Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 229 Lanting Preface

People know how to borrow money when they are poor, and the court can of course borrow money when they are poor.

There is indeed nothing wrong with Qin Lang's words.

But for the emperor, the problem is that the money that the court lacks is not just a star, but a large sum of money, who can borrow it, and who can give it so much at once?

However, in Qin Lang's view, this problem was not a problem.

The imperial court owns the whole world, not to mention other things, but the annual rent income is a huge asset guarantee.Therefore, if the imperial court wants to borrow money, it is a high-quality debtor.In future generations, which bank does not want to lend some money to the government?
Just like the UK, I don’t know how much I owe to the bank. I owe more and more every year, and the more I owe, the bank is eager to borrow more. Why?Because the amount is large, the interest income is stable.

Before the Tang Dynasty, it was money lending. The imperial court gave local governments a sum of capital, and then asked them to take the money and find money grabbers to outsource debts.

The interest rate is still very high, the monthly interest rate is [-]%, and the annual interest rate is almost double the principal.

Li Shimin really never thought about borrowing money to get through the financial crisis. After all, the imperial court can raise money through tax increases, apportionment, etc., so he never thought about borrowing money to live on.

"I'm afraid that borrowing money will cause dissatisfaction among those rich and powerful businessmen. It is estimated that not many people are willing to lend money to the court." Li Shimin said.

When he thought about it, if he wanted to borrow money, and it was a large number, he could only borrow it from those rich people. Who has money?Naturally, it is a family of nobles with five surnames and seven families for hundreds of years, and those clans and relatives in the court, but Li Shimin feels that he has suppressed these people several times before, and it is estimated that these people are also dissatisfied with him, and now he is looking for them again. If you borrow money, you are afraid that you will be rejected.

"Your Majesty, we are borrowing money, not robbing money. Those rich families, whether they are clans, nobles, or gentry, who don't lend money and collect interest? Even the royal family also lends money. The government also lends money. So lending money is very cost-effective."

This is like a bank, which must like to lend money because it is profitable.

As for lending money to the imperial court, Qin Lang felt that it was very secure, and he didn't have to worry about not being able to pay it back. After all, the imperial court would draw up a piece of land or give you some mines, which would be enough to raise the interest rate.

Not to mention, this kind of loan is a large loan. If you give it to common people and businessmen, how much can one person borrow?
What Li Shimin was worried about was that no one was willing to borrow money, but Qin Lang felt that lending money to the court would only make money and not lose money.

"Your Majesty, I think that this borrowing can be combined with the new policy of salt and iron. I have a preliminary idea..."

After listening to Qin Lang's narration, Li Shimin, Wei Zheng, and Ma Zhou were stunned for a long time.

It took the three of them a long time to digest and understand something that seemed simple to Qin Lang.

Qin Lang finally returned to Chang'an.

In fact, he didn't live in the country for a long time, so he did one thing, which was to renovate the puddle beside Zhuangzi, and it was not yet spring, so he only did basic renovations, the pond was not formally stored, and the fish fry They haven't been brought in yet, and mulberry trees haven't been planted on the embankment yet, and there aren't any pigs in the piggery by the bank, or chickens and ducks in the chicken and duck sheds.

Everything hasn't started yet, but Qin Lang still left Zhuangzi years ago and returned to Chang'an.

Li Shimin was in a hurry, he agreed to Qin Lang's plan and asked him to return to Chang'an immediately to preside over the execution.

For the transshipment of the Yamen, Qin Lang chose Longqing Square in Chunming Gate, the middle gate in the east of the city. The whole square was assigned to Qin Lang. Yifang is Dongshi.

Of course, there was another more important reason, Qin Lang felt that this place was close to Pingkangfang, which made it easier for him to commute to and from get off work.

The newly formed transshipment department consists of six bureaus, Du Branch Bureau, Yantie Bureau, Transshipment Bureau, Changping Bureau, Shiyi Bureau and Casting Bureau. Be Qin Lang's deputy.

The manpower required by the various bureaus in the division is drawn from the Baidi division in the capital.

In order to facilitate the development of the transshipment department, the emperor also formally issued an edict, dividing the world into fifteen departments, each with an observation department and a regular department. Presided over the Daozhong imperial examination.

The Changping Division is in charge of finance and taxation, Changping warehouses, market transactions, salt and iron, water transportation, coin casting, river crossings, water conservancy and other matters.

These two departments are both provincial-level organizations, but they are not subordinate to each other. They are directly subordinate to the three provinces and the Transit Department of the central government. They are fully responsible for the jurisdictional affairs of the states under their own provinces.

These two ministers are actually dispatched agencies equivalent to the central yamen. They have no jurisdiction over the administrative and military aspects of the Tao. They are mainly in charge of supervision and imperial examinations, and the other in charge of wealth, money and food.

This not only helps the imperial court to ease the situation that the current more than 300 states in the world cannot be governed, but at the same time, it does not need to worry about the excessive local power after the establishment of provincial administrative divisions, which is difficult to control.

It is undoubtedly a compromise strategy to only set up some dispatched agencies with some powers under them.

This newly established Transshipment Department surprised everyone in Chang'an City, but when they saw that Qin Lang was the first Transshipment Envoy appointed by the emperor's decree, everyone fell silent again.

This Qin Sanlang really can't be defeated, he made a comeback so soon.

Everyone thought it was not unusual for him to be the transshipment envoy whose power could be seen at a glance.

The rank of the transshipment envoy of the Transshipment Department is the third grade, which is the same as the six ministers, and even one level higher than the Jiuqing and the five supervisors.

The deputy envoy is at the fourth rank, and even the orders of the following six bureaus are all from the fifth rank.

"As expected of the emperor's royal cat!"

Zheng Shanguo sat in the study and sighed long after he heard that Qin Lang was appointed as the transfer envoy.This young man is so blessed.

Wanting to see him stumble, he ended up being more appreciated by the emperor every time.

"Uncle Ren, put away this Orchid Pavilion Preface for me, and I will give it to someone later."

"A Lang, this Wang Youjun's Lanting Preface is your lifeline, how many people come to beg for it, and you are not willing to part with it?"

Zheng Shanguo just sighed, "After all, it's just a pair of calligraphy and painting. If my Zheng family doesn't change their minds, it will be in danger."

"Who is Alang going to give this word to?"

"Give it to the new transfer envoy!"

The housekeeper was silent. The grievances between the Zheng family and Qin Sanlang had long been entangled.How many times has the Zheng family been slapped in the face by Qin Sanlang? How could they be resigned to being a noble family for hundreds of years, but now that Alang actually wants to give this word to Qin Sanlang, is he going to bow his head completely?
"The green hills are here. I'm not afraid that there will be no firewood. It's nothing to bow your head for a while." Zheng Shanguo got up, and the old man's eyes were full of complexity.

Zheng Yuanxuan's expulsion for the sake of the people made the Zheng family worse. Originally, Zheng Shanguo was still thinking that when he was old, his cousin Zheng Yuanxuan would take over the family in the future. of.But now, the older generation of the Zheng family has been trampled to the bottom of the mud, and the younger generation can't get on the stage.

If this continues, the Zheng family will be completely thrown off by the Boling Cui family, the Qinghe Cui family, and the Taiyuan Wang family, and even the Jingzhao Weidu and Lanling Xiao family will climb up to their Zheng family. .

Zheng Shanguo couldn't sit still.

He knew that all of this had nothing to do with Qin Lang, what was Qin Lang?A lucky villain, the son of a maidservant of a common landlord's family, even Qin Qiong, a military upstart, was looked down upon by the Zheng family.The current predicament of the Zheng family is all caused by the attitude of today's emperor.

The new emperor tried his best to force the Zheng family to bow their heads, to force the Zheng family to kneel to him.

Zheng Shanguo refused and refused, so he was suppressed again and again, but the Zheng family always had something to fall into their hands, and they didn't even have a reason to complain.

Although the gentry are one, they are often intriguing. As long as the emperor does not directly express his opinion to go to the gentry in the world, but only to a certain family, other people will not empathize, nor will they feel sad, and some people will even secretly laugh. , or even kicked in secret.

Even the in-laws are so realistic and cruel.

Longqingfang.

Longqingfang is in the east of the imperial city, and the area is much larger than the other squares in the south of Huangcheng Street, covering an area of ​​more than [-] mu.There used to be springs gushing out of the ground in Longqingfang Zhongzhong, and the ground collapsed, forming a thousand mu Longqing Pool.

Qin Lang liked this pool very much.

In the pavilion by the pool, Zheng Shanguo presented the Preface to the Lanting Pavilion.

Qin Lang opened it and glanced at it, but he was no stranger to it. Those who have learned calligraphy in later generations, who has never copied this character, it is so famous.It is said that Li Shimin once liked it very much, and later buried it in the mausoleum, and the world has never seen the real one since then.

"Is this the real work of Wang Youjun?" Qin Lang asked.

"Exactly." Zheng Shanguo said with some pride, the Lanting Preface, which is sought after by people all over the world, has been preserved in the Zheng family for more than a hundred years.

It's just that Qin Lang wasn't overly excited.

As far as Qin Lang is concerned, he appreciates and likes these works of art, but he doesn't pursue them too much, nor is he the kind of person who likes to collect them.

It's just a calligraphy and painting.

After all, although he had studied calligraphy for many years when he was a child, he never liked calligraphy.

"The old man knows that the Zheng family had a lot of misunderstandings with Qin Sanlang, and now he is presenting this Lanting Preface, hoping to turn hostility into friendship."

"Why did Mr. Zheng say this? There is no misunderstanding between the Zheng family in Xingyang and my Qin family. At the beginning, the two families almost got married, but it didn't happen later. This matter is over."

Zheng Shanguo didn't argue, just smiled.

"In that case, the old man will bid farewell!"

Qin Lang chuckled, "Duke Zheng, it's too precious to take this painting away."

"It's just a painting, how can you take back the gift you gave out?"

"The Zheng family's thousand-year heritage is indeed enviable. But I still can't accept this gift!"

"Then please Qin Sanlang forward it to His Majesty on my behalf."

Zheng Shanguo's words made Qin Lang a little surprised.

"Duke Zheng, Mr. Qin has something to do and wants to ask Mr. Zheng for help."

"Just say it!"

"Qin wants to ask the Zheng family to borrow some money."

Now it was Zheng Shanguo's turn to be stunned.

"It's not me who borrowed it, but the transshipment department wants to borrow some money from the Zheng family!"

"How much?" Zheng Shanguo was stunned for a while, then quickly recovered his composure.

(End of this chapter)