In the seventh year of Xining's reign in Bianjing, undercurrents surged under the hustle and bustle of Zhouqiao night market: Jiaozi depreciated like waste paper, illegal salt was rampant and hidden in dark corners, and merchants often lost their families and families due to debt. Zhuge Heng, a 25-year-old master of economic law at the University of Political Science and Law, suddenly became a merchant on the Qiantang River to pay off his father's debts. He only had a half-wormed copy of "Song Xingtong" and his father's debt IOU.
For the first time, he encountered a gangster who had embezzled money from Grandma Chen. He used the "Market Transactions" in "Song Xingtong" to expose the ambiguous terms of the contract and recover ten thousand dollars of hard-earned money for Grandma. When he saw that the government was distributing Jiaozi indiscriminately and causing public resentment, he changed the "Jiaozi Reserve Fund Regulations" three times under the lamplight. ", Proposed the "30% Copper Coin Reserve" method, which was appreciated by the Hangzhou Tongpan. When a powerful man monopolized the tea market and destroyed the Chenji tea stall, he obeyed the Tongpan's advice for three days and promoted the promulgation of the "Commercial Franchise Order" to help small merchants regain their vitality.
After that, he went from "contract litigator" to "economic staff" of Tongxuan Mansion. When he sent Zizhang to Bianjing, he encountered robbers and rolled into the reeds to protect him. After taking charge of the third division of the imperial court, he made up for the shortcomings of the civil and commercial affairs in the "Song Xingtong", used the customs declaration and filing system to plug the smuggling loopholes of the city's shipping division, and tried his best to prevent the Qingmiao Law from exploiting the people with high interest rates. Although he was denounced by the imperial censor for "tampering with the ancestral system" and humiliated by the official minister, he was given a wooden plaque "Protect Business and Love the People" by Orihu, and the tax revenue of the Shipping Department increased by 70%.
On a foggy day in the Bianhe River, Zhuge Heng caressed the boat gang and sighed: "It is difficult to make the Song Dynasty trade road lively with the Zhouqiao Bridge, and also to allow the people to hold the contract without fear, to make friends with others without being demoted, and to not bully the powerful."