A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 281 Receive a gift
The last time Wu Huaiyu went to the Governor's Mansion, he didn't pay attention to the water tanks.

Who would have thought that the water tank was actually made of pure copper with a layer of gold on the outside.

Of course Li Daozong would not lie to Wu Huaiyu, he did not plan to take away the eight copper seas, Wu Huaiyu, Xue Wanche, and Lu Huairang gave two to each of them, and the remaining two to the Governor's Mansion.

Huaiyu thought quickly.

A sea of ​​copper weighs 280 gold, and its copper alone is worth [-] guan in terms of copper coins. The hundred taels of gold are worth [-] guan, and the jar is worth [-] guan.

Eight mouths, more than 6000 yuan.

Li Daozong is so rich, but there is more than 6000 yuan in the courtyard?

Being rich is not the way to show off.

After his puzzled inquiry, Li Daozong told him the inside story, although this copper sea is used for fire prevention in the house, but generally who can afford such a copper sea.

Li Daozong lived in Lingzhou for five years, occupied land, sold slaves, sold salt, sold horses, engaged in smuggling business, and planted. He made a lot of money, and a large amount of wealth was gathered. The money of this era is copper. and silk.

It was difficult to save too much money, so Li Daozong and the others melted the money into copper castings. Firstly, it was more profitable to cast copperware, and secondly, it was easy to store.

After all, there are no banks these days. Although you can save money in gold and silver shops, etc., not only does it have no interest, but it also charges handling fees. It is not safe to save too much money, and it is profitable to cast it into copperware.

So in Lingzhou, those officials and generals won't directly transport the money back to Chang'an after making money.

So they usually cast the money into bronze wares and then sell them, or transport the bronze wares back to Beijing or their hometown, and take a little each time, which is not conspicuous.

It is even possible to make some copper ware old and fake, such as making tin on the outside to disguise tin ware.

Li Daozong is the one who earns the most. He has accumulated a lot of gold, silver, copper coins, silk cloth, cattle, horses and food. In addition to some small bronze vessels, he also built these copper seas. In fact, they are purely as a storage method.

With a weight of eight thousand catties, no one could move it even if it was thrown in the yard.

When needed, it can be transported or melted.

Sending Huaiyu two mouths is actually equivalent to sending two thousand yuan.

One thousand acres of land, two copper seas.

Wu Huaiyu accepted it.

Before that, [-] mu of land was collected.

It is said that the magistrate was cleared for three years, and one hundred thousand snowflakes silver. Li Daozong has been the governor of Lingzhou for five years, and he does not know how many tens of thousands he has earned.

Wu Huaiyu also accidentally discovered another black industry in Lingzhou, that is, casting private money. This industry was also participated by Li Daozong, and it was all done by officials and powerful people.

They not only melted the copper money they earned to cast bronze wares, but also remade the old money they got into copper wares, and even cast copper coins privately. The money they cast was worse than the Kaiyuan Tongbao of the imperial court, but not It will be too bad, but overall it's good.

The large amount of money that can be minted will bring great profits. The money will flow into the hands of merchants in Shuofang, Hexi, and even Gaochang in the Western Regions and Turks outside the Great Wall through trade, and the circulation is still very large.

The imperial court has not minted much new money in the past few years. The amount of private mint in Lingzhou is more than the official inflow. Even the market is basically all these private money. Basically, there is no official money. The inflows were either collected by the officials and tyrants, or melted away by them to cast bronze wares or private money.

Bad money drives out good money.

It is lawless, Lingzhou really feels like a place outside the law, and there is something unusual everywhere here.

There is a granary for the foundation here, plus the smuggling with the Turks and Liang Shidu, and the trade with the Hexi Silk Road, which makes this place extremely prosperous. Although it is often harassed by the Turks, Lingzhou has a bit of a special zone everywhere. a feeling of.

Lee Do-jong is really talented.

In other words, Lingzhou is full of talented people. Under the special frontier situation in the early Tang Dynasty, they could fight against the Turks and Liang Shidu while developing trade, and even formed a unique smuggling trade of cattle, horses and slaves, and casting smuggled money. , the prosperity of bronze casting, and the prosperity of activities such as fighting slaves.

Now even if Li Daozong spits out three or four percent, he is still very satisfied. They have already made a lot of money. If they only spit out three or four achievements now and can land safely and launder the money, they are probably quite satisfied.

Wu Huaiyu entered Lingzhou City again, this time directly bringing a battalion into the city.

He did not live in the government office of Li Daozong's governor's mansion, but was still stationed in the Yanzhou overseas Chinese government office in the central plains of the city.

Li Daozong sent people to bring the two copper seas that were given to him, and put them in the backyard of Yanzhou Yamen. They are more than 1.2 meters high and more than 1.5 meters in diameter. gilt.

The cylinder is very thick.

Wu Huaiyu didn't intend to melt it for the time being, but asked someone to fill it with water.

A jar weighs [-] catties and can hold [-] catties of water. Teams of servants kept drawing water from the well and pouring it into the jar. It took five or six hundred barrels of water to fill it up.

Su Lie Niu Jianwu Chen Sheng Li De Award They all came to watch these two big tanks.

Huaiyu didn't hide it from them either.

"Just put more than 100 million yuan here to fill water?"

"Is it really gold on the outside?"

None of them had ever seen such an object, even Li Jing's son, their family didn't have such a thing.

Wei Siren of the Wei family who claims to go to Jingzhao Weidu in Tianchiwu, the two elder sisters are in the palace, and the Wei family dare not be so arrogant.

"What is this? There is still a big silver ball in Ren Chengwang's house, which is melted into one silver ball every thousand taels. It is said that there is nothing to do. The thief can only sigh helplessly when he sees it."

The silver in the Tang Dynasty is very scarce. Although Lingzhou is on the Silk Road, close to the Turks and the Western Regions, many Hu merchants brought silver coins, but one tael of silver can be converted into sixteen thousand taels of silver balls, which is also valuable One thousand six hundred.

It weighed more than 60 kilograms, and it was more than 60 kilograms round. The thief saw that he had nowhere to use his strength to move it, so he could only cry silently.

Li Daozong was about to return to Chang'an, and the former Chang Shi Sima dismissed from office and left, but they would not give up their property here easily.

However, Li Daozong and the others also knew that if a new group of officials came to govern, the newcomers would naturally have to take a share. This virtuous king is indeed amazing.

There is no need to fight, and the initiative is willing to give up [-]% of the share.

Whether it's slave trading, casting money, selling salt, selling horses, etc., new officials and generals like Xue Wanche, Wu Huaiyu, and Dou Luhuai can be recruited into the group, and they will be given [-]% of the share, and the original people will get [-]%.

This is great sincerity.

It's also the best way to avoid losing both sides.

After all, Li Daozong was demoted to the court this time, and many other Lingzhou officials were also severely punished. If there was no bloodshed, they would probably be overthrown by the later governor Shi Sima and others, and they might not be able to keep their hands business here.

Although I have to spit out [-]%, but at least I can keep most of the previous earnings, and I can still continue to earn in the future.

Li Daozong's private money industry actually helped the development of Lingzhou's industry and commerce a lot. After all, industry and commerce are inseparable from sufficient currency support. If there is not enough currency, then transactions will be inconvenient, and they cannot all be bartered. .

This is like in the Lingnan area, which is far away from the Central Plains, and there are foreign trade ports such as Guangzhou Port. They are all privately minted money, or directly use gold and silver, so gold and silver mining has always been very prosperous in Lingnan, and private money casting has also been extremely prosperous. Gold and silver have always been relatively mainstream large-value transaction currencies.

Another example is Shuzhong in the Song Dynasty. Due to the shortage of money and inconvenient road transportation, the circulation of copper coins was not easy, so a special iron coin area was formed in Shu.

Private casting in Lingzhou is prevalent, and gold, silver, copper coins, silk cloth, and even cattle, horses and sheep slaves have become trading currencies here, making the trade here more prosperous.

Li Daozong came to drink tea with Huaiyu every day recently, he didn't dare to invite Huaiyu to have a drink with him, but came to drink at his door, for fear that if Wu Huaiyu came out to drink tea, he would be attacked again.

In the current Lingzhou City, Lingzhou soldiers and Yanzhou soldiers are in charge of city defense together. This is actually the original local snakes in Lingzhou who bowed their heads to compromise with Wu Huaiyu, the dragon crossing the river.

Li Daozong was waiting for Xue Wanche to come to take office, but he had already handed over all the errands and the seal.

Now drinking tea and chatting with Wu Huaiyu, the conversation is more about how the original people in Lingzhou will cooperate with Wu Huaiyu and the new officials after they leave.

It turns out that there is such a big market and interests here, it is impossible to just abolish it.

The business still has to be done as it is, farmland, slave trade, horse trade, salt trade and even private casting. These will not stop. The focus is on how to distribute the benefits, take care of all parties, and satisfy everyone.

Although Li Daozong was about to leave, he was still the leader of the original gang. He wanted to negotiate with Huaiyu on their behalf, so that there would be no conflicts and conflicts due to uneven distribution of spoils.

Cooperation will benefit both, and separation will lose both.

Wu Huaiyu is getting along very well with Li Daozong now, and he is no longer black-faced.

After all, they gave him [-] acres of land, followed by another [-] acres of pasture, and then gave him two copper seas, and also gave him a helpless silver ball.

That thing really makes thieves look at it and have no choice. It is a big round silver ball, which is heavy and has no place to grab. Not only is it not afraid of being stolen by thieves at home, but if it is transported outside, it is probably not easy to snatch it from ordinary horse thieves and robbers. take away.

A thousand taels is nothing, it is worth more than an eight thousand jin copper sea.

Last time he gave Huaiyu [-] maids and [-] Dou Nus, and in the end there was a female assassin, and several of the maids Dou Nu were killed by the assassins. Now that the relationship has eased, Li Daozong sent [-] more each. Assure Huaiyu that there will never be any more assassins in it.

Huaiyu also accepted it.

Of course, he did not collect so many things from Li Daozong for nothing, which meant that he had reached an agreement with him to take care of Li Daozong's business interests in Lingzhou in the future.

To put it mildly, this kind of behavior is called making friends, but to put it badly, it is called collusion. Fortunately, Wu Huaiyu has the identity of the six sects, so now he can accept anyone who comes.

Li Daozong thought that he had completely grasped the young upstart, that he was lost in the face of the sum after sum of money, but he didn't know that every time Wu Huaiyu received a benefit, he would turn around and write down a secret performance for the emperor of Chang'an.

And the emperor had asked Zhang Fuguo to pass down the oracle before, and asked him to accept it all, but he had to write down every stroke, and then divide it into three or seven, seven for the emperor, and three for Huaiyu.

Those three were rewarded by the emperor to Wu Huaiyu, so you can accept them with peace of mind.

The emperor also knew very well that it was impossible for the horse to run without eating grass.

For the 3000 mu of land that Li Daozong gave him, Huaiyu can wash away [-] mu of land, and he can also wash away [-] mu of the silver ball and copper vat worth more than [-] yuan.

What's more, in the future, he can also benefit from such businesses as farming, selling horses, selling slaves, selling salt, and casting coins. Why should he not be polite to this God of Wealth?

He is even a little reluctant to leave Li Daozong now, and he doesn't know if Xue Wanche's dog slave will destroy the current good situation. Dou Luhuai told him not to worry, that guy is able to come and cooperate.

I'm afraid that Xue Gounu will look ugly, and because he is the governor, he will eat alone or take the lead.

(End of this chapter)