Chapter 229 Lanting Preface
People know how to borrow money when they are poor, and of course they can borrow money when the court is poor.
Qin Lang's words are indeed correct.
However, for the emperor, the problem is that the money that the court lacks is not just a star, what is needed is a large sum of money, who can borrow it, and who can give it so much at once?
But this problem is not a problem in Qin Lang's view.
The imperial court owns the whole world, not to mention other things, the annual rent and tax 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?
It’s like the UK. I don’t know how much I owe to the bank. I owe more and more every year. The more I owe, the more banks are 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 the local governments a sum of capital, and then asked them to take the money and find money grabbers to outsource the debt.
The interest rate is still very high, the monthly interest rate is 80%, 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 get money through tax increases, apportionment, etc., so he never thought about borrowing money to survive.
"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 wanted to borrow money, and it was a big number, he could only borrow 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, it 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 a piece of land or give you some mines, which would be enough to raise interest rates.
Not to mention, this kind of loan is a large loan. If you give it to ordinary 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 loan can be combined with the new policy of salt and iron. I have a preliminary idea..."
Li Shimin, Wei Zheng, and Ma Zhou were stunned for a long time after listening to Qin Lang's narration.
It took a long time for the three of them 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 is another more important reason, which is that Qin Lang feels that this place is close to Pingkangfang, which makes it easier for him to commute to 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 each bureau in the division is drawn from the Baidi Division in Beijing.
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.
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.
The two divisions are both provincial-level organizations, but they are not subordinate to each other. They are directly subordinate to the three provinces and the transshipment department in the central government. They are fully responsible for the jurisdictional affairs of the states under their own provinces.
The two prime 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 in charge of wealth, money and food.
This not only helps the imperial court to ease the situation that the 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 the Tao-level administrative divisions, which is difficult to control.
It is undoubtedly a compromise to set up only some dispatched agencies and assign 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 edict, everyone fell silent again.
This Qin Sanlang is really unbeatable, and he made a comeback so soon.
It is not surprising that he became a transshipment envoy whose power can be seen at a glance.
The transfer envoys of the Transshipment Department are of the third rank, which is the same as that of the Six Ministers, and even one level higher than that of the Jiuqing and the Five Supervisors.
The deputy envoy is at the fourth rank, and even the order of the sixth bureau below is from the fifth rank.
"As expected of the emperor's royal cat!"
After Zheng Shanguo heard that Qin Lang was appointed as a transfer envoy, he sat in the study and sighed. This young man is so blessed.
"Uncle Ren, put away this Orchid Pavilion Preface for me, and I will give it to someone later."
"Alang, this Wang Youjun's Lanting Preface is your lifeline. How many people come to beg for it, and you are not willing to give up?"
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 dangerous."
"Who is Ah Lang going to give this word to?"
"Give it to the new forwarder!"
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?
"There are green hills left, so I'm not afraid that there will be no firewood. It's nothing to lower 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 in 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 secretly kicked two feet.
Even in-laws are so realistic and cruel.
Longqingfang.
Longqingfang is located 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 2,000 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 quite liked this pool.
In the pavilion by the pool, Zheng Shanguo presented the Lanting Preface.
Qin Lang opened it and took a few glances, 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 sought after by people all over the world has been preserved in Zheng's family for more than a hundred years.
It's just that Qin Lang wasn't overly excited.
For Qin Lang, 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.
It’s just a pair of 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 this case, the old man will leave!"
Qin Lang chuckled, "Duke Zheng, this painting is too precious to take away."
"It's just a painting, how can you take back the gift you gave it?"
"The Zheng family's millennium background 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 would like 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, and quickly regained his composure.
(end of this chapter)