The bluestone strips, which are only two inches high, can only serve to block traffic, but they have no hindrance to pedestrians, except for those blind idiots who insist on stumbling on the stones.
But unfortunately, there is one such idiot in front of Xiao Han now.
"Xiao Hou, come here...ah! Plop!!!"
"Oh, shopkeeper Liu, why are you so careless? Why are you two just standing there? Why don't you help him up quickly?"
Looking at the fat figure who suddenly appeared in front of him and suddenly fell to the ground, Xiao Han, who was still stretching, was stunned for a moment, then the corners of his mouth twitched twice, and then he greeted Xiaodong and Lengzi reluctantly. Stepped forward and helped him up from the ground.
"Huhu...Thank you so much, Xiao Hou!"
Finally, after a lot of efforts by Xiaodong and Lengzi, they were able to help the obese man who had fallen to pieces. After the man stood firm, he didn't even bother to dust himself off. , first bowed his hands towards Xiao Han, and said with a blushing face: "I was so excited when I saw Xiao Hou just now that I forgot about these damn broken stones!"
"Oh, Shopkeeper Liu is so polite!" Xiao Han also cupped his hand, but the look of disgust in his eyes disappeared in a flash.
However, although he has always disliked this person in his heart, especially his fat figure.
But thinking of the person behind him, Xiao Han still hid his disgust very well, and soon changed to a look of concern and continued to ask: "How are you? You didn't get hurt just now? What if? Because I was injured in the fall, the bank’s losses will be huge!”
"Haha, it's okay, it's okay!" The fat man known as Shopkeeper Liu narrowed his eyes to a slit when Xiao Han said it. He waved his hand grandly and laughed as if he was extremely happy: "I'm a meathead." Hou, bear the fall! Xiao Hou doesn't have to worry!"
"That's good, that's good." Hearing this, Xiao Han put a smile on his face again, but this smile was really perfunctory!
After giving such a perfunctory laugh, Xiao Han seemed to remember something again, pointed to the front, and asked: "By the way, the bank issuance of bonds is such a big deal today. Why did shopkeeper Liu come to the back if he wasn't sitting in the store? ?”
"You said this?" Shopkeeper Liu always seemed to be happy. Hearing what Xiao Han said, he laughed proudly again: "Xiao Hou, you don't know something now. Our bank today It’s really a big reveal!
Those bills that were just delivered from the palace were sold out without even taking a moment to burn a stick of incense! By the way, our warehouse is also full!
I'll have someone notify the palace as soon as possible, send a new receipt as soon as possible, and send a car to take away the money! No, I just took some time off and wanted to run to the back to see when the palace car would arrive. "
"Oh? This batch of bonds was issued so soon?"
Although Xiao Han had already heard about this from Ziyi, seeing Shopkeeper Liu's triumphant look, he still endured the trouble and asked again.
"yes!"
Perhaps Xiao Han's question hit Shopkeeper Liu's itch. He was so excited that his chin was trembling: "I guessed that this business would be easy to do, but I didn't expect it to be so good." Do!
No, when we opened the door today, we only had 500,000 gu in bonds prepared. Unexpectedly, they were all snatched away without even taking a breath! When I saw this, I immediately sent someone to rush back to the palace and asked someone to get another one million coupons! "
"A million strings?"
Hearing this number, even though Xiao Han had already had some psychological expectations, he still couldn't help but feel shaken!
You know, in the past few years, Datang's annual tax revenue was only 10 million yuan! It is only in the past two years that it has reached 30 million yuan!
Moreover, the 30 million guan here is just a number that stays on paper!
All expenditures in the entire Tang Dynasty must come from these 30 million yuan!
Whether it is officials' salaries, military pay, local disaster relief, or money for building river embankments, they are all covered by the 30 million guan. If these are removed, the money that really falls into the national treasury is estimated to be less than 1 million guan. No!
And now, it’s just one day! No, just one morning, one morning's work, the bank has gathered a year's income of the national treasury!
Even Xiao Li Zi would be shocked when he heard such an exaggerated thing, right?
In fact, Xiao Han's guess was indeed correct.
When shopkeeper Liu made an urgent request to clear the money and send out additional bonds, the news reached the palace. Xiao Lizi and Chang Sun, the biggest landowners in the world, were so shocked that they were speechless for a long time.
Fortunately, as the king of a country, Xiao Lizi still has some magnanimity and magnanimity. After a brief moment of confusion, he immediately stopped the delighted Young Mansion Supervisor.
"This money is not brought by the strong wind, nor does it mean that you don't need to pay it back! I have calculated that if you have five million yuan, you should be able to get through this year's difficulties!"
Forcibly suppressing the sinful thought of not repaying the debt in his heart, Li Shimin slowly spoke and said word by word to the Shaofu Supervisor: "Therefore, this bond must not be issued endlessly!
Go down and ask someone to take another 500,000 guan to the bank, and tell the people in the bank that from now on, only 500,000 guan will be issued every day! And each person and each family can only subscribe for a maximum of 100,000 yuan! When the issuance of five million bonds is completed, the issuance of this bond will be temporarily stopped! "
"Huh?" The Young Mansion Supervisor, who was so excited that his mouth almost dropped when he heard the emperor's words, immediately became dumbfounded!
He didn't react until other officials around him secretly kicked him.
"Only five million coins are issued?" He looked directly at Li Shimin. At this time, the Shaofu Supervisor did not care about the disrespectful crime of peeking at Long Yan, and said eagerly: "But after reading the letter, I just said Those people in Chang'an City can eat more than three million dollars. If we add other people, ten million dollars is not impossible..."
"Ten million guan? Don't you need to pay back 10 million guan?"
Li Shimin took a long breath and slowly closed his eyes, but his slightly trembling eyelids revealed the excitement in his heart at this time.
To be honest, if Xiao Han hadn't told him about the consequences of the collapse of the credit system, he really wanted to do what the Shaofu Jianzheng said and issue him 10 million yuan or even 20 million yuan!
Anyway, I just paid a trivial piece of paper. When the time comes to pay back the money next year, I can use the bonds sold next year to offset it!
After tearing down the east wall to repair the west wall, in the end the demolition will not be finished, and it is not impossible to refuse to pay!
However, it was the vaccination given to him by Xiao Han that enabled Li Shimin to keep a calm head and not do anything he would regret for the rest of his life!
