"Ah Da, you're back, why are there so many soldiers outside?" A little girl ran in from outside.

The Song Dynasty called his father an adult, and the "A" in front of it means intimacy, so he called Ada.

The little girl was dressed in a black suit, carrying a short sword, fifteen or sixteen years old, but she was dressed as a boy, like a ranger.

"Xiaoling, come here, say hello to the saint." Li Zhanma greeted.

"You are the official family of the Great Song Dynasty? Why isn't it a sick seedling? It's okay, when I am Li Peiling's Lang Jun, I am quite qualified. The little girl looked at Zhao Ji and said.

Although Li Peiling is not very old, she has seen a lot of the world with Li Zhanma, and even Dashi (Arabia, now Iraq) has been there.

Li Zhanma is a native of the Great Song Dynasty and a wealthy man, and he is quite courteous to overseas countries. Li Peiling, who was following Li Zhanma, had seen many monarchs from various countries.

Zhao Ji was said to be confused, but Tong Yan was unscrupulous, a little girl, and she didn't want to care.

"Let's go, Li Qing's house. Where is Wang Anshi? Take me to him. Zhao Ji ignored Li Peiling.

"Yes, yes." Li Zhanma hurriedly led the way in front.

"Hmph. The reckless man is unreasonable. Li Peiling stomped her feet and ran out.

Not long after, Zhao Ji followed Li Zhanma to the back house of the Li family's compound, and then passed through the back house to the back door of the compound. Zhao Ji didn't know why.

"Holy One, please come with me." Li Zhanma opened the back door.

It was not an empty area, but a huge cave, which happened to be blocked by the Li family's compound.

There are oil lamps every three meters on both sides of the cave, and the air in the cave is really not very good.

The terrain is extremely steep, with a slope of about 60 degrees that extends downward. And the steeper and steeper it is, the narrower and narrower it gets, and Zhao Ji's patience is about to run out.

After walking for about half an hour, a huge iron gate appeared in front of me to block the way, and finally there was no need to run a dead horse from Wangshan. Zhao Ji breathed a sigh of relief, but in his heart he was more curious about what Underground River City was.

"Open the door." Li Zhanma shouted.

With Li Zhanma's shout, the iron door slowly rose, revealing a huge wooden box, a bit like the elevator that Zhao Ji would take every day in the future.

"Alright." After Zhao Ji followed Li Zhanma and walked in, Li Zhanma shouted again.

As Li Zhanma shouted, the wooden box slowly descended. The sweat in Zhao Ji's heart, when he traveled to the Song Dynasty, he still had the opportunity to take the elevator.

Zhao Ji estimated that the wooden box had descended at least more than two hundred meters. When Zhao Ji came out of the wooden box, he saw that it was six cattle driving the box.

Six oxen propelled a huge disc with a large bearing and an arm-thick rope on top.

Relying on this lifting, Zhao Ji looked carefully around the disc.

The bearings are very delicately made, no matter how fast or slow the six cows walk, the wooden box is lifted at an even speed, and it is really an elevator.

"Holy Lord, please."

Hearing Li Zhanma's greeting, Zhao Ji took advantage of the situation and saw a wide underground river that didn't know where it originated and where it flowed? The water of the river is green, and the water must be overgrown with aquatic plants.

The river is 50 meters wide, and the banks of the river are estimated to be 50 meters long, and many houses have been built on it.

Then there is the mountain wall about 200 meters high, and there are rows of door-like openings on the mountain wall, and stone steps climb left and right.

On both sides of the mountain wall, I don't know how many holes there are, and I don't know how long this underground river is.

The river is flowing slowly, there are several large barrage nets, and many strong men are dragging the big nets, skillfully throwing the fish into the basket one by one.

"Shengshang, this underground river, the water and grass are lush, there are many big fish in the water, the most is the grass carp, we all call him grass carp river. My father started his family with this fish, and as long as he pulled the net on both sides of the strait every year, he could catch tens of thousands of catties of big fish. The upper reaches of the Caoyu River are connected to the Yellow River, which is estimated to be the ground fissure of the Yellow River bed, and the underground river was created by the infiltration of the river. The grass carp river can reach only five miles, the upstream is a waterfall, and the downstream is also a waterfall, and there is no way to pass. ”

Zhao Ji listened to Li Zhanma's introduction and was amazed by the magic of nature. I admired the Li family even more, and they were able to open up such a treasure land.

"Where did the oil come from, which is used to light lamps in your cave?" Zhao thought there was oil here, but he didn't see it.

"Oh, the black water! It turns out that the black water is called oil. Isn't there a black pool in front of the mountain gate? The Holy One should have seen it. This black water, where the oil comes from, can usually be used to light the lamp and burn the fire, but it can't be used up anyway. ”

Zhao Ji didn't expect that the ordinary black water pool he usually saw was all oil, which was really surprising. This is really a treasure of feng shui. What an underground river city!

With Li Zhanma, he walked up the stone steps layer by layer, reached the third floor, and entered the cave door.

"Greetings to the Holy One, long live, long live, long live." Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and hundreds of others knelt on the ground.

"This is not the court, the two gentlemen get up quickly." Zhao Ji looked at this stone hall, all of which were granite walls.

The stone hall is very large, about 500 square meters, with more than a dozen stone pillars. It's such a big place, but what about the other caves?

"This Li Zhanma is not simple, how much financial resources do you need to open up such an underground river city? How much manpower? How can it be done in two generations? Zhao Ji thought to himself.

"Congratulations to the Holy One, congratulations to the Holy One." Sima Guang said with a smile.

"Mr. Junshi, where is the joy?" Zhao Ji wondered.

"Li Zhanma has a daughter named Li Peiling. Gentle and virtuous. Weichen and Jiefu have already vouched for the saint, and asked the saint to take Li Peiling as a concubine. Sima Guang said as if he had avenged an arrow.

As soon as Sima Guang finished speaking, the stone hall fell completely silent, only the oil lamp was beating. Everyone seemed to be waiting for Zhao's decision.

"It's up to the two gentlemen." Zhao Ji hesitated for a moment and readily agreed.

Originally, Zhao Ji was reluctant to agree, he couldn't take care of a wife, why did he want so many wives? There is only one wife in the next generation, and she has to run away with others. Although you won't run away with people in this life, why let those women stay alone in the empty house?

But it's not okay not to say yes. If Zhao Ji wants to establish a merchant alliance, he cannot but establish nepotism. And if he didn't agree immediately, then he couldn't let the merchants see the unbreakable relationship between Zhao Ji and Wang Anshi and Sima Guang. Wang Anshi will mobilize them in the future, I am afraid that he will not be so flexible.

"Good, good. The saint is wise, and the micro-minister introduces his colleagues to the saint. Wang Anshi turned sideways and introduced them one by one.

The first thing Zhao Ji saw was a group of people who originally followed Wang Anshi and Sima Guang in the court. There are: Lu Huiqing, Zhang Dian, Zeng Bu, Xie Jingwen, Wang Yan, Wang Anli, Cai Qu, Zhang Shangying, Lu Jiawen and others. There are: Sun Gu, Sun Yong, Fan Yuzu, Liu Shu, Liu Ban and others. There are also: Su Shi, Su Zhe, Su Song, Cai Jing, Wang Shao, Wang Hou, Chen Wei, Cai Bian, Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao, Li Ding, Li Hong, Shen Kuo and other people named by Zhao Xu.

These are all people who were driven out of the court by Zhao Ji, and then summoned them through Wang Anshi and Sima Guang. These people are all law-changers, although they have different concepts of law-changing, they are the only group of scholars that Zhao Ji can trust.

In addition to these people, there are also the heads of major commercial houses. Wang Anshi has already said that he guarantees that they are all from merchant families.

Many landlords and bureaucrats in the Northern Song Dynasty also did business, but they only relied on privileges and speculation. Can't be trusted.

Among them are the five richest men. Li Zhanma, a family of maritime merchants in Quanzhou, Wang Zhen of a family of salt merchants in Shanxi, Xu Yuanming, a family of cloth merchants in Suzhou, Tong Gui (a usury merchant) from Bianjing Qianzhuang, and Zhang Fu from a family of tea merchants in Yizhou.

"You may be seated." After Zhao Ji sat down, he pressed his hand and said.

"Thank you." Merchants sat down.

This is not a court, Wang Anshi has a seat for everyone. Zhao Ji, Sima Guang, and Wang Anshi all sat on the top, and the others sat opposite each other. It's completely different from the court.

"Rest assured, the promise of the two gentlemen is my promise. However, national affairs are difficult, and things cannot be accomplished overnight. The following is arranged by Mr. Jiefu. Zhao Ji comforted him and sat down.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it is not impossible to change the law in the field. Now, what we need to do is two things, first, set up a bank. Gather the strength of all merchants to create a unified money bank, called Wang's money bank, which is managed by me and issues Jiaozi. The saint had agreed that the imperial court would grant the right to issue Jiaozi to the Wang family. Rest assured, neither I nor the Holy One do not want half of the shares. However, you are not allowed to interfere with the specific operation of the bank. One thing, rest assured, not a penny of money will make you less profitable. Second, the ban on opening the sea. The imperial court no longer concentrated on the monopoly of goods to the outside world. If you are interested in developing maritime trade, you no longer need to sell goods to the imperial court, and you can trade with foreign countries completely independently. If the above two measures are completed, the imperial court will successively ban salt, tea, wine, and even iron. Wang Anshi stated slowly.

"The specific operation of the money bank, we can wait and wait. But how it works, we should know in advance, right? Tong Gui, a member of the Bianjing Qianzhuang family, stood up and bowed to Zhao Ji, and then said.

"Of course, after the establishment of the money bank, it will also open branch villages, all over the state and county. The money bank issued Jiaozi, and the imperial court would order the prohibition of metal currency and the unified exchange of Jiaozi for gold, silver and copper coins. All gold and silver are kept and sold exclusively by the bank. This means that the future business of the money bank will be completely done by you. In addition, each branch bank will operate by absorbing deposits and issuing loans. Adopt a low-interest method to distribute seedling money to farmers. Do you have any objections? Wang Anshi explained.

The stone hall was silent, and the establishment of the money village had advantages and disadvantages, but it seemed that there were more benefits. With Qianzhuang, they can be regarded as sitting back and enjoying their money.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if there is no objection. I will hand over this matter to Mr. Jiefu, and you can directly listen to Mr. Jiefu's deployment in the future. The following arrangements are made by Mr. Junshi. Zhao Ji stood up and said.

"Scholars often say that businessmen are mercenary, do not think of loyalty to the king, and do not think of serving the court. But Junshi believes that you can sit here to prove your loyalty to the country. The Holy Lord is still a great monarch, and the heart of all loyal kings will be rewarded by the Holy Lord. Next, it is up to Junshi to announce the holy reward. 1: Junshi will open a civilized school in the suburbs of Bianjing, and the Holy God has given you the gift to recommend your elite children to enter the school, with four years as the boundary, and the official will be awarded immediately after graduation. Second, the Holy Admiral personally trained an elite cavalry in the Li Family Horse Farm, and now there is still a shortage of 5,000 soldiers. Sima Guang stated one by one.

The words are very brilliant, in fact, they ask the businessmen to pay and give people. For businessmen whose status has always been lower than that of scholars, it cannot but be said that it is a great gift to have the opportunity to let their sons and nephews enter the court as officials. The important thing is that their sons and nephews enter the court and become officials and generals, and their interests are not guaranteed?

"Thank you for your kindness. Long live my emperor, long live, long live. The merchants all left their seats and knelt down in thanksgiving.

"Get up! The specific details will be discussed by all the secretaries. But to be blunt, I don't blame. Zhao Ji stood up and said comfortingly.

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I don't know how long it took to discuss.

"Oh no. Those who served as soldiers wanted us to hand over the official family, otherwise we would have to wash our Li family horse farm in blood. Li Peiling suddenly ran in and said hurriedly.

Li Zhanma sat on the ground in fright, looking at Zhao Ji with a look of help.

"Don't worry. When the soldiers first arrived here, they didn't know why. That's all for today, and you guys rest early. Zhao Ji stood up and said comfortingly.

"Congratulations to the Holy One." The merchants said in unison.

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"The saint, the grass people have arranged a palace for the saint, and the little girl will serve the saint." Li Zhanma seemed to be impatient to push his daughter out.

"The Imperial Palace? No, I'm used to being with my soldiers. Let's talk about the matter of concubines, it's not child's play. How can it be done so hastily? Zhao Ji said, turned around and left.

"The grass people send the saint to the saint." Li Zhanma bowed.

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