Xian Yu Zhongtong really doesn't believe it, and there will be merchants who take the initiative to help.

In his impression, businessmen are all more indecisive goods, and if businessmen are willing to invest money in a thing, the reason must be that thing can bring them several times the profit.

What profit can Ye Chang give to these businessmen, so that they are willing to come to help?

Xian Yu Zhongtong pondered for a while, although Yunnan also produces silk, but it is only silk, in addition, where is there any product worthy of these businessmen to come here?

"I think it's some fools who were bluffed by Ye Chang in the name of making money, and it was a fluke to come here for a while, if there are some accumulated merchants, they won't be like this" After hesitating for a moment, Xian Yu Zhongtong said again.

"Who are they?" This time, Yang Zhao ignored him.

"There are the Hu family of Chang'an Liulixing, the Shen family of Guangling Rice Company, and the Han family of Suzhou Silk ......"

The clerk took out a large list of famous thorns, all of them were famous wealthy merchants, and several of them also had semicolons in Chengdu, and Xian Yu Zhongtong had heard of them even if he had never dealt with them.

Maybe these people are not as rich as Wang Yuanbao, but their combined influence is greater than that of ten Wang Yuanbao combined, because behind them, there are often powerful people in the court and nobles in the palace, or Yu Crisp is the industry of the Shandong family

"How is this possible......" Xian Yu Zhongtong muttered.

"Invite them in." Although Yang Zhao was proud, he could hear these people, and when he thought of the power behind them, he didn't dare to be too big.

After a while, everyone came in one after another, and more than ten wealthy businessmen gathered together to salute Yang Zhao.

Yang Zhao noticed that the leader was Qin Qinshou, and he couldn't help but jump in his heart.

This Qin Qinshou is Ye Chang's person, who helped Ye Chang build a cabinet shop in Chengdu, that is, the branch of Anton Bank, when Ye Chang first entered Chengdu, he took him to see Yang Zhao and asked Yang Zhao to facilitate him more, so he did not send a name thorn.

Yang Zhao now knows Ye Chang's subordinates quite well, Qin Qinshou was originally Ye Chang's old friend in his hometown, for many years, Ye Chang has been extremely trusting of him, and after putting forward the bank, he took Qin Qinshou to do it. Qin Qinshou also lived up to expectations, first in Chang'an to help Ye Chang set up the first bank, and then when Ye Chang returned to Liaodong to run the second bank, he stayed in Luoyang to run the third, and now he has come to Chengdu to run the fourth.

"It turned out to be Qin Qinshou...... When you come to me, I don't know what to say? ”

In front of Yang Zhao, everyone naturally did not have seats, and Yang Zhao asked directly after they finished saluting.

"The servants want to raise funds for the border, and they have experienced along the way, so please ask Yang Gong to make it convenient and order to ...... with the magistrates of Zhuzhou County

Qin Qinshou spoke on behalf of everyone, in fact, Ye Chang could give this order, but he didn't want Yang Zhao to make trouble behind his back, so it was better to pick everything out.

Yang Zhao also understood his thoughts, and sighed secretly in his heart, if it was when the two had a good relationship, Ye Chang would definitely not have to be so careful, and he would never be suspicious, now he is like this...... After all, the position is different.

He didn't expect at this time that it was he who pulled Ye Chang down this pool of sewage.

"Wait a minute, what are you going to do, to be so kind and want to raise funds?" Xian Yu Zhongtong next to him said: "If there is fraud in it, who can take this responsibility?" ”

"Who is this duke?" Qin Qinshou said in surprise.

There are local merchants who know Xian Yu Zhongtong, so they introduced the identity of Xian Yu Zhongtong, Qin Qinshou heard the words, and the etiquette was very respectful: "Xian Yu Gong, for the country to share worries, is my Tang people's natural responsibility." Although we are businessmen, we also know that if there is no prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, there will be no wealth of us, so we ......"

"Do you think a certain person is a fool, a certain person was once such a high-ranking official as Jiannan Jiedu, don't you know that officials in this world are more likely to lie than profiteers?" Xian Yuzhong didn't choose to say anything, interrupting Qin Qinshou's words.

"Ha Lu Ha ......" Qin Qinshou smiled a little embarrassedly.

He is not Ye Chang after all, if Ye Chang was here, he would have been slapped back in the face, you yourself are a waste bureaucrat who has no heart to serve the country, thinking that the people will not have the heart to serve the country?

However, these wealthy businessmen really didn't come to serve the country, Yang Zhao saw Qin Qinshou's expression, and knew that there was another mystery in it, and said slowly: "I have been friends with Ye Shiyi for many years, Qin Qinshou, when Ye Shiyi brought you to my house, he told you, right?" What the hell is going on, you say listen to me, and I can help

"This, Ye Langjun proposed a strategy, called Kaizhongfa."

"Open the middle of the law? What does this mean? ”

"It's ......"

Ye Chang didn't say that this method needed to be kept secret, so Qin Qinshou said it, Ye Chang actually used the Ming Dynasty's Kaizhong method to the Tang Dynasty in advance. The wealthy merchants provided Ye Chang with food and materials, and after the settlement, they could exchange for the ticket of the Anton Bank, with which they could purchase the goods produced in Liaodong from Liaodong at a price lower than the normal price of one and a half percent, and with this ticket quotation, the goods did not need to pay the customs duties when they were sold all over the world.

Not to mention the purchase price lower than the normal one-fifty percent, the exemption from the entry tariff alone is enough to ⊥ the wealthy businessmen rush to it.

Moreover, Ye Chang can make money, which is the consensus of all wealthy businessmen, and with Ye Chang, even if he can't eat meat, it's not bad to be able to drink some soup.

After hearing Qin Qinshou finish talking about this opening method, Xian Yu Zhongtong's mouth couldn't close anymore, but Yang Zhao couldn't help but praise it: "Ye Shiyi still has such a wonderful method."

This is indeed a wonderful method, everyone knows that the most troublesome thing in the Tang Dynasty is not the surrounding Rongdi, but how to deliver food and equipment to the frontier, which is a great pressure for the imperial court. The imperial court requisitioned and sent the people to transport, which belonged to the service of conscription, which often forced the people to live in poverty. Now that it is in the hands of the merchants, it belongs to the merchant's hired labor, and the merchant has to pay the remuneration, and the people are resentful, and they are also scattered to the merchant first, not to the court.

Sometimes, merchants took the place of the imperial court to bear the grievances of the people, and they sought profit and the imperial court sought stability, but they complemented each other.

Yang Zhao had been serving as a household servant for two years, and the more he touched this, the more excited he became, so that the imperial court spent almost nothing, only collected less taxes—those taxes were originally stripped off by officials at all levels, and not many could go to the treasury—and what he wanted to do was completed.

He suddenly remembered that Ye Changxiu Chen's path to Pengcheng was like this, and the imperial court didn't spend a penny, but he got the benefits of this road

I didn't understand it at first, but now I know that Ye Chang repaired the road, in fact, to test this kind of opening method. It's just that at that time, when this method was first tested, other businessmen did not dare to get involved, so Ye Chang set up Anton Bank in the name of the Anton Chamber of Commerce to participate in this matter. After opening this head, those wealthy businessmen with a keen sense of smell naturally followed suit.

"As convenient as you want, as long as the official can do it, he will naturally give it." Thinking of this, Yang Zhao's admiration for Ye Chang can be said to have reached a peak, and he knew in his heart that he was really worse than Ye Chang by more than 108,000 miles in terms of financial management. But it doesn't matter, as long as you can be an official than Ye Chang, no matter how great Ye Chang's skills are, isn't he sent to various places by himself to make merit for himself?

"Yang Gong" Xian Yu Zhongtong was a little anxious.

Yang Zhao waved his hand slightly and gave him a look, this look was a little cold, and after Zhongtong came into contact, he suddenly woke up.

For Yang Zhao, it is not a good thing to be in Jiannan for a long time, and his biggest purpose is to return to the center of Chang'an. Of course, there are two ways to go back, one is to wait for Yang Yuhuan to catch him, and the other is to rely on merit. Although Li Linfu intended to block Yang Zhao's opportunity to make meritorious contributions, the fact that he assisted Ye Chang in building the city made Li Linfu unable to block it if he wanted to.

If you speak again, then the obstacle on Yang Zhao's way back to Beijing is himself, even if the two had a good relationship before, Yang Zhao will not miss any old friendship - his old friendship with Ye Chang has now completely become a mutual use?

"There are a few places that need Yang Gong's help, one of which is that we will buy a batch of grain in Chengdu, and at the same time buy some axes and shovels and other tools......"

What Yang Zhao needed to do was nothing more than to allow them to buy grain and goods in Chengdu, and also to allow them to hire the idle people of Jiannan Province as laborers, and allow these laborers to move freely on the road from Jiannan to Yunnan. At this time, it is forbidden to be homeless, and the people have to strictly control even the county, not to mention that this is a place thousands of miles away

"Even you know that you are worried about the country, how can this official not be able to compare with the people" After Yang Zhao listened to their request, he said solemnly: "Naturally, it is approved"

He turned to Cui Yuan: "Cui Sima, bring a pen and paper, wait for the official to write the official document, let the scribe pick it up, stamp it with a big seal and issue it everywhere, be sure to make the officials from all over the country fully cooperate, and there must be no slackness."

Cui Yuan brought pen and paper, but while handing it to Yang Zhao, he reminded in a low voice: "If they are allowed to buy grain in Chengdu, I am afraid that the price of rice in Chengdu will rise......

"It doesn't matter, before I came, I had already purchased grain in Shannan and Jiangnan West Road, and the fast one month, the slow one month, and the slow two months, there will be a large amount of grain into Sichuan." Qin Qinshou said.

Don't say that there is such a sentence as he is, even if there is no such sentence, Yang Zhao will not care about the rise in food prices in Chengdu, as long as he is not hungry, he can help him return to Chang'an earlier, even if he starves to death 180,000 people, so what's the matter?

Out of the gate of the Yang Mansion, all the businessmen breathed a sigh of relief, and the shopkeeper of the Hu family said with a smile: "When I was in Chang'an, this Yang Gong was not very easy to speak, I never thought that I would be so easy-going here. ”

"You say that he is easy-going, it is nothing more than for Brother Qin's face, if we come alone, I am afraid that it will be difficult to enter even the door of Yang's Mansion" is humane.

Qin Qinshou smiled: "How can I have any face, the real face is Ye Langjun, you are all knowledgeable, this time Ye Langjun opened the side, is his "side policy", "national wealth" two theories of practicality, if it is successful, these two theories will become my Tang Dynasty strategy of governing the country, by that time, we businessmen, life will be much better." Even if you don't talk about this, just talking about the benefits that Ye Langjun took out this time, the court gave it, and Ye Langjun himself gave it, it is enough to ⊥ you make a lot of money, you must remember, don't miss a big thing"

"You don't need Brother Qin's orders, we all know in our hearts, whoever misses a major event will cut off everyone's financial route, cut off people's financial routes, such as killing parents, then don't need Ambassador Ye to say, our more than ten families, first of all, don't let go of that guy"

Everyone expressed their opinions, Qin Qinshou nodded again and again when he heard this, but after the last, he still seemed to be careless, and added: "Our sixteen families were picked out by Ye Langjun, and there are more than 30 families waiting to be made up behind, if any of them feel that they have made enough money and don't want to be with everyone, then please quit early, some people are coming."

Everyone laughed.

Who is so stupid, will not be happy with money, Ye Chang paid this time, not only the policies of the Tang Dynasty in China and France, but also promised that if it is successful, the Southwest Chamber of Commerce will be established, alongside the Andong Chamber of Commerce, and then these more than ten will be the initial shareholders

Yang Zhao and Xian Yu Zhongtong felt that Yunnan was a wild land, but in the eyes of these merchants, it was a treasure land, because Ye Chang had already listed a lot of products, in addition to ivory and rhino horn, there were also tea, rare fruits, sugar, etc. Ye Chang also said that it is not easy to open a mine in the Central Plains, and the imperial court has set heavy restrictions, but in Yunnan, the Southwest Chamber of Commerce in the future will find a way to obtain the right to open a mine from the imperial court, and each shareholder can dig the mountain and dig the land at a small price to obtain the endless treasures buried in the mountains. Even the gold, silver and copper mines, Ye Chang hinted that they could be mined by everyone.

These wealthy businessmen don't know how to open mines and smelt to bring massive profits, and some of them are active, and even began to think about privately minting copper coins - after An Lushan was divided into the Pinglu Army by the Anton Governor's Office, Li Longji allowed him to set up five copper furnaces in Fanyang to mint money in order to compensate him, so An Lushan earned a lot of brains

After everyone dispersed, Qin Qinshou summoned a person: "You ride a fast horse, travel day and night, and go to see Ambassador Ye quickly, just say that this side is ready, and the things that should be answered along the way will also bother him to move his mind." ”

The messenger didn't say a word, turned around and left, and not long after, he took a boat out of Chengdu City by boat, and then turned to the land route after arriving in Rongzhou, and came straight to Yunnan Nanze.

He had no intention of browsing the scenery along the way, and Tuo Yechang swept away the blessings of the barbarians, but he did not encounter any major dangers. When he got out of the mountains and entered the vicinity of Yunnan Nanze, the surrounding situation surprised him.

I saw that a road was built, although this avenue is only twenty miles, the width is only five feet, and it is only a loess road, which is much smoother and more convenient than the mountain road plank road. The bushes and weeds of the jungle on both sides of the avenue have been charred and blackened, revealing the soil underneath, and some people are digging ditches to divert water.

"Looking at the situation, it is Ambassador Ye who is conducting military tuning, but he has not been in Yunnan for less than 20 days, and he has already made such a big move?

He didn't know that Ye Chang had only completed the project of about half a mile on both sides of the road, after all, there were 30,000 soldiers in his hands, even if only 10,000 of them were used, and two miles of fire were set on fire every day, it was enough to clean up both sides of the road. It was difficult to reclaim before, but there were few people, as long as there were enough people, the hearts of the people were united, and the Han people were diligent, what was this?

When the messenger arrived, it was evening, and when he got off his horse, he saw a great deal of noise on the other side, as if they were arguing over something, and he looked over with curiosity.