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

Chapter 150

"From today onwards, the navy will send ships to patrol the coast. It is strictly forbidden for merchant ships to go northward and to trade with the Kingdom of Jin. Any boats that go northward will be confiscated. They will also search the owner's home and cut off Li Quan's income from crossing the road. , Wait for him to come to negotiate with us."

Feng Deshan immediately agreed.

At this time, the ships traded with Jin Guo mainly sailed from several places such as Lin'an, Pingjiang (Suzhou), Dinghai, etc. Feng Deshan sent several ships to guard several ports in eastern Zhejiang, and also notified Xu Pu's navy to control Wu Ying to help , Feng Deshan made a special trip to Xu Pu, and presented [-] guan, Wu Ying agreed without hesitation, very happy.

After returning to Dinghai from Jiangdongzhai, Zhao Yurui summoned Qin Zhuo and asked about oil (Menghuoyou).

Qin Zhuo said that this is also a strategic material, and the imperial court also demanded it greatly. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there was an oil field in Yanzhou (Yan'an), which was discovered by Shen Kuo, the governor of the state at that time.

Shen Kuo named it Petroleum for this reason, and Shen Kuo personally presided over the expansion of the scale of oil exploration and utilization.He hosted a government-run ink factory, which produced high-quality ink ingots and sold them all over the country. The four characters "Yanzhou Shiye" were engraved on the ink ingots as a trademark, which was very popular among literati and inkmen.

Now Yanzhou Oilfield is an important oil producing area of ​​the Kingdom of Jin. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Jun once fought a battle with the Kingdom of Jin in Shaanxi. He first regained Yanzhou, and then abandoned it. Since then, the Southern Song Dynasty has almost lost the entire Shaanxi.

Now the Southern Song Dynasty has no oil producing areas at all, and it mainly comes from Quanzhou, which is basically transported by Champa and Persian merchants.

Among them, Champa has a tradition of paying tribute to the Song Dynasty, which is considered the most important source.

"In the future, the ship going to Quanzhou must buy fierce oil and sulfur." ​​Zhao Yurui said finally.

From now on, he will stockpile sulfur, various oils, saltpeter, and hardwood (for making charcoal).

Both Zhao and Rui have a lot of ships to participate in maritime trade, so they must do their best to rectify the internal problems of the Shipping Department of Qingyuan Prefecture.

In the Southern Song Dynasty at this time, it was not easy to put an end to the corruption of officials, not to mention that the Southern Song Dynasty had a tradition of not killing civil officials.

Except for Lao Han who was murdered by Lao Shibing, there are no other examples of middle and senior civil servants being killed.

But in late July, after Zhao Yurui killed three officials who did not follow the rules in one go, the entire Shibo Department was shocked, and even the officials in Dinghai County were scared to death.

At that time, the Shibo Department had been in operation for more than two months. After a period of calm, some bold officials finally began to exercise power.

In late July, a large ship with [-] raw materials from Pingjiang Prefecture (Suzhou) docked in Dinghai, saying that it was going to Quanzhou. A large amount of silk and silk was cut on board, and a batch of bronze mirrors and a batch of tea were loaded locally. take away.

After landing, two officials surnamed Wu and Li boarded the ship to check and prepare for tax verification.

At this time, the owner of the ship came forward and gave them a hundred guanzi each. Please verify the low price, and give half of the tax evasion to the two officials.

The Shibo Secretary has stated many times that this cannot be done, and Wei Liaoweng even said that the death penalty will be imposed.

Of course everyone listened and didn't take it to heart.

In the Song Dynasty, no one was killed for corruption in the Shibo department. In history, many Shibo department made big mistakes. They were either transferred or demoted. The biggest punishment is demotion, and no one was dismissed. .

Moreover, they usually deal with promotions and general judgments, and almost no officials are dealt with.

Besides, what right do you, Wei Liaoweng, have to kill people?

My Da Song murderer will report to the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple for final judgment.

Naturally, everyone didn't take Wei Liaoweng's threat to heart.

The goods carried by this ship are all valuables. As long as the two officials do less verification, they can save the shopkeeper two thousand guan in taxes, and each person can share [-] guan.

The one surnamed Wu and the one surnamed Li met and decided to do it.

Their monthly salary in Shibo is only five guan. Although Wei Liaoweng said that there will be a year-end bonus in the future, isn’t it that the year-end has not yet come? With such a low salary, how can we not get some benefits?
The two verified the price of the goods on the spot and underreported [-] guan for the owner, and then prepared to go ashore to report.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he got off the boat, he was surrounded by a group of royal guards.

Only then did they know that the ship belonged to King Wei himself.

This is the famous fishing law enforcement in the future.

But in the Southern Song Dynasty at this time, it was very useful and tried repeatedly.

As long as they are greedy in nature, no one can stand the temptation.

The two still want to explain.

Unexpectedly, without further ado, the guard on the opposite side went up to Kacha Kacha, broke their hands, and then pushed them into the river.

Then he yelled, "Someone fell into the water."

At that time, there were many people coming and going by the wharf, including merchants, other officials, and local coolies working on the wharf.

In front of so many people, the guard on the opposite side was interrupted and pushed into the water with both hands.

When the person was picked up, of course the two of them could not die any more.

The Municipal Shipping Department immediately issued a notice: Recently, the Municipal Shipping Department filed a case for review of two officials Wu and Li. After investigation, the two officials lost their ideals and beliefs, and they did not see the laws of the Song Dynasty. Collecting benefits in violation of regulations during taxation, seeking personal interests, seriously discrediting the image of the Dasong Shibo Division, and finally, when resisting the review, the two fell into the river and drowned. .

As soon as the announcement came out, everyone knew that Wei Liaoweng was real.

Wei Liaoweng didn't go through the local county government and the Criminal Department of Dali Temple at all, and pushed you directly into the sea.

It's that simple and rude.

What happened next was even more shocking and frightening.

Of course, the two family members did not agree, and they started arguing one after another, and they wanted to go to Beijing to sue the court, saying that Wei Liaoweng ordered the guards to kill.

Unexpectedly, a big fire broke out in the two families that night. After one night, the entire family property was burned down and turned into ruins. After dawn, neither of the two families disappeared, as if they had disappeared out of thin air.

Many years later, it was known that the two families had gone to Jeju to work as coolies.

The first case in the shipping market of Liangzhe City was that two people were flooded, and the two families disappeared collectively, which severely shocked the entire city shipping department and even the officials of Dinghai County.

The Shibo Secretary promoted Wei Liaoweng and specifically talked to Zhao Yurui about this matter.

When Zhao and Rui held a meeting of the municipal department, Wei Liaoweng was specially asked to speak harshly, and Wei Liaoweng was asked to rush to the front.

Wei Liaoweng thought that Zhao Yurui was just joking, but he didn't expect Zhao Yurui to be serious.

But is this useful for corruption?

"Will King Wei think that it would be useful to kill a hundred people like this?" Wei Liaoweng said: "Corruption is the most difficult thing in all dynasties."

Zhao Yurui thought for a while, and said calmly: "In Song Dynasty, there is an unwritten rule that civil servants cannot be killed. Does Wei Tiju know why?"

Wei Liaoweng said: "People are not sages, and there is nothing wrong with being familiar with it? It is not easy for scholars to study for ten years, and they have learned morality and etiquette. The so-called knowledge of mistakes can be corrected. There is nothing good about it. We should give them a chance?"

Zhao Yurui sneered: "Because this is the law made by civil servants."

"..." Wei Liaoweng was stunned for a moment, with a half-understanding expression on his face.

"The bureaucracy of our Song Dynasty is now corrupt, and the top and bottom have lost their hearts. If we can't manage it from top to bottom --- the Han people will perish." Zhao Yurui said bitterly.

If Zhao Yurui said these words to Li Huang and Li Zongmian, they would probably think that Wei Wang was alarmist.

But Wei Liaoweng stayed in the northwest, and he has a very good relationship with Li Pingxia and the Li family. He knew some military affairs, and he said in a serious voice, "Only the king of Wei can see clearly."

"No matter what, I will support King Wei."

"It's good that Wei Tiju understands, you have to carry this blame."

"..." Wei Liaoweng.

A few days later, Wei Liaoweng called the big and small officials of the Municipal Shipping Department and people from the Municipal Shipping Affairs Bureau to a meeting, and once again made a serious statement about tigers and wolfs.

Anyone who dares to embezzle and seek personal gain will be killed without mercy.

Everyone agreed that Wei Liaoweng was cruel and unscrupulous.

At the end of July, Liu Xi was sitting at home, surrounded by several people.

Liu Xi is a wealthy man in Dinghai with a family fortune of millions. He started his business by making salt, tea and food.

His son married the daughter of Zheng Zhaoxian (the 12th year of Jiading (1219), who knew the Privy Council and was also a member of the political affairs), and the two parties were related by marriage.

After Zheng Zhaoxian became an official, he lived in Qingyuan Mansion.

As soon as King Wei came over, he took back all the navy houses, and the Liu family took up most of them. However, King Wei still showed Zheng Zhaoxian a lot of face, and sent people to negotiate. He took back part of the house, and continued to rent the other part to the Liu family.

Liu Xi didn't offend the King of Wei, so he readily agreed and maintained a good relationship with the King of Wei. When the King of Wei recruited officials, many members of the Liu family were selected, and he was quite satisfied.

Since Dongyang Bank came out, several officials of the Liu family listened to Yan Kang and Yu Dafu's instigation, and successively deposited [-] coins in it, and they really got interest every month.

Some of them asked to get back the principal after earning interest, and the bank happily gave it back.

But when he saved again, the interest suddenly dropped to one thousand and eighteen, and he beat his chest and feet, feeling extremely regretful.

Afterwards, members of the Liu family and other wealthy businessmen in Dinghai often came to discuss with Liu Xi. Liu Xi had a friend who had been in business for many years, and even had a family of [-] yuan, all of which were deposited in Dongyang Bank, which was very cool with the interest.

Everyone talked about how good Dongyang Bank is in front of Liu Xi every day.

Liu Xi remained calm.

He first sent someone to check the background of Dongyang Bank, and found that it was run by Japanese businessman Liu Cheng.

Liu Cheng is a descendant of immigrants from the Song Dynasty in Japan. He lives in the local sea trade, and his family is huge and quite rich.

Then he was thinking, how does Liu Cheng make money?How can he make money by borrowing so much money?
He borrowed it at an interest rate of one thousand and ten, even if he borrowed all of it, it would not be enough to pay the interest.

Soon he got the news that Liu Cheng got the monopoly right of Japanese snow sugar. Snow sugar was very expensive and he had to pay a deposit first, so Liu Cheng didn't have enough money, so he borrowed money from the society.

Liu Cheng bought snow sugar from the King of Wei. It is said that it costs [-] Wen per catty, but when leaving Hong Kong, he has to pay one-tenth of the tax. times more.

A merchant ship full of thousands of materials is worth [-] jin. After deducting expenses, it can earn [-] guan.

If it is a three thousand material ship, one ship can earn 15 guan.

This makes money, and of course the cost is high, and it costs hundreds of thousands to buy a shipment.

"What are you waiting for? After Liu Cheng earns enough money, he doesn't need to borrow money, and the interest rate will be reduced to zero at any time." The local businessman Treasurer Ma persuaded Liu Xi with a smile.

(End of this chapter)