Baibao wine shop in front of the gate of Fengdu is the largest wine shop in Beijing, covering an area of five acres, consisting of three four-story restaurants, which can accommodate thousands of people to dine at the same time.

But the Dugu family sold this wine shop two years ago because of the rice case in the capital, and was taken over by a big businessman in Shu, and the wine shop was renamed Bashu Wine Shop, and then the big businessman in Shu went bankrupt, and the wine shop changed hands several times, and now the wine shop is still called Bashu Wine Shop, but no one knows who it is, and the big shopkeeper of the wine shop once accidentally said that the owner was surnamed Zhang.

Approaching the New Year, the business of the wine store is particularly hot, and the guests are full every day, although the world is in turmoil at this time, prices are skyrocketing, and people's livelihood is difficult, but the business of the wine store is better, and many people are holding the mentality of timely enjoyment, having money for a day, and being used for a day.

At noon, dozens of personal soldiers escorted Yang Yuanqing's carriage stopped in front of a 'pine crane tower' in the west, and a personal soldier stepped forward to open the door, Yang Yuanqing stepped out of the carriage, turned around and helped his wife Zhang Chuchen, who was wearing a hood, out of the carriage.

Through the thin veil, Chuchen looked up at the four-story restaurant and said with a smile: "Yuanqing, how did you think of coming here to eat?" ”

Yang Yuanqing was not in a good mood, so he smiled reluctantly and said: "The wine and food here are good, which suits my taste." ”

Yang Yuanqing was in a really bad mood because of Li Jing's death, Pei Minqiu discussed it with Chuchen, and then Chuchen accompanied him out.

Izuchen pursed his lips and smiled, gently held his arm, and said softly: "I haven't been here before, you take me with you!" ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded, led her into the lobby, and a guy greeted her, "Guest, have you booked a room?" ”

"In the White Crane Hall!"

The guy hurriedly said, "Guest officer, please come with me." ”

Yang Yuanqing immediately instructed his soldiers, "You take turns to eat!" ”

The guards agreed and went to the lobby for dinner, leaving eight guards to follow Yang Yuanqing and the others up to the third floor.

The White Crane Hall is located in the northernmost part of the third floor, it is a suite of two rooms inside and outside, standing in front of the window you can directly enjoy the panoramic view of Fengdu City, there are four maids in the room, and it is also one of the best three elegant rooms in the whole Bashu wine shop.

Taking off her hat and cloak, she sat down at a magnificent rosewood table and said with a smile: "A wine shop actually uses a rosewood table, I really don't know who the proprietor of this wine shop is, and it is so generous." ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly, "What if the owner of this wine shop is me?" ”

Out of the dust was stunned, she immediately laughed, "You are quite good at joking, the dignified manager of Youzhou doesn't do it, and actually opens a wine shop, this is not your style of doing things!" ”

"You know me well!"

Izuchen smiled triumphantly: "Of course, even Minqiu admits that this point is inferior to me." ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled and said to a maid: "I have already ordered the wine and food, serve it as soon as possible!" ”

Yang Yuanqing walked to the window, from here you can clearly see most of the commercial areas of Fengdu, not far away is the rice market, the street of the rice market is crowded with people, the head of the crowd is dense, the long street of just one mile is crowded with tens of thousands of people, the noise and shouting come and go, everyone is scrambling to buy food.

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, the appearance of this scene should be said to be expected by him.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and one of the soldiers said, "General, they are here." ”

"Let them in!"

After a while, two people came in from outside, one was Zhang Sheng, the leader of Yang Yuanqing's former personal soldiers, and the other was Kangbas, who was stunned for a moment, and then she understood that Yuanqing was not here to eat, but to meet them, but she still couldn't figure it out, why didn't she meet her at home, she had to come here?

Yang Yuanqing smiled at her: "You sit down for a while, and I'll say a few words to them." ”

Izumi nodded, "Go ahead!" ”

Yang Yuanqing ordered the maids to retreat, he walked outside and let the two sit down.

In fact, this liquor store is Yang Yuanqing's intelligence headquarters in the capital, bought by Zhang Sheng, the head of the guard under the pseudonym Zhang Rong, while Combas runs a huge business empire in Fengdu, and ninety percent of the capital is invested by Yang Yuanqing.

"Yesterday, the Holy Lord officially announced that the second battle of Goryeo will be held, what is the reaction of the capital?"

Zhang Sheng shook his head and said bitterly: "This news can be said to have set off a huge wave, everyone is rushing to buy grain, the price of rice has skyrocketed, and the price of dou rice has skyrocketed from 400 Wen to 700 Wen overnight, and the price of gold and silver has also more than tripled, and there is no way to exchange gold and silver in the market." ”

"It's not just food!"

Next to him, Combas said: "Everything is rushing to buy now, silk, tea, wine, livestock, jewelry, ironware, every store is crowded with people, and the prices are rising, hey!" Money is cheap and expensive, and as soon as the news of the war was announced, everyone went crazy. ”

Kang Bas took out an iron box from his bosom and said, "I will show the general something, and the general will know why prices are getting more and more expensive now, and ordinary people are living in difficulty." ”

Kang Bas opened the iron box, took out twenty five-baht coins from it, put them on the table, and handed the first one to Yang Yuanqing, "This is the Kaihuang Wuzhu coin, the general should be familiar with it." ”

Yang Yuanqing took the copper coin, he is indeed very familiar with it, when he was a child, this money could buy a bowl of honey water, or he could buy a small mutton pie.

"General, the copper content of the five plants of Kaihuang is very high, basically reaching ninety percent of five, but now it is no longer visible on the market, and every household collects it."

Kang Bas took another piece of money and handed it to him, "This is the five plants of Daye, which was cast in the second year of Daye, and the copper content is eighty percent three, which is not bad, there are still on the market, but there are not many of them." ”

"This is also the five coins of the Great Cause, the Great Cause is cast in three years, and the copper content is eighty percent, and the same as before, there are not many on the market."

Combas pushed up the next seventeen coins together, "These are all the money that is in use now, half of it is official money, and half of it is private money." ”

"Private money?"

Yang Yuanqing asked with some surprise: "Has anyone started to make private money now?" ”

Kang Bas nodded, "It has appeared five years after the great cause, the government has killed a group of private money makers, but it is useless, private money is becoming more and more flooded, and the copper content is getting lower and lower, please look at it, general!" ”

Kang Bas picked up a coin, and broke it hard, and the money was broken into two sections, "This is the most official money on the market, a large number of mints last year, with a copper content of up to two percent, which is not bad, private money is not even two percent, and there is a large amount of iron money, and even cloth money." ”

Yang Yuanqing was a little puzzled and asked, "What is cloth money?" ”

"I've got it here."

Zhang Sheng took out two extremely thin coins from his arms and handed them to Yang Yuanqing, Yang Yuanqing took this cloth money and couldn't help but be stunned, these are two pieces of cloth, cut into the shape of copper coins.

Kang Bas shook his head and smiled bitterly: "This kind of cloth money is also in circulation, but it is the cheapest, ten dollars are used as a penny, now there is all kinds of money, all kinds of money, the merchant does not keep money a little, and when he receives rotten money, he will lose his old capital, so it is difficult to do business, do a vote of business, and it takes half a day just to identify the money." ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded, he can understand, the collapse of a dynasty is also the collapse of the economy to a large extent, the biggest problem of the Sui Dynasty now is the loss of order, if Yang Guang can follow Li Jing's advice, calm down and restore order in two to three years, then the national strength will slowly recover, but Yang Guang took a diametrically opposite path, the first Goryeo War in the eighth year of the Great Cause has just ended, and the second Goryeo War has only started a few months apart, so how can the world not be in chaos.

In fact, Yang Yuanqing also understood Yang Guang's thoughts, in Yang Guang's view, there was no second and third talk of the Goryeo War, only once, but the second and third were the continuation of the first one, he thought that the first war was just not finished, and he did not admit defeat, so he had to continue fighting.

But the feelings of the people of the world are different, the first time is to fail, and then regardless of the life and death of the people in the world, the second and third launches, naturally lose the hearts of the people.

Li Jing, who was loyal to the Great Sui, was killed, and the mouth of the hundred officials was blocked with Li Jing's death, but Yu Wenshu, Yu Shiji, and Hu Sizheng were traitors who had to be reused, how could the Great Sui not die.

Yang Yuanqing sighed softly, now that the Second Goryeo War is inevitable, and the chaos in the world is just around the corner, he must consider all kinds of risks clearly.

Thinking of this, Yang Yuanqing said to Zhang Sheng: "The intelligence points in Chang'an and Jiangdu should be established as soon as possible, and the intelligence points in Chang'an can be temporarily built in the store of Kangbas in Xishi, and then slowly expanded." ”

He asked Combass again, "No problem!" ”

Combas nodded, "The shop is very large, and there is a cellar, which is enough for a hundred people to hide. ”

Zhang Sheng thought for a while and said: "The intelligence point over there in Chang'an, I decided to let Liu Zhengyi be responsible, he is a native of Chang'an and works very seriously." ”

"It's up to you to decide, and the funds you need can be withdrawn from Lao Kang."

Yang Yuanqing patted Kang Bas's shoulder and smiled: "I'm going to check your accounts another day to see if you are greedy for my money." ”

Combas smiled slyly, "You can check it, I wrote the account books in Sogdian, do you want me to help you translate?" ”

"You cunning fellow!"

Yang Yuanqing smiled and punched him in the shoulder socket, and when he saw that Zhang Sheng was a little browbrowed, he asked, "Is there any problem?" ”

"General, it's Jiangdu, I don't know where to start?"

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "This is also the main reason why I am looking for you today, I have already negotiated with the Pei family, the largest pharmacy in Jiangdu, Jishitang, is opened by the Pei family, he has transferred this pharmacy to me, you use this pharmacy as an intelligence point, you first send thirty brothers over, the required funds are provided by the Pei family, the Pei family is very familiar with the connections over there, they will help you, in addition, I will give you another two hundred people, be sure to establish the intelligence points in Youzhou City, Xiangyang and Chengdu within this year, Xiangyang, the Pei family will also help you." ”

"Ignorance, understood!"

"There's one more important thing that I need both of you to work with."

Yang Yuanqing glanced back at Chuchen, who was sitting in the back room, and said in a low voice: "Once you hear the news of who is rebelling, no matter who the rebel is, you will immediately find a way to transfer my family out of the capital and send it to Fengzhou, this matter is very important, remember not to delay!" ”