Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 622 Feiqian’s Anti-Counterfeiting Technology (Part [-])
Chapter 35 Feiqian’s anti-counterfeiting technology

In Li Jiancheng's study in the East Palace, Li Yuanji and Wei Zheng stood side by side in front of the desk. Li Yuanji looked at Li Jiancheng and said excitedly: "Brother, the second child was called into the palace by the emperor, probably for the assassination of Luo Shixin!"

Li Jiancheng didn't seem to feel that Li Yuanji and Wei Zheng were in front of him, his eyes wandered away from his body.Wei Zheng kept observing Li Jiancheng's expression. Li Jiancheng seemed to be thinking about something. After a long time, Li Jiancheng let out a foul breath.

Li Yuanji said cautiously: "Brother, do you want to sit and watch Luo Shixin's assassination and remain indifferent?"

Li Jiancheng was slightly startled and said, "How do you say that?"

"Isn't the matter obvious?" Li Yuanji said: "Luo Shixin was assassinated just now, and Changsun Wuji was accused of raising dead men in that house in Qujiangfang. It is ridiculous to say that Changsun Wuji, that fat man Na Yifang concubine Jiang Shi, Jiang Shi originally had a childhood sweetheart, Guo Silang, but when Guo Silang had a private meeting with Jiang Shi, he was found out by the eldest grandson Wuji, who was enraged by the elder grandson Wuji and ordered people to kill Guo Silang alive Beating him to death, Jiang was furious and exposed the matter of Changsun Wuji raising dead soldiers and secretly hiding soldiers..."

Li Jiancheng looked at Wei Zheng and said, "Xuancheng, what do you think of this matter?"

Wei Zheng was slightly taken aback, his brows furrowed, and he muttered to himself, "This seems to make sense both emotionally and logically, but it's really too coincidental. In this world, the most unbelievable thing is a coincidence."

"Xuan Cheng's opinion is exactly what I want!" Li Jiancheng nodded deeply and said, "There are too many coincidences in this. Although the Changsun family is not a high-ranking family, but they have a beautiful concubine. It’s not enough to use force. He only needs to take concubines, there are plenty of people in Chang’an, and he can send his own daughter to Changsun Wuji’s house.”

When Li Yuanji heard this, he became impatient: "Brother, this is the best time to deal with King Qin..."

Before Li Yuanji finished speaking, Li Jiancheng interrupted: "Father is not confused yet, although he is in the palace, his eyes can see clearly."

Hearing this, Li Yuanji was disappointed for a while.

Li Jiancheng asked again: "What is Chen Concubine doing now?"

Wei Zheng was taken aback for a moment, then bowed and said, "I don't know, I think it should be enjoying family happiness with Princess Pingyang."

Li Yuanji said: "Brother, I know about this. The third brother-in-law and the third sister think that Chang'an is too hot, so they will go to Qinglin in Wannian County to escape the summer heat!"

"Retiring from the summer heat?" Li Jiancheng laughed dumbly: "They are really good at enjoying themselves, but this palace never has a moment to spare."

Wei Zheng asked: "What matter, can I share one or two for Your Highness?"

Li Jiancheng rubbed his head and said, "Is Xuancheng familiar with Bai Lanbu?"

"Bai Lan!" Wei Zheng turned his head sharply, and asked suspiciously: "His Royal Highness is referring to the Tuyuhun Bailan King's Department, or the Qiang Bailan Department?"

The Tuyuhun tribe of Xianbei was originally a branch of the Murong tribe of Xianbei. The eldest son of Murong Shegui, the leader of the Murong tribe, and Murong Xin, the founder of the Murong tribe, had a good relationship.Because Murong Xin was provoked, he became estranged gradually, and once even argued with Murong Tuyuhun on the grounds of horse bites. Later, Murong Tuyuhun asked to leave.So Murong Tuyuhun led [-] households away to Yinshan Mountain. From then on, Murong Tuyuhun's descendants all took Tuyuhun as their family name.At the beginning of the fifth century A.D., the Tuyuhun tribe proclaimed their ministers to the court of the Liu Dynasty, and Liu Yu named Mu Liyan the king of Henan, also known as Bailan king.However, at the time of the rise of the Turks, the Tuyuhun was divided into two parts due to the strength of the Turks at that time. One part became a vassal and befriended the Turks, while the other abandoned the name of the Tuyuhun family and named it the Bailan tribe.But this Xianbei Bailan tribe gradually fell silent.

However, there are thirteen tribes including the Bailan tribe, the Baima tribe, the Shaodang tribe, the Heishui tribe, the Tang Yak tribe, the Yak tribe, the Tsingyi tribe, the Shenlang tribe, and the Ranmen tribe.The Bailan tribe is one of them. Its ethnic group is actively adjacent to the Xianbei Tuyuhun, also known as the Lintao Bailan tribe.

Wei Zheng's ability to separate the Bailan tribe of Xianbei from the Bailan tribe of Xiqiang is enough to prove that Wei Zheng has a certain understanding of this.

Li Jiancheng said: "It's the Bailan tribe of the Western Qiang. I just received news a few days ago that Ke Luozi, the chief of the Bailan tribe, requested to be attached. I can't make up my mind!"

Wei Zheng asked: "Your Highness, do you know why the Bailan Department requested to be attached? Is it because Tuyuhun launched a war against him, or because of a natural disaster?"

For the nomadic peoples in northern and northwest China, when they cannot survive, they usually choose to surrender.Anyway, what the Central Plains dynasty needed was a nominal surrender, and they still managed their own affairs in the tribe's internal affairs.Once you choose to surrender, you can openly ask the central court for money, food, and supplies.As long as they get through the difficulties, they will always raise the flag and rebel.For this routine, they have tried a hundred times without success, but unfortunately, they will always be deceived in all dynasties.

Li Jiancheng nodded and said: "Tubo's national power is rising now, and it wants to conquer Tuyuhun in the east. A cow and a sheep..."

There are more than [-] cattle and sheep. For a huge tribe like the Turks, it is not a drop in the bucket.However, for a small tribe like the Bailan tribe with less than [-] households and [-] to [-] young and strong, having more than [-] cattle and sheep is almost a serious blow to their vitality.

According to Li Yuan's overjoyed temperament, he must have been attached to the Nabrandan tribe, but he established Mizhou Guizhou and worshiped its leader Ke Luozi as the governor of Guizhou.

However, Li Jiancheng felt that it was not easy.Datang is in constant trouble now, especially when the Turks are still gathering in Dingxiang, Li Jiancheng really doesn't want to accept the Bailan tribe and attract Tubo, a powerful enemy.However, once the Bailan tribe desperately needed Tang's support, Tang could not avoid it. I am afraid that in the future, it will not be so easy to subdue these remote tribes.

Although Wei Zheng could tell the difference between the Bailan Qiang tribe and the Tuyuhun Bailan tribe, he really had no other good way to deal with these minority affairs.

However, Wei Zheng remonstrated to Li Jiancheng: "His Royal Highness, if this matter is difficult to decide, why don't you ask Concubine Chen?"

"Chen Consort? I didn't hear that Chen Ying was familiar with the affairs of the Bailan and Qiang tribe!" Li Jiancheng asked in confusion.

Wei Zheng smiled wryly and said, "How did Chen Consort know about the neighboring lands of the Di clan? He also didn't understand the Turkic people, but once he used Chen Concubine, he would definitely think of a suitable solution."

Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "That's great!"

……

When Li Xiuning and Chen Ying arrived in Qinglin, it was almost noon, and it was the time of the day when the heat was the highest. Because the weather was too hot, Li Xiuning and Chen Ying were not in the mood to eat. They were in the indoor swimming pool of Chenjiabao. , After taking a cold shower, Li Xiuning yawned profusely.

Chen Ying was not as lucky as Li Xiuning, because Ma Zhou came to report to Chen Ying.

Chen Ying was satisfied with Ma Zhou's working ability.Chen Ying did not engage in financial work in later generations, and actually only had a half-knowledge of the management and operation processes of banks and the financial system.However, Ma Zhou was so smart that he quickly developed a completely immature idea put forward by Chen Ying into an executable plan.

Among them, Ma Zhou contributed the most.

In order to reward Ma Zhou, a great hero of the Chen family, Chen Ying personally turned a pot of millet, red dates and hawthorn porridge into ice paste like a magic trick.Seeing this scene, Ma Zhou was astonished.

Chen Ying enjoyed this kind of feeling very much, using the knowledge of later generations to subdue Ma Zhou's feelings.After all, Ma Zhou was not an ordinary person, he was the first civilian prime minister of the Tang Dynasty.Before Ma Zhou, the chancellor was the exclusive property of the aristocratic family, and even if it was again, he was born as a humble scholar, not a commoner like Ma Zhou.

When Ma Zhou first came into contact with the bank industry, he was also very puzzled why Chen Ying fixed the interest rate at [-] percent. You must know that at this time, there is almost no interest rate below [-] percent.By doing this, Chen Ying is actually setting up countless enemies. All the rich and powerful families in the world who lend usury will regard Chen Ying as a life and death crisis. After all, cutting off one's wealth is like killing one's parents.

But Chen Ying's explanation made Ma Zhoumao suddenly enlightened.Chen Ying told Ma Zhou that he was not short of money, so he didn't care much about how much money the bank could make.

Chen Ying's real purpose is to master Datang's money-printing machine so that the whole country can enjoy the risks brought by paper money.However, Chen Ying also knew that if he took too long a step, it would be easy to get caught.Therefore, we have to eat food bite by bite, and we have to walk step by step on the road.

In ancient times, it was too difficult to master anti-counterfeiting technology. Chen Ying didn't dare to print banknotes openly. With Chen Ying's [-]% interest to attract loans, he has become the public enemy of the world.It's just because Chen Ying's head is thick enough and his background is strong enough that no one dares to touch his cheese.

However, once Chen Ying prints banknotes and puts them on the market, other rich families and aristocratic families will definitely spare no effort to manufacture counterfeit currency, which will cost Chen Ying his fortune.

Watching Ma Zhou holding a box carefully and gently placing it in front of Chen Ying.Chen Ying opened the box and saw that it was a new paper made of high-quality birch and silk. This paper was three times thicker than ordinary rice paper, and it had a silky texture to the touch. The banknotes known as Feiqian have a denomination of more than [-] guan.Chen Ying stroked the "notes" with dozens of seals printed on them lightly and said, "Ma Zhou, what kind of anti-counterfeiting technology do you use?"

Looking at the Feiqian made by engraving and printing, although it adopts patterns in four basic colors of red, yellow, green, and blue, Chen Ying knows that if forgery is used, Chen Ying is fully confident that within a month , Trial-produce flying money banknotes that are enough to be fake.

Ma Zhou smiled and said, "My lord, if you take a closer look, you will definitely find something."

Chen Ying looked at the face value of this piece as high as [-] guan. After a long time, Chen Ying said curiously: "Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches? No, no, this method is really clumsy."

(End of this chapter)