Cao Jinbao lowered his eyes and looked at the wine glass on the table, and then said with a smile:

"How dare the villain know?"

Zhang Mingyue was intrigued by Cao Jinbao's words, and he asked:

"In this way, Boss Cao knows why I'm here today?"

Cao Jinbao replied:

"I don't know."

Zhang Mingyue said:

"Boss Cao, I'm not a Jia person, you don't need to sell off with me, you can say whatever you want, you can't afford to deceive Shangguan."

Cao Jinbao smiled when he heard this, and then he set his eyes on Lan Qianzhen, and after getting Lan Qianzhen's nod, Cao Jinbao said:

"Since the head of the chapter ordered me to say, then I will dare to guess. Cao Moujie is a merchant, there is nothing for the imperial court to use, except for my money. Today, the two important ministers of the court deigned to come in person, certainly not to drink tea and chat with me, since it is not idle talk, then to talk about business, since to talk about business, then only silver can be discussed. So I guess Zhang Shoufu and Daigong came today to ask me for money again. ”

Zhang Mingyue nodded and smiled:

"Exactly."

Cao Jinbao laughed twice when he heard this, and he said:

"The court has a request, and the villain should naturally try his best to meet it, but I have a small question, I wonder if Lord Shoufu can answer it for me?"

Zhang Mingyue said:

"Please."

Cao Jinbao raised his head and glanced at Zhang Mingyue with a smile, and he said:

"The last time the court spoke, I took out three million taels of silver at a time, and there are no thieves making trouble at this time, and it's not just a famine, the majority of the court's spending has passed, and these three hundred taels are enough to spend until the end of the year, why did Lord Shoufu come to ask me again a few days later?"

Cao Jinbao's question was asked about the sore spot of the imperial court, and Zhang Mingyue and Lan Qianzhen both had hot faces when they heard this question. Where the money is spent is actually an open secret, but the so-called open secret can only be guessed and checked by one's own thoughts. Zhang Mingyue didn't answer Cao Jinbao's question, but said:

"The emperor is rich all over the world, he won't owe you this bit of silver, and if you want interest, the account will also give it, and if you want to be too little a year, I can give you a few more percent, and I will definitely not owe you, you just need to lend me the silver."

Cao Jinbao laughed when he heard this, and he said:

"High interest rates mean high risk, and I, as a creditor, have no ability to restrain debtors, and you will not be punished for defaulting, but I have to admit that I am unlucky, and I have to lose my head if I don't do it. Such a debt cannot be called a loan at all, and it should be called a robbery. ”

Cao Jinbao suddenly saw a bunch of strange words to make the other three people on the table stunned, they couldn't understand what Cao Jinbao said about this rate and power, so Zhang Mingyue asked:

"Boss Cao, what are you going to say?"

Cao Jinbao smiled, raised his glass and took a sip, he said:

"It's nothing, it's just my own words, which I often dream about."

Lan Qianzhen said:

"Boss Cao has to ask a doctor to take a good look, what you say sounds like rumors, and it's completely confusing."

Cao Jinbao smiled again, and Zhang Mingyue urged him:

"Boss Cao, let's talk about business, how much money can be taken out on hand, and the household department needs to plan the expenses for the next few months."

Cao Jinbao took a mouthful of food with a spoon, raised a glass and drank a sip of wine, and after the wine and food were down, Cao Jinbao said unhurriedly:

"It's hard for me to get a tael of silver."

Although Cao Jinbao has behaved deferentially since he entered the mansion just now, he does not regard himself as inferior at all in his heart, and Cao Jinbao is not pretending at all, his spirit of sitting on an equal footing makes Zhang Mingyue very dissatisfied, and now he is openly resisting

fate, Zhang Mingyue was naturally angry. I saw Zhang Mingyue slapping his palm on the table and scolding Cao Jinbao loudly:

"You Diaomin! It was you who took the initiative to come to the door to lend money to the court, and now it is you who say that you have no money, do you know that it is a capital crime to tease the court and deceive the king? ”

The officials sitting at the other table heard Zhang Mingyue's reprimand, and they all stopped their chopsticks and grabbed knives. Now Cao Jinbao is in front of the endless anger of the first assistant of the dynasty, behind which is the eyes of many officials who are cutting meat, it is not an exaggeration to call this Mount Tai the top, but Cao Jinbao's face is like autumn water, and he is not shocked. He put down his chopsticks and looked at Zhang Mingyue with a smile and said:

"Zhang Shoufu, what I have is money, I will borrow as much as the court wants, but I don't have any silver, and I can't take out one or two."

Zhang Mingyue sneered:

"I advise you to be less flamboyant with me, money is silver, silver is money, you have money or not, don't you want to use copper plates to bluff me?"

Cao Jinbao smiled:

"It's not copper money, there are not enough copper mines in the world to dig like this."

Zhang Mingyue was furious when he heard this, and Lan Qianzhen, who had been watching from the sidelines, was afraid that Zhang Mingyue would be impulsive, so he hurriedly spoke out to dissuade him:

"Zhang Shoufu, Boss Cao is well versed in the way of doing business, he must have his way to say this, adults first calm down and listen to Boss Cao's method, if it really doesn't work, it's not too late to get angry."

Zhang Mingyue was persuaded by Lan Qianzhen, temporarily suppressed his anger, and he asked Cao Jinbaodao:

"Then what money do you say you can lend to the household? Paper money? ”

Cao Jinbao smiled:

"Yes, it's paper money."

Zhang Mingyue was about to stand up when he heard this, but he immediately sat down and sneered:

"Cao Jinbao, speaking of which, you still have to print treasure money. You are also the No. 1 merchant in Taisho, don't you really know that this dynasty issued treasure money when it was first established? No one used the imperial court to issue banknotes in person, so is it useful for you to be a businessman? The people will not listen to the court, but will listen to you? ”

Cao Jinbao smiled:

"The court failed to issue treasure money, that is, the court has no ability, I have this ability, I can send it."

Zhang Mingyue snorted coldly and flicked his sleeves and said:

"Enough! You are a deceitful man, you should abandon the city, arrest you in the prison and copy your home, how can I copy out tens of millions of taels of silver, why listen to your nonsense? ”

Saying that, Zhang Mingyue waved his hand to greet the officials, and Lan Qianzhen at the same table persuaded:

"Zhang Shoufu, things can be discussed in the long run, but killing people and raiding homes can't be done."

At this chaotic moment, Cao Jinbao suddenly laughed loudly, and the lonely laughter startled everyone in the room to look at him, and Cao Jinbao raised his chin and looked down at everyone, like a lonely person looking at the world, he smiled and said to Zhang Mingyue:

"Zhang Shoufu, you kill me just to kill chickens and take eggs, the ten million taels of silver in my library can save you for a while, but I can't save you for a lifetime, and the lack of silver in the household department can't fill all the merchants in the world, it's useless for you to kill me."

Zhang Mingyue stared at Cao Jinbao and said coldly:

"It's useless for me to kill you, it's useful for you to live? Can you still make money out of nothing? ”

Cao Jinbao was not stared at by Zhang Mingyue timidly, he looked at Zhang Mingyue's gaze, his eyes flashed with light, and he said:

"Zhang Shoufu, I can assure you that as long as there is enough food in Taicang, I will have a way to turn paper money into real money."

Zhang Mingyue heard Cao Jinbao mention Taicang, and when he became interested, he lowered his brows and asked:

"What are you going to do?"

Cao Jinbao said:

"The household department borrowed money from me, and the white paper and black letters were well established, the principal and interest were written clearly, and the imperial court seal was stamped and sent to me, and I printed the banknotes according to the amount required by the imperial court and sent them to the household department, and the household department took the banknotes out for use, as long as the court guaranteed that the one or two silver banknotes I printed could buy one or two silver grains at the market price, and I guaranteed that one or two silver banknotes could be exchanged for one or two from my treasury

If you are full of silver, then the banknote will be issued successfully. “ntent

The dream of Taicheng