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

Chapter 133 Controlling Dinghai County

Zhao Yuju immediately said: "Okay, your name is Tieniu, right?"

"Wang Tieniu." Tieniu smiled wryly.

"Wang Tieniu played well, from now on, you are the treasury pawn."

Wang Tieniu was shocked suddenly, suddenly changed from a public official to a pawn?

Is this a temporary job change director?

"Thank you County Captain Zhao, thank you County Magistrate Li, and thank you Master Qian." Wang Tieniu was overjoyed.

"Come here, bring Liang Youbin up." At this moment, Zhao Yuju shouted again.

Liang Youbin, whom Li Zongmian was going to beat a few days ago, ran home directly, but it was useless to go home now, this time Zhao Yurui sent someone to arrest him from home.

Then, in front of everyone, let the person who beat Liang Youbin last time beat him again.

Several people didn't use their strength last time, who dared not to use their strength this time, they could only bite the bullet and fight.

Liang Youbin was beaten to death again on the spot.

There was blood and feces at the scene, and the stench was flying all over the sky. More than 200 people were terrified. This kind of thing has not happened in Dinghai County for many years. No, it should be said that this kind of thing has never happened in the county since the Song Dynasty.

The people-friendly officials beat the servants to death, and even killed a few, which has never happened before.

Then Zhao and Ju began to roll their names. They were all officials who had been indifferent to the three people-friendly officials in the past month or so, and dragged along the officials who did not do anything.

The scene was dragged out one by one like dead dogs, and there were all kinds of ghosts crying and howling. Many people didn't know how to beg for mercy until they died.

But it's no use regretting it now, it's still worth it.

A total of 15 people were killed that day, all of whom were leaders in the county government's fight against the county magistrate.

More than 30 other people were spanked, and then directly announced their dismissal.

After the beating, the whole yard was full of stench, and the ground was full of excrement and urine. Some people were even scared out of their lives, so they didn't beat him.

Then Zhao and Ju announced that nearly 100 people had been expelled from the county government and nearly 100 new people had been added, and then tasks were assigned to reorganize the various departments of the county government.

As soon as Zhao and Ju took office, they killed more than a dozen people in Dinghai County, which shocked the whole government.

The family members of the deceased appealed to Qingyuan Mansion one after another, and even to the capital.

Because neither the county magistrate nor the master book spoke that day, it was Zhao and Ju who were all talking, so everyone was suing Zhao and Ju.

After Zhao Yurui made use of his elder brother, he immediately said, "Elder brother is too hasty, so let's transfer him away."

So, less than two months after Zhao and Ju came to Dinghai County, they went to Yinshan County, Shaoxing to be chief bookkeepers with a transfer order.

No one would accept this kind of handling. Zhou Bing had a younger brother who was originally a yamen servant, but he was dismissed from the meeting this time.

He took the food money and went to the capital, planning to go to Beijing to sue the king of Wei for protecting his brother.

Unexpectedly, there was no news of Xun after he left, and no one has seen him since.

Then Zhao Yurui took advantage of the situation in Dinghai County, Cixi County, Changping Tea and Salt Department in East Zhejiang, Qingyuan Prefecture Shipbuilding Department, Minghechang Salt Supervision and other places, announcing that they would sell a group of officials.

When the news came out, the local gentry and wealthy businessmen went crazy in an instant, looking for ways to get in touch with King Wei.

This matter was too hot, and the matter of killing people was directly covered up. Everyone didn't talk about beating people, but talked about selling officials.

Because the Southern Song Dynasty had not sold officials in Qingyuan Mansion, some rich people had to move to other places in order to become officials.

Originally, Zhao Yurui offended many local gentry by taking back the real estate of the naval army and cracking down on officials. Now, because of the sale of officials, everyone chooses to forgive Wei Wang and Li Zongmian, and quickly establish a good relationship with them.

Qingyuan Mansion soon spread the word that the first batch of official positions sold was about a dozen. The specific price and official positions are still being studied. If you want to know more, you can take the initiative to go to Wei Wang Mansion to find Wei Wang's staff Quan Zhong (Quan Baochang).

For a while, people from all over Qingyuan Mansion who wanted to buy officials came to Dinghai County one after another, but they didn't know Quan Zhong, so many people could only throw worship stickers to the coastal production department every day, and greet their housekeeper Quan Baochang every day. Received soft hands, smiling from ear to ear all day long.

At this time, Zhao Yurui had completely controlled Dinghai County, from the local officials, to officials, and then to the Dinghai Navy, they were all under the control of Zhao Yurui.

Compared with the entire Southern Song Dynasty, Dinghai County is of course an insignificant small county, but because of its special geographical location, it gave Zhao and Rui enough room to play.

Beginning in February, he started recruiting sailors, craftsmen, and all kinds of young adults as soon as he arrived here to prepare for the establishment of the 'Qingyuan Universal Trading Shop'.

After Qin Zhuo came in March, including the people Qin Zhuo brought, he already had hundreds of people.

In mid-March, there were at least a dozen card rooms in Dinghai County and other counties in Qingyuan Prefecture at the same time. Qin Zhuo and Qin’s shops were located in these places. After Zhao and Rui came, they quickly arranged them, and there was only one more. It opened one after another in the first month, and then expanded to ensure that there will be five in each county, with more than [-] billiard tables.

Starting from April, Zhao and Rui will go to other prefectures and counties in eastern Zhejiang. In Qin Zhuo's view, his Qingyuan Four Seas Trading Shop is even more tightly organized and has a clear division of labor.

The store is divided into several small departments, among which there are local commercial departments, and the people in charge of Liangzhe East Road are Quan Jiu and Qin Feng.

One is from Zhao Yurui, and the other is from the Qin family.

Quan Jiu was bought by Zhao Yurui from Jin Guo Han, and his training was excellent. Zhao Yurui later bought a maid and married Quan Jiu, who was already pregnant.

Quanjiu is a slave. After arriving in the south, he was favored by the king of Wei, married, had a family and had children. Of course, he was devoted to the king of Wei.

The task of Quan Jiu and Qin Feng is to open new stores in various prefectures and counties on Liangzhe East Road.

Each county requires more than five and more than [-] tables. For mahjong tables, develop slowly. After all, the promotion is slower than billiards.

According to Zhao and Rui's ideal state, Liangzhe is relatively rich, and the price will be similar to Lin'an.

Based on five hours a day for a table, excluding labor, rent and benefits to officials from all over the country, a table earns two guan a day, which is [-] guan a month.

There are a total of 42 counties along Liangzhe East Road. According to official statistics in Jiading, there were nearly 300 million households, about 1000 million people. Ten poker rooms are fine. If all of them can be built, only five poker rooms will earn at least 20 yuan a year.

In the later stage, mahjong and the sale of related products will be added, and it will be able to reach 50.

But it's not easy to get it all done, and the resistance of some local gentry and officials must also be considered, but this is his unique business for King Wei. As long as they are willing to give up a little bit of profit, usually the local officials and gentry will not deliberately embarrass him.

Zhao Yurui's goal is to complete the laying and operation of all stores on Liangzhe East Road within one year, and start making profits in the second year.

The second department of Sihai Store is the Maritime Trade Department, and the main persons in charge are Qin Yue and Chen Xiaodao.

Qin Yue is the younger brother of Qin Zhuo's clan. He has been doing sea trade in the south of Zhejiang Province and other places. He has three boats in his hands. In addition, Qin Zhuo brought four boats from Lianghuai this time, and two more boats went to Korea and Japan. He didn't come back, the Qin family used to have nine boats, but now they are all deployed by Zhao Yurui.

At the end of March, Zhao Yurui and Qin Zhuo went to the pier to watch their boat.

Walking halfway, Qin Zhuo explained to him.

The Qin family used to go to sea merchants, mainly in two routes, one was to go to Korea and Japan, and the other was to go to Fujian and Guangdong.

The former is that Jiangnan brought silk, silk and silk fabrics, ceramics, tea, etc. to Korea and Japan, and returned with Korean ginseng, animal skins, folding fans, medicinal materials, wood, etc., Japanese gold, sulfur, dendrobium, raw copper, Japanese knives, wood, etc. .

Qin Zhuo said that Japan was rich in gold and placer gold, and a large amount of gold and placer gold were exported and exchanged for various commodities in the Song Dynasty. At that time, the domestic gold price in the Song Dynasty was about 63 times that of Japan's domestic market. This was mainly because Japan's annual gold output at that time It is very high and the Song Dynasty is very low.

So Qin Zhuo used to give priority to gold.

As for the goods needed by the sulfur government, the merchants of the Song and Song Dynasties also had the responsibility to bring back sulfur when they went to sea.

"On February 50th of the seventh year of Yuanfeng, Ma Liu of Zhiming Prefecture said: "According to the imperial decree, [-] jin of sulfur was collected from merchants in Japan, and every [-] jin of sulfur was begged as a package, and the recruiting officials took care of it. "

Due to the lack of sulfur in the Southern Song Dynasty, merchants were asked to bring some sulfur back when they went to Japan. Of course, the official price was extremely low, and the merchants had no choice but to not lose money.

According to Qin Zhuo, at present the Southern Song Dynasty and Koryo have a relatively large business scale. When the Qingyuan Prefecture Shipping Department was established, it mainly traded with Koryo.

When traveling to Fujian and Guangdong, they usually bring silk fabrics and some goods from Koryo and Japan, and then bring rock sugar, tea, and other spices and gems from foreign countries to Quanzhou and other places. These are what Jiangnan and Koryo Japan need. of.

"Bingtang still needs to be purchased from Fuguang?" Zhao Yurui heard a key word keenly.

When Zhao Yurui was cooking for Mrs. Yu in the palace last time, she saw the Southern Song Dynasty's granulated sugar.

The so-called granulated sugar in the Southern Song Dynasty is actually a kind of viscous liquid sugar. This kind of sugar is also produced in Liangzhe Road, and the price is not very high.

What is really expensive is solid sugar, which is the "icing sugar" in the Southern Song Dynasty, also known as rock sugar.

At this time, sugarcane planting was very common in the Southern Song Dynasty, but only five places had mastered rock sugar technology, Futang (Fujian), Siming (Zhejiang), Panyu (Guangdong), Guanghan, and Suining (Sichuan).

Among them, the output of the first four places is very small, and the quality is also poor. Only Suining has the real output. More than 300 tanks are used to make sugar, but the small household only has one or two tanks.In addition, there are nearly a hundred sugar workshops, but they can only produce middle and low-grade products.Although there are many sugar cane fields nearby, the farmers there have not mastered the technology of making icing sugar, so they can only process sugar cane juice into sugar juice and sell it as raw material to the sugar factory in front of Shanshan Mountain.

The reason why rock sugar is difficult and expensive at this time is that the production cycle is too long.

The technology mastered by sugar frost households in the Southern Song Dynasty was quite simple, and they could not fully control the production process, resulting in unstable annual output.It took a year and a half from plowing to sunburning, but the process of frosting is unpredictable. In the end, tens or even hundreds of catties of frosting may be produced in a tank, or there may be no frosting at all. There is an element of luck.

(End of this chapter)