The weather is getting colder and colder, the snow piled up on both sides of the road a few days ago, there is no sign of melting at all, Li Zhang walked out of a gold shop, sighed and got into the carriage, today he has nothing to do, so he went to the street to take a turn, by the way to see the acceptance of the banknotes of the money store, the result disappointed him was that he walked a total of ten shops, but only one shop was willing to accept banknotes, and this shop still has business dealings with Huiwei Zhai.

The money store was officially opened two months ago, and the banknotes were also issued, the name of the money store was Tokyo Money Bank, originally Li Zhang wanted to call it the Great Song Money Store directly, but he told him that the name of the store with the country name might attract criticism from others, so he simply changed it to the Tokyo Money Bank, and the paper money issued was called the banknote.

It's just that in the past two months, Li Zhang, although they tried their best to promote money, but the progress is still too slow, and the money used out is often taken to the money store to be exchanged for copper money at the first time, and few people are willing to hold it for a long time, and the money is only circulated in a small area, not to mention ordinary people, even most of the merchants do not recognize this new paper money.

Of course, in comparison, the development of money is still very fast, and within the scope of circulation, because it can be exchanged at any time, so the reputation is also quite good, at least compared to those all kinds of Jiaozi, Li Zhang's money is very eye-catching, at this rate, maybe in a few years, money can gain a firm foothold in the entire capital, to reach Li Zhang's first goal.

"It's still too slow, it will take years for a mere capital city, how can I spend so much time on this?" Li Zhang, who was in the carriage, whispered to himself at this time.

During this time, for the sake of money, Li Zhang also handed over most of the affairs of the firearms supervisor to his deputy Liu Shu, of course, now the firearms supervisor is on the right track, although there are many affairs, but there are no too important things, so Li Zhang is also happy to be idle.

But now Li Zhang has devoted his free time to the money bank, for example, today he personally did a market research, but the response is not optimistic, if the money wants to be accepted by more people, it is necessary to add new ways, but Li Zhang can't think of any good way for the time being, after all, the emergence of a new thing, it will definitely take a while for others to accept.

"It's snowing!" At this moment, Li Zhang was suddenly interrupted by an exclamation on the road, when he opened the car window, he found that there were indeed snowflakes outside, it was already December, a few days ago just passed the Chengtian Festival, that is, Zhao Heng's birthday, it snowed a lot that day, but now the snow has not melted, and it began to snow again.

It's just noon, but it's overcast outside, and I don't know when the snow will fall. It just so happened that Li Zhang found that he was on Gaotou Street, and the tall walls of the imperial city were to the west, so he simply ordered the coachman to enter the imperial city and prepare to go to Zhao Zhen for lunch.

Zhao Zhen didn't expect Li Zhang to visit in this kind of weather, so he was very happy to invite Li Zhang in, and then ordered someone to prepare a hot pot, which was taught to him by Li Zhang, which was the most suitable for warming up in this cold weather.

"It's snowing outside, cousin, where have you been?" After eating a few bites of mutton, Zhao Zhen also asked Li Zhang very curiously.

"It's not about the money store, I went to a few merchants and looked around, but there was only one who was willing to collect money, and this is still the most prosperous area around the imperial city, if you go to a remote area, I'm afraid people haven't even heard of money." Li Zhang shook his head while eating at this time, and he could only complain to Zhao Zhen about these words.

"It's really slow, so is there a way to let more people know about the money?" Zhao Zhen also nodded when he heard this, he was also very concerned about money, firstly, Li Zhang told him the importance of paper money, and secondly, he invested all his net worth in the money bank, and he accounted for forty percent of the entire money bank.

"Yes, now the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the officials are going to give out money, if you can turn all the officials' money into money, you will definitely make the money become famous overnight!" Li Zhang even ate a few bites of mutton at the moment, and replied without raising his head, the fresh mutton is indeed delicious, but there is no chili, which always makes him feel not very enjoyable.

"Cousin, don't be kidding, how can the official's salary be easily changed? Don't say that I don't have a pro-government now, even if I am pro-government, I don't dare to mess around like this, and the eldest lady is even more unlikely to agree. Zhao Zhen couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard Li Zhang's words, officials are the foundation of the royal rule of the world, if they really move their money, even if there is a little problem, it may shake the rule of the imperial court, and it will also cause a great backlash.

Of course, Li Zhang knows the above, he is an official himself, and naturally he also knows that the composition of officials' salaries is very mixed, and the income is not only money, most of them are in kind, such as grain, cloth, etc., and the officials' income is issued once a year, so it is called "annual income".

"Captain Li, the slave has a sentence that I don't know if to say or not?" At this moment, I suddenly saw the waiter standing beside Zhao Zhen waiting for him to eat, and said, this waiter's name is Yan Shilang, he is the most favored eunuch by Zhao Zhen's side, he has been serving him since Zhao Zhen was a child, and usually Zhao Zhen's clothes and food have to pass through his hands, and he is also the person Zhao Zhen can't do without the most, and he takes him with him wherever he goes.

"Yan Duzhi is polite, don't hesitate to say anything you want!" Li Zhang is still very familiar with this Yan Shilang, usually just tries his best to take care of Zhao Zhen, and rarely sees him speak, so it can be seen that he is a very cautious person, and his sudden opening today also surprised Li Zhang.

"Cousin is right, Shirou, do you have any opinion on this matter?" Zhao Zhen also asked with a smile at this time.

Seeing that Zhao Zhen and Li Zhang didn't blame themselves for talking too much, Yan Shilang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, although they were of high grade, their status was actually very low, and others might not dare to provoke them outside, but in Zhao Zhen's eyes, they were actually domestic servants, and a word could decide their life and death, so he usually had to be cautious.

"Qi Qi Li Duwei, it may be difficult to change the officials' fortunes without authorization, but the use of the palace is all from the royal family, why don't you think of a way in this regard?" Yan Shilang said with a smile at this time, as Zhao Zhen's side, he naturally knows Li Zhang's influence on Zhao Zhen better than anyone else, so he naturally hopes to have a good relationship with Li Zhang, and today is an excellent opportunity.

"Phew! yes, how I didn't think of that! As soon as Yan Shilang's words fell, Zhao Zhen slapped the table hard and said excitedly, there are thousands of people living in the palace, and the daily expenses are extremely expensive, if all the money used in these expenses can be exchanged for money, it will definitely increase the influence of money, after all, even the people in the palace use money, what reason do the businessmen and people outside have to doubt?

Li Zhang's eyes lit up when he heard this, but then he said with some worry: "This is a good way, but who is in charge of the expenses of the palace now?" ”

Theoretically speaking, the expenses of the palace are under the control of the queen, but the Zhang family has just become the queen, and now that Liu E is in power, Li Zhang does not know who is in charge of the power within the palace?

Li Zhang didn't know, and Zhao Zhen didn't know either, because in his opinion, these were trivial matters, so he usually didn't care at all, but fortunately, there was Yan Shilang next to him, an insider, so he smiled at this time: "The expenses in the palace before must have been managed by the queen mother, but the queen mother was busy with government affairs, so she handed it over to Luo Duzhi beside her to take care of these things, but now that His Majesty has set up the queen, according to the rules of the palace, these things must be transferred to the queen to manage, and Luo Duzhi has also been handing over these things to the queen during this time." ”

"After doing it for a long time, it turns out that my queen has so much power, so let's just go to the queen!" Zhao Zhen also slapped his head when he heard this, no wonder when he went to find the queen recently, he saw her tired look, he originally thought that the other party had not slept well, but now he thinks that he should be tired because of things in the palace.

Li Zhang was also surprised at this time, Zhao Zhen was even more anxious, and immediately pulled Li Zhang to find Queen Zhang, now Queen Zhang has moved out of Jingfu Palace, after all, as a queen, she already has her own palace, and Zhao Zhen should not stay in Jingfu Palace anymore, but he is used to living here, so unless it is the day of pro-government, he is ready to live here all the time.

When Zhao Zhen took Li Zhang to Empress Zhang, he happened to see that Luo Chongxun was also here, and there were several big eunuchs in the palace, and there were a lot of account books in front of Empress Zhang, it seemed that Luo Chongxun was indeed handing over the affairs of the palace to Empress Zhang.

"See Your Majesty!" When Luo Chongxun and the others saw Zhao Zhen coming in, they immediately saluted.

"No need to be polite, you are just here, I and my cousin have something to discuss with the queen, and I also need you!" Zhao Zhen said with a smile at this time.

Empress Zhang also stood up to greet her at this time, and when she heard Zhao Zhen's words, she also asked curiously, "Your Majesty has something to discuss with your concubines?" ”

"It's a long story, I can't tell you for a while, so let my cousin talk about it!" Zhao Zhen pointed at Li Zhang at this time and said, his eloquence is indeed inferior to Li Zhang, and he only invested money in Qian Xing, but he didn't know much about Qian Xing.

Empress Zhang also looked at Li Zhang curiously at this time, and Li Zhang also told him about Qian Xing at this time, but he didn't say that Zhao Zhen had a role in Qian Xing, because in addition to Empress Zhang, there are also Luo Chongxun and these people, in case people know that they are doing business with Zhao Zhen, I'm afraid those imperial historians will have to impeach him.

However, although Li Zhang didn't say it, Zhao Zhen whispered a few words in Queen Zhang's ear, probably telling her the secret, but Queen Zhang was shocked at first, and then smiled helplessly, since it was Zhao Zhen and Li Zhang's business, she couldn't help it.