Chapter 101 Blood Draw
After seeing the doctor, Yuchi's hands were tightly tucked together, Xu Ping said: "I will not blame you for the past. The case in Longmen Town has been completed. I can't settle the old accounts thousands of miles away. If you know Zhang Yuan, you can start with how to know him."
The sick Yuchi forced himself to calm his mind and adjusted his thoughts: "The younger two arrived at Dangxiang and moved to Xingqing Mansion. At the beginning of this year, another person from Kaifeng Mansion to Xingqing Mansion avoided disaster, and his residence was not far from us. We were far away in a foreign land. If we wanted to know some news about the Song Dynasty, we naturally got closer to this person."
Seeing that Xu Ping stopped talking, Li Zhang asked, "What's the name of that person? What did he do?"
"That man is called Li Zhongtan. He met an official in Kaifeng Prefecture and cheated out of a new bank."
Hearing this, Xu Ping sighed: "Another one, birds of a feather flocked to each other, and the few who opened a fake company to cheat money in the Song Dynasty all gathered together. In this way, Zhang Yuan became a layman."
After seeing Xu Ping's face remained unchanged, Yuchi said carefully: "What the Master of the Ruler said is that there are many people who fled to Dangxiang to avoid disasters. However, the case of Li Zhongtan crimes is similar to that of me and Tong Dalang, so we got closer. When Li Zhongtan arrived at Dangxiang, he happened to be on the same journey with Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao. Only after passing by did we meet."
In the past year, everyone's life in Xingqing Mansion was briefly ill, and finally said: "Since this year, the Song Dynasty has rebelled against Dangxiang, and cut off their financial path of green and white salt. Haozhe wants to use troops, and it is inevitable that it will be difficult to get out of trouble. I wonder how Zhang Yuan hooked up with the Zhang family in power in Dangxiang, and suggested that Haozhe learn from the Song Dynasty to open a bank and print paper money, so that it will be cost-effective. In the past two or three months, Zhang Yuan has been busy with this matter. A few days ago, this guy found our brother and said that he only opened a bank. He printed paper money to make money from the people, and wanted our brother to help him build some companies."
Xu Ping smiled and said, "Then have you helped them?"
"We brothers are Han people. We had to go to Dangxiang to avoid disaster and spend the rest of our lives. How could we help other people do things? But now Zhang Yuan is in a strong position. If he refuses him in one go, he will inevitably be killed. Our brothers discuss that Tong Dalang will first go to Xu and Wushe in Xingqing Prefecture. I will come to Song to meet my husband and have an idea."
Xu Ping raised his head and looked at the doctor Yuchi and said, "What do those two brothers think?"
The sick Yuchi was so nervous that Xu Ping saw him, Qiqi Ai Ai said: "Brother Tong means that if the manager of the businessman has the intention, he will do this to Zhang Yuan. If Dangxiang has no money, how can he fight? If there is some credit, I hope he can get rid of his previous crime."
"No matter whether you have any credit or not, as long as you work for the court with loyalty, you can never look at the past. I can agree to you. However, it is a bit of a joke to think that if you do things badly, Dangxiang will lose money to fight. If it is so easy, why would the court gather hundreds of thousands of troops on Shaanxi Road and take risks? Well, you go down and rest first. What do you want to do in Xingfu Mansion? Let me tell you later. Don't worry, it must be easier than you think."
After Xu Ping finished speaking, he signaled Li Zhang to take the person down and arrange a residence for the ill Yuchi to stay.
After going out to settle the house, Li Zhang returned to Xu Ping and said, "Jingshuai, as far as I see, since Tong Dalang and the Jian Yuchi are mixed with Zhang Yuan and have a lot of trust in Dangxiang, why don't you let them help do something?"
Xu Ping asked Li Zhang to sit down and said to him: "Then what do you think these two people can help us?"
Li Zhang pondered for a moment and said, "It's as Tong Dalang said, it's better to mess up Dangxiang's banks and companies. This winter, there will be a big battle in the east and west sides. Dangxiang will consume a lot of money and food, and will lose their financial resources and spend a lot of money in the coming year!"
Xu Ping shook his head and smiled and said, "Brother, you think badly, or you are led by Tong Dalang's idea. In Dangxiang, you must first understand that there is a order in which they take power and employ people. The first is the native aristocratic people, the second is the native Han people, and later on, the Tubo, Zaqiang and other foreigners, the lowest one is the Han people who surrendered to Dangxiang. Dangxiang's military affairs are controlled by the native aristocratic people in their territory, such as Yeli, Weiming and other tribes.
He then took charge of the military power. Dangxiang's literary affairs were mostly managed by the native Han people there, among which the Zhang surname was the most powerful, such as Zhang Zhi, Zhang Jiang, Zhang Wenxian, etc. Zhang Yuan, a fourth-class man who was contended there, had the current power by investing in the indigenous Zhang family. If the affairs of banks, companies and other matters were really so important to Dangxiang, how could it be handed over to Zhang Yuan to manage? If this matter was ruined, it would not hurt Dangxiang at all."
Li Zhang, in charge of Jiyisi, is very familiar with the situation in Dangxiang and knows that Xu Ping is right.
Dangxiang was not a pure Fanhu regime, but a mixed regime of Fanhans. However, the Han people had little military participation, which made the Song Dynasty less concerned about the power of the Han people in their territory. Fanhan was the norm for the nomadic regime in the north after the Tang Dynasty. Whether it was the Khitan, the Jurchen, Mongolia, or even the Qing Dynasty later, they all inherited this tradition. The country was divided according to ethnicity, but not absolute. The indigenous Han people actually had only lower status than the main ethnic group and had a very large strength. However, the Han people who later joined the past were at the bottom and could not really hold real power. The bank, company and other affairs were handed over to Zhang Yuan, which showed that it was not so important to Dangxiang. I thought that if I could destroy this matter, I would have no money. I was just thinking too much.
Li Zhang frowned: "In this way, Tong Dalang and Bing Yuchi are of no use to us?"
"No, it's useless for them to mess things up. If they really do it, it's useful for it!"
"Jie Shuai, what does this mean? The bank and the company are completed, and Haozi has money in his hands, isn't it even harder to fight?"
Xu Ping patted Li Zhang on the shoulder and smiled and said, "Where is money in his hands? Banks and companies themselves cannot make money. They just make the money from the people alive. Our Song Dynasty relies on these two countries to make sufficient national use because the people are already rich and use these two means to revitalize savings. Dangxiang is poor and the people are poor, so they have no money. What is the use of running banks and companies? Looking for peas in the quail's veil, egrets split the flesh on their legs, and mosquitoes have fat and oil in their belly. If you want to collect money, you can only scrape three feet of the ground. Can money be made out of nothing? Using banks to make money for Haozhe is to make chaos in the country in the Dangxiang!"
Banks and companies cooperate with industry and commerce. Only when industry and commerce reach a certain scale can they have a positive effect. Dangxiang’s domestic industrial and commercial foundation is zero, and using banks to make money is to squeeze out oil from the bones of Dangxiang’s people.
In fact, the Song Dynasty cut off the border between the two countries and cut off the financial path of Qingbaiyan, which was the second harm to Dangxiang. The first was that there was no money available in the country. The largest industry in the Dangxiang territory was to make military weapons such as swords, guns, bows and crossbows. The only industry in the private sector was sporadic hoes and small workshops for sickles, and the business was pitiful. The national commercial tax was not as good as a medium state in the Song Dynasty. In the past, Dangxiang used Song Dynasty copper coins, but the technology of minting itself was not good. The scale of commercial circulation was not cost-effective. Without the income from Qingbaiyan, the direction of currency circulation was reversed at the border between the two countries. A large number of gold, silver and copper coins entered the Song Dynasty from Dangxiang. Yuanhao wanted to set up a bank banknote to make money, and making money was actually secondary. The most urgent thing was to use paper money to fill the gap in circulating currency. If this matter was done, it would be equivalent to the Song Dynasty taking a big tube to draw blood from Dangxiang.
The greatest value of Tong Dalang's participation in this matter was not to mess up the matter, but to do things, on the contrary, to do things, the larger the scale, the better. As long as Dangxiang dares to pass banknotes, Xu Ping will smuggle various luxury consumer goods into Dangxiang, and first shine the blood of the people.
Chapter completed!