serve as deputy envoy of the third division, and was finally appointed as the third division envoy. He became a direct bachelor of Longtuge. When he became an official at the age of sixty-nine, he
Presented to the Crown Prince, Grand Master of the School, Grand Master of Zizhengdian Palace, he passed away at the age of seventy-three, and was posthumously awarded the title of Duke Shu Guogong, with the posthumous title of Wenzhuang.
But now, this official fan in his previous life is also the minister who knows best about maritime commerce and overseas trade around Zhao Xin. He is only in his thirties now, and he is in the prime of life.
After thinking for a moment, Zhao Xin passed her eyes over Dunn's name.
If jade is not polished, it cannot be made into a weapon, and if it does not experience suffering, how can Deng En know what God's grace is?
Zhao Xin is no longer the stupid young man who first came to the throne in his previous life.
He has seen through the human heart and human nature.
Know that rash promotion or intervention is not helping Dunn, but harming him!
It’s not good to overthrow the seedlings and encourage them to grow!
And compared to Dunn, Zhao Xin is obviously more concerned about the people on this three-color roster and the other two rosters.
So, Zhao Xin waved her hand, called Fu Bi in front of her, and asked, "Seriously, when will the written and personal judgments of the selected candidates begin?"
"It will be tomorrow..." Fu Bi bowed and replied, and then asked: "I don't know if the Duke of the country can teach me the virtues of virtue?"