Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 454 Old Rules Kill People
Chapter [-] Old Rules Kill People

At a young age, Ma Zhou showed a well-rounded side and managed Chen Ying's Tongli Bank in an orderly manner.As Chen Ying's disciple for the first time, Ma Zhou came to the East Palace instead of Chen Ying. Ma Zhou was neither overbearing nor humble, and behaved reasonably.

At this time, the official position of the East Palace Commander has also been renamed as the East Palace Crown Prince Jialing, who is responsible for managing the property of the East Palace. When Ma Zhou completed the handover with the new family order Han Yue, Ma Zhou was about to leave.At this time, a delicate and charming maidservant in palace attire came to Ma Zhou's side and said, "Are you Ma Zhou?"

Ma Zhou nodded and said, "Exactly!"

The maidservant in palace attire smiled slightly and said, "The Crown Princess calls you over!"

Ma Zhou smiled at the maidservant in palace attire: "Please also ask my sister to lead the way!"

"follow me!"

After walking for more than a quarter of an hour in the winding corridors of the East Palace, Ma Zhou came to a bright hall.However, Ma Zhou did not have the opportunity to meet the Crown Princess Zheng Guanyin, but greeted Zheng Guanyin through the curtain: "What can the Crown Princess tell Ma Zhou?"

"There is nothing else," Zheng Guanyin said while sitting under the curtain, "Listen to Han Yue, did you bring banknotes this time?"

This time Ma Zhou came to hand over the dividend income from the first quarter of the third year of Wude to Donggong. The amount is not small, a full 17 guan.Even in the fourth quarter of the second year of Wude, there were only [-] guan, Chen Ying had people use six carriages, and pulled six carts full of gold and silver.But this time, Ma Zhou came directly to hand over a small box that was no more than two feet square in a small two-wheeled carriage.

Han Yue had never seen the banknotes before. Seeing that there were only seventeen bundles of coins, she couldn't make up her mind and hurriedly reported to the princess.Han Yue knew that Chen Ying was very respectable in front of Li Jiancheng, and he was a celebrity in front of Li Jiancheng.But the Eastern Palace is also expensive now, especially the Crown Princess often invites some of the nobles of the imperial court or officials' wives to meet with them for wife diplomacy with things such as embroidery, female celebrity, or calligraphy and painting, or singing and dancing.

Facing these noble ladies and female relatives, Zheng Guanyin's moves were also very generous, and the moves cost thousands or tens of thousands of guan.The fifth princess had a miscarriage a few years ago, and just after the full moon, she only sent more than [-] guan of tonic, ginseng, deer antler, bird's nest and other valuables to Princess Changguang.At the centenary banquet of Princess Huainan, Zheng Guanyin gave Princess Huainan a pair of Kunshan jade rings. The so-called Kunshan jade is actually the Hetian jade of later generations. Not cheap.

The expenditure of the crown princess alone was as many as [-] to [-] in the first quarter.Han Yue looked at the depleted treasury and was very worried, but now Chen Ying did not send a penny in cash, but a box of paper.Using paper as money is something only a madman can do.

Hearing this, Ma Zhouyi was slightly taken aback, and immediately understood that the princess did not believe in the credibility of banknotes.However, it's strange to think about it. The matter of using paper as money is something that Ma Zhou can't think of.Only Chen Ying can think of it.Of course, Ma Zhou naturally knew about the banknotes. As long as he established a strong credit and used the paper as money, there would be no problem at all.

Ma Zhou explained: "Returning to the princess, this banknote was invented by my master. The purpose is to carry it easily. As long as you have the banknote issued by our Tongli Bank, you can go to the counter of Tongli Bank to withdraw the same amount of cash at any time. , the penny is not bad. If the princess does not believe it, she can send someone to the bank to withdraw it."

Zheng Guanyin didn't realize the importance of banknotes. She stroked the banknotes in the box in front of her eyes. At this moment, each banknote was still exuding the fragrance of ink, but what surprised Zheng Guanyin was that the color on the banknotes was When you touch it with your fingers, the color will not fade, and the pattern on the back of the hundred guan is also very strange. Isn't the east of Liaodong the same as Goguryeo?How did it become the Anton Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty?

In fact, not only the Anton Protectorate, but also the Annan Protectorate, Anxi Protectorate, and Anbei Protectorate are also on this map of the Tang Dynasty.The territory under the jurisdiction of the Anbei Protectorate's Mansion included the Baikal Lake of later generations, while the Anxi Protectorate's Mansion included the entire Caspian Sea.This was not random drawing by Chen Ying.This is indeed the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the heyday.

It can be regarded as Chen Ying's bad taste. If someone buried the banknotes with him, maybe the archaeologists would unearth them in the future and provide future generations with physical evidence of the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Zheng Guanyin frowned slightly, and asked in puzzlement: "Isn't that superfluous?"

Ma Zhou patiently explained: "Crown Concubine Mingjian, in the first quarter of this year, the East Palace's dividend was as high as 17 guan. Of course, this is related to the purchase of a large number of equipment by the East Palace, but it is foreseeable that the dividend of the East Palace this year will not be less than 80 million guan. , it is possible to break through a million guan, 100 million guan, if it is all gold, it needs 10 taels of gold, our bank simply cannot take out so much gold at one time, if it is copper coins, the princess knows how much 100 million guan will be ?"

Zheng Guanyin didn't think of this question at first, but when he thought about it, he was shocked.The weight of consistent money in the Tang Dynasty is about nine catties (five hundred grams), and one million Guan is nine million catties. Even if it is converted into the tons of later generations, it is as much as 100 tons.A two-wheeled carriage can pull two thousand catties, and a full 900 horse-drawn carriages are needed to transport it, which means that an average of twelve or thirteen horse-drawn carriages are required to transport money to the East Palace non-stop every day.Regardless of whether the East Palace can save so much money, the key is that such a large amount of wealth will definitely attract the attention of others.

Although the Prince of the East Palace is the Prince of Jianguo and the No. 1 figure in the Tang Dynasty, he is not the No. [-] in the Tang Dynasty after all.If Li Yuan asks Li Jiancheng for this part of the money, can Li Jiancheng refuse?
The answer is yes, Li Jiancheng cannot refuse.However, this banknote can deceive people's eyes and ears.

Ma Zhou couldn't see Zheng Mayin's joy, anger and expression, so he took advantage of the situation and said, "The Crown Princess doesn't know something, this banknote has another benefit!"

In fact, Zheng Guanyin was already moved, she asked curiously when she heard this, "What's the benefit?"

Ma Zhou said with a smile: "All the money in the East Palace can be controlled by the Crown Princess. Even if it is a million coins, the Crown Princess can put it in a place where she can see and touch it."

Zheng Guanyin nodded in satisfaction and said, "That's right, that's right! I, Mr. Chen, said that your literature is a little lacking, but your miscellaneous knowledge is obvious to everyone. I don't know how you plan to get your background?"

Hearing this, Ma Zhou was slightly surprised.He owed Hou Mochen's kindness, and was funded by Hou Mochen's, and now he has a little success, so it is only natural to serve Hou Mochen.But he didn't expect that Chen Ying secretly asked the princess to find him a family background.

It would be a lie to say that Ma Zhou was not moved. Some people like to talk about it, but in fact they do nothing.And Chen Ying is exactly that kind, who doesn't say anything, but secretly tries to get the benefits he deserves.It's not that Ma Zhou doesn't want to be an official, but he knows that the Tang Dynasty is still dominated by aristocratic families. He was born in a poor family.If Chen Ying can open a mansion to visit the prime minister in the future, it will not be too late to enter the officialdom at that time.

Chen should be able to think of himself at this time, and he can be regarded as a generous master.

"When the Crown Princess asked, Ma Zhou had the cheek to ask the Crown Princess for an idea."

Zheng Guanyin said lightly: "Chen Langjun is a person admired by His Royal Highness, and you are also admired by Chen Langjun. What's the matter, just say it, what's the matter?"

Ma Zhou said: "Now my lord is trying to appease Henan. The Zheng family is the landlord of Henan. Ma Zhou wants to expand our business to Henan and even the entire Central Plains. He also asked the Crown Princess to communicate with the Zheng family."

Zheng Guanyin was slightly taken aback, she didn't expect Ma Zhou to open his business to Henan and the headquarters of the Zheng family in Xingyang.But this business has so much money in the first place, once Chen Ying's firm enters strongly, the Zheng family really has no ability to resist.Once Chen Ying's business name is allowed to appear in Zheng's land, I am afraid that Zheng will suffer heavy losses.She was just about to open her mouth to refuse, but then she thought that Chen Ying is now the biggest reliance of the East Palace, and what Ma Zhou meant was probably what Chen Ying meant.She can't decide about the Zheng family's affairs?Then he thought about the benefits of agreeing to Ma Zhou.

Although the Zheng family will lose some money and food, the East Palace will account for [-]% of the income. Zheng Guanyin only thought for a moment and made up his mind: "This Palace will find a way, you just go back!"

Ma Zhou was overjoyed when he heard this.

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There is a river depression on the bank of the Jianhe River. The area here is about [-] to [-] mu. Of course, this is one of the few large wastelands in Xin'an County. Due to the low-lying terrain here, in ten years, For seven or eight years, it will be flooded by the Jianhe River.

Therefore, although it is close to the water source and convenient for irrigation, it is abandoned because the terrain is too low and is often flooded.When Chen Ying saw this piece of wasteland, he felt very speechless.

This is simply like picking up a treasure in the antique market of later generations.But the people who were resettled here were also unwilling. If the government hadn't given them land for free and helped them build houses, it is estimated that all these refugees would run away overnight.

An old farmer really couldn't see it, and was afraid that Chen Ying would waste the precious seeds here, so he mustered up his courage and persuaded: "My young gentleman, the land here cannot be planted, you must have been deceived by others, I am People from Shengchi have heard of this place a long time ago, and there will be nine shortages in ten years..."

Chen Ying laughed loudly: "Who told you that you can't grow crops here?"

When it comes to professional matters, the old farmer feels that it is necessary to let Chen Ying understand that farming is not something that their sons and grandsons can handle.The attitude of the old farmer is very persistent: "If you don't grow well, you will be flooded if you plant it. Not to mention the effort, and the seeds will be wasted. You can't grow millet, millet, wheat, bean, or hemp."

Chen Yingdao: "Then why don't you grow rice?"

The old farmer looked at Chen Ying like a fool: "How is it possible to grow rice in Henan?"

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "It should be possible to grow rice, absolutely!"

Chen Ying vaguely remembered that in later generations, he had a client from Henan who gave him two bags of Duliang rice.Chen Ying remembered very clearly that Du Liang was a township in Kaifeng County, not to mention that Xinyang rice was also very famous in later generations.It can be seen that the climate in Henan can grow rice.

The old farmer shook his head and said, "No..."

Chen Ying said resolutely: "Listen to me, just plant rice, and I'll ask you to buy seeds for you."

At this moment, at least 30 or [-] people around the old farmer knelt on the ground with a plop, kowtowed to Chen Ying, and begged in one voice: "Mr. Lang, you can do it!"

"Lang Jun, you should pity us poor people!"

"There is no way to grow rice here, this is the rule left by the ancestors..."

"Lang Jun, please show mercy!"

"Little old man kowtowed to you, please let us go!"

……

Hearing this, Chen Ying felt inexplicable.It was as if he had done something outrageous.Chen Ying had to sigh: "The old rules kill people.

(End of this chapter)