After Guo Yi saw the demonstration of muskets and artillery, he hurried back to Datong City with people, and always landed on the tail of the team along the way, as if thinking about something.

Shi Tai and Shi Yong surrounded Shuhu Zhuo, bent on learning archery from Shuhu Zhuo, but Shuhu Zhuo was too busy to deal with it, and it was difficult to take care of Guo Yi. Several other guards followed Xu An, fiddling with Da Yi and Zang Feng in the wooden box with Xu An. They also took a sword and a sword out of the wooden box and brandished it in their hands. Indeed, this sword and sword are rare treasures in the world.

"If the military budget is sufficient, in a few years, expand an army fully equipped with artillery and muskets, and with a little improvement, it can completely fight all the way to Dadu." Guo Yi didn't care about the group of highly interested subordinates in front of him, just thinking like this, and frowned unconsciously.

He learned from Chai Yun that the military expenses of these five guards were 400,000 taels of silver every year, but the shells often ran out before the moon arrived. The cost of artillery maintenance is always owed to the account book of the Jinli Trading Bank, and when the military expenditure of the following year comes down, this account will be eliminated. It's just that the interest in this is quite high, and it will cost thousands of taels of silver every year.

Guo Yi of this Jinli firm knows about it, but his understanding of it is only a huge trading house. The news he learned from Chai Yun's mouth today made him feel shocked, this Jinli Commercial Bank turned out to be the largest commercial bank in Dahan and even in Jinguo. The silver stamps issued by Jinli Bank, a subsidiary of Jinli Commercial Bank, can travel unimpeded, whether in Tianjing or Dadu.

Moreover, Guo Yi also learned such a secret, the biggest arms dealer in Beiyan Province is the rudder of Jinli Commercial Bank in Beiyan Province.

A trading house controls the flow of wealth in the world, and can provide arms, food, and grass to the opposing sides at any time, what kind of strength is this self-confidence supported by strength.

Thinking of this, Guo Yi raised his head to look for Xu An in the team, but saw Xu An holding Da Yi in his hand, shaking a sword flower obliquely, and he spoke: "General Xu." ”

Xu An subconsciously turned his head and saw that Guo Yi was looking at himself, put Dayi into the sheath, put it back in the wooden box, pulled the horse over, and said, "My lord, what are your orders?" ”

"Ask you something."

"You say." Xu An was born in the Xu family, and he was the nephew of Xu De, an upstart man, Guo Yi thought that maybe he could know more.

"How much do you know about Jinli Firm?"

"Jinli Firm?" Xu An reacted for a moment and asked, "Is it the Jinli Firm from Jinli Money?" ”

Guo Yi nodded.

"It's a Big Mac, it's an invisible country." Xu An looked at Guo Yi's solemn face and explained: "This is King Qin's evaluation of Jinli Commercial Bank, and I will say it to my lord as it is." ”

"Why didn't the state collect the wealth of this Jinli firm into the inner treasury?"

Xu An squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "Because you can't take it?" ”

"Can't take it?" Guo Yi continued to ask.

Xu An saw that Guo Yi really didn't know the huge power of Jinli Commercial Bank, and explained: "My Han Dynasty has a vast territory, and Ze is surrounded by all the people, and it is impossible for the imperial court to transport to every corner, not to mention, how can the poor transportation capacity of the imperial court support the transportation of grain, grass and arms on two fronts." ”

"You mean, these transportation routes are monopolized by the Jinli Trading Company?"

"It's not a monopoly, it's a hegemony. Because no firm dares to touch Jinli's job. If the imperial court insists on collecting the gold profits, it can indeed make a windfall. But then, both fronts, both in the west and in the north, will be defeated by the loss of supplies. And the Jin State, which is fully supported by Jinli Commercial Bank, is very likely to go south and point to Tianjing. ”

Guo Yi thought about Xu An's words, and carefully figured out the joints in his words. He used to work in the Ministry of War, so he naturally knew that the imperial court had contracted the transportation to some private merchants, but he never thought that these private merchants were all under the hands of Jinli Trading Company. Nowadays, the infiltration of Jinli Commercial Bank into the imperial court has reached a terrible point, not only for the front line, I am afraid that without Jinli Commercial Bank, even the Tianjing City, which is known as "bead crumb paving street, gold powder building hall, glazed white jade and red lady", will break out in less than a month.

"What did King Qin do with Jinli Trading Bank?"

Xu An hesitated for a moment, but thought that after all, Guo Yi was still Xu De's person, and besides, it was not a secret, so he said: "The wealth of the Qin Wangfu is all taken care of by the master of the Jinli Commercial Bank, and the transportation and supply of the Anxi Army are all taken care of by the Jinli Commercial Bank. ”

"King Qin is not worried?"

"What's the use of worrying? Mr. Feng also thinks that this kind of cooperation is good for everyone, as long as King Qin is still the commander of the Anxi army for one day, this cooperation will never suffer. ”

"Who is the treasurer of Jinli Commercial Bank?"

"I don't know." Xu An scratched his head and said: "This Jinli firm suddenly rose thirty years ago, and the shopkeeper behind it has not shown his face once in all these years, and no one knows who he is. By the way, there was a legend before that the shopkeeper of Jinli Commercial Bank was the God of Wealth, who came to protect the fortunes of the Han Dynasty. ”

Guo Yi thinks that the legend is just nonsense, but why the shopkeeper of Jinli Commercial Bank has not shown up for 30 years, and why Jinli Commercial Bank can become the world's No. 1 behemoth overnight, this is really worth considering.

"Does Jinli Trading Company do business with foreigners?"

"Of course," Xu An was almost amused by Guo Yi's extremely simple questions for himself, and said: "In the Qin Wangfu, and even in my family, a lot of food and clothing come from that Europa place, and there is no Jinli Trading Company as a middleman, these things can't be bought." ”

"What if you want a piece of the pie? What should I exchange it for? ”

"This ......" Xu An listened to Guo Yi's question, couldn't answer it for a while, and asked: "Is the adult short of money, I have it, how much do you need." ”

Guo Yi restrained the serious look on his face, and the usual smile appeared on his face again, and said, "Ten million taels of silver, do you have it?" Seeing the stunned expression on Xu An's face, Guo Yi laughed, causing the guards in front of him to turn around to look at him, Guo Yi pulled the reins of the night lion, and the night lion ran faster.

"Hurry up, go back to the city early, eat early!"

At noon, this group of big men were so angry that the Quartet Army specially entertained Guo Yi for lunch, and when they remembered the fragrant beef and mutton and warm nest heads in the General Army's Mansion, they sped up one by one, and let out two strange screams from time to time.

Finally, at the last moment when the group entered the city, the sun also disappeared, and the night was dark.