Shen Gui is really not joking, he really doesn't plan to work in Chang'an, because this wine profit is the biggest income of the restaurant, and he can't make much money just by eating, but now it has become a burden, not only does the court not give support, but also intensifies, forcing them to buy wine, which is not a business.

Moreover, he is not from Chang'an, he is from Yangzhou, and now that the merchants of Chang'an are running to Yangzhou, he feels that there is no need for him to stay here.

This is not the idea that he just came up with, he had already written to Yangzhou to explain the situation, and that Shen Xiao is a very free and easy person, he does not stay here and has his own place to stay with his master, so he wrote back to tell him, let him do it if he can, and go back to Yangzhou if he can't do it, don't force it, Shen Gui still wanted to insist, but today's incident made him make up his mind.

Shen Gui decisively went to Sangmu and explained the reason to Sangmu, this business can't go on, and I plan to go back.

Sang Mu himself could not be protected, and he would not keep Shen Gui, so Shen Gui exchanged all the money on the first floor into golden tickets, ready to leave at any time.

Sang Mu had long sensed that something was wrong with the situation, and in the past few months, he had successively transferred Han Yi's personal assets to Jiangnan Yuan Bank.

Now the gold bank is in Chang'an, but it is very dangerous, Li Yifu can reach out, the Yuan bank is at least in Yangzhou, Li Yifu wants to move the money of the Yuan bank, it is more difficult. Sang Mu's only belief now is to keep these family properties for Han Yi, and it doesn't matter if he makes money or not.

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Lee House.

"Zhangren, Liangzhou Zhao Tingshi sent a letter asking when we will settle the bill with Liangzhou?"

"Checkout?"

Li Yifu was confused when he heard it, "What kind of account?" ”

Liu Yuanzhen said: "It is the account of the jar vegetables, according to their statistics, eighty percent of the jar vegetables produced in Liangzhou are used by the transportation team of the imperial court." ”

Li Yifu's eyes widened when he heard this, and he said: "Is this really unreasonable, is he Zhao Zhiman trying to rebel?" Which workshops are owned by his family? Isn't it normal for the court to produce it for the needs of the court, why does he want us to settle the bill. ”

He didn't think about settling accounts at all, he thought that the jar vegetables produced in Liangzhou should be for them, but he didn't want to think about it, people put money from the Liangzhou government treasury into it, and if you don't give money, the government will not be able to open it.

Liu Yuanzhen understood a little more, and said cautiously: "But Zhangren, Zhao Zhiman said that they can't open the pot in Liangzhou." ”

Li Yifu snorted: "Nonsense, Liangzhou is so rich, he won't be able to open the pot, I think it must be Zhao Zhiman's private pockets, so I don't have to deal with him." ”

If you ask Li Yifu for money, it is better to be cautious and move bricks.

Li Yifu is running an official camp in order to make money, so there is no reason to make money. But to say he's shrewd, he's stupider than a pig.

Liu Yuanzhen persuaded: "Zhangren, according to the opinion of the son-in-law, Zhao Zhiman is not unreasonable, this Liangzhou originally took the money from the Liangzhou Treasury to buy those workshops, but now they only recover 20% of the money, they may indeed encounter some difficulties." ”

Li Yifu said: "Then you mean, let's allocate the money to them?" ”

Liu Yuanzhen said depressedly: "The problem is that we can't come up with so much money now, and now we are all tight on hand, and our money has been invested in salt and iron wine, and my son-in-law thinks that we have to quickly let all parts of the country send salt and iron taxes to Chang'an." ”

Li Yifu agreed with this matter very much, nodded, and said: "That's right, you immediately urge all localities to pay the salt and iron tax, and raise the price of salt a little more, the imperial court is currently in need of money." ”

"Son-in-law knows." Liu Yuanzhen said: "As for the matter of Liangzhou, I think I will first ask Zhao Zhiman to go to the household department to ask for money, so that it can be delayed for some time." ”

Li Yifu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and said, "Your idea is good, so let's do it." ”

This is the characteristic of the official camp, when you take the money, everyone scrambles, and when you give the money, you push me, I push him.

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Liangzhou.

Zhao Zhi was full of stars and moons, and finally looked forward to Li Yifu's letter, but when he saw Li Yifu's reply, he had the heart to scold his mother, this Liangzhou has bottomed out, and you are still pushing around here, but he scolded his mother for a long time, and he still honestly wrote to the household department and asked the household department to allocate funds.

As soon as the letter was delivered, a huge caravan came to Liangzhou.

This time Wu Kelie they all came, because this is the first large-scale trade since Han Yi set an economic plan for the northwest, they have been expanding production in the past two years, everyone is doing their best, because the northwest has been controlled by merchants, if the people are not good, then they will not blame the court, but blame the merchants, they are trying their best to recover from the war, consolidate their rule, now it is the time of harvest, they are all full of expectations to come to Liangzhou.

Tuyuhun had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw that the Northwest merchant had finally arrived, he hurriedly followed, because according to Han Yi's plan, this was also a three-way deal.

But the problem is that now Liangzhou has nothing, and even a rich businessman can't find it, Zhao Zhiman doesn't want to talk to them about anything to trade, so let them go to Chang'an to trade.

"To Chang'an?"

Wu Kelie was stunned for a moment, and then said: "We are indeed going to Chang'an, by the way, we will visit Han Shangshu, but in terms of the contract, we only bring some jewelry and precious medicinal materials to Chang'an to trade, and most of the goods are still traded in Liangzhou!" ”

Zhao Zhiman said: "Your Excellency may not know yet, Han Shangshu resigned three years ago and went home to guard filial piety, and now he is in Yangzhou, not in Chang'an." ”

"Huh?"

Ukelie and the others were shocked.

An ominous premonition arose.

But they also saw that Zhao Zhiman had no intention of talking to them, and they didn't have money to talk about it, so they just asked about Han Yi's situation and went back to the hotel.

"Brother, something doesn't seem right."

Yi Gu Pan worried.

Kasmi said: "It's not that it's not quite right, it's that it's very wrong. Three years ago, how prosperous Liangzhou was, but now when you go outside, the streets are full of idlers soaking the sun, many stores have been closed, some of our old friends in the past, now they don't know where to go, even the Xiaopang Group has withdrawn from Liangzhou, all of them are taken over by the imperial court. ”

Yi Gu said: "We can't control these, but they let us all go to Chang'an, our cost will increase a lot, in the past, everyone came to Liangzhou to trade, Tuguhun salt, plus our meat, basically in Liangzhou for trade, but now they have to be sent to Chang'an, what can I do?" ”

Wu Kelie said: "You ask me, how do I know, the key is that Brother Han is not here, I really have no bottom in my heart." ”

Kasimi said: "Even if we lose a little, we have to send it to Chang'an, if we all transport it back, it will be even more bloodless, we have brought a lot of goods this time, and our herdsmen can count on us to bring them wealth when we go back." ”

Yigu said: "But I heard that the merchants are gone, and if they are sent to Chang'an, they can't find anyone, so what is good?" ”

"We have a contract with the Central Plains for trade, but we all have the imperial court as a guarantee, and we really can't find anyone, so let's go to the imperial court, and we can't let us go back empty-handed."

"That's right, whether we want to or not, this Chang'an has to go."

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Households.

"Xu Shilang, the accounts of the treasury have been calculated, please take a look at it."

An official handed an account to Mr. Xu.

Xu Yushi took it and looked at it, and was immediately dumbfounded, "Why is there only so little left in ----?" ”

The official replied: "In the past two years, because the imperial court has purchased merchants' workshops on a large scale, it is all allocated by the treasury, and the imperial court has decided to set up official shops and workshops in various states and counties, but the treasury is really powerless at that time, so Li Zhongshu asked some prefectures and counties to be able to take taxes first, and here the imperial court has ordered the exemption of the two capitals from hard labor, and now the imperial court has to hire people to do all the construction in the two capitals, plus the officials' salaries have increased a lot, and the treasury has been supporting it with saving money, if the states and counties in various states and counties do not make up for the money this year." , I'm afraid we won't be able to send it out next year. ”

You must know that the treasury of the Tang Dynasty was not rich, and it was completely incomparable with that time of Emperor Wenjing. During the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Shimin emptied the treasury in order to withdraw his troops in order to make Jieli, and ate the old books of the Sui Dynasty, and later saved a little money, and fought Goguryeo at the end of Zhenguan to run out, so Li Zhi chose to strike the battle of Liaodong at that time.

Yonghui recovered some, but it was not very rich, and then Han Yi served as the head of the household, but Han Yi's policy was mainly an economic policy, and the beneficiaries were businessmen and the people, although the income of the treasury also increased, because there were more people who paid taxes, but it was not very many, but it showed an upward trend, you must know that Han Yi had not yet collected commercial taxes at that time, so it can be said that there is a lot of room for improvement.

However, since Wu Meiniang's new policy, there has been a major reversal of policy, and the revenue of the treasury has never increased, and it has been spending, and after three years, the treasury's accounts will soon be in deficit.

The main reason is that this group of straw bales is too whimsical, and none of them understand the economy, and the same is true for Wu Meiniang, although she is smart, she can only engage in politics, where does she know what economy, you are exempted from forced labor here, and you are promoting the salaries of middle and low-level officials over there, and you are also in a hurry to build the physique of the official camp. Moreover, the construction of the official camp in the Tang Dynasty was not the same as that of the Han Dynasty, the commerce of the Han Dynasty was like that, there was no trade, there was not even a canal at that time, and it was to flee for his life when he went to the south of the Yangtze River, and it was very fast to form an official camp at that time.

In the Tang Dynasty, the situation became very complicated, because of Han Yi's policy, business has been rising, and Li Zhi is reluctant to completely abandon the private sector and engage in pure government, he still supports Han Yi's policy, so Li Yifu can only play acquisition, play yin, and use the policy to force businessmen to close their doors and sell their workshops to the imperial court, and the imperial court is a big package, which is much more expensive than the official camp of the Han Dynasty.

And there are also the benefits left by Han Yi before, Zhaoyi College, Royal Training Camp, Military Academy, Women's Federation Bureau for military households, this costs money for everything, but your family has so much, you take a penny, and you want to do things that are consistent with money, which is even more stupid than Emperor Yang of Sui, Emperor Yang of Sui did it at the beginning, at least the treasury of the Sui Dynasty has money, he has this capital, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is too, the treasury of the Tang Dynasty cannot be compared with Sui and Han at all, the central government is like this, the local states and counties are even poorer, and the court does not give money, and let them open workshops, open stores, and levy tariffs, These all require manpower and material resources, and if you want to do business, you must first invest money in it, and the state and county can only pay for it.

Central revenues have become even smaller, spending has doubled, revenues have plummeted, and it would be strange if there were no deficits.

At this moment, another official walked in quickly, "Qi Xu Shilang, Liangzhou Thorn Shi sent an urgent letter." ”

Xu Yushi opened the letter and looked at it, and couldn't help but slap the letter on the table, and regretted that he didn't say at the beginning: "How could I have believed that despicable villain in the first place. ”

However, he still has a glimmer of hope, that is, because the Commercial Taxation Bureau and the Household Department are parallel, not a unified department, and he doesn't know the situation over there, if there is money there, it can still be made up, Li Yifu also fooled him like this at the beginning, and after the official camp is rolled out, the money will come, and the treasury will be full.

Zhongshu Province.

"Li Zhongshu, what's going on?"

Xu Yushi took the letter sent by Zhao Zhiman, rushed to Li Yifu's office house, and questioned Li Yifu.

Li Yifu's heart was like a mirror, but he pretended not to know: "Xu Shilang, what are you talking about?" ”

Xu Yushi said: "This is a letter sent by Liangzhou Thorn Shi, let me go to the household department to settle the bill, don't say you don't know, his letter stated that you asked him to come to the household department to ask for money." ”

"That's what happened!"

Li Yifu nodded and said, "I know about this, is there anything wrong with this?" I don't have the power to allocate funds to Liangzhou, this is the responsibility of your household department! ”

Xu Yushi said: "Li Zhongshu, you can't say that, the goods produced by the Liangzhou workshop are all used for your transport team, and you have not come to our household department at that time, it has always been directly discussed between the two of you, and there is no reason to say that you want to settle the bill, so you came to find our household department." I won't hide it from you, even if Liangzhou Thorn Shi didn't send this letter, I plan to come to you, our household has been bottomed out by you, and what you promised at the beginning has not been fulfilled. ”

Li Yifu was surprised: "How is this possible, how can the household department have no money." ”

Xu Yushi snorted: "You let the prefectures and counties open branches, collect tariffs, and set up government-run shops and workshops, and recruit a lot of people to come in, which doesn't need money, I told you at that time, this treasury does not have so much money, it was you who decided to let the prefectures and counties first put the taxes on the back, wait until the workshop makes money, and then hand over the principal with interest, what about the money now?" I don't see a penny now. ”

Li Yifu hurriedly said: "Xu Shilang needs to be anxious, I have ordered all localities to pay the salt tax immediately, and when the salt tax is delivered, all difficulties will be solved, and I promise to make up for the money from the treasury immediately." ”

Xu Yushi said: "I hope so, I just want to tell you that if this money can't be made up at the beginning of next year, we won't be able to send it, so you can go and explain it to Your Majesty yourself." ”