After hearing Cao Bin's specific plan, Kou Zhun still didn't finish his intention and said:
"In my opinion, Marquis Zhongjing's statement is a bit conservative. It has only been less than a year since he started sea trade, and the benefits have not been fully demonstrated."
"If we continue to operate for another two or three years, the profit will more than double? It's not even possible to triple or even multiple times."
Everyone nodded after hearing this, their eyes filled with joy.
As the saying goes, when the big river rises and the small river fills up, if the court has money, everyone's life will become easier. This is definitely a gratifying thing.
Moreover, since the Qin and Han dynasties, the imperial court's methods of amassing money have generally included monopoly, bad currency, tax increases, and embezzlement.
These methods are all aimed at wresting benefits from the common people, gentry, and even officials.
The brilliance of the maritime trade policy proposed by Cao Bin was that it opened up a new source of wealth and encountered little resistance.
Everyone in the Song Dynasty, from the court and the royal family to the common people, benefited from it, and it can be said that everyone was happy.
Seeing that everyone had great confidence in the prospects of Shibo Company, Queen Mother Pan was also looking forward to it. She even ignored Pan Renmei's wink and nodded repeatedly:
"Well done, Marquis Zhongjing."
"Thereafter, the City Shipping Department will be fully responsible for Marquis Zhongjing. The stability of the City Shipping Department must be ensured... No one else can interfere."
Today's Shibo Company is the darling of Queen Mother Pan, and there must be no problems. After all, it is related to her future wealth and freedom.
Hearing this, Pan Renmei was immediately discouraged and full of resentment towards her daughter.
He originally wanted to get involved in the fat meat of Shibosi. Even if he couldn't eat the meat, he could always drink more soup with Cao Bin.
Unexpectedly, this daughter-in-law didn't care about her father at all when it came to money and directly killed his thoughts.
Now that things are like this, he can only plan to organize a caravan as soon as possible to catch the dividends of sea trade.
Ignoring Pan Renmei's thoughts, Queen Mother Pan continued:
"Since Marquis Zhongjing has made meritorious deeds and made money in a wise way, he will be promoted to the rank of envoy of the Third Division. I am sure the ministers will not have any objections."
Because of his age, Cao Bin was entrusted by the late emperor with the important task of taking charge of the Third Division, but his actual position was still the deputy envoy of the Third Division. Unexpectedly, he was promoted to a full-time position this time.
But as Queen Mother Pan said, Cao Bin had great credit for what he accomplished, and the ministers were not qualified to raise doubts.
It's just that He Jianzhang felt a little uncomfortable. He didn't expect that his fueling the flames not only did not cause trouble to Cao Bin, but also provided him with an opportunity to be promoted and gain more power.
Seeing everyone discussing the prospects of sea trade with great interest, Cao Bin did not interrupt.
In fact, the benefits brought by vigorously developing maritime trade are not only increased tax revenue for the court and enriched the people? The benefits derived from it are what Cao Bin values.
For example, promoting technological progress and changing the traditional Confucianism of the Song Dynasty...
Humans are profit-seeking creatures.
With huge profit incentives, some people will find ways to improve production efficiency, improve production tools, produce more goods, and sell them overseas.
At that time, various related things such as ships and naval forces will be mobilized, and colonial and martial ideas may even evolve, forming a virtuous cycle.
Cao Bin had already expected this and was waiting for this opportunity to implement the follow-up plan. So after thanking him, he struck while the iron was hot and said:
"Queen Mother, I have something to say regarding the development of maritime trade."
As he spoke, he handed a memorial to the palace attendant and explained briefly:
"I am preparing to establish the Song Dynasty Bank, which will not only facilitate the development of maritime trade, but also control wealth for the imperial court..."
In later generations, when it comes to foreign trade, it is impossible not to mention foreign exchange.
But in this era, everything was in its infancy, and it was a good time to seize the world's minting power and make the currency of the Song Dynasty "foreign exchange".
Doesn’t the beautiful country of later generations collect the world’s seigniorage through the right to mint?
Sometimes they over-issue currency, devaluing the U.S. dollar, and harvesting leeks all over the world. They even disrupt other countries' economies by issuing currency, and manipulate some established powers into their hands.
This shows the importance of coinage rights.
In other dynasties, the development of maritime trade and the seizure of coinage rights might have been greatly hindered, but the Song Dynasty itself had the foundation for these two aspects, so there was not much pressure to do so.
She was only missing one direction.
For example, the copper coins of the Song Dynasty were already popular in Liao, Xia, Dali and other countries, and a large part of their coinage rights was in the hands of the Song Dynasty.
With this foundation, it will be much easier to seize the coinage rights of these countries.
In order to consolidate and expand the habit of using Song Dynasty currency in these countries, it is imperative to issue higher quality and more stable currency.
However, the gold and silver reserves in the Song Dynasty were scarce. In order to be more stable, Cao Bin planned to focus on copper coins first, only improving the quality of issuance and controlling the quantity.
Slowly transition to credit currency, so as not to take too big a step and cause trouble...
Finally, Cao Bin concluded:
"If this plan succeeds, not only will our Song Dynasty be more stable, but we will also be able to defeat the Northern Liao Dynasty through market bargaining and copper coins, and take back the land of Youyun without any effort."
At this time, Cao Bin only briefly described the rationale, and the slightly more detailed plans were written in the memorial.
Even so, it opened the eyes of Queen Mother Pan and the ministers in front of her, and made them breathe quickly.
Recovering Yanyun was the dream of generations of people in the Song Dynasty, but since Taizong's two defeats in the Northern Expedition, they no longer saw hope.
Unexpectedly, this hope now appears before my eyes again...
"Am I going to be a saint among girls?"
Queen Mother Pan thought dazedly.
She flipped through the memorials and found that she couldn't understand most of them, so she had to put it away temporarily and planned to study it slowly later.
"The plan of Marquis Zhongjing... is very good. I will give my approval as soon as possible after reading the memorial."
Cao Bin was not surprised to see that Queen Mother Pan and the ministers were a little distracted.
Although he is not necessarily smarter than the ancients, as long as he points out the general direction, it is a dimensionality reduction blow to people of this era.
He doesn’t need to worry about the details. Smart people will naturally fill it in through practice.
At this time, Queen Mother Pan waved her hand again and said:
"Okay, let's stop the discussion here today. Please step back first."
Cao Bin gave too much information today, and she needs to digest it carefully. Moreover, the principles of banking are really difficult to understand...
After leaving the imperial city, Cao Bin couldn't help but show a surprised expression when he saw Li Qingzhao following him on the carriage.
"Ms. Li, this is my carriage. If you want to go home with me, is it not worth it?"
"I have given you a lot of salary..."
There are still her best friends at home waiting for training, and Cao Bin doesn't want to create difficulties for herself.
When Li Qingzhao heard this, he immediately reacted and got out of the car in a hurry, looking a little embarrassed.
In fact, Cao Bin's plan had given her a huge impact. She still hadn't fully woken up yet, and she actually climbed into the other party's carriage in a daze.
After so much time of experience, she thought she had generally mastered the operating mechanism of the imperial court's wealth.
Unexpectedly, Cao Bin revealed an astonishing plan in a blink of an eye. He was able to control the enemy and plan the country without making a sound, which was quite the style of a national scholar.
She was about to explain a few words, but she heard Cao Bin's instructions:
"I will send someone to send you a copy of the memorial to establish the bank. You can write a more detailed and complete plan as soon as possible."
"Give it to me in three days! Otherwise, be careful, I will fine you a salary."
After saying that, as soon as he urged the carriage, a cloud of dust suddenly rose up and disappeared in a flash.
When Li Qingzhao saw this, his face turned green and he couldn't help but spat hard. This guy completely regarded himself as a coolie... I really wanted to write a poem to scold him!
