Slender West Lake Villa, which fully integrates the concept of modern leisure and entertainment center, has opened and its business is booming. Coupled with the special geographical location of Yangzhou, many guests come to Yangzhou from the south to the north, and the first place to rest is the resort, because staying for one night, taking a hot bath, pressing a motorcycle, can relieve the pain of traveling.

With the fire of Slender West Lake Resort Villa, it has driven the overall acceleration of the construction of Slender West Lake.

Because sweet potatoes have been popularized for several years, almost all over the Tang Dynasty, and the bumper harvest year after year has made the population of the Tang Dynasty show explosive growth, and soon surpassed the Sui Dynasty when the population was the largest.

The Grand Canal is the main traffic artery connecting the north and the south, and Yangzhou is located at the important node of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which is the main transportation hub at that time, and the geographical location extending in all directions makes Yangzhou bring together businessmen from all over the country, so Yangzhou's commercial activities are very developed, and it has become a must-go place for Datang businessmen to do business, and many businessmen have lived in Yangzhou for a long time because of the frequent commercial activities.

With the voyage of Gaobu Luzon and the efforts of maritime merchants, the Maritime Silk Road has taken shape, the rise of maritime trade, and the unique commercial advantages and superior geographical location of Yangzhou City have attracted many foreign merchants to settle down. For this reason, with the approval of the imperial court, Yangzhou had to implement a two-city system.

The government divided Yangzhou City into two cities, Tangzicheng and Tangluocheng, Tangzicheng was the political center of Yangzhou at that time, and the main government agencies were distributed in Tangzicheng; Tangluo City was the economic center of the time, located under Tangzi City, where many merchants from all over the country lived, so that the political and economic center of Yangzhou was completely separated, and it was convenient for the city to manage.

With the increase of population, Yangzhou City had to be expanded five times in a row, the longest street is fifteen miles long, it can be seen how prosperous Yangzhou is at this time, walking on the streets of Hangzhou, you can see yellow hair and blue eyes everywhere and a black foreigner. Yangzhou, as if it had the style of an international metropolis in later generations, became a commercial international metropolis in the Tang Dynasty.

The prosperity of business will naturally bring about the great development of all walks of life, especially the catering and entertainment industries. Yangzhou's liquor shops and restaurants are basically all over the streets and alleys, whether it is Tangzicheng or Tangluo City, where there are people, you will definitely be able to find liquor shops and restaurants, and many of them are operated by foreign businessmen. The integration of food culture has led to the great enrichment and development of Yangzhou's food culture.

In order to meet the needs of economic development, under the proposal of Gao Buer, Yangzhou City canceled the curfew, starting from the Zhou Wangfu, the formation of a ten-mile commercial street, you can drink all night long, and the night market culture has risen. Nowadays, the colorful boats on both sides of the canal are painted boats, and the talented and beautiful women linger.

The poem "The world is divided into three bright moonlit nights, and the two scoundrels are Yangzhou" is a poem that depicts the night market scene of Yangzhou City and the food scene of the lights and wine at this time.

With the increasing frequency of trade, especially the trading of large quantities of goods, Gao Fuji found the disadvantage of trading with gold and silver, that is, it was heavy and inconvenient to carry.

After brewing, this day Gao Fuji found Wang Yuanbao, who has been promoted to the dean of the School of Economics of Qingbei University, who is now in business all walks of life, making more and more money, but less interested in doing business, more and more interested in being a teacher. The School of Economics was established at his strong suggestion, and he was determined to train wealthy businessmen in cross-border trade for Datang.

At the beginning of the period, Gao Buji didn't know what the wealthy businessman in his mouth was, and after his good explanation, Gao Buer finally understood that this guy is now too big for business and lacks suitable manpower, and is ready to use the power of the academy to cultivate qualified shopkeepers so as to take care of foreign business for him. To this end, he also invited more than 20 foreigners to teach students foreign Chinese. Gao Fuji has nothing to say, and the bottomless land that admires Wang Yuanbao is really created when there is demand.

Wang Yuanbao stood in front of Gao Buer, the aura of businessmen on his body was decreasing, and his gentle and elegant Confucian demeanor was growing day by day. He bowed to Gao Buer: "I don't know what the dean's subordinates order." ”

Gao Buer smiled and said: "If you are still the dean of the School of Economics, haven't you discovered new economic knowledge from Yangzhou's prosperous business?" ”

Hearing this, Wang Yuanbao's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked him for advice with an open mind, and he found that sometimes Gao Buer's grasp of business opportunities far exceeded him, such as Slender West Lake Resort Villa, the development of Slender West Lake, etc., if it were not for the restriction of identity, he believed that Gao Buer would definitely become the richest man in the Tang Dynasty, rich and rival the country. However, Gao Fuji is now also a rare giant rich in Datang.

Gao Fuji pointed to the chair opposite his desk and asked him to sit down before continuing: "I have been visiting the large and small businesses and docks in the city these days, and I found that the current transactions are all real money and silver, although gold and silver are good, but they are not easy to carry, aren't you, as an authority in the Datang economic circles, haven't you thought about how to solve this problem?" ”

"How to solve it? Hasn't it been like this since ancient times? ”

"Look at you, being a teacher only eats the old book, you have to think more and innovate more."

"I want to hear your opinion."

"We can invent a letter of credit instead of real money transactions, similar to the IOUs you have made, which is both portable and suitable for fast circulation. We set up a special store to specialize in this kind of business, and we can charge a certain fee from it, and at the same time, we can also take out some mortgages and collect some interest, so that we can make money from both sides. "What Gao Fuji is talking about is actually the banking function of later generations.

Wang Yuanbao pondered Gao Fuji's words, and the more he pondered, the more he felt that this was a genius idea.