As noon approached, the East City of Chang'an was as prosperous as before. Outside several residences run by merchants in Huangzhou, many carriages were unloading. The coolies carried bags of frosted candy into the residence. Then a large number of merchants followed them in and started buying.

Frosting sugar from Lingbiao, also known as "white sugar", is as white as frost. It tastes sweet when eaten. It is one of the hottest goods in Chang'an City today. There are only these few residences for sale in the city. Others want to purchase goods, but they will disappear if they come late.

Not only that, overseas incense medicines such as ambergris have a relatively sufficient supply in these restaurants. It happened to be arriving one after another during this period, but there are also many people who purchased the goods. They still couldn't even eat the leftovers when they arrived late.

Antoro, a Sogdian, looked at the lively scenes of these residences and felt a little moved. He continued to move forward and came to the Chang'an Branch of Rixing Changguifang to handle the "business" of remittance.

He was about to take a trip to Bozhou, Henan to discuss big deals with "that one", but it was extremely inconvenient and safe to travel with huge amounts of money, so he had to "remit money" through Rixingchang Guifang and get it when he arrived at Xiaohuang.

After handling this business, Antulo can easily get on the road with a "bill of exchange", saving time, trouble and effort.

Antulu is an old customer of Rixingchang Guifang. The shopkeeper of the Guifang branch department handles the business for him personally and estimates the property deposited by Antulu. After both parties reach an agreement on the value of the property, the Guifang will issue a bill of exchange and hand it over to Antulu.

The exquisite bill of exchange will write the withdrawal place (Rixingchang Guifang Bozhou Xiaohuang semicolon) and the amount. From the second day after the completion, Antulu can withdraw cash from Xiaohuang.

He can only withdraw cash in the Xiaohuang semicolon.

Antulo often goes to the cabinet shop to handle business, and the two parties cooperate many times, so the remittance business is progressing very smoothly and it is completed soon.

After receiving the bill of exchange, Antulu was not in a hurry to leave, but began to handle another business, which was "investment" and invest in the "Beijing Nansheng" project. He did not need to bring money, but used the principal and interest he had just cashed in Rixingchang Guesthouse.

At the end of last year, Antuo invested in "North Bing Nan Sales". Now that the principal and interest have been successfully fulfilled, he invested again and continued to make money.

Of course, there were subordinates who worked on the specific matters. Antulu sat alone in the wing room, drinking tea while looking at the bill of exchange in his hand.

According to the usual understanding, after I issued a bill of exchange to the customer, Rixingchang should have a corresponding ticket, and then send the ticket to the semicolon at the withdrawal site to prepare for cashing.

In the future, guests will come to their door with a bill of exchange and have to match this sub-ticket before they can withdraw cash. This is the minimum anti-counterfeiting method.

However, according to various signs, Antoro judged that Nikkikatsu's operation was not like this.

It is nearly two thousand miles away from Chang'an to Xiaohuang, so it takes time to send a sub-ticket. In theory, there should be a period for withdrawing bills of exchange, that is, how many days from the date of completion, the "customer" can withdraw cash in the Xiaohuang semicolon.

Now, Rixingchang Cabinet has not made such a limit, which means that as long as Antulu sets off immediately and arrives at Xiaohuang as quickly as possible, you can withdraw cash from Xiaohuang with a bill of exchange.

At this time, the Rixingchang Xiaohuang semicolon may not have received the secondary ticket (if any) sent by the Chang'an semicolon.

To realize this exchange method, it means relying entirely on the essay text on the bill of exchange. Antulo looked at the bill of exchange in his hand, and as he looked, he couldn't help but feel immersed in his mind, wanting to see through the secrets on it.

As long as he finds out the meaning of the above cipher texts and forges bills to withdraw cash, he can bankrupt Rixingchang Guesthouse.

Probably every person who comes to Xingchang Guifang to handle business will have this idea.

Antulu thought so, and looked at the bill of exchange carefully, he really couldn't tell anything about it.

It’s not that he has tried to crack the secrets of bills of exchange, but his efforts have been in vain, because the essay text printed on the bills of exchange in Rixingchang Guest House is really like a book of heaven and cannot be cracked.

It doesn’t matter if you directly crack the cipher text, but it doesn’t matter, you can find a way to trap it.

For example, if you buy Rixingchang's shopkeeper, it is very risky to do so. Once the matter is leaked, the endless anger of King Bin will follow. Antulu dare not take this risk.

So we need to change the method.

He forged a fake bill of exchange, sent someone to take it, and withdrew cash with another ID, and caused trouble if he did not withdraw cash. He said that Rixingchang Guifang was untrustworthy and went to the government and asked Rixingchang Guifang to explain what was wrong with the bill of exchange.

This is a method to indirectly test the anti-counterfeiting method of bills of exchange. Antulu secretly tried it but it didn't work.

The other party’s method to distinguish the authenticity of the bill of exchange is very simple. There is no need to even point out what is wrong with the ciphertext on the bill. You just need to burn the bill of exchange with fire to immediately distinguish the authenticity: after the bill of exchange is overfire, the ashes are very complete, and a pattern will appear on it.

Such a wonderful anti-counterfeiting method eliminated Antulu's thoughts, and after the confrontation between the officials in various places, the few people he sent were trapped in Wuwu for the crime of "fraudulent property", and then "deathed afterwards".

Perhaps it was the people from Nikki Chang who tortured these people in prison and wanted to investigate the envoy behind the scenes, so that these people could not stand the torture and died. Antuo realized the seriousness of the matter and did not test it any further.

He put away his thoughts and bills of exchange. Antulo waited for the business to be processed and said goodbye.

At the main entrance of Rixingchang Cabinet, guests are like clouds. Antulu knows that the name of Rixingchang Cabinet has been launched in Chang'an City and its credit has gradually been recognized. Many powerful and wealthy families in Chang'an City have begun to "invest and manage their finances" in Rixingchang.

Take out some of the rusty copper coins that were originally hidden in the cellar, either invest in Rixingchang or other cabinets. Those cabinets also invest the funds absorbed in Rixingchang to make money.

Money makes money, which was originally a business that the Sogdians are good at, but now they have encountered a strong opponent. The monster Rixingchang Guifang has increased its strength year by year, and many new Guifangs have appeared in Chang'an in large numbers.

As the number of officials who borrowed money from Sogdian merchants gradually decreased, people began to tend to borrow money from Rixingchang and other counters. Such a strong opponent was not difficult to solve, because for hundreds of years, there have been no Central Plains merchants who challenged the Sogdians, but they all failed.

The rulers of the Central Plains excluded merchants and regarded merchants as untouchables, but could not live without merchants, so there was a very interesting phenomenon, that is, rejecting and suppressing local merchants, but using Hu merchants.

At that time, whether it was Qi or Zhou, the powerful and powerful liked to interact with Hu merchants, asking Hu merchants to help manage business and make money through the industry. However, local merchants, no matter how capable they were, they were rarely favored by the powerful and powerful.

Antulu knew that when Qi was still there, most of the merchants who released usury in Lianghuai were Hu merchants, because the powerful and powerful in Yecheng looked down on local merchants at all, and even if the other party was willing to be a dog, they were not qualified to scream in front of the door.

It is precisely because of this status that the Sogdians are unimpeded in the Central Plains. With their almost monopoly sources of goods in the Western Regions, they make a big profit in the Central Plains. If they encounter competitors, they can easily defeat the other party.

It is convenient to rely on external attacks (political suppression) without using commercial means, but this move does not work now.

Rixingchang Guifang has a strong backer, and it is not easy to use outside the board. This backer pursues "equal benefits", which has led merchants from all over Jingxiang, Shannan to unite to make a lot of money in business and business, and is becoming stronger and stronger in Chang'an City.

Faced with such a strong competitor, the Sogdians in Chang'an were no longer able to do it. Antulu was deeply touched by this because he participated in it and knew how strong the Shannan merchants led by Huangzhou were now.

Walking out of the gate of Rixingchang Guesthouse, Antulu looked at the lively residences again. He felt helpless and had thousands of words in his heart, but when he came to his mouth, he just sighed.

The caravans in Huangzhou were able to send frosty white sugar and a large amount of overseas incense medicines such as sandalwood, ambergris, tulips, etc. to Chang'an. It was difficult for Sogdian merchants to do it because there was not enough supply, and the other party had it.

Not only that, Huangzhou merchants also sold soaps, glassware, white porcelain, books and other best-selling goods in Chang'an on a large scale, which divided the large amount of profits in the east and west Chang'an market. The Sogdians' dominance in the market is gradually losing.

Such a strong opponent is eroding the market share of the Sogdians. More and more merchants with accent in the Shannan region are entering and leaving the East and West City of Chang'an. There are even a large number of cabinet shops with Shannan backgrounds open in Chang'an, absorbing private funds on a large scale and carrying out lending business.

Behind these cabinets are officials from Shannan. No matter how complicated the relationships these officials have, they are basically similar to Rixingchang, and they have strong backers in the end. It is difficult for the Sogdians to compete with them, both openly and secretly.

Antulo and the other Sogdians watched all this happen, but they were helpless, just as they watched the flowers blooming on the branches blow down by the wind, but they could do nothing.

But this does not mean that Antulu will sit and wait for death. He and his family have made a choice, that is, since they can't beat each other, they will become each other's friends.

This principle is very simple, and there is only one premise for this choice to be successfully implemented, that is, the other party does not eat alone.

The principle of "equal benefits" pursued by King Bin is really great.

Antulu was riding on his horse and was about to leave, but he saw a servant coming and reported a message in a daze.

The Maritime Department, which was established at the end of last year, organized a fleet to venture across the Black Water Ocean and to Japan on the other side of the East China Sea to sell silk, porcelain and other Central Plains specialties. Later, the fleet returned with a full load, and a large amount of silver produced in Japan was produced in the cargo.

The Maritime Warehouse Department then mobilized heavy troops to escort the batch of silver into Beijing. Now the convoy has arrived in Chang'an and is passing by the city. The escorts are making a big splash to the onlookers, saying that the silver is more than 200,000 taels.
Chapter completed!