Zhao Zhen looked through Ye An's memorial and nodded slightly: "Well, this makes sense. There are many things in your letter that I have seen for the first time, but I can't help but understand it! It's just the last one... prohibiting party items, Ning Damage to war horses, denying iron weapons, and the art of observing objects. It seems that you are still wary of Dangxiang! But I heard that Dangxiang has repeatedly used troops in the Western Regions and even had conflicts with the Xilie Army. Why did the Xilie Army go to the Western Regions to fight?"
Ye An felt suddenly and immediately replied: "Reporting to the official family, it has been several years since I left Ganliang. How does this matter have anything to do with me? As for the Xi Lie Army's dispatch of troops to the Western Regions, the Imperial City Division received a tip and went out. Training to eliminate the bandits."
"Bandits?" Zhao Zhen looked at Ye An in confusion: "There are also bandits in the Western Regions?"
This is the same as "Why not eat minced meat?" Ye An smiled bitterly and said: "Officials, let alone the Western Regions, there are bandits in even the country, let alone the Western Regions. In those places, bandits are rampant, and caravans are often robbed. , even the small town of Xizhou is colluding with the sand bandits to constantly harass our Song Dynasty caravan. A few days ago, even the Western Region caravan of Fufeng Company was attacked, and the loss was no less than 100,000 yuan!"
Zhao Zhen looked at Ye An in surprise: "Fufeng Company also does such business? This Western Region is really a money-spinner!"
Ye An nodded repeatedly and said: "This is natural. The caravan not only trades with the Uighurs in Xizhou, but also with the Black Khanate, Huazizi Mo Country, and even Black Clothes Dashi and other countries further west. Otherwise, this Such wealth?"
Only now did Zhao Zhen have some understanding of the Song Dynasty's northwest trade. Before that, he didn't know that the Song Dynasty's merchants had already extended their trade to the Western world.
Only then did Zhao Zhen understand what Ye An meant. He nodded slightly and said, "That's fine. I will handle this matter with the Third Secretary."
But what he didn't know was that the relationship between Fufeng Company and Puhui Company had actually changed from a competitive relationship to a cooperative relationship...
The clan did not want to see Ye An, and there was a deep grudge between the two parties. This was known to the entire city of Tokyo. However, as the Puhui Company grew bigger and bigger, many companies began to find something was wrong and followed the Fufeng Company to fight against it. This behemoth is better off drinking soup behind Puhui Store, and sometimes even eating a piece of meat.
As a result, many companies began to become fans of Puhui Company, which made the originally huge business empire prosperous again, but Fufeng Company began to suffer losses under multiple blows.
There are many smart people in the clan who discovered that from the beginning, everyone was competing against Puhui Company under the leadership of Zhao Zongli, but the real business philosophy of Puhui Company is to constantly seek partners. Many small businesses have been supported by Puhui Company. be able to continue.
So people in the clan who were slightly close to Ye An began to secretly build bridges, hoping to reconcile with Ye An. After all, even Lu Yijian could reconcile with him, why couldn't the clan?
The grandson of Han Gongxian King Zhao Yuanzuo, the son of Pingyang County Prince Zhao Yunsheng, and Huayin County Prince Zhao Zongdan personally waited for Ye An in Shiweitian. The two quietly reached an agreement, and the competitive relationship between Puhui Company and Fufeng Company changed from ally.
And Ye An also showed enough sincerity, exchanged information, shared market intelligence, and divided the market. Fufeng Company also introduced the management system of Puhui Company and began to carry out capitalization transformation.
These things were all carried out quietly. Many people just felt that Fufeng Company and Puhui Company were becoming more and more similar, but they did not know that these two companies had begun to join forces to occupy the market of Da Song Dynasty.
All the small shops in Tokyo began to join this huge capital game. Even they themselves did not realize that the supply of goods in their hands had been monopolized and prices had been controlled.
Puhui Department Store has opened branches in all the state capitals of the Song Dynasty. These branches need supplies, clerks, carriages and horses, shops and other needs. These things will naturally be given to local stores, allowing them to form an alliance with Puhui Stores.
kind of cooperation.
How many people are directly or indirectly related to Puhui Company every year? No one can tell. Even if the Third Division collects taxes every year, it still needs to send officials and soldiers from Tokyo to the main office on Nanmen Street to collect taxes.
Not only the annual taxes are huge, there is also a large amount of copper coins that need to be transported back. If soldiers are not sent to escort them, there will be no way to account for the shortage.
In this way, the Puhui Company treated the soldiers with special care. For fear of omissions, in addition to the rewards they deserved, they also gave them food and wine. This move made the officials feel very happy.
Nowadays, the Puhui Company is inseparable from the imperial court. Every year, large sums of tax revenue are sent to the national treasury, and the money is paid to the families of ordinary people who come to work. This not only supports the imperial court, but also supports the people.
He killed many people in the Song Dynasty.
If Puhui Company is now closed, it will not only conflict with the imperial court's tax revenue, but also have the most fatal impact on all walks of life in the Song Dynasty.
Puhui Company is not simply engaged in the business of a certain industry, but adopts diversified operations and diversified manufacturing to connect upstream and downstream, forming an industrial chain that runs through the Song Dynasty. This is not as simple as an industrial chain.
Tea from the southeast, wool and cotton from the northwest, handicrafts from the north, grain from Hedong, ironware from Xuzhou, liquor from Tokyo, etc. are all big industries throughout the country. It can be said that once Puhui Company collapses, there will be no more.
No one can concentrate such a large-scale industry.
As an emperor, Zhao Zhen knew very little. He might know how the Puhui Company in Tokyo operated, but he didn't know that it was just a branch of the Puhui Company. The head office of the Puhui Company controlled the entire Song Dynasty.
The business is running, but it only pays taxes on sales in Tokyo, while other businesses in other places pay taxes separately. There are so many things that can be hidden, and it is impossible to find out.
Ye An requested an order from Zhao Zhen to standardize the taxation in the northwest. In essence, it was just to bring the industries in the northwest into the standardization system. In order to silence others, the larger the business operation, the more necessary it is to "act in accordance with the law", so as not to
Being caught by someone's pigtails is not worth the gain.
Puhui Village outside Tokyo has been transformed. All manufacturing techniques have been copied to the northwest. Puhui Village's craftsmen have gradually moved to Ganliang, leaving only skilled workers and craftsmen responsible for the normal operation of the equipment.
All research and development and new equipment manufacturing are not there. Ye An will not tell Zhao Zhen that he has split the Puhui company in two and transferred the most important and core things to the northwest.
Even the Cao family doesn't know the secret. This is the benefit and convenience brought by management rights.
Three years, just three years, Ye An and Qin Mumu have completed the first step of industrial relocation. In the accounting books, Gan Liang is not very prosperous in the taxation of the Song Dynasty, but privately it has caught up with Tokyo.
The economic power of the city.
If it were not suppressed by the headquarters in Tokyo, Ganliang's products would be dumped on a massive scale throughout the Song Dynasty. The destructive power would be terrifying, but Ye An did not limit Ganliang's output.
In this era, almost any product can find a market. A large amount of goods are shipped from Ganliang to the West in exchange for wealth. Wealth can be hoarded, unlike goods that can be lost due to long-term hoarding.
More importantly, Ganliang and the Western Regions have gradually become inseparable.