Lan Qianzhen showed a polite smile in embarrassment, he looked at Cao Jinbao, the left eyebrow was hung high on his forehead with a face full of questions, and only Cao Jinbao smiled as usual in response to Lan Qianzhen. Cao Jinbao asked:

"What are the OEM's concerns? Afraid that I will set up a Hongmen banquet? ”

Lan Qianzhen thought for a moment and replied:

"I just thought we had a good conversation at the last dinner."

Cao Jinbao smiled:

"The banquet in the city is a public banquet, and it is all polite words, but today's account is a private banquet, and it is the intimate words of the friends of the cloth and clothes."

Speaking of this, Cao Jinbao raised his head and said to Zhang Yanwu:

"Zhang Gongzi, let's come together?"

Zhang Yanwu had already heard the words of Cao Jinbao and Lan Qianzhen in his ears, and when he heard this, he replied with a smile:

"Boss Cao's good intentions are understood, but I will leave for the army tomorrow, and it is not appropriate to delay outside, so I will not bother and leave."

After saying that, Zhang Yanwu bowed his hand to Lan Qianzhen and Lan Ziyi, and then turned around and left, and Tao Zhutu, who was following Lan Ziyi, asked puzzledly:

"Didn't he insist on going out of the city with us just now, why did he go back to pack up his salute as soon as he turned his face? Isn't there a servant in his house? “

Tao Zhulu smiled and patted the back of his third brother's head, and said at the same time:

"If you don't understand, shut up!"

Lan Ziyi said with a smile:

"Because Brother Zhang reacts faster and is smarter than the third brother."

Tao Zhutu scratched his head and couldn't understand, but Lan Ziyi couldn't ask more if he didn't explain, so he had to shut up.

Lan Qianzhen looked back at Zhang Yanwu, and only after Zhang Yanwu's corner disappeared did he turn back and say to Cao Jinbao:

"It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, Boss Cao naturally didn't dare to refuse, but after coming to the capital, I drank a lot of wine and meat for days, and my brain was full of fat, and now I want to vomit when I see wine and meat, if Boss Cao still has a banquet, I can't eat it."

Cao Jinbao smiled:

"Jiangdong is known for its fish and rice, and the fresh food of Dajiang can be described as the best, and there are only scorching and burning in today's account, which is specially designed for the public to relieve meat, and the representative of the public can rest assured."

Saying that, Cao Jinbao drove forward, made an invitation, Lan Qianzhen gave his hands and fists in return, and then the two of them got on their horses and joined forces, Cao Jinbao opened his mouth and instructed the little guy who followed:

"You go and tell the fishermen that you can start fishing."

The little guy took the order and left, and Cao Jinbao urged the horse to continue to hurry with Lan Qianzhen. Tao Zhutu, who was following behind, listened to Cao Jinbao's instructions and asked:

"Boss Cao has a banquet at night, and only then did he send someone to catch fish, is it too late?"

Cao Jinbao smiled:

"Not too late, not too late, just right. Fresh fish must be freshly caught live fish to be delicious, which will be caught and raised in the water, and it is just right to wait for the father to eat. “

Lan Qianzhen and Cao Jinbao urged the horse to walk together, and said with a smile when they heard this:

"Boss Cao has put so much effort into it, tonight's picnic must be no better."

Cao Jinbao said:

"My cook is the best fish cutter in the capital, and the fish fillets cut out are as thin as cicada wings, and Dai Gong will know if he eats it today."

Lan Qianzhen looked at Cao Jinbao and smiled:

"It's popular, it's popular, I'm afraid I don't have time to talk about eating such delicious food, anyway, there is no one around now, Boss Cao may as well talk about it, don't forget all the wine and food on the table when you are eating."

Cao Jinbao laughed dryly twice when he heard this, he looked around and looked around again before he spoke:

"I just want to ask my grandfather to do me a favor."

Lan Qianzhen said:

"Boss Cao, please speak, I will not shirk anything I can."

Cao Jinbao said:

"You don't need to do your best, it's just a trivial matter for the officer."

Lan Qianzhen said:

"What a trifle."

Cao Jinbao said:

"I need to borrow the channel of the representative to help me carry the silver."

Hearing this, Lan Qianzhen frowned and looked at Cao Jinbao, and Lan Ziyi asked on the side:

"Silver? What silver? ”

Cao Jinbao said:

"It's the silver that the northern banknotes exchanged for grain."

Hearing this, Lan Qianzhen turned his head and exchanged glances with his son, and then he asked:

"Why do you want to transport the silver of the north? Boss Cao, haven't you already exchanged a lot of silver in Jiangnan? ”

Tao Zhulu also asked:

"As far as I know, these days, Boss Cao's banknotes have spread all over Taizheng, and it is rumored in the countryside that Boss Cao's banknotes are much better than silver, what else do you want to exchange? Could it be that Boss Cao himself can't trust the banknotes he issued? ”

Cao Jinbao saw the Lan family's father and son staring at him, so he smiled and eased the atmosphere and said:

"It's not that I can't trust my bills, it's just that I have to collect money if I want it to be genuine."

Lan Ziyi asked:

"What do you mean by that?"

Cao Jinbao said:

"Now that I've got the people to accept the banknotes, the next step is to get the people to believe in the money. When there is a famine, food is more expensive than money, and I can use grain instead of silver as collateral to issue paper money, but the famine will always pass, and the price of grain will eventually drop one day, and the price of grain in the best area of the capital will be the first to decrease, and as far as I know, the price of grain in the capital has begun to fall. ”

Lan Qianzhen said:

"Although I don't know what Boss Cao said about the collateral, I probably understand what Boss Cao meant, you want to prepare a tael of silver for every tael of banknotes issued for exchange, right, but if this is the case, your silver should also be scattered all over the country, and it will be transported to the capital to exchange silver for other places?"

Cao Jinbao smiled:

"I don't need to prepare all the banknotes, I just need to prepare enough. The capital is the key point of the country, the goods from all over the world are turned around here, eight or nine out of ten of the world's rich merchants live here, I don't need to give everyone in the world to exchange silver, I just need to provide enough silver exchange for the people of the capital. ”

Lan Ziyi asked:

"So Boss Cao, are you worried that someone will rush to exchange paper money for silver in the capital?"

Cao Jinbao said:

"Yes, those in the capital who look at me unpleasantly will rush to exchange my banknotes for my silver until I have lost my banknotes, and once my banknotes prove to be inexatiable for silver, the silver in their hands will rise to the sky, and all goods denominated in banknotes will become worthless because of my bankruptcy."

Lan Qianzhen touched his chin and asked:

"I didn't understand what Boss Cao meant, goods are goods, how can they become worthless because of the different banknotes and silver used."

Cao Jinbao smiled:

"It's not easy for this person who hasn't seen it to understand, and I can't explain it to the acting father, the acting father only needs to wait a few more days to see it, and the acting father will naturally understand when the time comes."

Lan Ziyi said:

So Boss Cao felt that the silver he saved in the capital was not enough for others...... Run? ”

Cao Jinbao said:

"I don't think that I'm calculating, according to the results of my current calculations, the silver in my treasury is not a small gap less than the silver circulating in the market, and it is difficult to make up for this gap with my business in Jiangdong alone. Weihou, you also know that the disaster in the north is more serious than in the south, and the number of people who starved to death in the river is 100,000

It is easy to use in the south, where a tael of banknotes can be exchanged for an average of one or three cents of silver, which is still the comparison price of my bank's open exchange, and the price on the black market is even higher than this. The north is my silver bank, and the south, especially the capital, is just a battlefield for me to promote paper money. ”

Lan Qianzhen asked:

"I'm confused about what Boss Cao said, could it be that those people in the capital who are against you, they don't need you to explain it?"

Cao Jinbao smiled:

"They've been slow to react, but they've already reflected it, and now they're starting to hoard banknotes, and it won't be long before they start a run like me."