When Song Jiang first met Yan Po's mother and daughter, Lin Chong was in Xicheng outside Liangshanbo, and hosted a banquet for representatives of major wealthy businessmen or wealthy businessmen in Jingdong, Hebei and other places.

In the luxurious hotel box, the military lord of Liangshan treats guests, and the banquet is naturally a delicacies on land and water, and there is everything in food and wine.

However, perhaps they are all speculating about the purpose of Lin Chong's treat, and everyone's mind is not on eating.

Seeing that everyone had almost eaten, Lin Chong ordered, and immediately someone came in and removed the banquet, cleaned up, and put a cup of top political and white tea in front of everyone.

Looking at the leaf buds and the clear and translucent tea soup in the glass, and then smelling the fragrant tea, everyone only feels refreshed, quiet and far-reaching, and they are a little reluctant to drink.

At this time, Lin Chong opened his mouth and went straight to the point: "I invite you to come today to announce a decision to you!" ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately consciously put down the glass teacup in their hands, sat upright, and said that the topic was coming.

I saw that among the wealthy businessmen, a middle-aged man about thirty years old who looked like a manager arched his hand towards Lin Chong and said, "I don't know what the decision was?" ”

Lin Chong glanced at him, but couldn't help but smile, it turned out that this person was none other than Li Gu, the chief housekeeper of Lu Junyi, the richest man in Hebei.

To say that this Lu Junyi is really rich, according to Xu Guanzhong, there are nearly one-third of the shops in the Beijing Daimyo Mansion, all of which are the property of Lu Junyi's family, and Lu Junyi also has shops in other states and counties in the entire territory of Hebei.

Lu Junyi's family has a big business, and there are forty or fifty financial managers who help him manage money in the Daimyo Mansion alone, and Li Gu is the head of these forty or fifty financial managers, and almost all of Lu Junyi's internal and external furniture and business are taken care of by him.

This time, the Liangshan Army was engaged in commerce, and the goods of the Liangshan Army were sold to various places, so naturally it was indispensable to deal with the merchants of Hebei Province.

And Lu Junyi is Liang Shanjun's biggest partner in Hebei Province, and even among everyone.

This time, Lu Junyi sent Li Gu over, and it is conceivable that he attaches great importance to this matter.

However, Lin Chongxiao was not because of anything else, but because he knew that in the original Water Margin story, it was this wolf-hearted dog who Li Gu was very cooperative with betrayed Lu Junyi.

This is the first time Lin Chong has seen Li Gu, and when he was eating just now, he thought in his heart, wait a minute, let Xu Guanzhong write a letter to Yan Qing, and ask Yan Qing to remind Lu Junyi.

It's not that reminding Li Gu that he is not a good person and will betray Lu Junyi, but reminding Lu Junyi that Li Gu's power is too great.

In Lin Chong's view, Lu Junyi is like the emperor, Li Gu is like the prime minister, Yan Qing is like a scholar or bodyguard, and then Lu Junyi is dedicated to practicing martial arts, leaving all the affairs of the court and politics to the prime minister to take care of for him.

In normal times, because the emperor's force is too strong and the prime minister's force is too weak, the two meet every day, and the prime minister doesn't dare to do anything;

But once Lu Junyi, the emperor, was a little surprised, wouldn't it be easy for Li Gu, the prime minister who monopolized the power and was above one person and under ten thousand people, to usurp the throne and seize the country? Because his power is so great, no one but the emperor can restrain him.

And the reason why Lin Chong did this was because in his opinion, instead of letting Lu Junyi go up the mountain to join the Liangshan Army, it was better to let Lu Junyi be his richest man in Hebei and sell all kinds of goods to all parts of Hebei for the Liangshan Army.

But these are all later words, at this time, Lin Chong saw that this diligent and sophisticated honest man in front of him, who seemed to be loyal, would be so kind and revengeful in the future, wolf-hearted.

Lin Chong just couldn't help but smile, the secret human nature really can't stand the test, especially in the face of huge interests.

Lin Chong finished laughing, but he didn't directly say the decision, but threw out a question: "All of you here are business elites, taking care of countless industries, and the money you handle every day is also going to the sea?" I don't know what you think of the money law of the Great Song Dynasty? ”

When everyone heard this, their hearts were all in shock, and then under the drive of Li Ying, they all talked about the inconvenience of trading.

If you want to talk about the money law of the Great Song Dynasty, it was quite good at the beginning, but since Cai Jing Bingzheng, the money law has been chaotic to the extreme.

The main currencies in the Great Song Dynasty now are copper coins and banknotes, and although gold and silver are also used, they are only circulated in small quantities, because people are used to hoarding gold and silver to maintain their value.

Copper coins are heavy and inconvenient, and later there were ten major coins, and the flood of fake money, needless to say, these are needless to say.

Now the main problem is to pay the money.

Because of Cai Jing's continuous indiscriminate issuance, the banknotes of the Great Song Dynasty are depreciating day by day at this moment, and the proportion of banknotes that have always been exchanged for copper coins has fallen below the 500 Wen mark, and it is still depreciating rapidly.

It is impossible to say that one day these banknotes will become waste paper, so all merchants, especially big merchants like them, are also worried about this.

But there is no way to worry about it, the imperial court indiscriminately issued banknotes, and more than half of them were forcibly issued through them.

For example, this time the Western Army wants to attack the Western thieves, and a large number of material resources are constantly being transported to Guanxi, and it is impossible for the imperial court to reserve so much grain and grass materials in advance, so it indiscriminately sends money to ask everyone to buy.

The other party is the imperial court and the government, which of these big merchants dare not sell?

But fortunately, they can also transfer the crisis, that is, to quickly use the money, for example, to pay for the goods of small businesses, and small businesses to buy various raw materials or products for low-level farmers and small citizens.

But even so, these big merchants will always have a lot of money in their hands, and every time they use it, the other party sees that they are paying money, and they are also all kinds of dislike.

The final result is that for the same thing, it is inconvenient to use copper coins for one price, for money for another price, and for gold and silver.

Seeing that everyone was almost done, Lin Chong coughed lightly, and everyone immediately quieted down, Lin Chong glanced around at everyone and said, "Since everyone also thinks that the money law of the Great Song Dynasty is chaotic now, it is quite inconvenient to trade."

In fact, the decision I am going to announce today has something to do with this. Before I do that, I'm going to show you something. ”

While speaking, Mei Jiasheng and Wei Chibin, who were behind Lin Chong, brought two bags of things early, and then fell on the two large trays with a bang, and everyone's eyes suddenly lit up.

The contents of this tray belonged to none other than glittering gold and silver coins and copper coins.

However, unlike the common ingot-shaped gold and silver ingots, garlic strips and gold in the Great Song Dynasty, and the copper coins that are round on the outside and square on the inside, these gold, silver and copper coins are round cake-shaped and solid.

Soon, Mei Jiasheng and Wei Chibin each held a tray and put two gold, silver and copper coins in front of everyone.

Without waiting for everyone to pick it up and take a closer look, they heard Lin Chong say: "The decision I want to announce is that from today onwards, all business dealings with my Liang Shanjun will only accept this kind of gold, silver and copper coins, and small changes will only be accepted for small flat coins and dang three big coins. ”