Chapter 65 Four Opportunities(1/2)
Why did the ministers all make a mistake? The sum of national wealth, economic wealth and cultural wealth, can only be used as part of copper. If one is really placed in Chang'an, the Tang Dynasty would have an income of more than 300 billion guan?
No, in that case, the copper coins will fall out immediately and may even cause major consequences. First of all, prices will inevitably rise.
In addition, I was puzzled to force out the grain of the eighteen families.
But what happened immediately made them understand a little.
The arrangements had already started, and Li Guer also arranged the staff in advance, and got the flying money here. He sent his subordinates to prepare in advance, and some of these eunuchs and palace maids had already arrived in the local city. Li Guer had already opened a mansion. In addition to the strange house in Luoyang and Wang Hua, he also built a house in Chang'an. Therefore, he had countless guards, eunuchs and palace maids, so no one remembered it.
But such a big operation process was not done in a small way by dozens of eunuchs and palace maids she sent out. The main reason was that the three families arranged people in various cities, and Li Guer had to use the banner. Otherwise, it would be a bit difficult to deal with.
The first one is Chang'an.
Li Guer's subordinates brought three people to the 18 industries, that is, in front of each workshop and shop, asking for money, if they had no money, they sealed the shop and workshop, and then exchanged them for Feiqian at the current price.
The eighteen companies have already been watching the industries, and even the highest price, reasonable amount, and lowest price, have been calculated. Li Guer's people only need to read them according to the book. And they do not bully people, so they ask prestigious people in the market to estimate the price.
I didn't bully anyone, but can I estimate this?
If the 18 stores bought the shops, the original price was 650% and 40% of the original price was even more serious now, and many workshop owners closed down and some went bankrupt. So they sold them at a cheap price. But who dares to buy them? The real thing is better now. Most of the capital is hidden, such as workshops and shops, and the hidden value of this depreciation is gone. How much is it worth?
Disagree and say that bullying is unfair.
If you don’t agree, you have to agree: “Unfair? You use a piece of white paper to deceive other people’s property. Is it fair? If you didn’t find out early, you printed more white paper, wouldn’t you cheat the entire Tang Dynasty? Not only did you use white paper to deceive people, but you also had to lower the price. What percentage of the money did you give others? It’s fair, but it’s unfair when it’s your turn. It turns out that this world is not our Li family, but your eighteen families? Even if you have eighteen families, you can’t deceive the people like this!”
Many people onlookers had seen Feiqian, but not many people had used it and didn't know it yet. When they heard the eunuch under Li Guer say that the owners of these stores made up money with white paper, they didn't understand it very well, so they asked. As soon as they asked, they found out the whole story and scolded the eighteen companies together.
The shopkeepers and friends of these shops heard the people's arguments and had to say, "We cannot be the leader to sell our shops."
"Are we looking for your boss? Family A promotes Family B, Family B promotes Family D, and Eighteen companies are here. The mountains and seas are in the north, and the yellow curtains are also cold?"
I really have this idea. Others don’t care. Can the Eighteen Families afford to provoke?
But he couldn't move Li Guer, so he had to push him.
"Look at these people, they lived well the year before yesterday. Because your eighteen families first raised the price of grain and then used white paper to cheat people of money. How many people were displaced!"
After this statement, the shopkeeper and the clerk in the store were even more incomparable. It was not made by the eighteen families, but they had to bear some responsibility. The onlookers were even more indignant, and there was only someone who took the lead, otherwise they would have to smash people with bricks.
"I owed debts, but my son had to pay the debt. Besides, your boss used to cheat the hard-earned money from the people, live a life of a superior, and live a good life in the world. Do you not even want to pay back the princess' debts? Or in the end, you don't even want to pay back the emperor's money?
“No
"It's good if it's not." Let the government press their handprints and forcefully trade the industry.
It’s okay if you don’t trade, take out the money and cash the flying money back. One by one, one by one, one by one. The eighteen industries are huge, but there is only a small working capital. If all industries are used as a price, even if the industries are depreciating, these flying money cannot be purchased.
But Wang Hua targeted not their real estate, but workshops and shops, and workshops and shops in major cities. Chang'an and Luoyang cannot escape, as well as Yangzhou, Runzhou, Suzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Xuanzhou and Bianzhou. Of course, there were other prosperous commercial cities in the Tang Dynasty, such as Yizhou, Jiangzhou, Hongzhou, Jizhou, Guangzhou, Taiyuan, Jiangling, Youzhou, Guzang, Gaochang, as well as the newly emerging cities of Mingzhou and Quanzhou, etc. But the latter were not the main sphere of influence, and even the workshops and shops were there, which were the same as each county town. Not many. The three and Li Guer did not have the manpower to cash in.
But these nearly ten major cities account for two-thirds of the 18 commercial industries, which is enough for three to exchange.
The person in charge of the Eighteenth House heard the news as soon as he got off the sea boat.
These eighteen people are rarely seen by ordinary people. Even if the emperor summoned them, they may not be willing to see the emperor's big shots, and their legs will be weak at the same time.
A picture appeared in their minds, thousands or even tens of thousands of direct or illegitimate disciples in their family, covered in dust and dirt, wearing thick thread clothes with countless bumps and countless patches. They looked tired and escaped from the family. They looked like begging along the way.
Not that serious either.
If you really want to eat all the property of these eighteen companies, Wang Hua couldn't eat it even if you had three or four times the money. But now because the value of the industry has shrunk, you can eat more than half of their shops and workshops in several major cities. This is also very fatal. It cannot be said that they were invaded into primitive society, and they also allowed them to enter the slave society in one go from feudal society.
Immediately obstruct people to find Wang Hua.
There is no other way to imagine. Although I am not afraid of the royal family, I will pay my life by killing people and paying my debts. This is natural. Now I will arrest Li Guer's subordinates and beat him up. Do they really have more power than the Li royal family? That's a false statement, and I can only be detached from the outside world. To be honest, the power of the Li royal family who controls the state machine is ten times stronger than the combined power of their eighteen families.
So there is no other way, just ask Wang Hua to be proud and let them live a life.
After entering Qinzhou City, Qinzhou New City is not beautiful now, and the outer wall has not been repaired yet. The city is full of chaos, and there are deep ditches in the middle of the street, which are not built sewers. But the vitality can be smelled without eyes and can be smelled with the nose.
Although there are such chaos in construction everywhere, large areas of houses have many blank spaces, but half of the city walls have buildings. And unlike other cities, the rows of land are very neat, the bungalow area is a bungalow area, the garden area is a garden area, rows of lines are even more neat than those with threads. These are all dead, mainly the people, and almost every person comes over, his face is full of confidence.
Eighteen people sighed, what kind of ability is this? You must know that this was still a barren mountain and ridge a year ago, not to mention it was in the Lingnan area.
Wang Hua was found and in the back garden of Wang Hua's mansion. To be precise, it was a "mountain garden" on a strange slope. Wang Hua's mansion was not alone. He has mobilized countless people over the past year. Not only because of the money and food wars, Qinzhou also needs many considerate subordinates to prevent the situation from getting out of control. Therefore, it was not only not luxurious when building.
What is strange is that the small garden behind is surrounded by a small earth mountain, which is neither big nor high, and is less than ten feet high. It can only be said to be a small hill. But in a back garden, the area covers a large area. There are dozens of trees growing on the hill. There are probably a tree with old shirts that have been in the first place for decades, and the scenery is straight and clear. However, there are few stones on the mountain, and large clusters of loess are exposed in the gap between the grass. Many strange plants are planted manually from the mountainside. They have never seen it, and they have no other ideas. Many vegetation in Lingnan is not found in the Central Plains. There is a small pavilion on the top of the mountain.
When Wang Hua saw them coming in, he walked down from the pavilion. He asked his servants to move out dozens of rattan chairs and let them sit down.
Although Wang Hua's attitude is not arrogant, all eighteen people feel very ashamed. If it were the first two years, Wang Hua would have used this attitude to them, which would have insulted them. The situation is different. Who asked them to come to ask for help? It would be a shame.
Wang Hua looked at them and said, "Everyone, I know your purpose. But I don't want to vomit some things. No one will be despised by money. It's just that my mentor is alive. If it's money obtained by the righteous way, he will not refuse it either. But everyone uses money differently. But a gentleman loves money and gets it well. Do you feel honored to make this money?"
An old man said, "Governor Wang. This time we did something wrong."
"You must have done something wrong. After listening to me, you will talk about it. You are all the top families of the Tang Dynasty. Some families have existed since the Han Dynasty. After the end of the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms and Jin Dynasties, the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and they still stand tall. But have you ever risen? Before you, how many families fell down? Where is the king of Jiangnan? Who will be the next turn? In the past, the king was incompetent, which led to the change of the country. But this time, you fry the price of grain to 200 cigars per bucket of rice, and the people were hungry and shining everywhere, and finally they would rise up, and the Tang Dynasty was in danger. And the result is you, you ignore the people. Will the people care about you? Can you survive?"
Although Wang Hua was telling the truth, the history of aristocratic families ended as soon as the Tang Dynasty collapsed. He mainly controlled too many resources, hoarded goods, annexed land, hated warlords, hated rebels, hated the people. In the end, the Tang Dynasty disappeared, and the aristocratic families were gone. Even a dynasty could perish, let alone these aristocratic families.
But some people may not think this is true. But there is no doubt that this matter is done rationally. Therefore, no one said anything.
"Also, you also know the conflict between me and the Great Xia Kingdom. Since you join forces with them, we are enemies, not friends. This time I was lucky enough to succeed. If I failed, if I came to you today, would you let me have a way out?"
If you change the angle, Wang Hua may not be swept out, but you will also close the door and disappear. You will save yourself a lot of words.
Therefore, all the eighteen old men did not say anything, with awkward expression on their faces.
After a while, an old man stood up and said, "Governor Wang, this time the eighteen of us came here to apologize to you. You also said that there are no eternal friends or eternal enemies. In the past, you had many conflicts with the Wang family in Taiyuan, but today you still cooperated with us? Moreover, the resources of our eighteen families are far better than that of the Wang family in Taiyuan. As long as you can give up your hands this time, our eighteen families will always form a friendship with you."
"Wrong, that's my compensation to the little lady of the Wang family in Taiyuan."
Compensation? If you give so much money to your family, don’t say a daughter. Even if you are ten daughters, I will be happy. But after all, it’s hard to say this, so I can only envy someone who gave birth to a good daughter.
"It's good not to have eternal enemies. But it's good not to have eternal friends. Since, but if it can't be forever, how can we make an eternal friendship?"
Aren't you making things difficult for others? But the eighteen people, the one who has not experienced the storm and waves, although Wang Hua made things difficult for him, it seems that there is room for ease. Therefore, another old man stood up and said, "How can we do so that you can believe it?"
"You are the old patriarch of the Zhu family in Suzhou? It seems that in order to show friendship, I deliberately transferred your technicians to enter Jingzhao to make your family ahead of others in weaving. Why did you also participate in this matter?"
The old man of the Zhu family stopped saying a word. It was better that he was the first surname in Suzhou. It was a bit miserable like the Ji family next to him. Because the family was insufficient capital, he had to borrow money when operating the food. Later, something happened to Fei money. Now he even wanted to die. In fact, the Eighteen families bowed their heads, which was the first proposed by the smaller family and could not support it.
"Why did the Lu family and Gu family not participate in the five major surnames in Suzhou?"
Mr. Zhu still can't speak out. Why is his eyesight so easy to say?
But Wang Hua did not make any more embarrassment. He said, "Okay, I will believe you again. Fei Qian has taken action and it is impossible to take it back. This is not my final decision. Moreover, when the letter is in the hands of the princess, it is estimated that Fei Qian has been paid almost to the real estate industry. But I can let you enter the earth and let you ascend to heaven again."
He spoke a little arrogantly, but none of the eighteen people suspected it. At least he stood in the gate of hell with one step, while the Wang family in Taiyuan stepped on heaven with both feet. Another old man asked, "What should we do if we governor Wang Xiao?"
"I can give you four chances to cheer up your family."
"Those four chances?"
"The first opportunity, I will give me the grain in your hands immediately. Although it is already old grain, I still buy it back at a price of twenty-five cents per bucket of rice. It is just to ask for flying money or copper coins. It is up to you."
Is this also called opportunity?
The corners of the eighteen people twitched.
The grain storage has been stored for now, plus the loss of 100 million yuan. The original remaining grain was earned for free, and the cost has been reduced by half at the fifth small office. Besides, I have to trade it with Feiqian. What's the use of Feiqian back? A piece of waste paper. It's not traded. Li Guer's slave continued to use Feiqian to cover the workshops and shops. The losses were even greater.
Everyone was speechless in pain.
Wang Hua considered them. If they immediately turned their eyes into enemies and had no chance, then this time they would throw these eighteen families into hell. If they still have the chance to repent, Wang Hua would be happy to give them a way out. After all, there are many friends and many roads. After all, Wang Hua has been quarreling for many years, so Wang Hua doesn’t want to argue anymore, and he doesn’t want to argue anymore.
In fact, the intrigues in the officialdom gradually smoothed out his edges. If it were four or five years ago, there would be no chance for the Eighteenth Family this time.
Wang Hua said: "Don't worry, everyone, it's getting late. Please have supper."
The servants were asked to serve the meal. This was a table of food that I probably had never seen in the Tang Dynasty capital. It was made of red with potatoes, corn and spicy combs. In the spring, the fleet returned and sold two ships. It also had a conflict with the local natives. A total of more than 70 people were sacrificed, and it took a year to bring back a batch of grain seeds.
There were about 2,000 tons in total, most of which were planted in Oceania, and only a few were brought to the Central Plains and planted in that earthen mountain. Now this thing is very precious, so Wang Hua surrounded it with a courtyard wall. There were still six or seven hundred kilograms, which were left for Li Guer, Li Hong and Li Xuejun's father to come over and give them a taste of it.
The elders of the Eighteenth Family came and gave him a sudden idea, so he made a feast of miscellaneous grains.
But now they are given delicacies and they can't taste anything. In fact, spicy food is really spicy, not the vegetable bridge of later generations, but the original South American spicy taste. I also feel that something is wrong with my tongue, one is so angry. But no one thought of any difference.
Wang Hua felt a little funny in his heart, and this time he finally realized that he was in a state of burning eyebrows.
At this time, another old man said, "Governor Wang. So what is the second chance?"
The ancients paid attention to eating without saying anything. Although not many people followed it, people from these big families, especially those with noble identities, all paid attention to this etiquette. The old man couldn't hold back when he asked a question. He delayed for a while. There was a little more work in the north.
Wang Hua did not answer, but looked at the elders of the Zheng family.
The elders and elders of the Zheng family put down the chopsticks and said, "Governor Wang. I know you are very disgusted with our Zheng family. I won't talk about the past. In general, our Zheng family is more wrong and less wrong. Now Sister Ling is like a river flowing eastward, and even if you want to make up for it, you may not care about those porcelain kilns. Therefore, when I came, I asked my younger generation to return to Rongyang, find a good daughter in the family, and marry your Gongxian royal family."
The family with Wang Hua can't get along with the in-laws. However, there are still 200 families in the Wang Hua family, and dozens of unmarried young people." And because of Wang Hua porcelain kiln, some families have a better life. However, it is common for the Zheng family to marry their daughter to Wang Hua's tribe members.
This is better to apologize to Wang Hua. Of course, Wang Hua did not "respect your hands". This marriage will be gone.
He was sincere. Wang Huacai said with satisfaction: "The second opportunity is the meals that everyone eats."
Meals?
More than a dozen people lowered their heads and looked at the food in the bowl and the plate. But they still didn't understand very much.
"Eat everyone, let's talk about it later after eating."
After a while, I finished eating, not finishing or eating enough, mainly because I wanted to listen to Wang Hua for a second chance.
Wang Hua asked the servants to come to the back garden with a lantern. He pointed to the plants and said, "The foods are grown by these plants. This is called spicy. What do you feel when you have eaten your tongue just now? Are you sweating on your body? What do you think if the cold Turks and Tubo people, the wet Yizhou and the southwest Yiyi, what do you think when you see this seasoning?"
Then he took them to the dirt mountain and said, "These are called corn, red and potatoes. They can be used as food, and have higher nutritional value. Some of them are produced above rice. But do you guys, have you found where they are planted?"
To be continued...