readx; In the guest room, Xing Wei was drinking tea, and his eyes swept to the man in black behind him from time to time, in fact, he didn't know this man in black, but this person took out Li Qing'an's gold medal, Li Qing'an personally told him that the person who took his gold medal asked Xing Wei to do his best to help. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

It has been almost two years since Xing Wei suffered, compared with that time, he has obviously gained weight, and between his gestures, he has become very confident, it is no wonder that his backstage Wang Heng became the left minister, and his status in Chang'an is naturally rising, and he opened the largest tea shop in Chang'an, and Anxi alone ordered 200,000 quintals from him last year, which made him rich and made a fortune.

Xing Wei is a grateful person, and Li Qing'an has never forgotten his life-saving grace, but he also knows that with Li Qing'an's status, he may be difficult to repay again, so he can only set up a tablet for Li Qing'an to worship in the four seasons.

Unexpectedly, today the man in black found himself and took out Li Qing'an's gold medal, saying that he was ordered by Li Qing'an to see Wang Yuanbao and ask him to introduce him.

He opened his mouth several times to ask, but it can be seen that this person has no intention of answering himself, so he has to forget it, at this time, Wang Yuanbao's laughter came from outside the door, "Come to my house at dinner, do you want to eat?" ”

The door opened, and four family members carried a soft sedan chair in, and the soft sedan chair fell to the ground, and the family helped the obese Wang Yuanbao out.

"It's so troublesome for people to grow fat, they can't even cross the threshold, hey! It's rude. ”

Wang Yuanbao smiled at the two of them and arched his hand, and Xing Wei returned the salute with a smile: "Let me explain first, I came here after eating, and I don't want to rub your dinner, and I don't dare to eat anymore when I see you." ”

"What kind of words are these, ridiculing me for being fat? I'm angry. ”

He glanced at the man in black and saw that he had taken off his hat, he was about thirty-four or five years old, tall and thin, his arms were especially long, his cheeks were thin, and he had a pair of eagle eyes that were blazing, and he looked extremely shrewd and capable.

Wang Yuanbao saw that he actually came to his house wearing a hat, and he couldn't help but have a strange feeling in his heart, this person was too mysterious, he bowed to the person who came, and asked Xing Wei: "This is .....?"

Xing Wei whispered in his ear: "This person was sent by Li Qing'an, very mysterious, I don't know who he is?" ”

Wang Yuanbao was shocked in his heart, and the person sent by Li Qing'an came to look for him, and he suddenly remembered the strange thing that happened in Anxi Cabinet Workshop, and he was shocked in his heart.

At this time, the person who came took out the gold medal, put it on the table and said: "This is my identity, my surname is Hu, ranking fifth, and the proprietor may wish to call me Hu Wulang." ”

The person who came was called Hu Yunpei, who was originally the person in charge of Luoyang of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and one of the members of the Hidden Dragon Society, he is now the general person in charge of the Anxi Internal Affairs Office in Chang'an, and also the intelligence head of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Qing'an has a total of twenty-four gold medals, distributed to his various henchmen, many people know about this matter, Wang Yuanbao also knows a thing or two, he took the gold medal and looked at it, he was still the first time to see Li Qing'an's gold medal, only to see a looming dragon on the front, flying in the clouds, there is the word 'Anxi Li Qing'an' below, and the back is the number, sixteen, Wang Yuanbao was secretly surprised, this person ranked sixteenth in Li Qing'an's henchmen, and was by no means a simple character.

Although Wang Yuanbao didn't know whether the gold medal was true or false, Xing Wei should know that Wang Yuanbao immediately returned the gold medal with both hands, and said respectfully: "I am fortunate to meet Hu Yuanjun." ”

"Don't be polite, let's talk about it."

Hu Yunpei smiled and took out a white jade lion seal and put it in front of Wang Yuanbao, this Wang Yuanbao knows, this is the treasure seal of Anxi Cabinet Fang, which is generally only held by people at the owner level, and even the big shopkeeper can't get it, this time Wang Yuanbao believed, he hurriedly waved his hand, "Hu Yuanjun, please take a seat!" ”

Hu Yunpei is obviously a person who pays attention to efficiency, he doesn't drink tea, and he doesn't go around the bend to play a round, and after sitting down, he went straight to the purpose of his visit today, "I came today because our general wants to make a deal with Wang Dongzhu." ”

Wang Yuanbao was holding a teacup and drinking tea, when he heard this, his hand shook in fright, half of the tea was spilled, and he didn't care about wiping the tea stains on his body, so he hurriedly put down the teacup and said, "Hu Yuanjun, it's better to go to my study to talk." ”

"It's okay, I'll just be the host."

Hu Yunpei stood up with a smile and glanced at Xing Wei, but Xing Wei smiled and said, "Go ahead!" I'm here to rest and drink tea. ”

He is a smart person, the less he knows some things, the better, he doesn't want to get burned, Hu Yunpei didn't force him, nodded, and followed Wang Yuanbao to his study.

In fact, going to the study is just an excuse for Wang Yuanbao, he needs a little time to think about countermeasures, Li Qingan actually wants to cooperate with him, except for the cabinet shop, what else can Li Qingan cooperate with him? Wang Yuanbao immediately thought of the abnormality of Anxi Cabinet Workshop in the past few days, and he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in his heart, he was just a businessman, and he wanted to find a backstage at most when he got involved in politics, he didn't want to really participate in the political struggle, but Li Qingan he couldn't afford to provoke, so Wang Yuanbao had to take Hu Yunpei to his study.

Walking to the door of the study, I happened to meet the eldest son looking for him to have something, Wang Yuanbao's eldest son is called Wang Muyun, responsible for the external contact of the Wang family, Wang Yuanbao just turned a corner, a shadow wall blocked Hu Yunpei behind, Wang Muyun did not see it, he stepped forward and said: "Father, the child has something important to report to his father." ”

Wang Yuanbao hurriedly waved his hand and glanced back, Wang Muyun saw Hu Yunpei at this time, he couldn't help but be stunned, what kind of person is this?

"This is Hu Yuanjun, a very important guest, you should also go to your father's study!"

Wang Muyun glanced at Hu Yunpei suspiciously, then nodded, and entered the study with his father, the study is the last line of defense for men to be free, and it has nothing to do with reading, even if a giant businessman like Wang Yuanbao has his own study, the study is luxuriously furnished, the desk made of rosewood, the bookshelf made of gold, the pen holder carved from the best jade, and the wall is covered with the authentic traces of various celebrity calligraphy and paintings, as for the book, it is inconspicuous.

Wang Yuanbao invited Hu Yunpei to sit down, the eldest son Wang Muyun stood behind him, a maid served tea, the two finally got to the point, Wang Yuanbao took a sip of tea, suppressed the tension in his heart, and said: "Hu Yuanjun, please speak!" What does His Royal Highness King Zhao want to cooperate with grass people like me? ”

"The proprietor is humble."

Hu Peiyun smiled and said, "I want to ask first, how much money is still in Wang Baoji's cabinet, I mean copper coins, the scope is Guanzhong and Henan Mansion." ”

"This ....."

Wang Yuanbao was a little embarrassed, this was his trade secret, and the other party was on behalf of Anxi Cabinet Fang, could he say it? He smiled bitterly, and said vaguely: "I don't have a specific account, probably hundreds of thousands!" ”

"More than a million?"

"Nope!" Wang Yuanbao breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said, "Not even more than 500,000 guan." ”

Hu Yunpei nodded and said, "If we use the Anxi silver dollar to buy the copper coins in the hands of the proprietor Wang, I wonder if the proprietor is willing?" ”

Wang Yuanbao's eyelids pulled twice, and exchanged Anxi silver dollars for his own copper coins, which used to be his dream, because Anxi silver dollars were very popular with merchants, and most of the merchants came to his cabinet to withdraw money, almost all of them indicated that they wanted to exchange them into Anxi silver dollars, for this reason, Wang Yuanbao exchanged a large number of Anxi silver dollars in the past year, and he even had a dream, dreaming that he led a large group of men to rush to the basement of Anxi cabinet and took all their silver dollars for himself, but now, when his dream was about to become a reality, he hesitated, Anxi Yinyuan suddenly became a little hot for some reason, in fact, the problem is not Anxi Yinyuan, Anxi Yinyuan is still the same cute, but this guy in front of him, the guy holding Li Qingan's sixteenth gold medal, what does he want to do?

Wang Yuanbao drank tea, pretending to be contemplative, in fact, his heart was already a mess, Hu Yunpei seemed to know his thoughts, and threw out a huge bait, "Of course, since it is cooperation, we will also consider the interests of the proprietor Wang, we can give a one-to-one price, an Anxi silver dollar is exchanged for the consistent copper coin, how many copper coins the proprietor has, we will exchange them all." ”

The merchant must move to make profits, sure enough, hearing this price, Wang Yuanbao's heart suddenly pounded, and now the price of Anxi silver dollars on the black market has been exchanged to the consistent three hundred Wen, that is to say, Anxi directly gave him thirty percent of the benefits, and the huge benefits suddenly covered the possible risks of this, Wang Yuanbao quickly calculated in his heart, in fact, he had one million copper coins in Chang'an and Luoyang, and exchanged them for one million Anxi silver dollars, he earned 300,000 yuan for nothing, even if he didn't earn 300,000 yuan, 200,000 guan is definitely no problem, this is his net profit for a year, and if he has a good relationship with Anxi, then he can also buy silver dollars directly from Anxi, which will be a huge long-term benefit.

Wang Yuanbao pondered for a moment, and then he remembered one thing, could they take out so many silver dollars? He knew that after the imperial court took Hexi, it blocked the eastward expansion of silver dollars, and during this time, a large number of silver dollars were exchanged in the market, and he was very worried that the other party did not have such inventory.

"Hu Yuanjun, if I transfer money from all over the country and transfer one million copper coins to exchange for your silver dollars, can you get so much?"

"Chang'an doesn't have so many silver dollars, only 400,000."

Hu Peiyun said frankly: "But soon a large number of silver dollars will enter Beijing one after another, we must not only exchange the copper coins in the hands of the proprietor, but also exchange as many copper coins as possible, please rest assured that the court can not block us, we can mobilize two million silver dollars to Chang'an within a month, we are ready to buy all the copper coins, if the proprietor is willing, we can entrust Wang Bao Ji Cabinet to do all the copper money exchange, Wang Bao Ji Cabinet can be the same purchase price as Anxi Cabinet Workshop." ”

Wang Yuanbao's small eyes were shining, if he let go of this opportunity to make a fortune, his ancestors would not spare him, he was just about to agree, but the son standing behind him put his knee on his waist, Wang Yuanbao suddenly woke up, he hurriedly coughed dryly, and said: "Hu Yuanjun, this matter is very important, let me think twice." ”

"Yes! I'll give you a night to think about it, if you figure it out, I'll trouble the proprietor Wang to go to Anxi Cabinet Workshop in person, and tell the Changda shopkeeper of the cabinet that the time is before noon tomorrow, and after this hour, our cooperation will be considered a failure, and we will leave. ”

Hu Yunpei turned around and left, and when he walked to the door, he stopped again, and said without looking back: "I once again remind the proprietor Wang that this is the cooperation between General Li and the proprietor of the Anxi Festival, and I hope that the proprietor will remember this." ”

He opened the door and strode away, Wang Yuanbao sent Hu and Xing away, and then rushed back to the study in a panic, and said to his son as soon as he entered the study: "Is there anything wrong here?" ”

Wang Muyun closed the door, and then said unhurriedly: "Has my father considered what Li Qingan's purpose is for doing this?" Why did he buy copper coins from Chang'an and Henan Mansion? ”

One sentence reminded Wang Yuanbao, in fact, he had already faintly thought of something, but it was like seeing flowers in the fog, his thinking was not very clear, and his son's reminder made him understand a little.

"You mean, Li Qing'an is aiming at the imminent issuance of silver coins by the imperial court?"

Wang Muyun nodded, "I think it is precisely like this, Li Qing'an intends to sabotage the imperial court to issue silver coins." ”

"But can he destroy it by redeeming copper coins? I don't understand a little, I don't know how many copper coins Datang has minted in the past hundred years, how many can he buy? ”

"Father doesn't understand, he didn't want to buy the copper coins of the Tang Dynasty, he wanted to sabotage the imperial court to issue silver coins, as long as he drew the flow of silver coins, he achieved his goal."

Wang Yuanbao is also a very shrewd person, he immediately understood, the purpose of issuing silver coins is to exchange copper coins with a ratio of one to fifty, although there are many copper coins in the Tang Dynasty, but the vast majority of them are in the people, ordinary people and businessmen no one will want that kind of inferior silver money, the lessons of the indiscriminate issuance of silver coins in the past two years have been deep enough, and those who have a large amount of copper coins will not buy it, the imperial court can only issue it to officials, but the number will not be too much, the key is to use coercive means to forcibly exchange from the cabinet with the largest amount of money, Therefore, Li Qingan made the first move, using silver dollars to exchange the stock copper coins from the cabinets, and drawing salaries from the bottom of the cabinets, so that the cabinets had no money to exchange.

But Wang Yuanbao frowned and said: "I still don't understand, if the imperial court changes to compulsory exchange of silver dollars, such as exchanging silver dollars with one to twenty, isn't it the same?" ”

"Nope! It's not the same. ”

After all, Wang Muyun is a person who has been dealing with officialdom for a long time, and he can see it more thoroughly than his father, he shook his head and smiled: "Has my father forgotten?" The saint only issued an edict a few days ago, not recognizing the Anxi silver dollar as a Datang coin, if he openly exchanged silver coins for silver dollars, wouldn't this be equivalent to recognizing the Anxi silver dollar as a Datang coin? Either the silver dollar is forcibly confiscated under the pretext that it is illegal, but who would be so stupid as to let them snatch the silver dollar? Moreover, the people who open the cabinet shop have a backstage, and if it is a big deal, they will close down and transfer the silver dollar, and there is no money to redeem, what should he do? ”

Wang Yuanbao finally understood Li Qing'an's intentions, he was a little scared in his heart, if he was involved in the struggle between Shengshang and Li Qing'an, it would put the Wang family in an extremely dangerous situation, this was not something he was willing to do, but the huge benefits made him a little reluctant, so he asked his son: "Yun'er, do you think we can do this business?" I'm a little worried. ”

"Father, just now the child stopped you from agreeing on the spot, it's not that we don't do this business, the child means that it's best to ask Zhang Xiangguo and listen to his opinion, he is our backstage!"

Wang Yuanbao nodded, what his son said was very true.

．．．．．． Zhang Yun is still the head of the household department, he has been sitting in this position for nearly ten years, almost firmly controlling the household department, but since the beginning of the year, his control of the household department has been a little powerless, the reason is that Pei Min served as the household servant, and after Li Yu ascended the throne, he also promoted Pei Min to the political hall as the prime minister, it is obvious that Li Yu is using Pei Min to set him up, Pei Min is Li Qing'an's brother-in-law, with Li Qingan's support, Pei Min will not be easily attracted by himself.

Zhang Yun didn't fight, he asked for the surname to raise flowers and fish at home, Yi raised the surname, retreated as advance, waited for the opportunity to appear, and at night, Zhang Yun read in the study as usual.

When reading, Zhang Yun doesn't like to be disturbed, but his brother Zhang Yan comes uninvited.

"Big brother, I heard a piece of news!"

Zhang Yan rushed into Zhang Yun's study like a gust of wind, and the old housekeeper behind him couldn't catch up, stomping his feet again and again, Zhang Yun put down the book, frowned, and said, "What are you anxious about?" People in their fifties don't even have this kind of self-cultivation? ”

"But this news is so important that I have to hurry!"

Zhang Yan was about to speak, but Zhang Yun stopped him, waved his hand to the butler, and ordered him to retreat.

"Say it! What's the news that makes you so anxious? ”

Zhang Yan turned around and closed the door, he approached his brother and said in a low voice: "I just got news from the palace, the first emperor has woken up. ”

"What!"

Zhang Yun was taken aback, "You mean the first emperor?" The first emperor who has been unconscious in Qinggang Mountain? ”

He couldn't believe his ears.

"Yes! But this is top secret information, and I just got it, and he can't speak for the time being, but he has already opened his eyes. ”

"Oh my God!" Zhang Yun was shocked in his heart, Li Longji woke up, what does this mean? It means that the Tang Dynasty will change again, if he orders the prince to return to the dynasty, will those princes listen to it? What's more important is that if Li Longji recovers his health, will he be willing to be lonely without power?

"Big brother, what should we do?" Zhang Yan asked nervously.

Zhang Yun's heart was in turmoil, he tried his best to calm himself down, and said, "Let's do nothing, wait and see." ”

At this time, the housekeeper appeared outside the door again, pushed open a crack in the door, and reported: "Master, Wang Yuanbao is here, ask to see the master!" ”

Zhang Yun was in no mood to see him now, so he waved his hand and said, "Tell me, I'm not feeling well, and I'll see him again." ”

The housekeeper hesitated for a moment and said, "But he said that he had something important to report to the master, and that the matter was very urgent." ”

No matter how urgent it is, it's just a businessman, Zhang Yun only thought about Li Longji's awakening, and he said impatiently: "I said it, no!" ”

Zhang Yan next to him was moved, next month is his birthday, and he is still waiting for Wang Yuanbao to give him a heavy gift! How could the God of Wealth be so blunt to turn away.

He persuaded the eldest brother: "Eldest brother, meet him!" Isn't it rumored that the Holy Lord is going to issue silver coins recently? Maybe it has something to do with it. ”

"Hmm!"

Zhang Yun nodded and said, "Okay! Bring him in. ”

(To be continued)