Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 250: He wants both of the two Silk Roads

What is the concept of 1000 million yuan?When the Song Dynasty was just founded, the annual fiscal revenue was barely around [-] million yuan.

Although there has been a lot of inflation in recent years, as soon as this number came out, everyone was still uncontrollably confused because this number was so big that it was almost unreal.

After a while to react, Liu Huanxi couldn't help but confirm: "Your Highness, you mean...this [-] million is...for you to loan us?"

"That's right. Otherwise? Can I still take money from you to subsidize the needs of the Song Dynasty? You still don't understand me. It's okay. There will be many opportunities in the future."

"Ah... Your Highness, what do you want from us? This money..."

No one would think that such a large amount of money is easy to get, but I have to say that Zhao Guangmei is really courageous. Even these big businessmen who should be considered experienced are all breathing hard now. Too heavy.

"Of course it is to develop maritime trade. I probably understand your business methods. It is just buying silk, porcelain and other goods in the inland and selling them back, and then buying some spices, gems and other things from overseas. The scale is really too large. Xiao, what's the point of doing this kind of thing of buying low and selling high? Besides, what else do you have besides money? You don't even have any soldiers. It's too bad. You haven't been able to develop a group of people for so many years. It belongs to your armed forces."

"........."

All the people with lustful eyes felt puzzled, and then became more and more speechless.

It seems that His Highness the King of Qin is indeed a little mentally disturbed.

"I'm not kidding. I really don't mind if you have certain weapons to do business, especially overseas business. Without certain weapons, how can you ensure your overseas profits? You have also seen that I, Da Song, now, It is very developed, so we need a lot of things. We are in urgent need of raw materials and markets. It is definitely not possible to limit ourselves to the three-thirds of an acre of land under our feet. Therefore, overseas trade will be the top priority of the Song Dynasty in the future. Heavy."

"In the first phase, I plan to give you a budget of [-] million. Tell me, if you have so much money, how do you plan to spend it? Don't say that it will all be used to buy goods. Of course, you will only spend this [-] million. It is absolutely impossible for you to invest in our country, the Song Dynasty, and spend it overseas."

"Ah... if you really have so much money, then... build a ship?"

"No, no, no, it can't all be used for shipbuilding, and there aren't that many suitable craftsmen. It's better to train sailing talents on a large scale."

"There are also waterways. You can use a sum of money to explore the waterways and draw nautical charts."

"Factories should be opened and more tea and mulberry trees should be planted."

As expected of a professional businessman, he thought very logically just by imagining things.

Zhao Guangmei couldn't help but admired: "What you said is so good. What does our Song Dynasty value most? Talent! Everyone, you are the talent. You build schools, explore waterways, set up maritime trade factories, expand shipyards, all of this , are inseparable from professionals like you, so everyone, are you willing to join the firm?"

………………

Two days later, the contents of the negotiation between Zhao Guangmei and these lustful people were announced in the Di Bao. For a while, the whole world was in an uproar.

The Song Dynasty provided a loan of [-] million to those lustful people, and actually paid back only one installment. He was responsible for all the preliminary preparations. He didn't even care how the [-] million yuan was spent, as long as it was invested in the Song Dynasty.

In addition, special "Semu Streets" have been set up in Quanzhou City, Fuzhou City, Guangzhou City (Xingwang Mansion), Ningbo Prefecture and other places. A large number of Semu people's real estate projects have been built in these four places, and special Semu people's living areas have been established. , the Song Dynasty court allowed them to build their temples in these four places, respect their customs, as long as they did not take the initiative to preach, did not impose any restrictions on them, and even allowed them to enjoy certain judicial powers in the neighborhoods, completely in accordance with their Customs or teachings to carry out justice, or even let them set up their own police force.

Finally, and most importantly, not only will their assets in the Nanhan area not be confiscated or damaged, but they will be allowed to use these assets for 500 million guan to establish a joint venture with a commercial bank called Da Song Royal Sea Trade. Commercial banks hold [-]% of the shares, and they hold [-]% of the shares.

This not only caused an uproar in the world, but almost all day long, urban residents throughout Kaifeng and even the entire Song Dynasty were discussing this matter.

Because the condition given by Zhao Guangmei was too high, so high that it was even inexplicable.

Buying shares in a commercial bank, although it is not a shareholding in a commercial bank, in the eyes of private merchants, it is simply a matter of smoke coming out of ancestral graves, and they don’t even look at the backgrounds of the merchants who can be related to commercial banks in the Song Dynasty today. ?
Ordinary people with no connections will not accept them even if they want to completely sell themselves to a trading company.

Not to mention, there is that [-] million low-priced loan.

As for allowing them to build a "city within a city", this made many people even more angry.

Why?Aren’t they wearing the same pants as Nan Han?Aren't they prisoners?
You must know that the Song Dynasty is no longer a single-ethnic Song Dynasty. Although the recovery of Hexi has only been a few years, there are many Uighur and Khotan merchants in Kaifeng City and Chanzhou City.

The Uighurs and Khotan were both vassals of the Song Dynasty, and they were very respectful when they attacked the Song Dynasty. Although the Song Dynasty treated them well, they were quite stuck in religion, at least far from it. Semu people are more free.

Why?

The Khotanese believe in Buddhism, while the Uighurs believe in some Buddhism and some Mingism. These three religions are at the most fierce conflict with the Green Sect of the Semu people in history.

When we look at each other, we feel like there is only you and not me. We are really rushing to destroy each other's country and species.

How do you think your suzerainty, the Song Dynasty, should be oriented towards younger brothers like us?

How could you do this!
We are helping you in the west and carrying the Khitans.At Honglu Temple, almost all the officials from the Ministry of Rites came to Zhao Guangmei to tell him: The envoys from the Uighurs and Khotan were extremely dissatisfied with this and were discussing how to protest.

We, the Song Dynasty, are definitely not afraid of their protests, but after all, this is the younger brother. As the eldest brother, what we pay attention to is convincing people with virtue, so we can't hurt the younger brother's heart too much, right?
But in fact, Zhao Guangmei has no choice. These days, the most advanced navigation skills are in the hands of Semu people, and it is not just navigation skills, but also the customs of various places, what kind of products are sold at higher prices where, and what kind of Only they know where to buy specialties at the lowest price. They even have good relationships with local governments at all levels in Africa and Southeast Asia.

To put it simply, in the so-called Age of Discovery, at least at the beginning, everyone just drove away the Semu people and then did what they had done again.

And Zhao Guangmei also had to admit that the Semu people were really an extremely great business nation. At least in this era, they were a well-deserved pearl of the world. Regardless of culture, art, science, and economic rules, they were all worth learning from the Song Dynasty.

Even the religion that he has always been wary of, in fact, to be honest, he is also the most progressive among religions. If you have really studied this religion, you will know that almost all the doctrines proposed by this religion were in the context of the Middle Ages. , which is almost completely consistent with the geographical location, cultural customs, and geographical environment of the Semu people. It is also the best idea of ​​this era to be used directly (later later generations changed it and went astray).

The Song Dynasty is really not very good. In fact, starting from the Tang Dynasty, the powerful people in Guanlong were not willing to do business. The prosperity of Chang'an was actually the dividend of hegemony. The handicraft industry was relatively developed, but things like transporting goods from north to south were all about trade. Let the barbarians do it, and those who go west are the Uighurs and Sogdians. The Sogdians are now the Khotanese, and the powerful Semu people are used for sea trade.

Chinese people basically just immerse themselves in production and ignore the rest. Anyway, these Hulu aliens will come over and bring their rare goods and beautiful dancers to buy our handicrafts.

In other words, from the time of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court only controlled manufacturing, factories and other production ends, channels, sales, circulation, and even warehousing, all of which were outsourced.

If you want to connect to the Western Regions, you have to use the Uighurs. But now that the war in the Western Regions is more serious, the value of the Silk Road is far less than in the past. The value of the Uighurs and Khotanese is naturally not that great, although it is a big Song's loyal younger brother, but... of no use.

Especially the Khotanese people are far behind their ancestors, the Sogdians. Now they have no ability to connect the east and west. As a Buddhist nation, they can't get along in the west. Their west has been fully greened.

The Semu people are very different. Although the Southern Han Dynasty attaches great importance to sea trade, in fact, its sea trade is entirely carried out by these Semu people. Even the so-called shipyard in the Southern Han Dynasty is actually a ship repair yard. Everyone brings their own boats.

The Imperial Court of the Southern Han Dynasty never understood any process of the sea trade business. The harvest was done by people with lustful eyes, and the ships were the ships of people with lustful eyes. You didn’t care about what happened after going to sea. When they sold goods to you, you killed them. In collecting taxes, apart from allocating an exclusive area to these lustful people, there is almost no real thing.

What can Zhao Guangmei do?
He has to engage in sea trade, and it can't be a small business like Nan Han. If others don't understand the potential of this thing, how can he not know it? But in sea trade, if you leave these lustful people, it will really Nothing can be done.

This group of people is special. Living with ordinary Han people is indeed prone to problems. Historical dynasties have indeed been accommodating to others, so he should just accommodate them.

So, no matter when, foreign capital with core technologies will be respected, especially urgently needed and unique technologies, which are even more popular. Even a domineering person like Zhao Guangmei will fully respect these lustful people. customary beliefs.

Let’s start a joint venture first and learn other people’s unique technologies.

Of course, this does not mean that he is no longer wary of the Semu people. On the contrary, he is even more wary of the Semu people. It just so happens that since the Uyghurs and Khotanese have objections, they should be called over to chat with them.

Seeing that the envoys from the two countries all looked aggrieved, they had complaints but didn't know what to say. They tried hard to find a decent way to express their anger without being disrespectful to the Song Dynasty. They even wanted to laugh a little.

"Okay, okay, you two, we are all old friends. Don't I know who is an outsider and who is one of my own? Those lustful people are all citizens of the world, and their industries are all over the world. They have nothing to do with me, Da Song. They are so loyal that they can set sail and run away at any time, but there is no way, who can let me use them now? These sexy people are really good at doing business. "

Upon seeing this, the Uighur envoy quickly cried: "Your Highness, the foreign minister... the foreign minister is also good at doing business."

The envoy from Khotan also said: "Yes, Your Highness, during the Tang Dynasty, all business was entrusted to us."

Zhao Guangmei nodded and said: "Yes, yes, I know you are all a business nation and are good at doing business. However, isn't the trade route cut off now? I will lend these [-] million yuan to those lustful people. Let them build shipyards and marine schools without worrying about whether they can't afford the repayments. What about you? If I really lend you [-] million yuan to do business, can you guarantee [-]% profit? Can you still pay me interest? "

The two looked at each other and stopped talking.

In fact, among the three major ethnic groups in the late Tang Dynasty, the decline of the Uighurs and Tubo was more or less related to the rise of the Dashi, especially the Uighurs. The trade between the East and the West was basically monopolized by the Dashi, and they could not survive on land. Come on, people can still travel by sea. They really can't compete with them. Even the Uighurs in the west have almost all converted to their religion.

If you believe in that religion, can you still be considered a Uighur?

Uighurs and Khotan, given the geographical environment of these two ethnic groups, if they do not establish trade routes, they are destined to be second-rate or even third-rate ethnic groups. Don’t you agree?What can Zhao Guangmei do?In terms of agriculture, in the vast desert over there, even the Dangxiang people cannot grow grapes. In terms of handicraft industry, the entire chicken feather handicraft industry in the desert is not to mention that the factories now use electricity, and the current Song Dynasty only has hydropower.

You are not up to par with yourselves.

Of course, it's not completely impossible.

"The plight of your two tribes is simply that the Silk Road is blocked. I have already talked with Cao Yuanzhong. Within this year, I plan to establish another western development. The New Silk Road will be radically commercial, and commercial banks will vigorously participate. First The investment capital for the first term will also not be less than [-] million. If you are willing to apply for this money, I have no objection."

"Ah? I dare to ask Your Highness, this money should be earmarked for special purposes. Could it be for road construction?"

"No, the cost of building roads is too high. You can only use this money to buy military products, such as compressed biscuits, armor, weapons, arrows, and even explosive packs. We will not sell the rest. Gui Yijun will Bian, I have accepted the money. If you are willing, go west and fight. I, the Song Dynasty, will give you support. Whether it is the Semu people or the Khitan people, you will hit whoever messes with you, and you will hit whoever blocks the way. , but this loan... it has to be repaid. If you can't win by then and can't pay it back... I, Da Song, will have no choice but to steal your girl to pay off the debt. Of course, you don't have to borrow it or force it."

This is Zhao Guangmei's true intention. He wants both the land Silk Road and the maritime Silk Road.

The Semu people are treated the same as the Khitan people. The wave that takes the sea route must be carefully won over, but the group on land must also be beaten hard until they flee and beat them until their country is exterminated!
(End of this chapter)