Zhao Pu grabbed a few copper coins and walked a long way before buying a sesame cake.
Compared with the market in earlier years, Tokyo's Kaifeng Prefecture has been much depressed.
It can be seen from this sesame cake that there were originally vendors selling cakes everywhere on the streets of Tokyo. Although sesame cakes are indeed much more expensive than other whole grains, they are not like now. Even Zhao Pu feels a bit luxurious. .
Moreover, the current price is three times what it was before the Khitans invaded Tokyo. It is not easy to buy, and the sesame seeds on the cake are almost missing.
Zhao Pu cherished the bite and took a bite. His Yue family, the Wei family, was originally a local rich family, but after the Khitans entered the Central Plains, they suffered from military disasters, and now they asked him to come to help.
Therefore, although Zhao Pu's income is relatively guaranteed, he still feels that it is quite difficult and he is only willing to buy one sesame cake.
This week's emperor is a benevolent master who neither kills nor plunders. Unfortunately, life is getting more and more difficult.
With a sigh, Zhao Pu turned around and walked into a house next to the Daxiangguo Temple. After passing through several buildings, he came to a slightly dark room.
There were several fat, bald men standing at the door of the room. These men were wearing thick cowhide armor, with long daggers stuck in their waists. There were also heavy weapons such as spears and bones placed in the corners.
"Here comes Dalang Zhao. Go to the side room and change your clothes. Master Minghui is already here. We need to take stock of the third warehouse of A in the near future."
Zhao Pu nodded and walked towards a small room. After a while, he got dressed and came out.
It's just that the so-called clothes are just a half-arm that clings to the body, and there is only a pair of calf-nosed shorts under the crotch.
This is because Zhao Pu is about to enter the vault to take stock of the inventory. This kind of clothes that are extremely close-fitting and have no pockets are to prevent him from carrying gold and silver out.
That's right! This house located behind Daxiangguo Temple also belongs to Daxiangguo Temple.
Moreover, it is the bank account room of Daxiangguo Temple that specializes in managing money, and Zhao Pu is the small shopkeeper of the bank who is responsible for counting.
Different from history, the Khitans invaded a few years earlier, and Zhao Pu had just gotten married, so he was reluctant to let his beloved wife go to Yanzhou to join the army.
The Daxiangguo Temple and other Lan Ruo also happened to have a prosperous bank industry and lacked people who could write and do calculations, so Zhao Pu stayed in Tokyo.
Wearing half-arm shorts and short noses, he was blindfolded and taken into the carriage. There was a jingling sound in the darkness. I don’t know how long it took.
After being supported by someone's arm and walking a certain distance, and then having his blindfold removed, Zhao Pu had already arrived at a huge warehouse.
In an instant, Zhao Pu was shocked. This warehouse, known as A3, was larger than the B5 warehouse that he had visited a few days ago, and contained more belongings.
And a fat monk, already with a dozen bald monks, stood in the warehouse first.
He looked at Zhao Pu and other small shopkeepers of the bank, and dropped a golden bag the size of a baby's fist with an arrogant expression.
With a clang, the golden man was thrown into a pile of shining gold and silver like a stone.
Master Minghui's cold voice came next. He didn't sound like a temple mage at all, but more like a man-eating ghost.
"Two things, one, don't entrap anyone. Anyone who dares to entrap even a little bit will be beaten to death and thrown into the Bian River. In these troubled times, it's not a big deal to kill a few people.
2. Don’t whisper to each other. If you don’t want to lose this job and still want to support your family, then keep your mouth shut.
The inventory will be completed within three days, and there will be a heavy reward at that time. "
Zhao Pu did not have any dissatisfaction with Master Minghui's threatening words, because he really needed this job.
Without this job, his sick wife, young son, and beautiful sister-in-law would all starve to death.
However, during the endless counting and estimation, Zhao Pu touched something. It was a gold medal with dark brown blood stains. The gold medal was also engraved with the three characters "Zhenbaoer".
"My son, my treasure, she is only twelve years old! She is only twelve years old! You beasts!"
The screams seemed to still echo in Zhao Pu's ears, and a picture slowly appeared in Zhao Pu's mind.
The one who was crying was his neighbor, a clerk surnamed Zhou from the Salt and Iron Division. His family had a lot of assets, and he knew everything about the Salt and Iron Division.
The junior official also had a daughter whom he regarded as a treasure. She was really pretty. The junior official often boasted to Zhao Pu, saying that he would never marry unless he was in the government office of the town.
Zhao Pu had seen this gold medal engraved with the words Zhenbaoer several times, because Zhenbaoer often came to play with his sister-in-law. The two were close in age, and Zhenbaoer would sometimes show it off.
Zhao Pu felt uncomfortable all over when he touched the gold medal.
Zhenbao'er is such a good woman! The ferocious northern prisoners carried him away like a kitten, and even the little official who was crying and scolding had his head chopped off with a knife.
Suddenly, a thunderbolt flashed through Zhao Pu's mind. Was Zhenbao'er unwell and taken away by the Khitans and disappeared?
This warehouse is also owned by the bank. Where gold and silver brocades are supposed to be stored, why are there precious gold medals and other miscellaneous gold hairpins and jade pendants?
Could it be? Could it be that the Qianzhuang people are colluding with the Khitan people?
In other words, the Khitans who went to fight against the emperor's army stored a large amount of gold and silver in the bank.
Thinking of this, Zhao Pu felt sweating on his head. No wonder even their eyes were covered when they were cleaning the treasury recently.
Are such intense and strict measures just to cover up this?
Oops! If it is what he thinks, he must not be discovered. If someone sees through it, he will definitely be splashed in the Bian River.
Zhao Pu suppressed his trembling hands and quickly threw the gold medal into the wooden box beside him, and then quickly wrote on the account book, "Gold medal weighs two or three cents." '
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In the Daning Palace, Shi Chonggui originally used it to support the beautiful palace people from all over the country.
Zhang Liecheng, Li Xiaojie, Cao Dong, son of Cao Wantong of the Hexi Chamber of Commerce, Zhang Lieming of the Zhang family in Shazhou and other senior officials of the Jinyi Envoy were discussing countermeasures.
Zhang Lieming squinted his eyes and slowly played with the short knife in his hand. This Zhang Zhao's cousin looked like a dandy, but in fact, he was indeed a dandy.
He likes to eat good food and enjoys running horses and fighting dogs, but he is quite talented in gathering intelligence and using dirty tricks, so he was thrown into the Jinyi Messenger by Zhang Zhao and became one of the three deputy commanders.
"Brother, we underestimated those bald donkeys! If they continue like this, I'm afraid they won't be able to redeem all the money until next year." Zhang Lieming said with a grin.
According to Zhang Zhao's instructions, the Jinyi envoy found Feng Yuhe, the craftsman who printed Liao's banknotes, and directly obtained 300,000 coins to cash them.
He also let the wind out, saying that the Khitan had kidnapped not only 500,000 guan from Ge Lanruo Qianzhuanghui, but 2 million guan.
I wanted to rely on this to directly wipe out a few of these great monks' banks and let them have a taste of their power.
Zhang Liecheng and others also thought that the monks might not admit the authenticity of these banknotes.
But that's exactly what they want! If the monks dare to do this, their credibility will collapse.
Who knows, but the Tokyo Bankers Association actually admitted that it was valid and bravely paid out thousands of dollars.
But just when the Jinyi envoy wanted to continue the run, the bank would announce that because the place where the money was stored was far away and the road was unsafe, it would limit the daily exchange of Liao silver notes to 500 guan.
Zhang Liecheng saw it at that time and thought, oh! Coming up with this trick, he mobilized other merchants who had deposited money in the bank and exchanged it with Hexi banknotes.
This rule of only exchanging five hundred coins a day will immediately cause the bank to lose its credibility.
However, something even more unexpected happened. The bank did not have a quota for these people at all. Only those who came to exchange the money with Liao's banknotes would have a quota.
This would cause trouble. Originally, rich households and merchants in Tokyo felt that it would be safest to store their money in a bank, because if it was stored in their own homes, it might be robbed.
They squeezed the money for a few days, but after seeing that it had no impact at all, they simply put the gold and silver brocade they took out one after another and deposited it in again.
Mudd! The Jinyi Envoy worked for a long time, and although he got six or seven thousand guan in vain, the task was not completed. On the contrary, he helped Lanruo Bank to make his reputation famous.
Zhang Liecheng glanced around the people in the room and said in a deep voice: "I heard from your Excellency yesterday that if our Jinyi envoys do things well, we will be promoted to Jinyi Guards, and we will be called Jinyi Personal Guards.
In the future, not only the current intelligence and investigation can continue to be managed, but also the cover officers and detectives from all states and counties in the world will be handed over to us.
The title of a brocade-clad messenger is always somewhat nondescript, and one might say that one day he will be eliminated.
But once they are organized into military guards, they are still like pro-army soldiers of the Forbidden Army, and they become official yamen.
You are all close to the emperor, so you should know the pros and cons.
But if we can't even win over the Lanruo Bank Association, and the emperor thinks we are useless and doesn't set up a Jinyi personal army, then the wealth and power for generations to come will be gone. "
When Cao Dong heard this, his saliva almost dropped, and he even scratched his head and ears anxiously.
Their Jinyi messengers are now like affiliated yamen. Zhang Liecheng is right, they may be eliminated at any time.
Only by becoming a royal bodyguard can one continue the power and wealth of one's descendants.
After the words were understood, the four people in the house began to think quickly.
Zhang Lieming's eyes suddenly lit up, and he clapped his hands, "I remember that day, I went to the south of the city to find some entertainment, and happened to meet a beautiful little lady... Ugh! Cough cough cough!"
Speaking of this, Zhang Lieming suddenly coughed a few times, put away his squinting look, and suddenly became serious.
"That day, someone was doing a routine inspection in the south of the city and heard a piece of news from a young lady named Wei.
She said that her brother-in-law was a treasurer in a certain place, but she secretly went to look at it and found that there always seemed to be many strange, fat monks coming and going from that place.
Moreover, her brother-in-law would always disappear from work for at least two or three days, and at most for five or six days. "
After hearing this, Cao Dong immediately came over and said cautiously: "I also found out a piece of news that when the Khitans were in Tokyo at that time, they also liked to deposit their wealth in banks, but it was not very honorable, so there were few Someone mentioned it.”
Li Xiaojie suddenly opened his half-closed eyes, "If the news that Commander Cao detected is true, it will corroborate with the news obtained by a certain person.
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The major accounting offices of Daxiangguo Temple have rarely been seen recently, and monks such as Minghui and Mingshen who are responsible for handling affairs outside the temple also seem to have disappeared overnight.
According to our spies' investigation, they went to other places to clean out their warehouses. "
Speaking of this, Li Xiaojie, who has always been lively and imaginative, looked at the other three people and spoke slowly in a low voice.
“Everyone, tell me, is it possible that the Lanruo Bank in Tokyo was extorted by the Khitans for 500,000 yuan, but in fact they absorbed the gold and silver brocade that the Khitans looted in Tokyo?
Now we have never thought that the Khitan people were defeated and even the Khitan leader was killed by us. These bald donkeys just want to swallow this ill-gotten wealth? "
'hiss! Zhang Liecheng took a breath of cold air!
He still believed in Buddhism, so it was hard to believe it for a while. However, he knew what his mission was. After calming down, he looked at Zhang Lieming and said.
"Jiulang, please mobilize people to bring the whole family of the Wei family to our territory. Remember, we must try our best to avoid people's eyes and ears. Whether it is true or not will be known after an investigation.
Li Xiaojie and Cao Dong, you two, immediately mobilize all the remaining personnel to explore the city to see if there are any other people who can write and do calculations. Those who have suddenly disappeared for several days recently, if so, find them all for me.
The Qianzhuanghui was created by the Emperor, and no one can use it to hide filth and evil.
The future of our brocade emissaries depends on this fight. "
