"Access control?" Lan Ziyi repeated.

"Yes, the access control, because of the access control under the Jingzhao Mansion, all my money has been blocked outside the city." Cao Jinbao said with another long sigh.

Lan Ziyi stammered:

"The matter of strengthening the city defense was decided in front of the Heavenly Palace before yesterday, and it has been implemented today, and I have never seen an official mansion that handles things so neatly."

Cao Jinbao smiled bitterly:

"It's not today, Wei Hou, it's not today, the gate of the capital was blocked yesterday."

Lan Ziyi was very surprised when he heard this, and he asked:

"In this way, Zhang Mingyue's proposal to strengthen the city defense is aimed at Boss Cao?"

Cao Jinbao sighed:

"It seems that this is the case, coupled with the opening of the Longsheng today, Zhang Mingyue is clearly trying to cut off my financial route."

Lan Ziyi added:

"The matter of the Longsheng was also decided only the day before yesterday."

Cao Jinbao turned his head to look at Lan Ziyi when he heard this, his eyes were slightly surprised, but he quickly regained his determination and turned his head back. 兰子义 says:

"It doesn't look like Boss Cao is surprised."

Cao Jinbao smiled:

"I'm not surprised, I call it resignation. Those Qingtian lords in the temple had never thought that they could make such money before, but now that I have pointed out the way, they must not swarm to snatch the meat. ”

Tao Zhulu, who was following along, asked:

"Boss Cao, I don't understand what you need money for now? Now the whole world is using the paper you printed as money to spend, you are short of money to print, what do you want to transport silver for? ”

Cao Jinbao sneered when he heard this:

"It is precisely because in this day and age that no one can understand why paper money can be used as money, so you can only print treasure money to wipe your ass, and only I can print real money."

Lan Ziyi was very unhappy with Cao Jinbao's self-pretentious cleverness before, but now looking at his domineering appearance, Lan Ziyi is just even more unhappy, he asked Cao Jinbao:

"Boss Cao knows so clearly, so please tell us why your printed paper can be used as money?"

Cao Jinbao said:

"Because he has three legs of the money I printed, one of them is grain, the second is the national debt, and the third is silver. This year, there is a great hunger in the world, the price of grain is surging, and the grain in all parts of the capital is priceless and unmarketed, I borrowed the imperial court no one knows how to do it, seize the opportunity, use the cash I have on hand to lend to the imperial court, exchange my paper money and grain binding, and distribute it before the autumn grain goes on the market, this wave not only makes me make a lot of money, but also makes the general public initially accept my paper money, and Wei Hou to the bottom, the silver treasury of my money bank can not pile up the silver money exchanged. ”

Tao Zhulu asked:

"Since Boss Cao has already made so much money, why should he rush to transport the silver to the capital."

Cao Jinbao shook his head and said:

"So you don't understand. Paper is always paper, and paper cannot be spent as money, unless there is money behind it. Silver is money, and that is cash for the moment; The national debt is also money, which is the future money that the imperial court guarantees with taxes. The famine will always pass, and there will always be a time when the price of food will fall, and I can rely on grain to open the way for paper money, but I cannot eat the price of food forever, and once the price of food returns to the previous level, my paper money will be useless, and I must rely on silver and national debt. ”

Although Lan Ziyi was dissatisfied with Cao Jinbao's pretentious attitude, he was intrigued by Cao Jinbao's words, and he asked:

"Boss Cao, you said that the imperial court asked you to borrow money, that is, the national debt you said, it is the money of the future, and you spend the money of the future now, isn't this just eating grain?"

Cao Jinbao said:

"It's Yin who eats grain, but it's better for Yin to eat grain than to starve to death now."

Lan Ziyi asked again:

"Boss Cao said that your banknotes have three legs, according to what you said, the leg of grain prices will be broken sooner or later, and the two legs of national debt and silver are now divided by Zhang Mingyue and Jingshang, so won't your banknotes be issued anymore."

Hearing this, Cao Jinbao turned his head to look at Lan Ziyi, and he said:

"So the key is whether the silver from other places can enter Beijing normally, and when the silver comes in, I will eat it all; The money can't come in, and I go bankrupt and jump into the green river. ”

Lan Ziyi asked puzzledly:

"What do you mean by that?"

Cao Jinbao said:

"It is true that Zhang Mingyue distributed the national debt to the Beijing merchants, and it is not false that the Beijing merchants have silver together, but they are one step slower than me after all, since the people of the world have accepted my paper money, they will not be used to changing them suddenly, if you want the people to change their habits, then the Beijing merchants or Longsheng must pay the price. Either they use more favorable means than I do to promote paper money, or they bring down my Cao Kee Bank. ”

The three brothers of the Tao family next to him are also interested now after hearing so much, and Tao Zhutu couldn't help but ask at this time;

"Then what preferential means will Longsheng use to promote banknotes?"

Cao Jinbao said:

"It's nothing more than a discount banknote, I have eight coins of silver here for one or two denominations, and five coins of silver on his side for one or two. It's just that they can't do this kind of discount trading for long, and the Longsheng has gathered eight Beijing merchants and only scraped together six million taels of capital, how long can six million be burned? ”

Peach Rabbit asked again:

"But Boss Cao, didn't you do this when you issued banknotes before?"

Cao Jinbao smiled:

"My banknotes are anchored in Taicang Pingchengcang grain, I dare to do this in the early stage is supported by grain prices, inside and outside the capital, the exchange rate of silver to paper money between urban and rural areas is different, in general, the countryside is short of food, they like paper money, people in the city are shrewd, want to earn the difference in the middle, but when people are hungry, how can there be any shrewdness, soon the exchange rate between urban and rural areas is flattened by the price of grain, I use the price of grain to cut the wool on the croppers to the city, the city can live a few people, this loophole I take out the money stuck between the teeth can be filled."

Peach Rabbit Road:

"In this way, Boss Cao, you are not afraid of Beijing businessmen lowering prices at all."

Cao Jinbao said:

"Of course I'm not afraid, if you want to establish banknote credit, you must let go of the exchange, Longsheng dares to issue banknotes at a discount, you must exchange banknotes for silver at full price, he dares to send them, I dare to buy them, I buy as much as he sends, until I redeem his six million principal. The premise is that when I am in the field, the silver must be constantly brought in and used as ammunition for me. ”

Tao Zhulu asked at this time:

"What if they want to bring down Boss Cao? How can they bring down Boss Cao? ”

Peach chase tiger on the side:

"Forging Boss Cao's banknotes is nothing more than carving a few plates."

Lan Ziyi had already heard some ways at this time, and he shook his head and said:

"No, it's not counterfeit banknotes, if the Beijing merchants want to bring down Cao Ji, the method used should be the same as the method that Boss Cao envisioned to bring down the Beijing merchants, but it is the other way around."

Hearing this, the Tao brothers asked in unison:

"The other way around?"

Cao Jinbao, who was with Lan Ziyi, turned his face to look at Lan Ziyi with appreciation, and he said:

"Wei Hou is right, counterfeiting banknotes is indeed the next policy, I used a lot of anti-counterfeiting methods when printing banknotes, and Beijing merchants will not be able to forge them for a while."

Peach Rabbit Road:

"But how can it be the other way around? What should Jingshang do? ”

Cao Jinbao smiled:

"Actually, it's very simple, I'm going to make the Longsheng to exchange silver for their banknotes and then for their silver, if they dare to issue it at a discount. The Dragonsheng will only exchange my banknotes for my cash until I can't get any money. ”