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

Chapter 157

Before the Chinese New Year, Zhao Yurui gave a bonus to all his subordinates, regardless of whether they were civil or military officials, depending on the size of the official position, from ten guan to fifty guan, they were all copper coins. There was no way. The face of an upstart.

At this time, Huizi was used throughout the Southern Song Dynasty, and when the entire Southern Song Dynasty, Japan, and Korea were in short supply of copper coins, Zhao Yurui used the fake money extremely arrogantly.

In addition, each person was also given a certain amount of various materials such as pork leg, bacon, chicken, duck, fish, etc., and according to ancient customs, silk, silk, cotton, etc. were given.

All the people who followed Zhao Yurui felt that King Wei was generous and took care of everyone.

Then, in the name of sponsorship, the card rooms in various places donated materials and money to condolences to county officials and some officials.

There are officials from top to bottom of the Qingyuan Mansion and the main people-friendly officials of the six counties, supervisory officials and some important officials, ranging from chicken, duck and fish to as many as twenty copper coins. Received New Year condolences from the people for the first time.

Everyone in the Qingyuan Mansion was full of praise for King Wei.

And this sounds normal, because King Wei has monopolized the operation of the poker room, and will distribute some benefits to officials from all over the country during the Chinese New Year. There is nothing wrong with it.

As for Shi Miyuan's cronies like Nie Zishu and Lin Jie, each person in the poker room gave a hundred guan, and all the officials were overjoyed, and they loved King Wei more and more.

On the second day of the first month, Zhao Yurui returned from the New Year's greetings in the capital, feeling both happy and worried.

Before the Chinese New Year, he personally went to the capital to pay New Year greetings to Shi Miyuan, the Emperor, and Empress Yang. His attitude was quite good, and he also paid homage to some familiar officials, including Yu Tianxi, who had just won a Jinshi last year and helped him, and Zhao Rushu, etc. .

When he saw the emperor, he found that the emperor's health was getting worse and worse, and Zhao Yurui was also very uncomfortable. After traveling for so long, he really regarded the emperor as his uncle, and the emperor saw that Zhao Yurui's spirit was much better, Zhao and Rui were specially left to have dinner together in the palace.

This time they went to Beijing, Zhao Yurui got another great deal.

He applied to the emperor for ten years of sugar franchise.

He didn't say that he invented the white sugar, because everyone in Dinghai County knew that the white sugar was made by the Yan family in Dinghai, and the Yan family also established the Four Seas Trading Company.

Wei Wang took advantage of Yan's family, spoke for Yan's family, and maybe even bought shares.

Zhao Yurui applied for the franchise for the Yan family, just like the poker room, he wants to be the only one in the world, only the Yan family can make sugar, and promises to the emperor that ten years later, the formula will be made public, so that the merchants of the Song Dynasty can make white sugar, and Fu Zetianxia.

He also used data to explain that the area of ​​sugarcane is not enough and the output is not enough. Now that the formula is made public, the folks only have white sugar instead of the previous sugar, and many people will not be able to afford it.

Ning Zong has always loved Zhao Yurui, and it is estimated that King Wei also bought a share, so he agreed decisively.

Zhao Yurui named it 'Qingyuan brand', which meant flattering Ningzong, and officially promoted Qingyuan brand white sugar to the whole country.

When Zhao Yurui returned to Dinghai, Yan Xiaoshan told him that there were three groups of people in the county waiting to meet King Wei recently.

The first group was Li Quan from Shandong, and his wife Yang Miaozhen was the one who came.

The second group was Pu Heli, a big food merchant. Pu Yali, the ancestor of Pu Heli, was famous for bringing hundreds of ivory to Guangzhou. At that time, Guangzhou collected nearly 6000 tusks at a time.

The third wave is Puka, a Sanfoqi merchant. Puka is also a rich hereditary sea merchant. His ancestor Pu Jin was in Shaoxing for 26 years (1156), and he brought more than a dozen ships to Quanzhou. Ten thousand liters, forty dendrobium ivory, many famous incense and treasures, worth more than 30 guan, and the local tax collection exceeds [-] guan.

The latter two big merchants are all year-round businessmen and have accumulated hundreds of millions of assets. They are famous in the world. In terms of wealth, it is estimated that Qin Zhuo can't compare with them.

But the two of them haven't been to Qingyuan Mansion for a long time. When they came last time, it was still called Mingzhou, not Qingyuan Mansion.

"It is said that there are 60 ships in Napuheli, and more than [-] of them are suspended in Quanzhou. This time, ten ships arrived half a month ago. The king happened to go to the capital, and he waited here for half a month. , I want to meet the king."

Napuka is even more outrageous. One night, I drove a small boat to Jintang Island. I guess I wanted to peek at how to make sugar. However, Jintang Island is now tightly guarded, and the landing places have been remodeled. Puka has been around for a long time. He couldn't find a place to land, and tried to swim ashore, but was captured alive by patrols.

At that time, I wanted to kill him. He spoke Chinese very fluently. He said that he was from Sanfoqi, and his ancestors also had Han people, so he was of mixed blood.

Puka was temporarily imprisoned in Zhisi Yamen in Dinghai. He brought three large ships and stopped outside Dinghai County.

In the end, Yan Xiaoshan said, the people from Puheli and Puka sent big gifts one after another, all of which were worth tens of thousands of guan.

After hearing this, Zhao Yurui felt that it was all because of Baitang.

After more than half a year of operation, the snow sugar and white sugar in Dinghai County have become famous. These businessmen are the most profitable people in the world. How can they not see the profits, especially in the markets of Dashi and Sanfoqi. It can be said that it is no less than the entire Southern Song Dynasty.

One includes the Alabai world of later generations, and the other includes the entire Nanyang region.

"Arrange them tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow morning, I will meet Yang Miaozhen first."

Zhao Yurui made an arrangement and summoned Yang Miaozhen the next morning.

Now the outside world and Yang Miaozhen don't know that he is the king of Wei, and he is promoting the shopkeeper Yan of the Four Seas Trade.

Zhao Yurui summoned her at the warehouse of Sihai Trading.

The last time I saw Yang Miaozhen, she was still bringing her son with her, and she was dressed in a heroic, neutral, and no make-up.

This time Yang Miaozhen took two female servants to the warehouse together, and when she took off the veil, Zhao Yurui found that she had put on light makeup this time, and she looked bright and beautiful.
"Shopkeeper Yan is always so careful, is it because he is afraid that someone will assassinate Shopkeeper Yan?" Yang Miaozhen covered her mouth and smiled.

When she came in, there was a female envoy who went up to search her body and touched her whole body. Yang Miaozhen was quite speechless. The female envoy finally pulled out a silver hairpin from her head, which made her hair look random now. Draped on the shoulders, it looks like you just woke up and haven't woken up.

Zhao Yurui said solemnly: "For a rich person like me, someone will definitely try to trick me. I have to protect myself and earn more money."

"I heard that the King of Wei has a good relationship with the Yan family?" Yang Miaozhen's eyes fluttered, looking up and down at Zhao and Rui.

Zhao Yurui is already 17 years old. After more than a year of nutrition and training, he is taller than the average adult. The key is that he also looks very mature in his speech and demeanor.

So Yang Miaozhen definitely didn't expect that the shopkeeper Yan in front of him would be the young King Wei who was rumored to be ignorant and incompetent.

"Our Yan family produces sugar in Qingyuan Mansion and pays taxes to Qingyuan Mansion. Of course, King Wei will take care of us." Zhao and Rui Yangyang said proudly: "If we go to Qingzhou to make sugar, Si Niangzi and Li Fushi will definitely take care of us." us."

"Of course." Yang Miaozhen's eyes lit up, thinking that Zhao Yurui really wanted to make sugar in Qingzhou, she immediately said: "If the Yan family is willing to move to Qingzhou, we will definitely support it."

"However, what should I do if you send troops to search after my sugar factory is built?" Zhao Yurui said.

"..." Yang Miaozhen was taken aback for a moment, and then blushed: "How could we do this?"

"In the past, you took half of the goods from seagoing ships, ha ha." If you treat me as a fool, I will believe you.

Yang Miaozhen was also ashamed and angry, and it was not easy to have a fit.

At this time, she should know that once you do some things, your reputation will be ruined.

She had a request for Zhao Yurui, so naturally she didn't dare to get angry, so she changed the subject: "We are here this time, actually we have something important to help Shopkeeper Yan."

"They are all sons and daughters of the Jianghu, fourth lady, you can tell me directly." Zhao Yurui said.

Yang Miaozhen said that they want a lot of sugar and will increase the supply of sugar next year.

Before they traded with Zhao Yurui, they mainly asked for money and food, but this year, the Southern Song Dynasty court gave them 30 military expenses to appease Li Quan.

Li Quan is not short of money for the time being, and Li Quan controls several salt fields near Qingzhou, so he is actually very rich.

He wants to trade only grain and sugar next time.

In the past, Zhao Yurui traded with him once every one and a half months, and each transaction was a thousand catties of sugar.

Now he wants to change each transaction to [-] catties of sugar. If the immigration is not enough, Li Quan is willing to pay the money.

After Zhao Yurui listened to it, his mind began to circle. Li Quan asked for money before, but now Li Quan not only doesn't want money, but instead wants to pay him for candy.

Li Quan never asked for so much sugar before, why did he suddenly want so much sugar?
Trade with Jin Guo?
Li Quan couldn't use up so much sugar, the only possibility was to sell it to the common people, other military leaders, or Jin Guo.

Ordinary people in Shandong can't afford it. Other military leaders can go to Zhao Yurui directly, unless it's a deal with Jin Guo?

Li Quan has been swinging between Jin, Mongolia, and Song all his life, and it is very possible to have a private transaction with Jin.

"No." Zhao Yurui shook his head decisively: "Too many."

"Ah?" Yang Miaozhen's face was very ugly.

"Our production is limited. In addition to paying tribute to the court, we also need to sell it to various places in the Song Dynasty. The big businessmen from Dashi and Sanfoqi have all arrived in Dinghai, and they will meet me tomorrow."

"They are all rich and powerful merchants. I will definitely sell them first. Not only will the price be high, but I can also get other spices and precious materials. Fourth lady, it's not that I refuse to help. If it were you, you would definitely It will be sold to Dashi and Srivijaya merchants first."

Yang Miao was really anxious: "We are of the same family, how can we give priority to selling to foreigners?"

"In Shangyanshang, Si Niangzi, I open the door to do business, and I raise a bunch of people below to make money. How about this, I will give you two thousand catties each time."

"Where is two thousand catties enough?" Yang Miaozhen took a step forward, getting closer to Zhao Yurui, and a faint fragrance suddenly came from the front.

"Shopkeeper Yan, please help, we can bring more people here." Yang Miaozhen's voice became extremely gentle.

"I have almost enough people to make sugar, and I may not need so many people in the future." Zhao Yurui said calmly, "I need too many people and I can't afford it."

"What exactly does shopkeeper Yan want before he is willing to help, this matter is extremely important to us."

Yang Miaozhen took another step forward.

Now she was very close to Zhao Yurui, less than half a meter between them, almost in front of Zhao Yurui.

Her face was reddish, her breath was short of breath, and her beautiful eyes sized Zhao Yurui unscrupulously.

(End of this chapter)