Among the three sisters of the Yang family, this platoon is actually the most difficult for the eldest sister.

Ye Chang took a step back, avoiding her outstretched fingers, with a smile on his face, but no anger.

Yang Zhao next to him furrowed his eyebrows, blocked in front of him, and stared at Second Sister Yang: "Sister, you have to leave some dignity"

"You men, all of you have bad water in your stomach, but what dignity do you need on your face?" Second Sister Yang raised her chin and snorted: "Get out of the way, Zhao Langjun, today has nothing to do with you"

A trace of jealousy flashed in Yang Zhao's eyes, and there was a hint of helplessness, so he could only get out of the way.

He had an affair with Second Sister Yang, and there were many people who knew about it, but Second Sister Yang couldn't help but be notoriously debauched, if she really wanted to seduce Ye Chang, what could Yang Zhao do?

She also has a leg with Li Longji, and she is very happy with Li Longji

"The second sister is talking about business in advance, and after talking about business." Ye Chang saw Yang Zhao retreat, still smiling.

When Second Sister Yang met his smiling gaze, her heart jumped suddenly, and she suddenly felt a little ashamed.

No matter how dissolute she is, she is still a little ashamed after all, and Ye Chang's attitude makes her feel a little boring.

"I really don't know why you men like to intrigue" She restrained her mood and smiled again: "That pearl is a beautiful woman I have seen pity, and now for you, she is frightened, I have to seek justice for her"

What can make Li Longji make up his mind to clean up Yang Shenjin is the maid pearl.

After learning of her whereabouts, Yang Zhao went to find Second Sister Yang, and asked in front of Second Sister Yang, and sure enough, he asked about Yang Shenjin's private summoning of Shi Jingzhong for divination. After getting the news, Yang Zhao was overjoyed, and discussed with Second Sister Yang to take Mingzhu to see Li Longji, pretending to leak it inadvertently, causing Li Longji's anger towards Yang Shenjin.

Things were done very beautifully, completely according to Ye Chang's plan, Li Longji would never have thought that behind this was actually Ye Chang's strength. To a certain extent, Li Longji has also become a pawn of Ye Chang this time

Second Sister Yang felt that she had merit, so she came to ask Ye Chang for credit, but she was now a little arrogant, and the method of asking for rewards made people very unhappy.

"What the second sister said is that the pearl pearl should naturally be complemented by the pearl." Ye Chang smiled and stretched out a hand from his sleeve, his hands were full of beads the size of pigeon eggs, which looked crystal clear and very cute.

"Glass Orb"

This string of beads is made of glass beads, and it is only a ball for children to play marbles, but at this time, it is a rare treasure. Even if Ye Chang now owns a glass workshop, the output of such a round, translucent and bubble-free one is very small.

Originally, he wanted to create a colored interior, but he was still figuring it out.

It is not too precious to take this as a gift, but it is excellent for a woman. Second Sister Yang was full of joy and took these, but she was a little too little: "It's just this one string of beads...... Eleven Lang, you have to give me a few hundreds, so I can take out the Lu to reward."

"Tipping?" Yang Zhao next to him was stunned: "You use this as a reward?" ”

"You vulgar thing, I don't understand, now there are women in Beijing who tell stories, and they make up stories every day to tell us to listen, we can't let them work in vain, if they are happy to hear, they have to give some rewards, gold, silver and silk are too vulgar, how can they be like pearls. Now that I have this glass bead, it's better than a pearl."

Ye Chang thought of those poor people who made up stories to flatter readers, and they were so busy that they got this kind of glass beads that would depreciate infinitely in the future, and couldn't help but tear tears of sympathy for them.

"What nonsense is the second sister talking about, how can such a bead of the same size be successful?" Yang Zhao said on the side: "Okay, the thank you gift has also been given, let us go over, don't let the saint wait for a long time"

Second Sister Yang chuckled twice, as if she wanted to leave, but before leaving, she suddenly leaned into Ye Chang's ear again, and said ambiguously: "I will go to your house at night to ask for ...... Wash it and wait for me. ”

After she finished speaking, she also blew Ye Chang's ears, and then laughed twice before staggering away.

"What did she say?" Yang Zhao couldn't help but ask.

"A string of beads is not enough to satisfy her." Ye Chang was a little helpless: "Naturally, you are asking me for something else...... Alas, let's go. ”

Yang Zhao still had some doubts in his heart when he heard this, but he didn't want to ask again.

When they arrived in front of Li Longji, Li Longji's face was very gloomy, first waved his hand to Yang Zhao, motioned for him to stand aside and wait, and then asked Ye Chang, "What are you doing here today?" ”

"The minister was ordered to supervise the river work, there was a charter, and the saint was invited to look at it." Ye Chang took out another stack of papers from his sleeve.

Li Longji took the paper, but he didn't look at it, threw it on the small table on the side, and sighed: "You have a heart, I'll see this later, what are you going to do, just say it and listen to me." ”

"The minister intends to build a road along the embankment of the Yellow River......"

Ye Chang told his plan, Li Longji was still a little impatient at first, but gradually became focused.

Ye Chang's meaning is to take the opportunity of dredging the Yellow River to build an east-west straight road along the Yellow River, which is roughly parallel to the direction of the Yellow River. The straight road extends all the way to Donghae County, which is roughly the Longhai Line of later generations. This project is very huge, so Ye Chang divided it into several sections, and it took 20 years to complete the planning.

The project that has been planned for 20 years is still extremely rare in the history of Datang. Ordinary officials are anxious for quick success, only thinking about seeing benefits immediately, so that they can change their successful achievements in exchange for promotion, and a few people are willing to do things with a long-term vision

"Within three years, a section of the road from Xuzhou to Bianzhou was built first, so that the property of Huainan Road can also be transferred to Bianzhou by land in winter, and the minister checked the map of the imperial court, between the two places, there was originally a road connection, this time it is mainly straightened and flattened, and then paved with cement to form a rutted road......"

At this time, the road surface is dirt pavement, and at most it is padded with sand and gravel, so the cart is often caught in it, affecting the flow of materials. Ye Chang plans to unify the distance between the wheels, and use this distance as the standard to build two cement roads on the road that are specially used for wheel crushing. Because there are only two cement roads less than half a foot wide, the cement consumption is not too large.

"Will this cost people and money?" After listening to this, Li Longji asked with some hesitation.

"Sage, it is inevitable to work the people, and if you are forced to work on weekdays, how can there be anyone who does not work the people? The key is to make the people feel that the work is worth it - this time to build the road, the imperial court only needs to advance part of the money, and there is also the policy to give convenience, the people who serve this service, not only care about their food and housing, but also have wages to receive"

Li Longji knew Ye Chang's "financial management" skills, and after hearing this, although he didn't believe it in his heart, he didn't immediately reprimand Ye Chang for being ashamed, but asked: "Tell me, how can the imperial court achieve great success with less cost for such a big project." ”

"As far as the minister knows, from Bianzhou to Chang'an, after October every year, the price of grain becomes more expensive, but the reason is that the Yellow River is frozen, the waterway is cut off, and the grain from Huainan cannot be transported. And every year from Huainan, Jiangnan and other places to the Beijing silk silk, there are many because of the boat soaked and bad. If this Ruth is ......"

Ye Chang's rhetoric was nothing more than the reason that after the road was built, it would be rain or shine all year round, and the imperial court would be able to save a lot of money. At first, Li Longji wanted to shake his head, because such a reason was not enough to convince him, especially since it was impossible to achieve the goal that Ye Chang said that the imperial court only needs to pay a small amount of money and the people will take the initiative to make a lot of money.

But as soon as Ye Chang changed the topic, he mentioned that this road can not only be used for official purposes, but also for civilian use, especially those small and medium-sized businessmen.

Chang'an, Luoyang, Bianzhou is rich, but Beihai, Guangling and Jiangnan generation, is also becoming more and more prosperous, the two sides of the trade is a lot, if this road can be built, for the merchants, it will be great news. This road can be used by both the government and the people, and tolls and commercial taxes can be collected along the way. If this expected income is used as collateral to borrow from the private sector, a large number of businessmen will be willing to pay this money.

"I'm afraid it's undig......nified for the imperial court to come forward to do this," Li Longji hesitated.

Ye Chang secretly scolded in his heart, the imperial court collects taxes and levies, so he is not afraid of being undignified and borrowing money to build roads, but he is afraid of being undignified, but he said: "The minister has also considered this matter, so it is suggested that the Andong Chamber of Commerce should come forward to handle this matter...... The imperial court allowed the Andong Chamber of Commerce to set up a cabinet shop, make flying money, and use the flying money to offset the rent and tax......"

If the road construction is just the introduction, then now this flying money is the main text.

The commodity economy of the Tang Dynasty is developing rapidly, and the goods of Liaodong are extremely popular, but the factors limiting its development are also becoming more and more apparent, one of the most important of which is the lack of effective currency.

Although gold is in circulation, the quantity is scarce and the face value is huge, although silver is valuable, it is actually not in circulation at present, and copper coins are not only heavy, but also scarce because of the great practice of copperware, so Ye Chang proposed to run a cabinet workshop.

At this time, the cabinet shop had appeared in Chang'an City, but its main function was only to store copper coins and lend money. Ye Chang's meaning is to use the credibility of the Andong Chamber of Commerce and the properties of Liaodong as a guarantee to set up a bank in Chang'an, obtain the right to issue Datang's banknotes "flying money", and at the same time lend money to the Tang Dynasty to build roads. Of course, Ye Chang will not forget that another function of the bank is to solicit savings.

At this time, the cabinet store deposited money, not only did not have interest, but wanted to give money to the cabinet, Ye Chang was convinced that even if he set the interest rate lower, there would be many people who were willing to deposit money.

The only thing to worry about is that the emperor and the magnates regard this cabinet as the treasury of the imperial court, which can be withdrawn at will. Therefore, Ye Chang wants to put the cabinet shop under the name of the Anton Chamber of Commerce - infringing on the interests of the cabinet shop is infringing on the interests of more than 300 shareholders behind the Anton Chamber of Commerce

Ye Chang gushed about this new thing that he called "Anton Bank", because he was so engrossed in talking that he didn't even notice the sky outside. The original bright spring light was gradually replaced by dark clouds, and when he finished speaking, there was a rumble, and the first spring thunder in Tianbao's six years rang out.

Li Longji woke up like a dream and let out a long breath.

As a once eloquent politician, Li Longji felt a strange and fearful power from Ye Chang's introduction, he thought about it carefully, but because he was addicted to wine for too much time, for a while, he couldn't think of what was hidden behind it.

Even if he is full of energy, he is afraid that he doesn't know what kind of monster Ye Chang will release

Anton Bank, coupled with the army of the Liaodong Marching Governor's Office, the armed merchant group has faintly emerged.

"This matter must be ...... by Lee Xiang That's it, Li Xiang is now a little unwell, so Yang Zhao will supervise the imperial court. Li Longji pondered for a while, he originally pushed it to Li Linfu, but after thinking about it, he thought that Ye Chang might become Li Linfu's son-in-law, so he pushed Yang Zhao out again.

This force, no matter what it will become, Li Longji hopes to be in his own hands, so it is impossible to pay Ye Chang, let alone Li Linfu. Moreover, Yang Shenjin is going to fall this time, and there is no one in the DPRK and China who can balance Li Linfu, which is also not in line with Li Longji's plan. He pondered, the relationship between Yang Zhao and Ye Chang seems to be good, so it is time to launch Yang Zhao and use him to separate Li Linfu and Ye Chang, which is also good.

Yang Zhao was overjoyed, this was a fat messenger, although he didn't quite understand the meaning of this "bank" to Datang, but he could faintly see the benefits that could be received.

The "bank" mentioned by Ye Chang is far from the bank of later generations, but it is a little further than the cabinet that issued flying money later, and the "flying money" issued is supported by the production capacity of the imperial court and Liaodong. With this flying money, it can be used to offset the taxes handed over to the imperial court, and it can also be exchanged for all Liaodong products in big cities such as Chang'an, Luoyang and Bianzhou, and it can also be directly exchanged for copper coins or silk silk in big cities such as Chang'an and Luoyang.

In order to prevent too much impact on the market, the annual issuance of flying money, when there is a fixed number, according to the number of the old year slightly increased, the specific amount of floating, at the end of each year Anton Chamber of Commerce to Chang'an to send dividends to the time approved by the imperial court.

Nowadays, Datang's commerce is not yet developed, and the industry is a small base established by Ye Chang in Liaodong, and the rest only rely on scattered family handicrafts or workshops, so this can only be the case first. Ye Chang's purpose is to build roads through this bank, to drive the circulation of Datang commodities through road construction, and then to obtain benefits through commodity circulation.

As long as you push it, with the factory in Liaodong, the money will continue to flow into a river.

The matter was agreed, thinking of the rolling wealth, Li Longji was in a better mood, and turned to Yang Zhao with a smile and said, "What is the situation?" ”

"This is Yang Shenjin's confession, and the ministers don't dare to be arbitrary, and it is all up to the saint to be the master." Yang Zhao handed over his confession very crisply.

Li Longji took the confession and read it hastily, shocked and angry in his heart: "There is really such a thing...... Unexpectedly"

He was really angry in his heart, the people involved in this case were one of the important ministers he was about to promote to replace the aging Li Longji, and the other was his son-in-law, and he used to be the son-in-law he was most concerned about

He is not a stupid person, otherwise he would not have been able to wrest power from Empress Wei and Princess Taiping in the first place, but the smarter he is, the more suspicious he becomes, and this has been the case since ancient times. Coupled with Li Linfu's slanderous rumors and Ye Chang's various arrangements, even if he didn't believe it all, he believed eighty percent

"Someone," he snapped.