Chapter 886 Great ideal, approaching the end
The current Song embassy is both a diplomatic and trade portal.
There were many fans of Panda at the door early in the morning, all of whom were powerful people from the Liao Kingdom. They were waiting to ask for the price so that they could place orders. No one wanted to fall behind. These guys who liked to play no longer like hunting, and wanted to fly first.
Even the master who didn't want to fly, today when Xiao's lining lifted the ban on "importing hot air balloons" and wanted to order a special plane to show off. No other reason, under the current situation, there is no original imported hot air balloon in the Song Kingdom, and I feel embarrassed to say that I am a powerful man in the Celestial Kingdom.
Later generations of little rich people play with famous cars, but of course they will not "drive Lamborghini bats to buy groceries every day". The circle of big rich people always plays cruise ships and planes. Who is the damn who has time to talk about Lamborghini limited edition like a nouveau riche all day long?
So now these big men in Beijing don’t want to play the Gao carriage anymore. That one is so weak that they want to play the angry panda.
In this era, foreign trade laws were very simple and sometimes very rough. Of course, there was a foreign trade ban on Song State. Some things were not allowed to be bought and some things were not allowed to be sold. But in fact, this was Xiao's innermost sentence, and he said that he would approve it.
Lao Xiao himself wanted this hot air balloon, so of course it was not convenient to order "for the emperor only". So after Gao Fangping promised that "you will get your balloon for free after you lift the import ban", Lao Xiao went to Liao to talk to the Emperor and said that the State of Song could sell and transfer hot air balloons to the Great Liao, but it could not be exclusive to the Emperor of Liao. Otherwise, he would not be willing to produce it or send craftsmen to stay in the house.
In the end, the Emperor of Liao was deceived by Lao Xiao. I heard that if it was exclusive to the emperor, it would not benefit the unity of the powerful and noble class of Liao and the stability of the royal family and tribes. So I had to agree to open the ban so that the powerful class could have hot air balloons together.
So yesterday, the Emperor of Liao did not attend court, and Lao Xiao presided over the court discussion. As soon as he approved the import of hot air balloons, the door of the Song embassy was crowded today.
A group of noble people waving money shouted to place an order, and they were hoarse.
If it is not vulgar, it is not Gao Fangping.
This time, Gao Fangping made a statement. Given the worrying form of public security in Liao, we can accept orders but not cash, but only Song banknotes or Song banknotes.
These guys were stunned in an instant. The copper coins of the Song Kingdom were indeed also hard currency of the Liao Kingdom. However, I have only heard of paper money, but it is rare. I heard that the one was more popular in the Western Xia Dynasty. Then through the trade between the Liao Kingdom and the Western Xia Dynasty, a small amount flowed through the Liao Kingdom, but it was basically limited to the use of the Yanjing area, which was under great pressure to transport money and was the most severely sinicized.
No one admits that the banknotes brought to Beijing for the time being. No one is crazy about it and is willing to exchange real gold and silver and beads for some colorful paper to store.
Now they are crying and facing a choice.
Gao Fangping, who gave a public speech, said loudly: "My Song Dynasty's reputation is well-known. In the years since the Chanyuan period, the Song Dynasty has been keeping Chen Nuo for a hundred years and has never lost its promises. It has been based on integrity. You might as well think about it this way. Paper money and bills have been operating for many years and are becoming more mature. At present, the Western Xia is circulating widely, not only solving their money shortage, but also eliminating the pressure of transferring and storing money. It has been running for more than a year in the Western Xia Dynasty. Paper money and bills have never lost their promises. Xixia has benefited from the royal family to the common people. And some of you have discovered that your trade interests in Yanjing are closely related to the Song Dynasty paper money. Many times, the people of Xixia no longer see the Song sword and do not trade. Is there any?"
This situation is true, but everyone is still looking at Gao Fangping in a daze.
Gao Fangping continued: "This is because the transaction between the people of Xixia and you is ultimately for profit, and they have to exchange the materials they need from Song State. But there is a problem that only Song State banknotes can buy Song State materials. Indeed, after getting gold and silver, they can also exchange them from fixed channels to Song State banknotes, but some exquisite merchants basically do not collect gold and silver in order not to increase their transportation risks and transport costs and losses of gold and silver, and only collect paper money that is convenient to carry and deposit and withdraw. Therefore, in the trade of Yanjing, gold and silver are depreciating rapidly and have lost their previous purchasing power. The reason is that there is no other reason. Now that there are banknotes to choose from, those unscrupulous merchants have to bear the transportation risks and transportation losses when they receive gold and silver. So they can only increase the selling price for orders for gold and silver transactions to balance costs. This is the essence."
"However, what if we listen to you now and get cheated by you after changing bills and banknotes?" asked a bearded man.
Gao Fangping pointed at him and said, "You said it well, do I look like a person as crazy as you? I didn't ask you to change your property to paper. I only said that the hot air balloon order only collects banknotes and bills of exchange. You can exchange the hot air balloons for as much as you want to trade with me. It's that simple. In fact, there is nothing you can worry about. If I can collect the money, I will disappear, and I will disappear after collecting your real money. Isn't it right?"
"That sounds reasonable."
The powerful people whispered to each other. Anyway, there was no spot stock now, so they could not clear the money in front of each other. Then there was the seller's market. Gao Fangping had the final say. Of course, he had to give the money first, and prayed that this kid would not run away with the money. It was impossible that such awesome Panda number would be like going to a restaurant to have a drink, and then finishing the food after eating.
Thinking about it this time, although I couldn't place an order, I went to find a way to get banknotes.
There is no money house in Song State in Shangjing, which is not in line with Gao Fangping's interests, nor is it in line with Lao Xiao's political interests. To put it bluntly, it is a bit sensitive.
At present, the entire Liao Kingdom only has a gray money house in Yanjing, the trading center. The reason why it is called gray is because it exists based on unspoken rules and needs. It is not legal, but Lao Xiao did not say that he was illegal. Anyway, he is not in Shangjing, so he just turns his eyes and pretends to be unable to see it.
The first branch in Liao Kingdom and the establishment of a semi-underground bank was considered a dangerous move by Gao Fangping, the helmsman of the money bank. He dared to do this because of Lao Xiao, a political ally. Otherwise, since it was not a legal thing and the barbarians like to rob, of course, it is possible that countless money will be eaten by others and cannot be interfered with.
For these reasons, the branches and banks deployed abroad have never been spread out. There were in the Western Xia, because there were troops stationed in the Song Dynasty. However, once something happened in the Liao Kingdom and the Song army could not intervene, it would become a big problem.
He could not stand the temptation of interests and had to take this step, so he could only set up a gray money house in Yanjing where the political atmosphere was the most relaxed and the monsters and monsters gathered in all countries.
Because of this, Gao Fangping strongly asked Liang Shicheng to strengthen his intelligence work on Liao, and needed to control more specific disturbances so that he could foresee in advance and avoid risks.
The Imperial City Department of Song State provided information to Lao Xiao and wiped out several groups of horse thieves who fought thousands of miles away. It was not that Gao Fangping was concerned about the safety of the herdsmen in the Liao Kingdom, but that the horse thieves had already greatly threatened the interests of the money house. The team of the money house was really snatched by them, but it was a death sentence.
This will definitely increase Gao Fangping's operating costs significantly, so there is nothing new under the sun, and those horse thieves who have moved the powerful cheese must die.
It is true that the Liao government troops were strangled to kill civilians, but since ancient times, when the powerful and powerful were victimized, there were indeed people who were sacrificed for the flag. The pork that would be reported even if three pieces of chicken were stolen was flat. If the horse thieves were not killed, they would not sleep. Therefore, the later political farce of spies from the two countries jointly conspiring and several treacherous ministers joined forces to kill the robbers.
This is the operating conditions of the only money house in Liao Kingdom.
Xiao Gao won another city. Through technical barriers, he forced these powerful people to go to Beijing to use the gray money house in Yanjing.
There is no question of binding interest at present, it is just a political tone. The more powerful people use the gray money house in Yanjing, even if there is no legal support for the time being, the more legal the money house will be, which can lead more Liao merchants and small local tyrants to accept money houses and Song Knife.
As a driving force, the more local tyrants and businessmen accept the Song Dao, the other remaining powerful people are not fools. They will gradually find that it is becoming more and more inconvenient to have no Song Dao in life. This is called mutual encouragement, mutual driving force, and progress together.
Now these guys only use it once when they go to Yanjing, and will not change it too much, but will only change it to the Song Knife used to order hot air balloons. But once it is also a establishment of credibility. This is how feelings come about, and they will always take the first step.
The reason why people are afraid of something is because they don’t understand it. After this intimate contact, it is also a process of mutual understanding. If the law of large numbers is used to explain it, some people will always be no longer afraid after seeing it clearly, and will use it again for the second time. Then, with the point, more and more people will gradually accept it.
The more you use it, the easier it is. Gradually, you can’t live without it in daily life, which is called addiction.
Then sooner or later it will become legal.
This is also one of Gao Fangping's ultimate mission to Liao this time. Now it seems that although Gao Fangping did some bad things about extorting beauty and beating a girl, his main task was passed.
Of course, the main route is like this, but it also faces many challenges. The temporary stakes cannot be too big. Because there are threats such as the enemy, Mongolia, and Jurchen tribe, the Liao Kingdom will generally be unstable.
If these problems are not solved in one day, they will not be able to spread out money houses and investments in other parts of the Liao Kingdom in one day.
Even if Lao Xiao comes to ask Gao Fangping to set up a money shop in Shangjing, Gao Fangping will not agree. Damn, if something happens, Shangjing is broken by a horse thief or is broken by Agu, wouldn't that be a fool?
So I could only be in Yanjing, which would not be the first place to become chaotic, not far from the border of Song State. If the situation really came to an extremely bad time, of course, I could only send troops to Yanyun on the grounds that the interests of Song State were threatened.
Therefore, if you want to invest heavily in Liao and open a money shop, the prerequisite is that the environment in Liao is stable. This is why Gao Fangping was eager to find a reason to send the Song Dynasty volunteer army to the North Korea. If Agu could be destroyed on the battlefield of Goryeo, then all the problems would be no longer a problem.
At that time, we invested in the accumulation of grain, and used political, financial and propaganda methods to eat Yan Yun, who was mostly Han people. After ten to twenty years, the Song Dynasty volunteer army entered Liao to help Liao solve the Mongolian problem in the northern desert, and then there was no more. At that time, Gao Fangping would be tired, and after I stepped down, I would not be able to control the future floods, and each generation would do things.
After yy finished, he drove away the barbarians who had no Song Dao and wanted to order the goods, and saw a very luxurious little ceremonial guard coming here. He heard that it was the Emperor Gaoli, the King Yama, who came to visit with the national gift. So Gao Fangping laughed and said, "Prepare the ceremonial guards and welcome the three Koreans with the national gifts of the Song Dynasty. After seeing this fool, I have left my hometown for half a year and basically completed my mission and can return to my country with full load."
Liu Zhengfu, who had long wanted to return to his country to receive merits, was relieved. No one could compare to Old Liu in terms of pretentiousness and etiquette. So Gao Fangping ordered him to go out to welcome thirty feet as the Minister of Rites of the State of Song and the Deputy Envoy of Liao, to receive Wang Ya, and give Wang Ya enough face.
Wang Ya was very happy, as if bathed in the spring breeze.
Here, everyone uses their chin to look at people. Even if you throw a steamed bun, you can hit the powerful and powerful Tianchao Shangjing. This time, it was the most respectable and popular time since entering Liaoning. So he was a little moved. After the hardships and warmth, he knew what a sense of existence is. When a person is hungry, a cake is also a delicacy.
Wang Ya, who was hitting walls everywhere and not favored everywhere, found that the Song people were so nice, and gave Goryeo warmth at the coldest time.
Of course, my confidant staff knew this routine, but there was nothing wrong with it. This was already very good. The king's happiness was important, so there was no need to say it straightforward. Gao Fangping is such a strong person, and the Goryeo people did not expect Gao Fangping to come out to greet him in person. If you can send Liu Zhengfu, the Minister of Rites, to be polite, you have regarded Goryeo as the number one person...
Chapter completed!