Tang Qi Tan

Chapter 261
As a summer waterway of the Yellow River, it is actually quite busy, especially after hundreds of years of peace and the continuous dredging and development of successive imperial courts, this turbulent river is full of boats and sails. cloud.

Not long after the boat set off, Jiang Tian heard that Chu Yu had woken up. "Officer... I am... what's wrong..." Chu Yu curled up in the quilt, feeling pain everywhere in his body, as if he had been trampled by something several times, and Qi Qi Ai, who was pale, said:
"You are suffering from some kind of symptoms of being absent-minded." Jiang Tian said decisively without any explanation: "So last night, I went out of the library by myself at night; I happened to bump into it and stopped bringing it back; so , and then you have to be under my supervision to prevent accidents."

"Am I actually suffering from the disease of wandering at night by myself?" Chu Yu heard that although his mind was in chaos, he vaguely remembered something, as if he had a strange and inexplicable dream.In the dream, the whole world turned into blood, and she also turned into a female beast, longing for sweet and delicious blood.However, just as she was sensing and searching for the vigorous energy and blood around her, a scorching existence like a blazing sun suddenly appeared, and she couldn't help but want to resist.In the end, she could only lower her eyebrows and say gratefully: "Thank you, sir, for your love."

"You don't need to thank me specifically, since you have become my subordinate, I will naturally be responsible for what happened to you." Jiang Tian shook his head lightly and said; "Next, you and Xiaomu share a room. No matter when and where, you are not allowed to leave the line of sight."

"Yes..." Chu Yu replied softly: As for Linghu Xiaomu who was at the side, the obvious resentment in her eyes dissipated a lot, and she turned into a calm smile on her face: "Since it's the official's intention, Then just leave it to the concubine, discipline the lady..."

At this time, there was an uproar and exclamation from outside.Jiang Tian couldn't help but hastily walked out of the terrace, but those fellow sergeants and entourages who were active on the relatively empty rear deck, which was usually used for cargo inspection, gathered on the side of the ship one after another, and began to point and point.
"But what happened?" Jiang Tian asked from above, and everyone below turned around one after another, and Xin Gongping immediately explained: "To report to the supervisor, it was on the boat that crossed just now, some people jumped into the river one after another; But it has been scooped up by the nearby boat."

Following the direction pointed by Xin Gongping, Jiang Tian also saw another big ship about dozens of steps away, which was slowly stopping in the river; also on the flat deck of the ship, surrounded by several people Wet and limp body, at the same time, someone was squeezing and spitting water from the back.

A moment later, a drowning man who had just woken up after spitting out water, and was dressed neatly, howled uncontrollably.However, at the next moment, the howling man who fell into the water was caught off guard, and amidst the exclamation, he crossed the railing beside the boat again, and fell into the rolling river with a plop.

"What's the situation?" Jiang Tian couldn't help frowning when he saw this, but someone replied: "These, I'm afraid they are poor people who want to die." A short and fat official, he couldn't help asking: "Is there anything else to say?"

"If you go back to the Superintendent, these look well-dressed, and they came here specially to seek death on this big river." The short and fat water official said confidently: "Probably because he lost all his wealth in the Baoquanfang bond market in Luodu before, and returned It is inevitable to build a high platform with debts, and people who want to get rid of it once and for all."

"It seems that you have encountered such things often?" Jiang Tian was a little surprised when he heard this, "Or, on the big river near Luodu, has it happened many times?"

"To be honest, over the years, as long as you walk on this waterway, you will bump into someone every now and then; in fact, there are various reasons. But there are still more people who have lost their homes in the bond market. It's just that they seem to have changed for some reason recently. A little more." The chunky water official explained again: "Of course, I used to save a few boats in the early years, and this can be regarded as a matter of accumulating virtue for myself and my descendants. It's just that after being rescued from diving, usually I won’t seek death easily anymore. It’s quite rare to fall into the water again like this.”

When Jiang Tian heard the words, he couldn't help but his heart moved, and he immediately remembered the source of the bond market of Luodu Baoquanfang.Probably, it can also be traced back to the Anshi Rebellion that broke out in Tianbao and Qianyuan years.Although it was pacified within a few years, it caused the devastation and ruin of the northern land.

Therefore, when a large area of ​​the country fell into war and the court was in financial difficulties, Duke Liang, who raised troops from the land of abundance in Sanchuan, Jiannan, also proposed a package of financial solutions for the court.Among them are official bonds issued in the name of the imperial court.

It is mainly aimed at the relatively well-preserved, densely populated, rich and fertile southern regions; especially in the southeastern coastal states, the wealth accumulated by the people during the hundreds of years from Zhenguan to Kaiyuan.The imperial court holds many monopoly quotas of salt and iron as the issuance guarantee and valuation base;
As a result, a large amount of resources were raised for the imperial court's suppression of the rebellion and after the war, and it also opened up a shortcut for the great Tang monarchs and ministers who did not need to directly increase taxes, but could enrich the country and strengthen the army in a short period of time.Therefore, after the war, long-term and short-term government bonds of various names sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Afterwards, it was not limited to government bonds with subsidized interest, but began to issue another type of military debt (war public debt) based on the existing joint venture investment, and the income collected from the periphery of Datang was expected feedback and repayment. .As a result, military debts and government debts constituted the cornerstone of the revival of the imperial court.

And that was also the 30 years that Duke Liang was in power, so he tried his best to suppress all radical measures that might overdraw the national credit in terms of the scale and projects of bond issuance; he left a relatively well-functioning national bond credit for the court. system and the primitive financial order.

Therefore, in the later Dazhengtuo era, although the imperial court had occasional twists and turns in the operation of public debt.However, with Datang's overseas expansion and the growing number of overseas divisions; the massive resources and wealth that were continuously fed back and imported; various public debts have always been able to maintain their credibility.

Therefore, it also gave birth to the prototype of Baoquanfang, which is located in Luodu City, where various official private banknotes, Feiqian accounts and exchange offices are gathered together; however, the birth of the bond market was later.It comes from one of the last batch of decrees issued by Duke Liang before he left the court and retired to the Great Xia of the Western Kingdom.

These include, conditionally allowing some vassals to screen and protect Kyushu and expand overseas, and to issue exclusive interest-discounted private debts of the vassal mansions in places and institutions designated in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the two capitals and the sixteen mansions; Start-up funds for overseas expansion and development.

Of course, at that time, everyone thought that this was Duke Liang's plan to retire to Daxia of the Western Kingdom for himself.However, when this policy was implemented, it also played an inestimable role in promoting and promoting the emergence of overseas feudal clans in the era of Dazhengtuo.

But it also released a monster called the prototype of the primitive financial system.Because with these names, the private folk wealth that poured into it at once, the huge energy and potential influence represented by it also shocked the court.

Therefore, in order to specifically manage the private debts of these princes and vassals, it is also to restrict and standardize their operations and transactions; after a series of games, the imperial court issued an imperial edict. In the original market place in the center of the square, a special bond market was set up.

Therefore, since the evolution to the present, for the vassal vassals of the Tang Dynasty, according to their respective ranks, taxes and resource output, there is a set of strict review and verification procedures and norms to determine the scale and period of private debt they can issue.Therefore, this is also one of the means to restrict foreign princes.

However, since the bonds were privately placed in the name of the princes and vassals, in terms of specific credibility and the background of the pledge project as a reserve, it undoubtedly cannot be compared with the Chinese imperial court with its extremely large population and land volume.It is also divided into three, six, and nine grades.

Among them, the one with the highest credit and the largest scale is undoubtedly the first vassal of the Tang Dynasty, which included Persia and the hometown of Dashi in the Western Kingdom; and because it borders the Taixi Great Qin (Eastern Rome); , great benefits of the Silk Road/Golden Highway.

The second is the branch of the Nanhai (Guangfu) family, which also came from the three families of the Liang Dynasty. Although it does not have the name of a vassal state, it has the reality of a vassal state.There are also Xinzhou/Beijuluzhou (the coast of the American continent) and Xiaoao, which have exclusive management and trade rights.

Therefore, it is also known as the most stable face value, and the interest discount income is basically an unshakable iron ticket; at the same time, it is also used by many wealthy families as the equivalent of heirloom property and large payments.Because as long as the amount is large enough, the profits will also be considerable, and the unworthy descendants will not be afraid of losing.

However, in addition to these top-level vassals/vassals, there are also a large number of small and medium-sized princes and vassals scattered throughout the world, so it is inevitable that some good and bad are mixed, and the good and the bad are mixed.Therefore, although they are also qualified to issue private placement bonds, the relative risks are different.

And this is also the main content of daily speculation and hype in the Baoquanfang bond market in Luodu.After all, with their size and scale, there is a certain probability of failure or loss of money for foreign expansion, or there is no doubt that new veins and resource outputs will be discovered, causing fluctuations.

A large number of public and private capital participated in the speculative profit; thus created and supported a large number of practitioners and incidental service personnel in Baoquanfang, as well as peripheral supporting industries.It is also one of the very few places that the imperial court licenses to connect all parts of the world with Feidian.

Just to be able to get market feedback from the two capitals and the sixteen prefectures and their radiating surrounding hopeful cities before the market closes for the day.Therefore, in this kind of original capital game that is mixed with half bureaucracy and half liberalism, it is not uncommon for people to get rich overnight and jump to the sky tomorrow.

Obviously, driven by various desires, ambitions or other factors, there are far from a few unlucky ghosts who have been swallowed up by this primitive financial monster called the bond market.It's just that they are basically far away from the level of most ordinary people, so they haven't attracted too much attention and disturbance.

However, Jiang Tian noticed a new variable in the incident of collective diving this time; that is to say, under the usual national credit system, if the influence of many changes including animal disasters is added; Do people achieve a certain purpose in the ups and downs?

Therefore, he decided to send a letter to Cheng Shilian who stayed in Luodu after he had the opportunity to go ashore; entrusting him to find someone to perform a private task.That is to collect some of the most volatile bond names in the bond market in the recent period; to serve as some kind of follow-up reference and investigation direction.

After all, even those who caused the beast disaster behind the scenes also needed financial resources to support their series of operations.

(End of this chapter)