Chapter 12 Shangshu Zuo Servant Shot should be replaced

The main coin of the Tang Dynasty is still five baht money, but due to this era, the rise of commerce, especially the bulk transactions are becoming more and more extensive, with the development of four years, more and more people or gentry are willing to accept money transactions, according to the previous transactions, involving 10,000 yuan of money, only 10,000 copper coins, it needs more than 70,000 catties, equivalent to 35 tons of weight.

If a four-wheeled carriage with a load of 5,000 pounds is taken, it will also require a full twelve carriages. Just like buying rice now, a stone of grain is as high as 800 yuan, and the weight of this money is as much as more than five catties.

The accounts of Datang Tongli Qianzhuang, Xu Jingzong knows very well. Don't look at him as Bibu Langzhong in the court now, but he is the first deputy governor of Ma Zhou. He knew very well how many deposits Datang Tongli Qian Zhuang had, and according to the statistics at the end of Wude's sixth year, Datang Tongli Qian Zhuang had a total of 8.73 million yuan in deposits, of which about 6 million yuan were loaned.

Now the grain merchants in Guanzhong can lend more than 1 million guan at one time, so since then, the deposit of Tongli Qian Zhuang is only more than 1 million guan, although more than 1 million guan sounds a lot, it can be apportioned, a branch is only less than 100,000 guan, so once it is impossible to spend money at any time and exchange with the merchant or family who has money, it is easy to cause a run.

The survival of a bank is fundamentally credit, and once Datang Tongli Qian Zhuang loses credit, it may go bankrupt at any time. This is something that Xu Jingzong is very worried about.

When hearing Xu Jingzong's concern, Chen Ying smiled disapplausively: "Jingzong, your worries are too much, there are too many pledged shops of the grain merchants in Guanzhong, and when the time comes, once they reach the time to repay, they will not be able to repay the loan, according to the contract, Datang Tongli Qian Zhuang will auction all the shops, real estate, fields, minerals, etc. that they pledged." You know, these resources are high-quality resources, such as the Jiangnan family, the Hebei family, and the Bashu, Liaodong family, are worried that there is no opportunity to buy real estate in Guanzhong, and now there is such a good opportunity, we can make these industries into living money in time! ”

With Chen Ying's explanation, Xu Jingzong suddenly became enlightened.

Chen Ying said well, like the long-declining Langya Wang family, Chen Jun Xie family, Hanoi Sima family, Luoyang Chen family, Yingchuan Chen family, Anding Liang family, Nanyang Deng family, Beidi Fu family, etc., these famous family gate lords in the Three Kingdoms and Jin Dynasty eras, in the Tang Dynasty, have long been excited.

However, that doesn't mean they don't want to rise again. The point is that in order to rise, this needs to be close to the political center or economic center, which is why later generations have become a concentration of talents in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Because the closer you are to the political center, the more opportunities there are.

However, in any region, there is a commonality of extreme xenophobia. Under normal circumstances, it is actually very difficult for clans from other places to enter Guanzhong, let alone buy land and property in Guanzhong. The land in Guanzhong is limited, and they will only rotate among the Guanzhong clans, and they will not be easily sold to the Guanwai clans.

Of course, Chen Ying used this opportunity to shuffle the cards of the Guanzhong clan, which was to create a catfish effect. Only when a large number of catfish pour into Guanzhong, and Guanzhong's pool of stagnant water, will it come back to life in an instant.

Instead of them standing on the opposite side of Li Jiancheng as they are now, fighting with Li Jiancheng openly and secretly, wasting all their main resources and strength in infighting.

Xu Jingzong thought for a while and said, "Even if the lord thinks that he can lend money, his subordinates will start talks with them!" ”

Chen Ying nodded and said: "However, the valuation of the collateral must be severely reduced, especially the mansion and shop, the shop worth 10,000 yuan can be loaned up to 1,500 yuan!" ”

Chen Ying silently calculated that if he ate all the shops by himself, he could become a well-deserved Bancheng of Chang'an, because this time the pledge, the shops alone accounted for more than sixty percent of the total number of shops in Chang'an.

Once such a large-scale public auction occurs, the price of shops will also exceed demand, and then fall.

Xu Jingzong thought that Chen Ying would be ruthless, but he didn't think that Chen Ying would be so ruthless.

In fact, Chen Ying is already merciful enough to the profiteers who shorted the grain market. After all, they all used the lives of the people in Guanzhong as bargaining chips in the game.

After Xu Jingzong left, Chen Ying also left the study casually.

The eldest grandson Wujian looked at Chen Ying's messy files, copywriting, and some account books, which were all included. Suddenly, an account book fell to the ground, and the eldest grandson Wujian picked it up.

Just as she was about to put it in place, she suddenly found that the accounts on it were faintly wrong.

The eldest grandson lit the candle, picked up the pen and began to proofread.

When the eldest grandson Wujian was the princess of Qin, she liked to be good at financial management, but it was a pity that she met Chen Ying, who was hanged up, no matter how hard she tried, she was never able to run the Qin Palace.

After the eldest grandson finished proofreading an account book, he found that it was midnight. However, there were nearly 4,000 errors and omissions in this account book. This made the eldest grandson feel incredible, why didn't Chen Ying find out?

Immediately, she picked up another account book and proofread it.

……

In the early morning of the next day, Li Jiancheng, Wang Qi, Wei Zheng and others dressed in civilian clothes came to a soup kitchen outside Chang'an City.

Wei Zheng explained to Li Jiancheng: "Your Majesty is benevolent, and the ministers have set up more than 1,300 porridge sheds in various counties in Guanzhong in the name of Your Majesty, and there are as many as 373 in Chang'an City alone. ”

When Li Jiancheng watched the people drink porridge, they all showed a look that was difficult to swallow, frowned slightly, he pointed to the big iron pot and said, "Give me a bowl!" ”

When the officer in charge heard the word "I", his face changed with fright.

Wei Zheng shouted: "Hurry up! ”

Li Jiancheng said with an indignant face: "Quick! ”

The little official was helpless, and commanded the man to serve Li Jiancheng a bowl of white porridge.

Li Jiancheng didn't care about burning his mouth, so he drank it when he opened his mouth.

However, when these white porridges reached his mouth, Li Jiancheng almost vomited out, and there was actually salt in the white porridge, and there was so much salt that his face twitched.

Li Jiancheng took a long time, and it took a lot of effort to swallow the white porridge in his mouth, but he was not interested in taking a second sip.

Li Jiancheng's face turned blue with anger, and he roared with indignation: "What's going on? ”

The little official didn't dare not answer, and he said expectantly: "This is General Chen's order, add twenty catties of salt to each pot!" ”

Li Jiancheng looked at the cauldron, at best, it was about 300 catties, and he added 20 catties of salt, which was almost the salt content in the seawater. No wonder it's so salty that it's hard to swallow.

When Li Jiancheng heard that it was Chen Ying's order, he immediately became angry.

Li Jiancheng looked at the entourage beside him and said, "Go and invite General Chen, I want to hear what else he has to say!" ”

Li Jiancheng was really angry, the victims were already pitiful enough, Chen Ying actually let them eat a lot of salt, could it be that Chen Ying treated people as livestock?

Hu Cong rode a war horse to Chenjiabao, but when Chen Ying arrived at the porridge shed, Li Jiancheng was about to break out.

Li Jiancheng pointed to the people who were in pain while eating porridge and said, "General Chen, you explain to me what is going on?" ”

Chen Ying bowed down and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister is saving people!" ”

When Li Jiancheng heard this, he couldn't help but have a touch of coldness on his face, but looking at Chen Ying's gaze, he was a little unkind.

Li Jiancheng's eyes showed disappointment and despair.

Li Jiancheng is a grateful person, of course, Chen Ying has helped him a lot over the years, and the most important thing is that the change of Xuanwumen, if Chen Ying does not turn the tide, he will definitely be tragic, not only will he be forced out of Chang'an by Li Shimin, but he may even become the second Yang Yong!

Of course, Chen Ying actually found that these grain merchants did everything in order to sit in the Zhongguan Grain Market. Because behind the grain merchants stood the gate lords of the Guanzhong clan, and some of them were people, so almost one-third, or even nearly half, of the porridge shacks opened by the government were sent by the grain merchants.

They dressed up as disaster victims and pretended to receive disaster relief porridge.

The porridge distributed by the imperial court is limited, and if they eat more than one bite, the victims will eat less.

At the same time, grain merchants will also increase the consumption of grain in the hands of the government.

When Chen Ying discovered this problem, he immediately thought of the famous corrupt officials and gentry in later generations. Once Qianlong asked the gentry to be in charge of disaster relief, and the gentry asked them to add sand to the porridge. There are many people who scold the gentry, thinking that the gentry is not only greedy, but also corrupt. However, Chen Ying knew that He Shen was doing this to save people.

Chen Ying always believes that human nature is inherently evil, and greed and selfishness are human instincts. Once there is free porridge to eat, some people will squeeze their scalps and grab food from the victims when they have food at home. In addition, the people sent by the grain merchants, the real victims of the disaster, could not eat the relief porridge distributed by the imperial court.

However, if the gentry added sand to the porridge, as long as ordinary people could eat, they would never eat porridge with sand, unless they were extremely hungry.

Of course, Chen Ying will not be so shameless. However, Chen Ying thought of adding more salt, anyway, he was sitting on the Lingzhou salt mine, and some of them were table salt, so he mixed salt into the porridge, this kind of salty and bitter porridge was not extremely hungry, and absolutely no one wanted to eat it. Therefore, almost all of the people who came to receive the porridge were real disaster victims, and there were definitely few pretending to be disaster victims.

After listening to Chen Ying's explanation, Li Jiancheng realized that Chen Ying had a good heart, and added a huge amount of salt, salt itself is more expensive than grain, and Chen Ying contributed this salt out of his own pocket.

Li Jiancheng bowed deeply towards Chen Ying and said, "It's Chen Qing who is wrong!" ”

Chen Ying waved his hand again and again: "This method is about to fail, because my salt storage is almost exhausted!" ”

Just then, a carriage drove slowly.

Shangshu's left servant shot Feng Deyi angrily put the box in front of Li Jiancheng, and said angrily: "Your Majesty, the minister wants to impeach Fang Xuanling in the matter of the province, disrespect for the decree, and rebellion, please Your Majesty will punish Fang Xuanling in the canon."

Li Jiancheng stared at the edict in the box, looked at the red cross on it, gritted his teeth fiercely and said, "Come on, drive back to the palace!" ”

Wei Zheng hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is angry!" ”

Wei Zheng gestured to Chen Ying.

Don't look at Wei Zheng as Li Jiancheng's confidant, but Chen Ying's words at the critical moment made Li Jiancheng even more listenable.

Chen Ying stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty is angry!" ”

In fact, Chen Ying was more nervous about Fang Xuanling than Wei Zheng.

After all, in history, Fang Xuanling is a generation of virtuous ministers. With the assistance of Fang Xuanling, Li Jiancheng can create a generation of prosperous Tang Dynasty.

……

Li Jiancheng, Wei Zheng, Wang Jue, Feng Deyi and others returned to the Taiji Palace, and at this time, Fang Xuanling had been invited by two standing palace warriors to wait in the Taiji Palace Lizheng Hall.

Li Jiancheng stared at Fang Xuanling angrily and said, "I entrust you with state affairs, but why do you want to take the power in the matter and make it difficult for me?" ”

Wei Zheng looked anxious, and glanced at Fang Xuanling again and again.

However, Fang Xuanling didn't pay attention to Wei Zheng's eyes at all, but said unusually calmly: "Your Majesty, because these two edicts are wrong. ”

Feng Deyi laughed angrily and said: "It's really a big joke in the world, the big policy of the DPRK China, do you still want you to judge right and wrong in this little matter?" ”

Wei Zheng looked at Chen Ying and made Chen Ying play a round field.

Chen Ying was not nervous, after all, if Fang Xuanling only had this ability, how could he become the virtuous minister of the country?

Chen Ying was more confident in Fang Xuanling than Wei Zheng.

Seeing that Chen Ying was indifferent, Wei Zheng hurriedly said: "There are really many strange things in the world, this is probably the first incident of refuting the edict in the matter since the establishment of three provinces and six ministries." Such an unruly person, I can be regarded as an eye-opener. ”

Seeing that Chen Ying was silent, Wei Zheng said again: "Feng Xianggong's middle-aged man's strategy, what does the general think?" ”

Chen Ying smiled faintly: "Scholar's opinion! ”

Fortunately, Chen Ying's voice was extremely low, otherwise Feng Deyi would probably turn the muzzle of the gun and aim at Chen Ying.

Feng Deyi looked at Fang Xuanling and shouted coldly: "The twelve guards army, the shortage of personnel, is the most serious, only half; The rest of the armies, the largest number of soldiers also have a shortage of 20 percent, originally the 12th Army in Guanzhong, should have 150,000 horses, but now there are less than 110,000.

Li Jiancheng nodded again and again in agreement.

Feng Deyi said: "This Turkic movement, the tribes have gathered more than 200,000 cavalry, and the intention of going south is obvious. ”

Fang Xuanling pursed the corners of his mouth disdainfully.

Feng Deyi roared in a sharp voice: "Is there a better way than to recruit middle men?" Fang Xuanling, you refuse to obey the edict, you are like an enemy, do you want to open your eyes for the Turks? ”

Civilian-official bickering, it's all this routine. Button up a big hat first, but Fang Xuanling ignored Feng Deyi, just looked at Li Jiancheng and said: "Your Majesty, do you know how many accounts are there on Guanzhong's books now, and in fact, how many accounts are there?" And what proportion of middle-aged men meet the criteria in these accounts? ”

Li Jiancheng shook his head and said, "I don't know. ”

Fang Xuanling turned to look at Feng Deyi and said, "Feng Xiangguo, do you know?" ”

Feng Deyi thought for a while and said, "The old man doesn't know. ”

Fang Xuanling said: "So, who knows, how many acres of land are in Guanzhong, and what is the average yield per mu?" How many people are needed to farm?

Li Jiancheng and Feng Deyi looked at each other.

Chen Ying said: "I know, the total of more than 250,000 and 7,300 fields in Guanzhong, according to the rent modulation, a total of 257,300 Ding, Guanzhong Tian mu yield one stone seven buckets, eight buckets of Xiatian, one stone and two buckets in Zhongtian, an average of one stone and two buckets of three thousand, the actual cultivated land is about 8.9 million mu, now three years of ploughing, if it is a good year, the annual income of 11 million stone grain!" ”

Fang Xuanling looked at Chen Ying in great surprise, he didn't expect Chen Ying to know the data he had investigated, let alone that the data that Chen Ying knew would actually match the data he investigated.

Fang Xuanling sighed: "The Manchu Dynasty is no match for a martial artist!" ”

Wei Zheng handed a stack of pieces to Li Jiancheng and said: "Your Majesty, the counties and counties in Guanzhong, according to the statistics of Wude in four years, there are a total of 430,000 households, but at present, judging from the reports of the counties, only half of them. The number of adult males is less than 30% compared with the four years of martial arts. ”

Li Jiancheng raised his head in surprise, looked at Wei Zheng and said, "Why is this so?" ”

Fang Xuanling sighed and said, "From the first year of Wude to the present, every year has been conscripted, and every time there is a battle, a soldier must be conscripted. In the counties where the situation is most serious, some men have not returned home for three years. If the middle-aged man is forcibly recruited, the entire Guanzhong will face a desperate situation of no harvest next year. ”

Li Jiancheng stood up worriedly and said, "Xuancheng, the situation in Guanzhong is so bad, why didn't you report to me earlier?"

Wei Zheng said to Li Jiancheng deeply: "The minister is guilty!" ”

PS: I'm sorry for being a little late today. The hall master Yuehuangtai's reward is added, I can only wait for me to wake up and add more, Lao Cheng is not afraid of owing more, let the storm come more violently!