Chapter 2 Issuance of Song Debt

Outside Xixia Xingqing Mansion, Li Liangzuo is leading the brigade to approach the Song Dynasty step by step at a heavy pace, but at this time, the capital is another scene,

There is a long queue at the door of Taibao Bank. Both the rich and rich people and ordinary people in the capital are looking at the speed of the team. Every once in a while, someone will rush out of the bank, and some people in the team will ask him, "How's it going? Have you bought it?" The person who came out held some vouchers printed by the imperial court with special paper in his hand and answered loudly, "I bought it. Now it's good." Some people continued to ask, "There are not many that have not been sold." More people in line whispered, "Amitabha, don't buy more in front of you, or it will come for nothing today."

A sedan chair passed by the line. The person in the sedan chair lifted the curtain and looked at the situation outside. A smile appeared at the corners of his mouth. A cool breeze blew into the sedan chair. The person in the sedan chair couldn't help coughing. He hurriedly put down the curtain of the sedan chair. The sedan chair bypassed the front of the Taibao bank and passed through an alley next to him. Behind the bank, there was a huge guarded house. The sedan chair stopped at the door of the yard. As the servant of the sedan chair went to the door and said a few words to the bodyguard in front of the door, the bodyguard dodged the door, and the sedan chair man carried the sedan chair into the courtyard,

Finally, the sedan chair was gently put down in the porch of the hall. The curtain of the sedan chair was lifted. The servant helped Cai Xiang, who came out of it and couldn't help coughing. The king hurried down the steps: "Brother Jun Mo, why did you come in person?" He let Cai Xiang into the hall and helped Cai Xiang sit down.

Cai Xiang finally stopped coughing and gasping: "Hey, I'm old. Such a large amount of silver is going to be raised to the silver warehouse. You must have been busy for many days. In addition, I heard that you are leaving in two days. I'll come to see you quickly."

Wang said, "Brother, you have been discussing military expenses for days. I heard that you have stayed up for a few nights. Put it down on my side. Today, I have sent someone to escort Yin Liang into the palace. The court will not spend a penny of troops. This is the most important thing."

Cai Xiang smiled and said, "I'm not worried about what you do. When I just passed by the door of your Taibao Bank, I didn't expect that the people recognized the Song debt so much. It's such a cold day, and the queue is far away." After saying that, he coughed again. After coughing with a handkerchief, he took a look at the handkerchief and took the handkerchief back to his sleeve pocket. Looking at Cai Xiang's withered yellow face and skinny shoulders, Wang knew that Cai Xiang was not sick, so he asked, "Brother, when did you start coughing? Did you find Lang Zhong to have a look?"

"For a long time, I'm afraid I'm not adapted to the climate of the capital. It doesn't matter." He couldn't help coughing without saying a word,

There is nothing the king can do now. He is relieved and said, "There are many good doctors in the capital. If not, I will ask the emperor to send a royal doctor to treat my brother."

Cai Xiang waved her hand: "Alas, you have enough things to do. Don't worry about me. Look at me and I'm relieved. Waiting for you to come back from Xixia, let's ask the drunken man to have a good drink. Since you have sent the money raised by Song debt to the imperial city today, I will immediately arrange for the judge and others to count the account, and ask the emperor to issue the decree to allocate funds. I'll go first about the military expenses.

Wang side sighed gently and sent Cai Xiang out of the hall in person. Seeing Cai Xiang get on the sedan chair before returning to the room, Wang side finished arranging the matter at hand and listened to Kejun. When Jia Xian came back and reported that Yin Liang had been safely delivered and handed over to the Du branch, Wang side took a sigh of relief in the afternoon. In the haze, snowflakes began to float in the sky. Jia Xian went to the bank in front of him to have a look and came back to report to Wang: "Your Majesty, this time, Taibao Bank issued 50 million taels of bonds for the imperial court. Our bank bears 60%, and the remaining 20 million taels were paid in advance by the bank, all of which have been sent to the imperial city. Now there are 20 million taels of bonds. It has been sold for three days, and half of it has been sold.

Wang nodded, "Okay, this speed is estimated to be completed in a few days."

Jia Xian asked puzzledly, "Your Majesty, there is something I don't understand. This Song debt sells so well. Why do you set the face value so low for takeout? You can buy it with ten taels of silver at the beginning. There are so many rich people in the capital who want to buy more. You also limit the amount of up to 100 taels of silver per person at a time. Will this be too much? It's troublesome."

After listening to Jia Xian's series of questions, Wang stood up with a smile and said to Tong Guan and He Zhu behind him, "Go get the clothes. Let's go to the front and have a look." Tong Guan went to bring the cloak to Wang. Wang said to Jia Xian, "You, you are smarter than anyone else, but you don't understand people's hearts."

Several people followed Wang out of the courtyard. Wang pointed to about a dozen bodyguards behind him and said, "Let them go back to the house first. Let's walk around." Zhe Kejun turned his head to the bodyguard behind him and said, "You don't have to follow. Go back to the palace first to obey." Yes." A dozen bodyguards agreed in unison,

There are always more than a dozen people around him, which is particularly conspicuous wherever he goes, which makes Wang feel uncomfortable. Especially today, he will soon lead troops to Xixia. Although he can't say that he is linger in the capital, he returned to the capital for a period of time, but he did not walk on the street as casually as before, listening to people and himself. Or occasionally make a few jokes with acquaintances,

Although the sky is gloomy and the snowflakes are getting bigger and bigger, there are still many people lined up at the door of the bank. Wang side stepped into the bank, but there were not many people inside. There were only about three people waiting in front of the six or seven windows of the bank, and most of them were stopped by the bank's bodyguards.

"What's going on?" Wang looked at Jia Xian and asked,

"I didn't dare to put them all in. I didn't stop them on the first day. As a result, many people crowded the counter. The people didn't know that you had a limit. I was afraid that you would be bought up by the big ones, so I asked the bodyguards to stop the queue outside and put a few in when there were fewer people inside." Jia Xian hurriedly explained,

"This doesn't work. Although you are also for safety, it's not the best solution." The king shook his head,

Jia Xian lowered his head and didn't dare to say more. Wang said, "Go and order someone to put a table at the door. Someone will distribute the number there. There is a railing three feet away from the counter. This railing is called a safety line. Find a person with a loud voice to stand there and let him look at the counter. Whenever the counter finishes a person's business, Call a new number to enter, and everyone who enters the security line will hand over the number to the loud person. He will call the number in order, and naturally people will do it in order.

"Your Majesty, you have a lot of ways. I'll do it right away." After listening to this, Jia Xian hurriedly arranged it. There was no railing, so he found a few pieces of red cloth and tied them to the pillar of the hall just about three feet away from the counter. Then he found a loud man and stood at a reserved entrance. Then, a clerk lifted a table and temporarily arranged a person to write a number at the door of the bank. /P>

With a bunch of incense, all these things were done. Jia Xianxing rushed back to the king and said, "Your Majesty, can we start?"

"Yes, you can go back and make a thousand wooden cards, each of which is engraved with a number, so that it can be reused."

"Yes." Jia Xian agreed, turned around and walked to the door of the bank and said to the people standing in line outside the door, "Listen, everyone. The prince is sympathetic to everyone's queue in the snow, so let everyone wait in the bank to do something. Don't mess up first. Come here to get the number. Call whose number later, anyone can handle the sale of bonds and deposit and withdrawal. It's the business of Yin and Liang.

At this moment, the people who had been waiting in line for a long time were very happy to hear the news. It was really hard to wait in the cold and snow. People fished into the entrance to get a temporary number. They stood outside the so-called safety line blocked by the red cloth and waited for the loud voice to call. In a short time, the bank was full. Get it. The man stayed in the room and was in a good mood. Some people saw it and said excitedly, "Everyone, look, isn't that the king of Zhennan?"

Hearing that the king of Zhennan was there, people were excited and followed the direction pointed by the speaker. As expected, everyone saw the energetic king in a cloak. Everyone immediately came over and surrounded the king. Someone took the lead in shouting, "Thank you for your compassion." Then someone also responded, and Wang Bian hurriedly made a downward gesture to appease everyone: "Quiet, be quiet, thank you, parents. Everyone should try to keep quiet in the bank, so that our staff can deal with everyone's things faster and better."

The words of the king in the "quiet" and "quiet" crowd were spread out like echoes, and the bank was really much quieter.

"Your Majesty, I'll ask for everyone." A middle-aged man stood up,

Wang nodded and smiled to let him say, and he separated the crowd and walked out: "Everyone, be quiet. I asked for everyone." He turned his head and said to the king, "Your Majesty, we have believed in you. We didn't buy the Yongzhou construction debt that time. I heard that some people have collected the principal and interest money, so we have to queue up to buy it this time."

"Thank you for your love." Wang Zong smiled and said politely. Although he frowned coldly at the people who provoked him in the court, as long as Wang side faced the people, he would never forget that he was also a grassroots in those years,

"The prince is too modest. We also have a question. This time I heard that the debt was issued by the court in order to fight with Xixia. If we win, we will pay back the money back if we lose the money?" The middle-aged man asked,

"Hahaha, this old man, don't worry, this is issuing bonds, not gambling to win or lose, killing people to pay off debts, it is a natural thing, no matter the outcome of this battle, as long as there is our king and the Taibao Bank, it will not lose a penny for everyone." The king said solemnly,

The middle-aged man nodded with satisfaction. Suddenly, someone in the crowd said, "Whether I win or lose, I will buy this debt."

Everyone turned around and looked at it. There was an old man in the crowd. He was carrying a package in one hand and a six- or seven-year-old child in the other. Looking at everyone's eyes, the old man said, "My son is in the army, that is, this child's father. This time my son is also going to Xixia. I tried my best to buy debts. I hope our Song Dynasty has money and strength to follow that. Xixia Party Xiangren has worked hard, and I also hope that my son can come back safely. Your lord, you have a good debt. I, a poor man, can try my best to buy one. Although I don't have much money, I have a heartfelt.

"Yes, I'm also my son and I'm in the army."

"My brother is in Yanzhou. I can't go to see him, so I'll do my best."

There are more and more echoes in the crowd. Wang looked back at Jia Xian. Jia Xian's eyes turned red. There was no need for unnecessary words. Wang knew that Jia Xian understood his intentions, and the facts also answered Jia Xian's series of questions just now.

Finally, the king comforted everyone and stepped on the way back to the king's mansion in the south of the snow. Under the door and steps of the king's mansion, there were several sedan chairs, a few horses, and a few people. They were all stopped outside the palace and could not go in to see the prince. The king passed by them. These people did not know the king's side. Suddenly, A man walked by quickly: "Second son, do you still know me?"