Li Hong was strong and strong, and he arrived in Lintong in two days and one night.

At this time, Yun Chu led the lame jujube red horse before he could leave Mount Tai.

When he was on the road, Li Hong was already keenly aware of the inappropriateness, originally on the official road from Chang'an to Luoyang, there were businessmen coming and going day and night.

This time, there were only businessmen who went to Chang'an, and it was rare to see businessmen who went to Luoyang, and even these businessmen who went to Chang'an, most of them did not carry goods, but hurried away with a sad face.

When the prince's horse team arrived in Lintong, the last place to hit the tip before entering Chang'an was overcrowded at this time, and it was also overcrowded before, but this time it was different, many people were gloomy, and they no longer drank the famous pomegranate wine in Lintong, nor did they enjoy the delicious pasta here.

Even if someone eats, they ask the guy for a bowl of hot soup and soak the dry food they bring to eat.

The guys at the restaurant don't make it difficult, but anyone who asks for hot soup will also give a bowl.

The shopkeeper of the restaurant sat behind the high counter with a sad face, boredly sorting out the ledger with no input.

Li Hong sent someone to ask, but only got a bad answer.

When is the world bad?

When Emperor Gaozu raised troops from Taiyuan and entered Chang'an, the world was not good.

When the Xue brothers fought fiercely with Taizong in Chang'an, the world was not good.

When the Turkic Khan Jieli led 200,000 Turkic cavalry to the Wei River, it can be said that the world is not good.

This time, the Chang'an flowing water brand blew up, but I didn't expect it to be classified into the category of bad world.

This made the Yonghui prosperous era that the Tang literati and writers boasted about for many years became a slap in the face of Li Hong, the prince of the Tang Dynasty.

When he came, Mrs. Xu made it very clear that the original Chang'an flowing water brand only maintained a rather weak layer of trust, and this trust was brought by Yun Chu.

If this meager trust can be maintained until Yun Chu takes office again, then it is very likely that it will continue to be maintained in the future.

Xu Jingzong even believed that the reason why Yun Chu resigned and became a monk was to test the emperor's trust in him, and at the same time, it was also a test of the family's trust in him.

As a result, this meager and almost transparent protective layer was broken by Li Xian's foot.

When Li Hong left Lintong, he had already decided to see Li Xian and beat him up, this time, no matter how he cried and begged for mercy, he would definitely not be soft-hearted.

Li Hong went directly to Qujiang City next to Qujiang, since the flowing water brand was erected in Qujiang City, the brick kiln, papermaking and other workshops here have moved away, originally there should be a tall chimney smoking for the exchange heating, but the chimney did not smoke at this time.

Master said before that once the central heating equipment starts to operate, it cannot be stopped at will, and once it stops, the cold winter climate of Chang'an will destroy the entire heating equipment.

Now, it's stopped.

On the chains of the cable-stayed bridge, which was originally generous and could be put away at any time, there were now two tattered corpses hanging on them, and more than a dozen fat crows were squatting side by side on both sides of the corpses.

They didn't continue to peck at the corpse when they found out that Li Hong was coming, and they were going to wait for Li Hong to leave before continuing to eat the carrion.

Li Hong looked at the corpse that lacked eyes, mouth and nose for a while, and said to the guard: "Take them down and return them to their families, the fault lies with Yongwangxian, although they have to bear the responsibility of not persuading and admonishing, the law of the Tang Dynasty does not have the responsibility of hanging the corpse to vent his anger." ”

The agile guards immediately climbed onto the ropes, and in a matter of moments they were able to remove the two hanging bodies and return them to the families of the deceased, who had long been unable to drive away the crows.

Li Hong has been to Qujiang City more than once before, and he even followed the chief shopkeeper Zeng Fu to learn the operation rules of the flowing water brand in this Qujiang City.

He habitually glanced at the two freight yards to the east, and found that the mountains of goods that had been piled up in the past were now gone, and only a few fat crows that had just squatted on the iron cables were pacing on the empty freight yards.

Li Hong swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said to himself: "The problem is serious, not only the money, but also the goods."

There are two most important things in a trading market, one is goods and the other is money.

More money and more bulk goods indicate that the market is more prosperous, and vice versa, it represents the decline of the market.

The horse's hooves trampled on the fallen leaves, Li Hong came to the empty trading hall, and saw a guy in a linen cotton jacket and a cotton hat sweeping the fallen leaves, and took a look at the pure black shoes on his feet, which should be a big guy in the exchange.

In the past, the big guys would not do such trivial things as cleaning the fallen leaves, they would generally hold a pot of hot tea in the warm room, talk with the newly opened merchants, and introduce, which is very incredible.

The crown prince Li Hong dismounted, walked through the empty trading hall, went directly to the third floor, and pushed open the room of the big shopkeeper Zeng Fu.

"Everybody's here."

Li Hong said hello, and the gloomy room seemed to have a little popularity.

Zeng Fu was the first to stand up and said in surprise: "His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Li Hong raised his hand to stop everyone's salute, took off his gloves and threw them on Zeng Fu's desk and pretended to be casual: "Isn't it just two million yuan, the court can still take out this money." ”

Originally, when he saw the arrival of the prince, a light of hope appeared in the eyes of the shopkeeper, and when he heard the two million words of the prince, the light in his eyes disappeared in an instant.

Li Hong put his cold hand on the simple stove and baked it, "Why, I'm not happy, I have brought you good news." ”

Zeng Fu barely squeezed out a smile and said, "It's okay, it's better than nothing." ”

Li Hong frowned and said, "What, two million is not enough?" ”

Zeng Fu said expressionlessly: "If it is the first day that Yong Wangxian takes the funds in the capital pool, two million guan is naturally enough, and even less than so much money, one million is enough."

Now, if it doesn't work, two million yuan can only support two months, or even two months, and it will be cashed out by merchants. ”

Li Hong said with a gloomy face: "Why? ”

Zeng Fu sighed and said: "Because the two million yuan is only a deposit, only two percent of the value of the goods, and some caravans with high credibility, they only need to pay one percent of the money when they get the goods."

Now, the merchants are asking us to pay the whole amount, so two million yuan is not enough. It's far from enough, if you add the value of the remaining brands, Your Highness needs to give me 20 million yuan. ”

Li Hong was stunned for a moment and said, "No one in the world can come up with 20 million yuan. ”

Zeng Fu spread his hands and said: "This is what we people watched the prince of the prince sell the anti-poison formula, sell the secret recipe of the quilt, sell the big canteen, sell the Zhuangzi outside the city, and sell the fief given by His Majesty...... The reason why I watched the jewelry on my lady's head change from gold and jade to copper, and then from copper to thorn hairpin......"

Zeng Fu said as he spoke, the tears in his eyes flowed down, and then beat his chest and said: "No matter how much money is thrown into it, it is a bottomless pit, no matter what kind of good family property the Yun family throws into it, I can't even hear a sound......

"That's it, Madame also said that there is still a mouthful of food at home, which is much better than those unlucky merchants who have no food and clothing."

"Your Royal Highness, persuade the lady and the eldest prince, the income of the flowing water brand is given to the country, the flowing water brand belongs to the country, not the Yun family, the Yun family has no need, and there is no reason to throw their own family property into it, this is a bottomless pit......"

With Zeng Fu's cry, the tears of the shopkeepers also rolled down from the beards of different lengths, and Li Hong's heart was cold at this time.

At this moment, a young man wearing a cotton hat came in, looked at Zeng Fu with a smile and said, "Big shopkeeper, I've sent you money." ”

When he looked up and saw that Li Hong was also there, he pounced on him, hugged Li Hong's arm and said, "Senior brother, you are here too." ”

Li Hong looked at Wen Huan who was on him and said, "What money are you here to give, why do you want to send money?" ”

Wen Huan said with a smile: "My aunt tossed the house again, and she almost shoveled the land, and only got 80,000 yuan, although it is a little less, it can still deal with some merchants." ”

Li Hong looked up at the sky, his nose was sour, he saw very clearly, Wen Huan, a noble son who used to wear gold and silver and was very particular about clothes, is now dressed in cotton clothes, and he is wearing a pair of bloated cotton shoes like donkey hooves on his feet.

"It's not ......," Li Hong said with difficulty.

Wen Huan shook his head and said: "My aunt said that as for her, she doesn't want to see Chang'an decay like this, my aunt also said that His Majesty moved the capital to Luoyang and didn't want Chang'an, we are the natives of Chang'an, and we must keep Chang'an." ”

The green tendons on Li Hong's forehead jumped violently, and he put him on the table under Wen Huan's ribs, and roared angrily: "Li Xian, Lao Tzu is here to skin you-"

Seeing the furious Li Hong leave the exchange quickly, Zeng Fu picked up his teapot again, took a sip of warm tea, and gave Wen Huan a thumbs up.

Wen Huan smiled: "Master said that Senior Brother has had a too smooth life over the years, and it is time to suffer a little." ”

Zeng Fu nodded on Wen Huan's forehead and said: "That's your senior brother, for us it is an unattainable figure, although you are acting, but 80,000 guan is indispensable, and you can't hear the sound when you throw it into this bottomless pit." ”

Wen Huan grinned and said: "Lose it, if you don't throw away the family's money, how can you show that my ability to make money is higher than my Aye?" ”

Zeng Fu sighed with emotion and said: "It's best not to be heard by you Aye, his heart is not very broad-minded, be careful that he gives you a trick and makes you miserable." ”

Wen Huan laughed and said: "Today I pulled 80,000 yuan of silver to swagger through the market, and tomorrow it will be the turn of Guangji to pull their family's 40,000 or 50,000 yuan of money to fill the big hole of the running water brand."

Seriously, it's actually fun to be poor, and now that I'm out of the house, the dogs are starting to pet me. ”

The second shopkeeper Huo Cheng said: "Okay, I wish you to be poor for generations." ”

Wen Huan squinted his eyes and glanced at Huo Cheng and said, "I listened to you outside the door for so long just now, and I found that you only said the income, and you didn't mention a word about the huge amount of income after half a year." ”

Okay, the fat intestines have been eaten, the wine has been drunk, and the updates have been renewed, it's time to go out for a walk, I walked 400 steps in a whole day today, can you believe it?

(End of chapter)