For the next ten days, it was calm.

The law of handing over the sub-affairs and seeing the money was carried out quite smoothly, and the finances of the imperial court were relatively stable, and part of the money from the handover of the sub-affairs was misappropriated for the purchase of grain.

In particular, after Chengdu heard that Bianliang had also opened a sub-service, by mid-June, a large number of businessmen in Chengdu had also gone to Chengdu to hand over sub-affairs to save money to facilitate business in Bianliang.

From the opening of Jiaoziwu in May to mid-June, in just one month, the Bianliang and Chengdu governments had nearly 2 million yuan more money in their treasury, so much so that the Chengdu government needed to expand its warehouses to save the cash.

Although it was only a businessman in it, seeing so much money coming in made Zhao Zhen happy.

Zhao Jun was right, as an institution for the state to help businessmen keep cash, it can indeed bring great convenience to businessmen, and will induce a large number of businessmen to put money into it.

Historically, the Renzong Dynasty only set up a Jiaozi office in Chengdu Prefecture, and the allowed storage of coins was 1.256 million guan, which has never exceeded this number.

Because Chengdu does not restrict the people from using Jiaozi, there are a lot of Jiaozi circulating on the market, and there are even forged Jiaozi. Once this number is exceeded, there will be more jiaozi, and the government will not be able to control it, so it has been in a state of small-scale operation.

However, even so, this can also meet the commercial needs of Chengdu Prefecture, after the development of Jiaozi Affairs, Chengdu Prefecture is extremely prosperous, relying only on the storage of 1.25 million guan, resulting in a sharp increase in commercial share.

So that for a period of time, because of some problems, Chengdu Prefecture Jiaozi Affairs was suspended, resulting in a sharp decline in Chengdu's business and economic depression.

Therefore, under the circumstance that the business atmosphere of the whole Great Song Dynasty is so prosperous, it is actually a very necessary thing to carry out banking business. It can not only solve the "money shortage", but also promote the development of the economy and drive the progress of all walks of life such as handicrafts and manufacturing.

In addition, the real big businessmen are all transported throughout the country, unlike Chengdu Prefecture, Jiaozi can only be used in one place, which shows that the entire economic operation system of the Great Song Dynasty can issue far more than 1.26 million yuan.

At least during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the silver bills issued were calculated in tens of millions of taels, and the commercial prosperity of the Song Dynasty was much stronger than that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the tax revenue alone was tens of millions of yuan per year.

This is enough to see that the annual commercial transactions in the Song Dynasty are counted in billions, which also means that it is a huge market for the banking industry.

If it is used well, even if it is only to absorb tens of millions of guan as reserves, it will not be a problem for the Great Song Dynasty to issue forty or fifty million guanjiaozi.

But the prerequisite is that the treasury of the imperial court itself is relatively healthy and has sufficient reserves.

Otherwise, like the Song Huizong period in history, the treasury obviously had no money, but it still had to print Jiaozi crazily, and the number of Jiaozi issued reached 20-40 times that of the Renzong period, that is, 20 million to 50 million guan, which caused serious inflation.

Zhao Zhen was relatively restrained and did not overspend.

Since both Bianliang and Chengdu now recognize Jiaozi as their official currency, if he chooses to issue more Jiaozi and make a few million guan, it will cause huge fluctuations in prices in these two places, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Therefore, at present, only a part of the currency storage of Jiaoziwu has been misappropriated, which is a relatively routine operation, and as long as there is no run on the merchants of the national depository and sub-treasury, it will probably not cause Jiaoziwu to go bankrupt.

In this case, there is not much fluctuation in the market, except that the price of grain has risen a little, which has caused the price of tea to fall slightly, but there are no other problems.

Zhao Jun still goes to bed early and wakes up early every day, and listens to songs on his laptop when he has nothing to do - before he came, he had already considered that there might be a problem of wireless network disconnection in remote mountain villages, and he downloaded a lot of movies and music from his computer in advance to pass the time, and taught Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan to help him open the audio file.

His eyes are also recovering day by day, and with the unremitting efforts of the imperial doctor, his eyes have improved a lot through acupuncture and moxibustion, and even through the thick gauze, he can feel the bright sunlight during the day.

During this time, he also tried to charge his mobile phone with a laptop, but unfortunately he didn't know if the phone cable was broken or the phone was broken, and he couldn't charge it.

Instead, the laptop became his only electronic product.

When he first entered the mountain, his mobile phone was in his pocket, and the notebook was put in a notebook bag, and then stored in the suitcase.

In addition to this there is a solar panel, which rolls up very small, a total of four fast, wrapped in plastic film and placed in the trunk.

This thing costs more than 200 yuan on a certain treasure, which is particularly cheap, and it is still a third-generation upgraded version, with a waterproof canvas bag, dual USB interfaces, and support for QC fast charging.

At that time, I also thought that Nini Village was in the deep mountains and old forests, and there might be an impact on power supply, so I bought one. Unexpectedly, now that the whole village has a power outage, it has become the hope of the whole village, and Zhao Jun can still listen to songs because of it.

The days passed like this, inside and outside Bianliang, and time passed calmly.

Until the morning of June 27.

Nearly two months after the opening of Jiaoziwu, the spacious room on the third floor of the east floor of Fan Lou was crowded with more than 40 people, and the venue was quite silent.

There are no windows in the room, and a blue-glazed three-legged stove on the table exudes a faint fragrance, which makes the already somewhat impermeable room even more stuffy.

Everyone sat or stood, or folded their hands on their chests, or stood against the wall, and no one spoke.

If Tian Chang is here, he will recognize that these people are basically famous tea merchants in Chengdu Fulu and Bianliang.

The venue was quiet for a while, and after a while, Zhou Yunsheng, who had gone to the dock to pick up Tian Chang, slowly spoke: "Everyone, there is no turning back when you open the bow, let's do it." ”

"Do you really want to do it? Wouldn't that be too risky? Do you want to discuss another thing or two? ”

Someone said.

Another head of the Wang family, Wang Min, looked around at the crowd: "The imperial court has cut off our financial route, if we don't want to find a way to block the implementation of the money law, you can still get coins next year, and it is estimated that you won't get much from Chayin." ”

"That's the reason, but your Bianliang tea merchants have been cut off from tea by the imperial court, and I heard that a few more have been imprisoned, even if it is successful this time, what if the imperial court settles accounts after the autumn?"

A Chengdu tea merchant continued: "And on this cusp, wouldn't it be too reckless to jump out so blatantly?" I'm waiting for money, not for my life...... Why don't you wait for a while and see what the tone is in the court. ”

"Yes, it's too radical to do this now, and if it angers the court, we'll suffer."

"Let's wait, maybe there will be a turnaround."

"What are you waiting for?"

Zhou Yunsheng scolded angrily: "Wait any longer, you can still receive rice and wheat this year?" Can you still get tea? Delay a year's income, such a big family business will fall down in an instant, and no one will have a good time if they don't fight hard. ”

When he said this, everyone looked at each other.

Although during the Song Zhenzong period, Prime Minister Wang Dan said that rich merchants in Bianliang had an output of more than 100,000 guan, and there were many people with more than one million guan.

But in fact, the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty were really not that rich, they were already local tyrants at that time, and it was no problem to be the richest man in the general county, let alone more than one million.

In the entire Bianliang tea merchant industry, only Tian Chang has achieved a net worth of millions.

He transported 120,000 catties of tea from Hangzhou at a time, and at most 200,000 catties, even if he only sold it at the price of 1,200 wen a catty of ordinary tea, he could sell 120,000 or even 30,000 or 40,000 catties.

If it is good tea, it is often three or four hundred or even five or six hundred and one catties, and the income will only be higher.

And this is only spring tea, at that time there were summer tea, autumn tea, winter tea, there is a tea market in all seasons, if the year is smooth, it can transport seven or eight trips, so Tianchang's income is more than 100,000 yuan every year.

But it should be noted that this is the total income, and the costs have not been deducted.

After deducting all kinds of costs, his actual net profit per trip is only a few thousand to one or two thousand, and the net profit may be about thirty or fifty thousand a year.

But even so, including the stores, shops, other industries he has opened in various places, and the accumulation of family wealth over the years, he is already a million-level top billionaire.

And the second-level senior businessmen, like Zhou Yunsheng and Wang Min, although they are also big tea merchants in Bianliang, their total net worth is only a few hundred thousand yuan, and their usual liquidity is generally only hundreds of thousands.

In addition to them, most of the remaining people here have a net worth of two or three hundred thousand, and the liquidity is only tens of thousands.

There are only two ways for tea merchants to make a living, one is to sell tea by importing tea, and the other is to rely on the grain transferred to the border every year to obtain inflated coins.

However, the profits that tea can give are extremely limited, first of all, there is an official policy for tea introduction, and 120,000 catties is the upper limit, and no matter how rich you are, you can't get more tea introduction.

The second is that the price of tea is greatly affected by the market, and the government can reduce the profits of tea farmers through apportionment, and buy at a low price, they will not be able to, and must raise the price to receive good tea.

In addition, affected by various circumstances, the tea market is prone to fluctuations, sometimes it is hard to transport tea from all over the country to Bianliang, and when the price of tea plummets, it is not good to say that not only can not make money but also lose money.

Therefore, compared with Tian Chang, these people are actually more dependent on making profits from the border passes, getting false estimates of the value of goods, sucking the blood of the imperial court, and even the main source of profit for the vast majority of tea merchants is to make money from the border passes.

Now that the imperial court has opened the money law and put an end to the false valuation of goods, it is tantamount to cutting off an important livelihood for them.

It's one thing to just cut off your livelihood, and it's another thing to go against the court at the risk of being raided and exterminated.

Historical records record that in addition to the official and business background, the Song generation has always been unsoft on big businessmen.

Many local officials like to extort and exploit businessmen.

There are even "hundreds of thousands of volumes abandoned overnight, the dynasty is a wealthy businessman, the night is a beggar, and there are people who go to the water to throw themselves into the water and die", "the family wealth is exhausted, go to the water to hang themselves, and die in a foreign land." and so on.

It can be seen that the court of the Song Dynasty basically treated merchants as leeks in cutting.

Therefore, when Zhou Yunsheng, Wang Min and others gathered everyone together and called on everyone to resist the imperial court, they were so hesitant.

For a while, the venue suddenly fell silent again.

After a while, someone said: "I think that our strength alone is still too small now, and only the big tea merchants in Chengdu Mansion and Bianliang are not enough to shake the imperial court. ”

"Huh."

Zhou Yunsheng sneered: "Do you know what news I heard from the government? After seeing that the money law is opened, the imperial court can save 6.5 million yuan a year, and even if tea merchants from all over the country run together next year, it may not be successful, and now it is our only chance. ”

"Really?"

Someone asked in disbelief: "Can the imperial court save so much money every year?" ”

Wang Min said: "Naturally, it's true, we have already found out, do you think it's not a lot to get a few thousand yuan from the imperial court every year?" But you don't want to think about how many merchants in the imperial court go to the border every year to transport grain, thousands of yuan per person, adding up to millions of yuan, this money is saved, and naturally more grain and grass can be purchased and transported over. ”

"And there are many people such as Tian Chang who have become lackeys of the imperial court, they will definitely continue to help the imperial court transport grain, and the imperial court may not need us if they wait."

Someone else spoke to help.

"So while the grain and grass at the border of the imperial court have not been delivered this year, it is the best time for us to find a way to cut off the money law."

Zhou Yunsheng continued: "The imperial court has been buying grain and grass on a large scale recently, which must be in response to our means of resisting the money law this year. The treasury is empty, where does the money come from for grain and grass? It can only be the money for the sub-affairs, as long as we go to the run together, the court cannot pay the coin, and the money law will inevitably not be carried out. ”

Under the words of the Bianliang tea merchants, the Chengdu tea merchants could not help but waver.

"Yes, if we don't find a way to stop seeing money this year, we may not be able to get tea next year. How can you make it without one year of income? Do it now. ”

"Brother Zhou and Brother Wang are right, the court is now forcing us to a dead end, so it's no wonder that our net is broken."

"Okay, Brother Zhou, Brother Wang, I listen to you."

"Then let's do it."

Everyone judged the situation, and Zhou Yunsheng and Wang Min were right.

If they don't do it this year, when the imperial court saves 6.5 million yuan next year, they won't need it.

At present, the situation of the tea merchants in Bianliang is that some of the tea merchants have surrendered to the imperial court, represented by Tian Chang and many middle and lower class tea merchants.

If the imperial court saves expenses through the money method, and Tian Chang and the others continue to transport grain, there will be no shortage of grain at the border in the future, then they will completely lose hope.

So if you don't do it, you have to do it.

And just when the crowd was angry, there was a father and son merchant in the crowd, the eldest was nearly sixty years old, and the younger was only fourteen or fifteen years old. ”

Before he could finish speaking, his father grabbed his ears and pulled him to the back of the crowd, but fortunately everyone was still shouting, and the voice was too noisy, except for a few people around, they did not hear him.

The people around who heard it turned their heads and saw that it was a young man who had not grown any hair, so they all smiled mockingly, and then they didn't pay attention to it and continued to look at the venue.

"Bastard, what nonsense are you talking about, you can't kill your father!"

Out of the house, the father slapped the young man on the head fiercely, although he was old and had a son, he had always spoiled the young man, but it was too reckless to talk here.

However, the young man said aggrievedly: "Father, I am also thinking about you, seeing that the money law is opened, how much less will our family have to enter?" ”

"Stupid."

The father glared at him fiercely and said: "Don't play your little cleverness, sometimes you have to earn the money you should earn, and if you can't make the money you shouldn't earn, you must stop it in time, otherwise you will only harm yourself, go!" ”

As he spoke, he took the young man and left the Fan Tower.