Chapter 214: Unexpected Joy (1)
The most convenient way to make money in the Southern Tang Dynasty was the Salt Supervision and Coin Supervision. In the feudal era, salt and copper were synonymous with wealth.
But these three responsibilities are all remote, no matter how like Dechang Palace is in Jiangning, it is a great pleasure to enjoy it on the spot after getting the money.
Of course Li Jing understands all these things. His opponents always open their eyes and keep their eyes shut when making money, but Liu Chengyou's approach made him alert.
The words "Jianghuai Satin" blurted out, which made Pan Chenghou's heart jump. He knew that this time it was hitting Li Jing's reverse scale.
Satin is also divided into different levels. The best ones are naturally Shu satin and Zhejiang satin. The climate of the Jianghuai Plain is lower than that of the previous two places, which is not conducive to the growth of silkworms. The quality of the silk produced is naturally worse. Similarly, the copper coins exchanged for a piece of satin are even less.
When Li Bing established the Dechang Palace, he used it as the strategic reserve fund for the Southern Tang Dynasty. The gold and silver in it were naturally full of silk and satin, and there was no reason to use Jianghuai satin.
In addition, the large horse that was originally two feet and two inches wide and forty feet long turned into a small horse that was thirty feet long. It should be said that the fraud situation in the meantime was very serious.
But what made Li Jing most uneasy was Jianghuai Satin!
As the name suggests, it is produced in the fourteen prefectures in Jiangbei, which is Li Hongji's territory!
This eldest son has been built into his own independent kingdom by the Jianghuai Plain. The Tianxiong Army has become a first-class strong army in the Southern Tang Dynasty. The military supervisor Wu Qiao is also a confidant of Li Hongji. The Eighth Roads of the Jianghuai have replaced the Central Plains region as the main force of taxation since the mid-to-late Tang Dynasty.
After decades of careful management by Yang Xingmi and Li Bing, there is no shortage of copper, grain, salt and iron.
If Li Hongji suddenly had troops to rebel and seize Jiangbei, Li Jing would have no choice but to do anything to him. Once he came to attack north, it would be better to go south.
Secondly, if you really do something, you will definitely be the Shenwu Army led by Bian Hao's Xiongwu Army and Lin Renzhao, who guards Qingliu Pass. The combat effectiveness of Li Jingda's Jinling City Defense Force is simply not comparable to that of Tianxiong Army, which has been through many battles. What's more, there is no general who can command troops in the Southern Tang Dynasty except Chai Kehong, Bian Hao, and Lin Renzhao.
Of course, there are also some people who insist on it. For example, Liu Renshan, the Minister of War, was Bian Hao's Bole, and Chai Kehong's brothers Chai Kecheng and Chai Kezhen. These were all loyal ministers of Li Jing, but there were not enough troops to command him. The Southern Tang army was divided into three, and Li Jing could only control one-third.
Besides, if the Xiongwu Army and Shenwu Army really go to the front line, then Li Jingda's city defense army will be the only one. Li Jingda's city defense army will definitely not be able to beat any of the Bian Hao Xiongwu Army, Lin Renzhao Shenwu Army, and Li Hongji Tianxiong Army, but it is more than enough to use it to drive a palace coup.
Now it is no better than the first year of Baoda. Li Jing lost the Dongdu and Nandu two "suppressing gods" and greatly weakened the deterrence to Li Laosan and Li Laossi.
At the moment, his money bag and his eldest son seem to be a little confused. Although it seems that the former is just using power for personal gain, Li Jing, who has experienced two bloody storms in the first year of Shengyuan and Baoda, will never regard this as a simple act of corruption.
"Can you be sure?"
"The young man is sure. When he entered Dechang Palace for a real-time inventory on the same day, Liu Chengyou shirked his responsibilities and said that he was just looking at the account book. Later, he couldn't resist the young man, so he reluctantly agreed to the real-time inventory. However, he used the excuse that he needed to take stock in advance and asked for a delay of two days. Two days later, his subordinates checked the warehouses he designated."
"I thought that the warehouse in Dechang Palace could not last for several miles. In this way, I am afraid that there would be a fraud. Fortunately, the saint predicted things like a god. He photographed several internal servants coming over, and the young one made them sneak in secret, and then the Jianghuai Satin incident appeared!"
"This" Li Jing fell into deep thought
"The saints, those insiders, are all old people, loyal and reliable, hardworking and always speaking tightly," Pan Chenghou added.
Li Jing smiled and said, "You old guy, why are you trying to sell to me now? Of course, these people need to be rewarded."
But Pan Chenghou saw that although Li Jing was smiling, he only raised the corners of his mouth, and the other parts of his face did not move at all. This is a sneer.
Pan Chenghou was filled with mixed feelings at this time, and his words and deeds were just a little artificial, but what he said was true.
He originally decided to risk his life to frame Liu Chengyou once. Zhao Chun had a good man who was good at imitating notes. Pan Chenghou secretly stole one or several account books in the exam, split the account books, and put them in several forged albums recording the private transactions between Dechang Palace and Jiangbei, and finally rebind them.
The saint-hand scholar was nicknamed by Li Yu and once promised that no one could see the clues of what he had made of fake things. After asking, he realized that this guy was imitating handwriting and forging documents.
A few years ago, I worked as a big ticket in Dongdu. I took a broken bronze mirror to work as a pawn shop for twenty cents of money. Then I used medicine to remove the ink on the ticket and changed it to two thousand cents of money.
What's even more unpredictable is that he also bribed a pawnshop's friend and secretly stole the pawnshop's foundation for an hour to make the case.
Redemption does not mean that you can get it by taking a ticket. The pawnshop and the voting meeting checks the records on the ticket and the original book, and then the two are combined to make redemption.
Xiao Xiaoli, a scholar with a big name in the saint, followed his approach, and the pawn shop could only suffer a loss. Therefore, although he was young, he was very valuable. In Xinzhou and Nandu used this trick to cheat and succeeded repeatedly.
But after all, he was young and although he was pretty, he was not good at doing things in the world. He thought that Dongdu was a place where the law was taught, just like other places.
Dongdu does talk about the king's law, but there is a certain name for the king's law called Li Hongji.
This pawn shop is the property of the prince. Li Hongji has always been unable to rub the sand in his eyes, so he is the only one who plots against others. Now he sees a little thief who actually eats it on his head, and now he is talking too much and lets the pawn shop solve it himself.
After the pawnshop owner received the order, he summoned a group of outlaws and tried to kill him and threw him to the mass grave at night. As a result, the boy was lucky and woke up from his coma in the middle of the night. With the fact that he still had a few taels of self-defense in his arms, he crossed the river overnight and fled to Jiangning.
He fainted from the injury halfway through the way, and was seen by Zhao Chun who was passing by. After calling the doctor to treat him, his life was saved, but his lower body was severely damaged. He could not think about it, so he simply cut off the back and threw himself to Zhao Chun's disciple with his own skills.
It is precisely because of this person that they came up with the idea of making a fake account page to frame it.
This trick seems very risky, but in fact it is not a big risk, because Li Yu is accurate in Li Jing's personality and habits, is good at conspiracy and lacks the courage to face it face directly.
Anyway, Dechang Palace uses a single-type accounting method. Even if Liu Chengyou knows that it was intercepted by someone else afterwards, he can't come up with enough evidence to prove his innocence.
Chapter completed!