Chapter 93: The broken escort

Time flies, and three spring colds have passed.

The Weiyuan Escort Agency in Chang'an City has expanded more than three times.

Various horse-drawn carriages, ox carriages, and mule carriages were parked outside the escort agency, which shows the business.

The two merchants met in front of the escort agency and greeted each other.

"Oh, Manager He, long time no see." The speaker looked at the convoy brought by Manager He, and then looked at the bluestone road, which had been crushed with a shallow white mark. He knew it in his heart and said.

"Is Manager He here to exchange for copper tickets?"

Manager He looked at the big belly of the person who said hello and bowed, "Bai Manager Bi has gained a lot of weight recently! I think he must have made a fortune. Don't joke about my little copper coins.

If it weren't for the Weiyuan Escort Agency, I, a person who specializes in the wilderness of Lingnan, might have been killed by those robbers or lost all their money.

Now that the Weiyuan Escort Agency has finally opened its branch to Lingnan, I just need to exchange these copper coins for the unique copper tickets of the escort agency, and then go to Lingnan with a light chariot and extract the copper coins from the escort agency branch."

The shopkeeper Bi said, "Isn't that true? This escort agency saves us merchants a lot of trouble. Now that I do business, I don't even have to go out for Chang'an. I just need to entrust the goods to the escort agency to transport them.

If you want to buy any goods, you only need to inform the escort agency and ask them to purchase them on your behalf. Although you have to give more copper coins, it is more cost-effective than traveling by yourself, and it is more worry-free and labor-saving."

Yi Fan never thought that an escort agency that was full of swords and blood in his impression would be played by him, or by this era, into a logistics company, which was mixed with some bank business.

Luoyang was the first to open an escort agency branch. Merchants often asked the escort agency to escort copper coins and traveled to and from both places.

For convenience, Yi Fan asked the escort agency to build a vault, deposited the copper coins that merchants in Chang'an or Luoyang needed to escort into it, and then issued copper notes with anti-counterfeiting marks to the merchant.

The merchants in Chang'an need to go to Luoyang to do business, and only need to store the copper coins they want to use in the Chang'an Escort Bureau. Then they go to the Luoyang Escort Bureau branch, and use the copper tickets in their hands to extract the corresponding copper coins.

On the contrary, the same is true for merchants in Luoyang. Merchants saved a lot of escort fees, and the escort agency did not use it to escort copper coins back.

There was even a merchant who directly talked about business in the escort agency. After the business was negotiated, he went through the transfer of copper coins at the escort agency, and then asked the escort agency to help escort his goods. The merchant just had to wait for the goods to be received.

The escort agency only needs to centrally transport goods of the same batch and distance, which saves a lot of cumbersomeness.

While the escort agency blossomed everywhere, it also accelerated the commercial circulation and prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. The industrial products such as toothpaste and soap produced by Yi Fan in Ping'an County were also sold to various prefectures and counties with the escort agency's footsteps.

It is worth mentioning that Yi Fan's toothbrush workshop went bankrupt in less than three months because the people's imitation ability is too strong. People with almost some hands-on ability can do it with just a glance.

After the toothbrush workshop went bankrupt, Yi Fan used various Chinese medicines to make shampoo, and finally solved his personal hygiene in a comprehensive way.

Yang Su transformed into a big distributor of products such as Yi Fan. According to Yang Su, she used her previous work in the heaven and earth to exchange for soaps, and thus formed her own caravan and prepared to continue selling soaps.

Today, Yang Su brought a long convoy into Ping'an County again.

In the carriage, Yang Su was playing with the lighter unconsciously in her hand, but she thought to herself: "In the past three years, she has accumulated a lot of money by selling this soap, toothpaste, shampoo and other countries, and she has accumulated a lot of money. She thought that there was hope for restoration of the country. However, the Tang Dynasty has become even more prosperous."

Recently, Yang Su was inspired by some of the money shops, which were to open a money shop that specialized in helping merchants and ordinary people manage money. As long as the money shops were getting older, they would be equivalent to mastering the lifeblood of those merchants and people who handed over money shops to manage them.

As long as the time is right, this money house will be a powerful tool for restoring the country. However, to open this money house, a large number of talents who are proficient in mathematics are required, which Yang Su does not have.

The reason why Yi Fan was able to play with it was because he had a college where he currently taught mathematics. The students in the college were the children of escort masters in the escort bureau and some of the children of workers in the workshop.

Although Yang Su was a princess of the previous dynasty, there were very few people under her. She was also a daughter, so how could those scholars use it for her?

Yang Su came this time just to see if he could use some math skills like Yi Fan, or get some people to study in Yi Fan's academy.

It is obviously not the only one who can see the clues from the operation model of the escort agency.

In Liangyi Hall, Changsun Wuji, Wei Zheng and Li Shimin are also discussing the matter about the escort agency.

Changsun Wuji said to Li Shimin: "Master, since King Ping'an opened an escort agency, the commercial tax of our Tang Dynasty has increased year by year.

However, this escort agency has become stronger and stronger. Over the years, we have been working hard to weaken the power of those aristocratic families. If another big family is raised, then..."

At this point, Changsun Wuji observed Li Shimin's expression calmly, seeing how he reacted, and it was time to decide whether he would continue to say anything afterwards.

Li Shimin looked as usual, and looked at Changsun Wuji with a smile, as if waiting for his next sentence.

Seeing this, Changsun Wuji had to say: "I suggest that the Weiyuan Escort Agency be brought back to the court to operate so as to take this force into the hands of the emperor to avoid chaos."

"The emperor, the minister objected, and this was a fight for profit with the people, and it was actually something that the wise king did not do."

The opponent was Wei Zheng. He only heard Wei Zheng say, "Let's not mention the fact that the robbers along the way were wiped out by them wherever this escort agency went. This is the responsibility they took money and fulfilled. I only asked the priest the previous sentence, if the escort agency was taken to the court, what would the rest of the merchants feel? How would the people in the world view the saint's actions?"

Upon hearing this, Li Shimin looked at the two ministers around and said, "I will discuss this matter later. I believe that the two dear ministers are tired, so let's go back and rest first!"

After the two left, Li Shimin leaned on the chair and closed his eyes. He didn't know what he was thinking about? Or was just resting on his mind.

Ang Lee entered the palace and bowed to Li Shimin and said, "The Lord."

Li Shimin closed his eyes and said, "How many of our people are there in this Weiyuan Escort Agency?"

"Thirty percent of the time I return to the emperor."

Li Shimin said again: "Can you control it secretly?"

Ang Lee hesitated and said, "Master, I'm afraid I can't."

Ang Lee glanced at Li Shimin and saw that he still closed his eyes, and there was no sign of getting angry.

Then he explained: "There are only important positions in this escort agency, all the important positions are trained by King Ping'an. Most of these people are those escorts, but the old slave did not dare to send his subordinates to study, for fear that they would have thoughts they shouldn't have."

After hearing this, Li Shimin just said "yes".

Ang Lee was about to retreat, but Li Shimin said, "You go to Ping'an County and ask King Ping'an to enter the palace to talk."

(End of this chapter)

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