The journey went smoothly, but there were already many people looking for Li Bing in various places in Guanzhong, with Luoyang as the center.
It can be seen that the family hated this man so much that they took away so much money and even burned his residence in Luoyang.
"His Royal Highness King Wei, Li Xing has returned to our residence outside Chang'an City." Li Tai nodded and said, "What is he doing now?"
"As soon as this person settled down, he ate and drank all day long, trying to make himself fat."
"Brother-in-law, do you think this man is still useful to us?" Zhang Yang said with a smile: "After he becomes fat, give him a third identity and send him to the Western Regions to sell food to us." These words made Li Tai happy at all. Not surprised.
The money was not enough to satisfy his brother-in-law. Li Tai looked at the account book of this sugar business. The account book was very simple. It was nothing more than the amount of sugar purchased by the children of the aristocratic family several times.
With such a large amount of money, the Cui family from Qinghe bought the most. Their family exclusively owned the bulk of 300,000 yuan.
People are probably going crazy. Li Xing had not touched a penny of the 540,000 guan of silver. This game of raising prices by falsely raising prices and then passing flowers around by beating drums was finally over.
At the moment when he saw these coins, Li Tai felt much more relaxed, as if the stone in his heart had fallen to the ground, and he no longer had to worry about whether someone would come to Lishan.
After leaving Tongguan and passing through Huashan, I encountered several more interrogations, but as long as I showed my identity as the Prince of Wei, the other party would not be too embarrassed.
Another fast horse came, and the visitor said loudly: "Where is Zhang Yang, the Marquis of Lishan County?" Zhang Yang stepped forward and said,
"That's right!"
"Take the letter." A roll of bamboo slips was thrown over. Zhang Yang caught it with one hand and rode away. Zhang Yang took off the sealing wax above, opened the scroll and looked at it. He glanced at it and saw that it was signed by Wang Gui, who was recuperating in Taiyuan.
Looking carefully at the content of the letter, it was said that there was a troop of troops outside Luoyang City. This troop was arranged by Chen Guoren. Regardless of whether Luoyang was convicted or not, this troop would choose an opportunity to pick up the family that was going to Chang'an City for prosecution. Children.
Even the two thousand flying cavalry battalions arranged by His Majesty outside could not stop them. The other side sent at least 20,000 additional troops.
In Luoyang City, Qu Tushou was guarding Luoyang and held military power in his hands. No matter whether the family wanted to attack Luoyang at this moment, or whether he wanted to rob the trapped children of the family.
He was prepared to face the enemy's siege at any time. At this moment, the family is like ants on a hot pot.
When Li Tai was asked to sell more to the Cui family in Qinghe, Li Bin might have misunderstood, causing him to keep giving the goods to the Cui family in Qinghe.
As a result, the Qinghe family now has a huge amount of sugar in their hands, but they can no longer sell the sugar at this moment.
Zhang Yang scratched his head in distress. He was doing things quite neatly, but he was a little too thoughtless and too deliberate. Those who didn't know thought that Li Bin was having an affair with the Cui family.
Fortunately, he himself pulled away at this moment. A group of people appeared in Luoyang City to help the strong and the weak. They were all braised pork guys. They wandered outside Sun Fujia's imperial censor's residence all day long, and blocked three assassinations, five arson attacks, and six poisonings. .
There are also people from the aristocratic families in the city, and these people naturally want to rescue their young master, and they will use any means.
At this moment, everyone in Luoyang was trying to buy time for Sun Fujia and Ma Zhou. The two of them have to face the biggest revenge of the family. The only way to deal with this kind of revenge is to prove the crimes of these children of the family, including seeing Liu and Zhou beaten to death before.
The crime involved dozens of lives, private lending, land occupation, and forced buying and selling, and the list of charges was overwhelming.
To prove the crime, you need witnesses, victims, and confessions from the criminal. To face cross-examination from the DPRK and China in the future, all of these are indispensable.
Sun Fujia and Ma Zhou must do things carefully. Luoyang was just the first stop. Afterwards, when they got to Chang'an City, they had to be interrogated again and included in the file.
This is a crucial battle between the court and the aristocratic family. Let the world understand that the children of aristocratic families are not invincible.
This is like opening the floodgates, and the local wealthy families who are causing trouble will be swallowed up by the accumulated grievances of the villagers in Guizhou.
As long as Tian Khan stands on the side of the masses, then the masses can hold up the torch, stand up from the long-term oppression, and burn these clans with fire.
Let the world understand that the Tang Dynasty is always on the side of the masses, that is the best time for everyone to push the mountain and overthrow the 700-year-old family.
Zhang Yang handed the letter to Li Tai,
"Old Mr. Wang Gui is recuperating in his hometown in Taiyuan, and he is still a conservative person. Even this bamboo slip is coated with pulp, so why can't he make a Hsinchu slip? Or is it because he lives a frugal life and can't even afford a Hsinchu slip? Got it." He took the letter and took a look at it, and said quickly: "Send this letter to Chang'an City immediately and give it to my father."
"His Royal Highness the King of Wei, take some cloth, paper, and pen and ink to send to Mr. Wang Gui in Taiyuan." Seeing that his bodyguard had left with the bamboo slips, Li Tai lowered his head and said,
"Wouldn't it be better to just send money?"
"His Royal Highness, King Wei, the old gentleman is noble and upright, let's not be so tacky." After the words fell, Li Tai did not reply for a long time, noticing the look of disgust and contempt on the other side.
Zhang Yang cleared his throat unconsciously.
"I have never denied that I am a vulgar person, but when facing upright people, we cannot be too vulgar." Li Tai sighed, turned and left.
Lishan is short of money, and even more lacking of resources. This money is the bargaining chip for negotiations with the DPRK and China. Before Lishan can control its own resources, it still needs the help of the court to provide resources.
After previously cooperating with the Ministry of Industry, Lishan has tasted the benefits. But Yan Liben is also a shrewd man. He will not just provide stones and firewood, but will also ask for technology from Lishan.
Since last year, the Ministry of Industry has stopped transporting stone and wood to Lishan. Fortunately, there is enough wood and stone to build a new home.
Li Shimin only provided it temporarily, and he did not always do good things to provide Lishan with sufficient stone and wood.
Youdao creates demand when there is no demand. This is like people who don't need mouthwash. But as long as you give a reason for needing mouthwash and a reason for its benefits, you can make people think that they need it. .
Chasing the emperor to breastfeed is also a headache. On the one hand, you have to consider how ambitious the emperor is, and on the other hand, you must also consider how much you have suffered when negotiating terms with the emperor.
Thinking of these things, Zhang Yang felt very bad. To develop, resources are needed. When the demand for resources reaches a certain level, money becomes a tool to purchase resources.
This is the most embarrassing situation that Lishan needs to solve right now. Zhang Yang greeted people: "Send all this money into the village and bring it to my door."
"Here!" Ten carriages and horses slowly entered the village. It was very difficult for the horse to pull, and the weight of the silver cakes and copper coins almost crushed the wheel hub.
They delivered the money and left. Zhang Yang walked into the carriage and picked up a cloth bag. Because it was too heavy, he didn't drag the bottom with it.
The heavily loaded cloth bag burst open on the spot, and the copper coins fell out. This movement also attracted the attention of the children and wife who were in class in the courtyard.
Li Yue quickly stepped forward and asked her aunt to help take out all the money from one of the carriages. When she saw a mountain of copper coins and a lot of silver cakes.
She didn't speak for a long time. She held up a handful of copper coins and whispered: "How much cotton do we have to sell in Lishan to earn so much money?" Today, the most popular business in Lishan is cotton.
As for consumables such as soap, even in the peak season of summer, they are not as good as the wool cloth and cotton cloth sold in one winter.
In this way, Lishan's largest profit in a year was worth 100,000 yuan. However, the profits have declined in the past two years. Starting from last year, Lishan paid taxes on its profits, and then paid wages to the villagers working in the village. After throwing away the cost, the rest is in their own hands. There are only about 40,000 guan left.
Fortunately, my daughter-in-law manages the family well and keeps her family's savings and cash at a minimum of 80,000 yuan. This year, I gave a lot of money to the father-in-law of Taiji Palace. To be precise, Lishan was not as wealthy as the outside world rumored.
Moreover, it is not easy to keep such a fortune. You have to be careful about future expenditures. Now you have to save money to buy the coal sent by Xue Yantuo.
Silver cakes and copper coins had to be weighed. Li Yue and the children were doing the accounting together, and cartloads of silver coins were delivered to the warehouse. This scene was very gratifying.
One carriage followed another, and it took most of the day just to figure it out. There are more silver cakes than copper coins, because silver cakes are used to trade bulk goods, which is the consensus of transactions in various places.
Moreover, compared to copper coins, they are also divided into good copper and bad copper. Some moldy copper coins can only be regarded as bad copper.
Even bad copper has the value of being recast. In Lishan, it is the opposite. Lishan is more willing to use copper coins to trade bulk goods.
The currency of the Tang Dynasty was all Tongbao copper coins. If you mastered enough copper coins, you would have the bargaining chip to negotiate terms between the DPRK and China.
This is related to the value system of copper coins and the economic stability of Datang. Compared to blowing up the city of Chang'an with grenades, having enough copper coins is also a means of self-protection.
If a large amount of copper coins appear on the market, it will also make the money worthless, which means that both the jade and the stone will be destroyed.
Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and everyone in the village is preparing for the big banquet. Li Yue was busy from morning to night. For the first time, Li Yue felt her hands cramping while counting money.
Little Qingqing always likes to climb into the pile of money, and every time it is the little bear who takes her out of the pile of money. She was tired of waving her little palm and hitting it to show her dissatisfaction, and then she climbed up the money mountain with her short legs.
But every time when she was almost drowned in copper coins, the bear took them out again. When she was just learning to speak, she loved money so much. When she grows up, she will probably be as fond of money as her mother.
It is said that this is the first time that the family has received so much money. Li Yue's face was filled with happiness as she held the account book with a coquettish tone.
"Husband." Zhang Yang locked the three big locks in the treasury and nodded in response.
"Um."
"Husband." Li Yue smiled and narrowed her eyes.
"We have money."
"I do have money, but I will continue to spend money in the future." She held the account book with a smile on her face.
"In the future, our family will never have to worry about money again."
"Our family really doesn't have to worry about money anymore. Your father might be even more worried now." Li Yue picked up the thick account book in her hand and knocked on her husband's shoulder and said: "Father is the father, and our family is our family. The reporter said that my husband lent a lot of money to the court, and our family has not recovered the capital until now." The money at home is indeed increasing, Zhang Yangxin said,
"No matter how much money my family has, I still only have this little pocket money." Li Yue walked briskly.
"Forty-five hundred kilograms of silver cakes, including six thousand guan of copper coins, and the loss of old copper and rusty copper, our family's income this time is 580,000 guan."
"Yes, so much money would overwhelm the carriage. His Highness King Wei said that ten horses were exhausted along the way." The daughter-in-law was completely immersed in the joy of being rich. Counting that she already had money, she was hundreds of miles away. The Wanguan family property is one step closer.
By the end of the day, he already had a reserve of 700,000 yuan. Thinking about it carefully, Zhang Yang felt more and more ironic that the money brought from Luoyang overwhelmed the carriage from Tongguan to Lishan, and even tired out ten war horses.
This is only part of it, there is so much money in Luoyang. It can be seen that the aristocratic family has been entrenched in various places for hundreds of years. Even during the ten years of chaos in the late Sui Dynasty, their family wealth was still rich.
As for the DPRK, Li Shimin wanted to conquer Xue Yantuo in the north, so he had to tighten his belt and squeeze out some money to spend on military affairs.
The money in the DPRK is not enough to manage the country, but the wealth hidden by the powerful can only bring disaster to one side. The children were also very happy. They had never seen so much money and they were whispering about how much money they had counted.
The happy atmosphere is contagious, and my daughter, who is not yet sensible, is also very happy, and I don’t know what she is happy about.
The children helped count copper coins and weigh silver cakes, and went to bed early after a tiring day. Late at night, Zhang Yang was lying on the bed and looking at the geography recently written by the Foreign Affairs Commission, which was about the geography of Persia.
"Hee hee hee..." I don't know if my daughter-in-law was talking in her sleep, but the sudden laughter shocked me so much that I could laugh even in my sleep.
The wife turned over and rested her head on her arm, and even wiped her own saliva. She had not seen her drooling while sleeping in some years.
The situation in Persia recorded by the Foreign Affairs Council is very detailed. Glaze has not yet been fully popularized in the West, and even in China, it is a rarity.
The idea of harvesting the whole world with colored glaze has been mulling over in my mind. The gray, duck-egg-sized glass ball alone is definitely not enough. The craftsmanship needs to be improved.
"Husband, it's time for bed." Li Yue murmured, rubbing his shoulder, looking half asleep and half awake.
"I'm thinking about how much money I need to earn next time to make you happier than now." Leaning on her shoulder, she whispered: "I'm happy when my family is well." Zhang Yang put down the book and blew out the oil lamp.
"Let's watch the fireworks tomorrow night."...Part of Lishan's news is consistent with the palace. Especially the guards in Li Tai's hands. In addition to protecting Wei King Li Tai, they were also Li Shimin's spies on Lishan.
