After inspecting the Weiqiao warehouse, Shao Shudezhen went to Weinan and Yueyang counties.
But he didn't stay long, and soon went to Zhaoying County, where he stayed at Huaqing Palace to recuperate.
Of course, it is not a complete recuperation, because every few days, the body always loses some protein.
The prince happily returned to Chang'an to handle Annan's government affairs.
Before leaving, Shao Shude gave another careful warning.
He could see that Erlang wanted to go to the south to have a look. As for his sixth brother, Li Tangbin, who presided over the conquest of Nanzhao, he was very worried about it. He wished he could replace him, even if he could be crowned the prince one year later. He would finish the battle first.
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Shao Shude directly told him to go back and serve his wives and concubines.
This kid! If he had known earlier, he would have agreed to marry Zhe Shisi Niang to him.
After the fourteenth mother got married, she heard that her husband was treated to be docile and occasionally beaten, but the couple gave birth to four or five children, and she was a fertile woman.
pity!
After Erlang returned to Chang'an, Shao Shude thought about Annan again.
Bohai Trading Company's accounts were completed last year, with a profit of more than 52,000 yuan.
I think back to the tenth year of Jianji, when it was still the era of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it made a profit of 49,000.
The eleventh year since its founding was the first year that Bohai Trading Company operated independently, with a profit of 41,000 yuan.
The first shot has not been fired, and it is actually worse than the era of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Although the shareholders did not say anything, do they privately suspect that Jianji's ten years of profit was due to accounting?
Fortunately, profitability has increased in the twelfth year of Jianji, and many of the ships, ice cellars, and docks invested in the eleventh year have begun to be put into use. If local rebellions had not eaten up part of the profits, the accounts would have been even better.
The profit of more than 50,000 yuan can be divided into dividends.
As the Ministry of Internal Affairs responsible for daily operations, under the instruction of Shao Shude, it allocated 30,000 yuan to distribute to shareholders. Each share can earn 30 yuan - it is still in the tax holiday for the time being.
Of course, dividends are not distributed every year.
The main reason is to boost everyone's morale, let them see the money back, and gain initial trust. In this way, all subsequent decisions will be easier to make.
"Agu will only receive a dividend of three hundred yuan this year." Shao Shude sat by the steamy pool and said, "He is the supervisor of the Jiafang Department, right?"
There is one Jiafang office in every capital, and the supervisor is the lowest official, starting from the ninth rank.
Xiao Agu only participated in blacksmithing when he was in Khitan. When he came to Daxia, he watched others forge, and his life was very ordinary. It was far worse than Xiao Dilu - Xiao Dilu once dedicated the city to his sister, so that Shao Shude's descendants over the years
Having a very comfortable storage place is a great achievement, and it is indeed not comparable to Agu only.
"Yes." Yue Liduo swam over, leaned next to him, and said softly: "Agu only felt grateful for His Majesty's kindness, so he changed his name to Yongzhong, and is now called Xiao Yongzhong."
"He only gets 15 cents a month and can't earn more than 300 cents a year. This dividend is a huge sum of money for him." Shao Shude pushed Xiao Chonggun's head into the water and lay down comfortably.
On the wall of the pool, he said: "Back then, in Luoyang... Luoyang South... City, no one cared about the shares of Bohai Trading Company. It makes me angry just thinking about it. If I buy it now, hey, there is no chance."
After the Anshi Rebellion, when the financial situation was good, officials from the ninth rank down could receive twenty mins per month. When the financial situation was bad, they could receive twelve mins, ten mins, or even in arrears.
Of course, this is just money, and the benefits in kind are not taken into account. In fact, there is a lot of food distributed every month. Added up, it can be equivalent to three or four cents a month. The disadvantage is that it is too unstable. It all depends on the yamen.
Balance quantity.
This is the capital official.
Local officials also have their own ways of doing things, such as money for manual labor lessons, money for kitchen scraps, etc.
Strictly speaking, these are "welfare" and "bonuses", not "salaries". They are subsidies that the court in financial difficulties gives to officials as part of their income as much as possible when they are unable to increase their salaries.
Even if Agu only counts all these bonuses, his monthly income will not exceed 20 yuan, which is still not as good as dividends.
In addition, being an official will lead to retirement, and there will be no salary after retirement, but dividends can be distributed. Such registered stocks can even be passed on to future generations. As long as the Bohai Commercial Society exists, dividends will continue to be distributed.
"Why did your Majesty suddenly ask about Bohai Trading Company today?" Yue Liduo carefully stayed away from Shao Shude because she was afraid.
"Isn't it because of the Annan rebellion?" Shao Shude snorted coldly.
"Your Majesty has been a bit angry recently..." The Bodhisattva slave also swam over and whispered.
Her husband died early and her son died in the battle in Daibei. Now her only hope rests on Shao Shude. She knows very well that it was Shao Sheng who gave her a wealthy life that she could not even imagine before, and two children.
Therefore, she was really worried about Shao Shude's health.
"When you say that, I am also horrified." After a moment of silence, Shao Shude said.
What's the reason? He can probably figure it out.
To put it bluntly, the common problem of old emperors is insecurity.
Moreover, today's social climate has exacerbated his insecurity, because there are no rules now. Although the binding force of the system is stronger than it was thirty or twenty years ago, it is still very unreliable.
"Forget it, I'll pay attention to it in the future." Shao Shude sighed and hugged the Bodhisattva slave into his arms.
Xiao Chonggun just took a breath and was pushed under the water again.
Yue Liduo breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's go back to the Annan matter." Shao Shude said: "The profit of Bohai Trading Company this year should be even more. In this way, I have more confidence. Next year, we will discuss the establishment of Annan Trading Company. There may be less resistance and participation.
There are more people."
Bohai Trading Company's annual profit of tens of thousands of yuan does not sound big, because some tea giants in the south earn more than this every year. But it is actually not that small. After all, what are the businessmen who can make tens of thousands of yuan in profits in China?
It also ranks high.
Moreover, political accounts cannot be ignored.
For example, during the Chinese New Year, envoys from the Jurchen tribes came to Beijing to pay tribute. Tu Danliang, the envoy to the Baolu Prefecture, mentioned that last year each clan sold a number of pearls, a number of leathers, and even a pair of Haidong healthy falcons sold for a high price - this kind of
Generally speaking, special commodities are not within the business scope of Bohai Trading Co., but if you can't stand Gao Lun, the Duke of Ba, for buying them at a high price, you can only become a second-rate dealer and make a fortune in tears.
After they made money, they basically spent it all, and even owed some money, in exchange for a large number of daily necessities produced in the Central Plains and even "luxury goods" such as tea and spirits.
The ones who made the most money were the clan leaders. Some people no longer lived in the farmhouses, but began to drive piles on the frozen soil, built a beautiful wooden villa, and bought carpets, heaters and other various goods from the Central Plains - on credit.
form.
From top to bottom, overall living standards have improved.
This person, if his life gets better, his anger will become less severe. This is just the beginning. After a few decades of good life, he will probably become more "peaceful".
The Jurchens are not without knowledgeable people.
In fact, last year in Heishui Prefecture, a clan leader killed a merchant under the Ministry of Internal Affairs who went to sell liquor, instigating a group of people to revolt, and accused the Ministry of Internal Affairs of "fooling" and "exploiting" them and competing with the Bohai people who were snatching their land.
It's all the same stuff.
As a result, of course there was no good result.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs mobilized 500 soldiers from Huangzhuang, led by Yuhou Zhou Zhiyu, to arrest him. Although he escaped in the end, he and his family were captured and sent to Xiazhou to serve as a military commander in order to deter others.
"Your Majesty, what does Annan Trading Company make money from?" Although Yue Liduo subconsciously wanted to stay away from Shao Shude, when she heard this kind of thing, she stopped again and asked curiously.
Shao Shude had already noticed her little moves. He thought to himself, you may call this woman stupid, but she is actually very smart. She can often give her own opinions on military and national affairs, and she is very reliable. But if you call her smart, in the
When I hear these things about governing the country, I can't help but want to get involved, so much so that I forget about my own safety.
"When you serve me, you must have heard of the Aizhou Rebellion, right?" Shao Shude asked.
"I've heard of it." Yue Liduo nodded.
"Aizhou is actually quite good. There are nearly 10,000 households in Aizhou, and now pepper is widely grown. There are also many households in Huanzhou, and there are gold, silver, ivory, rhinoceros horns, and agarwood." Shao Shude said: "I eat on the back of the mountain.
Mountains, water and water. These commodities are urgently needed in the Central Plains. As long as they are brought here, there is no reason why they cannot be sold." Shao Shude said: "I originally wanted to build Annan Trading Company a few years later, but with this chaos, I feel that it cannot be done.
It's been delayed. Forget it this year, let's have a good discussion next year and imitate the charter of the Bohai Trading Company. Do whatever you want to do, and bring in those wealthy and aristocratic families as soon as possible. Stabilize them, and Annan will be fine. I have a hunch that this Annan business will be
The society is more profitable than Bohai Trading Company."
"Then we want to expand the fleet?" Yue Liduo asked.
"Of course I want it." Shao Shude nodded.
He had actually thought that after the rebellion was suppressed, Annan's administrative divisions would be readjusted.
The first step is to abolish Wu'an Prefecture.
This is a Zhengzhou, but it is a dual-state name, which is relatively rare in the Tang Dynasty. During the Tianbao period, Xuanzong showed his personality and turned all the states into counties. Wu'an Prefecture was called Wuqu County at that time, and it governed two counties, namely Wu'an and Linjiang.
The county is roughly located in the Haiphong and Hon Gai areas of later Vietnam.
The Youtang area has been dismissed more than once, and each time it was because of unrest.
There were only 400 households in these two counties during the Tianbao period, which is very ridiculous. But this is the reality, because the vast majority of the local population is in the hands of tribes and powerful men, and it was probably a tyranny in the early days.
Today, there are probably more than a thousand households registered in Wu'an Prefecture, and most of them live near the post station or the city. Because when officials in the Tang Dynasty went to Annan to take office, they usually took a boat in Guangzhou, landed in Wu'an Prefecture, and then went to Jiaozhou by land——
It can be seen from the poems of exiled officials of the Tang Dynasty.
Most of these thousands of households served this post road. Outside the post road and the city, there were actually plains, swamps, and forests, inhabited by numerous barbarian tribes.
Historically, after Vietnam became independent and established its country, it also conquered these tribes and drove them north. In the north, there were also Central Plains tribes who moved south, and finally merged in the mountains of Vietnam.
Shao Shude vaguely remembered that the mountainous areas of Vietnam in the 21st century were extremely poor even in Vietnam. The Vietnamese seemed to call the people living there "Miao", and the Miao people in China could even roughly understand the dialect spoken by the locals.
It can be seen that these people are not related to the Annan natives. They are related to each other to death, and it is just right to operate on them.
The two counties under the jurisdiction of Wu'an Prefecture should be merged with the four counties of Changzhou to create a new prefecture and vigorously organize households to integrate the people.
Thinking of this, Shao Shude was a little confused.
The six counties of Wu'an Prefecture and Changzhou Prefecture were all promoted from Jisi Prefecture to Zhengzhou. There were only two to three thousand households in total, and they were surrounded by large coastal tribal areas, but they did not rebel.
On the contrary, Aizhou and Huanzhou, two places with a combined population of 20,000 to 30,000 households (registered households), which are highly developed, are causing rebellion. Is it true that the more knowledge there is, the more reactionary it becomes?
But no matter what, Shao Shude still planned to believe them once.
Jiang Zhiwei, the former imperial officer of the Jing Navy, has been appointed as the new governor of Aizhou. He brought a group of Aizhou and Huanzhou children who had studied in Luoyang and served as officials for several years to return to their hometown and serve as officials at all levels.
The ancestor of the Jiang family, Jiang Gongfu, once served as the prime minister of Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty, and later lived in seclusion in Fujian, where he lived for seventy-six years. The Jiang family was also a big family in Aizhou and had great influence. After the bloody suppression, a descendant of the Jiang family served as the governor, which was regarded as giving the locals a
To appease him, I hope Mr. Jiang will not disappoint him.
"That's enough!" After thinking about it, Shao Shude pushed Xiao Zhonggun's head away, grabbed Yue Liduo who was staring at him in a daze, and said, "Don't hide, give me a child."
Yue Liduo sighed.
She once naively thought that after arriving in the Central Plains, she would be more noble and powerful than when she was in Khitan. But now she regrets it, because she forgot a fatal factor: she is a woman, and once a woman is used by a man, she will
pregnant.
In a few years, she has given birth to two children, and this is still under the condition that the saint's needs have subsided. If the saint is still as powerful as a dragon and a tiger, she cannot imagine that she will probably have children until death.
All his ambitions and ambitions were lost in the tragic situation of his stomach bulging again and again.
She now misses Abaoji's tenderness, but other people's seeds are about to give birth to new life in her belly.
After a while, Shao Shude lay back comfortably and said: "In April, I will visit the states northwest of Beijing. Yue Liduo, you will accompany me and serve."
"I obey." Yue Liduo felt that the voice did not come from her own mouth.
"I have deep feelings for the states in the northwest of Beijing." Shao Shude looked at the numb woman and laughed loudly: "It has been stable there for many years. It is very different from the Liaodong and Annan we are talking about. I still have many ideas.
, you may be able to give some suggestions. In addition, if you go there, you can receive the news from Shuzhong nearby. I have limited energy and sometimes I am lazy. Yue Liduo, please help me check the news from Xingying first.
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Yue Liduo became a little more interested, and her mood improved a lot, and she said: "I obey the order."
The Bodhisattva slave looked on with cold eyes and sighed in his heart: My sister is such a smart person, but she was eaten to death by the saint. Not only did she have to sleep with him and give birth to children, I also had to help him handle various government affairs, so that he would not end up in the end.