Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Early the next morning, Chang'an City, which had just experienced a major purge, directly activated martial law mode under Li Chengqian's order.

Except for a few major traffic arteries, people are prohibited from going out in all other streets, and no one is allowed to approach.

Even though they couldn't go out, the people could still tell from the sounds of banging on doors, scoldings and begging for mercy:

The government is inspecting all shops, and any shops that do not meet the standards or are in arrears with taxes will be returned to the state treasury and will be dispatched by the Prince's Mansion.

Just when everyone was worried, the ban was lifted that afternoon.

The common people soon learned from notice boards everywhere that what happened this time was entirely because His Royal Highness the Prince was caring about people's livelihood and could not bear to see those profiteers bully the market and exploit the people.

Therefore, coercive measures were implemented against those profiteers and their shops and goods were confiscated.

Some people who didn't know what was going on began to rejoice on the spot when they heard the news, and they all praised Li Chengqian's actions.

Some people who had a long-term vision and knew the pros and cons lamented that what Li Chengqian did was a naked robbery of the merchants of the Tang Dynasty.

As a result, not to mention the development of commerce in the entire Tang Dynasty, even those who want to do business will have to start to weigh whether they can withstand this precarious life.

Although people have mixed reviews, since Li Chengqian took control of the Chamber of Commerce, the shops that were originally going to go on strike have been fully opened after a little tidying up.

As soon as the shop opened, the people surrounding the door rushed in with cheers.

However, when they heard the guys' quotations, most of them left in despair without saying a word.

They were really shocked by the prices of the items in the store.

The prices of the items now have more than tripled or quadrupled, and the other party is required to pay in cash, without any bank notes being collected.

It's just that when someone quits, someone joins.

Soon, the shopkeepers of various stores discovered an unusual situation.

From time to time, a few wealthy customers would come to the store.

As soon as these people come in, they don't care about the price of the items and just buy them when they see them.

What makes the shopkeepers even more strange is that these people spend either silver or gold, and if they want to use the silver to give them back the change.

They would refuse directly and stated that they only wanted copper coins. If not, the other party would just throw down the items in their hands and walk away.

If there were only one or two such incidents, it would not arouse the curiosity of the shopkeepers.

After all, what kind of weird guest isn’t there?

But there are not only a lot of such people, but also a steady stream, which makes the shopkeepers a little strange.

If the gold and silver offered by the other party were not of high quality and without any adulteration, the shopkeepers would have thought that these people had lost their minds and came here to exchange copper coins.

You know, although the price of copper outside is changing every day, those who can really exchange silver of excellent quality for copper coins are basically those wealthy families.

And those who can exchange gold for copper coins are even bigger among the big families.

For such a family, how could they value copper coins on weekdays? If they wanted to save, they would definitely save hard currencies such as gold and silver. How could they foolishly put the cart before the horse?

As everyone knows, the shopkeepers really have an idea.

Unfortunately, what they don't know is that Chu Mo is not short of gold and silver at all. What he wants to do is to disrupt the market.

This exchange continued for several days, until on the fourth day, the shops in Chang'an City suddenly discovered that they had no copper coins to give change.

And the people sent out to exchange will also report that the government will not exchange copper coins at all, and even the price of copper coins has risen to a terrifying price of 400:1.

And because a large amount of gold has appeared on the market these days, the exchange ratio of gold and silver has also dropped from the original 10:1 to 9:1.

People used to think about converting the silver in their hands into gold, but now such a large amount of gold is being used.

At first, those who wanted to exchange gold were overjoyed. However, as the amount of gold increased sharply, some people began to wonder whether a large number of gold mines were discovered somewhere, causing the gold to flood.

When they learned that the gold basically came from various shops, and that the gold in each shop was exchanged by those customers, some people got interested and wanted to secretly inquire about the origins of these people.

However, there were quite a few people who had this idea. They sent people to follow him all the way out of Chang'an City, and then they just disappeared into the sea and were never heard from again.

If one or two people are following and being discovered, and thus being murdered, everyone can accept this.

But after so many people were sent out, not even a single person was left alive, which was a bit creepy.

So, after weighing the pros and cons, those people put away their little thoughts and began to exchange for gold with all their strength.

However, since we don’t know who the other party is and how much gold he still has, how long this exchange can last.

Therefore, when various companies exchange gold, they inevitably make some small moves, and even directly lower the exchange rate, hoping to make profits.

It is precisely because of their greed that the exchange rate of silver and gold dropped by one point in just three days.

At this time, Li Chengqian was holding the financial reports coming from all over the place, smiling so hard that he couldn't even see his eyes.

He had long known that merchants made money, but he did not know that merchants made so much money.

When the man proposed to me a plan to increase the price several times, if I hadn't realized that the other person was usually smart and had never come up with bad ideas, I would have made this decision with great difficulty.

I'm afraid I can't make that much money now.

When I think about how much wealth I have accumulated in just a few days, when my father returns to Beijing in the future, I will definitely make him proud in front of many ministers.

Li Chengqian couldn't hide his smile no matter what.

Although he also heard from the reporter that someone sold a large amount of gold and exchanged it for copper coins, causing the gold and silver to depreciate.

But Li Chengqian didn't care at all about the so-called depreciation.

In his opinion, gold is gold and silver is silver. No matter how expensive copper coins are, can they be more valuable than gold and silver?

When his father was in Chang'an, didn't he talk about the inflated price of copper and the depreciation of silver every day?

But look at Chang'an now, isn't everything going well?

Didn't nothing happen?

Those who just like to blow wind in their ears when they have nothing to do can't bring themselves gold or silver.

If it weren't for the fact that they were arranged by his father, I really wanted to pull them all out and kill them.