Fenghou

Chapter 493
Wang Mian was still at a loss. There were forty large boxes neatly placed in his room. The boxes were filled with a hundred taels of silver ingots. There were at least fifty ingots, and each box contained five thousand taels of silver. Silver, forty big boxes, isn't it two hundred thousand taels of silver?

Wang Mi sat blankly on the chair, he never dreamed that Chen Qing would send someone to bring him two hundred thousand taels of silver.

What does it mean?buy yourself?He must have bought himself!

After a while, Wang Mi recovered from the daze, and then fell into ecstasy and trouble again.

Joy is of course [-] taels of silver, which is the biggest gain in his life. Compared with this income, the [-] guan salt tax bribe that made him ecstatic the year before last has become insignificant again.

One million strings!He can't spend this money in two lifetimes.

But he also knew that the money was not so easy to collect, which meant that the silver mine must exist.

And after receiving the money, he had to make concessions to Chen Qing, at least the matter of silver mines and iron mines could no longer be mentioned.

The conflicts that happened before can only be ignored, don’t worry about it, and the report he wrote to the emperor has to be false, and write some relatively false things, such as Chen Qing has a bad attitude, he likes to be arbitrary, and he is very tyrannical to the supervising army. Very contradictory and so on.

As for the filing of the Jiedu Mansion, it can only be ignored, as it is indeed the abbreviation of the Jiedushi's staff.

As for that Jiang Yanxian, I suggest that he change his name!Just pretend that you don't know that he was the magistrate of Song Dynasty in the past.

The silver bullet's offensive was really powerful, and Wang Mi immediately broke the defense. He began to think about how to explain to the officials and the queen mother, so as to meet the requirements of the queen mother and the officials, and at the same time not make the problem serious. For silver's sake.
Wang Mian was faced with a complex emotion that he had never experienced before.

"Bang! Bang!"

A large store on East Avenue opened for business, attracting many people to watch. It turned out to be the opening of the Chengji County Branch of Baoji Cabinet.

Baoji Cabinet Shop, also known as Baoji Money Shop, was once one of the three major money shops in Bianliang in the Song Dynasty. Later, it moved to Lin’an. It has branches in many important cities, but there are not many in the west. None, but there is a branch in Chengji County.

Of course, the reason why there is no branch in Nanzheng County is because of the war. Jin Bing broke through Nanzheng County twice, so there is really no sense of security.

A carriage, escorted by more than a dozen cavalry, slowly stopped opposite the newly opened cabinet shop. Through the window, Chen Qing looked at this new shop with the same exterior decoration as Chengdu Baoji cabinet shop.

When he saw Wang Hao passing by in the shop, Chen Qing laughed and said, "Go in and have a look!"

Chen Qing walked into the cabinet shop, but Wang Hao received him. The owner of this cabinet shop is called Qin Xi, who is actually the internal affairs camp.

Naturally, this cabinet shop was prepared for Wang Mian. Chen Qing was not generous enough to bribe an eunuch with two hundred thousand taels of silver, and it was only stored there temporarily.

So he needed to set up a cabinet shop to keep the money for Wang Mian. Of course, the cabinet shop was a trap for Wang Mian, but it was a normal cabinet shop for others.

This cabinet shop was originally a government-run cabinet shop that the county government planned to open, but Chen Qing temporarily allocated it to the internal affairs camp and borrowed the name of Baoji cabinet shop.

There are eight assistants, six guards, and a shopkeeper. The shopkeeper's surname is Yao. He is about fifty years old.

The cabinet workshop covers an area of ​​about eight acres, and the most important buildings inside are two warehouses, all of which are made of large bluestone, each with two iron gates, which are extremely strong.

The cabinet workshops in the Song Dynasty were the early prototypes of banks. They mainly stored money for customers and charged storage fees.

Shopkeeper Yao led Chen Qing to a warehouse, smiled and introduced Chen Qing: "There are two iron doors in each warehouse, the first iron door is opened by the chief guard, and the second iron door is opened by me. Stabilized."

A guard stepped forward and unlocked the big lock of the first iron door. After walking a few steps, the second iron door was in front of him. Shopkeeper Yu took out the key and opened the heavy iron door, and pushed it open creakingly.

The warehouse is very large, there are dozens of independent warehouses, large and small, and it is a place to store large amounts of money. The property above [-] guan is stored here, while the small wealth below [-] guan is stored in another warehouse. Inside the warehouse.

"Are there any customers already?" Chen Qing saw signs on the small doors of several independent warehouses.

"Reporting to Jiedushi, several families have come to store their belongings, and the first one is Commander Zheng."

It was actually Zheng Ping, Chen Qing said with a smile, "How much money has he deposited?"

Shopkeeper Yao showed embarrassment, "Jiedushi, I'm really sorry, this is the first rule of the cabinet shop, never reveal the amount of wealth of the customers."

"It's okay, I just need to know about one family. It's not Zheng Ping. I don't care about others. Also leave me a warehouse. My wife may come to store my belongings tomorrow."

Shopkeeper Yao hurriedly bowed and said, "Please rest assured, envoy Jiedu, we will definitely make proper arrangements when Madam comes."

Just as he was talking, a clerk rushed over and said, "The Superintendent has also sent someone over to inquire about the storage of property, and they are waiting in your guest room."

It was expected by Chen Qing that Wang Mi sent someone to inquire, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.

Chen Qing smiled slightly and said, "Master Yao, please go! I still have something to do, so I'll leave immediately."

Shopkeeper Yao apologized and hurried away.

Chen Qing immediately left the cabinet and got into the carriage. The carriage started and drove towards the west of the city.
Today, Chen Qing went to the cabinet workshop just as a drop in. What he really wanted to visit was Huren Street. Huren Street was a small street parallel to West Street. It got its name because there was a Huren Inn on the street.

The property right of this street belongs to the county government. The construction has just been completed, and dozens of shops have not had time to rent out. The county government received an eagle letter from Chen Qing from Huangzhou City, requesting that all the shops in Huren Street be rented out. Leave it to the barbarians in the Western Regions.

Chen Qing decided to extend the eastern starting point of the Silk Road to Chengji County.

It is not difficult to achieve this. The transactions in Huangzhou City are basically transactions between merchants from the Western Regions and Ren Dejing. Although there are some Han Chinese caravans coming from Bashu, they are mainly transactions between the government and merchants from the Western Regions.

Therefore, as long as the government's trading place is moved eastward to Chengji County, merchants from the Western Regions will naturally follow.

At present, more than [-] Hu merchants have opened shops on Huren Street. These Hu people originally opened stores in Huangzhou. When they heard that Chen Qing was going to move the trading market to Chengji County, they immediately came to lease the shops.

It can be seen how keen these businessmen are on business opportunities. Once Ren Dejing died, they knew that the trading center in Huangzhou was coming to an end.

When the group came to Huren Street, Chen Qing unexpectedly saw a group of camels, more than a hundred of them, carrying heavy cargo. Several Huren from the Western Regions led the camels into Huren Street.

Chen Qing winked at Zhu Sui, the secretary in charge who came with him, Zhu Sui understood, and hurried forward to inquire, and came back soon to report: "Jiedu envoy, they are businessmen from Khotan, and the goods they carry are mainly It's medicine and jade."

Chen Qing nodded. If he came from the Black Khan Dynasty in the west, it would probably be a thousand camels.

Seeing the camel team entering a shop, he ordered the carriage to follow.

The person who came to inquire about saving money for Wang Mi, the supervising army, was his right-hand man Su Hui.

Wang Mi got [-] taels of silver, of course he can't store it in the expensive hotel, his money is usually stored in the Baoji cabinet.

As far as he knew, there was only one treasure store in Chengdu, and it would be nice to send it to Chengdu, but the journey was too far away, so he was really worried.

He sent someone to inquire about the cabinet shops in the city, and found out that there was also a Baoji cabinet shop in Chengji County, which surprised and delighted him, so he hurriedly sent Su Hui to find out the situation.

Su Hui took a sip of hot tea and asked, "If I want to send my wealth to Baoji Cabinet in Chengdu, would you like to accept the order?"

Shopkeeper Yao shook his head and said, "We only transport to the prefectures on Xihe Road. It is too dangerous to transport wealth to Bashu. There are Qiang bandits and mountain bandits along the way. We must have army guards. We don't have such a strong guard capability for the time being."

"If I just store it in your store, how can I ensure safety?"

Shopkeeper Yao laughed, "Why is there a problem? If you are worried, you can come and check every day."

"How much does it cost to store belongings?"

"It has nothing to do with what kind of property you store, it just depends on the size of the warehouse you rent. If it is a large warehouse, it costs two pennies per month. The cheapest is a small warehouse, which costs three hundred cash per month. There are also medium warehouses and upper-middle warehouses. "

Su Hui nodded, "I'll report back and give you an answer as soon as possible!"

That afternoon, Su Hui came again. He rented a large warehouse to store the wealth he obtained on Xihe Road, and took it with him when he left.

That night, Wang Mi personally led people to store all forty large boxes in the large warehouse.

(End of this chapter)