After seeing off Shi Deyi, Feng Jing led Xing Shu, who had arranged the shift early, in.

"I respectfully ask Your Majesty for your good fortune." Xing Shu came to Zhao Xu and bowed slightly.

Because it is in a private place, there is no need to worship or something like in the court.

This is also the reason why the Zhao officials prefer to summon ministers to discuss matters in private occasions - both the courtesy of ministers should be polite.

The minister worships solemnly, can the emperor sit and receive it?

This was impossible in the Middle Ages.

It was even more impossible in the Song Dynasty, where they ruled the world with scholars and officials.

If a minister salutes solemnly, the emperor needs to meet with him in a manner to show respect.

In private, the emperor wore regular clothes and hats, and the ministers did not need to be stern about him like a Taoist scholar.

"Sit down!" Zhao Xu greeted with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Xing Shu nodded and skillfully sat on a porcelain stool in front of Zhao Xu.

Feng Jing brought people and brought tea and snacks, and then retreated.

After Xing Shu drank some tea, Zhao Xu asked, "What did the Liao people say?"

Xing Shu replied: "Just as Your Majesty expected!"

Zhao Xu chuckled and stroking his palm, praising: "Good!"

Product dumping is an unprecedented magical power.

Because no one has ever used it, naturally no one will be wary of it.

But Zhao Xu knew that as long as the Liao people purchased a large amount of cheap cloth from the Song Dynasty, what should the Liao Dynasty do if it is its own handicraft industry?

It will inevitably lead to a collapse of the small peasant economy, which will lead to an economic crisis and cause serious social conflicts.

But the Song Dynasty does not need to worry about this.

Because the Song and Liao countries are disproportionate in population.

According to modern people's research, the population of Liao is about 9 million now (the official Liao people are at the peak of 1.4 million households, but there must be a large number of hidden populations and ethnic minorities not included in the statistics list).

And what about the Song Dynasty?

In the first year of Yuanfeng, the household registration survey of the prefectures and counties in the world included 16.7 million household registrations!

Ten times that of the Liao people!

The total population may have exceeded 100 million after the sixth year of Yuanfeng!

Just in Kaifeng Prefecture, the registered main household of Kaifeng Prefecture has now reached more than 400,000 households, about 2 million.

It is precisely because of this unprecedentedly large population that the three redundant problems in the Song Dynasty are difficult to solve!

Because in essence, the so-called redundant officials, redundant personnel, and redundant soldiers are all choices made by the Zhao official family to ease class conflicts and avoid invasion.

This is a huge pressure!

It is the sword of Damocles hanging above the heads of the Zhao official family!

But at the same time, such a large population means that it has infinite potential for development (pressure) expansion (explosion).

The mismatch between economic conditions in various regions and the asymmetry of prices have further magnified the space for the people of the Song Dynasty to promote (pressure) and exert (pressure) and exert (pressure) and expropriation.

For example, this time, Zhao Xu offered the price of the cloth to the Liao people.

It seems to have penetrated the floor price.

But in fact, it has two or three times the profit!

Why?

Because the raw materials such as silk, ramie, etc. used by Zhao Xu to weave cloth were purchased from remote military states in the Song Dynasty.

For example, silk is basically from eastern Zhejiang, while ramie is purchased from Jinghu South Road, Guangnan West Road and other prefectures and counties.

The price is quite touching.

Because these places are inconvenient and far away from the developed Central Plains region, merchants do not like to go there.

The silkworms raised by local people and the ramie grown by them can basically be used for their own use and cannot be sold for money.

When the censor Peng Ruli was in Xining, he wrote a letter to Zhao Xu's father on this issue and said: "East and East Zhejiang, silk is less than 400 per catty, and the people are in poverty and have nothing to sell."

no way!

The prefectures and counties in the Song Dynasty, and even local counties and townships, set up checkpoints to passers-by, and blackmailed merchants.

This is still for people from this prefecture.

If a foreign businessman has no strong backer, he will rashly break into a strange place.

That's a bet on life!

Whether officials or heroes, they all like this kind of young man.

They are very willing to eat it completely.

Therefore, the ancients said: No woodcutters are sold for a hundred miles, and no woodcutters are sold for a thousand miles.

But Zhao Xu didn't have this distress.

So, Chen Mu was ordered to buy a large amount of silk in Zhejiang Provinces at a price of 300 coins per kilogram of silk and 400 coins per kilogram of medium silk.

Eat as much as you can!

Then, these silks were transported to Haizhou and other transit places through sea transportation and grain.

Then transported to Xuzhou by land and transported from Xuzhou through the Grand Canal to Beijing.

Because I went to Beijing with grain, the logistics cost was greatly reduced.

The shipping fee for silk per kilogram is only ten yuan.

According to past experience, a piece of silk can be weaved by twelve taels of silk, and a piece of silk can be weaved by twelve taels of medium silk.

According to Chen Mu, the local cocoons are actually cheaper!

Just so happens that Shen Kuo is studying a wire reeling machine, and now he is about to succeed.

Wait until the wire reeling machine comes out, and set up wire reeling workshops and textile workshops locally.

After using local cheap cocoon resources nearby, they are made, and exported overseas through Mingzhou Maritime Service.

The same operation method is used for ramie on Jinghu South Road and Guangnan West Road.

However, the logistics cost is more than twice as high as Zhejiang.

But, this is still a miracle!

Because it was wanted by Zhao Xu, all of these ramie were used in the method of regulating the fortune.

Well, it is the general method of Yang Zhi escorting the birthday gift in Water Margin.

Just so happen, the local wing army has nothing to do?

Now, Zhao Xu has assigned them tasks.

The logistics cost of twenty coins per kilogram was spent on the Gangyun (the rewards of the big head soldiers and the investigation of the officers [the Gangyun of the Northern Song Dynasty could accumulate merit once if the officer was escorted once, such as the Gangma, and there was a regulation that the number of times the officer could be transferred to another official position]).

So, this is equivalent to Zhao Xu's price increase of about twenty yuan per catty and transporting local cheap resources from remote military provinces to Bianjing.

Only the emperor can play this great shift in the universe.

That is, last year, the Grand Canal was temporarily out of navigation due to severe drought. In order to meet the needs of Bianjing, a large amount of ramie was left in the logistics transfer distribution centers of Runzhou, Yangzhou and other canals, and it will not be transported to Bianjing this summer.

Otherwise, there would be more linen in Zhao Xu's hand.

Another factor that determines the price of cloth is manual.

Weaving is very tiring and useless.

In the past, small peasant economy used to weave a piece of silk, and even skilled weaving would take several days.

But now, the weaver in Ayanjinyuan uses a Taimu wheel to spin yarn, and a person can spin yarns in a day, which is four or five times the efficiency of the past.

This is because I am not proficient in my skills and have not fully mastered the skills of the Taima Cart.

At the same time, it is also because there are only eight spindles in Taima trucks today.

By the future, the technology will be more advanced, with the number of spindles reaching thirty-two, or even more! The weaver’s skills are more proficient, and it is not impossible for a weaver to spin a spindle that it takes someone else a month to spin.

Then you may ask - the weavers' productivity has increased several times, and their income will definitely increase several times, right?

Zhao Xu can only reply to this.

Of course, it cannot be said that there is no improvement.

After all, Lingjinyuan has always been a piece-based salary system, which is quite humane.

If there is a female worker who does not hesitate to spin her body, her income can indeed reach several times the past.

But she has to trade her health!
To be continued...