As an important period of social change in the Tang Dynasty, the way social resources were accumulated far exceeded that of previous generations, so a group of folk wealthy people emerged.

For example, Zou Luotuo, a wealthy businessman in Chang'an during the reign of Emperor Gaozong, showed off his wealth and showed off his wealth in front of the emperor, wrapping trees with silk. The trees in Zhongnan could be gone, but the silk on the shelf was not exhausted. Wang Yuanbao in the Kaiyuan period was richer than kings and princes, and even paved roads with copper coins, which was even more noble than the sand dike where the prime minister had a special road.

This is just the deeds of wealthy businessmen recorded in unofficial history, and there are more people who have not seen any classics. For example, the Yang Li family, who was familiar to Li Tong, is a member of the Shu merchants with strong capital.

As for the Song Bazi of Shu Shang in front of him, he was even more famous than the Yang Li family. In the original history, he went to and feasted in the palace because of his friendship with the Zhang brothers in the late Wu Zhou period, and his name was even recorded in official history. It can be seen that he was one of the best among the Shu Shang group.

Of course, the current situation has undergone major changes, and Empress Wu Zetian has retreated to the second line many years ahead of schedule, so naturally the Zhang Yizhi brothers will have no chance to make a comeback, let alone Song Bazi.

However, the reason why Li Tong knew about Song Bazi was not just a historical record, but because of Yang Li. In the past year, Yang Li went north to Chang'an was precisely because of Song Bazi's business exclusion disputes. Moreover, Song Bazi began to engage in political speculation very early and once presented his daughter to King Wu Chengsi of Wei.

Because of these past events, Song Bazi must have saved the idea of ​​using money to buy his life.

Seeing that His Highness Yong's face turned into harmony and even said that his hometown was virtue, Song Bazi's originally tense heart was slightly relaxed. Since King Yong advanced westward, he has lived a life of like a year.

Since ancient times, the people have not fought with officials. Although these Shu merchants have strong capital, if they do not have the support of official relations, in the eyes of the powerful, they are just fat sheep to be slaughtered.

As a leader among the Shu merchant group, Song Bazi naturally has more ambitions. His life goal is no longer as simple as making profits by breeding, and he has always actively moved closer to the real powerful class.

After years of hard work, it was also effective. Not only did Song Bazi travel closely with many powerful and powerful portals in Chang'an City, he even climbed into the Wei King Wu Chengsi, which was a preliminary contact with the top circle of powerful and powerful in the empire.

Of course, that's the past. At the end of last year, the news of the Shendu coup seemed like a thunder. Song Bazi never dreamed that the kings of the Wu clan, who were in the sky, would be killed in one day.

Of course he didn't care much about Wu Chengsi's life and death, but the line that had been built with countless money and energy was cut off. What's even more terrible is that it was King Yong Li Shenzhi who killed Wu Chengsi.

The subsequent development of the situation, every change, was almost a torture for Song Bazi. King Yong not only killed Wu Chengsi, whom he focused on investing in, but was also sent by the court to Chang'an to be responsible for the rebellion and to take charge for a long time. If the noble families that King Yong killed in Chang'an were carefully investigated, they were actually deeply or shallowly involved with Song Bazi.

After all, as a merchant, you must pursue harmony and make money. If you want to live in Chang'an, you must be kind to these local snakes.

When things developed to this point, Song Bazi would not be completely desperate. After all, he was far from King Yong, and King Yong might not care about him just a merchant.

However, a few days ago, King Yong announced in the Hengjie Street of Chunmingmen that Yang Li, who was also a Shu merchant group, would be included, and Song Bazi would never dare to take a chance again.

It was not that he had known that Yang Li had already taken the line from King Yong, but the internal invasion between Shu merchants was a normal commercial act.

When he was in power, he couldn't help but extort Yang Li's family. The north-south freight business of Yang Li's family was so big, of course, it was impossible to just be as simple as hardworking as getting rich. It was nothing more than a big fish eating small fish. The disputes between the merchants' interests were not worthy of the powerful people behind him who came to the scene to help them personally.

Moreover, when she learned that Yang Li's family was with King Yong, Song Bazi basically put aside his actions against the Yang family's business. Although King Yong did not have the power at that time, Song Bazi knew that he could not underestimate it.

But now, King Yong announced in public that Yang Li had become a concubine, and judging from that posture, Yang Li was quite favored by King Yong. At least when Song Bazi presented his daughter to Wu Chengsi, he was just a maid. Even when Song Bazi came to the door several times, he did not dare to object at all when he saw his daughter dancing in the hall.

The wind in the world is the most popular. Seeing King Yong's favor for Yang Li, Song Bazi felt very disappointed for a moment. If King Yong wanted to deal with him, it would be just a thought, not to mention that he was not clean himself.

There was no need for King Yong to speak. Some officials in Chang'an were observing their looks, even if they were just to please the new lady, it would be enough to make him doomed.

Moreover, even if Song Bazi wants to escape from Chang'an, it is not safe. It is important to know that King Yong's elder brother, King Han, Li Guangshun, is still serving as chief minister in the Yizhou Grand Governor's Office. Even if he fled back to his hometown, he would still die.

So this time, while King Yong was in the social supervision office, Song Bazi came to see the people in Chang'an with huge sums of money, and he was also seeking life in his life. If he could not obtain King Yong's understanding, his life could basically be said to be over.

A huge fortune of millions of dollars is an astonishing amount for Song Bazi. In order to raise this amount of money, he not only sold a large amount of industrial goods in Chang'an City, but even the current chaos and the market was sluggish. He even dismantled a lot from some close villagers, begging him for fear. He was in trouble and those families were inevitably implicated, so he raised a huge sum of money.

Song Bazi also considered a lot of reasons why he only contributed money and used flying money bills.

The most critical point is that everyone knows that the Baolixing Society, which runs Feiqian, is originally the King of Yong. Now that Chang'an is in chaos, merchants are full of doubts about Feiqian's credit. If these huge sums of money are not enough to make King Yong open his side to him, then King Yong will always consider Feiqian's credit.

Seeing that his hard work had achieved good results, Song Bazi was also quite ecstatic for a moment, but he did not dare to take it over. Instead, he said more respectfully: "The little people were trapped in the sea of ​​money and goods in the past year, and they were completely rude and rude. Even if they made some small contributions, they were only because they felt that the nobleman was benevolent and righteous. His highness went west to the town, and he lived a huge number of people and punished the thieves. Everyone at that time praised his gratitude. As a member of the world, he was ashamed of despicable, but he also dared to meet him. He only wanted to prove his great righteousness and did not dare to boast about his virtue."

When Li Tong heard this answer, he was even more satisfied with Song Bazi. He couldn't help but sigh secretly that Song Bazi was indeed a bit real, no wonder he could have been tossed to the palace banquet in history with a merchant.

Song Bazi contributed huge sums to King Yong and frequently praised each other, although they were very satisfied with each other. However, the other people present were quite complicated, especially those Hu chiefs who had entered the church, who were even more suspicious at this moment. In the past, there was a member of the Old Clothing Society and later, Song Bazi contributed a huge sum of millions of dollars, making them wonder whether it was King Yong's instructor or their spontaneous behavior.

If it were the former, what signal would King Yong use to convey to the public? Could it be that he would use this newly established social supervision office to take all the manpower and material resources in Chang'an City?

Li Tong was not in a hurry to answer the questions of the people, but continued to summon the heads of the Zhuxing Society in the rear. However, the number of the B and C in the rear increased sharply, so it was difficult for the heads of the society to enter the hall. He could only select some representatives to come to the hall, while the others sat on the ground outside the yamen hall.

"Today we meet the head of the Hundred Industry Association, and we have established a new social supervision office for the shogunate. I believe you are also curious about the constitution of this social supervision office and what is the supervision matter."

Li Tong didn't care. After visiting the church at the head of the society, he began to talk about today's main content: "Since the founding of the country, benevolence and governance have been implemented, and all industries have flourished. There may be short-term difficulties, but the world will eventually move forward. People will perform their own duties, and the industry will flourish.

You are all the leaders in their respective industries. Now they gather in the yatang, and the people are magnificent. It can be seen that what they say is true. Although the court has complete rules and regulations, the world is changing day by day, and it also needs to catch up with the times and add formats to facilitate the government and the people. As the name suggests, the social supervision agency is not for governing the people, but for supervising the society."

When everyone heard this, their faces showed a little unnatural. After all, no one was willing to control the body and suffer more exploitation.

Li Tong ignored the changes in everyone's emotions and just continued: "There are old people, and the industry has its beginning and end. If the order is not preserved, then everything will not prosper. Trees have dead branches, and if they are not repaired, they will jump. Things are ugly, and if they are not treated, they will harm them. The old scriptures in Chang'an are in turmoil. Although the harm has not been deeply affected, they can be called a warning. Now the market in Beijing is in a slump, the industry is sluggish, and the past is prosperous, and everyone feels a deep pain.

Today, the Supervisory Commission has created a new company, bringing together all industries and revitalizing all industries. The Lieutenant General of the Department has set up a social warehouse, accumulated five million yuan to supplement the listed companies, hoping to enjoy the benefits of the people and live hard!”

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole room was silent, everyone widened their eyes, looking at each other with disbelief, trying to prove whether they had heard it wrong.

Li Tong was very satisfied with the reaction of everyone present. The so-called "if you want to take it, you must give it first."

The society is a new way of concentration of social resources when the city develops to a certain extent. The current system does not actually have a good management method. Even in later generations, it will still be the case. If you want the relevant people to obey management, you must first express the superiority of the system to them.

Previously, the shogunate was discussing plans to subsidize citizens and stimulate production and consumption, and put forward many ideas, but Li Tong felt that he was not very satisfied.

The subsidies proposed by the assistants were mainly natural persons, such as those who received rewards from the imperial court, or those who were over tens of years old and had a few people in their family, which was also a common method used in the past.

However, these methods only target individuals of the people, and the needs of the people are generally single, nothing more than basic needs such as food and clothing. The turmoil in the Chang'an New Classic was inevitable that materials would be short of money. Giving money to the common people may stimulate their desire to hoard grain and prepare for wasteland and rush to buy several limited daily necessities, which is somewhat different from what Li Tong imagined to stimulate the recovery of people's livelihood in Chang'an, and at least it would not cause too much benefit to the production of various industries.

So after considering it, he decided to change the target of subsidy from individuals to units of business associations. In this way, although it will stimulate the further development of business associations, it will naturally gain control over business associations. After taking my money, I always have to check where you are using it.

As for whether this will cause the business community to be overwhelmed, this is also a concern. Because the development of business communities in the East and West in ancient times was fundamentally different.

Western guilds or guilds were created at the beginning of the establishment of a city-state and were an organization for civilian practitioners to fight against city-state aristocrats. The East developed to a certain scale in the city and flourished to compensate for the ruling model.

The timing and motivation of the two emerged were completely different. In ancient China, there was also a fundamental rule of rule, which was to register households and all the people. The people were first of all the residents, and then they had a level of identity as a member of the society.

Productive clubs mainly focus on the research and inheritance of technology. For example, the manufacturing industry during the Tang and Song dynasties, the government provided production standards such as official samples for production and procurement. Commercial clubs mainly focus on controlling prices, avoiding vicious competition, and coordinating capital, participating in the trading activities of official buying and trading activities such as official buying and trading.

It can be said that the ancient Chinese society had no rebellious growth since its inception, and the future development did not have such space at all. As for the collusion between officials and businessmen, political speculation, and the Qing Dynasty, which was nurtured with hard work by Shanxi merchants, all had specific historical backgrounds and personal demands, and had no essential connection with the organizational model of the society.

Of course, the subsidies mentioned by Li Tong are mainly aimed at production and sales-related businesses.

As for Nestorianism, Zoroastrianism, and some religious clubs such as Buddhist worship clubs, they will never appear in the subsidy list, but the membership fee must be paid. I can respect your beliefs, but you must also respect my power, otherwise there will be no negotiations on the abolition! If you dare to gather in private, then you will be rebelled!

Not only did the heads of the clubs who heard the shogunate's large subsidies, they were shocked for a moment. Even the shogunate assistants present were a little stunned for a moment. Because the previous discussion of the shogunate, this time the subsidy was limited to three million yuan, and the main form was flying money and white slips, which further established the credit of flying money through flying money settlement.

The reason why Li Tong temporarily increased his investment was of course forced to do that even Song Bazi, a Shu merchant, raised his hand to throw out a huge amount of one million yuan. If the shogunate was only a quota of two or three million yuan, it would not be amazing enough and would look petty.

Moreover, he lacks money because he lacks money, but what he lacks is mainly the materials that money can be exchanged for. Nowadays, it is not the future generations with abundant supplies. The production and collection of materials are extremely restricted. If you have money, you may not be able to buy things.

For example, the million yuan of flying money donated by Song Bazi, Li Tong was shocked at first, but he didn't take it seriously afterwards. So what if you have money? I blocked Qinling Mountains, Longdao and Hedong, which could make you starve to death with gold. One million yuan of money is far less important to him than a hundred thousand yuan of materials.

After a period of shock, everyone present reacted one after another and bowed and thanked each other.

"Subsidy agencies will be announced to the public later. At that time, the subsidy list will be selected and you can enter the agency to check it. Such supplementary benefits will come one after another, and the income from the various agencies is not fixed, and they may increase or decrease, and are all within the social supervision regulations.

Since you are the head of the society, whether you can seek welfare for the society can measure whether you are competent. Although the city is not a member of the official, they have their own feelings. Water can carry a boat and can also overturn it. Even though the kings of the previous generations cannot help but pay attention to the public opinion.

Since you are worthy of your reputation, you must also work hard! It is of course for you to advance and defecate!”
Chapter completed!