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Shang Hongyi's body involuntarily leaned forward a little, and asked, "Dare to ask Lord Zhao, how much silver taels does this deposit cost?" ”

Zhao Pu smiled: "This deposit, 3o thousand taels of silver." ”

Shang Hongyi involuntarily touched the beard under his chin, he has been in business for many years, and his assets under his door are no less than one million taels, but over the years, he has bought land, bought a house and opened a shop, and the silver flowing in his hand is only four or five hundred thousand taels, and he is a little hesitant to take out so much at once.

Zhao Pu said with a smile on the side: "In fact, this deposit is just a measure of the strength of the business, I have no intention of private possession, my king said, if a firm undertakes, then the deposit will be 3o thousand taels, if there are more than two undertakers, the deposit is only 250,000 taels." ”

Shang Hongyi was stunned for a moment and asked: "Why are the two undertaking, why is this deposit still less?" "Togetherness is strong, and division is weak. Together, the deposit should be more.

Zhao Pu smiled and said: "Opening the Chu Kingdom and increasing the income of tea farmers is the true intention of my king." As the saying goes, cooperation is strong, and if there are more than two undertakers, the ability to buy and sell is definitely much stronger than one. This is widely sold, isn't it easy for merchants to meet my king's requirements? If you are able to meet my king's requirements, why should you take more of your deposit? Don't you know that this deposit is interest-bearing? ”

Zhao Pu's explanation made Shang Hongyi feel at ease, and he had a little more confidence in the tea business. Seeing what Shang Hongyi seemed to be thinking, Zhao Pu said again: "I also said just now, this deposit can be used to pay silver, and it can also be replaced with materials. If Mr. Shang really wants to contract the tea business, then I would suggest that Mr. Shang transport grain in place of silver. If you transport the grain over, we will settle it according to the usual grain price of the Tang Kingdom, and now that it is the summer harvest season, you may be able to earn some money. ”

As soon as Zhao Pu said this, Shang Hongyi naturally understood what he meant, and agreed: "The villain knows." The villain will say goodbye first, and if the villain finds a partner to work with, then... ”

Zhao Pu took over the words and said: "If Mr. Shang finds a partner, he might as well come to the post station to find me, of course, if Mr. Shang can find a lot of Li Tang's businessmen, Xia Guan is also willing to rush to your mansion in person to publicize to them again, my Da Chu's new policy." ”

Shang Hongyi was overjoyed and said: "In this case, the villain will try to gather some friends from the business community in the past, and then invite Lord Zhao to come to the cold house." ”

Zhao Pu stood up and said, "That's natural. Xiaguan is waiting for your good news. As he spoke, he sent Shang Hongyi out of the door.

When they were in Dengzhou, Xueyun and the others had carefully analyzed the current situation of Li Tang, due to the lack of copper money, the amount of currency that could be circulated in the market had decreased, resulting in a depression in the entire market. On the other hand, the common people lack daily necessities, but they have no money to buy them. A large business like the Dexing can survive on bartering because it has a variety of shops, but those small shops, such as cloth shops, if you exchange grain for cloth, it won't barter, why? Quite simply, what does it want food for? I am a cloth seller, and after bartering, I have no funds in my hands, so how can I buy cloth? But if you don't change it, you can't sell it. If this situation continues for a while, Li Tang's small shop will encounter big problems in surviving.

But the people in Li Tang's official mansion are not stupid. The silver-copper ratio has risen from 1:588 to 1:499, and in just two years, there are so many less copper coins, and they will not fail to investigate the reason, which is an old problem on the surface, some people secretly took copper coins to make bronze utensils, but if they dig deeper, Li Zhao and the shops of the Zhang family may be targeted by people with intentions. At this time, if Li Zhao and the others were allowed to continue to collect copper coins, they would be exposed.

At that time, Miss Xueyun came up with a solution, which was very poisonous, but it was a good way to divert the target and hit Li Tang: use Xia Harvest. What does that mean? That is, at the time of the summer harvest every year, the people of Li Tang have to pay taxes, according to the official price set by the government, 1 tael of silver is exchanged for 1ooo copper coins, but how can the common people have any silver in their hands, and they can be considered rich if they can have 100 copper coins. And because the ratio of silver to copper money in the black market is much higher than 1:1ooo, when the government collects taxes, he does not collect silver at all, only copper money, and after collecting copper money, he secretly converts it into silver. If a farmer, when the summer harvest, has to pay 5oo silver, according to the official system is to pay 5oo copper coins, and after they pay the 5oo copper coins, the officials immediately exchange the 5oo copper coins into silver, and now the ratio is 1:499, the 5oo copper coins are enough to exchange for one or two silver, of which 5oo coins are paid to the treasury, and the remaining 5 coins go to their own pockets. The common people are unlucky, they have to take the newly harvested grain to the market at this time, in exchange for copper money, and now the price of copper money is high, they have to sell more grain, plus illegal traders take the opportunity to lower the price of grain, so that the people will suffer a second exploitation.

There are good and bad businessmen, but whether they are good businessmen or bad businessmen, the essence of profit-seeking remains the same, if a bait is set up to let Li Tang's merchants transport grain to Chu State, and the amount of this grain is not big, it is not small. Then these businessmen will inevitably try their best to lower the price of grain, and the people of Li Tang will be even more miserable. Then, the unscrupulous officials of the government will inevitably find rich merchants to exchange silver, and rich merchants will not dare not exchange it. After the rich merchants exchanged the copper coins, they spread some news that the government was preparing to carry out large-scale activities, and the wealthy merchants were panicked, and they would inevitably take advantage of the low price of materials to buy some goods and consume the copper coins. In this way, there are two advantages: first, in the hands of small merchants and small households, it is not easy to collect copper coins, and even if they are, they are considered to be used to steal bronze coins; Second, the rich businessman has materials in his hands, but he has no copper coins, he wants to make money and circulate materials, but he will advocate making a lot of money. At this time, Xueyun and they jumped out and waved their flags and shouted, and it would be logical for this big money to go...

Not long after Shang Hongyi left, several big businessmen came to visit Zhao Pu, and Zhao Pu also explained to them one by one, and revealed such a sentence in his words, sell some grain to Chu State, which can be used as silver.

The Chu State Merchants Conference held at the Purple Grenade Inn was successfully concluded two days later. All that is left is those words that are enthroned and inspiring: give Da Chu a chance, give yourself a chance, and realize the dream of wealth together. People with a little strength are wondering if they should go to Da Chu to have a look? Li Tang's current economic situation is a backwater, and staying in Li Tang can only wait for bankruptcy, so it is better to go to Da Chu to have a look.

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Zhou Zong's mansion.

"Taifu. Big things are not good. Chang Mengxi and Han Xizai walked quickly into Zhou Zong's study and said to Zhou Zong, who was reading.

Zhou Zong glanced at Han Xizai, who was a little fussed, and said quite dissatisfied: "What's the matter?" Could it be that Feng Yansi is advocating the Southern Expedition again? Hmph, Northern Expedition, didn't he lose badly? ”

Han Xizai said: "Taifu, do you know? This Zhao Pu opened a Chu State Merchants Association at the Purple Grenade Inn yesterday. ”

"Oh, what's that?" Zhou Zong asked with some vigilance. Compared with Feng Yansi, Zhou Zong is confident but not conceited, he is not like Feng Yansi, who thinks he is Zhuge Liang in the world, and nothing can escape his eyes. In the past two years, he has seen the exhibition of Chu State in his eyes, and he also looks at Ma Yun's gang in his heart. There may be a trace of fear in his heart, a trace of uneasiness, but nothing can be done. The Chu army is already stronger than **, and it is definitely not a good idea to annoy this strong neighbor.

"It is said that it is to introduce some local products of the Chu Kingdom, and I hope you will buy them." Chang Mengxi explained on the side.

Zhou Zong nodded and said, "This is also the proper meaning of the exhibition place, what is there to make a fuss about." I heard that although the Northern Expedition of Chu was victorious, the country was extremely embarrassed, in this case, it is normal to want to come to our Tang Dynasty and attract some businessmen to come over and buy and sell? ”

"My lord, the current situation in the Chu State is different from two years ago. Now the Chu country is bigger and more populous. The Chu government may have no money, but the lives of the people are better than in the past. And we ... Han Xi was halfway through his words, and he suddenly stopped talking.

Zhou Zong glanced at Han Xizai with dissatisfaction and said, "But it's okay to say." The more he looks at it now, the more he feels that Han Xizai is not authentic. The original reason for this was nothing more than that Han Xizai actually supported the Northern Expedition, but the Northern Expedition was defeated and defeated.

Han Xizai said: "The state of Chu is now north to Dengzhou in the Central Plains, south to Lingnan Rongzhou, there are many products, the market situation is stable, if our merchants pass, once they can sell the specialties of Dengzhou and other places to Changsha and other places, and sell the specialties of Changsha and other places to Dengzhou, so that they may take root in the Chu State." So, aren't there fewer businessmen in our Datang? ”

Zhou Zong was stunned, he had never thought about this problem, he always thought that the merchants who went to the Tang Dynasty must have sold the things of the Tang Dynasty to the Chu State, and the things of the Chu State were being sold to the Tang Dynasty. He now understands why Han Xizai was about to vomit just now, Han Xizai did not say something clearly: Our Datang is not in a good economic situation now, there is no business to do, this businessman is all profit-seeking, if he really knows that Dachu's business is prosperous, he will definitely go over there. As a result, Datang is in danger.

Just as Zhou Zongsi was thinking about it, the housekeeper came over to report: "Master Bing, Lord Zhao Puzhao, the secretary of the Great Chu Criminal Department, came to visit you. ”

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