Chapter 37 Nanshi Restaurant

The Baibao Tavern in front of Fengdu’s gate is the largest tavern in the capital. It covers an area of ​​five acres and consists of three and four-story restaurants, which can accommodate thousands of people to eat at the same time. The owner behind this tavern was originally the Dugu family. (")

However, the Dugu family sold the tavern two years ago due to the rice case in Beijing and was taken over by a Shuzhong merchant. The tavern was renamed Bashu wine shop. Later, the tavern went bankrupt and the tavern changed hands several times. Now the tavern is still called Bashu wine shop, but no one knows who its owner is. The tavern owner once said that he was revealing his mouth and said that the tavern was Zhang.

As the New Year approaches, the business of the restaurant is particularly hot, and there are many guests every day. Although the world is in turmoil, prices soar, and people's livelihood is difficult, the business of the restaurant is better. Many people have the mentality of timely enjoyment, and they have money for a day and benefit for a day.

At noon, dozens of personal soldiers guarding Yang Yuanqing's carriage stopped in front of a "Song Crane Tower" to the west. A personal soldier stepped forward and opened the door. Yang Yuanqing walked out of the carriage and turned around to help his wife Zhang Chuchen, wearing a hat, get off the carriage.

Through the thin veil, Chuchen looked up at the four-story restaurant and smiled: "Yuan Qing, how could he think of coming here for dinner?"

Yang Yuanqing was in a bad mood and forced a smile and said, "The wine and food here are good, to my taste."

Yang Yuanqing was in a bad mood due to Li Jing's death. Pei Minqiu and Chuchen discussed it and Chuchen accompanied him.

Chuchen smiled with a pursed lips, gently held his arm, and said softly: "I haven't been here before, please take me with you!"

Yang Yuanqing nodded and took her into the lobby. A friend came up and said, "Customer, have you booked a room?"

"In Baihe Hall!"

The guy hurriedly said, "Please come with me, please."

Yang Yuanqing immediately ordered his personal soldiers, "You can take turns to have a meal!"

The guards agreed and went to the lobby for dinner, leaving eight guards to follow Yang Yuanqing and the other to the third floor.

Baihe Hall is located on the north side of the third floor. It is a suite of two houses inside and outside. Standing in front of the window, you can directly enjoy the panoramic view of Fengdu City. There are four special maids in the room. This is also one of the three best elegant rooms in the entire Bashu winery.

After taking off his hat and taking off his cloak, she sat down at a grand red sandalwood table and smiled: "A winery actually uses red sandalwood tables. I really don't know who the owner of this winery is, and it's so generous."

Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly, "What if the owner of this restaurant is me?"

Chuchen was stunned, and she immediately laughed, "You are quite good at joking. The dignified Youzhou manager didn't do it and actually opened a restaurant. This is not your style of doing things!"

"You know me quite well!"

Chuchen smiled proudly and said, "Of course, even Minqiu admits this is not as good as me."

Yang Yuanqing smiled and said to a maid: "I have ordered the wine and food, so I'll serve as soon as possible!"

Yang Yuanqing walked to the window and could clearly see most of the commercial districts of Fengdu City. Not far away is Mi City. The streets of Mi City are crowded with people and densely populated. In just a mile long street, there were tens of thousands of people, and there were noisy and shouting one after another, and everyone was rushing to buy food.

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, and the appearance of this scene should be said to be as expected by him.

At this time the door rang, and a personal soldier said, "General, they are here."

"Let them in!"

After a moment, two people came in from outside, one was Zhang Sheng, the former leader of Yang Yuanqing's personal soldiers, and the other was Combass. After a moment of stalemate, she immediately realized that Yuan Qing was not here to have a meal, but to see them here, but she still couldn't figure out why she didn't meet at home and insisted on coming here?

Yang Yuanqing smiled at her and said, "Sit down for a moment, I'll say a few words to them."

Chuchen nodded, "You go!"

Yang Yuanqing ordered the maids to retreat. He walked to the outside room and let the two sit down.

In fact, this tavern is Yang Yuanqing's intelligence headquarters in the capital, bought by Zhang Sheng, the leader of the guard named Zhang Rong, while Combas runs a huge business empire in Fengdu, with 90% of the capital being invested by Yang Yuanqing. (《》)

"Yesterday, the emperor officially announced that the Second Battle of Goryeo would be held. What is the response in the capital?"

Zhang Sheng shook his head and said bitterly: "This news can be said to have caused a huge wave. Everyone is rushing to buy food. Rice prices soared, and rice prices soared from 400 cigarettes overnight to 700 cigarettes. Moreover, the price of gold and silver prices have increased more than tripled, and gold and silver can no longer be exchanged in the market."

“It’s not just food!”

Combass next to him said: "Now everything is rushing to buy silk, tea, wine, livestock, jewelry, ironware. Every store is full of people, and the prices are rising. Alas! Money is cheap and expensive. As soon as the news of the war was announced, everyone seemed crazy."

Combas took out an iron box from his arms and said, "I will show the general something, and the general will know why the prices are getting more and more expensive now, and ordinary people are having a difficult life."

Combas opened the iron box, took out twenty five-ba coins from it, put them one by one on the table, and handed the first coins to Yang Yuanqing, "This is the five-school money for Kaihuang, and the general should be very familiar with it."

Yang Yuanqing took the copper coins, and he was indeed very familiar with it. When he was a child, he could buy a bowl of honey water or a small lamb pie.

"General, the five Kaihuang plants have a high copper content, basically reaching 95% of them, but now they are no longer visible on the market, and every household collects it."

Combas handed him another coin, "This is Daye Five. Daye is cast in two years, and the copper content is 83% of the time. This is not bad. There are still some on the market, but there are not many."

"This is also the five-plant coin in Daye. It is minted in three years and contains 80% copper. Just like before, there are not many on the market."

Combas pushed up the next seventeen coins together, "These are all the money that is now available, half of which is official money and half of which is private money."

"Private money?"

Yang Yuanqing asked in surprise: "Have anyone started to make private money now?"

Combas nodded, "Five years after Daye, it appeared. The government killed a group of private money makers, but it was useless. Private money became more and more abundant, and the copper content was getting lower and lower. Please see the general!"

Combas picked up a coin and broke it hard, and the coin was broken into two pieces. "This is the most common type of official coins on the market. It was minted in large quantities last year, with a maximum of 20% copper content. This is not bad. There is not even 20% of private coins, and there are also a large amount of iron coins and even cloth coins."

Yang Yuanqing was a little confused and asked, "What is cloth money?"

“I have it here.”

Zhang Sheng took out two extremely thin pieces of money from his arms and handed them to Yang Yuanqing. Yang Yuanqing took the cloth money and couldn't help but be stunned. These were the two pieces of cloth heads cut into copper coins.

Combas shook his head and smiled bitterly: "This kind of cloth money is also circulated, but it is the cheapest. It is used as one. Now there are all kinds of money. If a businessman doesn't keep any money, he will lose his capital when he receives bad money. Therefore, it is difficult to do business. It takes half a day to just identify the money."

Yang Yuanqing nodded. He could understand that the collapse of a dynasty is largely an economic collapse. The biggest problem of the Sui Dynasty now is the loss of order. If Yang Guang could follow Li Jing's advice and calm down and restore order in two to three years, then the national strength would slowly recover. However, Yang Guang took a completely opposite path. The First Goryeo War in the Eight Years of Daye had just ended. After only a few months, the Second Goryeo War began. In this way, how could the world not be in chaos?

In fact, Yang Yuanqing also understood Yang Guang's thoughts. In Yang Guang's opinion, there was no second time in the Goryeo War. There was only one statement, but the second and third times were the continuation of the first. He believed that the first war was not over, and he did not admit that he had failed, so he had to continue fighting.

But the feelings of the people in the world are different. The first time is failure. Then, regardless of the life and death of the people in the world, they will launch the second time and the third time, and will naturally lose all the people's hearts.

Li Jing, who was loyal to the Great Sui Dynasty, was killed, and the death of Li Jing blocked the mouths of all officials. However, the treacherous and slandered people such as Yuwen Shu, Yu Shiji, and Hu Sizheng were highly valued. How could the Great Sui Dynasty not perish?

Yang Yuanqing sighed softly. Now the Second Goryeo War is inevitable, and chaos in the world is right in front of him. He must consider all kinds of risks clearly.

Thinking of this, Yang Yuanqing told Zhang Shengdao: "The intelligence points in Chang'an and Jiangdu should be established as soon as possible. The intelligence points in Chang'an can be temporarily built in the store in Combas in Xishi, and then slowly expand."

He asked Combas again, "No problem!"

Combas nodded, "The shop is big and there is a cellar, enough for a hundred people to hide."

Zhang Sheng thought for a while and said, "I decided to let Liu Zhengyi take charge of the information point in Chang'an. He is from Chang'an and is very serious about his work."

"This is up to you, and the funds required are withdrawn from Lao Kang."

Yang Yuanqing patted Combas on the shoulder and smiled, "I will check your account another day to see if you have greed for my money."

Combas smiled sly, "You can check it out, I wrote the account books in Sogdian. Do you want me to translate them for you?"

"You cunning guy!"

Yang Yuanqing smiled and punched him in the shoulder. Seeing that Zhang Sheng was a little browned, he asked, "Is there any problem?"

"General, it's Jiangdu, I don't know where to start?"

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "This is also the main reason why I asked you today. The Pei family and I have already negotiated that the largest pharmacy in Jiangdu, Jishitang, is run by the Pei family. He has transferred this pharmacy to me. You can use this pharmacy as an intelligence point. You send thirty brothers to come here first, and the funds required are provided by the Pei family. The Pei family is very familiar with the connections there, and they will help you. In addition, I will give you another 200 people. Be sure to establish the intelligence points in Youzhou City, Xiangyang and Chengdu within this year. The Pei family will also help you with the help of Xiangyang."

"I understand!"

"There is another important thing, I need you two to cooperate."

Yang Yuanqing looked back at Chu Chen who was sitting in the inner room and whispered: "Once you hear the news of rebellion, no matter who the rebels are, you can immediately find a way to transfer my family out of the capital and send it to Fengzhou. This matter is of great importance, remember not to delay it!"

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