Badong City, Xu Mansion, the county guard Xu Shao and his wife hosted a banquet for Tang Guogong Li Yuan and his wife, the classmates of Anlu official school, and now they are together again, Xu Shao, as the host, naturally has to entertain guests from afar. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xu Shao's ancestral home is Gaoyang, Hebei, and his ancestors moved to Anlu for the Anlu Xu family, and Li Yuan's father, Li Xin, was the governor of Anzhou in Zhou State, and the young Li Yuan lived in Anlu for a few years and was a classmate of Xu Shao.

"After more than ten years, is Shude good in Chang'an?"

"That's it, it's better for the heir to make a big show here."

The conversation during the banquet was endless, Xu Shao became a county guard at a young age, and Li Yuan was different from him, because of his aunt, he never had the opportunity to go to the local experience.

Li Yuan is the fourth son in the family, the three brothers died early, and his father's title was inherited by him.

When it came to his uncle Yang Jian to replace Zhou with Sui, Li Yuan's career still did not change much, in order to prevent accidents, Dugu Jialuo has been reluctant to let him go, so as not to make the four sisters frightened.

To do the history of assassination, you have to lead troops to fight from time to time, and it will be terrible if you are shot by a stray arrow, so Li Yuan has been guarding the palace, after all, it is his own family, and his uncle and aunt are more relieved to use it.

Of course, it's not okay to keep going on like this, Queen Dugu means that Li Yuan can be appointed abroad if he has a son, but Mrs. Dou has not moved, and this delay is six years.

Until that night, everything changed.

Li Yuan himself was not involved in the turmoil in the second year of the elephant, nor did he get involved in the matter of Chan Rang, so even if his mother was the fourth sister of Queen Dugu of the Sui State, the Zhou army did not kill them all.

Marriages between the magnates of the Guanzhong gate valve are very common, and if they are really so implicated, I am afraid that they will kill everyone, but they are not at ease if they are left alone, so Yu Wenliang, the commander of the Zhou army, took a compromise approach.

People who had to be guarded against but could not be killed went to Shannan with their families to "live temporarily", while Li Yuan's family was arranged to live in Xiyang City, Huangzhou, which was actually similar to house arrest.

Xu Shao learned of the arrival of the deceased, although he had the heart to visit friends, but did not make a mistake, and after getting the approval of the governor's office, he sent someone to Li Yuan's residence to send an invitation, inviting him and his wife to Badong City as guests, and to fulfill the friendship of the landlord.

After the halfway of drinking, the ladies of both sides moved to the side hall, and Li Yuan began to talk about some things that were inconvenient to talk about.

He came to Xiyang, although his movement was restricted, but he had to walk around the city, and after walking around the street for a few days, he found that the situation in Xiyang City was unexpected, and the city was much more prosperous than he imagined.

When he was in Anlu, the Jiangbei territory where Huangzhou was located was still the land of Chen State, and according to vague memory, these prefectures seemed to be unknown, with little land and sparse population, whether it was agriculture or commerce, they were not worth mentioning.

As a result, when he sailed down the Yangtze River from Hankou by boat, and when he approached the boundary of Huangzhou, he was first shocked by the endless river embankment.

Because there was a lot of luggage on the ship, Li Yuan and his entourage passed through Xiyang City and docked at Bakou Port in the east.

Looking at the lively Badong City next to Bakou, looking at the building called "windmill" outside the city, and looking at the busy loading and unloading scene on the wharf, Li Yuan got into a strange-looking four-wheeled carriage before he could come back to his senses.

All the way to the west, halfway to see the river embankment on the south side, the second is a military camp of considerable scale, and the third is a large area of farmland on the north side of the road.

The rivers and ditches in the south of the Yangtze River are vertical and horizontal, the lakes are dotted with lakes, and when the rainy season comes, there will be a big flood, and if you want to reclaim farmland, you have to build water conservancy, and how much manpower and material resources have been used in the Xiyang boundary of Huangzhou, where the river embankment and river embankment are perfect?

After entering Xiyang City, Li Yuan, who was sitting in the carriage, couldn't see the scene in the city clearly, and after settling down, he went to the street to walk around, but was attracted by the bookstore first.

A well-known "book" is originated in Huangzhou bookstore, each bookstore sells many kinds of books, book paper and "printing" are very good, a book of "line bound books", placed and flipped through very convenient.

Then there is the cloth shop, a truckload of cloth is transported to the cloth shop, and then it is not long before it is pulled away by the merchants, Li Yuan saw this situation, and probably understood why Bakou Port was so busy.

Business is prosperous, and one of the problems that comes with it is to pay the bills, Li Yuan is not very involved in buying and selling on weekdays, but he also knows that payment is a big problem when trading in large quantities, and it is really fatal to count the copper coins in the car at every turn.

However, there is no carriage to transport money in Xiyang City, whether it is a bookstore or a cloth shop, the transaction of each shop seems to be very easy, and the merchant can take away a large number of goods with a few pieces of paper, what is this paper called?

"It's called a negotiable coupon, which actually plays a role in replacing copper coins, as Shude said, copper coins that often count cars are too troublesome to trade."

"Circulation coupons? I remember the shopkeeper said that there are one horse, one horse, or even a thousand horses, what does this mean? ”

"It's literal, how many pieces of cloth are written on the face value, then how many Huangzhou fine woven fabrics can be exchanged."

Xu Shao knew that Li Yuan would ask this question, and when his relatives and friends came to Huangzhou, basically the first question was about "what are the negotiable coupons", and he explained that he didn't know how many times, so he couldn't answer the question again.

After a brief introduction, Li Yuan had a general understanding of the negotiable coupons, but he still had doubts in his heart, and asked after a moment of silence: "The 'Yongtong Wanguo' money back then was claimed to be 100,000 yuan, but it couldn't be implemented for a long time, why can this negotiable coupon be like this?" ”

"Shu Deding is thinking crookedly, the negotiable coupon is a kind of exchange voucher for the Huangzhou cloth merchant joint guarantee, not a coin issued by the government, and it only circulates in Xiyang City, why can't it?"

"What does the heir mean?"

"First and foremost, it's credit..."

Xu Shao entered the state of "commentary", and the rhetoric was naturally learned from Yu Wenwen, when this thing first came out, he couldn't figure out what was really going on, and he and Hao Wubo pondered for a long time and were ignorant.

Li Yuan listened to it and found that he seemed to understand, but he didn't seem to understand, the "principle" of negotiable coupons was too incredible, and there had never been a record in ancient times, but there was one thing he understood, negotiable coupons can be "circulated", relying on credit and convenience.

"The idea of Gong Di has always been confusing, but in the end the implementation effect is very good, not to mention anything else, when Shude came to Xiyang by boat, he must have seen the river embankment, right?"

Seeing Li Yuan nodded, Xu Shao continued: "Shude thinks how much manpower and material resources have been used to build a river embankment of this scale? ”

"Uh... I'm afraid there are more than 10,000 people, right? There will be no shortage of stones. ”

"It's only a lot more, but when Gong Guo took office, the number of households in the state was only more than 5,000."

Li Yuan became more and more puzzled when he heard this, a household is generally counted according to five people, and the number of more than 5,000 households is less than 30,000.

"Shude doesn't know..."

Xu Shao continued to explain that Huangzhou (Bazhou) can develop to its current scale, and he has also made great efforts, so when explaining the inside story to relatives and friends, Xu Shao is honored.

He and Hao Wubo had the opportunity to govern the prefecture and county at a young age, culling snails to prevent bulging disease, building new water conservancy, expanding cities, relocating immigrants, reclaiming wasteland, and presiding over various affairs.

Of course, when it comes to the mysterious and mysterious way of being officials, they are still very tender, but when it comes to doing practice, they have the confidence to argue with their respective fathers.

Unconsciously, the cups of the two were empty and full, and after repeating it several times, Li Yuan finally solved most of the mystery in his heart through Xu Shao's explanation, and he found a phenomenon, that is, all the changes in Huangzhou are around the Gongyu Wenwen of the State of Yi.

"Uh, I don't know how the Duke of Yi Guo is?"

"Didn't Shude meet with Gong Yi in Shangluo?"

Hearing Xu Shao say this, Li Yuan was surprised: "How did the heir sect know? ”

'I leaked my mouth! Xu Shao complained bitterly in his heart, and he stubbornly said: "It was a letter from Guogong, he said that Shude was about to live in Anlu temporarily, so I had time to visit Anlu, but I never thought that he would come to Xiyang." ”

Xu Shao and Yu Wenwen were very close, otherwise it would be impossible to be reused in the state where he served, Li Yuan had already figured this out, but he still heard different information from Xu Shao's answer.

'Coming to Anlu for a while?' Didn't you know that I would be placed in Xiyang City, Huangzhou? So you have never had evil thoughts about your wife? ’

Seeing that Li Yuan was deep in thought, Xu Shao wondered if there was any misunderstanding between this Mo Fei and Yu Wenwen, but he couldn't help with this kind of thing, so he could only do his best to take care of Li Yuan as a friend.

After struggling for a moment, Li Yuan decided to get straight to the point: "Heizong, I don't know the rumors in the market that the Duke of Yi Guo... What is it to rob people's daughters... uh..."

"Hey, Chen Jun has been defeated by Guogong repeatedly, and he can't beat him, so he can only spread gossip, not to mention robbing people's daughters, and some people say that Guogong likes to eat human flesh or something, which can't be taken seriously."

"Uh... What's the deal with the one-legged bronze man? ”

"That's wonderful, has Shu De ever heard of the 'decisive battle at the top of the West Sun'?" (To be continued.) )