The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 468 The Invisible Rich
The sky and the earth screamed alone, and the horses were westerly.

——Excerpt from Fang Yue (Song Dynasty) of "Water Tune Getou Pingshan Hall with Dongpo Rhyme"
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After "Daming Palace Picture" was completed, Bai Fu slept for three days, and when he woke up again, it was already high in the sun.

After washing up, Bai Fu sat alone by the window of the tea shop in the Bashu Guild Hall, holding the teacup in his hand, quietly savoring the fragrance of the tea.

Through the bamboo curtain, Bai Fu looked at the market downstairs.

The sun was shining brightly, and the streets were bustling with people coming and going.Peddlers and pawns peddle along the street, and travelers are in a hurry.Everyone is running around for their livelihood, and there is no time to think or worry.

The smoke and fire in the market is so real, which makes Bai Fu feel the warmth of returning to the mortal world.

While the rings are ringing, Lan Xin floats in the air, and the beautiful figure of Princess Qingluan suddenly arrives.The curtain was lifted, and Princess Qingluan pushed the door open and entered.

But seeing her wearing bright yellow clothes, she is as bright as the buds on the tip of tea leaves in spring, delicate and charming.

"I've been looking for you for a long time!" Princess Qingluan said angrily.

"What's bothering you?" Bai Fu raised his hand, poured tea for the princess, and asked with a smile.

Princess Qingluan asked the maid to bring in a red sandalwood box, opened the wooden box, inside was full of jewels, and there were many precious gold hairpins and jade hairpins.

Princess Qingluan said to Bai Fu: "Master Fu, you have a lot of contacts, can you help me sell these jewelry?"

Bai Fu looked through it briefly, and found that these jewelry are all belongings of the royal family.

Bai Fu was puzzled and asked: "Why? Don't you like these jewelry?"

Princess Qingluan sighed: "That's not true, I want to renovate the meditation room where my mother lives.

The rebels crossed the border like locusts and destroyed many facilities in Tai Chi Palace.The imperial court did not have the money to renovate all the palaces, and only focused on the Daming Palace where the father lived.For a while, the Foguang Temple in Taiji Palace will not be taken into account.

Recently, my mother's room was damp and cold.If it is not repaired in time, I am worried that her condition will worsen.Instead of waiting for the Ministry of Internal Affairs to allocate funds, it is better to raise some money to repair her courtyard.

Back then when he escaped from the East Palace, he was too hasty, and he didn't have time to take away the money that his father rewarded him, so he brought some jewelry for daily use.So, I'm going to sell these jewelry first and exchange some money.

When you have money in the future, you can buy it again.

Seeing Princess Qingluan's pitiful appearance, Bai Fu felt distressed and sad, and said to himself: "I never thought that the princess would also be short of money?"

Sensing Bai Fu's eyes, Princess Qingluan muttered, "Then what do you think?"

In order not to embarrass Princess Qingluan, Bai Fu deliberately teased: "I really didn't expect it, it's not the same as the princess I imagined."

When Princess Qingluan heard it, she really became interested, and asked curiously: "Then what do you think the princess looks like?"

Bai Fu smiled and said: "When I was young, I heard from adults that princesses lived in attics made of gold. The roof was inlaid with gems of various colors, arranged according to the orientation of the stars in the sky. At night, when it was dark, the gems on the roof Flickering, like the Milky Way, is like living in the sky.

The princesses dined on delicacies from mountains and seas, drank fine nectar and jade liquid, and ate dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder.Wash your hair with the dew from the lotus leaves, and bathe in the milk of fresh flowers.

Princesses wear clothes made of clouds, which are light and weightless.The flower clusters embroidered on the clothes will change with the time, blooming flowers of different colors.

The princesses traveled in golden chariots, drawn by elks and led by white elephants.If you go to a distant place, you will ride a crane and fly to the sky.

As the cranes fly across the sky, the sound of rings and celestial music will be heard from the clouds, and colorful petals will be sprinkled down.

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Before Bai Fu finished speaking, Princess Qingluan was already shaking with laughter, leaning back and forth.

Princess Qingluan covered her mouth and said with a smile: "I didn't expect this princess to be so poor, did I? Maybe the one sitting in front of you is a fake princess?"

The two looked at each other and laughed.

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Bai Fu ordered people to go to the warehouse to get the silver taels, and after a while, the clerks brought two nanmu boxes.Tear off the seal, open the key, and there are neat rows of gold ingots inside, shining golden.

Princess Qingluan was taken aback, and said: "My jewelry is not worth so much money."

Bai Fu smiled slightly, waved his hands and said, "As a princess, how can you do without jewelry? I will lend you the money."

Bai Fu took out a waist card, handed it to Princess Qingluan, and said: "These two boxes of gold total a thousand taels, you can use it first. If it is not enough, you can take my waist card at any time and ask the assistant to help you withdraw the money from the warehouse. In this way, even if I am not in Chang'an, it will not delay your money."

Princess Qingluan smiled sweetly and said: "Then I won't be polite to you, I will pay you back when I have money.

However, I am curious, how can you have so much money at such a young age?Even if he is a child of an aristocratic family, he won't be able to produce so much gold in a while? "

Bai Fudao: "When Xu Taifu and other aristocratic families sold off the land properties in Luoyang, the fields and manors in Luoyang were sold at sky-high prices, and countless officials and merchants profited from the sale of land properties.

In order to facilitate long-distance transportation and payment, the officials of the three provinces and six ministries invented the exchange method of "flying money and exchanging" to alleviate the shortage of circulating coins in the market and reduce the inconvenience of carrying a large amount of coins.

Merchants from all over the country went to Chang'an and Luoyang, and handed over money to the "Jinzuoyuan" set up in the east and west by various armies, envoys, or Taoists in exchange for tickets.Half of the lease certificates will be issued by the "Jinzuo Yuan", and the other half of the lease certificates will be sent back to the corresponding institutions in various places.After the merchant returns to the local area, he can withdraw money after checking the two copies and verifying that they match.These official lease certificates are called "feiqian".

The high profits of "Feiqian" are eye-catching, and some big merchants have also discovered the business opportunities in it.

The birth of the "flying money and exchange" exchange method turned the sale of Luoyang farmhouses into a gluttonous feast. "

Princess Qingluan nodded and said: "I still remember this. Many people from our royal family also rushed to Luoyang. Because of the land dispute, many princes and Mrs. Guo Guo had conflicts. In the end, they were punished by the emperor's grandfather.

Could it be that you made a fortune by buying and selling Luoyang land properties? "

Bai Fu smiled and said: "That's not true, but there are some connections.

After the rebellion in Anlushan, the government-run "Jinzuoyuan" and most of the merchants' associations were reduced to powder, and only two or three merchants' associations could continue to operate in the troubled times.

Among them, the largest merchant alliance is called Sheng Taikui.Sheng Taikui was originally a camel team, relying on a huge transport team composed of camel people and tens of thousands of camels.

The camel team sold tea, silk, and medicinal materials from the Central Plains to the Western Regions, and then sold jade, fur, sheep and horses from the Western Regions back to the Central Plains.

After the exchange method of "flying money and changing" was born, Sheng Taikui had joint accounts in various channels, so he also expanded his business and operated "changing quickly" on behalf of him.

Sheng Taikui's richest owner is Chuanbang, and the rest of the richest owners are from aristocratic families in Luoyang.

When Taifu moved to the south, these aristocratic families also moved south with Taifu.So he wanted to transfer the Sheng Tai Kui silver shares in his hand.

Taifu thought this was a business opportunity, so he lent me money to buy all these silver shares.So, I became Sheng Taikui's second wealth owner.

In the troubled times, all roads in the Central Plains were cut off from traffic, and only the green forest gangs such as the Chuan Gang could operate secretly.Therefore, Sheng Taikui's business is getting more and more prosperous.

In the end, many rebel generals approached Sheng Taikui privately, exchanged the looted goods for "just exchange", and transported them to his hometown through underground channels.For this reason, they also opened the door for Sheng Taikui, and the inspection of the goods transported by Sheng Taikui was relatively lax.

In this way, the Chuan Gang transported a lot of military supplies to the rebel forces in Hedong, Henan, and Hebei to assist the Tang army and the local people in resisting the rebels.

In addition, the Sichuan Gang also took the opportunity to instigate many rebel generals and obtained a large amount of military intelligence.It can be described as one stroke.

Over the years, Sheng Taikui has made a lot of money.I didn't do anything, and I accidentally became a rich man. "

　The autumn rain is Hebi, and the mountains are leaning against the clear sky.Jiangnan and Jiangbei are sad, and they pay wine and snail red.There are thousands of canopy boats with reed leaves, and a dream of soup with wild rice and water shield, which I send back to Hong without words.The drunken eyes are indistinct, and the regret is in the setting sun.

　　Outside Pingzhou, the mountain is about to darken, and the eyebrow peak is drawn.The world looks up at the old traces and sighs at the two immortals.I don't see the willows at that time, but the misty rain in the past wiped out a few heroes.The sky and the earth screamed alone, and the horses were westerly.

　　—— "Water Tune Getou Pingshan Hall with Dongpo Rhyme" Fang Yue (Song Dynasty)
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