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Jia She looked around the crowd with a smile on his face, bowed his hands frequently to express his thanks, and appeared more and more modest.

In his heart, he was very proud of this situation.In Yangzhou City, only he understands how powerful these merchants are.He felt guilty again.After all, he is from the Song Dynasty, at least half a year ago, he was still from the Song Dynasty.On the contrary, even if the smugglers in front of them blow their hides to the sky, smuggling itself is always digging into the corner of the Song Dynasty's finances.

In the Sizhou market in Huainan, the business tax in previous years was around 3000 to [-] guan. This year, due to the fight on Nanjing Road, it dropped to more than [-] guan.But in fact, in Chuzhou, just to the east of Sizhou, the value of grain smuggled and exported exceeds one million guan every year.Not to mention that the export of grain is prohibited by the imperial court, but only based on the average tax revenue in the market, the tax evasion here is as much as [-] guan.

Jia She estimated that the total amount of goods smuggled and exported from Chuzhou was at most only [-]% of that smuggled by sea.Based on this inference, how much tax is evaded by sea smuggling?That is hundreds of thousands, millions or even bigger numbers!

The annual income of the three municipal bureaus of the Song Dynasty in Guangzhou, Fuzhou, and Qingyuanfu, how many people are staring at it as a source of income, is only 200 million yuan in total.

Continuing to infer, we can see that the trade volume between the North and the South is nearly half of the trade volume between the Song Dynasty and the countries in the South China Sea. This is an unprecedented and explosive expansion.

However, the Great Song Dynasty was always the richest country in the world, and the imperial court was used to being extravagant from top to bottom, and there were too many silkworms clinging to this tree in the Great Song Dynasty, which took away countless nutrients.Therefore, even if the total annual income of the Song Dynasty is no less than 2000 million guan, it is still not enough to make ends meet.Even if there is no smuggling, everything is a business on the bright side, and the income of the Shibo Division normally increases by one million guan, but it is just a matter of letting the soup stop.

This is why the Lin'an court tolerated the existence of smuggling, and the reason why many officials happily intervened.

For the officials of the Song Dynasty, it is better than nothing if this piece falls into the hands of the court, and if it falls into their own hands, it will be a proper wealth for several generations.How to choose, do not hesitate at all.

Since officials generally thought so, the various unsightly scenes during this period naturally fell into the eyes of the prime minister.

But Shi Xiang never tried to stop it.

During the establishment of the Shanghai Tour, Jia She was deeply involved and was the main maker of many regulations.While he was busy making preparations, he also understood Shi Xiang's intentions.

Because in the eyes of Shi Xiang, this huge injection of financial resources is first of all a tool for him to reward and distribute fertilizers, and to win over his many henchmen.

In recent years, Shi Xiang's sphere of influence has become wider and wider, and more and more officials are attached to him. To feed this group of greedy dogs, Shi Xiang has been looking forward to this financial source for a long time.

On the other hand, Shi Xiang, as the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, naturally has a vision from a strategic position.

According to Shi Xiang, Da Song was smuggling, and Da Jin in the north was also smuggling, and what he paid was extremely precious war horses, ginseng, medicinal materials and other materials.

Both sides are digging corners with the same strength. With the prosperity of the Song Dynasty, it is definitely more supportive than any regime in the north.What's more, Da Song also gained the benefit of stabilizing the currency value of the club, which is better than that of the North.

Shi Xiang may also think that allowing those Dinghai soldiers and bandits who rose from the reckless to enjoy wealth through smuggling and sea trade will help dispel their motivation to go south to plunder.

However, history was wrong.

During political disputes, Shi Xiang often used rich and noble bribes, but he was a scholar from a wealthy family after all.He has never done business, endured hardships, had no contact with low-level people and officials, had no experience in frontier trials, and did not understand the principles of many affairs under the surface of the water.

In the north, Dajin itself is an empty puppet. Ding Haijun directly leads the trade in an official capacity, and directly distributes the proceeds from the trade within the military government.

This newly rising regime has always been based on the deterrence of force, and the trade system is just a tool for blood transfusion to the army.

And because the vast majority of people in the regime hope that they can follow Zhou Guogong Guo Ning, make further progress in politics, and even seal their wives and sons.

So so far, most of the people are working together, and Guo Ning can guarantee the internal monolithic situation. Occasionally, his own family will be punished for corruption and distribution of fat.

In the past two years of trade, the Ding Navy has not collected taxes, so it has not lost any taxes at all.However, the vast majority of the profits from trade have been supplemented by all aspects of the government that are in urgent need of money, especially the expansion of the army, which has benefited greatly from this.

In the south, the situation facing Song Dynasty was just the opposite.

Trade requires people to do it. While obtaining huge amounts of materials and benefits, it needs people to maintain trade routes, establish transportation channels, open up many nodes, and distribute huge benefits. It requires manpower, material resources, financial resources, and power. Keep investing.

With two years of investment, some things were built and some were quickly destroyed within the territory of the Song Dynasty.

What was established was the community of interests related to each trade route, and what was destroyed was the original legal system and government management capabilities of the Great Song Dynasty outside the community.

According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, if the value of smuggled goods exceeds ten guan, it is enough to be punished by death.The officials sheltered the smugglers, and they were exiled to Qiongzhou and never returned.As for the soldiers and civilians along the border, ten households have one guarantee, one smuggler, and ten households sit together. If they can report and expose, the rewards range from fifty to three thousand.

During the Chunxi period, the court of the Song Dynasty cleared up illegal smuggling, killing a lot of people in a short time. Yanhan in Chizhou was used as the big court, and Huangzhou was used as the small court.

But such a thing is now impossible to do in various parts of Huainan.

Jia She was not clear about the situation at sea.But in all parts of Huainan, the army has become the guard of the smuggling team, and the officials are supported by the smuggling team.The merchants leading the smuggling became more and more powerful, and vaguely began to fight against the umbrella behind them, and even vaguely regarded Dinghai as a new umbrella.

On the contrary, the government offices in Huainan, which were supposed to strictly prohibit smuggling, at first benefited from the merchants, and because of Jia She's dealing with them, they turned their eyes away. A behemoth to face.

Don't talk about anything else, just talk about Xie Guoming in front of Jia She.This gentleman claims that he wants to spend millions of dollars to participate in the shares, but of course he is blowing his mind and intending to make a big splash.The ability of such merchants to raise money cannot surpass the skillful Jia She himself.

Jia She estimated that Xie Guoming's private property in the family was about half of my Jia's, that is, 20 guan. Including those gold beads that were bought by fire during the smuggling and buried under the bed, there were [-] guan.

In the early years, a businessman with such a fortune would have been a fattened pig at most, and the officials in charge of power here in Huainan could just swipe their fingers and wipe out their wealth.

But now, the situation is different from earlier years.The key is not the money itself, but the fact that Xie Guoming has traveled to the Northland many times to do business, and he has earned such a large net worth in just two years, so he naturally has the power he can use.

As far as Jia She knew, Xie Guoming had six ships, 500 sailors, and [-] strong servants, who could serve as guards in times of emergency.He has his own warehouses and hotels in Yangzhou, Gaoyou, Baoying, and Chuzhou, and there are as many as [-] people who work for him every day.

At this moment, there are 23 smugglers gathering respectfully in front of Jia She.Each of them is not inferior to Xie Guoming, and their strength is not bad. Generally, there are more than a thousand strong men, and there are even more than 2000 men. They have bows, knives and armor at home.

Such a group of people were basically useless in the early years, and they would be beheaded by the government at any time to show the public.At the beginning of the prosperity of North-South trade, in order to open up a trade route, they also had to kowtow and kowtow along the road.

But after two years, their wallets have bulged, their confidence is full, and their courage has grown.Even without Zhou Guogong's call to form a business firm, these 20-plus smugglers controlled more than 3 strong men, many of whom were vicious and rebellious.With this power, they are more than enough to succeed or fail to succeed.

This kind of group was busy with business before, so they would not easily get ahead, but they all relied on Jia She's long-sleeved skill in dancing, relying on him to get through all the joints, so they respected him very much.

But this time Ding Haijun came forward, together with the senior officials of Lin'an, proposed to set up a firm to cover land trade between the north and the south...

The huge benefits contained in this immediately made everyone's heart beat faster, their blood boiled, and some even trembled.

The loyalty of smugglers is probably one of the biggest jokes in the world.Here in the Southern Dynasties, the people are not like the disaster victims in Shandong, they can't survive at all. If it weren't for the lack of morality in their hearts, who would risk violating the laws of the country to do this?
But once they grow bigger, they benefit from such illegal behaviors and become the most loyal again.It's just that they are not loyal to a certain person, but real money!

Those who can give them real money can drive them and control them.And the power of these people will be gathered in one place, and the influence of the local government on them will be completely abandoned.If it is followed up and guided, there will be a second government in the Huainan area, which is overhead from all over the government!
Just in Jia She's luxurious garden, dozens of people were all happy, thinking of the beautiful scene in the future, thinking of the money flowing like a river, everyone's breath was short, looking at Jia She was like looking at his own brother, wishing to drink blood on the spot For the alliance.

But the Song court will not sit back and watch the situation deteriorate, completely helpless.

Outside Jia She's mansion, in a small courtyard across a side street, someone squinted and stared, repeatedly counting the number of carriages and horses waiting outside the door.After a while, a cold light flashed in the person's eyes, and he said bitterly: "A group of moths!"