The four current executives of the bank are Zhu Hongdao, the former chief treasurer of the Turpan Commercial Bank, Li Chunfeng, a disciple of Yang Chong, Cui Chujiu, the adopted son of Cui Hongsu, and Yang Qu of Hongnong Yang, all of whom are not outsiders; The vault manages the manufacture of gold and silver coins, which is divided into a separate department, which is under the responsibility of Yu Wenwen.

Wuwei's business is actually in charge of Zhu Hongdao, and the main source of business is not only the big commercial house, but also the salt merchant; Li Chunfeng has been appointed president of the Chang'an branch, and the location of the bank has been chosen, which is in Xuanyangfang, south of Pingkangfang, next to the metropolitan city to the east. Yang Chong sneered and asked, "What do they think?" ”

Wang Gong secretly shouted that it was not good, Yang Chong was a young man, and he was invincible in both the shopping mall and the battlefield over the years, once the ideas of the magnates hit Yang Chong's bottom line, I am afraid that Chang'an will immediately change color. But Yang Chong sat in the middle, Wang Gong didn't dare to make a look, he could only pray that Pei Shouzhen could speak tactfully, and didn't want Pei Shouzhen to say bluntly: "Some people think that the bank is using power for personal gain, and it is lobbying the wealthy and the imperial history." ”

The imperial history of Chang'an was surrendered after the Hexi army entered the city, anyway, someone had to be this kind of official to support the façade, Yang Chong did not move this group, as long as he returned to obedience, he would retain his original position. I never thought that someone would hit this yamen, the purpose of the Wei family was clear at a glance, that is, to listen to Yang Chong's tone and then make a decision.

Although Wei Yuanzhao is also a shareholder of the bank, his relationship with the family still seems to be a little worse, Yang Chong asked, "Who of you knows the current situation of the Wei family's jade mine?" ”

Yu Yu said with a smile: "I know something, now Wei Baoluan and Wei Ji are looking for Yuanzhao, asking for the shares of the jade mine and the bank to be owned by the entire family, it seems that Yuanzhao refused." ”

Wei Yuanzhao still knows the importance of the bank, the bank shoulders the mission of operating the funds of Yang Chong's army, and outsiders are not allowed to interfere at all, and anyone's prying eyes will cause Yang Chong to attack head-on. Yang Chong said: "You immediately go to find Fang Yanzao and prepare to implement the salt money law." ”

Yu Yu agreed, Yang Chong began to explain the salt money law to others, the salt in Yanchuan and Jiechi is now organized by the government to move, set up a special agency to buy and sell, and later the salt merchants will go to the border states and counties to pay four five hundred, that is, sell a piece of salt banknotes, and exchange for two hundred catties of salt in the salt area. However, if the salt merchant wants to trade freely after obtaining the salt, he must have the salt quotation, which is the salt merchant's salt transportation and marketing license certificate, which stipulates that the salt quotation can only be bought by handing over the physical goods, and there are only six kinds of physical goods, grain, tea, silk, cattle and sheep, paper, and porcelain.

Wang Gong and Sima Caizhang looked at each other, and sure enough, as guessed, Yang Chong had already planned the next step, but he didn't take it out until the critical time. Obviously, this was a tailor-made plan for the southern gentry and merchants, and in addition to cattle and sheep, grain, tea, silk, paper, and porcelain were mainly from the south; Yang Chong wanted to gradually infiltrate through the salt war, and at the same time save dozens of prefectures and counties the labor of transporting salt and save expenses.

In fact, Yang Chong's pursuit was to open the middle system, in order to enrich the border military grain reserves, encourage merchants to transport grain to the border in exchange for salt, salt merchants in exchange for salt, with salt to the designated salt field to wait for salt. Yang Chong hoped that more savvy salt merchants, because of the huge cost of transporting grain over long distances, would be able to hire laborers at the border to cultivate fields and produce grain, which would become a supplement to the army's tuntian.

The Hubu Shangshu Yanzao and the Military Shangshu Yuan Wuwu were supporters of Yang Chong's plan, and the two saw the reduction in the cost of grain transportation, and this saved money could continue until Yang Chong unified the whole country and faced the Turks alone. Yang Wang is worried about the situation caused by salt, after all, salt is facing the whole country, and now Yanchuan and Jiechi are not far from Bingzhou, but what will happen to Hebei, Shandong, and Liaodong in the future? In the end, it was Yang Chong who made a guarantee that he would definitely be able to solve the salt in other regions, and Yang Wang agreed.

Pei Shouzhen asked if it was clear that the salt in Chang'an was regulated by the salt depot set up by the government, so as to curb the windfall profits of merchants and keep the price of salt stable, so he said no more. Wang Gong secretly applauded, Daye Bank issued gold and silver coins to circulate among merchants, as long as there were rich houses in the border cities to collect gold and silver coins, the business of salt merchants would be in the hands of the bank, and no one could take it, and no one could afford it.

"Chang'an Daily" sent to all parts of the country, Li Yuan, Wang Shichong and other spies are each time to buy newspapers to send to Luoyang and other places, a revelation on the seventh issue is shocking, Chang'an announced the salt money law, decided to issue salt, Li Yuan, Wang Shichong immediately issued a death order, all the passes are strictly investigated, these materials are not allowed to reach Chang'an; Rao is like this, Tang Jun and Zheng Jun still can't stop the businessmen's yearning for Chang'an.

However, a large number of fine works of Tang Jun and Zheng Jun were also sandwiched in the merchants and entered the customs, and one of the capable fine works even sent Li Yuan's handwritten letter into Duan Lun's mansion, Li Yuan hoped that Li Xiujing, the princess of Gaomi, could save her concubines and children in Chang'an City back to Nanyang. Princess Gaomi Li Xiujing looked at her father's letter, couldn't help crying, and sent someone to invite Gongsun Huilan, who lived in the mansion, to discuss, Gongsun Huilan frowned and said: "Yang Chong is abnormal, and he put Princess Xiangyang and them in prison, just to wait for us to save people by force." ”

Of course, Li Xiujing understands that Gongsun Huilan, as the general of the Tang Army, Yang Chong and his subordinates seem to have forgotten this woman, since Gongsun Huilan entered the mansion, no one has come to ask at all, but the guards at the gate do not allow Gongsun Huilan to leave the Duan Mansion, and Gongsun Huilan is free in the mansion; The people in Duan's mansion must register to go out of the house, and no one cares about it in the mansion. Yang Chong did this, in fact, he was using Gongsun Huilan and himself as bait, waiting for the fish to take the bait.

Li Xiujing sighed and said: "This Yang Chong is really not a womanizer, if only he had a few concubines of his father, at least he could blow the wind on the pillow." ”

"Forget it." Gongsun Huilan leaned back in the chair and said, "None of Jiang Fei's three little hooves are good stubble, even if Yang Chong takes a fancy to it, the concubine is estimated to not live for a few days." According to my opinion, it is better for you to go directly to Yang Chong, he does not change the style of a businessman, and he may be able to exchange people with materials from Jiangnan; You think, Yang Chong, a fierce general like Yuanji, doesn't care, he cares about a few delicate women and teenage children. ”

Li Xiujing said worriedly: "But the third sister, Yang Chong didn't agree. When his father was still in Chang'an, he asked his family to spread the word that Yang Chong would not do five thousand taels of gold. ”

Gongsun Huilan knew about this and helped Li Xiujing relieve her worries and said: "That's Yang Chong's intention to Xiuning, otherwise he wouldn't have picked Xiuning from among your sisters, but unfortunately I don't know where Yang Chong's attempt is." King Qin analyzed it and said that Yang Chong definitely did not like Xiuning's appearance, but that Xiuning had a special role for Yang Chong; Yang Chong's kid is scheming, we can't use tricks, if we want to get things done, we can only negotiate on the ground. ”

Li Xiujing thought about it and said: "I wrote a letter to Yang Chong to see if he saw me." ”

(End of chapter)