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Guo Song laughed, unexpectedly meeting him in the West Market. He smiled at Zhang Qianyi and said, "Come over and sit down!"
Zhang Qianyi is a smart man. The relationship between King Jin and the Dugu family is unusual. It is best not to be around when they are talking.
"Your Majesty, please go down! Weichen would like to take this opportunity to learn more about the comparison between cotton and other silk, linen and velvet products."
Guo Song nodded, and without forcing Zhang Qianyi, he got off the carriage and came to Dugu Changqiu.
"Why is Qiu Weng here?"
Qiu Weng is the name Dugu Youlan calls his second grandfather, and Guo Song also calls him his wife.
Dugu Changqiu was very happy, "There is also a store here. I wasn't too worried, so I came over to take a look. It just felt like His Highness's carriage. It's really good!"
"Does that cotton shop belong to the Dugu family?" Guo Song glanced at the long line of cotton shops and asked with a smile.
Dugu Changqiu said with a proud smile: "Apart from the Dugu family, who else can sell cotton so openly."
This is also true. The three major cotton merchants in Chang'an are the Dugu family, the Dou family, and the Zhang family. The Zhang family is Zhang Lei. His wife Li Wenyu was the first to engage in the cotton business. However, she did not buy the land herself, but invested in government affairs.
With 100,000 yuan, she signed a long-term affordable supply contract with Anxi, and then all the military's cotton-padded clothes and cotton sleeping bags were left to her.
Li Wenyu has a quilt workshop in Xinfeng County, which employs 2,000 female workers, specializing in sewing cotton-padded clothes and marching sleeping bags for the army. In addition, the government supplies her with 50,000 tons of cotton at a price of 300 cents per catty every year, which she uses for two years.
The investment of 100,000 yuan was recovered in time. She also had her own cotton ginning workshop in Zhangye, using animal power to ginning cotton.
But Li Wenyu does not sell cotton in bulk. She only sells cotton wadding or finished cotton clothes. Her market is in Chang'an, Guanzhong and Jiangnan, while the business of another large cotton merchant, the Dou family, is mainly in Hedong and Bashu.
The Dugu family has the largest cotton field and the largest harvest every year. They are indeed confident in selling cotton directly, and there are markets all over the place.
There is actually a kind of commercial competition implicit in this. The Dugu family and the Zhang family are competing for the Chang'an market. In terms of cost, the Dugu family owns their own cotton fields and seems to have a great advantage.
But the cotton had to be picked by someone, transported thousands of miles to Chang'an, and then handed over to the Houmo and Chen family for ginning. Calculated, it cost two to three hundred cash per catty, which was about the same as the Zhang family's cost.
If they shop at low prices, the Dugu family's cotton can indeed squeeze out the Zhang family and monopolize the Chang'an market due to its large quantity.
But the problem is that the Dugu family also knows that the cotton feast will not last long. Once cotton is promoted in the mainland, their high-profit era will be over, so no one is willing to engage in price wars. The most is differentiated operations, such as the Zhang family
They only sell finished products, while the Dugu family sells loose cotton.
Dugu Changqiu directly invited Guo Song to sit on the second floor of the shop, and the tea boy served them hot tea.
"General Zhou has visited Doulu Guangyuan, and he has gained a lot. Thank you Qiu Weng for your help!"
Dugu Changqiu waved his hand, "The forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds. It is normal for the Guanlong family to have some scum. I just hope that the reputation of the Guanlong family will not be ruined by a few families."
Guo Song smiled lightly and said: "That's not true. The Guanlong family is not a power group in the first place. Each family has its own interests. If it is really a power group, the imperial court will not tolerate it."
Dugu Changqiu wished he could slap himself in the face and secretly cursed himself for not being able to speak. He quickly said: "The Guanlong family was indeed a power group at the end of the Sui Dynasty, but after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the power group was disbanded. After the Jingyuan mutiny,
, everyone set up the Guanlong Society in Chengdu in order to stay together for warmth, but returning to Chang'an was another turning point. After everyone returned to Chang'an, the Guanlong Society existed in name only.
Everyone gathers together to either remember their ancestors or discuss ways to make money. No one dares to talk about current affairs for fear of being betrayed if they turn around. Now, just because of centuries of friendship, the relationship between the families is relatively good. The Dugu family
An important reason why I have always been able to become a leader is that the Dugu family is the only one involved in politics, and everyone hopes to get help from the Dugu family."
Guo Song smiled slightly and said: "Qiu Weng doesn't need to explain it deliberately. The imperial court has a clear understanding of the situation of the Guanlong family. So far, each family has developed in the direction the imperial court wants, developing commerce and workshops, rather than
He did a good job of hoarding land and expanding his estate."
Dugu Changqiu asked tentatively: "There are rumors that the imperial court is going to clean up large estates in various places. Is it true?"
Guo Song nodded and said with a smile: "It depends on how you understand the word "clean up". The court must be reasonable. Everyone bought the land with real money. It is impossible to confiscate it directly. That would cause huge trouble."
"So what exactly does cleaning mean?"
"The imperial court really wants to impose heavy taxes on abandoned manors in various places except Anxi, Beiting and Fengzhou. Of course, the premise is that the manor is purchased legally. If it is a manor that has been forcibly acquired or a manor owned by Zhu Si, it will be confiscated directly. There is nothing to say.
Yes, the reason why heavy taxes are imposed is not on farmland, but on idle land. If we occupy 10,000 acres of fertile land but do not cultivate it, then we will have to pay five or ten times more tax!"
Dugu Changqiu was startled, "Then there must be no one who would leave the land idle."
"That's not necessarily the case. In the future, many young people will go to work in the city to earn more money. The farmers who stay on the land will also have their own land. If they want to rent land, they would rather rent the government's tax-free land. I'm afraid there will be no one."
If you are no longer willing to be exploited as a tenant and cannot recruit people to farm the land, should the manor owner farm the land yourself? If the land is left uncultivated, you will have to pay heavy taxes. What will happen in the end?"
Dugu Changqiu sighed. "In the end we have to sell the manor, but who can take over so much land?"
"In the end, the government will definitely take over and turn the manor into official land."
Dugu Changqiu was silent. The Dugu family had a manor each in Chang'an, Bashu and Jiangnan, with more than 20,000 acres of fertile land. It seemed that they would take action as soon as possible.
"Are the previous conflicts of the Dugu family still there?" Guo Song asked with concern.
The conflict within the Dugu family is mainly the conflict between Dugu Dashi, the third brother of Dugu Qiu, and Dugu Yuanqiu, the fourth brother. The conflict between them is not a personal conflict, but a conflict in the family line. Dugu Dashi is a well-known conservative and advocates the restoration of the Li family.
In the Tang Dynasty, he advocated uniting the Guanlong family, so he was relatively resistant to the court of Guo and Song, and had a cold attitude towards Guo and Song, and never interacted with them.
But Dugu Yuanqiu was unambiguous on this issue. He insisted on following the path of his elder brother Dugu Yuanqiu, opposed the conservative-minded Dugu Dashi to become the head of the family, and demanded that his eldest son Dugu Mingren should succeed his father as the head of the family.
Therefore, the relationship between Dugu Yuanqiu and Dugu Dashi is extremely bad, and they quarrel whenever they meet. Although Dugu Changqiu supports his fourth brother Dugu Yuanqiu, he does not like the conservative-minded third brother Dugu Dashi, but he considers the unity of the family and does not want the family to
They were divided, so he tried his best to mediate in the middle.
In the end, although it was King Guo Song of Jin who made the decision, Dugu Dashi would first serve as the head of the family for five years, and then give it to Dugu Mingren, thus resolving the dispute as the head of the family, but this did not ease the conflict between Dugu Yuanqiu and Dugu Dashi.
Dugu Changqiu showed distress on his face, shook his head and said: "They have deep conflicts. The fourth child simply ignores the family leader's orders. The third child is very angry with him. What I am most worried about now is what to do during the New Year's ancestor worship? Dashi
I want to hold a big sacrifice and take advantage of the opportunity of ancestor worship to establish my authority, but the fourth child will definitely resist it. Your Highness, I am very worried that the two of them will completely fall out over this and the family will split."
After saying that, Dugu Changqiu sighed helplessly, he was really worried to the extreme.
Guo Song pondered for a moment and asked: "Who does Dugu's other house support?"
"Both sides have similar supporters. I have been thinking hard about how to avoid conflicts during clan sacrifices."
"Is there any way?" Guo Song asked.
"The only way is to change the big sacrifice into a small one, that is, each house offers sacrifices to each house. Generally, a big sacrifice is held every five years. This year is the third year. Logically, there should be no big sacrifice, but according to the clan rules, if the new head of the family is appointed,
If the head of the family requests it, the family can hold a big ceremony."
Guo Song paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his hands. He did not want to interfere in the internal affairs of the Dugu family, but he also did not want to see the division of the Dugu family, especially since it had only been a few years since he took the next step. At this critical moment, he even
He needs the stability of the Dugu family and loyalty to himself.
Dugu Dashi is just a transitional person. Guo Song also knows that Dugu Dashi is conservative and is a very stubborn pro-Tang faction. It doesn't matter that Dugu Dashi himself is conservative, but he cannot affect the Dugu family. He must not let Dugu Dashi, who is just a transitional family head, become him.
stumbling block.
Thinking of this, Guo Song turned around and asked, "Do you need my help?"
Dugu Changqiu nodded, "The Dugu family has five houses in total. Chang'an is the direct house, there is Qizhou house in Yong County, Weizhou house in Xiangwu County, Bingzhou house in Qingyuan County, Taiyuan Prefecture, and Luzhou house.
Zhoufang is in Shangdang County, Qizhoufang and Weizhoufang support Laosi Yuanqiu, but Bingzhoufang and Luzhoufang favor Laosan Dashi.
In fact, Luzhoufang follows Bingzhoufang. Whatever Bingzhoufang’s attitude is, Luzhoufang’s attitude is the same. So as long as Bingzhoufang doesn’t come to participate in the big festival, then Luzhoufang won’t come either. Once the four concubines don’t come to participate.
The big festival, this year’s big festival can’t be held, and we have to wait two years before the big festival can be held.”
Guo Song understood what Dugu Changqiu meant. The key was Bingzhoufang. As long as the clan leader of Bingzhoufang refused to come to the ceremony, this year's Dugu family's ceremony would be ruined.
Speaking of which, Guo Song was also a little annoyed. When everyone sat together to negotiate, he agreed to make Dugu Dashi the head of the family in order to prevent the Dugu family from being divided. However, he also made it clear that Dugu Dashi would only be a transitional five-year period, and everyone agreed with him.
s arrangement.
Then the transition should have the consciousness of transition, be low-key, tolerant, quiet, and govern by doing nothing. This is called transition. But Dugu Dashi obviously does not appreciate it and has no intention of transition. As soon as he takes the position of the head of the family, he must establish his own authority.
, he must completely control the family, and has no intention of giving up the throne in five years. Guo Song will never tolerate Dugu Dashi's renegade, and must teach Dugu Dashi a lesson.
"Qiu Weng, tell me in detail about the clan leader of Bingzhoufang."
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