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Chapter 621 Xuyi

The field trade between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty began after the maritime alliance.Since the 12th year of Shaoxing, the Great Song Dynasty first set up an official supervisor in the Xuyi Army, and traded with northern merchants. Later, there were discussion venues in Huaixi, Jingxi, Shaanxi and other places.

With the war and uncertainty between the two countries, these disputes have been abandoned several times.But generally speaking, since the two countries cannot prohibit non-governmental business exchanges, the imperial court has to come forward to control such exchanges.At the same time of management and control, it can also be used for currency and profit, and it can be said that it is two conveniences to consolidate the benefits of neighboring countries.

In the past two years, the exchanges between Song and Jin were the most frequent, and the largest amount of traded materials was naturally the Mizhou Jiaoxi Market within the territory of Jin.There is a particular point here, because the location of this market is within the territory of the Kingdom of Jin, it is especially convenient for sea merchants within the territory of the Song Dynasty to sell various illegal and prohibited bulk materials, such as food and weapons, and earn high profits based on this .

After the materials are delivered at this market, they will soon be sent to all parts of the Kingdom of Jin through the sea fleet of the Shandong Ding Navy.

It is said that in recent years, the Kingdom of Jin has started conflicts with separation and reunion, and people from the desert frequently go south to graze horses and slaughter them wantonly.So on the way from Shandong to Zhongdu, they were extremely thirsty for the supplies of Song Dynasty.Those sea merchants are often able to sell their materials at high prices, and from Ding Haijun, they can get good horses, furs, ginseng, bead, etc. from the north of the Jin Kingdom, and sometimes they can even exchange them for nobles and nobles. Gold and silver treasures.

Some of these treasures were looted by the captives in Jingkang, and now they are returned to Zhao intact.

However, the benefits of the sea belong to the sea, and the market on land is still operating as usual, and it is not without profit.In particular, Xuyi army's market is facing Sizhou market in Jin Kingdom across the Huaihe River. It is very convenient for the two places to communicate with each other, so the same business is booming.

Similar to the Jiaoxi market in Mizhou, the merchants operating in the Xuyi army's market, like those maritime merchants, mostly have some kind of influence behind them.As a result, on the one hand, local officials received court documents from time to time, saying that they should focus on preventing leaks, and on the other hand, they often went off in person to escort 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, and in the end you will be ashamed and resign from office in disgrace.Only people with excellent means and connections in Beijing can do it properly.

Jia She, who knows the affairs of Baoying County, is such a person.

Jia She was born in Tiantai. His father, Jia Wei, was Secretary Lang and knew Hanzhou. Later, he was involved in political struggles in Sichuan, Jingxiang and other places. He was excluded and died of injustice.Jia She spent ten years running around complaining, even writing a letter to Fu Que to clear his father's reputation, and finally succeeded.Immediately afterwards, he got a job and became a Gaoyou county lieutenant, and later transferred to 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. Jia She moved here not because of his outstanding military talent, but because he can take care of both official and business affairs.In the entire Huainan East Road, anyone who needs to deal with Huaibei will come to ask him.

At the beginning of this year, even the envoys of the Song Dynasty were unable to go to Zhongdu, it was Jia She's idea and the arrangement of the maritime merchant fleet.

The Xuyi market and the opposite Sizhou market take turns to open every five days, and today it is the turn of the Xuyi market.Jia She left Baoying County, where his family worked, one day earlier, and brought a few servants over to have a look.

This negotiating field is located outside Xuyi City, close to a Huaitan highland where the former Xusi Floating Bridge was.The remaining bridge foundation of the pontoon bridge just happened to be converted into the upper wharf for ferrying and transporting goods and vendors.The dozens of acres of land surrounded by tree fences at Huaitan is the location of the office. After decades of construction, there are thousands of halls in the area, and the scale is very grand.

According to the imperial court system, those who own more than [-] merchants in the market are called big customers.Most of the halls are occupied by big customers for a long time. This kind of merchants have a lot of money, so they are not allowed to cross the Huaihe River for transactions. Come to the field.

So when Jia She strolled slowly all the way to the entrance of the market place, he happened to avoid hundreds of golden merchants and rushed into the market place.

He was used to coming and going in this area, even though he was only wearing an ordinary robe, the escort at the door of the interrogation hall recognized him from a distance and waved again and again.

Jia She walked over with a smile, and looked into the room with his head.The officer in charge is leading a group of soldiers who are responsible for patrolling and searching, and they are going to hit the board according to the smugglers caught yesterday.The beating was quite hard, with crackling and wailing sounds one after another.

This happened all the time, Jia She didn't bother to pay attention to it, raised a jar of wine in his hand, and asked, "Is Zhijun and Tongpan here?"

"Of course not!"

"The boss is not here, why is Lao Ma showing a diligent look? Didn't it be agreed last time that Lao Lu will bring half a fan of good beef today! Come on, let's go back to the hall and eat wine and meat!"

"Is there really good beef?"

"It's so fat that it looks like a flower cake, so tell me if it's okay!"

"Then what's the delay, I'll call the old horse, let's go!"

The share capital of the Xuyi market is as high as 16 yuan, which is no small matter.According to the imperial court system, every time the market is opened, the officials who are directly responsible for the withdrawal, disposal, and mention of points must be present for supervision.However, these positions are all concurrently held by local officials such as Zhijun and Tongpan, and the local officials know the depth of the dispute and are reluctant to intervene easily.So now the actual responsible persons have always been the supervisor, Lao Ma, and the escort, Lao Luo.

Both of them had friendship with Jia She, and what was even more frightening was that in this group, there was also Lu Boda, an envoy from Sizhou Field of Jin State across the Huaihe River, who was a Jinshi.

The four officials across the Huaihe River are all good friends. They have shared their wine, sex and wealth. In fact, they also know each other.

The three of them went directly to the office building, and sure enough, the old road that accompanied the merchants from the Kingdom of Jin to cross the river had already arrived.He also brought servants, who were cutting the fat beef.

The four of them sat down and ate and drank.

Jia She suddenly felt that Lu Boda's complexion was not good, so he asked with a smile, "Why, didn't you say last time that you are about to fill up the Shangshu Province? Go to the Zhongdu Shangshu Province, and it will be nice to talk less when you come out. Deputy envoy, then you will really become a big shot, what are you not satisfied with?"

Lu Boda threw the wine cup away, and sighed heavily: "Where is there any Shangshu Province? The central government of Dajin has been messed up, and there is no need to care about the transfer of officials in the Shangshu Province!"

It was rare for Jia She to see Lu Boda being so forthright. He laughed and asked, "Is it messed up? Could it be that some of the chief ministers just took office and started political strife again? Or is it that the Tartars from the north are fighting again?"

Lu Boda glanced at Jia She: "It's rebellion! No, it's King Qin! It's not...cough!"

He let out a long sigh: "Didn't you know that there is a Ding Navy on the border of Laizhou, Shandong, my Dajin Kingdom?"

"Of course I know that. The commander of the Dinghai Navy is named Guo Ning. It is said that there are many elite soldiers under his command, and there are also powerful forces in Jiaoxi, Mizhou."

"This Guo Ning is a vicious tiger! You don't know that since last autumn, this man led an army of [-] people, rampaging across Shandong, Hebei, Liaodong and other places, and killed tens of thousands of Tartars. Just last month, he broke into Zhongdu City again, killed countless court officials, and now imprisoned the emperor in the palace, and established himself as the Marshal of the capital! The Kingdom of Great Jin is about to end in trouble, how the hell does anyone care about a minister?"

Lu Boda slapped the table heavily, shaking the food and drink on the table: "Even if someone appoints me a clerk, would I dare to go? In Guo Ning's eyes, the Dajin court may not even be a fart. He is He kills without batting an eyelid, the iron bone in his hand is bloody because of the many people killed, and it can be smelled twenty paces away!"

"There is such a ruthless character?"

Several wine and meat friends exclaimed together.Jia She looked at Lao Ma and Luo beside him, leaned forward, and lowered his voice: "Guo Ning, why did you do such a thing?"

This matter, others will pay it off, Jia She can't help but pay attention.

Because he knew better than anyone else the extent of the transaction between Shandong and Song Guohai merchants, and how much food and other materials were sent to Shandong in the past two years.

From Jia She's point of view, Guo Ning's Dinghai power was simply fed by the smugglers of Song Dynasty!

　It is said that the former site of Xuyi Quechang is in Pengsheng Community, Xuyi County.The average price of this neighborhood is [-], which seems pretty good...

　
(End of this chapter)