When the dawn shone on the thick curtains in the room, Yi Feng was awakened.

Yi Feng had already arrived in Luoyang the day before yesterday. Yang Guang left, and he arrived. In order to avoid suspicion, Yi Feng did not leave Luoyang immediately, but stayed for three days.

The people who welcomed Yang Guang in Luoyang City had not dispersed yet, and more people came, most of whom came to visit Yi Feng. Among them, there were many local wealthy families and wealthy merchants in Henan, who were all here because of the huge interests of Huaihuang's business. Many local governments and many large families in Luoyang invited Yi Feng to visit him, but Yi Feng finally chose to stay in Yuanwendu Mansion.

Yuan Wen is the head of the Yuan family in Luoyang. His ancestors were great-grandson of the Northern Wei royal family, Tuoba Tianci, the great-grandson of Yuan Xiuyi, the grandson of Yuan Xuyi, the grandson of King Yuanjun of Anchangping, and the son of Yuanze, the king of Anchang County. As soon as Yi Feng arrived in Luoyang, Yuan Wendu immediately brought the Yuan family in Luoyang to welcome him. The reason for this was that Yuan Wen was both Yi Feng's uncle. Yuan Xiaoju, the father of the late crown princess Yuan, and Yuan Wendu's father Yuan Ze, were brothers. Yuan was the sister of Yuan Wendu, so Yi Feng was the nephew of Yuan Wendu. Since Wei, part of the Yuan family has been staying.

In Luoyang, some moved to Chang'an. The four brothers of Yuan Xiaoju and the eldest son of Yuan Ze remained in Luoyang, and the other three moved to Chang'an. As a royal family in the Northern Wei Dynasty, they later stood on the side of Yuwentai in Northern Zhou. Before and after the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, they chose to stand on Yang Jian's side. Therefore, this Yuan family was constantly rich and honorable. The four brothers of Yuan Xiaoju were all named Duke, and Yuan Xiaoju's daughter married Yang Jian's eldest son. Later, she became the crown prince's concubine. If it weren't for the car accident on the way to visit the family, the children would have been gone, and the Yuan family would have become richer in this dynasty.

Later, the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess were not in harmony. The relationship between the Yuan family and the Eastern Palace was naturally not good. Although there was still the trust of the emperor, it was better to start. After the Yuan concubine suddenly died in the palace, Yuan Xiaoju, Yuan Ze brothers and others died one after another, and the status of the Yuan family declined even further. This year, it was suddenly reported that the Crown Princess's child was not dead and appeared. The Yuan family was really shocked for a long time. When things gradually cleared and Yi Feng rose like a dazzling new star, the Yuan family was inexplicably happy and excited. Not long ago, the emperor and the queen suddenly descended to the Yuan family in the capital, which made the entire Yuan family very excited. There was a feeling of time running.

Shortly after the emperor came to the Yuan family's mansion in the capital, the children of the Yuan family also received rewards and promotions from the emperor. Yuan Wendu, who originally served as the Shaoqing of the Taifu in the capital, was personally awarded the position of Zuocheng by the emperor. Compared with the Shaoqing of the Taifu, Zuocheng of the Shangshu was not only a fourth-rank official, but also a second-rank official of the Shangshu Zuo Pushe, the real power position and a central key member.

After receiving this edict, Yuan Wen immediately understood the reason for the sudden promotion to this important position. This was all because of his nephew Yang Lin. If it were not for his nephew's return to the imperial family, the decline of the Yuan family was inevitable, and it was even more impossible to suddenly revive the family's lintel.

Yi Feng has no special feelings for the relatives of the Yuan clan. He can't say he is disgusted or liked them. After all, he is not the real Yang Lin. Even if he is the son of the Yuan concubine, he doesn't have much feelings for the Yuan family. However, he understands the enthusiasm of the Yuan family for him. In this era, such a relationship with the mother and uncle family is an extremely important relationship. It can even be said that one prospers and one loss is a loss. If one is glorious, he can bring these relatives and develop together. If you cause a big disaster, the relatives will not escape. The most severe punishment in the law is the mother family, and they can't even leave it alone. Besides, the Yuan family is gradually declining, and now the appearance of Yi Feng has made the Yuan family become a royal relative again. With such great benefits, the Yuan family is not unhappy, and how can they not be friendly to Yi Feng?

After getting to know each other, Yi Feng had a very intuitive understanding of the current status of the Yuan family. Although the Yuan family is not as glorious as it was twenty years ago, it did not really decline. The lean camel is bigger than a horse, and the Yuan family is still a high-ranking clan among the Guanlong nobles. Especially the Yuan family is a branch of the Northern Wei clan, which still has a mixed relationship with other branches of the Northern Wei clan. In addition, the relationship between marriages in the early years, the Yuan family is still very huge. Being able to get the support of the Yuan family is very helpful to Yi Feng at present.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Luoyang was the center of the world and the famous capital of the world. Before arriving in Luoyang, Yi Feng was always imagining how prosperous Luoyang would be.

It was only when he was really in Luoyang City that Yi Feng realized that it was not as he had imagined.

Under Yuan Wendu's leadership, Yi Feng carefully visited Luoyang City, and finally felt disappointed.

Although it was the 18th year of the founding of the Sui Kingdom, Luoyang City was not the capital, and it was not even the capital. As the Eastern Capital of the Sui Dynasty, Luoyang had to wait until Yang Guang ascended the throne in the future before it began to build the Eastern Capital Luoyang City. It took countless manpower and material resources, and the design of the master Yuwen Kai of the craftsman, and the final Luoyang of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was formed. The current Luoyang actually belongs to the Northern Wei Luoyang City. It was built in the early Western Zhou Dynasty and has been used until now. It has been used for nearly 1,600 years. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Wei, Western Jin Dynasty, Northern Wei and other dynasties successively used this as the capital, with the capital history for more than 500 years.

The area of ​​this Northern Wei Luoyang City even exceeded that of Luoyang City in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and later Chang'an City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties and Luoyang City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and even exceeded that of Beijing City in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is said to be the largest capital in world history.

In the 19th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty, about a hundred years ago, Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang and carried out large-scale transformation and expansion of the Luoyang City of the Han and Wei Dynasties. By the time of Emperor Xuanwu, the large-scale Luoyang City of the Northern Wei Dynasty was finally built.

However, this popular Luoyang City did not last long. Less than 40 years after moving the capital to Luoyang, the Eastern Wei moved the capital to Yecheng and demolished the Luoyang Palace. Sixty years ago, during the Battle of Mangshan in the Eastern and Western Weishu, the Northern Wei Luoyang City was even turned into ruins.

This capital, which was once a large scale and a population of more than 600,000, was no longer as prosperous as it was back then. Yuan Wendu mentioned the prosperity of Luoyang. It was also very sad. The Northern Wei was divided into the East and West Wei, and the capital became the Eastern Wei moved its capital Yecheng, while the Western Wei established its capital Chang'an. By the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the Sui Dynasty, these dynasties with Guanzhong as the basis set the center of the world in Guanzhong.

However, Yi Feng knew that there were special reasons for a specific period when the Northern Wei moved its capital from Pingcheng to Luoyang, or the Eastern Wei moved its capital from Yecheng, and the Western Wei established its capital Chang'an. Whenever there was a turmoil, it was easier to defend in a corner of the capital. The Guanzhong unit in the Han Dynasty, as well as the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui and others successively set its capital in Guanzhong, all of which were because of this. At that time, the world was turbulent, split, or the princes were strong, and the court could only drag it in one corner. Whether it was Yecheng of the Eastern Wei or Chang'an of the Western Wei, Northern Zhou and Sui, it was the same. But now the Great Sui ended the world for four hundred years and it had been nearly twenty years since the reunification of the world. It was peaceful and peaceful for a long time. Guanzhong's population was increasing, and the demand was getting bigger and bigger, especially for managing thousands of miles of countryside, it was not as convenient as when only half of the country was ruled.

In history, Yang Guang later built the Eastern Capital, not all of which was very happy. But for long-term and comprehensive considerations. Later, Li Tang continued to manage the Eastern Capital Luoyang.

However, compared with the devastating destruction of Luoyang by the Eastern Wei capital Yecheng and the subsequent Mangshan War, after the establishment of the Great Sui Dynasty, the world was unified and the Central Plains were recuperated for more than ten years, Luoyang still recovered a little bit of vitality.

"Luoyang has 100,000 people!" Yuan Wendu sighed. Luoyang had a population of 600,000 when it was the most prosperous Northern Wei Dynasty, but now there is only 100,000 in Luoyang City. When Yuwen Tai and others established the Western Wei Dynasty in Guanzhong, Chang'an was just a small city with tens of thousands of people. Now Chang'an has a capital of more than 400,000 people. On the contrary, Luoyang, which was once prosperous, has only 100,000 people left after decades.

However, Yi Feng still admires Luoyang City's 100,000 population. In this era, a city can have a population of 100,000, not including the suburbs and rural areas. This number is already quite impressive. Yi Feng can even say that Luoyang City can still be regarded as the second largest city in the Sui Dynasty. Even Yangzhou City in the south of the Yangtze River, Taiyuan City in Hedong, and Youzhou City in Hebei, cannot have such a large population.

Moreover, Luoyang is in the center of the world, and on the edge of the Yellow River, Yi Feng is quite optimistic about Luoyang City.

"I have a bank in Huaihuang. I do a lot of business, including deposits, loans, mortgages, custody, withdrawals from other places, remittances, etc. I think Luoyang is good and I want to establish a branch in Luoyang. I wonder if my uncle is willing to join a share?" Yi Feng told Yuan Wen, who had come to have tea and chat in the morning. Many businesses of the bank are very profitable. Of course, Yi Feng is planning to open a branch in Luoyang, not just for money. Just like now he invites Yuan Wen to join a share, Yi Feng's plan is to let more people join him, even if they only do some business together at the beginning, but as long as the business grows bigger and makes more money in the future, who will be willing to give up this benefit and jump off his boat?

Luoyang is the center of the Central Plains. It is very promising to establish a bank branch here, and the Yuan family is a local snake in Luoyang. With their joining, the transaction will naturally be easier. Moreover, with the Yuan family helping him, Yi Feng can attract more partners. After all, many of the businesses of Northern Bank are actually the ways for wealthy families in various places to make money. If you open a branch alone, this is a way to seize people's wealth. But if you rely on the huge network and resources in Yi Feng's hands, you will join forces to build a huge bank network and connect the world, then you will make money and everyone can make more money than before. I believe everyone will calculate this account.

"I heard you say that, this is really good." Although Yuan Wendu has now achieved a high-ranking official position like Shangshu Zuo Cheng and his family is very wealthy, after Yi Feng carefully introduced the operation and cooperation model of the money shop, he still agreed without hesitation. Yuan Wendu is not interested in how much money he can make by working together to open a money shop, but seeing a more important part of the plan proposed by his nephew. Establishing a money shop branch in Luoyang and attracting a large number of local families to work together to make money. Making money is a small matter for him, and the most important thing is the united network. And this is just a branch, as Yi Feng said in his words.

Northern Bank will also open branches in various cities, which means Yifeng can establish a network of interest alliances in various places. If these networks of relationships are gathered together, even if they can eventually use 10% of the relationship power, it will be a surprising force. Yifeng's money bank, in his opinion, is just like the common means of marriages in the aristocratic families. In the past, everyone connected each other through marriage and formed a huge in-law network. But now, Yifeng's methods are simpler, but more direct, using a very profitable business to unite the powerful people of all over the world.

Yuan Wen couldn't help but look at this nephew with some admiration. His nephew had really been a horse thief? But why did he feel that this nephew's mind was full of amazing ideas.

"Of course. I have to ask my uncle to contact me for this matter." Yi Feng said with a smile.

He is very confident in this plan. In this era, the operation of finance is still very basic. The powerful people in various places have money to buy land and collect rents, and they also lend and collect interest rates. The main ones are just a few. Although the interest rate of Yifeng Bank loans is far lower than the interest rate of the powerful people in various places at this time, the business of the Northern Bank is not just lending. The scale cannot be the same as that of the powerful people in various places alone. The most powerful thing about the Northern Bank is the Internet. As long as the network is established, whether it is borrowing or remittance, the scale will be quite large, and the benefits will naturally be greater.

After breakfast that day, Yuan Wen immediately sent his family to send invitations to Luoyang and the wealthy families nearby, inviting them to the banquet, and they were invited to the banquet for the banquet. They were the name of the banquet for Yi Feng and the promotion to Shangshu Zuo Cheng, but in fact they were invited to discuss the establishment of the Luoyang branch of the Northern Bank in Luoyang. Throughout the whole day, Yuan Mansion had endless guests, and Luoyang and the well-known families nearby came. Just as Yi Feng expected. When Yuan Wen announced the details of the plan to establish the Luoyang Bank, it immediately moved many wealthy families. Basically, everyone saw the interests after the establishment of this bank, but they quarreled for a while, and no one else could do it.

Unwilling to give in. Finally, after Yi Feng personally came forward to persuade and explain, everyone reached a preliminary agreement, that is, Luoyang Bank is a branch of Northern Bank, and Northern Bank serves as the general account. The Luoyang families here allocate the remaining 40% of the shares. Although there is business transactions between the general account and the semicolon, each of them calculates their own accounts. The principal of the establishment of the Luoyang semicolon is 1 million guan. According to the proportion of shares, the total account is 600,000 guan, and the Luoyang families invested 400,000 guan. However, for the business method, the semicolon must obey the system of the general account. Although the specific details still need to be discussed, the general framework was built very smoothly.

Everyone talked from morning to afternoon. In the middle, Yi Feng called Wei Zheng and Xu Deyan to attend the subsequent discussion on his behalf, and he himself left. He begged the local powerful people to establish a bank semicolon in Luoyang. For Yi Feng, it was not the most important thing. As Guanzhong is getting closer, he needs to spend more energy to do his best to deal with the capital. The matter there is the most important thing right now.

"My bird just flew back." As soon as he returned to the villa where Yuan's family arranged for him to stay, Li Si immediately smiled and said. While speaking, he handed a small copper tube to Yi Feng.

After taking the letter brought back from the capital by Fei Ge, Yi Feng immediately returned to the study. After checking that the seal was correct, he took a book of Songs and translated the letter according to the agreed method. After reading it carefully several times and remembering it in his heart, he put the original letter and the translation together on the candlelight and burned it to ashes.

After leaving the study, Qin Qiong and Lai Chi were competing for gun techniques in the yard. Lai Chi was using a family-born iron gun routine, while Qin Qiong used a tough white wax gun, one was extremely strong and the other was picking and slashing, using softness to overcome hardness, and it was difficult to distinguish. When the two saw Yi Feng coming out, they put the gun together.

"Sanlang's face is not good, why is the news coming from Beijing not good?" Qin Qiong asked while wiping the sweat on his face.

"It's really not good. Now the capital is full of all kinds of slanderous words from me, and it's a lot of circulating."

"Just just rumors, what are you afraid of?" Lai slandered.

"Yes, it's just rumors, but it's not just rumors." Yi Feng shook his head. At the important part of the capital, every rumor at the foot of the emperor would not be as simple as it seems.

In the evening, Yi Feng received the second letter from Fei Ge from the capital. This letter was sent by Yang Guang. At this time, Yang Guang directly sent him Fei Ge's letter, which was a great risk. After all, their relationship must not be exposed now. Yi Feng guessed that there must be something very urgent, otherwise Yang Guang would not have taken such a risk.

After reading the secret letter, Yi Feng couldn't help but angrily filmed the old case. "What a Yun Zhaoxun, what a Han King, the saint Yun Wei is hard to raise a woman and a villain, so he really doesn't deceive me. Since you insist on being unable to get along with me, I will accompany you to the end." Yi Feng really didn't expect that before others arrived in the capital, the capital was undercurrents. He would definitely not easily resolve the grudges between them. He had expected them, but he did not expect that even Yun Zhaoxun would dare to secretly fuel the fire.

"Second brother, you should go out of the city and return to the camp immediately. We will rush to the capital early tomorrow morning." Yi Feng said in a deep voice. The situation in the capital is so complicated that he can no longer walk slowly. He must rush to the capital immediately and see the emperor first. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!