In the afternoon, Helan Minyue sent someone to send 80,000 taels of gold to the East Palace.

Li Hong was full of emotion when he saw these two boxes of glittering gold ingots, just a woman like Helan Minyue, there was so much gold hidden in the mansion, if it was those real family lords, how much gold should be stored in their family's treasury? I guess there will be a lot!

Thinking about it like this, the pressure in Li Hong's heart became even greater. Just 140,000 taels of gold reserves, to open a bank, my own idea is inappropriate!

Just when Li Hong was stunned, Wei Chi Xunyan hurriedly walked to the Chongjiao Hall and said respectfully, "Wei Chi Xunyan sees His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Seeing Wei Chi Xunyan, Li Hong suddenly had an ominous premonition, so he asked, "Why are you here?" What's the matter? ”

"Back to Your Highness, last night when we were monitoring the Great Solemn Temple, we found that the whereabouts of the Nine Tribulations were very strange, and our people followed him to the Great Mercy and Grace Temple and then disappeared." Wei Chi Xunyan said, "I suspect that the Nine Tribulations are related to Liu Ju's traitors hiding in the Great Solemn Temple, and he went to the Great Ci'en Temple late at night, it is possible that Liu Ju's traitors are also hiding in the Great Ci'en Temple." ”

"You mean to let Gu order a search of the Great Mercy and Grace Temple?" Li Hong asked.

This search of the Great Solemn Temple is because it has been determined that there are traitors hiding inside, and it is not clear whether there are traitors in the Great Grace Temple, so he rashly went to search, such an order Li Hong did not dare to give such an order, and the Great Grace Temple is different from the Great Solemn Temple, his status is not as high as the Solemn Temple, it is the most Buddhist place in the hearts of Buddhists in the country, and it is not a random order that can be searched.

"There are two possibilities for the Nine Tribulations to suddenly disappear into the Great Mercy and Grace Temple, the first is that he found out that we were following him, so he sneaked into the Great Mercy and Grace Temple to get rid of our tracking; The second is that his real purpose last night was to go to the Great Ci'en Temple and contact Liu Ju's traitors. Wei Chi Xunyan analyzed, "If the second is possible, we have to wait and see, if the first is possible, it means that the Nine Tribulations have discovered that we will monitor the Great Solemn Temple and him again, if we don't take action now, it will be difficult to get news from him in the future." ”

"Let's wait!" Li Hong thought for a while and said, "This time the people of the Great Solemn Temple should have been wiped out, but Gu still let them go, in addition to having an explanation to the queen mother, it is also the idea of putting a long line to fish, since this time we have let go of the nine difficulties, we want to get more news about Liu Ju through him, we have to be patient, it doesn't matter if he finds out that we are monitoring and tracking him, as long as he is still Liu Ju's internal response in Chang'an City, he will definitely have action, and we will have the opportunity to get more news from him." ”

"Does Your Highness mean to continue to monitor him and the Great Solemn Temple?" Wei Chi Xunyan asked.

"Keep watching." Li Hong said, "Also, since the Great Mercy and Grace Temple is also involved in the Nine Tribulations, you must also send someone to monitor the Great Mercy and Grace Temple's every move, and report to Gu immediately if there is any news." ”

"No!" Wei Chi followed the order and bowed down and exited the main hall.

"Wait!" At the moment when Wei Chi Xunyan stepped out of the threshold of the main hall, Li Hong called out to him. Wei Chi Xunyan stopped, turned around and walked in front of Li Hong and asked, "What else does Your Highness have to order?" ”

"You secretly check the Hu merchants in the east and west cities to see how much gold they have in their hands, and then ask them if they are willing to use this gold to trade and buy some Datang materials." Li Hong groaned, "By the way, you have to send someone to do this secretly, and you must not alarm others." ”

"Gold?" Wei Chi Xun was stunned for a moment, and then glanced at the two boxes in the main hall, he seemed to understand something, so he asked very puzzled, "Does Your Highness need gold very much?" ”

"That's right!" Li Hong didn't hide it, "Lone has been doing something recently, and he needs gold!" ”

Li Hong sighed slightly, last night he also wanted to use 140,000 taels of gold to open a small bank, ready to grow slowly, just thinking about it he denied this idea. Because the struggle between him and Li Xian is already very clear, if Li Xian knows that he has opened such a bank in Chang'an City, what will Li Xian do, he will naturally not let go of such an opportunity to rectify him, and Li Xian's method is to use the power of Fan Yang Lu and Qinghe Cui to deal with himself in the same way, that is, to open a bank and destroy himself with enough gold reserves, so that in the end, his ideas will only be cheaper to the other party, so Li Hong decided not to do it for the time being, It's never too late to wait until he's got everything ready.

But it is not a way to wait without time like this, because Gaozong and Empress Wu left Chang'an City, and Li Hong began to supervise the country, this time is the best time for him to open a bank, so there is not much time for it.

There is no way, now Li Hong can only think about the way to loot and accumulate the gold he needs.

"There is a lot of gold in the minister's house, if His Highness needs it, the minister can tell his father." Wei Chi Xunyan said, thought about it and said, "Cheng Dazhi and Qin Zhan also have a lot of gold hidden in their families, if the three of us can take it all out, we will probably be able to make up enough for 178,000 taels." ”

After listening to Wei Chi Xunyan's words, Li Hong gasped, just the three of them could make up 178,000 taels of gold, this is too crazy, right? But if you think about it carefully, you will be relieved, because Wei Chigong, Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie are all the founding heroes of the Tang Dynasty, and they have received a lot of rewards where the Tang Dynasty founded, and then through slow accumulation, if they didn't have such a little family background in the Gaozong period, their national mansion would be too shabby...

"Okay, after you go back, discuss with them, if you can come up with 180,000 taels of gold, and give each of you two percent of the shares when the time comes, and compensate you at that time." Li Hong assured.

Although Wei Chi Xunyan didn't know what the two percent of the shares in the prince's mouth were, he also heard a little bit from the prince's tone, that is, the three of them really wanted to take out this bit of gold, and the future income would definitely be not small, and he would make a lot of money, so he nodded slightly and left in a hurry, such a good thing can't be left behind others...

Wei Chi Xunyan's words just now gave Li Hong an idea, since he was going to open a bank and didn't have too many gold reserves, why not raise funds with everyone in the family? If he can really gather everyone's strength, reserve enough gold, and open a bank that can issue currency, he will control the finance of Datang in the future, plus the strength of Su Dingfang's Northwest Army, Zhang Cambodia and Di Renjie and other young Zhuang factions, who will be his opponent?

Of course, the people of the clan he thought of here were naturally people who were close to him, not his enemies.

Thinking of this, Li Hong's thinking suddenly brightened, and suddenly he had a new idea in his heart about how to establish a bank