In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 151 Getting Jeju Island

"That's right, the production of sugar in the Four Seas store is low. I heard that they mainly sell it in Japan and Korea. We don't have any wholesalers in Dinghai County, so we can only buy it in the Snow Sugar Shop."

"Liu Cheng borrowed money everywhere, bought a lot of goods and sold them in Japan, and when he made a few more money, he would stop borrowing."

Liu Xi frowned: "I'm afraid Liu Cheng has borrowed several million. What is he doing with so much?"

"Mr. Liu, you haven't seen that Liu Cheng ships to Japan one by one."

"There is a national market in Japan, how much sugar can't be sold?"

"If I want money, the Four Seas Shops will give me the monopoly rights, and I will also sell dozens of ships to Japan."

"That's it."

Everyone was trying to persuade Liu Xi, but Liu Xi hesitated again and again, so he called his son Liu Zui.

"You deposit [-] guan at the Dongyang store first, and get it back in a month."

"Good father."

After one month expired, Dongyang Shop readily paid him the principal with interest.

Liu Xi was already a little tempted at this time, and at this time his in-law Zheng Zhaoxian also came to Qingyuan Mansion.

Zheng is a person who has been a deputy prime minister, and his family has tens of thousands of acres of land.

At this time, the annual income per mu of land was only a few pennies. Zheng Zhaoxian wanted to sell the land and deposit all the money in Dongyang Bank, but Liu Xi persuaded him.

Zheng Xian spent all his family property and saved 46 Guan in Dongyang Bank, and received interest every month.

Then my brain got hot, and without telling Liu Xi, I sold 26 mu of fertile land, 5000 guan for each mu, and a total of [-] guan. The old man is happy.

At this time, the annual output of fertile land in the Southern Song Dynasty was the highest in the two Zhejiang provinces. It was considered as high-yield five stones, and the annual income was ten guan, and the total income of [-] mu of fertile land was only [-] guan.

Excluding the taxes of about [-] guan, the land rent and other income are about half, and the actual income is about [-] guan, which is a shortfall of nearly [-] guan.

When the key grains are still short of harvest, this is the real monthly cash.

In an instant, Mr. Zheng felt that he had made [-] million in blood, and he was extremely happy.

With the monthly interest of Dongyang Bank dropped from eighteen thousand to sixteen thousand.

On the contrary, there are more and more people depositing money in Qingyuan Mansion, and everyone is eager to deposit before the interest rate cut. Even outside Qingyuan Mansion, there are rich businessmen who want to come to deposit money, but Dongyang Bank refuses to accept it, saying that it only accepts Qingyuan Mansion within.

Now everyone has more trust in Dongyang Bank. Many foreign businessmen find local businessmen and give them some dividends in their name, and then deposit them in Dongyang Bank.

In just one year or so, Dongyang Bank absorbed more than 1000 million deposits, and almost all the wealthy businessmen and nobles around Dinghai County put their money in Dongyang Bank.

At this time, there was news that Boss Liu Chengliu had made a lot of money from the white sugar of Sihai Trading, and planned to gradually withdraw the borrowed money starting in June next year, and then specialize in white sugar in the future.

Immediately, the surroundings heard the wind, and everyone rushed to save it before Liu Cheng refunded.

At this time, a wise person should have thought that the money Liu Cheng earns from white sugar every month is not enough to pay the interest of so much money, so why should he make money?
But everyone doesn't know how much money Dongyang Bank received and absorbed. What's more, this kind of thing is even sent to the door by people who have received professional education in later generations, let alone people in the ancient Song Dynasty.
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At the end of July, a fleet of several brand new ships came to Jeju Island.

At this time, there were only two places where large ships could land on Jeju Island, one was in the west and the other was in the north. After Yuanmeng occupied it, another one was developed in the east to practice the navy and attack Japan.

When the fleet docked, there were many people standing on the shore.

Yan Ying smiled, followed by a team of strong men, and some of them looked like local officials and businessmen.

After Zhao Yurui came ashore, Yan Ying immediately stepped forward: "I have seen the elder brother, fortunately, I am not disgraceful."

"I've seen shopkeeper Yan."

"Dong Yan's family."

Some local people shouted in half-baked Chinese.

Jeju is located between Japan's Goryeo and the Southern Song Dynasty. Ships traveling to and from trade often dock. Most people can speak Chinese, and there are many Han people on the island.

In May, Yan Ying came to Koryo with money and sugar, and successively met with Cui Yu, the envoy of the Privy Council and the general in power, and his son-in-law, Jin Ruoxian, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council.

The former gives money and sugar, while the latter gives beautiful women, money and sugar.

After discussion, the two finally decided to rent Jeju Island to the Yan family.

The two refused to sell, only willing to rent, and they could send troops to get it back at any time in the future, with such a good plan.

They were willing to lease it to the Yan family mainly for the sake of snow sugar and copper coins. In addition, there was a shortage of copper coins and silk in Goryeo. The two parties finally reached the famous "Jeju Island Lease Agreement".

According to the agreement, Goryeo leased Jeju Island to the Yan family for sugar production. The lease period was 50 years. During the lease period, all the management rights of Jeju Island belonged to the Yan family. Strict family management.

In addition, Goryeo sold 350 bolts of cloth to the Yan family every year (at this time, the price of cloth in the Southern Song Dynasty was more than [-] yuan per piece, and the normal export price of Goryeo was [-] yuan, and the Yan family sold [-] yuan per piece).
The lessee, the Yan family, pays 20 catties of Korean snow sugar, [-] catties of rock sugar, and [-] catties of red sugar and white sugar each year. Half of it is Huizi silver and other things), and in private, one hundred thousand guan (copper coins are required) must be given to the Cui family.

These items are calculated in sevens and eights, which is equivalent to close to 50 guan per year.

There is also tax discount money (that is, the agricultural tax originally collected by Goryeo in Jeju), about [-] stone grain.

But it was beyond Zhao Yurui's expectation and budget.

Zhao Yurui originally wanted to buy it, or rent it with a lot of money. The bottom line of the budget for Yan Ying was to pay 1000 million guan at one time.

Unexpectedly, the Cui family is still very good at speaking, because these things add up to 50 guan and [-] stone grains. Except for a small part for the royal family, most of them are given to the Cui family, which is a huge fortune.

Cui Yu leases and sells state-owned assets, and even a fool is willing to do this kind of thing to make a person fat.

Moreover, neither Cui Yu nor Jin Ruoxian thought of the important strategic value of Jeju Island at this time. At this time, Jeju Island, regardless of population and land, was not fully developed and utilized. In the eyes of Cui Yu and Jin Ruoxian, it is worthless at all.

Moreover, Goryeo abolished Tamna in 1105, which is equivalent to the land they had just invaded, and it was not Goryeo in the first place.

Cloth is one of the most mass-produced civilian products in Goryeo. Goryeo has less silk but more cloth. From the Southern Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, a large amount of cloth was imported from Goryeo every year. Goryeo cloth is famous for its high output and low price.

After Yuan conquered Goryeo, Goryeo paid [-] bolts of cloth to the Yuan Dynasty every year, which can be seen.

Cloth prices in the Southern Song Dynasty fluctuated between [-] wen and [-] guan. According to changes in market supply, Zhao Yurui needed [-] pieces a year, basically controlling more than half of the Korean cloth market, whether for personal use or to make money.

After Zhao Yurui went ashore, they summoned some important local people as Yan's family members.

At this time, Jeju has not yet established a county. It is called Jeju County, and the main officials are inspectors and county affairs.

The deputies have deputy envoys and judges, which are somewhat similar to those before the Song Dynasty. Of course, the official system in Goryeo is basically learning from the Song Dynasty.

Kwon Sang-min, the local county governor, said that according to the agreement, Korean official personnel will be withdrawn to Korea.

The official personnel he mentioned were similar to those in the Southern Song Dynasty. There were only chief envoys, deputy envoys, general judges, and some Cao affairs. There were a total of twelve large and small officials. They were originally sent from Korea, and these people had to go back.

In addition, the original officials, like the Southern Song Dynasty, had more than 100 people, all of whom were local, and most of them would stay. Some of the richer ones might move to Korea.

For the rest: "Jeju County has a total of 640 households and 720 people."

"More than 13 mu of fields."

"There are more than 1000 horses, more than 4000 acres of fruit trees, and other supplies."

According to Kwon Sang-min, anyone who is willing to move back to Korea can follow them, but except for a few wealthy people in Jeju Island, most of the people are willing to stay.

At this time, the Southern Song Dynasty was still regarded as the kingdom of heaven in the eyes of ordinary people in Goryeo. I heard that it is now managed by the people of the Southern Song Dynasty, and most of them are happy.

After hearing this, Zhao Yurui found out that the deal was a huge profit, and the population left by Lao Cui was close to 3, and at least [-] laborers could be scraped together.

Among them, the original fields had 13 mu, which was equivalent to Zhao Yurui's. Only these fields in the Southern Song Dynasty were blood money.

At least hundreds of thousands of sticks can be sold.

The system adopted by Goryeo is 'Tianchaike'.

That is to say, from civil and military personnel, nobles, government soldiers to township officials, even at the first level of officials, the land and firewood are all divided by the state from high to low.

Ordinary officials, such as Kwon Sang-min, will be allocated [-] acres of land when they come to Jeju to work. When they leave, the next person will inherit his land. This is similar to the "job field" in the Southern Song Dynasty.

In what position, enjoy what field.

Important heroes and officials have meritorious service and can be hereditary.

But one of them is different from the Southern Song Dynasty.

The working land in the Southern Song Dynasty may give land, food or money.

In Korea, they don't give actual fields, but only income from fields.

Assume that Quan Xiangmin has [-] acres of "Tianchaike", with an annual output of [-] guan. After deducting the income and investment of the farmer for [-] guan, the other [-] guan is his Tianchaike.

So all the land in Koryo was originally owned by the state and then allocated by the state.

Those rewarded to individuals that can be hereditary can be called private land, and the rest are all public land.

More than 2 mu of Jeju Island is private land, and the remaining nearly [-] mu is all public land, which is distributed by the Koryo State, and the local people are equivalent to tenants.

At this time, Koryo rented out Jeju Island at a high price, and all private land was taken back and transferred to other places in Korea.

In this way, although the rich and noble people on the island lost more than 2 mu of private land here, they were exchanged for other domestic possessions in Koryo.

But the 13 mu of land was not given to Zhao Yurui in vain.

Lao Cui used tax discount money.

That is to say, in the past few decades, Jeju Island has paid 13 koku to Korea every year.

Therefore, after Zhao and Rui got it, they also had to give [-] stone grains (or equivalent grain money) to Koryo every year, and this money was privately given to the old Cui's family, not to the Korean court.

Lao Cui is tantamount to selling public property privately, and selling public property for private money.

(End of this chapter)