Chapter Ninety-Three: The Exchange Rate Is a Money-Making Artifact
Baili Wuji's head was thick, and he was poured a basin of cold water.
"This round trip, can you encounter a storm? Is the sailor unwell? ”
"I've seen a few storms, but thanks to the experience of those pilots, they relied on the speed of the boat and avoided it. The Sailor soldiers were not unwell. ”
Baili Wuji straightened his face and ordered: "You go back first, hand over the gold and copper goods with Xu Xiang, and then go to rest for a few days, just standby." All things in Fuso must not be revealed to the outside world. ”
"Yes."
"Return to the Xingwang Mansion and pass on the king's decree that all the sailors who participated in this transportation will be rewarded, and ten taels of silver will be rewarded each time."
"King Xie."
The two discussed secretly for a long time before they came out.
Hang Xu Shiming, Sun Guangxian and others outside, waiting like ants on a hot pot.
It is conceivable that why a righteous son and a pro-son don't come back?
And finally waited for Baili Wuji and Peng Xiao to come out, and Peng Xiao went out as soon as he gave a gift.
Xu Shiming and the others had no choice but to look at Baili Wuji expectantly, and their eyes were as eager as a hook.
Baili Wuji smiled and said: "Xu Shouren and Sun Shixu are very good, but the task assigned by this king has not been completed, so I will stay this time." ”
Xu and Sun breathed a sigh of relief, and it was good that there was nothing to do.
Baili Wuji said: "Xu Xiang immediately sent someone to inform Baili Kang, and ordered him to lead the special combat army to Xingwangfu to transport back the gold and copper, and ordered Liu Yan to lead the forbidden army to protect along the way, and ordered the soldiers to keep their mouths shut and not leak secrets. ”
"Yes."
"Sun Xiang immediately ordered all states and counties to transport the collected and hoarded tea, sweet potato roast, and dansha to Xingwangfu."
"Yes."
After the two of them went directly, Baili Wuji returned to the study and opened Xu Shouren's letter. The letter said: "The lord of Fuso is now Emperor Suzaku, and the ministers of Sekihaku and Taisei are all Fujiwara Tadahei, that is, the emperor's uncle, and the power of Fuso is basically controlled by Fujiwara Tadahei, and the emperor succeeded to the throne at the age of eight, and it has been fourteen years now, like a puppet. As the king said, the territory of Fusang is not wide, but the vassal state is densely packed, and the main power of each power is called the famous lord, just like the history of the county of Dachuzhou and the county order. The Emperor guards the various forces, like the defense envoy of the Great Chu. Five years ago, the Fujiwara Juntomo Rebellion occurred, and the independence of the eight countries of the Kanto region was declared, and a palace was built on Shimoso Sarushima, and he proclaimed himself the new emperor. A year later, he was pacified by Fujiwara Hidego by his fellow Taira clansmen Taira Sadamori and Shimono Oshimo. In order to fulfill the king's vision, there are two ways, one is to help Emperor Suzaku seize central power, so that he will be grateful and achieve the goal of further controlling Fuso. The second was to help Fujiwara Tadahei obtain the position of emperor, so as to achieve the goal of further controlling Fuso. Please consider it, the king. In addition, there is an island called Ezo in the northernmost part of Fuso, which is very close to Fuso, and it is still occupied by the natives and has not been effectively ruled. The king also weighed it. ”
After reading the letter, Baili Wuji fell into deep thought.
Of the two methods Xu Shouren said, Baili Wuji prefers the first one, and the icing on the cake is far less thankful than sending charcoal in the snow. Fujiwara Tadahei has occupied the positions of Sekihaku and Taisei Minister, and he has great power, and helping him succeed to the throne is undoubtedly the icing on the cake. But for Emperor Suzaku, the power is on the sidelines, and it is impossible to live in fear, and if you help him regain power at this time, it will be a charcoal in the snow.
As for the Ezo land that Xu Shouren mentioned at the end, Baili Wuji knows Lu Dao, which is the future Hokkaido. The Heian period has not yet been included in the scope of rule, this place can be considered to be occupied, no, it cannot be occupied, if the Chu State sends troops to occupy it, it will inevitably cause a backlash from the top to the bottom of the Fusang State, so how to master it? ……。
Baili Wuji thought deeply again.
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When Xu Shiming and Sun Guangxian saw the 17.5 million taels of gold transported back from the Xingwang Mansion, their eyes widened like lanterns. Oh my God, can money be made so easily in this world?
And when Baili Wuji said that he would use this gold as capital again to earn more money, this time, the two didn't think about it anymore and immediately nodded in agreement. Indeed, with such an easy way to make money, as long as it takes ten round-trips, the state of Chu will become the richest country among all the countries. It's a pity that they don't know what to do, and this way is difficult to last, because this way is just a legal or inadvertent transfer of money from one country to another country, nothing more.
The reserves of gold in Fusang are almost there, and maybe they can be looted again in ten years, and this method does not want to be used in Fuso. Now he only wants to exchange the 50 million taels of silver that he shipped to Fusang for tea and other things, of course, with principal and interest. Baili Wuji's goal is 100 million taels, plus five times the amount of copper.
And now the gold in the treasury is of other use.
When Xu Shiming and Sun Guangxian heard that Baili Wuji was not exchanging gold to make money, but to open an unheard-of ticket business, they were unanimously opposed again. Putting aside the huge profits and not making money, but engaging in this kind of risky business, I am afraid that only a fool will do it. The two of them wondered if the king had been shaken by the endless flash of gold.
Seeing these two people staring at him strangely, Baili Wuji shook his head and sighed lightly, and said one word, "stupid". Shi Shiran walked out.
After walking a long way, he gently spit out another word, "goods".
The opposition of the two did not affect the plan in Baili Wuji's heart, and on the same day, when his father personally escorted the silver from Huizhou to Padang, Baili Wuji already had the idea of establishing a ticket number in his heart.
Today's Chu State is far from the Badong of the past, there are more and more vendors, and the business is getting bigger and bigger.
However, the circulating coins are all metal coins, not to mention copper and iron coins worth one tael of silver, in terms of silver alone, a shipload of goods is counted in hundreds of thousands of catties, tens of thousands of taels, hundreds of thousands of taels, or even millions of taels. As a result, the vendors had to hire escorts, which was inconvenient, unsafe, and time-consuming.
Therefore, Baili Wuji made up his mind to carry out changes.
In fact, Xu Shiming and Sun Guangxian don't want to object, Xu Shiming has never doubted Baili Wuji's ability since Padang, a ten-year-old child can earn the first pot of gold from the salt shop, if you still think that such a person is a fool, you must already be a fool. Naturally, Xu Shiming didn't think he was stupid, so he didn't object.
Since the sweet potato burn not only makes money, but also solves the problem that the people can make money, Sun Guangxian, who thinks that Baili Wuji makes money from the salt shop is just collusion with the three brothers of the Gao family to do tricks, no longer doubts Baili Wuji's ability to make money, he thinks that there are many coincidences in this world, the first time is a coincidence, the second time is strange, and the third time is God, and the current warehouse full of gold tells him that this is a god. Therefore, Sun Guangxian did not object.