Chapter 290 Establishing the Tang Dynasty Royal Commercial Alliance

The royal family is actually the most realistic people in the world. As the royal family, they are not qualified to compete for the supreme position, but it will definitely not hinder who they rely on to be the most beneficial to them.

The only person in the entire royal family who had a good impression of King Li Shimin of Qin was King Li Shentong of Huai'an. Because Prince Li Jiancheng had a great threat to him, he regarded him as a thorn in his eyes and a thorn in his flesh. As early as the first year of Wude, Xue Rengao attacked Jingyang, while Wang Shichong sent troops to attack Tongguan. King Li Shentong of Huai'an, who had three thousand defenders in his hand, fled without fighting and lost the east gate of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Jiancheng was very angry and submitted a memorial to Li Yuan, asking Li Yuan to deprive him of his title and demote him to a commoner, and never hire him. At that time, Li Yuan did nothing but Li Jiancheng's confession, so he had to put Li Shentong in prison and put him in prison for a while. Until Li Mi surrendered to Li Yuan, the Tang Dynasty turned danger into safety. Li Shentong was worried that Li Jiancheng would grab his braid in Chang'an and deal with him. So he volunteered to ask for an order to appease Hebei and Shandong.

However, in the third year of Wude, with the loss of Xiangzhou and Shandong falling, Li Jiancheng once again demanded the punishment of Li Shentong, which made Li Shentong completely fall towards Li Shimin. However, in this time and space, Huai'an King Li Shentong failed to take the team and was uneasy.

You should know that the night banquet in the East Palace and the Xuanwu Gate Incident were all in the shadow of Li Shentong. If it weren't for Li Shentong, Li Shimin would not even be able to enter the Xuanwu Gate, because Liu Hongji, the general of the Left Guard, was persuaded by Li Shentong and turned to Li Shimin. When Li Shentong received the news that Li Jiancheng held a banquet in the East Palace, Li Shentong was so scared that he was very scared.

However, now Li Shimin has been defeated and he has no one to rely on. In fact, none of the people in the royal family are fools. Although Li Yuan still lives in Ganlu Hall, Li Shimin's most outstanding job is to kill the soldiers of the left guards. Now the soldiers guarding the palace are all Li Jiancheng's people.

It was changed to Li Anyan. Although Li Anyan's official position is not high and he is just a fourth-rank official. He has no record of making a name for himself, but he is denied that he is quite loyal to Li Shimin's Lei Yongji.

Who knew that there was no good banquet for this night banquet set up by Li Jiancheng, but no royal prince dared not to sell Li Jiancheng's face. After all, Li Jiancheng now holds absolute power in the Tang Dynasty, and all he missed was a name.

Li Shentong is here, and he dare not not come.

Of course, Li Shentong was a smart man. He used practical actions to be loyal to Li Jiancheng, so he gave Li Jiancheng a great gift with all his belongings, including more than 100 shops, thousands of fertile land, and more than 70,000 stakes of money.

Li Shentong opened this hole, and the other kings were not willing to let go. After all, Li Shentong's reason was too powerful. Hou Junji, the subordinate of Li Shimin, attacked the Eastern Palace and caused the destruction of the buildings and furnishings of the Eastern Palace. Li Shentong paid for Li Jiancheng to repair it.

Prince Zhao County Li Xiaogong was not interested in Li Shimin. Of course, when Li Xiaogong quelled the Jianghuai Army Rebellion, Li Shimin stumbling behind him. He had a good relationship with Li Jiancheng, but Li Shentong opened this hole, so he could not help but express it.

Li Shentong took out 70,000 guan, and he also took out 4,000 guan. Of course, compared with 70,000 guan, 4,000 guan is very small. The key is that Li Xiaogong does not have Li Shentong and can make money. Part of his money is rewarded by Li Yuan, and part of it is seized on the battlefield, which he drew.

Four thousand guan also made Li Xiaogong feel very painful.

Rencheng King Li Daozong also took out 3,000 guan, and the others quickly made a statement that the gifts received by the Order of the Eastern Palace increased from 74,000 guan to 170,000 guan. Of course, Li Jiancheng could receive so much money, mainly because the Tang Dynasty Tongli Money House was so convenient.

After Li Jiancheng exchanged polite greetings with the kings, he started the banquet and served the food.

Originally, Chen Ying should have come forward, but after Chen Ying entered the palace, he never came back, which made Li Jiancheng not know what to do? Li Jiancheng just kept silent and did not enter the subject. The more he did this, the more nervous the kings of the royal family were.

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Li Xiuning found that there was something wrong with Li Yuan's head, suppressed the doubts in his heart, and accompanied Li Yuan to play mahjong several times. When Li Yuan relaxed and slowly entered sleep.

Li Xiuning looked at Pei Ji and said, "Pei Sikong, what's wrong with his father? Have you ever asked the imperial doctor to treat him?"

Pei Ji smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty is a harsh brain disease. Dozens of imperial doctors in the Imperial Hospital are consulting, and even Doctor Sun is helpless!"

Li Xiuning hurriedly looked at Chen Ying.

Chen Ying shrugged and spread his hands and said, "I have no choice. The human brain is too complicated. If Master Sun is not cured well, I'm afraid there will be no other way in this world."

Li Xiuning looked sad.

Chen Ying stepped forward and patted Li Xiuning on the shoulder and said, "Isn't this the best? Your Majesty worked hard for half a lifetime and can finally enjoy the peace and happiness. The state affairs will be handled by the prince, and there are six prime ministers. Your Majesty can enjoy happiness at will in the deep palace!"

Chen Ying turned to Pei Ji and said, "Pei Xiang, do you think so?"

Pei Ji nodded repeatedly and said, "What Mr. Chen said is extremely true!"

Li Xiuning looked at the beginning of night and said to Chen Ying: "Chen Lang, let's go back. Let's not go back to Qinglin today, it's in Chang'an!"

"No!" Li Yuan, who was originally sleeping, suddenly woke up, got up from the bed barefoot, ran to Li Xiuning, and said in a daze: "Sanniang, you are not in Chang'an, go back to Weize Pass immediately, transfer your subordinate He Panren, Qiu Shili, Bai Shansi, Ma Sanbao and others back, lead the 100,000 Detachment of Women back, and rescue me."

At the end, Li Yuan was actually a little frightened.

Li Xiuning sighed and said, "Dad, don't worry. My son is out of seclusion now!"

Li Yuan suddenly ran to the bed again and groped in the secret compartment in front of the bed. Suddenly he grabbed a piece of military talisman and handed it to Li Xiuning, and murmured: "Sanniang, I'll give you the military talisman. You must bring your troops back. Dad can only count on you now!"

Hearing this, Pei Ji's eyes turned red in an instant.

Li Xiuning and Chen Ying left Tai Chi Palace, Li Yuan stood and looked up until Li Xiuning disappeared, and Li Yuan slowly came to his senses.

Li Yuan's eyes and Pei Ji were touching in the air, which was meaningful.

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By the time Chen Ying sent Li Xiuning to Fanglin Garden in Furong Garden and then returned to the East Palace, the kings of the East Palace were already drunk.

When Chen Ying arrived, Li Jiancheng was obviously relieved.

Li Jiancheng quickly came up and said with a little complaint: "Why did you come!"

Chen Ying had no choice but to tell Li Jiancheng about Li Yuan’s accident.

Li Jiancheng said in surprise: "What's going on? I went to visit my father yesterday, and his expression was as normal?"

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "I don't know this...but this is also a good thing, right?"

Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly.

When Chen Ying arrived, the eyes of the vassal kings touched the air and immediately realized that it was time to play the meat.

As expected, Chen Ying picked up the wine glass and said, "I will borrow flowers to offer Buddha today! I will wish you a cup!"

Huai'an King Li Shentong smiled and said, "Drinking together!"

"Drinking!" Everyone was so happy that they simply killed the wine in their hands.

"Actually, there is something I want to discuss with you!" Chen Ying said, but his tone was not intended to discuss. Chen Ying even gave Yuchi Gong and Asanosimo a wink. Yuchi Gong and Asanosimo were covered in clothes, walked into Xiande Hall with weapons and stood at the door, like a god from the door.

Yuchi Gong and Ashinasmo had a look of evil spirit, which made the princes a little uneasy.

Chen Ying continued to smile and said, "The country has no agriculture, no labor, no wealth, no business, no business! Therefore, merchants and merchants are also a major event for the country, and they must not be slackened! However, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there have been endless wars and the national treasury is empty. You have lived a very hard life. If you want to make a fortune, it is better for us to cooperate!"

Who doesn’t know the reputation of Chen Ying Shancai’s boy?

It can be said that Chen Ying could sell stones to gold.

Li Xiaogong said anxiously: "Cooperate, how to cooperate?"

Li Shentong also said: "What kind of constitution?"

"It's very simple! Learn from my strengths and weaknesses!" Chen Ying smiled and said, "You should have heard of it. Chen Ying has some experience in financial management. It's not that Chen Ying brags about making money. There are not many people in the world who are better than me. Do you admit this?"

The kings of all the vassals nodded.

Li Jiancheng was even more confused. He was clearly discussing how to support Li Jiancheng ascended the throne, but why did it turn into commercial cooperation here?

Li Jiancheng is not Chen Ying. Chen Ying was a man of two generations, and he was very clear and had the most reliable relationship?

In fact, it is not a husband and wife, not a father and son, but a cooperative relationship. There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. As long as everyone in the royal family and vassal kings are united, Li Jiancheng can not only gain their support and allow Li Jiancheng to ascend the throne, but also expand to the outside world through the Li Tang royal family.

Li Xiaogong pondered and asked, "I wonder what kind of opinions are there for Mr. Chen?"

In fact, Li Xiaogong's meaning is also the common meaning of everyone present.

Chen Ying smiled softly and said, "It's very simple. We will cooperate to form an alliance to jointly develop the Western Regions. You are responsible for providing manpower and start-up capital. I will take you to make a fortune!

"Actually, I can't explain these things clearly. What I mean is that we have established a commercial alliance, and there is a cooperation contract here, you can take a look!" As he said that, Chen Ying waved his hand, and twenty or thirty palace maids entered the banquet. Everyone was dressed in bright clothes, and each of them had an exquisite tray in their hands, but the tray was not placed in the wine and dishes, but the stack of rice paper!

Everyone present was a savage. They all knew that Li Jiancheng wanted to cut off a piece of meat from them, and Li Jiancheng wanted to slaughter them as fat sheep, but they all had reasons that they could not refuse.

Because they opened the paper and wrote "The Royal Commercial Alliance Cooperation Contract of the Tang Dynasty."

The contract of course states that justice and light are bright. The beginning is to prosper the market and promote commercial activities. Now the establishment of the Royal Commercial Alliance of the Tang Dynasty is planned.

There were not so many rules in the Tang Dynasty. The vassal kings could not only be officials, but also lead the army to fight, but of course it was not impossible to do business. In fact, the vassal kings here all had special people in charge of the business operations of the business.

Li Xiaogong opened the agreement and saw the first article in the agreement that Party A was responsible for providing Party B's goods with full escorts to ensure that the goods arrived at the destination safely! If there are losses such as weather and environment on the way, Party B will be responsible for the loss of goods. Other losses, such as robbery and looting, Party A will be responsible for compensation at three times the market value!"

Li Xiaogong couldn't help but start to ponder.

In ordinary times, merchants and freight transportation was mainly for food and food for men and civilians on the road, which was not much. The key point was that the Tang Dynasty had just been established, and from the rebellion of Liu Shishan, Fu Gongyou, and 200,000 to 300,000 troops from Hebei and Jianghuai, although some were eliminated and some surrendered, and a small number became bandits. They occupied major traffic roads, blocked the road and robbed, and did unsolicited business.

Not to mention that the business under Li Xiaogong's name has been robbed many times. Although the guards can increase their strength, the key guards have to eat and drink and pay for the family settlement. They go to Jiankang from Jinyang. In this way, a truck of goods will take about fifty days, and the freight price is more than 4,000 yuan. In other words, transporting a wolf skin worth a thousand yuan from Jinyang, even if they sell it to Jiangnan for 5,000 yuan, it will be useless.

The freight is not the most unbearable thing for merchants. Now there are bandits everywhere, and there are countless robbers who occupy the mountain and become king, and they cannot transport them to their destination safely. Now the losses caused by robbers and bandits are unbearable for merchants. Last year alone, Li Xiaogong lost about tens of thousands of chunks of goods.

Then I looked at the second clause, "Party A is responsible for commercial information, urgently needed goods, types, prices, etc. Party A promised that at most ten days, the prices of goods in various parts of the world would be truthfully transmitted by fast horses."

To obtaining these messages in ten days is undoubtedly like a snail crawling for later generations. However, in this era, such timely news is simply fast. Apart from the theoretical 800-mile fast riding, it is impossible to achieve this. The so-called 800-mile fast riding is actually a theoretical number. It is quite good to be able to achieve five or six hundred miles, and you also need to change horses all the way.

In fact, Chen Ying also had selfish thoughts on this. At that time, he was preparing to form an intelligence network based on the tiger-like nature of Hou Mo Chen, but the tight communication aspect made Chen Ying very painful. It was too expensive to set up a dense message channel.

Now, Chen Ying wanted to unite the royal family and vassals of the Tang Dynasty to form a huge network, so he planned to use the nature of this business alliance to cover up his intelligence agencies. In this way, wherever the business path of the business alliance comes, his intelligence opportunities can spread all over the world!

Article 3: The services promised by Chen Ying, Datang University of Technology provides technical support, such as steelmaking, mechanical manufacturing, including agricultural production, seed selection, breeding, and technical support in all aspects.

Article 4 is credit. Chen Ying not only dares to provide loan services to the vassal kings on the venue, but also is responsible for collecting debts. The bad debts and dead debts they cannot collect. Chen Ying is responsible for collecting them back, and according to the degree of difficulty, he will draw 30% to 50% of the commission.

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There are a total of more than twenty clauses,

The last one is that Chen Ying promised to give them the most professional services. He can provide legally versed personnel to help them draft contracts, and can also dispatch the most professional accounting rooms to help them calculate accounts.

After looking at these things in detail, all the vassal kings present were moved. You should know that each of Chen Ying's words was close to their vital points.

Li Xiaogong stood up and bowed to Li Jiancheng and said, "Your Highness, you are doing business. Now our Tang Dynasty Royal Commercial Alliance should be aligned and how should we share the interests?"

"Brothers settle the score clearly!" Chen Ying stood up and said, "There are two ideas, it depends on how you choose. The first is a long-term cooperation contract!"

Then Chen Ying asked someone to come up with a second cooperation agreement. This specifically stipulates that alliance members pay a certain amount of money to Li Jiancheng.

The Tang Dynasty royal family not only had vassal kings, but also had dukes, marquises, etc. Some were rich in the world, while others were very poor and could not be satisfied.

Based on 5,000 guan, they are bronze medal members. They need to pay an annual fee of 200 guan per year, pay 14% of the transaction amount to the business alliance, and go up to the next level to 10,000 guan and less than 30,000 guan, silver medal members. The annual fee needs to pay 500 guan and 13% of the transaction amount.

Those with more than 30,000 guan and less than 100,000 guan are gold members, with an annual fee of 1,000 guan and a membership fee of 12% of the transaction amount!

The highest level is diamond grade. It requires more than 100,000 guan of property, and the annual fee is 5,000 guan. The transaction commission ratio is 10%.

In fact, the so-called Tang Dynasty Royal Commercial Alliance is just a super mall in later generations, and all their members are just merchants.

The key is that no one has ever played this trick in this era.

Chen Ying also had a skill and ate all the vassal kings in one move.

After this alliance was established, all the vassal kings would not dare to leave the organization unless they wanted to change their appearance and establish a new central government.
Chapter completed!