After listening to the description of the young king, Wu Zetian showed great interest. While pondering, he asked several key questions, such as how to win the trust of others, how to issue a bill of exchange for money, the specific cashing process, etc., which can be said to involve all aspects.

Li Tong did not dare to be careless about these issues, and they all sued them truthfully, even including the relevant parties involved, such as the Yang family of Shu Shang.

As for Guo Yuanzhen, he did not mention it. He was not trying to obstruct the future of this subordinate. This guy was really unconventional. Once he got the opportunity to meet the saint, he might be eager to reveal some of his little secrets.

Li Tong is currently a critical period of career growth, especially the relationship with his grandmother, and he must be handled with caution. He is no longer satisfied with being an irrelevant little licking dog, but hopes to gain greater power and initiative.

How to make his grandmother not resist or even give him some power on his own initiative also requires careful consideration. Some uncontrollable variables are naturally less, the better.

He has relatively mature experience in later generations, and he can properly answer Wu Zetian's various inquiries.

After a while, Wu Zetian stopped asking questions and pointed at Li Tong and said, "I'm worried that you are young, or you may be clumsy in your work because of your intelligence and cleverness and planning. Now it seems that you are linked together and meticulous, and your talent is not just about making a theory."

After hearing this, Li Tong said modestly: "I have never been trapped in financial planning so far. I have indeed found a strange plan and lacked practical use. Fortunately, I have listened to the people under my jurisdiction, and I have many talented people. It is only through bricks and tiles that can be laid out in the framework."

"The Shu merchant woman is a strange man. If it is true as you said, a young man can stand alone in his plan. Such a wild girl is worth commending."

Wu Zetian changed the subject and talked about the Shu merchant Yang Li: "This woman is now returning to Shu? I remember to summon her to the capital and introduce her to the forbidden area to meet her."

Hearing that Wu Zetian showed great interest in Yang Li, Li Tong couldn't help but smile and said, "All people can break through the common rules of the world and have great wisdom and courage. Although the woman is only doing ordinary business, her talent and feelings are really not weak. I am moved by this and I eliminated the common feelings and summoned her to the palace and pay for money. If she can get the appreciation of Your Majesty, it will be a great blessing."

"I just meet you, don't worry, I won't take away the talents you choose."

Wu Zetian laughed again, and then continued to ask: "How many people and goods are involved in this matter now?"

"At present, everything is just a new shop, and people have not yet been able to get used to this convenience, so all kinds of people and goods are still in a hurry to get in touch with each other."

Li Tong answered cautiously, and at the same time he quickly expressed his opinion: "The road to Shu is difficult, and the world has endured this hardship for thousands of years. If all the people at that time can feel this convenience, then this small plan to make money and profit may be able to achieve great things to promote local development. By then, it will be far from being able to handle the matter of a few officials. It is also an inevitable plan to reach the heavens and graduate from a career."

After hearing this, Wu Zetian frowned and murmured: "The national economy is so important, so how can grass and wild schemes be easily interfere with! It's fine if your family plans make profits while they are convenient, and there is no need to talk about any major plans to promote local governments. Merchants have limited benefits for all matters. If they use the order to distribute them, they will make everyone follow this, and they will not be able to hold anything under their belts, and make huge profits every year. Where can we put the farming and weaving business?"

Speaking of this, she looked up at Li Tong again and continued: "If you get the money and tickets, you will never leave the country. If you accumulate copper and silk everywhere, you will inevitably be able to have a strong fortune..."

After hearing this, Li Tong felt a sudden sudden feeling, and then he felt that his grandmother was too vigilant.

The contradiction between the central government and the local government has a long history and a long history. This problem has always existed since the unification of the Qin Emperor and the end of the feudalism of the Zhou Dynasty. The strong central government will lead to centralization, and the strong local government will lead to separatist rule.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, it still pursued the Guanzhong position and was unwilling to give too much authority to the local government. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong, Heluo was managed to get rid of the clampdown of the Guanlong power clan. However, until today's Wuzhou, the two capitals were still the absolute core of the empire. Whether in the implementation of government orders or in the talent election, they also valued the two capitals and ignored the local governments.

Since Wu Zetian came to the dynasty, two large-scale rebellions have also been initiated by local governments, so of course we must be more vigilant about the decentralization of power.

During the Middle Tang Dynasty, one of the important political reasons for the emergence of flying money was that the central and local governments were incompatible with each other in terms of financial power.

The central government is unwilling to let money flow into the local government, and of course it is unwilling to transfer money to the central government. So flying money assumes the role of a bridge, not only does it damage basic communication and exchanges, but also can hold the money and not let go.

As for promoting the development of commerce and stimulating the circulation of commodities, it is more of a result than a reason. In the ancient society based on agriculture, the rulers wanted to take root in the countryside like crops. In this life, one crop was cut and another one was left.

As for the purpose of formulating a civilian policy for the convenience of merchants, I think too much about it, even if Wu Zetian's father is a businessman himself. Not to mention such cross-regional and large-scale commercial activities, even between the two capitals, there are many regulations and very strict controls.

Hearing Wu Zetian's words, he was a little dissatisfied with this plan and even a slight warning, Li Tong was worried that this matter would rise to his opinion of him, and suspected that he was using the closed geographical environment around the mountains in Shuzhong to gather money and stock up on goods.

So he quickly explained: "When flying money, it seems that both places have money and no money left, but in fact it is still different. The personnel needs in Shu are far less than those of the two capitals. Merchants are greedy for this kind of goods and do not refuse to work hard to deliver goods far away. In previous years, there was no convenience of flying money, and the delivery of goods was a hard time. Now money and goods are no longer needed to be transported far away, and only goods are only sent, and the merchants will naturally double the price..."

The reason is very simple. Although Shuzhong is known for its prosperity, it is far inferior to the world center like the two capitals when it comes to market demand and goods circulation speed. Even if there is no flying money, the output of goods and goods in Shuzhong is far greater than inflow.

Now that we have Feiqian, Shu merchants no longer need to transport the money obtained from foreign exchange back to Shu. They directly take Feiqian bills to withdraw money locally, and then purchase goods. The efficiency of merchants will improve, and the output of goods will naturally increase.

Wu Zetian looked up and expressed his opinion, worried that this would intercept money and profits in the local area. This was actually a concern. This not only reduced the influx of currency in Shu, but also stimulated the enthusiasm of Shu merchants and increased the output of goods and goods in Shu.

"But in this way, merchants will make more profits and local money will decrease. Can this last long?"

Although the Wu family was a merchant family, by the time Wu Zetian was born, her father had already been the Duke of the founding king of the Tang Dynasty, so naturally he would not do any cheap jobs anymore. She herself entered the palace as a teenager. Although her first half of her life was ups and downs, she was basically inseparable from the common affairs of the market.

Although he was in charge of state affairs later, in addition to palace fighting and power fighting, he also faced grand conceptual issues. He actually had no in-depth understanding of specific commercial affairs and even financial issues.

After all, people's energy is limited, and now they are not as developed and convenient as information acquisition as later generations. It is normal to have biased cognition.

"I have never seen the merchants in Shu, so I dare not make arbitrarily. I only use the knowledge of everything I know to introduce the argument."

Li Tong paused and decided to sell another Wu Youyi, so he continued: "I have entrusted my wealth to the Jian'an Palace. I have never seen such a huge fortune in my life. At that time, Chad was frightened. The Han family spent on silk, and the rich houses were stored in copper and buried stones. There were many starving ghosts on the streets, and the idle gardens and residences were storing broken warehouses! Such amazing wealth and profits, people could not enjoy their convenience, but they were just dust and waste."

When Wu Zetian heard this, she couldn't help but frown and whisper: "How can you not harm yourself without causing trouble?"

"King Jian'an stayed in Xijing for a short period of time. Shu merchants have been in charge of the trade for generations, and they will definitely accumulate a lot of money. Only by passing money can you benefit from the right amount of money, and obtain the ability to make money, and to obtain the ability to make markets. It is useless to stock up for a long time."

Li Tong continued: "In a short time, people have constant employees and things have fixed income. If they draw money, the deposited wealth will naturally rise. If the wealth accumulated in Shu for a long time can be fully circulated on the market, how can the material resources easily be broken."

Currency itself is just a medium of transactions and cannot represent the level of productivity. The wealth accumulated by Shu over the years with monetary attributes is far from falling below market demand by a short-term draw.

Moreover, when money is drawn through the flying money business, when it accumulates to a certain scale, a new business can be launched, which is lending, which will take the prototype of a bank.

But in this way, it is undoubtedly the government's fiscal power to be separated. Wu Zetian is already so sensitive to decentralization of power, so Li Tong simply won't mention it. If he wants to develop to that stage, it will not be possible to achieve it in a short period of time. It will be said whether his grandmother is still in power or not.

After listening to the story of the young king, Wu Zetian became silent, obviously digesting these things. After a while, she nodded and said, "This matter is indeed great. If you only use one place in Shu, it will still be a little small. Since you have thought of this section, do you have any strategy to enlarge it?"

"I have some strategy, but after all, I am not very good at baptism, so I dare not praise the good plan."

Seeing that his grandmother was already a little moved, Li Tong continued to speak harder: "The capital of the imperial court was originally intended to seek benefits in Beijing for hundreds of corporations. However, the situation has been widely scattered in the local area. Only those who are in charge have high or low skills, and their skills are good or bad. Although they set up capital, they may not be able to make profits. Instead of letting the states take charge of their own affairs, why not the imperial court set up a special supervisory office and directly manage the capital of all parties?"

Wu Zetian was of course full of vigilance about the decentralization of power, but when he heard the centralized management of the funds of the governments of various states, he suddenly felt: "How to specialize in the business? If you have any ideas, just come. Don't worry about being scheming, it's just a chat in the palace."
Chapter completed!