Straight man of steel

Chapter 425

"Ayuan, what should we do now?"

Zhuo Wenjun kept shaking Zhang Yuan's arm anxiously.

Zhang Yuan didn't know that something happened to other families, and thought it was only for the Zhuo family.

It took a month for news from Chang'an City to reach Linqiong in Shu County.

If the Shu County government acted independently, the timing would not be so appropriate.

"Send someone to bring my token, and let the Zhuo family belong to my Xin'anhou sect.

Maybe you can buy the Zhuo family two more months to let your father sell the mine to the Shu County government and sell his share of the coal business to Princess Pingyang.

The craftsmen in the iron smelting workshop and the Zhuo family all moved to Lantian County. I will buy a house in advance so that everyone will not have a place to stay when they come to Chang'an. "

If they obey the government's instructions and move to Maolingyi, the iron smelting workshop and the mines will not be saved.

At least half of the flesh of the Zhuo clan could be scraped off.

"I'm afraid my father won't agree. The Zhuo clan has been operating in Linqiong for a hundred years, and it's only now at the moment of glory. It's too difficult for him to abandon them all."

"If you don't agree, then there is really nothing left.

I agreed to come to Chang'an City, and I happened to be able to deal with all the people in the Zhuo family. "

"A Yuan, do you have an idea?"

"Well, Wenjun, think about it, what is the most valuable thing about the Zhuo family?"

"Those mines?"

"No, it's the artisans and the stewards who run shops in various places.

The craftsman can mint money for me, and the steward who manages the shop can manage the business of the sub-qianzhuangzi for me.

After your father arrived in Chang'an City, Zhuo's blacksmith shop in the whole history and geography was transformed into Qingpingzi Bank.

The blacksmith shops in other places can be turned into Zhuangzi for exchanging five baht coins, and by the way, the business of paper mills can be completely launched.

When the time comes, the papermaking shop will allocate [-]% of my share to the Zhuo family, and all the profits from Ziqian Zhuangzi will be given to the Zhuo family.

The Linqiong Zhuo family who does not strike iron may be able to improve to a higher level because of this. "

It seems that Zhang Yuan has deprived himself of most of the benefits, but in fact the bulk of the money is made from making money.

The most profitable re-casting of copper coins will only be at the feet of the emperor. The copper coins here are the most important, and there are few private miners.

Zhang Yuan can exchange one five-baht coin for five and a half taels.

Most of those half taels are not as heavy as four baht, but Zhang Yuan can exchange five for one.

No matter how low-quality half taels are, they will not weigh only one plant. The high-quality half taels are basically all in Chang'an City, and the inferior coins are in the inner history and geography. As for the other places in Dahan, they are all private minters' paradise.

The money-making officials of the counties and countries did not make money in accordance with the specifications stipulated by the empire in order to seek personal gain.

Zhang Yuan doesn't plan to use the ratio of one for five until he leaves the inner history boundary. He will use one for five after everyone has been weighed.

Why do you have to change the weight for five, because the copper coin is an alloy, and you never know what metal those private minters added to it.

Zhang Yuan can only regret that this is not more than 2000 years later.

Otherwise, some metals added to copper coins may be priced at sky-high prices.

Zhang Yuan's words cannot be said to have moved Zhuo Wenjun, after all, to Zhuo Wenjun now, his father's business is not the most important thing, as long as the family's safety can be guaranteed, that is the most important thing.

She just accepted another choice given by Zhang Yuan to the Zhuo family.

Attached to the Marquis of Xin'an, that side can evade Liu Che's call-up order.

As the highest title that anyone not surnamed Liu can obtain, the privilege of Liehou can be manifested in any way.

As long as Zhang Yuan does not break the law, everything under his name is private.

Liu Che could take it away by force, but that would require breaking the skin.

There is a contract in this society, and the emperor also signed a contract with all the nobles.

The emperor gave privileges to the nobles, and the nobles unswervingly supported the uniqueness of imperial power.

At present, the treasury of the big man is still in a state of fullness, Liu Che will not take this risk and put everyone in the country at risk before the war.

In a state of war, everything in the country has to be suppressed for the time being.

Those who should be comforted should be comforted, and those who should be suppressed with iron blood should be suppressed.

What Zhang Yuan did was to take advantage of the loopholes in the law, and Liu Che had nothing to do.

Either just ignore them or try to appease them.

"Who is most suitable to send to Linqiong?"

Zhuo Wenjun accepted Zhang Yuan's statement from the bottom of his heart, and immediately began to think of the candidate for the letter.

"I'll write a document right now, and after stamping the seal, let Zong Xing take it to Linqiong.

You should also write another letter to persuade your father. If Zong Xing travels day and night, he may be able to buy a few more days for your father to think about it. "

Zhang Yuan was not worried that Zhuo Wangsun would not accept it.

One is to change to another business, and the other is to be imprisoned in Maoling City for the rest of my life.

"Okay, let Zong Xing set off for Shu County in the afternoon."

Zhuo Wenjun was more anxious than Zhang Yuan.

However, Zhang Yuan understood and gently touched her back, giving her the minimum comfort.

The order issued by Liu Che did not cause much fluctuation in Chang'an City.

However, there was an uproar in the place where these families were located.

Especially in Linqiong, the two major families have to migrate at the same time.

A county in Shu County has to relocate three important families, and they are not just involved in the iron smelting business.

The Huang family's main business is the silk cloth business. They master the most sophisticated dyeing technology in the Han Dynasty. I don't know how many sericulture and weaving families in Shu County rely on the Huang family for their survival.

The Cheng Zheng family has already focused on foreign trade, and many businessmen who travel between the Han Dynasty and the Southwestern Yi also rely on the Cheng Zheng family to maintain their most basic business.

Once the three major families move out, the livelihood of at least a quarter of the people in Shu County will be affected.

But Liu Che definitely wouldn't think of this level, and people like Sang Hongyang wouldn't think about the lives of ordinary people.

Emperor Qianlong reigned for several decades, and the Qing Dynasty did not have any food that was infested with insects.

If the ruler is blind or deaf, no matter how poor the people are, the history books will always describe a prosperous age.

Zhang Yuan asked Zong Xing to take away half of the guards in the Marquis of Xin'an, each with three horses.

The purpose is to be able to rush to Linqiong, Shu County within ten days.

In the next few days, Zhang Yuan also learned that other families were ordered to move into Maoling Township.

From the businesses these merchants were engaged in, Zhang Yuan's heart suddenly turned cold.

This is too much like the later Yantie official camp.

Although it is not said that the state will take over directly, it must be that Dongguo Xianyang's family is in charge of the salt industry, and Kongji's family is in charge of the iron industry.

As for the call-up orders against these two families, it is the real deception, treating everyone as fools.

At this time, Liu Che will not go too far, and these family properties will use money for acquisitions.

But everyone knows that these industries are chickens that lay golden eggs, and forced acquisition is tantamount to robbery.

But it can be regarded as the most basic comfort.

What Zhang Yuannao didn't understand was that Liu Che was not short of money now, so why would he focus on these people.

During the recent period, Zhang Yuan has no time to think about these things. All he has to do is to promote five baht coins and popularize paper.

The pricing of paper by Qingpingfang finally went out of Chang'an City, and spread out in shops in eight satellite cities of Changling, Anling, Baling, Maoling, Yangling, Weicheng, Duxian, and Lantian counties.

The same Ziqian Zhuangzi also drove into these eight cities.

Zhang Yuan now has enough financial resources to support the full development of business in and around Chang'an City.

Especially the business of Ziqianzhuang.

Chang'an City is a capital city with infrequent economic activities.

I don't know why these emperors didn't turn Chang'an into a prosperous city.

Luoyang City far to the east is much more prosperous than Chang'an City.

Not to mention comparing Chang'an City to Luoyang City, the prosperity of Chang'an City is not even as good as Yanglingyi.

It can be said that Chang'an City distributed the economic tasks that it should have undertaken to the surrounding cities.

The emperors hope that after their death, the surrounding area of ​​the mausoleum is full of people and bustle.

And in order to improve the status of the courtiers, even meritorious courtiers can be buried with them, but they can be buried with them, but those tombs are all separate tombs.

Coupled with the huge flow of people in the city next to the mausoleum, the tombs of these emperors basically don't think about hiding places.

The emperor's tomb of the Western Han Dynasty became the most stolen and even the fastest stolen.

After all, the Qing Dynasty was only stolen after its demise, but before the end of the Western Han Dynasty, some emperors' tombs were stolen.

The traditional culture of tomb robbing in China also started during the Han Dynasty.

But Zhang Yuan, who doesn't steal or not, can't control so much, he only knows that these places are the most prosperous.

Chang'an is deserted, and many people don't like living in Chang'an City.

As long as they are not entangled in government affairs, many people like to live in the surrounding cities.

Like Sima Xiangru, if he was not the governor of Qianwei County now, he should be living a life of debauchery in Maolingyi.

The business of Ziqianzhuang entered these cities very smoothly.

Because they are all directly settled in the previous shops of Princess Pingyang, the locations of these shops are naturally the best.

In addition, for more than a month, things in Qingpingfang in Chang'an City have already formed a trend.

The custom of using five baht coins.

Therefore, the people in these eight cities accepted Qingpingfang faster.

Even like Yangling Township, before Zhang Yuan got his business here, all the people in Yangling Township had already started trading with five baht.

Of course they used the five baht coins that flowed out of Chang'an City, and now the smugglers are facing the largest raid in history.

In more than a month, nearly 10 smugglers were executed by Quan Dahan.

This kind of strength has ushered in the best environment for the five baht coin as soon as it came out.

Because the eight cities have a huge population base and prosperous economic activities.

After Zhang Yuan's sub-bank opened in these eight cities, the interest rate of five thousandths made the people in the eight cities go crazy.

Only a week later, the amount of money released has reached [-] million.

This is also due to a large shortage of manpower, and the review speed is really not fast enough.

The land deeds stored in Xin'an Hou Mansion have been filled with two large wooden boxes.

Of course, the amount of the loan is not too large, many of them are around ten thousand yuan, and only some people who were originally doing business before have the capital to borrow more money from Zhang Yuan.

Most people's land properties are worth less than ten thousand dollars, and the things left over from their ancestors' hard work are not even worth as much as Zhang Yuan's random stuff.

But thousands of dollars and tens of thousands of dollars are already a lot, for them.

Food prices in Guanzhong are much lower than in other places.

It may be because Liu Che didn't want to see people starving to death under his nose, so as long as there are people who can work with both hands, they can earn enough for their living expenses.

In recent years, due to the increase in the types of agricultural products, the common people have other choices for planting crops.

In addition, soybeans are no longer feed for livestock, and after processing, people will not cause physical discomfort after eating them.

The increasing disposable wealth of the people is equivalent to increasing reserves of food, and the price of food will decrease accordingly.

Food in this era is equated with money.

The nobles and Liu Che didn't want wealth to flow to ordinary people, so buying the grain in their hands naturally suppressed the price as much as possible.

If the price of food is allowed to rise, ordinary people will become richer and richer.

It's like farmers in Henan can't make much money farming, but those who start companies can make a lot of money.

Otherwise, the price of pork has risen, and ordinary people will not be able to raise pigs. There are not too many of these strange things.

However, in Dahan, the purchase price of grain is cheaper, but there is an advantage.

Prices are different in every place.

After leaving Hangu Pass and continuing eastward, you will find the flooded area.

The price of grain in Qilu is twice as high as that in Guanzhong. Ordinary people can borrow [-] yuan to buy several hundred stones of grain, which can be driven with just one cart.

Along the way, I only took the official road, and it was very safe to walk with a group of people.

In two months of traveling back and forth, he was able to double the borrowed ten thousand copper coins.

If they go further, they can even go to the beach to buy some sea salt and bring it down to Chang'an to sell.

In this way, it is not impossible for [-] copper coins to become [-] copper coins.

Liu Che currently only allows those salt merchants to live in Maolingyi, but has not completely banned the salt trade.

In an era when the news is not smooth and the traffic is not very smooth, there are too many opportunities to make money.

As long as the government doesn't issue any devastating orders, you can make money by being cautious and smart.

Ziqian business is booming, but the number of people who come to Zhang Yuanrong to cast copper coins has decreased.

The seven-day orders added up to [-] million.

This kind of business is destined to be the most at the beginning, and then it will slowly decrease.

Of course, there will be a second wave of climax, and most of the nobles did not find Zhang Yuan.

They are still waiting and watching. If Liu Che issues an order to abolish half taels and replace five bahts, Zhang Yuan's business can be maximized.

But Zhang Yuan knew in his heart that if Liu Che wanted to issue such a decree, he would have to hold the right to mint five baht coins firmly in his hands.

How could Liu Che watch Zhang Yuan take up all the benefits.

(End of this chapter)