Tokyo Bianliang of the Great Song Dynasty is always bustling and noisy, quiet and happy.

The policy of strong cadres and weak branches, the power of the whole country to support the Beijing Division, all the wealth flowed here, and the extravagance led by Zhao Ji and Cai Jing ...... All of this has contributed to the incredible prosperity and affluence of the Great Song Dynasty Tokyo City.

Here, even the poorest families will not have stomach worries; When they go out into the streets, everyone wears silk clothes; Even in the middle of the night, Bianjing City is still brightly lit, the streets are still full of people, and the air is full of the aroma of all kinds of food.

At this time on the earth, the Roman Empire had collapsed, and Europe was the darkest and most ignorant Middle Ages, the nobles were illiterate, they didn't take a bath all year round, and they poured and urine on the streets, even if the king ate and lived as well as the gangsters in Bianliang City.

The Eastern Rome was already surviving, with countless mutinies, countless famines, and being sacked again and again by the barbarians in the west and the Turks in the east and Mu Si Lin, and life was miserable; The once-dominant Arab Empire had long since fallen into disarray, revolting and fighting each other.

It can be said that the whole world is in a dark state of ignorance, only on the land of East Asia, the land of East Asia, rich civilization is unbelievable, and the city of Tokyo in the Great Song Dynasty is the most prosperous and dazzling place among them.

Who would dare to believe that in a few years, this place will be reduced to hell, and the once peak of this nation (culture, economy and technology) will be destroyed and vanished.

And all this, except for Lin Chong who crossed over, Wang Feiyu and Shan Shiqi, who followed Lin Chong to the vicinity of the Daxiangguo Temple in Bianliang City at this moment, did not understand.

Both of them came to Bianjing City for the first time, and saw that the streets of Tokyo City were brightly lit in the middle of the night, with people coming and going, all kinds of sounds of selling, the sound of soliciting customers, and the aroma of all kinds of food in the air......

Even though Lin Chong had been taking them around for half an hour, the two of them were still fascinated by five colors and five tones, and they couldn't help sighing.

"Brother, this Tokyo city is as lively as ever! At this time, there are still lights and crowds everywhere, and I can't even see the food and play......"

It was Wang Feiyu who spoke, at this time he was dressed in a brocade silk shirt, with a scarf on his head, a big red begonia flower inserted, red lips and white teeth, like a beautiful son.

It's just that this guy is holding a bottle of perilla drink in his left hand, a large bag of scorched goldenrod cakes in his right hand, fried tongs, and keeps eating while walking, but he really destroys the image of Jia Gongzi and becomes a foodie.

Shan Shiqi is the son of a wealthy family in Qinzhou, he has seen more markets than Wang Feiyu, and his food appearance is better, at this time, a pair of eyes are also dazzled, and he can't help but say: "Brother, this Tokyo city is very prosperous, and the people here don't sleep at night?" At this time, when there is no rest, there are endless good things to eat in the three streets and six lanes, and endless novelties and liveliness. ”

Lin Chong smiled, as a native of Bianliang, he knew this Tokyo City too well, it could be said that it was an out-and-out city that never sleeps.

There is a night market in every street and alley at night, and the stalls in the night market are generally open at the time of the third watch, and then they begin to close and pack up their things, and continue to open at the time of the fifth watch, which is the morning market, which is not far behind the later generations.

It's just that this Bianliang City, and even the entire Great Song Dynasty, even though it is prosperous and rich and looked up to by the world, far superior to the Han and Tang Dynasties, but there is no strong force as a guarantee, and it is only in vain.

Lin Chong even felt that giving himself an army of 30,000 was nothing to defeat the city of Tokyo.

With emotion, seeing that the shopping was almost over, and the appointed time was about to come, Lin Chong also took the two of them to a relatively remote place.

Lin Chong glanced at a man eating wontons at a wonton stall at the intersection, and saw that he nodded inadvertently, gesturing with his right hand, forming a circle with his thumb and index finger, and the other three fingers were upturned, Lin Chong nodded, and then took the two of them to a quiet and unmanned courtyard inside, stretched out his hand and knocked on the door, three long and two short.

"Spring sleep is not aware!"

Soon a person ran out of it, and asked as he watched Lin Chong split his head.

"Mosquito bites everywhere!"

Lin Chong smiled and said the joint code, and the man let Lin Chong and the three of them in, but there were four people in the house who couldn't wait to come out.

When he saw Lin Chong bent over his waist, wrinkled face, and white beard, he was also stunned, and immediately reacted.

"Brother, is there nothing wrong on the road?"

"Brother, you miss us!"

The four people who came out were the four dark piles that Lin Chong left in Bianliang City, Zhang San, Li Si, Wei Tong, and Zheng Qiao.

Among them, Zhang San and Li Si are operating the honeycomb coal stove, briquettes, chimneys and other businesses in Bianjing, with Cao Song's family as their backing, the two have done business almost the entire Bianliang City, all the dignitaries, Wenchen and military generals use their briquettes, and it is very convenient to inquire about the news.

And Wei Tong is a steward in the Sihai Department Store, and there are countless people who receive him every day, as for Zheng Qiao, he continues to do the business of the tooth man, but with Cao Song behind him, Zheng Qiao, the tooth man, has also done a lot at once, and has many subordinates.

"Let's go, go in and talk."

Lin Chong nodded, and after entering the house and closing the door, he said: "The four brothers have worked hard, you have done a good job this time (find out the situation, send the information, and secretly send Xu Ning's family out), I will give you credit, come on!" ”

The four of them were moved, and said in their hearts that if they hadn't met their brother, they would have been afraid that a few of us would still be two gangsters and two unpopular little tooth people, and now that we have such a big career, what would we be straight to do something?

After being comforted, Lin Chong asked for information about Bianjing City and briefly introduced his development in Liangshan.

Knowing that it was only half a year, the Liangshan army had never arrived, and it had grown to more than 10,000 soldiers, including more than 3,000 cavalry, and the record was invincible, and several people were also amazed, and they became more and more in awe of Lin Chong.

On the contrary, Lin Chong sneered, it turned out that after Lin Chong left, it is said that because of Lin Chong, the darkness of the Great Song Dynasty, the tyranny of the conquest, and the threat of the Jurchens in the north were exposed in front of everyone, the Zhao and Song Dynasty courts should be more or less vigilant, not to mention making great efforts, at least they should take precautions, right?

But the result is getting worse and worse, drunk and dreaming of death!

Just like in another time and space, the first time the Jurchens came, the Zhao and Song courts were immediately frightened to death, and Zhao Ji was even more frightened that he didn't want the throne; But as soon as the Jurchens left, these faint kings and traitors immediately began to fight for power and profit, thinking that everything would be fine if they signed a treaty like the Lanyuan Alliance, and even Taiyuan was not allowed to be saved, and the Hebei defense line was not even prepared.

As a result, only half a year later, the Jurchens went south for the second time, and the city of Bianjing was broken at once, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished.

"Sure enough, it's hopeless!"

Lin Chong muttered, it turned out that according to Zhang San and others, because the Western Army captured the Shuofang Land of the Western Thieves a few months ago, and now that the Western Army has completed the three-sided encirclement of Xingqing Mansion, Zhao Ji and the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee swelled up all of a sudden, feeling that the world was peaceful and prosperous, and they became more and more arrogant and extravagant.

On the other hand, Gao Yu took away all his family wealth because he was pitted by Lin Chong, and he became more and more unscrupulous in looting money.

Because he is the supreme commander of the metropolitan gate control army, he can only start with the army to collect money, so hundreds of thousands of metropolitan gate control troops have become his domestic slaves, and have become construction teams, boatmen, and various craftsmen.

After asking about the information in Bianjing City and the imperial court, and asked Zheng Qiao to continue to quietly buy the Divine Arm Bow on the black market, then Lin Chong asked Wei Tong again: "Brother Wei, how much stock is there in the Sihai Department Store now?" ”

Wei Tong hurriedly said: "Several items have been sold out, and in the end, Cao Wuluo had no choice, and the remaining goods had to be sold every day, but it couldn't last long." ”

Lin Chong smiled, took out a booklet, and said: "I have rented a few large warehouses near the Tuqiao in the outer city, and I have already transported all the goods for half a year, and you will send someone to take over later, this is the address of the warehouse and the type of this batch of goods, and the quantity is still valuable." ”

Wei Tong stretched out his hand to take the piece of paper, and listened to Lin Chong continue: "You go to Cao Song and them tomorrow to see their attitude, but I guess they should still be willing to continue to cooperate." If so, let them prepare enough money for gold and silver, remember, as long as they don't want gold, silver, or copper, and they don't want money, and then hand over the warehouse to them, and tell them that I will come and collect the money in two months. ”

Wei Tong and the others nodded, indicating that they knew, and they also knew that now Brother Lin was a thief who wanted to create a rebellion in the Zhao and Song courts, while Cao Song, Gao Zhongwu and others were from a family of generals of the Bianliang Forbidden Army who were resting with the country, and it was indeed inconvenient to meet before they knew the other party's intentions.

It's just that several people were a little worried, so they heard Zhang San ask: "Military master, what if Cao Wuluo and they are not satisfied with the price or are unwilling to pay?" ”

Lin Chong thought for a while and said with a smile: "No, Brother Cao, Brother Gao, they are all righteous and very smart people, although I have rebelled now, it is obviously in their interests to continue to cooperate, they are not short-sighted people." ”

Lin Chongxin said that even though Cao Song and others might have other ideas at this time, when more than a month later, when the Liangshan army defeated the imperial army's conquest army and showed their strength, presumably these people would also have some scruples.

Several people no longer doubted it, and then Lin Chong asked again: "Also, have you found the craftsman I summoned to ask you to help find before?" ”

As soon as they heard this, several people immediately became a little excited, and said, "I found it, it's in the room next to it." ”

While speaking, Li Si got up and came to the room next to him, and pulled the two of them to introduce to Lin Chong: "Great official, let me introduce you, this master is Yue Xia, who is the best silversmith and chisel master in Bianjing City, and the patterns he carves can be finer than a hair."

This master's name is Shui Yun, but he is the best carpenter in Bianjing City, he is very good at machinery, and he can make his own moving mechanisms. Because the two masters studied too much craftsmanship and delayed their serious business, they were complained by the shopkeeper, and they were willing to follow the big officials after listening to the conditions given by the big officials. ”

Lin Chong said that he looked at the two of them carefully, and saw that both of them were relatively silent people, but they had a special craftsman temperament, a typical kind of technical maniac.

Lin Chong nodded to the two of them with a smile, and arched his hand to Yue Xia and asked, "Mr. Yue, I don't know if Mr. can only engrave on gold, silver and bronze ware, or can he also engrave on extremely hard steel?" ”

Yue Xia said a little strangely: "The big official wants to engrave on the steel? ”

Lin Chong nodded and said, "Can Mr. do it?" ”

Yue Xia said: "Naturally, it can, but if you want to engrave on the extremely hard steel, you have to have a chisel that is harder than it, but this is a little difficult, and if you engrave on the steel, it is also time-consuming and labor-intensive, I don't know what the officials are going to do?" ”

Lin Chong saw that the two of them were the kind of simple and honest technical control, and he didn't hide it, so he took out a small piece of paper from his body and a wooden mold, and said: "Don't hide it from the two of you, I am in a big business, but now the copper coins are too cumbersome, and the banknotes are depreciating every day."

Only gold and silver are more convenient, but there are also problems with gold and silver, that is, there is no standard for the size and fineness of gold and silver, and each time you use it, you must first identify the authenticity and fineness, and then weigh it with a balance, so I am ready to mint a batch of gold and silver coins, so it is also convenient to use. ”

Speaking of which, Lin Chong has long wanted to mint gold and silver coins, especially after he conquered Zhujiazhuang, he seized a large amount of gold and silver (before Gao Yu's family had all stored gold and silver in the system), Lin Chong has always had this idea, and after he seized more gold and silver in Zengtou City, this idea became more and more firm.

However, the gold and silver coins that Lin Chong wanted to mint did not mean that he simply used gold and silver as gold or silver, such as using one or two silver coins to mint a silver coin, and then the face value was two dollars, so that Lin Chong not only did not earn, but also consumed processing fees and silver fire.

Lin Chong's idea was to mix a small amount of copper into the silver, such as silver seven bronze three or silver six bronze four, and then mint it into one tael of silver coins, and then write ten yuan in face value.

In this way, the large amount of gold and silver captured by the Liangshan army could instantly appreciate by five to eight times, or even more.

But there are two problems here, the first is the common people, the market has to accept your currency.

This is not difficult, Lin Chong can use it in his own base first.

After the rebellion, the Liangshan army also prepared to open several large markets around Liangshanbo to attract merchants from all over the Great Song Dynasty to trade and distribute high-quality goods, which could then be used among these merchants.

Liquor is easy to sell, soap and soap are easy to sell, white sugar rock sugar is easy to sell, you businessmen want to buy it, okay! At that time, all the goods will be traded with the gold and silver coins minted by Liang Shanjun, see if you use it?

And another problem is anti-counterfeiting.

In fact, the economy of the Great Song Dynasty, after Cai Jing came to power, almost collapsed several times, and the Zhao and Song Dynasty courts also thought of other ways in addition to indiscriminate payment of banknotes, that is, to mint as ten coins and as five big coins.