It is already the season of the cold winter of Layue, and the use of troops is still unrealistic after all, but Taiyuan Liu Jun will have to solve it sooner or later, Zhang Yue then made some preparations, and transferred De Yan to the deputy governor of Guannei Province, so Zong Jingcheng took a step out and was in charge of the winter training exercises, and Yang Chongxun was transferred to Guanbei to replace Zhi De Yan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The purpose is, of course, to strengthen ties with his younger brother Yang Chonggui, that is, Liu Jiye of Taiyuan. In addition, Li Jixun fled to Hedong, according to the information sent back by He Ju, Li Jixun has been persuading Liu Junnan to invade Zelu, so that in the spring of next year, Liu Jun may make some moves.

Subsequently, according to the list of palace officials drawn up by Feng Qianhou, Zhang Yue met with Qin Mingshan, Bian Conghan, Niu Congxu, Liu Wenchang and others one by one, and only waited for the front yard of the house and an adjacent house to be cleaned up and renovated, which could be used as the office of the palace officials. Although it will look shabby, it is a temporary one anyway. The rest of the extra people, as well as a group of officials who are about to arrive in Shuzhong, can be filled into the Jingluo Mansion as appropriate.

After dealing with these things, Zhang Yue took a carriage to the Huihe Commercial Bank in Anyuanmen, north of the city, and happened to see Song Dequan coming out and was about to get into the carriage, so he asked Liu Guangye to stop him. Song Dequan hurriedly came over to greet him and led Zhang Yue in.

As the headquarters of Huihe Commercial Bank, the accounts of industries from all over the world are gathered here, and dozens of managers, deacons, and accounts of the management industry are concentrated, so it is the same as a government office, but it looks like a large store from the outside, with a simple flag in the corner and a signboard hanging on the door.

Walking into the front yard, the side compartments are all utility rooms, guest rooms, etc., and the front hall mainly receives visitors to negotiate business. The main hall inside is also a place of discussion, after all, there are industries all over the world, and there are many shareholders, which needs to be coordinated.

Behind the main hall is Song Dequan's daily office place, the inside is against the wall on three sides are red lacquer cabinets, and the bookshelves are also full of various books and books, and I don't see any antique decorations. It can be seen that Song Dequan should be very busy in normal times.

"The unknown lord is coming, and he is about to go to Hedong Jiezhou, and after General Li of Yanchi over there receives it, he has written several times urging him to go over and take over, but he is also very busy here, and he has not been able to do it." Song Dequan ushered Zhang Yue into the seat and sat on the other side to accompany him.

"Salt solution? There's a salt envoy stationed in the court over there, right? Like the two major salt herdsmen in Huining and Lingzhou, they are still in charge for the time being, but the tax money will belong to us in the end! ”

Jiezhou Salt Pond is located between Xie County and Anyi County north of Zhongtiao Mountain, and the salt production is very large, and it was one of the economic lifelines of the court in the Tang Dynasty. However, he was completely a monopoly on the sale of artisanal salt by the enslaved hands of local wealthy families, and the government only collected taxes to supervise it. After the Anshi Rebellion, Di Wuqi implemented the Salt Law, which increased the income of the court, but also led to the flood of private salt.

Later, Liu Yan further reformed the salt law on this basis and implemented the "salt and iron monopoly", that is, the government controlled the output and sales of the salt farms, and sold them exclusively to merchants, who resold them to the common people after paying salt taxes. In this era, the salt trade was basically exchanged for grain, so that the court controlled the grain. In addition, "Changping Salt" was set up to prevent merchants from hoarding Juqi and raising the price of salt.

This strategy finally solved the crisis of excessive salt prices, and it is still used today, that is, the salt envoy office sent by the imperial court is responsible for selling salt. No matter which merchant wants to engage in the salt business, he needs to go to the salt office to verify and pay the tax before he can get the salt and transport the salt wholesaled.

"But there's a lot of food and cash over there, and we're going to ship it over! Moreover, the Third Division sent someone to Jiezhou to ask for it, and General Li was not forced to keep it. Song Dequan smiled bitterly.

Zhang Yue thought that there were two salt ponds in Huining and Lingzhou, and the tax grain and official tax grain would be enough to raise soldiers, and then take away the pure profit from the salt solution, and it would be really impossible for the court to lose the tax source to sustain it, so he replied: "Then give them forty percent, and we will get sixty percent, and let Li Duofu return to Guanzhong this time to bring it over." ”

"Oh well! I'll just write a letter to General Li! Song Dequan immediately took the pen and paper to write the letter, and after the ink was dry, he folded it and called a deacon to come in and send him away.

Zhang Yue remembered the change of military uniforms, so he asked: "How much have we done in military uniforms and official uniforms?" The official uniform is not in a hurry, it can be delayed, but the military uniform is coming soon! ”

"The officer's dress and official uniform have stopped, and 40,000 sets of training uniforms have been made, which is the number reported by Liu Xiansheng half a month ago, and others are running back and forth between Huining and Yanzhou, and they should be on the way to Guanzhong." Song Dequan knew that Zhang Yue was here for a big matter, so he went to the side to set up a cabinet and took out a few stacks of account books and put them on the table.

Zhang Yue picked up the general ledger and flipped through it, which included three aspects, one is the amount of commercial taxes paid by the government over the years, the second is the investment and income of Zhang Yue himself, a major shareholder, and the third is the amount of dividends of small shareholders.

The general ledger is a bit shocking, the income over the years has been invested in Hehuang, plus Guangxiang Military Industry City is a huge gold-swallowing beast, if there is no source of materials for Huining coal mine and iron ore, it is only cotton cloth, wine and cheese, horses, cattle and sheep in the pasture, and hardware workshops in Yanzhou, and the previous spoils of war sales cannot be maintained at all.

After four years in Xiande, a large number of small shareholders were recruited every year to invest more funds, and the thirst-quenching operation was carried out until June this year. In this year, Xuan Chongwen was transferred to Wusheng Jiedu in Dengzhou, transported a batch of gold from the Fangshan gold mine, and took back the Huining Salt Pastoral Supervisor, Lingzhou Rong Salt, etc., and the deficit over the years was completely filled in this half year.

In Luoyang, Hebei, Huainan and Yuezhou, a total of more than 100 large and small firms have been merged into the Huihe Commercial Bank, wholesale sales of various new goods in the northwest, and a production and marketing chain has been formed.

There are too many scattered branches, Zhang Yue didn't have time to look at it, nodded and said: "This chain management is still good, Song Dazhang has worked hard all these years, but now, he can't expand anymore, and he will have to break up in the future!" Song Da is in charge of doing a good job, and the three envoys in the future must be you! ”

"Huh? How can a businessman be an official? The lord is too high! Song Dequan looked surprised, but his heart was very happy, he was poor when he was a child, and studied hard, and then managed the restaurant industry for the rich in order to make a living, and he had to be recommended by Feng Qianhou, he thought that he would be a businessman for life, and he didn't want to have the opportunity to enter the career in this life, and suddenly felt that there was a new hope in life, and said: "In fact, after the total income was flat, a certain has already notified the business in various places not to expand, so there is a surplus to accumulate so much grain." ”

For a person who handles millions of dollars of money at every turn, and there is no rumor of any personal greed for money, and has a small inventory every quarter, and convenes a large and small shareholders once a year, Song Dequan's ability can be seen, and what is even more rare is the conduct of Zhang Yue's appreciation.

"That's it! Now it's time to transport the uniforms in a hurry, and the army will complete the change, and the money is my own. If other shareholders, big and small, are willing to pay a little, then they are also up to them! Zhang Yue looked through the accounts of the local branch over the years, got up and went out with satisfaction, and drove to the Bashui Lecture Hall.

Except for the 3rd and 9th Divisions, the remaining seven divisions are all marching towards Guanzhong, and they will also bring with them the roster and number of township soldiers from the Governor's Mansion after rectification, as well as the situation of training and equipment, and so on, which has a bearing on whether the main force can be smoothly transferred out of Guanzhong at the beginning of next spring.

Just out of Anyuan, not far from the door, a small official from the government of the palace chased after him and sent a famous thorn and a letter. Zhang Yue took it and saw that it was Xuan Chongwen who came to Guanzhong in person with 10,000 catties of gold, which was terrifyingly large.

Zhang Yue was surprised and delighted, and his heart was moved, maybe ...... Monetary reform can also be put on the agenda. The junction of the west bank of the Yellow River in Huining and Lanzhou is the silver market in later generations, where silver ore has long been discovered, plus the copper mine in Quwu Mountain and the copper mine in Huining Pass, which can finally be mined.

The little official was about to leave, Zhang Yue stopped him, sat in the carriage and took the pen and ink to quickly record the monetary reform, asked him to seal the note, hurriedly began to prepare, and informed Xuan Chongwen that after he arrived, he could go directly to the martial arts hall to see him.

After all, the training of officers in the martial arts hall cannot be delayed, and the army will gather immediately, and the incompetent officers of the new divisions will be replaced and re-classed, and Zhang Yue cannot be completely handed over to Wang Yanchao, and this matter must be handled personally.