I'm playing tricks in Daqin

Zhuang Yunxiao was bound to win, and Ding Xi also bit the price to death, and the worthless pen soon reached a sky-high price of 30 taels.

Even a fool can see that there is a problem here, and when it reached 60, Zhuang Yunxiao also hesitated.

Li Wei said with a smile: "This is a family heirloom from He Shengchang's ancestors. Don't you want to buy it back?"

Hearing Li Wei's words, Zhuang Yunxiao complained secretly. In order to save the family's reputation, he had to make up a story about Gao Dashang, but he didn't expect that Li Wei was waiting for him here.

No way, I blew too hard before, so I have to buy this pen anyway.

Zhuang Yunxiao gritted his teeth and raised the price again and again. Fortunately, Li Wei never let go of the idea of ​​cooperating with Shengchang. In the end, at the price of 50 taels, Ding Xi, who had been hinted by Li Wei, was not raising the price.

"The next item will be donated by Kang Wang, my uncle. A pair of worn-out shoes, a piece of patched clothes, a feather duster, and a chipped vase."

Hearing Li Wei's shout, Li Chang wanted to rush to the stage and strangle this unfortunate nephew to death.

"You bastard, who asked you to give these rags? This king's face is completely lost by you, a dog slave!"

The entourage beside him had a bitter look on his face, it was obvious that Li Chang personally gave the order, but he could only stand up and take the blame without hesitation.

Now the only way to save His Royal Highness Kang's face is to be like Zhuang Yunxiao. Therefore, under the "correction" of the steward of Kang Wang's mansion, the pile of tatters immediately became the personal belongings of His Highness Kang who followed the former emperor in the Southern Expedition and Northern War, and became Daqin The testimony of the founding of the country.

For his money-greedy uncle, Li Wei was not polite, and asked Ding Xi to raise the high price of 4 taels, which made Li Chang bleed hard.

After the deal was completed, Li Wei gave everyone two cups of tea, saying it was time to rest, but in fact it was time to inform the government officials.

The following auction was presided over by the Ninth Five-Year Lord himself. The sixth father-in-law took over the auction hammer from Li Wei, and each piece of junk was endowed with various significance, and the price increased by hundreds of times.

The eunuch's rags that I sent away by myself yesterday had to be bought back at a sky-high price. The officials felt aggrieved, but as officials, they dared not reveal their wealth, so they had to find businessmen who came to work for them to bid for it.

For this kind of thing, as long as the money is in hand, Li Wei will turn a blind eye and close his eyes as if he sees everything.

After most of the day passed, a pile of tatters was auctioned, and more than 200 million taels of silver were sold. Looking at the ledger, Li Wei was so happy that he couldn't see it.

At the end of the auction, the businessmen in charge of the various households breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that the emperor was gone, they dared to get up and leave one after another.

The distraught Zhuang Yunxiao was about to board the carriage when he heard someone calling himself behind him.

"Which bastard dares to call my young master by my name?"

Turning his head to look, Li Wei didn't know when he appeared behind him.

"You have a name, isn't it just for people to call you? If you don't have a name, what do you want me to call you? A dog leftover?"

"Your Majesty is the honor of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, please respect yourself."

"I don't need you to worry about my self-respect. This is written evidence. I won't go back on my word, right?"

Zhuang Yunxiao was so angry that he almost rolled his eyes and passed out. He could only blame himself for being too ambitious and talking too much. As long as it exceeded a million taels, he would give out double the money. The auction had just been slaughtered After spending 50 taels, and now he has to spit out another 200 million taels, even He Shengchang, who is wealthy and powerful, will be hurt.

"Don't worry, I, He Shengchang, will not default on my debts, and I will send the money to the court..."

"No need, Ding Xi, you take someone to send him back, and send the money back to the palace directly."

Li Wei issued treasury bonds because the Ministry of Households was holding back the money, so naturally he couldn't tolerate the money being given to the court.

Looking at the more than 30 soldiers nearby, Zhuang Yunxiao gritted his teeth and nodded, turned around and got into the carriage.

Zhuang Zhiming heard the news from his own son, spat out a mouthful of old blood, and passed out immediately.

The servants hurriedly sent Zhuang Zhiming back to the bedroom, and asked the family doctor to come over for diagnosis and treatment. Lin Qianru said with a gloomy face, "Go and send the order to bring the money from all the branches in Chang'an."

Upon hearing this, Zhuang Yunxiao immediately said: "Giving money? I don't accept this account!"

"Don't you think it's useful? Heshengchang must admit it! What kind of business are we doing? If we lose our integrity, how will we do business in the future, not to mention that the current creditor is still the emperor, and the inner guards block the door to ask for debts. This is the first time in the founding of the country, and I didn't realize that there were many reporters waiting at the door, and the report went out, do you know the consequences?"

"Li Wei clearly framed me, I can't be bullied by him like this!"

Lin Qianru said contemptuously: "You don't want to be bullied by the emperor. In front of Li Wei, why don't you refute, but dare to go home and regret it? It's nothing more than fear of the steel knife in the hands of the inner guards. If there are not enough guards at home, Would you dare to speak like that in front of the commander of the inner guard?"

Dare to be slapped in the face by a woman in front of so many people, Zhuang Yunxiao's face immediately turned black.

"You, you stinky woman, how dare you speak to me like that!"

Facing the palm raised by Zhuang Yunxiao, Lin Qianru was not afraid, but took a step forward instead, "What? Want to hit me? Do you dare?"

As long as you wave your palm down, you can give a blow to your fair face, but Zhuang Yunxiao didn't have the courage to do it no matter what.

"Are you afraid? If you are afraid, stop talking!"

After that, Lin Qianru directly regarded Zhuang Yunxiao as air, and began to issue orders one after another.

Chang'an City is full of powerful and wealthy businessmen, and it is also the location of Heshengchang Headquarters. The sky-high price of 200 million silver was collected directly in half a day. During the period, some officials from the household department came to ask for it, but they were blocked by Ding Xi with a cold face. .

Zhuang Zhiming, who was lying on the bed, asked weakly: "Has all the money been taken away?"

"Yes, father, it's all Lin Qianru, and she wants half of our dealer's life!"

"Shut up! Cough cough, you rebellious son, kneel down!"

Hearing Zhuang Zhiming's words, Zhuang Yunxiao glared at Lin Qianru viciously, then knelt down unwillingly.

"Ahem, Li Wei has silver in his hands, so he will be more determined to implement the reform of the currency system. There will be big moves in the future. If we can't stop it, how much business will we lose and how will we feed the officials? One day, we don't have to Li Wei made a move, and those officials couldn't spare He Shengchang. A fat dog that couldn't bite was just a dish on the table of the powerful.

My health is failing, now Lin Qianru is the young master, she will handle the future affairs, you all have to listen to her, what she says is mine. "

As soon as the words fell, the legitimate sons and concubines in the room cast jealous eyes on Lin Qianru.

"Father, I'm afraid..."

"Needless to say, at this time, you are the only one who can support Heshengchang. I will ask people to post a post and invite all the owners of various banks in the city to come over. You can have a good talk with them. , if we can’t be united, we can only wait to die.”

Looking at Zhuang Zhiming's Xiyi eyes, Lin Qianru knew it was a hard job, but Lin Qianru could only bite the bullet and take it.

In the palace, Li Wei, who was counting money until his hands cramped, happily listened to Ding Xi's report. As a big family that has been passed down for more than two hundred years, the Zhuang mansion is full of servants with children, and even the black-clothed guards cannot penetrate. .

The information submitted by Ding Xichen was only a list of participants who went to the Zhuang Mansion.

"It's good to unite. The province will repair them one by one. Ding Xi sent the silver to the mint overnight, and all of them were turned into silver dollars. I want to take a good look at it. Even if they unite, what troubles can they cause!"

Chapter 588 Environmental Protection Issues

With more than 400 million taels of silver, a full 800 million silver dollars can be produced, and it is impossible for all of them to be put on the market even if the mint is fully operational.

This money was issued by Li Wei in the emperor's personal name, with the guarantee of the servants in the palace. Besides, Li Wei only cast silver into silver dollars, and he was not greedy for ink.

With such a huge capital, once it is put into operation, the bank will take the initiative to give the silver to Li Wei when it buys silver dollars again. Ten days after the decree was issued to abolish the two yuan and replace it with the yuan, it was the first time that the people in Chang'an city saw the new money minted by the imperial court.

As Li Wei expected, the silver dollar was sought after by the common people as soon as it entered the market, especially after Li Wei issued a decree that made it clear that the silver dollar could be used to pay taxes, the military salaries of officers and soldiers, and the official salary only issued silver dollars instead of silver taels. The silver dollar craze.

When Li Wei was trying to make Ya Nei Liquor, he negotiated with the chamber of commerce to set up a credit bank. However, Li Wei was not proficient in all kinds of banking business. It's a flash in the pan.

Li Wei, who is now about to carry out drastic financial reforms, has established the Daqin Royal Bank, and wants to compete with the Qianzhuang Alliance.

In the era of imperial power, the emperor was supreme, and no one knew what a bank was, but the name of the Daqin Royal Bank was the emperor's private property, and it attracted the attention of the whole city as soon as it opened.

The newly established Daqin Royal Bank is temporarily unable to open lending business, but Li Wei "uses power for personal gain"

, The silver dollars from the mint are only sent to the Daqin Royal Bank, and only the Daqin Royal Bank has silver dollars that can be exchanged in the entire Chang'an City.

In the headquarters of Heshengchang, Zhuang Yunxiao gloated and listened to the report of the head shopkeeper.

The bank owners who came to the party were all sad, "Lin Shaodong...Miss Lin, as soon as the Daqin Royal Bank came out, almost all the exchange business of our banks was taken away. If we don't think about it, the business will be impossible. "

"Our families have received a lot of silver dollars from the imperial court, and now they are open for exchange. We can't let the Daqin Royal Bank do all the business."

"Although there are some silver dollars in each bank, but the amount is not much, what should I do when the exchange is over?"

Another bank owner asked.

"Without silver dollars, let's go to Daqin Royal Bank to exchange."

Upon hearing this, Zhuang Yunxiao immediately took possession.

"Silver dollars are nine silver and one copper. One tael of silver is exchanged for two silver dollars. Let's exchange one tael of silver for nine renminbi of silver. Aren't we sending money to the Daqin Royal Bank? Your method is the way to destroy our banks! "

Other bank owners were talking about it, complaining that Lin Qianru had a bad idea.

Glancing at Zhuang Yunxiao coldly, Lin Qianru waved her hand to send a silver dollar to each bank owner.

"Look, how about this silver dollar?"

After glancing at it, Zhuang Yunxiao said impatiently: "Isn't this just a silver dollar? Who hasn't seen it before."

"Look carefully, what's the difference?"

Zhuang Yunxiao frowned and looked at it several times, "Isn't this just a silver dollar? What are you selling? My father asked you to deal with affairs and bring various banks to fight against the imperial court, but what about you? You actually thought of ways to benevolent to the enemy, Li Wei named it I feel something is wrong for you to be the young proprietor of Heshengchang, who are you?"

The young proprietor of Heshengchang personally testified, which was too much weight, and the eyes of the proprietors of the bank's eyes on Lin Qianru changed immediately.

Lin Qianru didn't bother to explain, and said, "Master Li, take a look, what's the difference between the silver dollar in your hand and mine?"

Taking it over for comparison, Li Dongjia was surprised, "The two silver dollars are not the same size!"

"That's right, the ones that were handed over to you before have all been cut. The imperial court's coinage technique is superb, and it is impossible to imitate it at present. I will ask the craftsman to make a round scissors, which can cut a circle of silver dollars with a single buckle. I have weighed it myself, and the weight I cut out is about one cent and two cents."

Everyone here is a smart person, and they immediately understood what Lin Qianru meant.

Going to the Daqin Royal Bank to exchange silver dollars will cost them a penny, but as long as they cut the silver dollars, they can get two cents more. They are all big business people, and this little profit is not in their eyes.

But as long as they do this and release the news afterwards, it will inevitably cause an uproar among the people. Who would dare to use silver dollars again?

Sniping abolishing the two reforms can make money without spending money, which is such a good thing that I dare not even think about it.

"Miss Lin is indeed wise!"

"Old proprietor Zhuang entrusted He Shengchang to Miss Lin to take care of, it is indeed true."

"To come up with such a wonderful idea, Ms. Lin is really a heroine, I am ashamed."

Listening to everyone's compliments, Lin Qianru asked with a smile: "Nowadays, no one should question the little girl's position?"

Facing the strange gazes of many proprietors, Zhuang Yunxiao's eyes burst into flames, but he couldn't speak a word, and his resentment towards Lin Qianru increased a bit.

Daqin Royal Bank successfully seized the exchange business. When Li Wei was happy, Wei Yongjie came to meet Jun and sent two pieces of news. The good news is that Chen Yuzhou survived the flood by relying on the water skills he had practiced since he was a child in the Jiangnan water town. Rescued by villagers downstream, after a few days of recuperation, he recovered and contacted the local government.

The bad news is that Wei Yongjie found out the main reason for the flood, a reason that made Li Wei also feel a headache.

Pointing to the map on the dragon case, Wei Yongjie said with a helpless face: "My minister went down the river and found industrial waterwheels built everywhere. Every red dot represents a waterwheel."

The red dots all over the Feng River can make the scalp of any intensive phobia suffer from numbness. Li Wei asked with a puzzled face: "Isn't this very good? It shows that Chang'an has strong industrial capabilities."

"Your Majesty, it's nothing to build waterwheels, but the owner of the workshop will block the river and build dams in order to increase the water level difference and increase the water power. It's nothing to do with one or two, but if it's dozens or hundreds, the water level of the Feng River will be raised. How could it not cause a flood?"

Only then did Li Wei understand, isn't this the same principle as the Yellow River being raised by the sand?

Li Wei would never have imagined that serious environmental problems would arise in this era.

"The way to control the river is to remove all the dams?"

"This is the only way. Although the ministers of the other seven rivers are visiting, the situation should be almost the same as that of the Feng River. Once there is a heavy rain, the eight rivers are in danger of flooding. The water trucks are only a very small number of people who are rich, but they make the people richer." Most of them suffer because of this, please make a decision, Your Majesty!"

Hearing this sentence, Li Wei couldn't help but feel dizzy. Those who have money to repair workshops and build water trucks are all local gentry. They promote currency reform by themselves, but they are opposed by gentry because they hurt the interests of officials. The power of the workshop has been greatly reduced, are they still working hard?

At this moment, Li Wei suddenly understood Lin Qianru's words, the reason why the officials would unite was because letting them do whatever they wanted would break the existing balance, and he really wanted to do so.

Faced with Wei Yongjie's hopeful eyes, and thinking of the dangers faced by the people along the river, Li Wei wanted to order the dam to be demolished, but he hesitated again when he thought of the counterattack of the gentry officials.

The longer Li Wei thought about it, the lower Wei Yongjie's heart sank. He knew that the emperor was afraid.

"Go and investigate the situation of the other Seven Rivers first, and find out the background of the owner of the workshop."

"The minister obeys the order."

Wei Yongjie said weakly that he naturally knew the existence of the black guards. Wei Yongjie naturally knew what it meant if this kind of thing was not handed over to a professional intelligence department.

Seeing Wei Yongjie's lonely back, Li Wei felt more guilty, and rarely took the initiative to pick up the memorial, trying to numb himself with work.

After two hours in a row, Li Wei rubbed his shoulders and sipped the tea brought by Little Six, when there was a sound outside.

"Thunder? Is it going to rain again?"

Li Wei asked hurriedly.

After knowing the situation in Bahe, Li Wei was considered to be sick, and he was afraid of rain.

"Your Majesty, it seems to be the sound of a drum. Could it be that someone is beating the Dengwen drum?"

In all dynasties, drums were hung outside the court hall, so that those who had grievances or urgent cases beat the drums to hear the news, so as to establish a lawsuit.

It sounds good, but since the Dengwen drum was erected, few people have played it. This is the first time Li Wei has heard the Dengwen drum.

"Your Majesty, I'm going to have a look. If it's not a major military incident, I'll hand it over to the Ministry of Punishment or Dali Temple for investigation."

The emperor has a lot of things to do every day, so how can he just come to a trial for a case.

"I'm simmering with fire in my heart. If you knock well, I'll call the courtiers into the court. I want to take a closer look. What kind of case is it? The stiletto will be spared."