Chapter 12: Shangshu Zuo Pushe should be replaced

The main currency of the Tang Dynasty was still Wuzhu coins, but due to this era, commerce emerged, especially bulk transactions became more and more extensive. With the development of the four years, more and more people or gentry were willing to accept money transactions. According to previous transactions, it involved tens of thousands of coins. Only tens of thousands of coins of copper coins required more than 70,000 kilograms, which was equivalent to thirty-five tons.

If a four-wheeled carriage with a load of 5,000 kilograms is used, it will also require a full twelve carriages. Just like buying rice now, one stone of grain is as high as 800 yuan, and the weight of this money is as high as more than 5 kilograms.

Xu Jingzong knew very well about the accounts of the Tang Dynasty Tongli Money House. Although he was now the doctor of the Bi tribe in the court, he was the first deputy general manager of Ma Zhou. He knew very well how much deposits the Tang Dynasty Tongli Money House had, based on the figures calculated at the end of the sixth year of Wude, the Tang Dynasty Tongli Money House had a total of 8.73 million guan, of which the loans lent out were about 6 million guan.

Now Guanzhong Grain Merchants can lend more than one million guan at one time. In this way, the deposits of Tongli Money House are only more than one million guan. Although more than one million guan sounds a lot, they can be divided. A branch is only less than one hundred thousand guan. If it is impossible to spend money at any time to exchange with merchants or aristocratic families with money, it is easy to cause a run.

The survival of banks is simply credit. Once the Tang Tongli money bank loses its credit, it may go bankrupt at any time. This is a problem that Xu Jingzong is very worried about.

When he heard Xu Jingzong's concerns, Chen Ying smiled disapprovingly: "Jingzong, your concerns are too much. Guanzhong grain merchants have too many pledged shops. At that time, once they are time to repay, they cannot repay the loan. According to the contract, the Datang Tongli Money House will openly auction all the pledged shops, real estate, land, minerals, etc. They should be aware that these resources are all high-quality resources, such as the Jiangnan clan, Hebei clan, Bashu, and Liaodong clans are worried that there will be no chance to buy property in Guanzhong. Now with such a good opportunity, we can make these industries live in time!"

As Chen Ying explained, Xu Jingzong suddenly became enlightened.

Chen Ying said it was right, such as the long-declined Wang family of Langya, the Xie family of Chenjun, the Sima family of Hanoi, the Chen family of Luoyang, the Chen family of Yingchuan, the Liang family of Anding, the Deng family of Nanyang, the Fu family of Beidi, etc., these aristocratic families that were famous during the Three Kingdoms and Jin dynasties were already no longer excited during the Tang Dynasty.

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

However, the aristocratic clans and clans in any region have one commonality that is extremely exclusive. Under normal circumstances, it is actually very difficult for clans in other places to enter Guanzhong, let alone buy land in Guanzhong. The land in Guanzhong is limited, and they will only rotate among the aristocratic clans of Guanzhong and will not be sold to Guanwai clans easily.

Of course, Chen Ying took this opportunity to reshuffle the Guanzhong clan, which was to create a catfish effect. Only when a large number of catfish poured in Guanzhong, the stagnant water in Guanzhong would come alive in an instant.

Instead of standing opposite Li Jiancheng like now, they fought openly and secretly with Li Jiancheng, wasting all their main resources and power in the internal struggle.

Xu Jingzong thought for a while and said, "Since the master thought he could lend money, the subordinates would hold a meeting with them!"

Chen Ying nodded and said, "However, the valuation of the pledged property must be severely reduced, especially for houses, shops, and shops worth 10,000 yuan, you can borrow up to 1,500 yuan!"

Chen Ying silently calculated that if he ate all the shops himself, he could become the well-deserved half city of Chang'an, because this time the pledge alone accounted for more than 60% of the total number of shops in Chang'an.

Once such a large-scale public auction, the price of shops will be oversupply and will fall immediately.

Xu Jingzong thought that Chen Ying would slaughter him, but he did not think that Chen Ying would be so ruthless.

In fact, Chen Ying was already kind enough to short the grain market's profiteer. After all, they all used the lives of the people in Guanzhong as bargaining chips.

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

Changsun Wugui looked at Chen Ying's messy files, copywriting, and some accounting books, and then collected them together. Suddenly, an accounting book fell to the ground, and Changsun Wugui possessed him and picked it up.

Just as she was about to return to her position, she suddenly found that the account above was incorrect.

Changsun Wugui lit the candlelight, picked up the pen and started proofreading.

When Changsun Wugui was the princess of Qin, she liked to be good at financial management, but it was a pity that she met Chen Ying, who was cheating. No matter how hard she tried, she could never run the Qin Palace without worrying about money.

After proofreading a book, Changsun Wugui found that it was midnight. However, there was a mistake of nearly 4,000 yuan on the book. This made Changsun Wugui feel incredible. Why didn’t Chen Ying find it?

Immediately, she picked up another account book and proofread it.

...

The next day, Li Jiancheng, Wang Gui, Wei Zheng and others dressed in casual clothes and came to a porridge-fed place outside Chang'an City.

Wei Zheng explained to Li Jiancheng: "Your Majesty is kind and I have set up more than 1,300 porridge sheds in Guanzhong counties in the name of Your Majesty, and there are as many as 373 in Chang'an City alone."

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

The responsible minor official was frightened when he heard the word "I".

Wei Zheng shouted: "Quickly!"

Li Jiancheng said with anger: "Hurry!"

The clerk had no choice but to direct the chef to serve Li Jiancheng a bowl of white porridge.

Li Jiancheng didn't care about burning his mouth and drank it when he opened his mouth.

However, Li Jiancheng almost vomited out the white porridge. The white porridge was filled with salt, and it was so salty that his face twitched.

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

Li Jiancheng's face turned pale and his angrily yelled: "What's going on?"

The little official dared not not answer, and he said aiyi: "This is what General Chen ordered, add twenty kilograms of salt to each pot!"

Li Jiancheng looked at the big pot, at best, it was about 300 kilograms, and added 20 kilograms of salt, which was almost the salt content in the sea water. No wonder it was so salty that it was hard to swallow.

When Li Jiancheng heard that it was Chen Ying's order, he was immediately angry.

Li Jiancheng looked at the follower beside him and said, "Go and invite General Chen, I want to hear what he has to say!"

Li Jiancheng was really angry. The victims were already pitiful. Chen Ying actually asked them to eat a lot of salt. Did Chen Ying treat people as animals?

The entourage knight rode his war horse to Chenjiabao, but when Chen Ying arrived at the porridge shed, Li Jiancheng was about to break out.

Li Jiancheng pointed to the people who were in pain while eating porridge, "General Chen, explain to me what's going on?"

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

When Li Jiancheng heard this, he couldn't help but feel a sense of coldness on his face, but looking at Chen Ying's gaze was a little unkind.

Li Jiancheng's eyes showed disappointment and despair.

Li Jiancheng is a grateful person. Of course, Chen Ying has helped him a lot over the years. The most important thing is that if Chen Ying had not turned the tide in the Xuanwu Gate Incident, he would definitely have been 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 that these grain merchants were doing everything they could to sit in the Zhongguan Grocery Market. Because behind the grain merchants were the Guanzhong clans, some of them were people, so almost one-third of the porridge sheds opened by the government, or even nearly half of them were sent by the grain merchants.

They dressed up as victims and took out disaster relief porridge.

The court distributed a limited amount of porridge. If they ate one more bite, the victims would eat less.

At the same time, grain merchants will also 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, believing that Heshen was not only greedy, but also had their morals corrupt. However, Chen Ying knew that Heshen did this to save people.

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

However, Heshen 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. However, Chen Ying thought of adding more salt. Anyway, he was in the Lingzhou salt mine, and some were salt, so he mixed salt into the porridge. This kind of salty porridge was not very hungry, and no one was willing to eat it. So almost all the people who came to get the porridge were real victims, and absolutely no one pretended to be victims.

After listening to Chen Ying's explanation, Li Jiancheng realized that Chen's intentions were good and added a huge amount of salt. The salt itself was more expensive than grain, so Chen Ying paid out of his own pocket to contribute these salts.

Li Jiancheng bowed deeply to Chen Ying and said, "I blamed Chen Qing wrongly!"

Chen Ying waved his hands repeatedly and said, "This method is about to fail because my salt storage is almost consumed!"

At this moment, a carriage was coming slowly.

The Left Master of Shangshu Feng Deyi placed the box in anger in front of Li Jiancheng and said angrily: "Your Majesty, I want to impeach the Minister of Menxia Provincial Department Fang Xuanling, who is disrespectful to resist the order and is ruthless. Please ask Your Majesty to punish Fang Xuanling for Ming Zhengpai.

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

Wei Zheng quickly said, "Your Majesty calm down!"

Wei Zheng signaled Chen Ying.

Although Wei Zheng was Li Jiancheng's confidant, Chen Ying's words at the critical moment made Li Jiancheng listen.

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

In fact, Chen Ying was more nervous than Wei Zheng.

After all, in history, Fang Xuanling was a virtuous prime minister. With Fang Xuanling's assistance, Li Jiancheng was able to create a prosperous Tang Dynasty.

...

Li Jiancheng, Wei Zheng, Wang Gui, Feng Deyi and others returned to Tai Chi Palace. At this time, Fang Xuanling had been invited by two warriors in the palace to wait in the Tai Chi Palace Lizheng Hall.

Li Jiancheng stared at Fang Xuanling angrily and said, "I have entrusted state affairs to you, but why do you want to use the power of the company to make things difficult for me?"

Wei Zheng looked anxious and winked at Fang Xuanling.

However, Fang Xuanling ignored Wei Zheng's eyes at all, but said calmly: "Your Majesty, because these two edicts are wrong."

Feng Deyi laughed furiously and said, "It's really a big deal about the world. Is it true that I'm going to make a big decision in China? Do you still need your little scholar to judge right or wrong?"

Wei Zheng looked at Chen Ying and asked Chen Ying to smooth things over.

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

Chen Ying was more confident in Fang Xuanling than Wei Zheng.

Seeing Chen Ying remained indifferent, Wei Zheng said anxiously: "There are so many strange things in the world. This is probably the first incident of refuting the edicts of the officials since the establishment of the three provinces and six ministries. I am also very eye-opening to such a rebellious person."

Seeing Chen Ying silent, Wei Zheng said again: "What do the general think of the strategy of enthroning the husband to be a man?"

Chen Ying smiled faintly and said, "The scholar's opinion!"

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

Feng Deyi looked at Fang Xuanling and shouted coldly: "The twelve guards army has the most serious personnel shortage, only half; the remaining troops have the largest number of troops, and there are 20% shortages. Originally, the twelve guards in Guanzhong should have 150,000 troops, but now there are less than 110,000.

Li Jiancheng nodded repeatedly and expressed his agreement.

Feng Deyi said again: "This time the Turkic movements have caused more than 200,000 cavalry to gather more than 200,000 cavalry, and the intention to go south is obvious. If our Tang Dynasty wants to win the battle and maintain the full capacity of the twelve armies, it is the minimum requirement."

Fang Xuanling curled the corners of his lips disdainfully.

Feng Deyi shouted in a sharp voice: "Besides recruiting the middle-aged man, is there any better way? Fang Xuanling, you are unwilling to obey the imperial edict, you are like an enemy. Could it be that you want to open your eyes for the Turks?"

The civil servants are all fighting each other. They first put a big hat on them, but Fang Xuanling ignored Feng Deyi and looked at Li Jiancheng and said: "Your Majesty, how many household registrations are there on Guanzhong's books now, and in fact, how many household registrations are there? And what proportion of these household registrations are there?"
To be continued...