Prime Minister

Chapter 915 Speculation (Second Update)

It has been more than three months in Xining's eighth year since the ship arrived in Hangzhou.

Leaving Fujian from Xianxia Ridge, and then returning the same way, the two gentlemen of the Zhang family lost the freshness they had when they came.

Zhang Yue happens to strictly urge them to read books on board.

Since he became an official, his life has always been clean and simple, which can be regarded as daily cultivation and self-cultivation. Now that he has free time, he also urges his children.

When he arrived in Hangzhou, Zhang Gen begged him to go for a walk, and Zhang Yue agreed.

Zhang Yue also decided to rest in Hangzhou for a day. He knew that his teacher Chen Xiang had changed from knowing Hangzhou to knowing Chenzhou.

Zhang Yue asked his two sons to play, and he learned that before Chen Xiang left, he was already promoting cotton planting near Hangzhou.

Suzhou, Xiuzhou, and Hangzhou now each have hundreds of acres of farmland that has been converted into rice and cotton.

The fields in the south of the Yangtze River are expensive, and it is really difficult to change a large area at once, so I can only buy some first. Zhang Yue is not satisfied with the speed, so he can only take it step by step. Anyway, this is also a good start.

In addition to the cotton fields, Zhang Yue still went to the Interchange Office in Hangzhou.I didn’t come to the Interchange Office in Hangzhou last time, but this time I kept hearing about his stories along the way, so I came here to have a look.

If you don’t come to Hangzhou Stock Exchange, you don’t know. If you come, Zhang Yue will know that the daily trading volume of Hangzhou Stock Exchange is not inferior to that of Bianjing Stock Exchange.

The daily trading of stock exchanges even reached an astonishing number of 700 million coins on one day.

Zhang Yue was very surprised when he heard this. It turned out that he had heard that in the Hangzhou Stock Exchange, the imperial court only held [-]% of the shares, which was the lowest share among all the state stock exchanges in the world.

In fact, more than [-]% of the shares are held by large non-governmental chambers of commerce, some of which are local in Hangzhou, and many of them are Jiaoyin shops from Bianjing.

Zhang Yue entered the Hangzhou Exchange and Index Office, but heard a lot of voices.

The floor exchange is a place where only the big dealers can enter. However, after many years, the big dealers will not leave the market in person. They all entrust special personnel to trade, but there are also dealers who enter in person.

There is enough room for two or 300 people to sit together. Everyone looks nervous and looks at the host with concern.

As for the off-site where Zhang Yue is, although you can see the trading board and hosts of the cross-reference trading, these people are all retail investors with less than [-] points of cross-reference, so they are not qualified to enter, and can only watch what they own from the outside. Whether the buying price has risen or fallen.

Zhang Yue looked at the scene, and suddenly felt first-class complex emotions. This intersection is the mechanism and world created by himself.

He created everything here with his own hands.

He really didn't know whether this move was a blessing or a curse, he felt like he had released a new creature.

Every once in a while in this exchange, there are legends about people becoming rich overnight, or rumors of someone going bankrupt overnight, but most of them lost money, but even so, they still couldn't stop the people from flocking to this place. enthusiasm.

Many people in Shengdou live frugally every day, and spend a few pennies to buy ups and downs, dreaming of getting rich once in a while, and even borrow money from the young crops of the court to speculate.

Many people have suffered lawsuits because of this, but it can't stop more people from flooding into this market.

At this moment, he was in it, feeling the enthusiasm of these people.

At this time, a toothman walked up to Zhang Yue and took a plate and said, "This high-ranking official, don't know whether to buy salt notes or money notes?"

Zhang Yue said: "I can go to the counter to buy it, why should I buy it here?"

The other party said with a smile: "I don't know the officials. I'm a dentist in our office. This is my dental brand. You can buy it from me or over the counter at the same price."

Zhang Yue was once again amazed at the business wisdom of the local businessmen, from registering at the counter on his own initiative to selling at the shop.

Zhang Yue immediately said: "Alright, how about the price of salt money and Qian Yin?"

"Salt banknotes cost 370 yuan and 370 cents per seat, and Qianyin [-] cents and [-] cent each, with an additional handling fee of two cents. If you sell more, you may save some money."

Zhang Yue thought to himself, could it be that this is a large transaction, which can save handling fees.

He immediately took out three salt bills and put them on the plate, "Exchange these into Qian Yin."

The tooth man was overjoyed when he saw the business coming, and said, "Then I'll charge a handling fee."

Soon Yaren took a stack of money and handed it to Zhang Yue.

Zhang Yue lamented that banknotes are convenient, and the feeling of buying things with copper coins strung on the waistband with an iron wire was really bad.

The so-called rich?You are an elephant, and you can't be entangled.

Yaren made a lot of business and said happily: "Your official, you really have vision. I heard that Zhang Gong vigorously promoted the method of Qian Yin when he was in the court. Before that, he urged the emperor to buy back Qian Yin, and Qian Yin never came. Baiwen has risen to more than 500, and now it has dropped to more than 300, but when he returns to Beijing, he must rise back. We are all optimistic about these."

Zhang Yue was taken aback when he heard the words, a little old man actually deduced the rise and fall of Qian Yin from the news of his return to Beijing.

And how to say it?I really have this plan. Qian Yin is a consistent one. It was worth less than a hundred coins before. I plan to promote the appreciation of Qian Yin to solve the problem of money shortage among the people.

If Qianyin truly implements currency stability, it will also be of great benefit to private commercial circulation.

And the prosperity of the Southern Song Dynasty is due to the contribution of paper money.

This is really interesting.

Zhang Yue said: "You are an idiot who can know Zhang Gong's intention to return to court. It's amazing. I admire you."

Yaren laughed and said, "What's the big deal? You see, this exchange office, and me, don't they have a bite to eat because of Mr. Zhang's suggestion?"

After speaking, the other party smiled. .

Zhang Yue looked at all this and thought for a while, at this time a person next to him shouted: "It's gone up, it's gone up!"

After speaking, the other party hugged his head and shouted: "I'm rich, I'm rich."

The outsiders around him also shouted excitedly: "It has risen."

Zhang Yue walked out of the exchange and looked back at the scene.

In all fairness, his original intention of establishing the exchange was not for speculation, but many small people entered the market in this way, and even did not engage in production, and lived entirely on trading money to attract salt, which was contrary to his original intention.

His classmate Liu Zuo was killed because of this.

But now those who benefit from it have implicitly become his supporters, which is not his original intention.

In fact, Zhang Yue paid more attention to the interests of small merchants and peddlers, but he had a vague premonition that after Bianjing, these people would move closer to him.

Although it was true in the past, and even Wu Anshi and others had repeatedly recommended him, but Zhang Yue was a very clean official, and they were in ordinary contacts, keeping a certain distance, and refused to involve too much.

After Zhang Yue returned to the boat, he received a post.The post went up to the cloud, saying that he is a businessman and is willing to pay for the establishment of a cotton cloth shop in Hangzhou. I don't know if Zhang Yue is interested.

Zhang Yue saw that there was a famous assassin of Chen Xiang under this person's post, and knew that the other party was also related to Chen Xiang.

Zhang Yue thought to himself, before he arrived in Bianjing, people came to his door.

Zhang Yue immediately invited this person on board to meet him.

(End of this chapter)