If there is something today, I can only change it, a 4,000-word chapter

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Regarding the dart bureau is a security organization that only appeared in the Qing Dynasty, it is normal for people not to understand it in the time and space of the Tang Dynasty, so Li Bao explained to the local tyrants of the Tang Dynasty the meaning of the dart game.

As soon as everyone heard this auspicious prince's explanation, they all understood, but they paid for the guards, they often raised some characters who were rolling on the rivers and lakes, and some important things or things would also pay a lot of money to hire people to do them.

Li Bao's concept is very good, after all, today's Silk Road merchant groups are frequent, coupled with the rise of domestic bandits, there will definitely be no shortage of dart business.

However, since Li Bao plans to do a dart shop, how should the bandits on the Silk Road deal with it? The current merchant group can deal with ordinary bandits, but it is a bit tricky to face such a strong horse bandit gang as "Hexi No".

Thinking of this, Liu Yan couldn't sit still, so he stood up and said to Li Bao: "The king's dart game proposal is very good, but our current tricky thing is the bandits, if we open the dart line, but we can't deal with the horse bandits, isn't that a self-smashing signboard?" ”

Li Bao smiled at Boss Liu, and then said, "Don't worry, Liu Caidong, I have already called a professional person just now, and he will answer your questions later." ”

When Liu Xuan heard this, Prince Ji was confident, so he bowed to Li Bao, and then sat down.

Not long after, the attendant outside the door came to report that Ding Badao was coming, and Li Bao hurriedly asked him to come in.

Ding Badao has changed a lot now from when he first arrived in the first village a few years ago, and now he has more capable and resolute temperament.

Ding Badao came in and saluted Li Bao respectfully, and then said loudly: "Ding Badao, the leader of the first Zhuang Ding team, met Prince Ji, and met all the wealthy leaders. ”

Li Bao waved his hand at Ding Badao, and then said, "Get up quickly, I came to you today to ask you something." ”

"Oh, I wonder what the king and the wealthy people want to know? A certain person knows everything and says everything", Ding Badao hurriedly replied.

Li Baohao said in a moment's time: "If you take our Zhuang Ding team and face a sudden attack on a horse team of three hundred people, how should you defend it?" ”

Ding Badao heard that this question was very simple, so he replied loudly: "If it is a certain leader, a certain person will order all the Zhuang Ding to form a phalanx on the spot, and then take out shields or other things as a barrier, if not, let the Zhuang Ding guard." ”

Hearing this, Li Bao spoke: "Oh, guard? What to hold? Is your Zhuang Ding really not afraid of the impact of the horse team and the killing of feathered arrows? ”

Ding Badao looked proud on his face, and continued: "King, if other people dare not guarantee it, but Zhuang Ding brought out by a certain hand, he will definitely dare to pack a ticket!" ”

When Li Bao heard this, he immediately cocked his thumb and said, "Okay, there is a kind!" Let's go on, other wealthy people still want to hear your strategy. ”

"The first order is to order the bombardier to throw powder canisters and smoke canisters first, so that they can deter sycophants and deter horse bandits. In addition, when a certain meeting let the horse bandits get close, he ordered Zhuang Ding to shoot Zhuge crossbow arrows in a volley. In the face of a horse team of 300 people, a hundred and ten Zhuang Ding under a certain command can easily cook.

In addition, there is a secret weapon designed by the king, if they come, it will definitely make these horse bandits hate their parents and have two legs. In fact, the three of us have a secret weapon from the king, and we can basically cripple them. ”

Hearing Ding Badao say this, everyone was curious, what secret weapon did this leader of the Zhuang Ding team have, and he could face undefeated with thirty people against three hundred horse bandits.

Qin Shao immediately couldn't help it, and said to Li Bao: "What good things are still hidden from the king, is he even hiding so-and-so?" Seeing that what Leader Ding said was so magical, it was itchy and unbearable. ”

Ding Badao was talking about the artillery that Li Bao asked the first village to make, and he didn't know how to cast, so he just took out the drawings and asked the craftsmen of the first village to study and try to cast first, after all, Chang'an City is still very safe now, and he has time to do experiments.

Now we are trying to cast artillery, but iron can't do it, so we have to test bronze artillery. He asked the craftsman to try to make the famous tiger squat cannon of the Ming Dynasty at that time, this cannon could not hit far, only suitable for close combat.

As for the mortars, they were only experimentally cast. But the effect is not very good, after all, Li Bao's gun/medicine formula is the best ratio of 15 nitrate: 3 charcoal: 2 sulfur circulating on the Internet in later generations.

With this proportion of explosives, the explosion ratio is very powerful. That's why Li Bao was able to turn the people bombed by the Shence army on their backs on the "bloody night of King Ji's house" that year.

In the face of the low casting technology of high-standard gunpowder, Li Bao had no choice but to instruct the craftsmen to adjust the dose of nitrate to reduce the explosive force of gunpowder and avoid bursting the cannon that had been cast with great difficulty.

In addition, it is very expensive to cast this artillery with copper, and now the Tang Dynasty is still a copper-based monetary system, if Li Bao's craftsmen have not been able to study iron casting artillery, he will go bankrupt sooner or later.

But today is to increase the confidence of the partners, so he must make everyone feel that Prince Ji can create miracles, so Li Bao said to everyone: "This weapon has just been developed not long ago, you can go with me to see this secret weapon." ”

Ding Badao listened to Li Bao's words, his face showed joy, and then he said to everyone: "Everyone wait for a while, and so-and-so will go and prepare." ”

Li Bao nodded and agreed to Ding Badao to prepare first, and then said to Wang Bushan, who had been waiting: "Steward Wang should also go down first, I will discuss the matter of this dart game with you later." ”

Wang Bushan got the order, and immediately nodded and promised to go out. Li Bao looked around at the local tyrants, and then said: "I still think of a business today, I wonder if you are interested?"

When everyone heard it, who would say that they were not interested, this auspicious king's new things emerged in an endless stream, and the wealth they had gained from doing business with Li Bao over the years far exceeded the total profits they had made in the past few decades.

When Kang Bin heard that there was still business to do at this time, his excited face was about to bloom, "If the king has any new business, hurry up and say it, I'm impatient." ”

Li Bao looked at the excited Kang Bin, and then said loudly: "This business is the same as Kang Caidong's cabinet. ”

When Kang Bin heard this, his face was suspicious, and he hurriedly said: "It's the same as a certain cabinet business?" Does the king also want to be a cabinet shop? ”

"Yes, I'm trying to start a cabinet business. However, it is not a simple exchange of gold, silver and copper coins, we want to make a large cabinet and a national chain of cabinets. And we still have to develop a flying money business, after all, it is too inconvenient for us to use copper coins now. ”

What Li Bao said is indeed the drawback of the "copper standard" monetary system, the maximum amount of money used as the currency, greatly restricting the efficiency of daily currency business, the weight of money has always been six catties and four taels, if you want to transport hundreds of thousands of coins for trading, so that long-distance transportation of large amounts of coins has become a chore.

And there has been a shortage of money in Datang more than once. In this late Tang Dynasty, when commodity exchanges were already extremely frequent, in order to alleviate the money shortage, officials in the Tang Dynasty also thought of methods, such as the minting of large copper coins such as "dang five coins" and "dang twenty coins".

However, the officials of the Tang Dynasty did not understand the laws and issuance system of currency, coupled with the fact that people's minds were not open, this kind of large-amount copper coins were slowly abandoned by people, and they still returned to the old road of parallel money and silk.

Since Li Bao plans to do it, he wants to popularize and brainwash the concept of the bank in the future to all local tyrants, as long as these people are willing to follow him, then his business empire will become bigger and bigger.

Of course, the bank's affairs are now just blowing the wind for the local tyrants who are doing it, and if you really want to start doing it, you must get the support of the government.

Li Bao needs to find another day to meet Yang Yan with all the local tyrants, as long as he can get Yang Yan's support, his banking industry will be equivalent to getting a red top, and it will also become the product of collusion between officials and businessmen.

Kang Bin listened to Li Bao's sermon, only to find that he was still too narrow-minded, it turned out that the cabinet shop still had such a big function and extension, and he only felt that his thoughts and horizons were passively expanding again and again during the years he was with Li Bao.

So Kang Bin said happily: "Since the king started with a certain Kang's cabinet, the business of this cabinet shop should be dominated by a certain Kang's, and there is also the signboard of our cabinet workshop, what does the king plan to call it?" Why don't you call it Kang's Cabinet Workshop? ”

Liu Xuan, Qin Shao and Wang Jiuhu heard that the business of this Kang Bin's treacherous cabinet shop is so ambitious, if he is allowed to have a large share of the Kang family, he will have his own share in the future.

So several other companies have opened their mouths to promise that the business of this cabinet is willing to make a big head, Li Bao looked at the enthusiastic crowd, his heart was happy, and immediately waved his hand and said: "All the wealthy owners are so enthusiastic, I am very happy in my heart, this cabinet business, I mean we want to change the name, as for this share, or according to the example of our Shanhe Society."

However, I will not be able to decide until I have discussed it with my mentor Yang Shilang. Today, I'm just going to tell you about the specific charter, I'll sort it out, and then we'll discuss it again. ”

As soon as Kang Bin heard that Li Bao said that he was going to change his name, he immediately became interested and asked, "What name does the king want to change?" Say it first and let the big guys hear it. ”

Li Bao looked at everyone with a curious face, so he smiled heartily, and then said: "Is this cabinet, I don't know, if we do it, let's come straightforwardly, just call the money bank, and the signboard is called 'Xinglong Money Village'?" ”

After everyone heard this, they all recited it a few times, and they also felt that it was good, and Qian Zhuang was even clearer and easier to remember. Xinglong Qianzhuang has a good meaning and a good mouth, and they all immediately expressed their acceptance.

Everyone discussed the matter of this money village for a long time, and Ding Badao sent someone to inform him that he was ready, and invited everyone to go and watch the test of the secret weapon.

Li Bao immediately led everyone to follow the attendants to the test site, out of the hall, the carriage had been parked outside, everyone boarded their own carriage, and then the carriage went to the depths of the manor of the first village.

The scenery seen on the carriage is getting less and less, but there are more and more guards, this artillery Li Bao has not seen it yet, on weekdays, he just discussed with Wang Bushan, Wei Yangzi, Ding Badao and others how to improve, and the specific is Hu Sanbao in supervision.

Today, when Hu Sanbao heard that he was going to test fire artillery, his heart was full of excitement, and Li Bao saw that this kid was so excited, knowing that he was happy that his results were about to come out.

Li Bao will not be stingy with their praise, Hu Sanbao and they followed Li Bao in the early years, and now they are not short of money, the only thing they lack is psychological appreciation, so Li Bao's praise made the smile on Hu Sanbao's tender face even thicker.

The carriage traveled for about two quarters of an hour, and finally arrived at a very wide field, and everyone got out of the carriage and faced the wide and flat small school field, and they were also amazed.

Kang Bin and the others saw from this school field that King Ji Li Bao has not only made a lot of money over the years, but also trained a capable team, all of which were carried out under the noses of Chang'an City, and no one even noticed it, and it could be seen that this King Ji was so deeply hidden, and he really made him respectful!

Ding Badao saluted Li Bao, and then pointed to the two cannons not far away and introduced: "One of these two cannons is short-range, the other is long-range, and the body of the projectile is also different. ”

After listening to Ding Badao's words, everyone looked at the 'Tiger Squat Cannon', this cannon body is thick and short, the cannon body is cast in copper, and there are several iron hoops on the body, which looks very much like a large leper dog, and it has nothing to do with the tiger squat in the name.

Ding Badao spoke again: "Each time you use seven or eight taels of gunpowder, you can fire a hundred lead bullets weighing five coins, and in order to prevent weakness, we adopted Hu Xiaoge'er's suggestion, and then used a large lead or boulder weighing thirty taels as a pressure to plug the muzzle of the gun." ”

Hearing Ding Badao's words, everyone praised Hu Sanbao for his cleverness, Hu Sanbao smiled with a smile on his face, and hurriedly said: "Everyone praises it, this is all the king's teaching," and everyone praised Li Bao again.

Li Bao said to everyone: "Okay, I won't say much good things, let's hurry up and test shoot." ”

Ding Badao instructed Zhuang Ding to load the ammunition according to his words, and then set it up, direction, and then ignite it.

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3. From "Jiaoyin Shop" to "Money Shop": The origin of the currency exchange business of Qian Zhuang

?? Another financial business of Qian Zhuang is currency exchange, which is also a financial activity that has emerged early and continued due to the diversity of Chinese currencies. The currencies that have flowed through in China can be divided into three categories according to the material of the coins, namely metal coins (gold, silver, copper, iron coins), physical coins (grain, silk) and paper/money. From the Tang and Song dynasties to modern times, the legal tender in circulation was often more than two currencies of different materials. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, copper coins and silk were used simultaneously, in the Song Dynasty, copper coins were used together with paper and money (huizi), and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, copper coins and silver were universal.