Wang Yong had just finished the military meeting against the Northern Qi Dynasty when he saw Liu Xin, the assassin of Qingzhou, come to him with a serious face. Just heard the sound of "pop", and a volume of documents slapped on the desk in front of Wang Yong.

Wang Yong has always been very respectful to people with ability, and people with ability will inevitably always be a little arrogant, so although Liu Xin, Pu Yangxun, Lu Wen and others also respect Wang Yong, they have always been more casual in front of Wang Yong.

But Liu Xin, who has always had a relatively mild temper, has such a big temper today, Wang Yong really saw it for the first time, and he didn't know which one made him so angry.

Wang Yong thought so in his heart, but as the leading eldest brother, he still had to come to comfort him first, so he put down the scroll in his hand and said to Liu Xin with a smile: "Why is Mr. Xin Shan so angry, let's dissipate my anger first, tell me which one of the blind people provoked Mr., I will teach him a good lesson." ”

Liu Xin didn't sit down, just stood in front of Wang Yong and pointed to the documents thrown on the desk and said loudly to Wang Yong: "General, I can't do this Qingzhou assassin history!" If these problems can't be solved, you can ask for another master! ”

Hearing Liu Xin actually say the words of the stack, Wang Yong couldn't sit still, he knew that this time the matter was definitely not an ordinary thing, so he picked up the document on the case and opened it, all written on it were the trade activities of the newly established Donghai Commercial Bank in the cottage in the past year, and the production records of salt, iron, mines and handicraft workshops in Qingzhou.

After carefully reading the various economic reports for a long time, Wang Yong was a little inexplicable, and he didn't understand why the business of the Donghai Commercial Bank and these factories made Liu Xin so angry, but if he didn't understand, he had to ask to understand, Liu Xin's anger could not be appeased.

So Wang Yong closed the document in his hand and asked Liu Xin carefully: "I hope Mr. forgive me for fainting, what happened to this document, Mr. should say it clearly, if you have anything to say, we are not that childish person!" ”

Seeing that Wang Yong's attitude is very good, Liu Xin's face is slightly relieved, and he still appreciates the openness of his heart with Wang Yong and Wang Ze's father and son, maybe Wang Yong and Wang Ze both have one or another shortcoming, but they have great respect for talents, and they will carefully consider the opinions of others and adopt them.

In addition, these two people have great respect for the written rules, and even if sometimes their subordinates make mistakes and provoke them, they only let the military judge carry out the prescribed punishment, and never interfere with their personal will.

Seeing that Wang Yong was holding the scroll and reading it for a long time and didn't understand what he meant, Liu Xin said to Wang Yong: "General, I want to ask, who does this Donghai Commercial Bank belong to?" Which person does it belong to, or to a few people, or to the entire Sanqi Mansion? ”

Since Duan Yining had not yet attacked Changguang Cottage last year, Wang Ze, who was still in Jeju Island at that time, planned to reorganize the caravan of the cottage and formed the Donghai Commercial Bank.

Wang Yong's family owns half of the shares in it, and the rest are the old people of the cottage who hold a certain percentage of the shares according to their merits and contributions, and since the capture of the land of Sanqi, some new generals and civil officials have also been included, but Wang Yong's family still owns 40% of the shares.

Of course, in addition to this firm, Wang Ze also set up another Nanyang firm, which is currently managed by He Liang, and outsiders don't know.

Hearing Liu Xin's question, Wang Yong said a little embarrassed: "It's not that Mr. Liu of this Donghai Commercial Bank doesn't know, of course it doesn't belong to the government!" ”

Seeing that Wang Yong admitted that the Donghai Commercial Bank was a 'private' business house and had nothing to do with the government, Liu Xin took the scroll over and opened it again, pointed to some of the business records on it and said to Wang Yong: "Since the general also admitted that the Donghai Commercial Bank is not the property of the government, why did the salt works, iron yards, and mines in Qingzhou be under the banner of the Donghai Commercial Bank before?" ”

Wang Yong was immediately speechless, when he and others attacked the land of Sanqi, where did he think that he would occupy these places, at that time he just wanted to grab a handful and run, at that time he only cared about leading the army to fight, so he let the official properties of the occupied states and counties and the industries of the confiscated Haoqiang family help the trading house to deal with.

Later, the Northern Qi Dynasty was besieged and beaten, and Wang Yong led his troops stationed in Qizhou and did not have time to manage these industries, so until now, these salt farms, iron mines, and even handicraft workshops that originally belonged to the government have been incorporated into their own command by the Donghai Commercial Bank and have become the commercial bank's own industry.

Seeing that Wang Yong had nothing to say, Liu Xin still didn't let go, he continued: "That's all it takes, since the general occupied Sanqi last year, he announced that he would be free of grain for one year, but the government of these states and counties has not harvested for a year, so the maintenance of the government depends on the industrial and commercial tax to maintain, but why can this East China Sea merchant not pay taxes?" ”

Hearing Liu Xin's string of questions one after another, Wang Yong couldn't help but let him lead the troops to fight, and even he was not afraid of sending troops, but once it came to these more professional things, he was a little dizzy.

Looking at Liu Xin's eyes, Wang Yong couldn't help but scratch his head, and said to Liu Xin in a consultative tone: "Mr. Xinshan, I don't understand what you said, why don't we wait for Ze'er to come back and talk about it?" ”

"What did Daddy say?" Without waiting for Liu Xin to speak, he heard Wang Ze's voice outside the hall, and he received a message from Wang Yong in Yidu, saying that the Northern Qi army was already rushing to Pingyuan County, so he asked Cao Blacksmith to receive Wu Qiong and Fuyu Wang, and he rode and stopped and hurried over.

When he came to Qingzhou City, Wang Yong's military meeting had already ended, so Wang Ze rushed here, and as soon as he approached the 'door' of the lobby, he heard the conversation between Wang Yong and Liu Xin.

As soon as he saw his baby son come back, Wang Yong stepped forward happily as if he had seen a rescuer, and grabbed Wang Ze's hand, which made Wang Ze look at Liu Xin a little inexplicably, what is going on!

After Liu Xin said the matter again, Wang Ze also pondered for a long time, he didn't agree with letting the government manage these workshops. It is not that he covets the government's industry, but that later generations have seen many state-owned enterprises with serious bureaucratic habits and superfluous people, and they are not optimistic about the industries under the government's management.

After thinking about the work of sticking incense, Wang Ze said to Wang Yong and Liu Xin: "Daddy, Mr. Xin Shan, I think that even if we reclassify these industries under the management of the government, it will not increase much income, so it is better to still let the Donghai Commercial Bank manage these industries." ”

Seeing that Liu Xin's face was about to attack as soon as his face was cold, Wang Ze hurriedly said: "Sir, don't worry, listen to me slowly, the Donghai Commercial Bank is just helping the government manage these industries, and some of the more important ones such as the arsenal are still owned by the government, but they are directly managed by the General's Mansion." How about other less important salt farms and textile factories in Qingzhou being sold directly to the Donghai Commercial Bank at a price? ”

Liu Xin was still dissatisfied and said: "Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the salt tax of this salt field is the bulk of the state's financial revenue, how can it be put into the hands of 'private' people without authorization, and the general's family has a large number of shares in the commercial bank, and they need to avoid suspicion!" ”

Wang Zehe said with a smile: "Sir, don't worry so much, since ancient times, emperors have regarded the treasury as their own money bags, which is not good for the country and the people." Gao Yang didn't use one-third of the revenue of the treasury for himself, one-third for the Futu Sect, and the remaining one-third for the world to share.

Now my family and the generals share the East China Sea Commercial Bank, and the government tax revenue does not dare to touch it at all. ”

Liu Xin didn't say anything, lowered his head and slowly paced in the hall thinking, Wang Yong and Wang Ze didn't dare to disturb him, this gentleman usually looks gentle, but once it starts, it is unbearable.

Just when Wang Yong, Wang Ze's father and son eyebrows were 'crossed', they heard Liu Xin speak: "Having said that, how can Donghai Commercial Bank not 'pay' taxes? Nowadays, the shareholders of commercial banks are all high-ranking officials and magnates, so what if they use their power to coerce others, or borrow their power to suppress others without complying, or compete with the people for profit? ”

Seeing that Liu Xin's tone was no longer the same as the aggressive 'force' at the beginning, Wang Yong was also secretly relieved, Wang Ze continued: "Under the God of Haotian, everyone is equal, even if it is a Donghai commercial house, it must act in accordance with the laws of the government and pay taxes according to the regulations, if there is a violation, it will be punished!" I don't know which law is in force today? ”

Who knew that Wang Zegang said this, Liu Xin was rarely embarrassed, and he said abruptly: "This law is not there, everyone has also referred to the law of the Northern Wei Dynasty before, and we have not formulated the law ourselves!" ”

In order to take care of Liu Xin's face, Wang Yong and Wang Ze both pretended not to see his embarrassed expression, Wang Ze pretended to raise his head and said: "In this case, it is necessary to have a lot of trouble for Mr. to summon the wise men from all sides to designate the law!" Not only the laws of taxation, but also the laws of other industries need to be enacted as soon as possible, and Jeju Island is now also specifying laws, although the two situations are quite different, but they can also be used as references! ”

Seeing that Wang Yong and Wang Ze pretended not to see their embarrassment, Liu Xin's heart was still very warm, and he nodded: "This is natural, I will arrange this matter as soon as possible, but there is another very important matter!" ”

Wang Yong beckoned: "If Mr. has something to say, just say it!" ”

So Liu Xin completely let go this time, and he simply sat down cross-legged: "General, Xiahou, we are now also a prince, with thousands of miles and one hundred and twenty cities, and it is time to mint our own coins."

Nowadays, although commerce and trade in the land of Sanqi are prosperous, most of them are bartered, coins are scarce, and most of the small coins in circulation in the market are local 'private'.

In the past, the government was not without coinage, Taihe 19 years (495 AD), Emperor Wei Xiaowen had set up a long history of coinage, in charge of minting coins, at that time minted three kinds of copper coins, all copper must be 'refined', no miscellaneous 'private', are good quality coins.

But I don't want why the people only use ancient money, not new money, so the imperial court only minted for three months and then stopped, and now the money shortage not only affects the business and trade exchanges in various places, but even the government is too difficult to collect taxes. ”

Liu Xin couldn't understand why this was the case, but Wang Ze knew something, this is a typical case of bad money driving good money (no more nonsense about what's going on, you can search it yourself).

Wang Ze remembered that when he received the New Year's money when he was a child, he always liked to collect the brand-new coins, and take out the old and broken banknotes to 'spend' them, so that the money circulating in the market must be the worst money, because the good money is taken by the people to the bottom of the box.

However, Liu Xin said that this problem is worth thinking about carefully, since ancient times, the people in the land of Sanqi have a good tradition of doing business, and the lack of currency affects trade, not to mention the government's tax revenue.

During the Northern Wei Dynasty, because of the inferior and scarce coins, the common people liked to use cloth as currency. Historically, this phenomenon continued until the Tang Dynasty, and cloth was a strong 'strong' monetary equivalent.

Wang Ze wanted to mint copper coins, unlike other government offices, Wang Ze had a large number of hydraulic stamping machines, and the cost of minting copper coins was much lower than the cost of coin manufacturing in other countries.

I have to say that the technical level accumulated in the factory over the years is still very high, but it is trapped by raw materials.

The land of Sanqi has been lacking in copper ore since ancient times, not only Sanqi, but also the entire Central Plains is extremely lacking in copper mines, high-ranking officials, magnates, and wealthy businessmen are all precious to copper, and there are often unscrupulous businessmen who smelt copper coins into copperware, which makes the money shortage even heavier.

Liu Xin was also stumped by this question, there is a saying that the 'skillful' woman is "difficult to cook without rice", and how can she mint copper coins if she doesn't even have a copper mine?

Wang Yong gave an idea: "Ze'er, I used to hear Mr. Xiao say that the Southern Dynasty has been rich in copper ore since ancient times!" Why don't we exchange iron tools for copper with them, and let's mint copper coins ourselves! ”

Liu Xin's face was still full of worry: "General, I'm afraid it's just a drop in the bucket!" Besides, our 'trade' volume is so large, I'm afraid it's far from enough! ”

Wang Ze was also stumped, what would he use if he didn't use copper coins? During the rapid consumption of brain cells, Wang Ze's gaze swept over the sand table in the middle of the lobby, as if he remembered something.

He hurriedly stood up and ran to the sand table, looked at it for a moment, turned around and said in surprise: "Daddy, didn't we find a very large gold mine between Donglai and Changguang County before?" We can mint gold coins! ”

"Gold?" Wang Yong and Liu Xin made a sound together, Wang Yong was distressed about how much wear and tear had to be used to mint gold coins, and Liu Xin was surprised that he didn't know that Wang Yong had such a big gold mine.

Probably because he was afraid that Liu Xin would feel that he was deliberately concealing it, Wang Yong hurriedly explained: "This big gold mine is still Da Lang When he was a child, Qu Liulang found a gold mine near the cottage, and he found it all over the mountain, and he was so busy that he forgot about it since the war last year, so he didn't tell Mr." ”

Seeing that Wang Yong didn't deliberately conceal it, Liu Xin smiled slightly: "Is the amount of gold coins minted too large?" After all, we still mainly take care of the coins used by ordinary people every day! ”

Wang Ze said with a smile: "Mr. Xin Shan, we don't need to make such a big purity, we only need to contain half of the gold, mixed with copper, zinc and other substances, which can also increase the hardness of the gold coin and prolong the service life!" ”

Liu Xin nodded with satisfaction and said: "In this way, it can meet some of the needs of commerce, but I am afraid that it will not be enough for a long time!" ”

At this moment, Guo Erlang, who was on duty outside the 'gate', came in and said, "Tell the general, Xiahou, and Mr. Liu, someone is coming from Jeju Island!" ”

Here, before Wang Yong and Wang Ze could speak, they heard an excited voice in the courtyard shouting: "Father, Dalang is me, there is good news!" ”