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Historically, after Zhao Gou established the Grand Marshal's Mansion, he had no soldiers and no money.

Later, Zhang Xu responded to Zhao Gou's call and several civil and military officials in the prefecture led the soldiers of the countryside to report to the Grand Marshal's Mansion.

Seeing that Zhao Gou was so poor that he was almost urinating blood, Zhang Xu suggested that Zhao Gou print salt money in the name of the Grand Marshal's Mansion for business travel.

Zhao Gou asked Zhang Xu to be responsible for the matter.

It took Zhang Xu only more than ten days to raise 500,000 yuan for Zhao Gou to recruit troops and support the army.

After that, Zhao Gou ran around and relied on Zhang Xu's method to issue bonds to continue to survive.

That's right.

Like Zhao Kai, Zhang Xu is also a financial talent, even a financial genius of this era.

When Cai Shen wrote his novel, he had consulted some relevant knowledge about currency issuance, which was considered half a bucket of water for currency issuance.

But although Cai still understands a rough idea of ​​currency issuance, he does not grasp the details well.

I won’t talk about how to prevent counterfeiting and make advanced paper. With the summary of the great masters of later generations, Cai Shen and Jiang Xingzu have actually been almost done. If Zhang Xu helps, it will only add icing on the cake, and it cannot be a timely help.

What really made Jiang Xingzu, who helped Cai Shen, send military tickets now, really troubled was how to control the exchange ratio between military tickets and copper coins, iron coins and money issued by the Northern Song Dynasty court.

During the first year of Daguan, the Northern Song Dynasty court suddenly increased the circulation of Jiaozi, reaching twenty times the initial release number.

Jiaozi's excessive development led to a significant depreciation of Jiaozi, and the shrinkage rate reached about 75%.

In order to curb the depreciation momentum, Cai Jing changed Jiaozi to "money sing", and restricted the issuance of money singing to 1.25 million sings. The circulation area was also restricted, mainly in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Hedong areas, which temporarily suppressed the depreciation.

But Zhao Ji was too extravagant and even extravagant and wanted to spend too much, which made the money of the Northern Song Dynasty court empty. Cai Jing and others could only send money to Zhao Ji.

Therefore, it is an inevitable trend to cause a large depreciation of money.

Moreover, not only did the coins depreciate, Cai Jing started to cast five coins a long time ago (big copper coins/big iron coins and small flat coins in parallel, big copper coins/big iron coins in parallel), and now he started to cast ten coins (big copper coins/big iron coins in parallel, big copper coins/big iron coins in parallel, big copper coins and large iron coins in parallel), causing copper coins and iron coins to depreciate significantly.

The key is that war is coming soon.

As long as the war comes, money will inevitably depreciate, and it will depreciate greatly, even to the point where it will depreciate every day.

In this case, Cai still has to find a professional to help him issue military tickets and control the value of military tickets.

Cai still cannot do this matter, even if he is capable, Cai still has no time.

Therefore, Cai still had to find someone to help him do these things. Zhao Kai and Zhang Xu, who are good at managing finances and issuing coins, are both very suitable candidates.

There is only one problem now, that is, whether it is Zhao Kai, who is the magistrate or Zhang Xu, who is the transfer judge, his official position is higher than Cai Shang. They have no reason to apply for Cai Shang, who is lower than their official position.

This is also one of the reasons why Cai still struggles to climb up.

In this regard, Cai still had no good idea before climbing to a certain high.

Now, Cai still has to suffer a little bit by himself and use some secondary talents to make it first.

But the more this happens, Cai still needs to be careful, so as not to get rid of the military ticket with a bright future.

Therefore, Cai still sincerely discussed with Zhang Xu. No, to be precise, Cai still sincerely asked Zhang Xu for advice.

Although Zhang Xu saw that Cai was still ambitious, he could never have thought that Cai still had the idea of ​​printing money to rebel in the future.

Therefore, Zhang Xu, who was willing to go to the Cai family, knew everything about what Cai still asked.

As the two discussed and discussed, Xu Bingzhe and Jiang Xingzu quickly could not keep up, and they were surprised by their knowledge and understanding of currency and financial management.

In fact, not only Xu Bingzhe and Jiang Xingzu, but even Zhang Xu was shocked by Cai’s knowledge and understanding of currency and financial management. Many questions that Cai still raised casually. Zhang Xu, who claimed to be "the interests of money and grain, is still referring to all the hands of the people", had never even thought about it before.

This made Zhang Xu more and more serious, and eventually became Zhang Xu racked his brains to answer the questions asked by Cai Shen.

This also made Zhang Xu and Cai more and more engaged in their conversations.

Cai is still the same.

When Xu Bingzhe saw that this was not possible. He was still counting on Cai Jian to help him with promotion. How could Cai Jian and Zhang Xu talk endlessly?

Xu Bingzhe found an opportunity for Zhang Xu to answer Cai Shen’s question and said with a smile: “General Cai and Lord Zhang will work together for a long time in the future. Why bother to worry about it today? Today is the day for many people in Tangyin County to welcome you. Please have a few more drinks so that others know that we have not neglected you.”

Xu Bingzhe was right. Anyway, it was not a matter of one or two days to wipe out Song Jiang's righteous army. He had time to communicate with Zhang Xu.

Moreover, there are some things that fewer people know, the better.

Therefore, Cai still raised his glass again and said to Xu Bingzhe and others: "Thank you for your help to Xiaoke. I am not grateful. Xiaoke respects you, please respect them first."

After saying that, Cai still drank it all in one go.

Cai still's generousness ignited the enthusiasm of the people at the table to drink.

Everyone started to talk...

A group of officials from Tangyin County took turns to fight.

Although Cai still had a lot of money, he was still a little drunk in the end.

Cai Jian, who has the largest alcohol content, is still like this.

Zhang Xu and Jiang Xingzu, who were not very drunk, were naturally even worse - they were finally carried upstairs.

Before Cai was separated, Xu Bingzhe's two servants picked up two matches. Xu Bingzhe said: "I just heard from the general at the dinner table that the general lacked gold and silver standard military tickets. I happened to have the best 10,000 taels of garlic, gold, and I would like to support the general in a small way."

Cai still refused: "How can this make me take it back quickly, Brother Xu."

A thousand taels of gold sounds like a lot, but in fact it is only one hundred thousand taels.

If this money is in the eyes of others, it is a considerable amount of money.

But for Cai Jian, who has a monthly income of hundreds of thousands of yuan, this amount of money is not worth mentioning at all.

Therefore, Cai still really didn't want to collect Xu Bingzhe's garlic gold.

Xu Bingzhe said: "I heard that General Cai's soap is very profitable and does not lack the 10,000 taels of gold for me, but it is very troublesome to collect this red gold. General, you are busy with war, so you don't have time to replace gold and silver, so the general should not refuse my kindness. At worst, I will lend this 10,000 garlic gold to the general. When the general is no longer busy in the future, I will return it to me. I have no other intentions. I just think General Cai is heroic and wants to make a friend of General Cai."

Xu Bingzhe's words really came to the point.

The little gold and silver in this era are really troublesome to collect - although a long time ago, Cai still started to let Li He replace the money earned by Baixiangju for gold and silver storage, but Li He only exchanged for more than 40,000 taels of gold and more than 150,000 taels of silver. Later, Cai was still worried that this amount of gold and silver would not be enough for his military tickets, so he borrowed the gold and silver from his concubine Zhao Yuannu, and thus he received a total of 100,000 taels of gold and 300,000 taels of silver.

The total of 100,000 taels of gold and 300,000 taels of silver is only 1.3 million coins.

This money seems to be quite a bit.

But in fact, there are not many, at least not many compared to issuing one currency.

You should know that when it is not considered a war, the average annual military sound of the soldiers of the Jinwu Army has reached 60 pieces. According to the current 3,000 pieces, the annual military salary is 180,000 pieces. In addition to the war rewards, the minimum annual salary is 300,000 pieces.

Moreover, this is not the most critical. The most critical thing is that Cai is still always preparing to continue expanding his army. In that case, there will be no upper limit on the amount of money.

In addition, Cai is still seeking a base area. If the base area is operated, the money will be even more uncalculable.

but--

Having said that, as long as Cai Shen’s military invoice is issued well, these things will be easy to solve. At worst, when Cai Shen is in urgent need of money, he can send more money.

In order to ensure that the military ticket does not depreciate significantly, Cai still had to collect more gold and silver for standard use.

There is another very critical reason: if you don’t accept gifts, it is easy to offend people, especially if you are a villain.

After thinking about this, Cai still stopped refusing. He said, "Since Lord Xu wants to make friends with me, then I will not refuse Mr. Xu's kindness... Just so happens that my third brother also likes to make friends. I will write a letter to you tomorrow. You can take my letter to Mingluan Hall to meet him, and he will entertain you for me."

When Xu Bingzhe heard this, he was overjoyed and gave gifts to Cai Jian, so that he could borrow Cai Jian to reach the real power of the Cai family as a pedal.

Xu Bingzhe said in his heart: "Although we General Cai is not old, we are very careful and have clear rules in the officialdom. No wonder he can make a fortune!"

Xu Bingzhe decided to be honest with Cai, and he said, "Xu has not dared to say his contributions for more than ten years in Tangyin, but he has worked hard all the time. Xu should have been able to get the highest evaluation in the past years, but every time he ended up, he became a middle-aged and lower-level person. Because I didn't understand the rules of the officialdom in my early years, I offended Shangguan and had not been promoted for ten years."

Cai still heard the words, patted Xu Bingzhe on the shoulder and said, "It won't be like this in the future, you will have a smooth road."

Xu Bingzhe felt aroused in his heart and said to himself: "Is he making a promise to me?"

Unexpectedly, Cai still stopped talking, but walked towards the room arranged for him by Xu Bingzhe.

Seeing this, Lu Jie said to Xu Bingzhe: "Sir, General Cai is drunk too much, will I help him back to his room?"

Xu Bingzhe was not able to figure out what Cai Jian said in the end meant. He subconsciously waved to Lu Jie and signaled Lu Jie to go.

Seeing this, Lu Jie immediately followed Cai Jian.

Xu Bingzhe realized at this time that he should have sent Cai Jian back to his room in person.

But at this time, Lu Jie had already walked to Cai Jian and began to speak to Cai Jian in a low voice.

Seeing this scene, Xu Bingzhe narrowed his eyes slightly, and then said coldly: "I can't tell, this Lu Ai Shi is quite good at seizing the opportunity!"

After saying that, Xu Bingzhe shook his sleeves and left.

Cai Jian and Lu Jie came to the door that Xu Bingzhe prepared for Cai Jian.

Lu Jie opened the door for Cai with great sincerity.

Cai still looked closely and saw a woman sitting in the room.

Although the woman turned her back to her, her tall figure was so prominent in this era that Cai still recognized her as Wang Sanniang at once.

Cai Shen first glanced at the direction where Xu Bingzhe was.

Seeing that Xu Bingzhe had turned around and left, Cai still looked at Lu Jie beside him again.
To be continued...