Chapter 568: Wind and Rain in the Imperial Hall
Gan Xianggong moved, moved into the inner city, convenient for work, close to everywhere, it is convenient for officials from all over the world to come to him, relatively speaking, the inner city is safer than the outer city, and the main inspection area of the Imperial City Division is in the inner city.
The house is very large, there are several inside and outside, and there are several side courtyards, covering an area of seventy or eighty acres. There are hundreds of people in the house alone, dozens of horses can be put in the stables, there are all kinds of pavilions, flowers and trees in the backyard garden, and there are small bridges and flowing water.
There are many advantages to a big house, but in Gan Qi's opinion, there are also disadvantages, that is, the family lives separately, Zhao Zonglan naturally lives in the main courtyard facing north and south, Wu Qiaoer lives in the left side courtyard, Zhang Shuyuan and Chunxi live in the right side courtyard, and Pu Shier also has his own courtyard.
As a result, the family became separated, and each house had its own maids. There is no original small courtyard that seems intimate and lively.
The family is big and the business is big, probably that's how it feels.
Gan Ba is going to marry a daughter-in-law, a peasant girl in a village next door to Ganjia Village, Gan Qi also prepared a yard for Gan Ba in the house, marrying a big event, Ganjia Village is very lively, Gan Ba's family has now built a house in the village, and it goes without saying that there are many guests.
Gan Ba married a wife, but the dignitaries and dignitaries of the entire Bianliang City came, and even if they didn't come, they sent people to send gifts.
Ganjia Village's status in this Bianliang City has long been rising, and the commercial street with the sumo wrestling ground in Ganjia Village has also flourished, which is no worse than the commercial street in the city.
In order to control the tribesmen, Ganqi also tried his best, and the children had only two paths, either to study and go to school, or to enlist in the army. Those who study and go to school, if they can pass the exam, they can be considered promising, study hard and strive for the Jinshi and the first, and there is another way to fail the exam, that is, to learn Ming Arithmetic in Daojian Academy, and to be a bookkeeper in the future is also a way.
Anyway, the young people in Ganjia Village can't have an idle person. Young people will have a lot less to do if they don't sit idle. Most of the people of the older generation in Ganjia Village are honest farmers, even if they do a little business and make a little fortune, most of them can't get rid of their honest character.
Some things, there will be unexpected changes in the dark, now there are a lot of scholars in Ganjia Village, more military men, a little calculation, there are as many as two or three hundred military men in the village, the prime minister's clansmen, cousins and nephews, etc., are all military men, which has invisibly brought a lot of changes to the identity and status of military Han.
This also brought Gan Qi a different reputation, the words of loyalty and martyrdom, the most appropriate description of Gan Qi is that in the Bianliang Army, everyone also knows the two or three hundred soldiers in Gan Xianggong's family, this sense of closeness seems to be innate. Even when someone scolds some thieves and soldiers, there are also people who come to the Gan family for example, even the prime minister's family is full of soldiers, is the prime minister's family also a thief?
Gan Qi arranged this way, at first it was only because Ganjia Village was under the emperor's nose, and it was necessary to strictly control it to avoid many disasters, but he did not expect that such an arrangement would bring these benefits.
On Ganba's wedding banquet, the twenty and thirty military men who could come back to celebrate sat at three tables, and after a long time of training in the army, these young men were all dark-skinned, broad-headed, and drank a lot of wine.
But there is also sadness among them, there are more soldiers, and it is inevitable that there will be people who died in battle from time to time, brothers who grew up together since childhood, and from time to time there are one or two less, naturally it is also the words on the wine table, even if the pension is expensive, even if Gan Qi also asks Gan Ba to send some more money to subsidize, people are dead when they die, and now Ganjia Village does not worry about eating and drinking, and no amount of money can make up for human lives.
Gan Qi is free now, and he has to come to the door to appease him himself.
The scene of tears and tears, Gan Qi is also difficult to face, but he also has to face it, except to give money, there is no other way but to add a little words: "Uncle Jiu, take care, people can't be resurrected after death, the eldest son died for the country, fortunately, there are two sons who are studying and studying, and they will inevitably enter the phase in the future." ”
The old man cried, but said: "The wealth of our Gan family is earned by Dao Jian, we all have to help you, those who can read and read, those who can fight, Dao Jian, Uncle Nine is sad, but he does not regret it, as long as the family is so united, our Bianliang Gan family will never decline." I only hope that you can win more battles at the border pass, and there will be more people around you who will serve the dead. ”
The old man's words were unexpectedly reasonable, which made Gan Qi even more uncomfortable in his heart, and he was speechless and silent for a while.
The old man said again: "Dao Jian, you are a good official, the second son can study, if you can really go to high school, you will be promoted more in the future." ”
So far, thinking of Xiang Yu, he doesn't dare to cross Jiangdong, this feeling, Gan Qi really experienced it at this time.
"Uncle Nine, don't worry, heaven and earth have eyes, Uncle Nine take care of your body and enjoy a few more days of blessings." That's all there is to Gan Qi to say, leave his belongings, say goodbye, and have to go to the next house.
Gan Chengmu, now he is also a person who has been on the battlefield, although he has not made any great achievements, but he is not the kind of person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and he has also killed the enemy under his hands, although he has only killed one person, but now it is completely different.
Gan Qi also deliberately recruited him in front of him, patted his shoulder and encouraged: "Fight bravely to kill the enemy, be promoted by meritorious service, and be a general like your brother in the future." ”
Gan Chengmu nodded, a little restrained, now he was also "beaten by society" in the army, this beating was personally ordered by Gan Qi before, after walking in the real life and death field, I knew that wealth was not easy to come by.
He didn't go back to the village during the Chinese New Year, this time he returned to the village, Gan Qi still had many things, and he was the backbone of the village now, and it became Gan Qi's responsibility to arrange one or two thousand things for the Gan family.
Back in the city, Gan Xianggong is still the prime minister of that country, the matter of Qianzhuang has begun, the exchange starts from the big city, north to the Daimyo, Zhending, Taiyuan, Hejian, south to Jiangnan, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, southernmost to Quanzhou, Guangzhou, west to Chengdu, northwest to Jingzhao Mansion (Chang'an), Qinzhou, Yanzhou, the Yellow River line Luoyang and other places, Gyeonggi Yingtianfu.
These are the main branch networks, which can be built quickly and are barely staffed for the time being. Exchange vouchers with passbook, in fact, the name does not matter, the passbook is the same thing, the anti-counterfeiting of the passbook has a set of Jiaozi, cumbersome printing procedures, fixed password anti-counterfeiting, and a set of passwords to do temporary password anti-counterfeiting.
The process of exchange is actually simple, a sum of money from Bianliang to Chengdu, you need to open a passbook from Bianliang, the merchant will send the passbook to Chengdu, with this passbook can be taken out in Chengdu's bank, not to take it, and then open a new account in Chengdu's bank, you can go to the foreign exchange. The transfer of money between the buyer and the seller can be carried out directly in the bank.
In this way, business activities are much simpler. On the one hand, money is used to promote business development.
At this time, the most important thing is to absorb savings, the Beijing Times, an advertising platform, changes tricks every day to promote this matter, in order to better publicity, even the three divisions have begun to deposit money in the bank, and many funds are also in the bank.
In other cities, such as Hangzhou, Chengdu and other places, Qianzhuang has also started the early fund-raising activities, as long as the large merchants all over the country have invested in the Qianzhuang, the money will naturally go deep into various commercial activities throughout the country, Gan Qi holds 60 percent of the shares, part of which is prepared for large merchants in other places, and can be transferred at any time. But the price of this transfer will increase exponentially. At first, it was a Series A financing, which was cheap, then a premium for Series B and Series C, and finally a large-scale financing (IPO) could be listed.
The public large-scale issuance of shares by a single company was also feasible in the Great Song Dynasty. This thing can be done by the Dutch in 1600, and it is naturally not a problem in the Great Song Dynasty. Anyway, the more money in the bank, the better. As long as there is more money, the lower the cost of exchange (because you don't have to actually ship money around), and the larger the scale of borrowing.
Today, the largest depositor of the money bank is Gan Qi, or several properties under Gan Qi's command, the lottery and the sumo wrestling field, more than 3 million guan have been deposited, and the second largest depositor is the emperor, who has deposited 700,000 yuan. Other big savers are naturally merchants everywhere, with a maximum of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan and a few thousand yuan, all of which are testing the water.
Gan Ba also has an errand recently, that is, to set up a dart bureau, and the main business of the dart bureau is to provide security services to local banks. Gan Ba could not do the best thing, Brother Mao, a street figure in Bianliang City, is now the security director of the headquarters of Sihai Qianzhuang, and dozens of men under his command are still practicing decently every day.
At the same time as these things, the war lending business was launched, which initially focused on mortgage loans, and the interest rate on loans was very low, far lower than that of 9 out of 13, with a monthly interest rate of only about 5 per 1,000 and an annual interest rate of 6 percent. But this is also three times higher than the interest on savings. That's how the profit comes from.
Qianzhuang's first big loan customer was the Sansi Yamen, that is, the imperial court.
The Sansi Yamen borrowed a huge sum of 3 million guan from Sihai Qianzhuang, which was mainly used to pay for the dismissal and severance of the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, and then repaid it when the autumn grain tax from the south came up.
And that's what these things are all about. The imperial court is no longer short of money, and the money village is also alive, and Gan Qi has been revitalized inside and out.
As soon as these two major events were over, Gan Qi only felt relaxed, and Wang Anshi, who was working, was so busy that he didn't go home, but Gan Qi became relaxed and took the time to go to a banquet at Pan's Restaurant.
The new emperor is also in a good mood, for many reasons, from Emperor Renzong to Emperor Yingzong did not do the three redundant problems, he came to power to solve half of the problem, not to mention, he also made money for the royal family, now the imperial city in the degree of eating and drinking can finally let go of some hands and feet, just wait for the end of the year, from the lottery and the money village can be divided into hundreds of thousands of dollars, no matter how to build in the palace, it is enough to spend, the garden should be repaired, the cloth should be entered, and the delicacies of the mountains and seas should be eaten.
Above the court, there are inevitably many people who feel lonely, such as Fu Bi, who has nothing to do every day, just watching Gan Qi and a group of people busy before and after. Every day when I go to court, I can hear the report, this thing has been done, that thing has been done. Listening to Fu Bi, he felt inexplicably a little aggrieved every day.
This thing is afraid to compare, how many years has Fu Bi been in power? This can't be done, that's not possible, everything that has been done is done by Ganqi, and now that Ganqi is on power, everything can be captured, this is really not a taste.
Fu Bi also began to impeach Gan Qi on charges of exploiting the people and abusing power for personal gain. The reason is also very simple, exploitation, isn't the exchange fee just exploitation? Abuse of power for personal gain? Lending money to the state to repay interest, isn't this using power for personal gain?
There are really people who support Fu Bi in this matter, such as Sima Guang, who supports Fu Bi and thinks Fu Bi makes sense. Sima Guang himself has a set of theories, which are actually reasonable, and they are also his arguments against Wang Anshi's reform in history.
This argument is this: the amount of money and grain produced in the world every year is limited, and now the emperor is making more and more money, and the money is also making money, and they have more money, so there must be a place where there is less money, who is less money? That, of course, is the people. Competing with the people for profit is not right, how can the prime minister do this?
He opposed Wang Anshi's change of law, which is also the reason, the world's money and grain production is a fixed number, not in the government, but in the people, if the government makes money, then the people will be less. How could the imperial court do this?
This theory, put forward by Sima Guang, is actually still prevalent in later generations, for example, some people say that the country is so rich, why not give it to the people? State-owned companies earn so much, why don't they give it to the people? Actually, it's a truth. These people were placed in the Song Dynasty, and they were definitely all Sima Guang.
As soon as Sima Guang made a move, he was immediately full of wind and rain, and the officials followed up one after another.
Gan Sang-gong is also beginning to face these pressures, and the conservative counterattack has already begun before the reform has really begun.
Fortunately, at this time, Su Shi and Su Zhe and a group of Gan Dang came back, and Gan Qi's help came back.
Inside the Fan Building, the lights are bright, and Su Shi's face is now a little less fair, a little darker, and he is about to be thirty years old.
When he returned to Beijing to be an official, reunited with Gan Qi, and had a good time, it should have been a happy event, but Su Shi's mood was very bad, and his face was extremely ugly.
Gan Qi patted Su Shi on the shoulder and asked, "Brother Zizhan, what's wrong?" Tonight's wine feast, but I saw you with a sad face. ”
Su Shi was already crying, and he muttered: "Ten years of life and death, I don't think about it, I can't forget it, I am thousands of miles away from the grave, and I have nowhere to talk about desolation......"
"What's wrong?" Ganchi questioned.
"I suddenly returned to my hometown in the night, Xiaoxuan window, dressing up, looking at each other without words, only a thousand tears......" Su Shi said to himself, tears in his eyes.
Gan Qi suddenly understood, this poem is Su Shi's masterpiece. Su Shi's wife Wang Fu died?
Gan Qi suddenly understood, this poem is Su Shi's masterpiece. Su Shi's wife Wang Fu died?