Today, Mingli Bao published such a strange story of a wealthy businessman blackmailing high-ranking officials, and those who know a little about the inside story can only watch the excitement as a piece of gossip.

Many people once again realized the function of the newspaper, no wonder Li You worked desperately to run a newspaper, and even did not hesitate to invest heavily to suppress all competitors, and the income was really high.

Lei Yuanwai, one of the two protagonists of the wealthy businessman who threatened high-ranking officials, was taken to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Dong Yushi, the head of Jiangxi Province, was personally interrogated. But the thunderbolt is a person who understands, and refuses to admit the facts, only deducing that what is said in the newspaper is all gossip and cannot be believed.

Dong Yushi asked for a long time, but when he saw that he couldn't find any results, he was not in a hurry, and let Lei Yuanwai go back with a smile. After that, the letter of the Criminal Department Shangshu Feng arrived again, and he also insisted that the words in the newspaper were rumors.

Both protagonists deny the claims of Minglibao, but to the wisdom of the people, neither of them intends to pursue the rumor-mongering Minglibao.

Although people who are keen on gossip have a lot of discussions, they can only talk about it, and for those who have a heart, they only need to talk about it. The truth and the deal behind the gossip are mostly unknown.

The eldest princess of Guide has also read today's Pravda, she can naturally guess Li You's thoughts, and vaguely see the grass startling snakes and borrowing knives to kill people. But that inexplicable sense of crisis came to my heart again - now that Li You is doing things, has he completely gotten rid of his dependence on him?

Since Li You took control of the newspaper, he seemed to be like a fish in water, or he had obtained the most convenient tool, and he was very happy to manipulate the public weapon. In comparison, there were far fewer requests for her. This made Guide Chitose feel that he had been left out in the cold, and a sense of crisis arose.

Thinking of this, the eldest princess immediately ordered to go down and send someone to invite Li You over. The Ten Princes' Mansion and the Wenxuan Yuan are both in the east of the imperial city. Not far away, the messenger arrived at the Bunxuan Yuan a moment later.

At this time, Li Youzheng was conspiring with Jin Million and Dai Shopkeeper, and only then did he talk about the key place. So I couldn't get out of it for a while. He said to the envoy's inner supervisor very casually: "At this time, there is no time to doppelganger, and the official will come to visit after the afternoon." ”

The envoy was a little surprised when he heard this answer, but he was only responsible for passing the word, so he reported Li You's answer to the eldest princess as it was.

This is the first time he has refused to be summoned? The eldest princess of Guide was full of sulkness and reprimanded loudly: "You useless slave, go and invite again!" I told that Lord Li must come. Otherwise, I don't want to be the west seat of the main palace in the future! ”

Li You didn't say a few words with Jin Million and Dai Shopkeeper, but suddenly heard the messenger coming, and he was puzzled. There shouldn't be anything big going for the eldest princess to return to now, so why is it necessary to go see her immediately? It's really inexplicably willful, the princess is cured!

But Master Li weighed it again. This is a real "princess" disease, and I really can't afford to cure it. Therefore, he had no choice but to interrupt the conspiracy with Jin Million and Dai Yuanwai, and got up and went to the Ten Kings' Mansion in the north.

In the side hall of the eldest princess's mansion, Guide Chitose waited until her lover came in, and wanted to scold a few words, but she couldn't help it. He asked, "What have you been doing behind my back lately?" I don't understand. ”

Today she is really weird... Li You was puzzled: "How could I have acted behind your back?" You know very well about the Huichang silver number and the exchange in other places, why do you have to carry your back? ”

"Then what have you done to provoke so many Western merchants in the silver industry? Do they still dare to crush the Huichang Yinhao? It's right to do your own things with peace of mind, but why is it causing a storm all over the city? ”

Li You said calmly: "It's too slow to rely on the Huichang Silver No. If you develop bit by bit, it will take twenty or thirty years to lay out the world, and you and I will be white-headed at that time.

Besides, the world is unpredictable, and there may be some changes and twists and turns in the past twenty or thirty years, and the one who has the last laugh may not necessarily be the forerunner. On the contrary, the first mover is often not good. So I wanted to give it a try. Whether or not the Western merchants of the Bank of Beijing can be controlled together, there will be a lot of strength and a lot of progress. ”

Speaking of this, Li You slapped his forehead, "I almost forgot, there is something I need to ask you." ”

Hearing the word "ask", the eldest princess of Guide suddenly felt much better, and responded very happily: "Let's hear it." ”

"In business, not everything can be forced by power, after all, Huichang Silver is not famous and prestige in this industry, so in order to quickly erect the reputation of Huichang Yinhao, in order to help win the hearts of the industry, you need to make a lot of effort."

"First of all, please go and lobby the Son of Heaven and ask Your Majesty to exchange the silver ticket of the Huichang Silver with the Inner Treasury Silver, which can be 1200,000 or 200,000. In the future, when rewarding his subordinates or having expenses, he will use these silver tickets to pay, and in the future, Huichang Silver can also call himself the designated silver number of the royal silver ticket. ”

The eldest princess of Guide nodded and said yes, this idea of not having to spend a penny of silver is really good, the most important thing in the silver industry is confidence, if even the Son of Heaven uses the silver ticket of Huichang Yin, then what else are the people worried about?

Besides, with the signboard of the royal designated cooperation silver number, the status must be extraordinary, and it has invisibly become a special role in the industry. If you want to pry the barriers of bureaucratic interests, you need to take your time to cooperate with the government, but royal affairs are not just a matter of the words of the Son of Heaven, and the advertising benefits are not inferior to the government.

"At present, there is a second thing, Huichang Yinhao will cooperate with Chongwenmen Tax Customs, Ambassador Lu has no problems on his side, but he is worried about the household department, so I have to ask you to talk about the household department."

His Royal Highness Chitose was shining again, and this idea also caught the point. The main customers of the non-local exchange business are the foreign merchant groups, and the Chongwenmen tax customs is the throat that can be stuck in the foreign merchants, which can be cooperated, and the prospects are very broad.

Could it be that the lover tried his best to ensure that Lu Yuanguang was re-elected as the ambassador of the Chongwenmen Tax Division last year, and he was also planning for today's layout? It's really a ring after a ring, so what's next?

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but ask: "Even if you raise the Huichang Silver Horn, what do you want to do in the end?" ”

"You can't make a forest alone, the more people who join in such an industry, the better, only relying on the Huichang silver trumpet to flow long, it can't become too much climate. If we can bring together wealthy Western businessmen, this new industry can expand rapidly and succeed. ”

The eldest princess asked again: "Wouldn't that just share the profits with others?" Your idea is not going to be so simple. ”

"Of course, it's not so simple, at present, only Huichang Yinhao has opened up the most important north-south passage, and Western merchants do not have this ability for the time being. If they want to join and get a piece of the pie, they need to obtain credit authorization and guarantee from Huichang Yin, and in order to meet the requirements, two conditions must be met.

First, each village should deposit a deposit with Huichang Silver as collateral to prevent exchange risks. Zhuangpu that deposits a deposit of 10,000 taels can use the channel between Huichang Yinhao and the south to operate a total exchange business of no more than 100,000 taels, with a deposit of 100,000 taels and an upper limit of 1 million taels.

Second, the direct person in charge of the exchange business of each village shop must be designated and dispatched by Huichang Yinhao, especially the gentleman who writes and authenticates the bill, must be uniformly assigned and exchanged by Huichang Yinhao. In order to ensure that the secret deposit and the words on the silver bill will not be leaked, as well as the uniformity of the bill.

All in all, in the future, Huichang Silver may gradually reduce its specific business, focusing on the overall situation and regulating the entire industry. ”

Li You's idea of turning Huichang Silver into a Ming version of the central bank is too advanced for people in this era. The eldest princess frowned, even with her intelligence, it was very difficult to understand, and it was impossible to judge whether she could succeed, and I really didn't know where her lover got her idea.

While thinking hard about the key points, she subconsciously asked, "And then?" ”

But as soon as the words came out, the eldest princess felt that she had asked a lot of questions. can manipulate the world's money, that is already the peak of the career, where can there be anything? At most, it is how to pass on the family business. Therefore, my own question is too incompetent and empty-hearted.

However, Li You's reaction was beyond her expectations, only to see her lover suddenly shoot the case, "Your Highness asked well!" If you can manipulate the flow of money, there are so many things to do! It seems that you have also realized a little, and I am very relieved!

Silver is money only when it is spent, and living silver is money! If it is stored without moving, it is a dead thing, no different from bricks and tiles, and it is not beneficial to the country! At the time of the Chongzhen Dynasty, how much silver did the people have? It's useless at all, and it's almost the same as destroying the country and extinction!

Nowadays, the landlord has no way to spend money, but only to ask for land, but there is always a limit to land and population. Besides, if they are all concentrated in large households, it is easy to have accidents! Why are antiques and calligraphy in the world popular, and why are antiques in the prosperous world, those are all places where the rich are looking for money!

Therefore, we should create a place for the world to spend money, and it is not terrible for the world to pursue profits, otherwise the wealth of the world can only be cast into ingots and buried, and become useless dead things! That's what you're going to do, and that's what you're really going to do to change the world, and it seems like you're getting to realize that. But the road is long, I will go up and down and seek! ”

If you use one sentence to describe the mood of the eldest princess Chitose of the Ming Dynasty at this time, it is "although I don't know it, I feel it", she can't understand the profound meaning of her lover's words at all. Maybe it's because she's so young that she's never heard of it.

Li You also felt that he had talked a little too much today, but he was afraid that His Royal Highness Chitose would not be able to accept it, but the words came out of his mouth and could not be collected, so he had to sigh and said: "Believe me, this is the only way to ensure the longevity of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise it will not be able to escape the old path of two or three hundred years of chaos and separation." Presumably you are also familiar with the history of the twenty-three, haven't you gotten tired of reading it? ”

The eldest princess of Guide was stuffed into a bunch of things in Li You's mind that she couldn't understand, but she was a strong person. So I desperately tried to think about the truth, the more I thought about it, the more dizzy I became, and the more I thought about it, the more I blocked my heart. When she couldn't help it, she lowered her head and opened her mouth to retch.

Wang Yannu, the housekeeper who was waiting on the side, knew a little about medical skills, and hurriedly stepped forward and simply called the pulse, "Chitose seems to be happy." ”

Li You wanted to cry without tears when he heard this, his family business needs to be inherited by his son, at least three or four, but it can't be an illegitimate child. There are a group of wives and concubines in the family, why is it the Chitose who is the most capable of giving birth to the outside?

Besides, the bastard child born to the princess brought too much pressure. A little willow will pit half of the fruits of his struggle, and if there is another illegitimate son, the family will be bankrupt.

"This must be a daughter." Li Qingfu silently prayed to various gods and Buddhas.

(End of Part 1)