Qiming 1158

Chapter 965 Huge business opportunity

The national policy of the Southern Song Dynasty has changed, and the things to be done in the future must have been completely different.

They are no longer passively defensive and have fantasies about the Ming Kingdom. They have decided to take their destiny in their own hands, and will never bow their heads to Su Yonglin and wait for him to cleanse them.

At the same time, in order to find out when and how the Ming Kingdom intends to invade the Southern Song Dynasty, whether it is ready for a full-scale attack, etc., Zhao Tan decided to send envoys into Ming again at the suggestion of his ministers. Access, secretly spying news.

As for the reason, it's easy to find.

Anyway, it is definitely not stupid to ask Ming Guo [Are you planning to hit me], there must be other reasons.

For example, because the Southern Song Dynasty was very difficult, and there were huge internal difficulties, I came to ask the Ming Dynasty to see if they could slightly reduce the number of year-old coins, or postpone the payment.

Anyway, there are not too many reasons for wanting to go to Ming Kingdom.

This time, because the matter is more important, the level of the messenger dispatched is higher.

Chen Kangbo, who once again served as a political affairs officer, decided to go out in person and go to the central capital to meet Su Yonglin and find out what Su Yonglin said.

Lu You and Yu Yunwen, who had been envoys to the Ming state, were appointed as the left and right deputy envoys, and accompanied Chen Kangbo on the mission to the Ming state.

Nominally this is a high-level mission, but in fact it is a high-level observation group.

They need to observe the internal situation of the Ming Kingdom to judge whether the Ming Kingdom has any plans to attack the Southern Song Dynasty in the near future. If there is, they need to know immediately and make preparations.

Because this plan has certain dangers, Chen Kangbo, Lu You and Yu Yunwen all have to take certain risks and be prepared to not come back at any time.

All three expressed that for the sake of the Great Song Dynasty, what to say if they died.

This round of envoys is of great significance. The envoys are not equipped with many civil servants, but they are equipped with many good guards. The purpose is to ensure that they can return successfully under the protection of these good guards. As for being left in the Ming Kingdom like that.

Zhao Tan thought a lot about these three people.

So in mid-August of the fourth year of Hongwu and the third year of Longxing, the three-member envoy, with permission from the Ming Kingdom, officially set off north to Zhongdu.

After the three set off, Zhao Tan recruited and trained troops while personally supervising the material embargo and economic blockade of the occupied area of ​​Jiangnan West Road. .

Before, he was forced to the end of the mountain, and he was about to allow the local government to recruit troops to attack the bandits and open the magic box of destruction. As a result, when Su Yonglin's book came, the ruling class of the Southern Song Dynasty united like never before.

They have determined the major policy of supporting the Song Dynasty and resisting the Ming Dynasty, and united closely with the Southern Song Dynasty court with Zhao Tan as the core.

If nothing else, even the donations received by this wave of recruiting fully reflect this.

The greedy will not be greedy, the lazy will not be lazy, and the cowardly will not be timid.

They have used all their abilities to fight for the growth of the Zhao and Song Dynasty. The scene of vigorous life and all things competing is a scene that Zhao Tan can only see in his dreams.

But now it has become a fact.

Zhao Tan even wanted to thank Su Yonglin, because of his stupidity and recklessness, his Southern Song Dynasty continued his life and was slapped with milk.

However, Zhao Tan is obviously too ideal. He feels that a single book by Su Yonglin can make the entire ruling class change its character in an instant, and become a person who cares about the country and the people, so as to give up corruption and become a virtuous person.

of course not.

What they did was for themselves, not for the Southern Song Dynasty. The fundamental starting point of what they did was to safeguard their own interests and privileged status, and by the way, to make the Southern Song Dynasty stronger, the essence would not change.

They are still the worms of the country, and they are still vampires, but now they can endure their own greed and desire, suck less blood, give more to the lower classes, and give a little more profit.

But what should be taken is still taken, and what should be plucked is still to be plucked, but in the past, eight cents were taken out of ten cents. Now, be patient and take seven cents or six cents.

They are clear that if all the money is really used to do things, and it is put into practice, the army of the Southern Song Dynasty must be very strong, and it will not be the same as it is now. As long as they can eat their stomachs, they still have enough. combat power.

But this is not possible.

It is impossible for them to look at the money and not take it, and it is impossible for them to really watch the lowly big-headed soldiers eat their mouths full of oil and their hearts are still like water. They just say that when faced with a real crisis, they should take less and take it.

Just taking a little less, they can bear it a little for the sake of their future destiny, so that the Southern Song Dynasty can take a breath and build a stronger army that can compete with Su Yonglin's Ming army.

And the nature of this group of people will not change.

Once there is a way for them to gain more benefits, and they can't see any obvious changes to the Southern Song Dynasty, they will swarm and devour it without hesitation.

For example, about the "Hong Wu Zheng Lun".

After the ruling class of the Southern Song Dynasty completed the ideological closure and coping strategies, many people felt that Su Yonglin's threat had ended. Although this book was terrible, it could no longer threaten the firm rule of the Southern Song regime.

And as the ban and book burning orders continued, they keenly discovered huge business opportunities.

The ruling class really doesn't care anymore, they don't care about the threat posed by "Hong Wu Zheng Lun", they have already decided to fight against it in an all-round way.

But the book itself has the blessing of [made by the emperor of the Ming Kingdom] and the blessing of the ban order of the Southern Song Dynasty, so it has a huge appeal to the low-level literate people.

In addition to the high-level literate people of the ruling class, there are also low-level literate people in the folk, such as the accountant, the poor and sour teacher, the fortune-teller, etc. They are also literate, but they are not among the high-level intellectuals and can only helplessly become losers in life.

High-level intellectuals look down on them, and they won't treat them as characters, but since they are chasing "Hongwu Zheng Lun", this is a huge business opportunity.

On the one hand, it was made by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand, it was banned and burned in the Southern Song Dynasty, so that a genuine copy of "Hongwu Zheng Lun" was fired to a sky-high price on the private black market, and the complete fake was also fired to a high price.

Basically, in some places, the price of a genuine "Hong Wu Zheng Lun" is more than [-] times more expensive than a normal book.

In a slightly cheaper place, the authentic "Hong Wu Zheng Lun" can also be sold for [-] to [-] times the price of a normal book.

Although fakes do not have such a high price, they also have huge profits. The price of a fake can be sold for more than ten times the price of a normal book, and the profit margin is extremely high.

Such a huge profit is enough to drive many people crazy.

Many merchants in the Southern Song Dynasty saw the business opportunity and decided to go to the Ming Kingdom to buy genuine products under the ban and the risk of beheading from the imperial court——

The price of authentic Ming Dynasty products is too cheap. Emperor Su treats his people too gently. As long as they can grab them, they can buy them, and then bring them back and sell them for more than a hundred times the profit. They are very motivated to do so.

The scalpers are so desperate, and the pirated dogs will not be stingy with their "intelligence".

However, the authentic Hongwu Zheng Lun has the so-called version number blessing that they are not familiar with, and some pages use high-grade paper such as water-textured paper, which makes the cost of imitation quite high and the craftsmanship difficult. Genuine price.

Therefore, under the current circumstances, the source of genuine products is mainly brought back by merchants in the Southern Song Dynasty who have passed the border search. Ben, it's really not easy to find out.

Of course, if you insist on checking, it is obviously impossible to avoid it. As long as the Southern Song Dynasty border inspector is conscientious and conscientious, the businessmen will have nothing to do. As for whether those border officials are seriously implementing the ban...

It's hard to say.

Anyway, they had a good relationship with those merchants, and the merchants gave them a little money to feed them, so they turned a blind eye and let the caravan go.

As for how many authentic "Hongwu Zheng Lun" the businessmen took away, and what kind of threat these books could bring to them, and what kind of consequences would they cause...

They don't care.

(End of this chapter)