Chapter 63 Central Banks
An hour later, Wenshen, led by the eunuch Liang Shicheng, came to Yanfu Palace. In Yanfu Palace, Song Huizong was concentrating on writing his original thin gold body at the table. Concubine Liu stood at the table and looked at Song Huizong gently while helping to grind it.
"Meet the Emperor and the National Master to meet him." The eunuch Liang Shicheng bowed and said sissyly.
Song Huizong put down his brush, glanced at Liang Shicheng on the table, and said in surprise: "Oh, hurry up."
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"My memory of Wen Shen, please see the emperor, long live my emperor." Wen Shen bowed and bowed, and said.
"My dear, please calm down quickly." Seeing Wen Shen so respectful, Song Huizong smiled, "Taiwei Tong said that the national army trained a group of tiger and wolf troops in Yizhou, but this is the case."
Wen Shen bowed and said, "It's really too few people, but it's still more than enough to deal with Li Xia." After hearing this, Song Huizong's eyes glowed and excitedly said, "Really? I wonder when the national savvy will be able to leave the northwest?"
Wen Shen smiled and said, "Now you can send troops to the northwest at any time, but the number of Yizhou regiment training is too small, so the city you captured still needs to be managed by the emperor."
When Song Huizong heard this, he thought that the national army knew how to advance and retreat. He did not manage the cities he had captured and asked me to send someone to manage them. He was a loyal minister. He smiled and said, "This is naturally. I will let Tong Taiwei, the Northwest Army Supervisor, cooperate with you. Tong Taiwei is now on the Liao Kingdom and may return to Beijing in July as planned. National army, you can see that you will lead the army from Yizhou in August."
Wen Shen laughed and said, "As for orders, the emperor, as the saying goes, before the troops move, food and grass will come first. Your Majesty, do you think you will allocate some military pay?" Song Huizong smiled and said, "I wonder how much military pay the national savage needs?"
"Two million guan per state, I wonder which state the emperor wants?" Wen Shen asked back.
"What?" Song Huizong was a little embarrassed and said in surprise, "What do you mean by two million guans of one state?"
Wen Shen smiled and said, "It's very simple. Li Xia has two million prefectures in one prefecture. I wonder how many prefectures the emperor wants me to attack."
"I, I want it all!" Song Huizong said with a blushing face and a little trembling. Concubine Liu next to him felt that Song Huizong was a little out of compulsion, so he shouted in a low voice: "Emperor, Emperor." Song Huizong turned to look at Concubine Liu, and suddenly felt that he was indeed a little out of compulsion, but the price offered by Wenshen had to make Song Huizong lose his voice.
Thinking back to the beginning, Shenzong sent five troops to attack Xia, preparing to recover Lingwu. However, the more defeats, the fewer victory, especially the two battles in Lingzhou and Yongle City, the loss of more than 600,000 soldiers and civilians was lost, and military expenses were exhausted. Now, Wenshen said that he could fight as much as he wanted, how could he not make Song Huizong excited?
Song Huizong said seriously: "National Master, if you can fight, I will pay as much as you can, and I can pay the military pay from the two states first." Wen Shen also said seriously: "I will definitely not be humiliated."
"By the way, I have heard of the national teacher making many novel things on a large scale in Yizhou. Now the matches, soap and glass appearing on the surface of Beijing City seem to be made in Yizhou." Liu Guifei asked.
"When I return to the Imperial Concubine, these are indeed produced by the recipes provided by Weichen." Wenshen replied.
"Look, the national teacher is really a talented person." Concubine Liu looked at Song Huizong intentionally or unintentionally. Song Huizong smiled and said, "What I am saying is very true."
Wen Shen bowed and said, "Thank you, the emperor, for the praise of the imperial concubine. Your Majesty, I don't know how to receive the military pay." Song Huizong smiled and said, "After the morning court tomorrow, the three officials will transport the military pay to Yizhou."
Wen Shen bowed and said, "I don't know if the emperor has nothing else to do. If there is no empress, he will surrender."
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After Wen Shen stepped back, Song Huizong looked calm and asked Concubine Liu: "Beloved concubine, do you think the national guru can recover the northwest?" Concubine Liu smiled and said: "I think I am always inseparable from the eight or ten times. If I succeed, I will always try it. Besides, even if I fail, I will only lose some money."
"What I'm talking about is very much." Song Huizong said with a smile.
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After coming out of the palace, Wenshen walked slowly along the street, staring at the small vendors on both sides. When he reached a wide intersection, he found a long queue in front of a shop. Seeing this, Wenshen was immediately happy and thought to himself: "The quality of the people of the Song Dynasty was high, and he actually knew how to queue."
Driven by curiosity, Wenshen came to the back of the team and asked a middle-aged aunt in front: "Auntie, what are you waiting in line to buy?"
The middle-aged aunt looked at Wenshen and thought she was a Haike. She showed a proud expression and said to the sky: "Overseas businessmen, this shop is bought soap, you have never heard of it. Speaking of soap, it is a good thing. If you use this, just wipe the clothes clean."
Wen Shen smiled and said, "That's really a good thing, then this thing should be very expensive, right?"
"It's expensive, of course it's expensive, twenty cents a dollar. Do you want to buy it too?" The middle-aged aunt looked at Wen Shen with a suspicion. Wen Shen was stunned and smiled and said, "Don't buy it, ask." After that, she walked away.
Wenshen thought as he walked, he thought that this soap was really profitable, and the cost was only a few cents and it was really profitable. Unexpectedly, he didn't go far, he met a group of people queuing up. When he went over, he saw that it was a matchmaker. A match box sold for 20 cents was also a huge profit.
Wen Shen walked around again and returned to the office of Yizhou Iron and Steel Factory through the space. From his own office, he came to Wang Tie's office and found that Wang Tie was discussing something with County Magistrate Lin and others. So he smiled and said, "What are you discussing here?"
Everyone turned around and saw that it was Wen Shen, and they all stood up and bowed. Among them, Magistrate Lin smiled and said, "I'm sorry that the national magistrate has been back. I can't visit him." Wen Shen smiled and said, "Okay, don't be so polite."
Wang Tie stood up and gave the seat to Wenshen, sat next to Wenshen, and said calmly: "Boss, these bosses and the accountants are discussing steel production and sales."
"Oh..." Wen Shen put a tone on and said gently: "I wonder how much you have discussed, can you introduce it to me?"
Wang Tie said: "It has been six months since October last year to now, and a total of 80,000 tons of steel, 20,000 tons of iron and scrap steel have been produced. One ton here is equal to 2,000 kilograms, and the total steel has exceeded 10,000 kilograms. What I am right about each account? "
The accountant sent by several other shopkeepers hurriedly stood up and said, "What Director Wang said is not bad at all."
Others were amazed when they heard such a huge amount, and at the same time, they felt dizzy when they thought of the money represented by these steels. County Magistrate Lin rubbed his face and smiled and said, "I don't know what the sales situation is?"
One of the mustached accounts stood up and said, "Most of the steel produced is now stored in the warehouse, but more than 2,000 tons have been purchased by the machinery factory, and the purchase price is 100 jin per ton."
"Ah, so cheap?" the other shopkeepers exclaimed.
Wenshen looked at everyone and smiled and said, "This part is included in my share. I think everyone is not very satisfied with the price of steel. You see, it's great. I will recycle the share in your hands at three times the price at the beginning. What do you think?"
When everyone heard this, they thought to themselves: "It's only one hundred guan per ton, and eighty thousand guan is eight million guan. The investment in the first place was only more than one million guan. Now whoever sells stocks is **." Everyone looked at each other and smiled and said, "This price is more appropriate, we have no objection."
"It's good if you don't have any objections." Wen Shen smiled, "I went to the capital a few days ago and saw that soap matches sold well. I think you've made a lot of money."
Everyone laughed and said, "Where, where, is it not the national teacher's glory."
County Magistrate Lin smiled and said, "National Master, I heard that you have established a new money shop and issued Jiaozi?" Wen Shen smiled and said, "Oh, Lord Lin is interested in this?"
"I heard that Sichuan had issued Jiaozi, but this thing was very easy to imitate, and it caused a lot of public grievances in the end." County Magistrate Lin smiled.
"My Jiaozi is well-made, I believe no one can copy it within ten years." Wen Shen smiled, and said as he took out a set of banknotes and handed them to everyone to watch.
When everyone heard this, they carefully checked the banknotes in their hands, and their eyes began to shine slowly. These people are all business experts, so how could they not see the huge benefits? So Zhang Manager Zhang smiled and said, "I want to buy individual stocks, but I don't know what the national teacher wants?"
Seeing this, the others expressed their willingness to invest. Wen Shen looked around and said with a smile: "It's not impossible for everyone to invest, but I'm not short of money now."
When everyone heard that Wen Shen was not short of money, he felt a chill. The shopkeeper Liang of the grain store rolled his eyes and said with a charming smile: "National Master, there are branches in most prefectures and counties on Jingdong East Road. I can open a money shop branch next to the branch. What do you think?"
Wen Shen laughed secretly: "What you want is your words." So, he said, "Yeah, that's fine." When everyone heard this, they were excited. Manager Li of the cloth shop said: "National Master, I have several branches in the capital city and Lianghuai areas."
"National Master, I have a branch in Yanzhou and Xuzhou."
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Finally, Wenshen gave up 30% of the shares, and the owner of the shopkeeper was responsible for opening money shop branches in various places. All the money shop vouchers were provided by Wenshen.
Chapter completed!