Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 890

Chapter 12 Shangshu Zuo Pushe should be replaced
The main coin of the Tang Dynasty was still five baht. However, due to the rise of commerce in this era, especially large-scale transactions became more and more widespread. With the development of four years, more and more common people or gentry were willing to accept money transactions. According to the previous transactions , involving thousands of coins, only ten thousand copper coins will require more than 7 catties, which is equivalent to 35 tons.

If a four-wheeled carriage with a load of five thousand catties is used, a full twelve carriages are required.Just like buying rice now, a stone of grain is as high as [-] yuan, and the weight of the money is as much as five catties.

Xu Jingzong is very clear about the accounts of Datang Tongli Bank.Don't look at him as Bibu Langzhong in the imperial court now, but he is the first deputy general manager after Ma Zhou.He is very clear about how much deposits Datang Tongli Bank has. According to the statistics at the end of the sixth year of Wude, Datang Tongli Bank has a total of 870 million deposits, of which about 600 million loans have been borrowed.

Now the grain merchants in Guanzhong can lend more than one million guan at one time, so the deposit of Tongli Bank is only more than one million guan. Although more than 100 million guan sounds like a lot, it can be divided up. If it is less than [-] coins, once it cannot be exchanged with merchants or aristocratic families who own money at any time, it is easy to cause a run.

The survival of a bank is fundamentally based on credit. Once Datang Tongli Bank loses credit, it may go bankrupt at any time.This is a question that Xu Jingzong is very worried about.

When hearing Xu Jingzong's worries, Chen Ying smiled disapprovingly: "Jingzong, your worries are unreasonable. Guanzhong grain merchants have too many pledged stores. At that time, once they reach the repayment time, they will not be able to pay back the money." For loans, according to the contract, Datang Tongli Bank will publicly auction all the shops, real estate, fields, minerals, etc. they pledged. You must know that these resources are high-quality resources, such as the Jiangnan family, the Hebei family, and the Bashu and Liaodong families. We are worrying that there will be no chance to buy real estate in Guanzhong, but now we have such a good opportunity, we can turn these properties into living money in time!"

Following Chen Ying's explanation, Xu Jingzong suddenly became enlightened.

What Chen Ying said is true, like the long-declined Langya Wang family, Chenjun Xie family, Hanoi Sima family, Luoyang Chen family, Yingchuan Chen family, Anding Liang family, Nanyang Deng family, Beidi Fu family, etc. The aristocratic families of the Three Kingdoms and Jin Dynasties had already lost their excitement in the Tang Dynasty.

However, it does not mean that they are unwilling to rise again.The key point is that in order to rise, it needs to be close to the political center or economic center, which is why Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou have become a concentration of talents in later generations.Because the closer you are to the political center, the more opportunities you have.

However, the aristocratic families and clans in any region have one thing in common that is extremely xenophobic.Under normal circumstances, it is actually very difficult for aristocratic families from other places to enter Guanzhong, let alone buy land and real estate in Guanzhong.The land in Guanzhong is limited, they will only rotate among the aristocratic families in Guanzhong, and will not easily sell it to the aristocratic families outside Guanzhong.

Of course, Chen Ying used this opportunity to shuffle the cards of the Guanzhong family, creating a catfish effect.Only when a large number of catfish flooded into Guanzhong, the stagnant water in Guanzhong would instantly come alive.

Instead of standing on the opposite side of Li Jiancheng as they are now, fighting openly and secretly with Li Jiancheng, wasting all the main resources and strength in internal fighting.

Xu Jingzong thought for a while and said: "Since the master thinks that the loan can be granted, let's start a meeting with them!"

Chen Ying nodded and said: "However, the valuation of the pledge must be severely suppressed, especially houses and shops. For shops worth [-] guan, the maximum loan can be [-] guan!"

Chen Ying silently calculated that if he owns all the shops, he can become a well-deserved half of Chang'an City, because this time the pledge, only the shops accounted for more than [-]% of the total number of shops in Chang'an.

Once such a large-scale public auction occurs, the supply of shop prices will exceed demand, and then fall.

Xu Jingzong thought that Chen Ying would kill him ruthlessly, but he never thought that Chen Ying would be so ruthless.

In fact, Chen Ying was kind enough to the profiteers who shorted the grain market.After all, they all use the lives of the people in Guanzhong as game chips.

After Xu Jingzong left, Chen Ying also left the study.

The eldest grandson Wugou looked at Chen Ying's messy dossiers, documents, and some account books, and collected them together.Suddenly, an account book fell to the ground, and the eldest grandson Wugou picked it up.

Just when she was about to put it back in place, she suddenly found that the above accounts were vaguely incorrect.

Changsun Wugou lit the candle, picked up a pen and began proofreading.

When the eldest grandson Wugou was Princess Qin, she liked to be good at managing money, but it was a pity that she met Chen Ying who was cheating, no matter how hard she tried, she still couldn't manage the Prince Qin's mansion well.

The eldest grandson Wugou checked an account book and found that it was already midnight.However, there were nearly four thousand errors and omissions in this account book.This made Changsun Wugou feel unbelievable, why didn't Chen Ying find out?
Immediately, she picked up another account book and proofread it.

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In the early morning of the next day, Li Jiancheng, Wang Gui, Wei Zheng and others all dressed in casual clothes came to a porridge kitchen outside Chang'an City.

Wei Zheng explained to Li Jiancheng: "Your Majesty's benevolence, ministers and others have set up more than 370 porridge sheds in the counties of Guanzhong in the name of Your Majesty, and there are as many as [-] three in Chang'an City alone."

When Li Jiancheng looked at the people drinking porridge, he showed a look of difficulty swallowing, and frowned slightly. He pointed to the big iron pot and said, "Give me a bowl!"

When the responsible officer heard the word "Zhen", his face changed greatly with fright.

Wei Zheng shouted: "Hurry up!"

Li Jiancheng said angrily, "Quick!"

The little official had no choice but to direct the cook to serve Li Jiancheng a bowl of porridge.

Li Jiancheng didn't care about scalding his mouth, and just opened his mouth to drink.

However, when the porridge came into his mouth, Li Jiancheng almost spat it out. There was actually salt in the porridge, and it was so salty that his face twitched.

Li Jiancheng took a long time and took a lot of effort to swallow the porridge in his mouth, but he was not interested in taking a second sip.

Li Jiancheng was so angry that his face was livid, and he roared angrily: "What's going on?"

The little official didn't dare not answer, he said expectantly: "This is General Chen's order, add twenty catties of salt to each pot!"

Li Jiancheng looked at the big pot. At best, it contained about [-] catties of salt. Adding [-] catties of salt was almost equal to the salt content of seawater.No wonder it was too salty to swallow.

When Li Jiancheng heard that Chen Ying had ordered it, he immediately became angry.

Li Jiancheng looked at his followers and said, "Go and invite General Chen, I want to hear what he has to say!"

Li Jiancheng was really angry. The victims were pitiful enough. Chen Ying actually let them eat a lot of salt. Could it be that Chen Ying treated people like animals?

The retinue knights rode up to Chenjiabao on their horses, but when Chen Ying arrived at the porridge shed, Li Jiancheng was about to explode.

Li Jiancheng pointed at the common people who were eating porridge and said in pain, "General Chen, can you explain to me what's going on?"

Chen Ying bowed and said, "Report to Your Majesty, I am saving people!"

Hearing this, Li Jiancheng couldn't help showing a look of coldness on his face, but when he looked at Chen Ying, he felt a little unfriendly.

Li Jiancheng's eyes showed disappointment and despair.

Li Jiancheng is a grateful person. Of course, Chen Ying has helped him a lot in these years. The most important thing is that if Chen Ying did not turn the tide of Xuanwu Gate, he would definitely be tragic. Not only would he be forced out of Chang'an by Li Shimin, but he might even Become the second Yang Yong!

Of course, Chen Ying actually found out that these grain merchants did everything they could to get a seat in the Zhongguan Zhongliang Market.Because behind the grain merchants stood the aristocratic families in Guanzhong, and they had plenty of people. Therefore, almost one-third, or even nearly half, of the porridge sheds opened by the government were people sent by the grain merchants.

They dressed up as disaster victims and pretended to receive relief porridge.

The porridge distributed by the imperial court is limited, and if they eat more, the victims will eat less.

At the same time, grain merchants will intensify the consumption of grain in the hands of the government.

When Chen Ying discovered this problem, he immediately thought of the famous corrupt officials and gentry in later generations.Once Qianlong asked Heshen to be responsible for disaster relief, and Heshen asked people to add sand to the porridge.Many people scolded Heshen, thinking that Heshen was not only greedy, but also morally corrupt.However, Chen Ying knew that He Shen did this to save others.

Chen Ying always believes that human nature is evil, and greed and selfishness are human instincts.Once there is free porridge to eat, some people obviously have food at home, but they will squeeze their heads and compete with the victims for food.In addition, the people sent by the grain merchants, the real victims, could not eat the relief porridge distributed by the court.

However, He Shen added sand to the porridge. As long as ordinary people can eat, they will never eat porridge with sand, unless they are extremely hungry.

Of course, Chen Ying would not be so shameless.But Chen Ying thought of adding more salt. Anyway, he is sitting in the Lingzhou Salt Mine, and there is plenty of salt, so he mixed salt into the porridge. This kind of salty and bitter porridge is not very hungry, and absolutely no one wants to eat it.Therefore, almost all the people who came to receive the porridge were real disaster victims, and there were definitely not many fake disaster victims.

After listening to Chen Ying's explanation, Li Jiancheng realized that Chen Ying had good intentions and added a huge amount of salt. Salt itself was more expensive than food, and Chen Ying contributed the salt out of his own pocket.

Li Jiancheng bowed deeply towards Chen Ying and said, "I blamed Chen Qing by mistake!"

Chen Ying waved his hands again and again and said, "This method will soon fail, because my salt reserves are almost exhausted!"

At this moment, a carriage came slowly.

The left servant of Shangshu Feng Deyi angrily put the box in front of Li Jiancheng, and said angrily: "Your Majesty, I want to participate in the impeachment of Fang Xuanling, who is disrespectful and rebellious. Your Majesty, please make Fang Xuanling clear." Canon punishment.

Li Jiancheng stared at the edict in the box, looked at the red cross on it, gritted his teeth fiercely and said, "Come on, drive back to the palace!"

Wei Zheng hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, calm down!"

Wei Zheng signaled to Chen Ying.

Although Wei Zheng is Li Jiancheng's confidant, but at the critical moment, Chen Ying's words made Li Jiancheng more able to listen to him.

Chen Ying stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, calm down!"

Actually, Chen Ying was more nervous about Fang Xuanling than Wei Zheng.

After all, in history, Fang Xuanling was a generation of virtuous ministers.With the assistance of Fang Xuanling, Li Jiancheng can even create a prosperous Tang Dynasty.

……

Li Jiancheng, Wei Zheng, Wang Gui, Feng Deyi and others returned to the Taiji Palace. At this time, Fang Xuanling was invited by two warriors standing in the palace to wait in the Lizheng Hall of the Taiji Palace.

Li Jiancheng stared angrily at Fang Xuanling and said, "I entrust the affairs of state to you, but why do you want to use the authority in the matter to make things difficult for me?"

Wei Zheng looked anxious, winking at Fang Xuanling again and again.

However, Fang Xuanling didn't pay attention to Wei Zheng's eyes at all, and instead said calmly: "Your Majesty, because these two edicts are wrong."

Feng Deyi laughed back angrily: "It's really a big joke in the world. Do you want to judge right and wrong in such a small matter?"

Wei Zheng looked at Chen Ying, trying to make Chen Ying smooth things over.

Chen Ying was not nervous, after all, if Fang Xuanling only had this ability, how could he become a virtuous minister of the country?

Chen Ying has more confidence in Fang Xuanling than Wei Zheng.

Seeing Chen Ying's indifference, Wei Zheng said anxiously: "It's true that there are many strange things in the world. This is probably the first case since the establishment of three provinces and six ministries to deny and refute an imperial edict. I am very open to such a rebellious person." Eyesight."

Seeing Chen Ying's silence, Wei Zheng said again: "What does the general think of Feng Xianggong's strategy of being a man?"

Chen Ying said with a faint smile: "Scholar's opinion!"

Fortunately, Chen Ying's voice was extremely low, otherwise Feng Deyi would have turned the cannon and aimed at Chen Ying.

Feng Deyi looked at Fang Xuanling and shouted coldly: "The Twelve Guards Army has the most serious shortage of personnel, only half; the remaining armies, the one with the largest number of soldiers, also has a 15% shortage. Originally, the Guanzhong Twelfth Army should have 11 There are tens of thousands of horses, but now there are less than [-].

Li Jiancheng nodded again and again in agreement.

Feng Deyi said again: "This time the Turkic movement, the tribes have assembled more than 20 cavalry, and the intention to go south is obvious. If we want to win the battle and maintain the twelve army at full strength, it is the minimum requirement. "

Fang Xuanling turned the corner of her mouth dismissively.

Feng Deyi roared in a sharp voice: "Aside from recruiting middle-aged men, is there a better way? Fang Xuanling, you refuse to obey the imperial edict, and you are like an enemy. Could it be that you want to help the Turks?"

This is the way civil officials bicker.Put a big hat on first, but Fang Xuanling ignored Feng Deyi, just looked at Li Jiancheng and said, "Your Majesty, you know how many household registrations there are on the books in Guanzhong, and how many household registrations are there in reality? And among these household registrations, What proportion of middle-aged men meet the standard?"

Li Jiancheng shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Fang Xuanling turned to look at Feng Deyi and said, "Feng Xiangguo, do you know?"

Feng Deyi thought for a while and said, "I don't know."

Fang Xuanling said: "Then, who knows how many mu of land there are in Guanzhong, and what is the average yield per mu? How many people are needed to cultivate it?

Li Jiancheng and Feng Deyi looked at each other.

Chen Ying said: "I know that there are more than 25 and 25 fields in the Guanzhong Communist Party. According to the rent adjustment, a total of more than 890 dings are needed. Guanzhong's fields can produce one stone and seven buckets per mu in the upper field and eight buckets in the lower field." In Zhongtian, one stone is two buckets, with an average of one stone and two buckets of three thousand. The actual arable land is about 100 million mu, and now it is cultivated every three years.

Fang Xuanling looked at Chen Ying in amazement. He didn't expect that Chen Ying would know the data he investigated, let alone that the data Chen Ying knew matched the data he investigated.

Fang Xuanling sighed: "The Manchu masters can't compare with a martial artist!"

Wei Zheng handed a stack of memorials to Li Jiancheng and said, "Your Majesty, the counties and counties in Guanzhong have a total of 43 households according to Wude's four-year statistics, but at present, according to the reports from the counties and counties, there are only half of them. The number of adult males, Compared with the four years of Wude, it is less than [-]%."

Li Jiancheng raised his head in surprise, looked at Wei Zheng and said, "Why?"

Fang Xuanling sighed, and said: "From the first year of Wude to the present, we have fought every year, and every time we fight, we have to conscript soldiers. In counties and counties where the situation is the worst, some men have not returned home for three years. If middle-aged males are forcibly recruited, the entire Guanzhong next year will face a desperate situation of no crops."

Li Jiancheng stood up worriedly and said: "Xuancheng, the situation in Guanzhong is so bad, why didn't you report it to me earlier?
Wei Zheng asked Li Jiancheng deeply, "I'm guilty!"

PS: Sorry for the lateness today.Hallmaster Yuehuangtai’s reward and update can only be added after I wake up, Lao Cheng is not afraid of owed updates, let the storm come more violently!
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