The trade between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty began after the Maritime Alliance. Starting from the 12th year of Shaoxing, the Song Dynasty first set up officials and supervisors in the Xuyi Army to trade with Northern merchants, and later Huaixi and Jingxi.
, Shaanxi and other places.
With the war and uncertainty between the two countries, these business areas have been eliminated several times. But generally speaking, since the two countries cannot prohibit private business exchanges, the court must step in to control such exchanges. While controlling, they can also
Currency is beneficial and helps neighboring countries, which can be said to be two conveniences.
In the past two years, the most frequent exchanges between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, and the largest amount of traded materials, was naturally the Mizhou Jiaoxi Forging Market in the Jin Kingdom. There is a special point here, precisely because the location of this forging market is in the Jin Kingdom.
It is particularly convenient for maritime merchants in the Song Dynasty to sell various illegal and prohibited bulk materials, such as food and weapons, and earn high profits.
After the materials are delivered at this foray, they will soon be sent to various parts of the Jin Kingdom through the maritime fleet of Shandong Dinghai Navy.
I heard that in recent years, the Jin Kingdom has been engaged in conflicts, and people from the desert often go south to herd horses and kill as many people as they want. The Jin Kingdom has been fighting with them for years, spending countless money and food. So on the way from Shandong to Zhongdu, they
The Song Dynasty was extremely thirsty for supplies. Those maritime merchants were often able to sell the supplies at high prices, and from Ding Haijun, they obtained fine horses, furs, ginseng, northern pearls and other items from the northern part of the Jin Kingdom, and sometimes even exchanged them for
Gold and silver treasures obtained from noble families in Zhongdu.
Some of these treasures were looted by the captors during the Jingkang period, but now they have returned to Zhao intact.
However, the benefits of the sea belong to the sea, and the forging field on land is still operating as usual, and it is not without profit. Especially the forging field of Xuyi Army, across the Huaihe River, is directly opposite the Sizhou field of the Jin Kingdom. It is very important whether the two places can communicate with each other.
Convenient, so business is booming.
Similar to the forecourt in Jiaoxi, Mizhou, the merchants operating in the foragement of Xuyi Army, like those maritime merchants, most likely have some kind of power behind them. So much so that local officials received documents from the court every now and then, saying that they wanted to
It has the disadvantage of specializing in preventing leaks. On the one hand, it often goes out in person to protect certain merchant teams.
Of course, this kind of thing is not easy to do well. If you are not careful, you will offend this person or that person. In the end, you will be embarrassed and lose your official position in disgrace. Only those who have very good means and have some connections in the capital
, can it be done properly.
Jia She, the official of Zhibaoying County, was such a person.
Jia She was from Tiantai. His father Jia Wei was a secretary and knew Hanzhou. Later, he was involved in political struggles in Sichuan, Jingxiang and other places. He was ostracized and died unjustly. Jia She spent ten years traveling around.
He appealed and even wrote a letter to Fu Que to clear his father's reputation, and finally succeeded. Then he received a favor and became a lieutenant of Gaoyou County. Later, he was transferred to the post of Wan'an County Magistrate, and then learned about Baoying County affairs.
Gaoyou and Baoying counties are both close to the border between Song and Jin Dynasties. Jia She would move around here, not because of his outstanding military talents, but because he could take care of both official and business affairs. The whole
Huainan East Road, anyone who needs to deal with Huaibei will come and ask him.
At the beginning of this year, even the envoys from the Song Dynasty court tried to go to Zhongdu but failed because it was Jia She's idea and the arrangement of the merchant fleet.
The Xuyi Query Market and the opposite Sizhou Market take turns opening every five days. Today is the turn of the Xuyi Query Market. Jia She left Baoying County where he worked one day in advance and brought a few servants over to take a look.
This forage market is located outside Xuyi City, near the Huaitan high ground where the Xusi Floating Bridge used to be. The remaining bridge foundation of the floating bridge was repurposed as a dock for ferry navigation, transporting goods and vendors. The Huaitan area is fenced with trees.
Dozens of acres of land are where the Qianqian is located. After decades of construction, the Qianqian has thousands of halls and is very large in scale.
According to the imperial system, those who own more than 100 pieces of goods in the market are called big customers. Most of the halls are occupied by big customers for a long time. Such merchants are very wealthy, so they are not allowed to trade across the Huaihe River. The Jin people
To buy their goods, you have to come to the market with a certificate recognized by the Song and Jin families.
So when Jia She strolled slowly all the way to the entrance of the fork market, he just happened to avoid hundreds of Jin merchants and rush into the fork market.
He was used to coming and going in this area, and even though he only wore ordinary robes, the escort at the gate of the market recognized him from a distance and waved his hand.
Jia She walked over with a smile and looked inside the smuggling yard. The officer in charge was leading a group of soldiers responsible for patrols and inspections, and they were beating the smugglers caught yesterday. The beatings were quite hard, and there were crackling and wailing sounds.
The sounds come and go.
This happened all the time. Jia She didn't bother to pay attention. He raised a jar of wine in his hand and asked, "Are Zhijun and Tongpan here?"
"Of course not!"
"The boss is not here, how can Lao Ma show his diligence? Didn't we agree last time that Lao Lu will bring half a fan of good beef today! Come on, let's go back to the hall and have wine and meat!"
“Is there really good beef?”
"It's so fat that it looks like a flower cake. Do you think it's okay?"
"Then why are you delaying? I'll call Lao Ma and leave now!"
The share capital of Xuyi Forex Market is as high as 165,000 guan, which is no small matter. According to the imperial court system, every time the Forex Market opens, the officials who are directly responsible for the withdrawal, disposal, and promotion of points must be present to supervise. However, these positions,
They are all concurrently held by local officials such as Zhijun and Tongpan. The local officials know the depth of the situation and are reluctant to intervene. Therefore, the actual people in charge now are Lao Ma, the officer in charge, and Lao Luo, the escort officer.
Both of them had friendships with Jia She, and what was even more frightening was that in this group there was Lu Boda, a Jinshi-born envoy from Sizhouchang of the Jin Kingdom across the Huaihe River.
The four officials across the Huaihe River are all good friends. They have shared their wine, sex, wealth, and wealth with each other. In fact, they all know each other, and each of them has a mission to find out information for his own court.
The three of them went directly to the hall. Sure enough, Lao Lu, the merchant who had accompanied the merchants from the Kingdom of Jin across the river, had already arrived. He also brought his servants and was cutting the fat beef.
The four of them sat down and had a meal and a drink.
Jia She suddenly felt that Lu Boda's face was not good, so he asked with a smile: "Why, didn't I say last time that you were going to replenish the minister's salary? Go to Zhongdu Shangshu, and you should be polite when you come out and talk less.
If you are the deputy envoy, you will really become a big shot, what else is there to be dissatisfied about?"
Luboda threw the wine cup away and sighed heavily: "Where is the Shangshu Province? The central capital of Dajin is already in chaos, how can we care about the transfer of officials in the Shangshu Province!"
Jia She rarely saw Lu Boda be so forthright. He laughed and asked, "What's going on? Is it because a new prime minister has taken office and started political strife again? Or are the Tatars from the north coming again?"
Lu Boda also looked at Jia She: "It's a rebellion! No, it's King Qin! It's not...cough!"
He let out a long sigh: "In our country, Laizhou, Shandong Province, there is a Dinghai navy. Do you know that?"
"Of course I know that. The name of Ding Haijun Jiedushi is Guo Ning. It is said that he has many elite soldiers under his command, and he is also powerful at the Jiaoxi Forging Field in Mizhou."
"This Guo Ning is an evil tiger! You don't know that since last autumn, this man has led an army of 100,000 people and marched across Shandong, Hebei, Liaodong and other places, killing tens of thousands of Tatar Khans and leaving the fields littered with horse corpses.
.Just last month, he broke into Zhongdu City again, killed countless imperial officials, and now imprisoned the emperor in the palace and made himself the marshal of the capital! At this time, countless military and state capitals around Zhongdu were in a state of excitement.
The Kingdom of Jin is about to suffer from wars and disasters, so why the hell does anyone care about a minister?"
Lu Boda slapped the table gum hard, causing the food and wine on the table to jump: "Even if someone appoints me a document, would I dare to go? In Guo Ning's eyes, the Dajin Court may not even be worth it. And he is
He kills people without blinking an eye, and because he killed so many people with the iron bone flower in his hand, the smell of blood is so strong that you can smell it from twenty steps away!"
"Is there such a ruthless character?"
Several fair-weather friends exclaimed together. Jia She looked at Lao Ma and Lao Luo beside him, leaned forward and lowered his voice: "How could Guo Ning do such a thing?"
Others would just settle this matter, so Jia She couldn't help but take it seriously.
Because he knows better than anyone else the scale of Shandong's maritime trade with Song Dynasty, and the huge amount of food and other materials that have been sent to Shandong in the past two years.
In Jia She's view, Guo Ning's naval power was simply fed by the smugglers of the Song Dynasty!