Hanjing.

In the imperial study, Li Shimin was listening to the report of the General of the Jinwu Guard. The Jinwu Guard was one of the twelve guards in the Southern Yai, and the soldiers of the guards in the other guards were more responsible for the important task of security in the capital.

This time, Li Shimin sent the Jinwu Guard to search the Li family's Hanjing's property.

Many ministers advised the emperor not to do this, as this would force Li Chao to rebel. But Li Shimin ignored it. If Li Chao really wanted to rebel, there would be no change because of his actions. On the contrary, at this time, he needed to strengthen control over the capital, and the Li family had great strength in the capital.

If you go deep into various industries, there are people everywhere, and if Li Chao comes to rebel in the capital, it will cause great trouble.

It is better to start early.

The Li family's property was searched and the Li family's money was drawn.

However, when the emperor heard that he had searched all the money houses in the Li family's Jingji area, he was still very furious.

Li Ji Money House has been operating for more than ten years and has spread all over the world. They are huge in scale, especially Baochao has excellent credit, far exceeding the imperial court's gold coupons. They store loans and remittances at Li Ji Money House.

Nowadays, everyone is used to using paper money, and copper coins are rarely used. Gold and silver coins are not used. Although the banknotes issued by the money shop have promises to exchange them into copper coins, gold and silver coins at any time, who really can exchange them?

There are fewer copper coins cast every year now, and now copper bricks, silver ingots and gold bars that are directly cast into pure copper are stored in the vault of the money house.

There are not many metal currencies circulating on the market, they are only circulating in small quantities.

The current economic scale of the Tang Dynasty is huge, far from comparable to that of the Wude period. It is now an era of commodity economy with prosperous industry and commerce. The annual fiscal and tax revenue of the Tang Dynasty court reached more than 80 million chunks, which was a few years earlier, and now it has moved towards the 100 million mark.

Such huge taxes have accounted for a very small proportion of agricultural taxes and have been fixed. The court’s initial call for never adding taxes is the fixed tax of land. No matter how many new population or how many new fields are newly reclaimed, the total amount of land remains unchanged. Then the total amount is distributed to the number of fields every year. In fact, the annual land tax is still decreasing on each acre.

The industrial and commercial tax revenue of the imperial court increased greatly, and the tax revenue proportion of the Maritime Customs in the Haizhu Port was higher and higher. The tax revenue of monopoly on salt, wine, sugar, tea, iron, etc. was also greatly increased.

The imperial court has nearly 100 million in wealth a year, so what is the currency circulation in the entire Tang Dynasty?

The Ministry of Revenue has made an estimate that it is about one billion.

This amount of currency is relatively in line with the current economic total of the Tang Dynasty, especially the circulation of paper money, which has caused the Tang Dynasty's silk to withdraw from the monetary system, and even gold, silver and copper are circulating less.

After all, banknotes are not as good as metal currency. Metal currency is easy to deposit and is not needed to be buried. However, no one will do this, nor will it be circulated abroad, nor will it be destroyed and cast into copperware. Moreover, banknotes have another advantage, which can be issued more, which greatly reduces the problem of money shortage.

In addition, the money bank is now easy to deposit and withdraw, and deposit money and interest are also available. It can be said that almost all the money is in the money bank.

Most of the money on the market are filled with paper money, and those gold, silver and copper are all in the money warehouse.

The largest bank in the Tang Dynasty now is naturally Li Ji, followed by the imperial court's banks, and there are many bank accounts and bank accounts, but the Li family is still the overlord of this industry, with one company accounting for about 70% of the market.

Although the Li family has to pay a deposit to the central bank.

But there should still be a large number of gold bars, silver ingots and copper bricks in the Li family's vault.

Hanjing is the headquarters of the Li Family Money House, so there must be a gold bar, silver ingot and copper brick worth hundreds of millions of guan in the vault. However, after copying all the branches of hundreds of money houses in the capital, only about tens of millions of guan were found.

"Where did the money go?" Li Shimin asked the Jinwu Guard General Dugu Yanyun in a low voice.

There are a large number of treasure notes on the market, which were issued by Li Ji. The money in everyone's hands is not real money. The gold bars, silver ingots, copper bricks, gold, silver coins and copper coins in the Li Family Money House's vault are actually mostly money from the people.

The money is gone now, which is a big problem.

"I checked the accounts of the money shop, but I didn't find any problems. But the money shops in the Jingjin area originally had at least hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold bars, silver ingots and copper bricks, as well as gold, silver and copper coins, but now there are only more than 10 million points. The others are only on the books, and there is no in the vault at all."

Li Shimin was furious.

One hundred million coins of gold, silver and copper are not paper money, but real gold, silver and copper. If it is one hundred million coins of copper, a huge copper mountain can be piled up.

Even if it is replaced with more valuable gold bars and silver ingots, it can fill several large warehouses.

It is impossible that the people from Li Ji Money House are corrupt. They are not that bold, and Li Chao is not that easy to deceive.

The only possibility is that Li Chao secretly hid the money elsewhere.

Or, I might as well keep quietly transporting the money out of the capital and transporting it to another place.

When he thought that Li Chao had a complete set of state-of-the-art military workshops in Nanyang, able to produce a large number of warships, artillery, swords and guns, armor, etc., he believed in this calculation even more.

Everything you do requires money.

"That bastard, let me check the whereabouts of the money for me."

"yes."

Dugu Yanyun retreated with a sad look on his face, and he had no idea at all.

Li Shimin also had a headache.

Because Jinwu Guard sealed the money house, many people were affected these days. Everyone was anxious to exchange money from the money house. Now there are rumors in the capital that the prince and Li Chao rebelled. If the emperor sealed the money house of the Li family and the money house collapsed, can the treasure money issued by the money house in their hands be cashed out?

Everyone felt that even if the court confiscated the Li family’s money house, the treasure money could still be exchanged, but who would be sure?

These days, someone has already been rejected by the merchant when he is taking the Li family’s treasure money to buy things.

Some people took the treasure money to the court's bank to exchange it, but were also rejected.

There was panic in Gyeonggi.

The credit of treasure money that was extremely convenient in the past is losing its credit, and their money may really be turned into waste paper.

No one's money is blown by the strong wind, and there are many of the savings stored in the bank. Especially many ordinary people, they want to keep the money in the bank and get some interest.

If you even broke the book, it would be a great deal.

"Let's go in!"

"We want to exchange treasure money!"

"Repay my hard-earned money!"

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Inner city of Hanjing, Li Ji Money House headquarters.

This headquarters covers an active and extensive area, but it has a vast area of ​​100 acres in Hanjing City, where every inch of land is valuable. Especially the gate is extremely grand. In fact, Li Ji's headquarters is mainly for office work and does not do business.

But everyone doesn't care, they only know that this is the headquarters of Li Ji Money House.

Especially in front of this gate, there are two huge mountains of gold and silver, surrounded by fences. The mountains of gold are said to have 8,888 kilograms of gold, and the mountains of silver are said to have 9,999 kilograms.

Anyway, there are people guarding them day and night, so you can see them from afar.

It was a scene in Hanjing in the past. Everyone who first came to Hanjing would come to Hanjing for a look.

It is also because although you can see it, you can't touch it, and it is called helpless.

In front of the gate, there were two huge copper bulls.

Two large copper-shaped bulls have beautiful shapes, and one is said to have more than 10,000 kilograms.

A mountain of gold and silver, this is the live advertisement of Li Ji Money House in the past. When you look at these, you will know how rich Li Ji is. Save the money to Li Ji to reassure everyone.

Just because these gold and silver are still there, I don’t know how much it will be worth.

A mountain of gold can be worth more than one million yuan, not to mention the silver mountain and the big bronze bull.

But who would have thought that one day, this treasure banknote would be in danger of becoming waste paper.

Now many people come here and think that since Li Ji has been sealed, they will come to the Jinshan Mountain to dig out.

Of course, such good things are not to be thought of.

The soldiers of the Jinwu Guard are guarding.

An officer from Jinwu Guard arrived and sent an order to the guards.

We have to cut the gold, silver and big copper cows and transport them away.

When the people heard this, they stopped doing it.

You have sealed the Liji Money House, so we can't exchange it for treasure money.

Your bank won't change it.

Now this mountain of gold and silver is also the money of the people. Why do you have to be lucky?

"no!"

"No gold and silver are allowed to be transported away."

"First share the treasure money in our hands!"

"Exchange the treasure money!"

"We want to change the money!"

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The people were in a fierce look and the atmosphere became more and more tense.

Many people even came to hear the news and surrounded the Jinwu Guard's soldiers, and they were about to rush over to grab gold.

The prefect of Hanjing was shocked when he received the report and quickly dispatched the yamen runners.

But when more than a hundred yamen runners arrived, they found that there were already crowds of people here, and people shouting to exchange money everywhere.

A run trend!

No one has encountered this situation before, and they would not know that seizure of Li Ji’s money house would actually cause such a difficult thing. If Li Chao was still in Beijing, he would tell Li Shimin that even if he wanted to seize Li Ji, he would not close the business and would not allow the market to refuse to accept Baochao.

The more this time, the more the banks of the court should come forward to cash in on the treasure money.
To be continued...