Li Hongji shook his hand and said, "Don't talk like this. This seems to be a good thing, there is no need to be so anxious."

When Wu Qiao saw that the chief officer said this, he no longer mentioned this.

But both the prince and Chai Kehong knew in their hearts that Wu Qiao wanted to show his loyalty. Although he had won the position of military supervisor under the sponsorship of Li Hongji, compared with the elderly such as Chai Kehong, both qualifications and the Korean and Chinese aid were insufficient, and he could only sspsn to increase his weight in the eyes of the master.

Although Li Hongji and his subordinates were both political and military, they had some flaws in the economy. In addition to Li Yu deliberately complicating simple matters in his letter, he sprinkled several pictures. In addition to painting cakes for Li Hongji, he did not mention any of his subsequent thoughts on the promissory note. This is indeed impossible to mention. Once the trick is exposed in advance, it will not work.

What's more, Dongdu is on the front line and if he really teaches all the steps, Li Hongji may not appreciate it. At present, the Southern Tang and the Pseudo-Han are fighting openly and secretly to grab a position of justice. They have sent a large number of spy-liners. If this set of things is spread to the north, it would be very bad for pseudo-Shenian studies.

But at least the purpose of writing the letter has been achieved, and Li Hongji at least did not sing the opposite tune.

As for the promissory note after the promissory note, will anyone use it?

This is not a problem. His previous life experience told him that he had to have a child care no matter what he did.

As long as you hire a good nursery, even the smelly dog ​​shit can be sold at a sky-high price. In the previous life, unscrupulous businessmen hired people to queue up and bought a cup of milk tea for four hours. That's it, countless people still flocked to it.

There is nothing else, this is true for human nature. It is smelly to send food to you, but it is delicious to snatch it to you.

Li Yu himself scoffed at this approach, but the main constituent of this world was the one who could not resist the mediocre people.

When he saw this scene in his previous life, he cursed secretly, "I'm so bad." Now he has become a practitioner. It shows that his position is absolutely stance and attitude, and his butt determines his head.

Li Jingqiu was slapped in this matter. He met many wealthy merchants. Because he was young and young, he was mostly second-rate businessmen, saying that wealthy merchants were polite.

The truly first-class businessman is either a dependent on Zhou Zong, Song Qiqiu, or a third and fourth brother of the Li family.

Although the people around Li Jingcheng are not very valuable, they are also curious about any new things because they are relatively young and ambitious.

The business of the Southern Tang Dynasty was prosperous, and the big business and big industries had basically been established. There was even the prototype of the later generations. In name, it was a peer-to-people discussion to maintain the market, but in fact it was to set up various thresholds to block the future generations' path to progress.

If latecomers want to do business, in addition to being able to swallow their anger, they are also thinking about the opportunities for curved cars in private. Anyway, they have little capital and lack fame, so it is easy for the boat to turn around.

Even if Li Jingcheng didn't say it, they also planned to get a few promissory notes to try it out.

After all, the advantages of this thing are too obvious!

Extremely convenient to carry!

When you usually bring a lot of money or goods on the road, even the big merchants are afraid. At this time, most areas are in the wilderness, and the officers and soldiers only guard the city, and they don’t care about the countryside.

This has become a paradise for bandits and robbers. Although merchants hire martial arts experts as bodyguards, Green Forest heroes can also join forces to make big votes. Killing and robbing is common in this era.

What's more, nominally, he is a bodyguard, actually a undercover agent sent by the bandits. It is also a common routine to play against loyalty.

Pan Chenghou is the victim.

Of course, some big businessmen have become bigger and have a high vision, so they give their backers: Can they bribe the garrison and let them escort their positions in the name of exercises?

It looks good, but the Southern Tang Dynasty learned from the lessons of the Jiedu Rebellion of the prosperous Tang Dynasty and regarded the army very strictly. Each army had its own stationed defense zones and could not be used without the orders of the Privy Council!

Moreover, it is not enough to just bribe the generals, so what about the military supervisor?

At this time, the military supervisor was so powerful that he was very powerful. Although the saint could not control all the troops in the country, he sent Wu Qiao to all the military supervisors: Ah hahahahahaha.

Therefore, the safe journey depends on the Bodhisattva

I bless you, but although the Bodhisattva is compassionate, he probably hates this group of speculative and incense-related businessmen. He often accepts incense and owes everything else.

Therefore, many merchants were wailing. The difficulty of going to Nandu from Xidu was similar to that of Master Xuanzang to obtain Buddhist scriptures. However, the latter was determined to go to the West, while the former was unwilling to go to the West.

Now that you have a promissory note, this thing is just a piece of paper, which is easy to carry and hide. It can fully exert the thinking of the profiteers. It is more troublesome on the 6th. If you are on a boat, the shopkeeper will change his outfit and pretend to be a young man. He can find a place to put the promissory note. It will be a ghost if the water bandits can find it.

Some businessmen have already said that they should take out a small gap under the wooden base of the hemp shoes, wrap the promissory notes with tung oil, put them in, and then seal them with wax, and mix them with various disguises in the crowd. In this way, the risk of rushing with money will be greatly reduced.

Even if you encounter a robber on the road, as long as the horse is fast, you can achieve people and money. This was unimaginable in the past.

Therefore, on the first day of opening, several merchants from Nandu deposited a total of 200,000 yuan of copper coins into the Dechang Palace Bank in Xidu for several promissory notes.

By the way, this promissory note has a fixed denomination, divided into four stops of 10,000, 20,000, 50,000, and 100,000, which is also a necessary measure taken to move closer to the currency.

As for the 200,000 guan of money received, Li Yu ordered his subordinates to send it to Nanchang like the last time. The combat effectiveness of the Nanchang garrison troops was incomparable to the Xiongwu Army, but at least it was finally Li Jing's regular army, so naturally it was not useless.

For this reason, Li Yu prepared for the future and submitted a letter to Li Jing, asking to form an internal security force specially used to escort money.

At present, the only army he can control is the only team of former Xiongwu Army soldiers in Chengxin Hall who took off their military uniforms. This is really too few.

He wanted to take this opportunity to give himself a legitimate reason to master the army. After all, the principle of power being exuded by a gun was deeply rooted in people's hearts in his previous life.

But Li Jing just smiled and said that anyway, the troops in various places are idle, so let them do the escort money, so they can do daily training.

With the saint's words and words, Li Yu could only return in disappointment. He did not dare to speak much, for fear of arousing Li Jing's suspicion. However, this kind of thing was tacit. Li Jing gave him the power to adjust internal and external court files, which was equivalent to allowing him to grasp the secrets of the entire court. In addition to the Dechang Palace, it was also considered a favorable person.

If military power is given, the support for Li Yu will be too obvious, and it will inevitably lead to Li Hongji's means.

After understanding this, Li Yu felt that Jiang was still old. If he could really control the army, then his elder brother would have to use various methods to knock on him, such as the stolen or robbed of the Dechang Palace in Dongdu.

Besides, I am afraid that Li Jing still doesn’t trust him enough, so it seems that he has to work harder to perform well.

After a period of trial, the East and West Branch of Dechang Palace Bank have become the second hometown of merchants, and they are crowded with people every day, which makes Li Yu laugh so hard that he can't stop. As long as the business in these two places is carried out, it doesn't matter if the business in Nandu Wuchang is not done.

The two places are only a hundred miles apart, but the Yangtze River in the middle makes transportation extremely inconvenient. With the promissory note, merchants are much more convenient to do business.

The prosperity of Jiangdu is largely due to the salt and wharf of Jinghai. Most of Jiangdu merchants are familiar with those ship owners, and many of them even invest in sea ship trading.

They often buy goods from sea boats and transport them to Jiangning for sale, but there is really nothing to bring when they return. After all, there are Jiangning in Jiangdu, and they have to hire people to escort money on the road. They can't walk fast, which is really troublesome.

Now it is very convenient to have a promissory note. Once the things are shipped to Jiangning, you can collect one or several promissory note, put them in your arms, bring a few bodyguards, and ride a fast horse and get back to Jiangdu immediately without wasting time.

The merchants in Jiangning often went to Jiangdu to purchase in person, and it was not convenient to bring a lot of money. The contradiction completely disappeared as soon as the promissory note was released.

What Li Yu did not expect was that the emergence of promissory notes actually changed the division of business labor to some extent. The merchants in Jiangdu focused more on directly pledging goods to merchants in Jiangning, and the latter gave up contacting the ship owner and turned to

Professional distributors are deeply engaged in the channels for the sale of goods to the mainland.

In this way, one of the merchants in the two places gave up the upstream and the other gave up the downstream, which seemed to be subject to others, but the efficiency of business operations was greatly improved.

At this time, the sea ships did not all travel abroad, but most of them were "domestic routes" and communicated north-south trade along the coastline.

Although the pseudo-Han was poor and had nothing to do, the Khitan further north was an excellent business partner. Both sides disliked the pseudo-Han Liu family, and they couldn't eat him for a while, so they hooked up with each other. Anyway, the enemy's enemy was a friend, and the two sides were in unison with the pseudo-Han.

Not to mention anything else, if the Khitan had not put a strong pressure on the pseudo-Han in the north, even ten Li Hongji could not have been able to protect Jiangbei when facing the pseudo-Han tiger and wolf army, let alone the old enemy Wu Yue Kingdom was ready to move.

On the other hand, due to the existence of Li Hongji, the pseudo-Han could not concentrate all his troops to fight the Khitan to the death, otherwise the Prince of Southern Tang would be very happy to directly destroy the Wu Yue Kingdom.

The two are so complementary in politics and military, and the economic and trade combinations are even closer. The silk, handicrafts, and grain of the Southern Tang Dynasty are all loved by the Khitan nobles, as well as iron weapons. The smelting technology of the Southern Tang Dynasty is good. Although the ones sold to the Khitan are all second-class, it is enough to kill people. Anyway, as long as the three-edged arrow clusters are shot into the meat, the consequences will be the same. Even inferior products will break in the body, and the lethality will increase. It can be called the Dam bullet of this era.

The Khitan's good horses were also strategic materials urgently needed by the Southern Tang Dynasty. Most areas of the Southern Tang Dynasty were either water towns or hills, and the requirements for war horses were not too high.

Because Li Hongji's Runzhou Jiedu is located in the Jianghuai Plain, it is beneficial to the cavalry, so he imports a lot of war horses every year. But strangely, Li Jing also controls a Longxiang Army, which is also a pure cavalry unit.

War horses are expensive strategic materials, but Li Jing insisted on raising such a cavalry around Jiangning despite the opposition of his ministers, which was also a matter of discussion.

In addition to war horses, Dongzhu, ginseng and other medicinal materials, they are also popular in the Southern Tang Dynasty. These things are not large in size, but the six routes have to pass through the pseudo-Han territory. Considering the relationship between the two sides, the merchants naturally would rather be seasick than go on the water route. Anyway, sailing along the coastline is not too much risk.

As promissory notes bring about a significant increase in transaction convenience and timeliness, the overall trade efficiency has increased greatly. Whenever a new ship docked, merchants from Jiangbei organized unloading as soon as possible. Jiangning merchants sent a lot of spies to the wharf and Jiangdu city. Once they learned about the detailed information about the new ship and new cargo, they immediately sent a letter to the Jiangning General Number.

After learning the news, the shopkeeper and even the boss immediately instructed his subordinates to contact the next company to prepare for the distribution of goods. He brought a few servants with him and rushed to Jiangdu in half a day, and took out the promissory notes and could get the silver goods on the spot.

Sometimes when you see unexpected good goods, you can take them away on the spot after you take a promissory note. This level of pleasure is unprecedented!

In just one month, Jiangning and Jiangdu’s tax revenue increased by half, which surprised everyone. You should know that the productivity of feudal society was extremely low, and it would be good if the tax revenue could be even. It would be 10% higher and higher in annual performance.

Now there is nothing more than a promissory note, which actually increases tax revenue. On the one hand, it shows that the Nantang business foundation is strong and can easily increase by 30%. On the other hand, it also shows that this thing is indeed popular, which is equivalent to breaking the biggest bottleneck in commercial trade in this era.

Faced with the sudden explosion of business growth, Li Yu was also stunned. He originally thought that a small promissory note could play a limited role. In his plan, the most basic form of promissory note was the most enlightenment, so that merchants could realize that currency could have another form of heart. After all, no one has seen the "flying money" thing.

At present, we are unwilling to plant willows and willows. Once the business is developed, there will be demand, which can directly drive production. At the same time, the development of the service industry will also accelerate based on the development of business.

This situation seemed very inconsistent with the Confucian idea of ​​governing the country with virtue. If this continues, everyone speaks of profit, and no one will talk about any etiquette or virtue anymore.

But Li Jing has also come from hard days, so he naturally knows

Due to the emergence of merchants, the circulation of goods is promoted. The same goods are cheaper in the place of origin, and the further they are shipped, the more expensive it is. In this way, the government will draw more taxes, and there is no need to add more management. You can wait for the money to be collected by setting up a few cards.

In the face of such a good thing, who still cares about the teachings of Saint Kong?
Chapter completed!