According to Li Ji's character, he would never want to get involved in this matter, because he is very self-aware, he knows that he can only fight, but he can't do this administrative aspect, and now the situation seems to be a little bad, then he is even more respectful, so as not to be dragged into the water.

But when you are in the court, you can't help yourself!

Now Li Ji is unavoidable, in fact, it has affected the welfare of the military before, the military is very dissatisfied with this, and now it is more related to the stability of the northwest, which directly affects the foundation of the country, if the northwest is chaotic, Tubo will definitely take action, then the court has to take off a layer of skin, it may not be more, you must know that the Tang Dynasty still has garrisons in the northwest, although not much, but as a military boss, he can't ignore the safety of the soldiers over there.

So Li Ji could only go to Li Yifu, ask for an understanding, and tell Li Yifu the stakes, they are not ordinary businessmen, if the court does not abide by the contract, there will be problems in the northwest, and you will have to carry this pot.

Where did Li Yifu have time to care about the merchants in the northwest before, he is now very busy, but now that Li Ji has come forward in person, Li Yifu has to think carefully about this matter. He had finally persuaded Xu Yushi and his civil officials to hide the state deficit first, and promised that they would definitely fill the holes, and then immediately ordered people to go to various prefectures and counties, so that the local governments could do everything possible to make up for the tax money, and the only way for the government was to collect taxes.

Xu Yushi and they also knew that if they stabbed the emperor, they would be unable to escape the blame, so they also promised to give Li Yifu some more time.

Unexpectedly, the military began to make trouble again, Li Yifu was afraid that the military would stab Li Zhi about this, so he could only promise Li Ji that I would definitely take out the money and settle this group of northwest businessmen, don't make a noise first.

Li Ji didn't want to make a big deal out of it, so he agreed.

But the problem is that the imperial court really can't come up with so much money, and it takes time to collect taxes.

......

"Li Zhongshu, don't panic, I have a plan to solve this urgent need."

Xuanji Dao Chang twisted his beard and smiled, it was not chaotic in danger.

Li Yifu was overjoyed and said, "Dao Chang said quickly." ”

Xuanji said: "Now we in Chang'an can come up with so much money, there is only one." ”

Liu Yuanzhen said: "Is the Taoist chief saying that it is not the Yuan family? ”

Xuanji Daoist shook his head and said: "First of all, the Yuan family may not be able to come up with so much money, and secondly, even if the Yuan family can get it, why should the imperial court let the Yuan family pay this money?" ”

Li Yifu wondered: "Then I don't know what the chief said?" ”

Xuanji said long: "Jin Xing." ”

"Jin Xing?"

"Not bad."

Xuanji Dao said: "According to the understanding of the poor road, there are many people who have deposited money in the gold bank, and the number of people in the past two years has been more, only the gold bank can take out so much money, and the gold bank is to make the benefit of this loan, and it is justified to borrow money from the gold bank, and besides, the gold bank has always cooperated with the imperial court, and the gold bank is embarrassed to refuse the imperial court, as long as we pay interest." ”

Li Yifu was like an initiation, "Yes! How did I not think of the gold bank. ”

Xuanji Daoist smiled and said: "Li Zhongshu, don't worry, and listen to me, this money is said to be borrowed, but in fact, it is taken, and there is no need to pay it back." ”

Li Yifu said: "Don't pay it back? ”

Xuanji said: "Li Zhongshu only needs to lend the money first, and then spread the news, and the money does not have to be returned." ”

Li Yifu didn't understand very well.

Seeing his stupid appearance, the Xuanji Dao Chief couldn't help but sigh secretly, it was really difficult for the proprietor, and he had to come up with his own ideas even to do it himself. said: "Li Zhongshu might as well think about it, the money of this gold bank is the money of the people, not Han Yi's money, when the people know that the gold bank has lent their money to the imperial court, what will be their reaction?" ”

Li Yifu thought for a while and said, "Hurry up and go to the gold bank to withdraw the money." ”

Xuanji Dao Chang smiled: "But Jin Xing can't come up with the money!" ”

Li Yifu suddenly realized, patted his thigh excitedly and said, "Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! The words of the Taoist are wonderful! ”

He immediately asked Liu Yuanzhen to go to the gold bank to discuss the matter of borrowing money.

But when Liu Yuanzhen came to the North Lane, he found that the North Lane was already full of people, and it was not easy to squeeze into the North Lane, let alone enter the gold bank.

"Don't squeeze! Don't squeeze! ”

"I'll come first."

"I came first."

......

"Hey! This little brother, please stay, what are you doing here? ”

Liu Yuanzhen asked a young man who was running in a hurry.

"Ouch! Don't you know, the gold bank has lent a lot of money in the past two years, and many accounts have become bad debts, and Brother Han is not here, we have to quickly withdraw our money, I won't tell you, I'm going to withdraw the money. ”

When Liu Yuanzhen heard this, he was about to vomit blood, but now he had no choice but to be cheeky and go to Sangmu.

"Young Eunuch Liu is here, Sang Mu has missed the distance, forgive the sins, forgive the sins."

Sang Mu came to the VIP room sweating profusely, and he was slightly gasping when he spoke.

Liu Yuanzhen asked knowingly, "Sangmu, what's going on with you here?" Why so many people? ”

Sang Mu sighed: "I don't know which bastard leaked the news and spread the bad debts of my gold bank, causing the people to come to withdraw money, if you are really anxious to kill me." ”

Speaking of the back, he was on his toes.

Liu Yuanzhen was surprised: "Then the rumors outside are all true?" ”

Sang Mu cried and said, "If only it was fake, I don't have to worry about it now." Alas... In the past few years, the economy has been sluggish, and many businessmen have run away, and they have all asked me to borrow a lot of money from the gold bank! ”

Liu Yuanzhen didn't want to say anything after hearing this, because they made it like this, and said tentatively: "Then what are you going to do?" ”

"I'm going to go to the Yuan family now to see if I can borrow some money, when Engong entrusted Beixiang to me, how can I face Engong!"

Sang Mu said in a choked tone, and his acting skills were very realistic.

In fact, the gold bank has enough money to deal with this run crisis, because Han Yi has always paid great attention to the letter of the gold bank, so he asked Sang Mu to calculate the accounts of the gold bank and ensure that there are enough funds to face the run crisis, but there is also a process of withdrawing money, including the exchange of vouchers, not that it can be taken away all at once, and there is constantly negative news coming out over there, and the crisis of the gold bank is actually in people's hearts, not the gold bank itself.

Sang Mu asked Liu Yuanzhen again: "That's right! Young Eunuch Liu, are you also here to withdraw money? ”

Liu Yuanzhen was stunned for a long time, and then nodded.

In this case, he knew that it was useless to say that the gold bank itself had to borrow money, where would there be money to lend to them.

However, what Liu Yuanzhen did not expect was that the run on the gold bank completely detonated the economic crisis of the entire Datang.

Because the gold bank is the symbol of Chang'an, especially in business, it plays a very important position, and the currency is run through the gold bank, and now even the gold bank can't do it, and everyone is completely desperate for the Chang'an economy.

Not only did the people not consume, but even the nobles did not consume anymore, because the economy was really sluggish and very depressed.

The shops in the two cities and North Lane began to close one after another, and what used to be only workshops was no longer open, and another group of merchants began to flee.

At this time, everyone is seeking self-preservation, and where will they care about the life or death of workers.

What's even worse is that due to the financial deficit, the government-run workshops have not been able to pay wages in front, even the silk silk can not be paid, the silk silk also has to grow mulberry and silkworms, the front has been squandered almost, these months are owed, just said that the workers were not clear about the situation at that time, and now the workers do not know the treasury deficit crisis, but now this situation, everyone is in danger, began to ask for wages, this demand for wages, it turned out that there is no money, it turns out that they are all working in vain, everyone is unwilling to work, these workers do not work, That Li Yifu couldn't even transport the goods, which was undoubtedly worse, and the entire official camp collapsed in an instant.

There is a way that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the Guanzhong Group, Shandong Group, Changchang Group, Wanli Group, and clay workshops, etc., which had a debt relationship with the imperial court, also ran to the imperial court to collect debts.

If you have money, how can you owe so much money, and you can't even pay the wages of the workers, and everyone knows that the court has long run out of money.

The entire Chang'an was immediately paralyzed, and the merchants from the northwest were frightened, not worried about whether the imperial court would break the contract, but worried that their goods would be robbed, because many unemployed people poured out in an instant.

They sent troops directly to protect their goods.

Li Yifu hid left and right, and he couldn't hide it at this time, and all kinds of negative news about the finance spread out one after another.

Now don't talk about workers, even the officials are not in the mood to work, they can't even pay their money, and I'm still a fart.

A nationwide economic crisis has finally erupted.

The music is like snowflakes flying to Luoyang.

Especially the military, because of the whole process of the matter, the military has been suffering, and the benefits have been taken away by the civilian officials.

——————

Luoyang!

"Concubines, see Your Majesty."

I only heard a commotion.

Before Wu Meiniang's words fell, a stack of music folds fell at her feet. She looked down, then looked up at Li Zhi in surprise.

Li Zhi didn't look at her, but said, "You can see for yourself." ”

Wu Meiniang was frightened, she hadn't even come out of Wang Xuan's shadow, she hurriedly picked up one or two folds, and while looking at it, she exclaimed again and again: "How can this happen?" How so? ”

"I also want to say, how can this be?" Li Zhi's mouth trembled.

Wu Meiniang raised her head and looked at Li Zhi blankly.

Li Zhi slapped the table, pointed at Wu Meiniang and scolded: "I believed in you and handed over the government affairs to you, and that's how you came to repay me?" I really regret how I believed in you as a woman in the first place. ”

Wu Meiniang said in horror: "Your Majesty, the concubine is wronged, and the concubine doesn't know anything about it." ”

Li Zhi laughed angrily and said, "Didn't you come up with these policies, you told me that you didn't know anything?" ”

Wu Meiniang was also stupid, she had no clue at all, she just felt that there was a piece missing in the middle, it was all in her expectation at the beginning, why didn't it collapse all of a sudden, this also came too fast.

"I've ruined the Tang Dynasty."

Li Zhi saw that Wu Meiniang was stunned, the hatred in his heart, you didn't care about it, he roared at Wu Meiniang, and then rushed out.

"What's going on? What's going on here? ”

Wu Meiniang felt dizzy for a while, and almost fell, but fortunately the maid on the side supported her.

This matter is much more serious than Wang Xuan's appearance, she and Wang Xuan are more personal grievances, personal feelings, as long as she is not messy, in fact, Wang Xuan is difficult to shake her status, after all, in Wang Xuan's matter, the ministers and the people are on her side, because today's ministers are vested interests, and they will not want to reshuffle the cards.

But this thing is different, she made up this new deal, and if something goes wrong, she has to take full responsibility!

Moreover, this mess seems to be a little bigger, and whether she can afford it is still a question.

The Tang Dynasty seemed to collapse overnight.

"Go to Yangzhou immediately and ask Han Yi to come back."

Li Zhi threw down this sentence and immediately set off to Chang'an, Chang'an is his base camp, his roots are there, if Chang'an collapses, then he will be finished.

As for Wu Meiniang?

You go and die.

In the final analysis, in Li Zhi's heart, this power is the most important thing, and the abolition of Wang Liwu at the beginning was actually a struggle for power, not simply because of a woman, Wang Xuan's matter, he could bear it, but he couldn't help it, because it directly affected his throne.

Moreover, Li Zhi has always wanted to get out of his father's shadow, but before the shadow came out, he fell into the ditch, which hurt him too much, if this matter cannot be reversed, Wu Meiniang is estimated to be a dead end.

When love meets power, that's scum.

Before Li Zhidu left Luoyang, an economic crisis broke out in Luoyang.

Because in Han Yi's original economic plan, Chang'an has always been the center of the country, whether it is economic or political, now Chang'an is paralyzed, how can Luoyang stay out of the matter, and Luoyang's gold bank is also facing a run crisis.

As soon as the capital chain of Chang'an was broken, the gold bank was difficult to protect itself, and the economic crisis broke out in Luoyang immediately, because the two were too closely linked, and even the Qinglou was opened in a chain, and there were many government-run workshops in Luoyang, and they could not pay salaries, because the funds were not returned.

The people of Luoyang saw that Chang'an was like this, not to mention spending money, they didn't even dare to go out, the market was even more depressed, and the businessmen couldn't do it anymore, so the businessmen could only leave, and the businessmen left, the workers were unemployed, and the official camps were originally in Chang'an and Luoyang were still profitable, if these two were in chaos, everyone could only watch them fall into chaos, this is not to say that killing anyone can solve the problem, there is no money, everyone doesn't know where the money goes, and they don't know what happened, which causes the people to become very panicked.

The panic of the people on this matter undoubtedly further contributed to the outbreak of the crisis, and made the crisis more terrifying and ferocious.