In March, spring flowers bloom.

The "Yulon Bank" located on West Chang'an Avenue opened, and there were no waves on the opening day, and no one paid attention to it at all.

Not many people even notice the bank.

"No business, guest, do you think it's because I made a mistake?"

Again, Zhu Yijun stood opposite the "Yulon Bank" - the top attic of the Lingtai next to the Taiye Pool, which is the place where the emperor watched the outside of the palace, and he could see the bank from here, and he looked at the bank and said with some distress.

The name of the bank was given by him, "Yulon" is homophonic to "Yulong", and as for "bank", he was selected from the three "money bank", "silver number" and "bank" written by Shi Yiwen, according to his words, "the bank is magnificent".

Well, now there's no business in the atmosphere.

"Don't worry, don't worry, the emperor, didn't Shi Tongzhi say it, then the bank is the place where the emperor puts the money, and it doesn't matter if there is no business."

Standing behind the emperor, the guest smiled.

"Hey, that is, he regarded me as a friend, and he knew that it was inconvenient for me to use money, so he opened this bank."

Looking at which bank, Zhu Yijun once again praised Shi Yiwen.

"You can't let him lose money, it's not easy for him to make money."

At this moment, it seemed that he vaguely saw someone entering the bank, and Zhu Yijun immediately rejoiced.

"Look, look, guest, you see there's business coming to your door!"

Seeing that someone had entered the bank, regardless of whether it was business or not, Zhu Yijun, who was in a good mood, came down from the spiritual platform, looked at the little eunuch next to him, and took out a silver ticket casually. This silver ticket was originally specially made for him by Shi Yiwen, there are 100 taels, there are 50 taels, the smallest denomination is only one tael, the size is different, the color is also different, but without exception the printed are extremely exquisite, as long as the ticket can be exchanged for silver in the bank.

"Come, reward you."

"Thank you, Lord Xie."

When the emperor left the altar, the eunuch next to him immediately gathered around the little eunuch who had been rewarded.

"Zhang De, take a look, what is the emperor's reward?"

"I saw it just now, it's a piece of paper."

"Paper?"

In the questioning of everyone, Zhang De took a closer look at the paper rewarded by the emperor, and the patterns printed on the snow-white paper were extremely exquisite.

"Take a tael of silver by the post, and don't recognize the post"

This is...... Zhang De was surprised, and a eunuch next to him immediately said.

"W-what's this? It can't be a treasure banknote. ”

"Treasure banknotes, treasure banknotes have long been abolished, and even the treasure money bureau in the palace has stopped for an unknown number of years."

"So what is this? Take a tael of silver? Where to take it? ”

"I'll see, Yulon Bank...... What is this place? ”

Yulon Bank...... It seems to be a newly opened shop on West Chang'an Street, opposite the palace. ”

"Banks? What kind of shop is a bank? ”

"Looking back, is it possible that you can really take out a tael of silver with this ticket?"

"The emperor probably won't ...... What's that? ”

Zhu Yijun himself didn't know that a reward given casually would cause so many discussions, and even Shi Yiwen himself didn't know what a series of aftermath would be caused by a beautifully printed silver ticket.

After the spring blossoms, the factory is still continuing to expand, and the reason why we chose to continue to expand the factory by the Lugou River is because the river here is turbulent, which is undoubtedly an extremely rare and efficient power source in this era. In fact, as far as Shi Yiwen's original intention is concerned, he would prefer to build the waterwheel on the edge of the village, but the small river cannot be used as an effective driving force.

On this day, after a night of hard work in the factory, Shi Yiwen got up and ran along the Yongding River embankment, back and forth for several kilometers, and after a long-term habit, he would not give up easily.

After running for almost an hour, when he returned to the factory, Shi Yiwen saw a person standing on the embankment in front of the water wheel, and the person seemed to have been standing there for a while.

"This watermill is really big!"

When he walked up to him, Shi Yiwen listened to him.

Can it not be big? There's an embankment standing in the way.

"You must be Shi Gongzi, right?"

Liu Baitao turned around and explained when he saw that Shi Yiwen was a little surprised.

"Don't get me wrong, in Xia Liu Baitao, the word Songren, your land originally belonged to Xia."

Oops, it turned out to be a landlord.

"Hey, it turned out to be Master Liu, I missed the distance, please forgive me, I have always wanted to visit Master Liu, but I never thought that there were too many mundane things this time, and I delayed, please forgive Master Liu."

Shi Yiwen said politely,

"Shi Gongzi is polite, I didn't know what Gongzi bought this land for, this time I opened my eyes, a while ago, I went to Gongzi's field to take a look, only to know the wonderful use of this big waterwheel, in the past I only knew the water and rice, and how could I have thought that I could actually strike iron, Gongzi's whimsy, it is really to make the admiration of the tight,"

Hearing him say this, Shi Yiwen smiled on his face, but secretly thought to himself, this factory has to be managed, how can anyone swagger into the factory, this factory management system must be introduced.

"Master Liu is polite, it's just picking up people's teeth and wisdom."

"Childe is polite."

Liu Baitao looked back at the factory that was being built and sighed.

"If I'm not mistaken, Gongzi bought a total of 2,315 acres of land, of which 4 percent are the Liu family, and the rest of the land has the Sun family, the Chen family, and all of them are along the river, if I am not mistaken, Gongzi must want to use the convenience of water power here, here to make ironware, and the Lugou River is nearly ten feet deep, the water transportation is convenient, not only can be sold through the canal to the north and south, and even can be through the Zhigu (Haihe) into the sea, although there is a flood, but the convenience is that I, a local, have never thought of in the past."

What's the use of thinking of it?

Surely it will not be used without hydraulic equipment. He could only watch the river flow in vain, but his reminder made Shi Yiwen suddenly realize that the Lugou River does have a convenient place for him, if a small wharf is built here, the ships transporting goods can directly enter the Grand Canal through here, sell goods along the canal, and even enter the sea to transport the goods to Jiangnan by sea.

"Master Liu is polite."

Looking at Liu Baitao, who was sighing, thinking that he was a local gentry and Shi Yiwen, who intended to have a good relationship with the locals, he asked tentatively.

"I don't know if Master Liu's land has started to be cultivated now?"

Liu Baitao replied with a smile.

"Childe, look, the river ice in your river is gradually melting, this is a good time for spring ploughing, the snow in the ground has melted, and after two more days of drying, it is estimated that it will almost start to get busy."

His answer made Shi Yiwen's heart happy, and he asked with a smile.

"In that case, I wonder if Master Liu is willing to negotiate a business with Zaixia?"