The next morning, Chang'an City was very lively. Generals Li Jing, Hou Junji, Li Daozong and other generals escorted Tuyuhun Khan Fu Yun and held a prisoner offering ceremony. Li Shimin personally rang the Jingyang Bell, declaring the great victory achieved by the Tang Dynasty.

Li You did not attend the prisoner offering ceremony, and he was completely uninterested in these things that had little to do with food. He wanted to perfect his business network before leaving Chang'an. Hamid is an important part of his business plan, and many commercial projects will be completed with his power in the future.

In the following days, Hamid visited Li You many times. Li You's food styles and quality opened Hamid's eyes. The relationship between the two became closer and closer.

That day, Hamid came to find Li You. After the two of them tasted a delicious meal, Hamid said, "Old Li, the people from the Pingjuan Department are asking me for trouble. You can come forward and talk about it."

Li You said, "What's the matter? Tell me."

Hamid took out two Persian silver coins and said, "It's because of this."

The Persian silver coins are called silver coins, but they are actually gold coins. The two Persian silver coins in Hamid's hand were cast during the period of Persichus (590-627). They have a diameter of 2.5-2.8cm, weigh 2.8-4.1 grams, and the edges are also irregularly round. The patterns are the side statue of the old man wearing a crown on the head.

In film and television dramas, people from the Tang Dynasty often take out a lot of money, which is actually misleading.

Silver in the Tang Dynasty was not a circulating currency. Because the silver production was sparse, the price at this time was higher than gold.

The Persian silver coins in Hamid's hand were made of two small round holes on one, called the piercing coin. The other one had no outer edge, called the edge cutting coin. These two kinds of coins were often seen during the Tang Dynasty.

The reason for this phenomenon is that silver coins are minted by gold. After the criminals get the silver coins, they punch holes on them or cut edges, and the gold they get is owned by themselves.

Hamid talked about the story.

There are two management institutions in Chang'an West City, one is called the West City Bureau, which is equivalent to the Industrial and Commercial Administration Office, and the other is called Pingju, which is equivalent to the Price Bureau.

Pingjue is responsible for pricing goods entering the West Market. They divide similar goods into three grades: upper, middle and lower, and the prices are also different. Pingjue has a great power, and they have the final say in the time, grade and price of the goods.

They have the right to confiscate goods that have not been sold after pricing.

Hamid is a smart man who usually maintains peaceful and accurate relationships to prevent them from causing trouble and get along well.

Pingjuan also has a function, which is to sell goods confiscated by the court, which is equivalent to auctioning goods by the court. These goods are not priced high, and Hamid often participates in auctions.

Everyone knows that auctions require deposits. For the Tang Dynasty, the Pingjuan Administration asked them to pay Kaiyuan Tongbao, but for the Hu people, they asked them to pay Naperian silver coins.

The problem is that the silver coins paid by the Hu merchants were complete silver coins, but the auction failed, but the money returned to them was the money for piercing and edge cutting, and the gold was embezzled by the Pacific Administration.

The money for hole-cutting and edge-cutting can be circulated in Chang'an, and merchants can accept it, but Hamid took it to Persia, but the value of it would be reduced by 10% before it could be used.

What's even more excessive is that people in the Pace Bureau often come to Hamid to exchange with the money for hole-cutting and edge-cutting collected from other places. Hamid dared not speak out.

After figuring out the whole story, Li You smiled and said, "This is not a big deal." After saying that, he said to Baihu, "Go, call the Pingju Office's order, and say, I'll treat him to a meal."

The Xishi Pingzhun Office's order is named Wang Sanjing, who has a fat head and big ears.

Although he is only a seventh-rank official, he is a fat person. Even if you give him a fifth-rank official, he will not change it. Every day he sees the extra money he gets, he is in a very good mood, and it is difficult not to be fat.

Baihu came to the Xishi Pingzhun Office and asked with a thrust: "Who is named Wang Sanjing?"

When Wang Sanjing saw a ninth-grade military officer coming, he dared to scream at him and suddenly became angry. He didn't raise his butt and said dissatisfiedly: "Who are you?"

Baihu said, "You are the King of Three Jingshu? Good things are coming, my prince invites you to dinner."

When Wang Sanjing heard that it was the prince, he hurriedly stood up and said with a smile on his face, "Brother, who is the prince?"

Baihu said with a smile: "My prince is His Highness, King Qi."

"Ah?" Wang Sanjing was shocked.

Li You was originally a good-for-nostalgic official, and there were many officials he had beaten. Not long ago, this man dared to beat the eunuchs and deputy general manager in the palace, and finally killed him. He, a small 7th-rank sesame official, could not mention it.

Wang Sanjing took out a Persian silver coin from his arms and handed it to Baihu, saying, "I don't know what His Highness, King of Qi, is asking for advice from his younger minister, so I hope my brother will give me some advice?"

Baihu refused to accept his silver coins and urged: "Hurry up, don't let the prince wait for you." After that, he walked straight out.

Wang Sanjing hurriedly followed.

Yiyang Prince's Mansion.

As soon as Wang Sanjing entered the guest room, he saw Hamid and Li You sitting together, and he immediately understood most of his heart. He saluted and said, "I have seen the prince."

Li You said with a smile: "Please sit down, the king's order."

Wang Sanjing dared not sit there, he said tremblingly: "In front of the prince, where is the seat of the minister?"

Li You's face suddenly fell down and he said, "If you ask you to sit, you can sit. Where did you come from so much nonsense?!"

Wang Sanjing's legs weakened and he knelt down. He didn't dare to raise his head, and the beads of sweat fell down.

Seeing him like this, Li You said gently: "Wang Shuling, come, get up, let's sit down and talk."

"Damn, this face has become too fast." Wang Sanjing was completely unadapted. He stood up, sat half of his butt on the chair, and his legs were skewed.

Li You smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, come on, eat a piece of candy."

The magpie standing beside him picked up a piece of milk candy and handed it to Wang Sanjing.

Wang Sanjing mechanically put the candy into his mouth. The candy was very sweet, but he didn't feel it.

Li You smiled and said, "Relax, Wang Shuling, is the milk candy I made sweet?"

Wang Sanjing hurriedly said, "Sweet, so sweet."

Li You pointed at Hamid and said, "Wang Shuling, Hamid is my friend. He is doing business in West City. Please take care of him."

Wang Sanjing hurriedly said, "Oh, Xiaochen really doesn't know that the shopkeeper Hamid is your friend. If there is a place where you are not well cared for, please ask the shopkeeper Ha to take care of him. In the future, as long as it is a matter of Xishi, please come to Xiaochen if you want to find the shopkeeper Ha."

Seeing that his goal had reached, Li You didn't make things difficult for him and said, "Okay, then I'll thank you for your boss. Okay, if you have something to do, go and do it first. Magpie, get a pack of candies for Wang Shuling."

Wang Sanjing didn't dare to speak anymore, so he took the candy and retreated. He walked out of the guest room door, walked two steps, his legs became weak, he fell, then got up, and followed Baihu out.

After leaving the palace gate, Wang Sanjing felt as if he had passed the gate of hell and was secretly grateful. He thought to himself: "This prince is quite reasonable and has saved me face. In the future, I will take good care of Hamid. Maybe I can win the favor of the prince."

After Wang Sanjing left, Hamid also breathed a sigh of relief. He did not want Li You to punish Wang Sanjing, after all, he still had to do business in the West Market.

Hamid said, "Old Li, thank you. I'm going to send someone back to Persia today. What else do you need besides cumin?"

Li You said: "No more, just have cumin."

Hamid stood up and said, "Okay, then I'll say goodbye."

Li You said: "Baihu, you can send me Lao Ha to me."
Chapter completed!