Liu Xie cleared his throat, and everyone pricked up their ears and waited for him to give instructions. As a result, he changed his mind and asked Zhang Zhao to say something.

Zhang Zhao stood up and said, "Everyone, "Guo Shang Sect" has been implemented in Jingzhou for three years. Among the four major merchants in Jingzhou, our Zhang family is Guo Shang, Huang, Kuai, and Cai, and it can be said that the development speed should be amazing, but the development of Jingzhou is still continuing. At present, there are several merchants in Liangzhou and Hanzhong who are willing to become Guo Shang. I wonder if you intend to become Guo Shang or Guo Shang. My king will gradually increase the qualifications of Guo Shang to be selected and the main force supports the existing Guo Shang! In this way, if your business is hit, please don't blame us."

If Zhang Zhao had been allowed to stay in the 21st century, it would be a loss if he had not been appointed as the Secretary of Commerce or Secretary of State of the United States.

Liu Xie originally thought that the Dong family meeting in Liangzhou was the first to stand out, but who knew that Mi Zhu of the Mi family stood up and said, "Your Highness, the Mi family is the largest merchant in Xuzhou and the source of taxes. Haunted departure will inevitably be subject to the severance of Xuzhou. In the past three years, I have moved most of the money of the clan to Jingzhou and will be completely moved to Jingzhou next year. I wonder if I can apply for civil and commercial affairs today?"

Zhang Zhao smiled coldly and said deeply: "My king really hopes that Mr. Mi will become a businessman in the state. Is Mr. Mi unwilling to serve my king?"

Mi Zhu sweated heavily on his forehead and said, "Your Highness the King of Chu values ​​Mi so much, I should serve you! I wonder what Your Highness wants Mi to buy and sell?"

Liu Xie had already told Zhang Zhao all his thoughts the day before yesterday. Today, he was just watching him perform alone. He didn't come to help and let Zhang Zhao pretend to be powerful once. So he didn't speak, just looked at everyone with a smile, carefully pondering the thoughts of these people.

Zhang Zhao said: "Of course, we should buy and sell grain and grass. We should pay attention to maintaining stable grain prices within the territory ruled by the King of Chu. Outside the territory, we should buy low and sell high."

Mi Zhu said: "I am willing to play, but I don't know what layers are there?"

Zhang Zhao said: "The principal is distributed from Jingzhou Prefecture and is divided into 19 layers. Although the proportion is not high, the King of Chu only set up three grain and grass state merchants in the territory. Mr. Mi used gold contracts in Jingzhou, and used goods and five zhu coins in other places. Then the profit was exchanged for gold and silver, and the Chu army in Jingzhou was responsible for escorting back to Xiangyang. The commercial tax was paid in Xiangyang, and the private merchants' ten 3 to the state merchants' ten 1. If they encounter competitors in other places, Jingzhou Prefecture can pay money and grain to suppress them."

Mi Zhu said happily: "Mi has no other skills. He asked himself how capable he has in managing grain and grass. Even if the state government does not need to come forward, he can suppress other illegal merchants."

The other major grain merchants were shocked when they heard this. If the prefectures like Jingzhou Prefecture, which has a lot of money and grain, would they be playing tricks on themselves? Besides, the tax is so low that they can lose money and sell it themselves, and Mi Zhu can make money. Several major grain merchants have to become state merchants.

According to Liu Xie's intention, Zhang Zhao only chose the Lu family as the second food and grass businessman. The third quota was released, which means that the last quota will be determined according to your performance.

After continuous recognition and comparison, Zhang Hong from Jingzhou and Zhu from Jiangdong were finally selected as the national merchants of ships, and each led the Jingzhou Shipping Society and Jiangdong Shipping Society.

Mizhu, Xuzhou and Luji, Jiangdong, were the state merchants of grain and grass, and each led the Xiangyang Grain Society and Huaiyang Grain Society.

In Caizhong, Jingzhou, Huang Min was a national wine merchant in Yizhou, and each led Yichang wine company and Bashu wine company.

Zhang Su of Yizhou and Cai He of Jingzhou were the merchants of cloth and silk, and each led the Jinshe of Western Shu and Jingzhou cloth and crew.

Wu Bo in Jiangdong and Mi Zhu in Xuzhou were the national salt businessmen, and each led the Jiangdong Salt Society and Huaiyang Salt Society.

In Jingzhou, Kuaiyue was an iron, a state-owned merchant in copper industry, and led the Xiangyang mining company.

Ma Shang unexpectedly chose Xun Yan of the Xun family and Dong Yi of Liangzhou, each leading the Longxi Ranch and Jincheng Ranch. He did not want to give it to the Dong family, but because of Dong Zhuo's failure, the Dong family felt that it was better to fall into Liu Xie than Liu Bei's hands, so he took out all the wealth and people to confiscate them, and still divided the public and private parts according to 9 to 1. Since Liu Xie was happy to agree, he was just afraid of neglecting the Niu family, so he set up the Niu family as a civil and commercial business.

After several years of hard work in the shopping mall, Huang Chengyu (Huang Chengyan's clan) also gained some understanding of business, but he was still a little short of fighting with these old merchants. In order to ensure that he could stabilize his foothold, Liu Xie let him run the pottery state merchant alone for six years and lead the Hanzhong pottery club.

After announcing the list, Liu Xie said: "Jingzhou will have two focus points in the future. Jingzhou's capital, academic institution and Chuwang Mansion are set up in Xiangyang, and Jingzhou's shipping and cargo trade focus is on Jiangling, Jiangxia, and Xiangyang Silver Society will also open branches in Jiangling and Jiangxia. At the same time, we have already negotiated with Liu Bei to open Luoyang and let everyone trade north and south."

Mi Zhu and others were all overjoyed and said that this was a good thing.

Liu Xie sneered: "This is just Liu Bei is eager to buy grain from you. Otherwise, how could they open Luoyang? Everyone knows that your interests are now tied to Jingzhou. If you want to eat up the big merchants in the north and monopolize the world market, all the Chinese merchants will unite, first, ensure that our Jingzhou will surpass them in the future confrontation with Liu Bei; second, you must bribe the opponent's officials from the northern territory such as Liu Bei and draw intelligence; third, you must poach a large number of their talents, craftsmen, scholars, and knights must dig. Those who can use money can use money, but those who cannot use money can think of his method. The expenses required will be paid by Jingzhou Prefecture; fourth, in the past two years, grain has been deliberately sold more, deliberately suppressing northern merchants. After two years, you will control a large number of markets and start purchasing large amounts of their grain, so that their grain will flow to the south. At that time, you will need gold and silver to buy food from the south.

Come and buy, wait until enough gold and silver reserves are absorbed, and all north-south transactions are used to make them have no ability to trade; Fifth, the sales of iron tools are prohibited, only purchases are allowed. All their iron tools are bought and sold to the south. The sales of civilian iron tools are basically a loss. This is a temporary phenomenon. Mr. Kuai does not have to worry. The part that Jingzhou Prefecture pays for the compensation. The iron ore and other ores will still make some profits, but it is also prohibited to be sold outside the territory of non-Jingzhou. Sixth, as long as you remember these five things, when Liu Bei is preparing to go to war with our south, I will let this general find that there is no food, no troops, no iron tools, no talents, I want to see how he fights. For the upcoming battle between the north and the south, I have made up my mind to be a merchant war. You are the most brave general under my King of Chu. The day of the great victory is when you award the marquis of the pavilion!"

The merchants were overjoyed. It was the first time I heard that a merchant could be awarded a marquis. The Han Dynasty suppressed the business people too harshly, which led to a low status for merchants. It was really a dream to be awarded a marquis.

In fact, any feudal imperial country has its foundation on the small peasant economy. Liu Xie has been determined to push the nation into the commercial era and into the market economy. Perhaps the price is that future generations will lose their throne, but this is not important. For this country and nation that have suffered humiliation in the future, all they need is victims.
Chapter completed!