"Ninth brother, can't you stay a few more days?" On the street of Xingqing Fucheng, a young man in his twenties spoke to an even younger man next to him, and his face was full of helplessness.

"Fifth brother, since the family has sent you, I have nothing to do here, as for the bank, I have also arranged the affairs of the bank, just wait for me to return to the capital to open the bank, for this reason the third brother has already urged me several times, so I can't delay any longer." The young man opened his mouth and said that he was naturally Cao Song, who had been staying in Western Xia, and the man who spoke to him was his fifth cousin, named Cao Ji, who had come to Western Xia this time to open a canning workshop.

Hearing Cao Song's words, Cao Ji smiled bitterly and said: "Ninth brother, your bank has been arranged, so naturally there will be no problems, but Brother Wei has just come to Xixia, and he is almost blind to the situation here. ”

"Fifth brother, I don't know your ability yet, you can eat anywhere, plus the name of our Cao family, in addition, you are cooperating with the third brother to open a canning workshop this time, I can tell you, many of the middle-level generals in this army are people from military schools, even if they don't sell the face of our Cao family, they have to sell the face of the third brother, so fifth brother, you don't have to worry at all, just go to the barracks to find someone when you encounter something!" Cao Song laughed when he heard this, he has been in Xixia for so long, although it is very chaotic here, but he is like a fish in water, in addition to his own ability, the most important thing is the relationship left by his family and Zhao Yan.

Hearing Cao Song say this, Cao Ji couldn't say anything more. After all, he knew that Cao Song was telling the truth, and he was also very confident in his ability, coupled with his deep background, if he couldn't open a canning workshop, it would be too much of a failure. But in the end, Cao Ji was still a little reluctant to say: "But when you leave, I can't even find anyone to talk to." ”

"Haha. How did the fifth brother forget, so many brothers in the family have entered the military academy, such as the sixth brother, they are now serving in the Western Army, and they are stationed in Jingzhou City, not far from Xingqing Mansion, if the fifth brother wants to talk to someone, just go to the sixth brother and them! Cao Song smiled again and said, there were many young people who were sent to Zhao Yan by their Cao family to lose weight, and now they have all grown into generals in the army. Now Cao Song thinks about the chubby appearance of those cousins, and then thinks about their mighty appearance with scars and armor all over their bodies, and still has a feeling of disbelief.

Hearing Cao Song's words, Cao Ji sighed, and then said with some embarrassment: "Ninth brother, speaking of which, when the sixth brother was obese, I laughed at him a lot because of this incident, but I didn't expect it to be just a few years. However, he has already been promoted to the head of the capital by virtue of his military exploits, and he is in charge of hundreds of tigers and wolves. It made me a little embarrassed to meet him. ”

Hearing Cao Ji say this, Cao Song remembered that although the fifth brother in front of him was quite talented in the family, he was a little proud, and he used to laugh at those incompetent brothers in the same clan, especially those who were obese like the sixth brother. was even more ridiculed by him, no wonder he didn't dare to see the sixth brother now.

"Fifth brother, the past has passed, and which of your own brothers hasn't made a fuss? Sixth brother, they will definitely not take it to heart, and besides, you are doing things for the family this time. The sixth brother will definitely do their best, otherwise the uncle in the family will have to kill them! Cao Song smiled again at this time, he had also been ridiculed by Cao Ji before, but now he was very happy to meet a relative in Xixia, as for the previous mustard, it had long been thrown out of the clouds.

"This ......" Cao Ji first pondered for a moment when he heard Cao Song's words, and then said with a free smile, "It's still the ninth brother, you see things thoroughly, but you are confused for a while, and besides, I did it wrong at the beginning, it's a big deal that I will make an amends to the sixth brother and them, no matter how I say that I am also their fifth brother, is it possible that they dare to eat me?" ”

Seeing Cao Ji untie the knot, Cao Song was also very happy, the two said while walking, but at this time they came to the vicinity of the original palace of Xingqing Mansion, and now this palace has become the palace of the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, if one day Zhao Shu goes out to patrol here, he will rest in this palace, but with the political system of the Great Song Dynasty, it is very difficult for the emperor to even get out of the palace, and it is impossible to even go out of the capital for a lifetime, let alone run to the Western Xia, so this palace is only in name, at least Zhao Shu is afraid that it will be difficult to use.

However, although the palace is in name only, but it is also a forbidden place for the royal family, in front of the palace is a wide square, originally according to the law of the Han and Tang dynasties, it is impossible to appear around the palace, but the Song Dynasty attaches great importance to commerce, and even disrupts the traditional market structure, so that commerce has been greatly developed, and there is no big constraint on commercial shops, such as around this square in front of the palace, except for a few yamen, the others are all kinds of restaurants and shops, and pedestrians are also weaving, Many of them were businessmen who came from the Great Song Dynasty, and they seemed to be very lively.

And in the direction of the southeast corner of the square, there is a large-scale building towering there, here was originally the Xixia household official office, but after the fall of the Western Xia, Xingqing Mansion naturally lost the identity of a country, many official yamen also have to be canceled, this household yamen is one of them, just Cao Song wants to build a bank headquarters in the northwest region in Xingqing Mansion, plus the household department yamen is to manage the world's financial planning, and the bank has a great relationship, so he bought it through guò relations, It was converted into a large-scale bank.

Cao Ji looked up at this magnificent bank, and saw the four big characters "Da Song Bank" written on the main entrance, seeing this, Cao Ji couldn't help but glance at Cao Song with some envy and said: "Brother Jiu'er, this bank of yours is really magnificent, and others take the initiative to give you money, this kind of business is really guaranteed to make money!" ”

Hearing Cao Ji's ridicule, Cao Song couldn't help laughing, after this period of hard work, the bank has completely opened up the situation in Western Xia, especially those soldiers in the Great Song Army, who used to just deposit the spoils of war in the bank, but now they are willing to deposit their own money in the bank, because they deposit it in the bank here, and the people in the family can withdraw it after a while, which can be said to be very convenient.

There are those soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty as an example, and slowly some local residents, and even some businessmen from the Great Song Dynasty have begun to trust the bank, especially those businessmen, they often carry a large amount of money, and they used to be careful to be careful when they were around, and even had to find some trustworthy bodyguards, but now they only need to deposit the money in the bank, but they need to pay a small amount of custody fees, which is still very cost-effective.

At that moment, Cao Song took Cao Ji into the interior of the Great Song Bank, and the steward inside saw him come in and immediately greeted him, but this time Cao Song only came by the way, mainly because Cao Ji came to the bank to have something, so he ordered the steward to take them into a small room inside the bank, and soon a special steward came to deal with Cao Ji's affairs.

Cao Ji came to Xixia on behalf of the Cao family this time, mainly to open a canning workshop, in fact, not only him, but also other families in the Jiangmen have also sent people, they have reached an agreement with Zhao Yan to cooperate in opening a canning workshop, Zhao Yan occupies thirty percent of the shares, although it seems that it is not much, but he only needs to produce technology, and other manpower and material resources need to be produced by each Jiangmen family.

Xixia is very far away from Tokyo City, and the road is not very smooth, Cao Ji wants to open a workshop, naturally needs laughing money, but if it is brought from the capital, it is not safe, and secondly, so much money is a big problem just for transportation, in order to rush to Xixia as soon as possible, so as to grab some good territory, so Cao Ji is lightly armed this time, except for some capable manpower, he almost didn't bring anything, as for the money needed, it is also very simple, with Cao Song, the cousin who opened a bank, how can he be short of money?

At that moment, Cao Ji handled a large loan business with the bank, and this money was enough for him to grab the territory he fancied and monopolize the supply there. However, although he and Cao Song are cousins, the bank loan is also a business affair, after all, the bank is not only their Cao family, the real majority of the shares are the two brothers Zhao Yan and Zhao Ji, and he can only get some convenience in the bank loan.

Cao Ji quickly got the loan, Cao Song finally completed the last task in Western Xia at this time, tomorrow is the day he left here, so in the evening, Cao Ji found a big restaurant in Xingqing Mansion to see him off, taking this opportunity, Cao Song invited some of his acquaintances here, on the one hand, it was the last gathering, on the other hand, it was also to introduce Cao Ji's cousin to these people, after all, most of these people were officials and generals of the Great Song Dynasty here, Cao Ji was able to know these people, In the future, it will be much easier to set up a canning workshop.

Early the next morning, Cao Song said goodbye to Cao Ji, and then took some capable manpower to escort a group of banks to send back the property and account books of the Great Song Dynasty, and with them there was an army of thousands of people, the army of Western Xia had to rotate a group of troops back to the Great Song Dynasty every once in a while, these people were like this, Cao Song passed the relationship between the Guò army and this army to return to the Great Song Dynasty, so naturally there was no need to worry about the safety of the road, after all, the Western Xia is gradually stable now, and no matter how fierce the robbers are, they dare not make a move against the army of the Great Song Dynasty. (To be continued......) R1292