Compete for the Song Dynasty

Wang Pang and his party finally got out of the trading venue. He only took Zhao Xu, He Libo and Zhe Kejun and followed him to the semicolon of the Pacific Insurance Bank in the trading venue. The rest gave them two hours for everyone to walk around the venue. Hearing Wang Pang's order, everyone in the entourage was overjoyed. Looking at the dazzling goods, there are many new things that have never been seen before, especially foreign goods such as Korean Japanese slaves and Ryukyu. Everyone took advantage of this gap to purchase a lot.

Zhao Xu was rather surprised that the bank next to Wang was in the capital, so why did he take him to see a small branch in Yongzhou? But once he entered the branch of the market, Zhao Xu found that the banks in this place were very different from those in the capital. The hall is divided into two parts, one part is the business of depositing and withdrawing silver for Song people; the other part has several counters, and next to each counter there is an announcement posting the price of various foreign currencies exchanged for Da Song banknotes on that day.

As soon as Wang Pang and the others walked in, a young man came out from the inside, "My lord, I've done all the work." The young man said and handed a piece of paper to Wang Pang to see that he was sweating profusely. I have been here early in the morning and have been busy for most of the day, and I am a little rushed to eat.”

"Hey, thank you, my lord, for caring about the counting time. Fortunately, it takes a long time to ask questions."

"For the time being this time, you can ask Brother He more. He is a little more familiar with the national power of these foreigners. I will send some people from various places to send letters back regularly so that you can grasp their price fluctuations and calculate their purchasing power. It will be more accurate to calculate the exchange rate” [

Zhao Xu and everyone around him listened, only the young man kept nodding his head.

When he retreated to the side of the king, he said to Zhao Xu: "This kid is Jia Xian, a student of Tianjian Cheng Chuyan who is proficient in arithmetic, especially reminded me that the idea of ​​setting interest rates based on price fluctuations is much more advanced than you Song people."

Zhao Xu rolled his eyes at Wang Pang: "What do you call you people from the Song Dynasty? Aren't you from the Song Dynasty, Brother Wang?"

"Haha" Wang Pang knew that he had slipped his tongue, and he smiled without any excuse and said, "I am a Song person or a Han person. Han people have Han culture. Not only Song people must follow the culture of the Han nationality, but in the future we will assimilate the Liao people and the Xixia people." The Tibetans and the Dali made them follow the Han culture”

He Libo snorted twice, although he felt that he had been assimilated, he was still unconvinced, but Zhao Xu clapped his hands and laughed, "Big ambition, brother Wang, does this ambition mean that in the future these people will be assimilated by my Song people and will become Song people?" Then I, Da Song, don't rule the world?"

Wang Pang pretended to be deep and said: "Of course you can think so, but it depends on whether you think so or not."

The three of them were talking and were taken upstairs by the manager of this branch of the bank. Upstairs is the same as other branches of the bank. There are several VIP rooms reserved for big customers. Ask Wang Pang what else to tell Wang Pang to wave his hand to signal them all to retreat and wait for the door to close, and the three of them stretched together: "Oh, it's finally quiet for a while this day." Zhao Xuchang let him in the palace in such a big room. The novelty of staying in the busy city for most of the day has long since disappeared, replaced by fatigue

He Libo saw that Wang Pang was satisfied with the effect of the first batch of merchant ships, and naturally he was relieved. Wang Pang was busy for a long time, but now only those close to him are left, and a sense of relaxation spontaneously arises.

Thinking that there is still more than an hour left for everyone to purchase by Wang Pang, Zhao Xu stood up and walked to the side, just in time to see the bustling market not far away. He turned his head and looked at Wang Pang's relaxed expression and asked, "Brother Wang, are you It’s true what you said just now that the horse-drawn carriage transports guests from all over the place.”

"Of course it is true that one horse can pull four to eight people. If there are three horses, it can pull a dozen people in one trip. I asked the craftsmen to make a carriage that can take more than a dozen people. It takes about six or seven drives to make a trip to a city every day at an hour’s time.”

He Libo frowned: "Is this okay?"

Zhao Xu stretched out his hand and pinched his fingers and counted: "This city needs fifteen or six horses, and the twenty or thirty counties around Yongzhou need three or four hundred horses, even if you use all the horses in your palace, it's not enough."

Wang Pang had already figured this out in his mind. There was a lack of horses in the Song Dynasty, so not everyone could ride a horse, not to mention others. Take the Zhennan Palace as an example. Those who can ride horses are Wang Pang, the guards around him, and the people from the capital. Several high-level people add up to only thirty or forty horses

But he was not in a hurry. The little fan fanned it and said confidently: "Don't worry, Dali horse is so famous, and Yongzhou has such a good neighbor as Dali, is it afraid that there will be no horses?"

Zhao Xu walked up to Wang Pang: "Brother Wang, I know you have a lot of ideas, how do you want to find Dali for a horse?"

Xie Libo slapped his thigh and laughed, "I have a solution, bro, wouldn't the matter of taking this fake prince to Dali for a horse be solved hahaha?"

"Good idea, I didn't think of it if you didn't tell me." Wang Pang immediately took over the words, and the two sang and sang together, as if they had really decided on it.

"Hmph He Li Bo is the idea you came up with. I believe my brother Wang will never do that." Zhao Xu raised his head, poked his neck behind his back, glanced at He Li Bo and then stopped looking at him.

Wang Pang's smile faded away, but the corners of his mouth still had an upward arc. He stood up and patted Zhao Xu on the shoulder: "Zhong Zhen, you must remember what you said today. Only you believe in me, and I will definitely not let you down" [

Seeing what Wang Pang said was serious, Zhao Xu nodded vigorously: "Brother Wang, when will we be good brothers? Today, I have seen Yongzhou. You have only come here not long ago, and you have already begun to show signs of it. In time, Yongzhou will definitely be one of the states in the Song Dynasty. As long as the outstanding people on the road can spread the ideas of Brother Wang, slowly, the Song Dynasty will make the country rich and the people strong. At that time, we will take back the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures and cross the Hengshan Fortress..." He clenched his fists as he said

Wang Pang peeked at He Libo and He Libo's mouth was curled like a horoscope. He Libo couldn't stand it anymore and said to Wang Pang and the two dissatisfied: "Beating you people, I think about it every day. Why are the people on both sides of Yanyun Hengshan not human? If you want to beat me, I will fight anyway. Anyone who beats the common people will feel sad. If you fight, we will fight too. Isn’t it Yanyun Sixteen States? If you want to beat everyone, don’t live well.”

When Wang Pang heard this, his heart moved. After Yan Libo, the future Taizu of the Kingdom of Jin, he said that it would be okay to fight, how did Zhao Xu know that Wang Pang would know what happened in the future? Big man, wait until I assimilate the Liao Kingdom, you Wanyan tribe will also listen to us Song people."

Wang Pang smiled: "Hehe, what are you going to do? Don't you just say that if you have money, you have to go to war? We want to assimilate and assimilate, understand, don't fight, don't go to war, that's enough, you two, let's leave the Liao Kingdom alone, let's talk about it after shutting down Dali first "

After hearing what Wang Pang said, the two of them didn't say anything anymore, He Libo didn't hold any grudges, and after a while, Zhao Xu and Zhao Xu forgot about the dispute just now, and they lay on the sidelines watching the discussion outside, talking and laughing, Wang Pang Let the steward send the account books to look through, and then called Jia Xian to discuss some matters about interest rates and exchange rates. The time passed quickly, two hours passed quickly, and it was getting late. back to the palace

As soon as they entered the palace, everyone laughed and greeted the elated He Libo as if he hadn’t returned home for a long time Happily, I suddenly saw Gao Zhisheng walking into the hall with a lot of things on his shoulders, and said, "My dear brother, you are really good."

"Guo Xiang, are you going to move with the Wangfu?" Zhang Ping and Gao Zhisheng asked with a smile after getting acquainted with each other.

"Where is it? I went to the forum today, and I planned to go around. I knew you would go too, but I couldn't find you in such a big forum." Gao Zhisheng walked to Wang's side without seeing anything. Liao moved the seat next to the king and gave him a seat. He put down his things and sat down generously, and then said: "My brother, this meeting is really good, but there is a fly in the ointment."

"That's right, there are too many shortages. We don't even have a decent restaurant around this day, and we have been hungry all day with the prince." Cai Jing said while stuffing meat into his mouth.

This kid knew that eating king also laughed: "Brother Gao, what is this fly in the ointment?"

"Dali, Dali's things, our tie-dyeing, our wood carvings, our many good things, anyway, we have to leave as soon as possible, I have to let our Dali goods also come to this market."

Zhao Xu asked: "Brother Gao, the emperor of Dali treats you so well, I heard that he asked you to promise your sweetheart out. Why do you still think about you Dali? Why don't you let my brother find a high-ranking official for you in Song Dynasty?" How nice of Da Song to help my brother."

Wang Pang sipped his wine and looked at Gao Zhisheng. Zhisheng raised his glass and drank it down, saying: "It's hard not to miss Dali. I have had a close relationship with my Dali sage since I was a teenager and helped him ascend to the throne. I want to do it wholeheartedly." Hey, if it wasn't for the slut, there wouldn't be any estrangement between us. Now if King Zhennan can take this trip to help me clear up this internal trouble, and if he can work with my emperor to eliminate Yang Yizhen, my trip to Yongzhou will be worthwhile. OK"

After Zhao Xu listened, he looked at Wang Pang and thought that my friendship with Brother Wang was the same. He said decisively: "Don't worry, your majesty is just confused for a while, and your friendship is so far that you will live up to you."

Everyone in the room looked at the seemingly fake prince and at the calm and composed Wang Pang, Wang Pang understood better what Zhao Xu said to Gao Zhisheng, and he also said it to himself.

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