Chapter 65 Comprehensive Plan
Chapter 65 Comprehensive Plan
Pei Yuan said decisively, "I'll find a way."
Han Qianhu was considerate and didn't ask any more questions. He continued, "What about the other question?"
Pei Yuan sighed.
Another problem, of course, is to sell the stolen goods as quickly as possible.
As the initiator of the plan, we have great flexibility, so the North must send people to make arrangements in advance.
Otherwise, once the items arrive in Beijing, there may be no chance to sell them at all.
If the emperor knew that his subordinates used the commercial taxes he had been waiting for for so long to purchase goods, I'm afraid the entire Qianhu Suo would be in trouble.
Pei Yuan thought about the businessmen he had known before, and Chen Minzhong and Chen Lu, whom he had met in Jining, immediately came to his mind.
These two people appeared in Jining and apparently also had business in reselling bulk materials.
Chen Minzhong and the Pei family have always had a good relationship, and the old man also has a great liking for Pei Yuan.
Chen Lu is a man who thinks business is business. Although he and Pei Yuan have little friendship, his competent attitude makes Pei Yuan feel that he should be a reliable trading partner.
Unfortunately, when I paid back the money to the two of them, Jining City was attacked again and I didn’t know where to find these two people.
Pei Yuan was silent when Han Qianhu chuckled and asked, "Are you worried about sales?"
Pei Yuan nodded quickly and said, "Indeed."
He added, "I know two wealthy merchants who are engaged in large-scale transactions. If they can take over the goods, it will be much more convenient for us. However, I don't know where they are now, so I may need the help of the Jinyiwei to find them."
Han Qianhu smiled again after hearing this, "If it's for this matter, then there's no need to bother, just leave it to me."
Pei Yuan was afraid that she would come up with some tricky plan again, so he bravely asked, "Then I wonder what Captain Han's plan is."
Captain Han seemed to see through Pei Yuan's little thoughts and glanced at him with a smile.
Then he said slowly, "As soon as the goods here are shipped, I will have someone rush to Beijing with the tax silver pattern. When the time comes, I will send a secret letter and ask the Taoist priests in various Taoist temples and monasteries to collect 80,000 taels of silver for me, and then burn them into silver ingots according to the tax silver pattern and prepare them."
"Once we reach the border of Northern Zhili, we can distribute the goods to the Taoist priests there in advance and let them take over the sales. In this way, we only need to ensure that there are no loopholes on the road and can smoothly escort the materials to the capital."
After hearing this, Pei Yuan was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.
Isn’t this the concept of inter-regional remittance?
How does Han Qianhu know so much?
In this era, inter-regional remittances are simply not mature enough.
The main reason was the breach of trust of the Ming Baochao, which caused all credit currencies to lose their value.
However, metal currency and silk fabrics, which were used as transaction equivalents, were inconvenient to transport due to their weight.
There are two main inconveniences.
First, officials along the way might look for opportunities to rob the money.
Second, unofficial groups along the way may find opportunities to steal the money.
Therefore, if you want to realize cross-regional exchange, unless the two regions have similar economic sizes, frequent trade exchanges, and can maintain a balance between deposits and withdrawals, otherwise, you have to manually transport money to balance the accounts. This is completely a dead end.
But what is this matter to the powerful and violent agency Jinyiwei?
Pei Yuan looked at Han Qianhu, wondering whether she had considered this idea a long time ago or just wanted to save trouble.
Han Qianhu continued to slowly perfect the details, "If you want to hide it from others, you must be fully prepared. If there is trouble in Suzhou, it is not a bad thing. It can just delay time."
At this point, Han Qianhu explained his plan to Pei Yuan, "I will have people make some fake silver ingots out of tin and replace the silver from Suzhou and Hangzhou. In this way, even if there are some mistakes, they will not be discovered early."
Pei Yuan's mind moved, and based on this, he had a bolder idea, "In this case, let's just swap the silver in Suzhou. This way, even if those craftsmen rebel, we can reduce the risk to a minimum. And without the silver, I can still fight those guys a few times."
Captain Han looked at Pei Yuan and was obviously tempted by the proposal.
She exchanged the silver directly in Suzhou, and then the Taoist priests in Beijing raised money to make up the 80,000 taels.
Both ends, front and back, have been arranged properly, so as long as Pei Yuan is not exposed, even if he pays a higher price on the road, at least the mission can be completed.
With Pei Yuan's escort team attracting firepower, and the merchants following north as cover, Qianhu Suo could take advantage of the escort of tax silver and, under the protection of powerful military force, take the opportunity to transport the goods to Beijing.
Captain Han's eyes flashed, and he said decisively, "Okay. You should first prepare the manpower in a big way, and then take people to the Suzhou Weaving Office to negotiate with Eunuch Hu. When the news gets out and there is trouble in Suzhou City, we will take the opportunity to replace the silver."
"After that, I sent people to Yangzhou with silver to purchase supplies directly in Yangzhou, and spread the news of the escort of tax silver to encourage merchants to go north together."
After taking the silver from Suzhou, it would naturally be smoother to go to Huai'an along the canal from Yangzhou.
It’s just that Pei Yuan had to symbolically go to the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing to exchange the certificates.
After all, the more important function of these 80,000 taels of silver is to serve as the mission item for this operation.
This time the money was paid by the Suzhou and Hangzhou Weaving Bureau, but next time it will have to be money and grain transferred from the Nanjing Ministry of Revenue.
First return to Nanjing, turn from Nanjing and go to Yangzhou, then go north along the Grand Canal to the important town of Huai'an, then go to Jining Prefecture and Linqing, and then enter Beijing to complete the escort of tax silver.
If this escort operation is compared to a mission in a game, then the above is the mission route that must be completed.
In other words, the imperial court placed its hopes of regularizing the collection of commercial taxes on the grain transport and the garrisons along the rivers, and in the future, all funds leaving Nanjing would take this route.
Pei Yuan had no objection to Han Qianhu's treatment.
Perhaps the new plan could bring huge benefits to the Qianhu Office, Qianhu Han was unusually generous and gave Pei Yuan several blank certificates of ordination when he left.
Pei Yuan was very happy to see this.
A blank certificate of ordination could be sold for thirteen taels of silver, which was also the official price of the court.
However, different ordination certificates are different. For example, the price of a certificate for chanting sutras and one for performing rituals are very different.
Although the law is no longer in force, and many monks who chant sutras have secretly come out to perform rituals for people to make a buck, many people are willing to pay a price if they can obtain legal procedures and do not have to worry.
The price of a monk's certificate that allows one to perform rituals can even be driven up to hundreds of taels of silver on the black market.
(End of this chapter)