"Daddy, Daddy!" Li Rubai, the son of the Li family, ran into the inner house sweating profusely, and ran all the way to Li Buqi's study, shouting at the top of his voice. "Just now, the news spread in the capital, and the eight banks in Bianliang let a group of people mortgage a shop and goods eight times, and loaned more than 100,000 yuan. As a result, the loan expired yesterday, and the families did not see anyone repaying, so they went to collect the two shops, but who knew that one of the shops was the property of Wang Gall's family, and the other was the property of Lin Shiqi's family, but they were rented at a high price. Now the person who took out the loan has long since disappeared, and the goods are gone, and these eight banks are afraid that they will accompany them. ”

Then he whispered, "What a joy! This will let them know that not everyone can open a bank. ”

Li Buqi just smiled and said, "Then you say, are these banks wronged?" ”

Li Ruzhe, who ran in with Li Rubai, rushed to say: "I don't think they are wronged!" At that time, how strict the system of Fu'an Bank was, how careful several uncles were, they all had the way of bad people, if it were not for the strength of the police department, I was afraid that there would be losses. Nowadays, these people open banks, they don't understand these things, they don't use the system but only like to use their own relatives, and they are in a hurry to release their money, regardless of the risk, so it is not surprising that they are humane. ”

Li Buqi nodded and said, "Yes, that's the case." ”

The children are happy these years, no teacher will assign a lot of homework to write until the second half of the night, but Li Buqi will never relax the education of his children. He put the seeds on the table into the box and gave his homework: "Give you seven days to summarize the mistakes made by these eight banks and make suggestions for improvement." It cannot be less than 500 words. ”

Both children stuck out their tongues. Li Buqi motioned to Xingniang to take Shiro out, and said to Li Rubai: "Erlang, your age is not too young, you should also go out to practice." Where do you want to go? ”

Li Rubai said: "Liaodong has just fought a big battle, and the eldest brother has caught up, and the letter is so lively. I'll go to Liaodong too. ”

Li Buqi said: "Okay then. But to go to Liaodong, you have to leave in another month. Because I'm going to let your eldest brother go to Shaanxi for some training, you can leave as soon as possible, and let him take care of you for a few months. ”

Li Rubai pouted: "The child is also a man, where can I take care of the eldest brother?" ”

Li Buqi patted his head fondly and said, "You are not as calm as your eldest brother, you have to learn from your eldest brother." ”

Picking up the box containing the seeds, Li Buqi asked Li Rubai again: "Won't you go to the academy with us?" ”

Li Rubai said: "The child still needs to see how the eight banks respond." Now that the police department has been abolished, its backbone has been greatly lost, and those who remain in the yamen have also been suppressed, and they cannot be counted on in this case. The child doesn't believe that Kaifeng Mansion can solve such a big case. ”

Li Buqi walked out of the study with a smile and shouted at the inner courtyard: "Let's go!" I'm going to the academy! Whoever doesn't come out again won't take anyone with him! ”

As soon as the shouting fell, a few girls from the Li family jumped out of the yard, the eldest was the most well-behaved, and came over to take the box in Li Buqi's hand and hugged it. Although he knew that the eldest girl was a stable person, Li Buqi still instructed: "It's okay to hold it." ”

It's not that Li Buqi is too careful, it's really that the seeds in this box are too precious. The voyage to explore the Americas, which Li Buqi named Haizhou, had returned triumphantly, landing on that continent from the Alaska Peninsula and heading south along the coast, surveying and trading with the natives along the way, until they reached Peru before returning. They brought back not only gold, emeralds, sapphires, and lapis lazuli, but also cotton, corn, pumpkins, peanuts, sunflowers, peppers, beans, zucchini, tomatoes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and American ginseng.

For Li Buqi, these crop seeds are more valuable than gold and precious stones. It's spring, and he has to watch them sow seeds and then multiply more seeds.

On the way, passing by the bank opened by Concubine Zhang's family, Li Buqi saw the mess at the door through the car window and smiled coldly. The hundreds of thousands of dollars have already disappeared without a trace after several turnovers, and Lian Guangzhi commanded the team of the Police Department with the help of economic advisers to deal with a group of rookies. Concubine Zhang's bank has been deceived three times, and she has lost no less than 40,000 yuan, and I don't know if the little emperor should take money from the inner treasury to subsidize it.

Li Buqi felt that the little emperor was about to go crazy, and even began to discuss the feasibility of the Northern Expedition.

The little emperor was unlucky, Jiaozhi gave Li Buqi Ping, and the Western Xia beat Li Buqi and was crippled, and the little emperor would only credit Li Buqi and Zhao Sheng for the common people if he went to fight the Western Xia. Therefore, if the little emperor wants to prove that he is no worse than his brother in martial arts, he can only go to Dali and Liao. Since Li Buqi leveled Jiaozhi, Dali has been so supple that you can't find a reason to beat him, so the only one left to fight is Liao.

Last year, more than 30,000 fleeing people from the Liao State entered the area controlled by Tao Lin, and the Jurchen and Bohai tribes in the mountainous areas also came to join them, and most of the natives in the mountainous areas also sold horses to Tao Lin in spite of the ban on the Liao State, so that Tao Lin made a lot of profits in the horse trade with the Great Song Dynasty. Tao Lin then proclaimed himself the protector of Anton and opened a mansion. At this time, the Liao State came to crusade again, Tao Lin led 8,000 troops, ambushed the Liao army between Chenzhou and Ningzhou, harassed the rear of the Liao army with tribal cavalry, and the 40,000 Liao army was defeated, and 10,000 people were captured just by taking prisoners.

Now that the Privy Council of the Great Song Dynasty can finally inquire about some news, Zhao Shu knows about the defeat of the Liao army in Ningzhou. In his mind, a group of pirates and the indigenous rabble can defeat the Liao army, so it must be safe to use the elite soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty to fight the Liao State, so he moved the mind of using the Liao State to brush up the sense of existence.

Ironically, one of the sources of confidence that the little emperor wanted to move the Liao State seemed to be given to him by Li Buqi. That is, after Li Buqi used gunpowder weapons to defeat the Western Xia army to the north, the Song people in eastern Liaodong also used gunpowder to defeat the Liao army many times, and the role of gunpowder weapons was exaggerated by the literati who liked to boast. Nowadays, the literati and ladies of Bianliang are all talking about gunpowder, as if Li Buqi was able to kill Jiaozhi and cripple Western Xia all by gunpowder.

Of course, this kind of propaganda can make people who don't know the truth not pay attention to how much work Li Buqi has done for these two wars, and erase the credit of Li Buqi and Zhao Sheng, but it also blinds the little emperor who has no practical experience in doing things. The little emperor thought that as long as he had enough gunpowder weapons, he could recapture Yanyun, so it is not surprising that he spent a lot of money to build a large number of firearms and equip them to the capital and the Hebei forbidden army.

However, only Li Buqi understood that although the combat effectiveness of the Liao army had indeed declined sharply in the past two years, it was not a weak chicken, and Tao Lin had achieved the results of using a large number of gunpowder weapons in a small area. If the Great Song Dynasty wants to start a war with the Liao State now, the little emperor can only die faster.

There are people in the court who understand, Fu Bi and Song Zhen resolutely resisted when the little emperor and Han Qi wanted the Song army to stop the military operations in Shaanxi, and listened to the emperor's intention to fight the Liao State, and tried their best to prevent it, it is said that the little emperor was very depressed. But it seems that Fu Bi and Song Zhen can't persuade the little emperor, because the little emperor has been installing Wenchen generals in Hebei who he thinks can fight and have nothing to do with Li Buqi and Zhao Sheng, and anyone can see what they want to do. And although the privy envoy Han Qi is more cautious than the little emperor, it seems that he also wants to get some benefits from the Liao State, after all, everyone knows that Li Buqi thinks that Han Qi is incompetent militarily, and he also wants to fight a turnaround battle to prove himself.

Li Buqi felt that as long as there was another suitable opportunity, the little emperor would definitely make a move against Liao.