Chapter 327: The Underground (4,000 words long chapter)

This time, Changsun Wuji did not go to the Zichen Palace with Li Feng, but left the palace.

Li Feng followed Empress Changsun to the Zichen Palace. When Li Er saw the two of them arriving, he immediately put down what he was doing.

"Guanyin Maid, why are you here?"

The eldest grandson smiled and said, "I would like to borrow some money from my second brother."

Li Er looked suspicious and said: "Guanyin Maid, you have never asked me for money. Why did you borrow money from me today?"

Changsun smiled and said: "Feng'er told me that your Majesty currently has 300,000 taels of gold, so he can lend it to me to use as a bank reserve."

Li Feng said quickly: "Don't worry, Lao Li, it's not a loan, it's just a misappropriation for a few days. As soon as the bank opens, everyone will come to deposit money. It won't take long before the debt can be repaid with copper coins. But I think it is better for the court to give the money

All is deposited into the treasury.

The bank can also be responsible for distributing the salary, and the treasury and the bank can draw up a bill. As long as you hold the bill, you can go to the bank to withdraw money.

Also, the bank can introduce a kind of check, which is composed of the bank's unique paper and password and cannot be copied by ordinary people. In the future, everyone can use this portable paper to conduct large-value transactions.

If the court is willing, it can also introduce a kind of banknotes, which can be composed of seven different amounts of banknotes: one banknote, two banknotes, five banknotes, ten banknotes, fifty banknotes, and one hundred banknotes.

Each banknote is specially printed by the bank, and the patterns, anti-counterfeiting labels, etc. are all specially printed by the bank and no one has forged them."

Li Er thought for a while and said: "This method is wonderful. It can save everyone from having to use several cows and horses to transport copper coins, which makes transactions between various places very troublesome.

But whether it's gold, checks, or banknotes, this all needs to be discussed by the court before it can be finalized. As far as your family is concerned, I'm still not at ease, so let's leave it tomorrow.

I hope you can convince the ministers tomorrow morning, and I can tell you secretly that as long as you can deal with Tang Jian, everything else will be easy."

"Is it Tang Jian? No problem. I will ask everyone to deposit all their money in the bank tomorrow." Li Feng said with great confidence.

Li Er nodded and said: "Having confidence is a good thing. Do you need me to send someone to help you?"

"It's not necessary for now. I will speak to you only when I need to use your emperor's name."

"I've been waiting for this day."

"Then you wait patiently. I'll find a pregnant woman's meal set for my godmother. It includes daily diet and rest routine. Don't forget it," Li Feng said.

Changsun smiled and said: "Don't worry, Xia Zhu has already told me, thank you very much."

"Godmother, you are too polite. This will weaken the relationship between our mother and son."

"Okay, I won't say thank you anymore. Let's stay and have dinner together." Changsun said with a smile.

Li Feng refused and said, "No, I'm going to prepare some information so that I can have a verbal battle with the ministers tomorrow."

Li Er nodded and said: "Go."

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Li Feng did not return to Chang'an, but came to the newspaper office.

The person in charge of the newspaper was brought back by Li Feng in exchange for three hundred kilograms of paper. His name was Yu Su, and he was the nephew of Yu Shinan. His father was Yu Shiji, a former spy of the Sui Dynasty.

So he also likes doing things like intelligence very much.

He fell in love with the newspaper the day after it came out, because it contained a lot of news that would have taken a long time or even been impossible to know.

As luck would have it, Li Feng went to the Yu Mansion with three hundred kilograms of new paper, and also asked him to find someone to write the paper.

Ever since, Yu Su was recommended.

However, Li Feng did not suffer any loss. He plundered Yu Shinan's treasures in a house, and if he took out any calligraphy and painting on the market, it would sell for a sky-high price.

When Yu Su knew that Li Feng was coming, he immediately came out to greet him.

"Master Marquis, why do you have time to come to the newspaper today? Is there some famous teacher's work or great news that needs to be published in the newspaper?" he asked seriously and expectantly.

Li Feng smiled and said: "There are two things I need you to do. The first thing is to print fifty copies of this information and give it to me. The second thing is to publish it in the newspaper and say that Datang Bank will officially open in three days and everyone is welcome to make deposits.

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"Okay, I'll make the arrangements right away." Yu Su walked into the printing room with the information Li Feng just gave him.

Fifty documents were printed in less than a cup of tea.

Yu Su came out holding fifty pieces of information in both hands and said: "Master Hou, the information you want has been printed."

Li Feng nodded and said, "Very good, by the way, the scientific examination is about to take place. Let the people in the newspaper office pay more attention to it. For example, if someone opens the market, who is the person behind the scenes? Some people predict the questions, some are very confident, and some..."

After hearing this, Yu Su couldn't help but raise his thumbs and said: "Just this information alone will almost make a big sale. Lord Marquis, do you want to speculate on the holy intention? In this way, I guarantee a big sale."

"Old Yu, please don't speculate on the Holy Will, otherwise you will die without knowing. I have already arranged information stations in border areas, Lingnan and other places. It won't take long for everyone to know the news about border areas and Lingnan."

"Master Hou is really amazing. He single-handedly built the Tang Dynasty's news network." Yu Su couldn't help but say.

Li Feng shook his head and said: "Baiqisi's news network is the real news network in the country. In fact, you can definitely go to Baiqisi's news network, so why bother with me?"

"I would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. Mr. Hou, you don't have to worry about my affairs."

"Okay, let's talk about it. Have you encountered any trouble recently? What do you need me to do?"

Yu Su said: "It's true that there are people who are jealous of the newspaper's profits and want to rob the newspaper by force."

"Who is this? You are so awesome. Do you know that I run the newspaper?" Li Feng asked with a frown.

Yu Su said in a greedy tone: "Master Hou, they are really not afraid of your identity. Not only are they not afraid of you, they are not afraid of the current Holy Emperor.

They are an organization that everyone calls underground, and they are also the largest non-governmental organization in Chang'an. They live underground and are not afraid of the court at all."

"Living underground? It's interesting. I really want to know how they survive underground. Give me a copy of their information." Li Feng said with great interest.

Yu Su suddenly became very solemn and said: "Master Hou, please don't make fun of the underground people. The imperial court has encircled and suppressed them many times, but they escaped every time. Instead, the army fell into their trap and suffered heavy losses.

If there is anyone in the world who hates them the most, it is the imperial court. They are not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court at all. For the sake of money, they even killed many imperial officials."

"That's the killer organization? Do you know who their leader is? Do you also know their origin? Do you know their approximate scope and how to contact them? Do you know all of this?" Li Feng asked.

"Their stronghold is the underground sewers that extend in all directions. As for the origin, it started with Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty's tyranny made people miserable.

So a group of righteous people established an organization called the Assassin King Organization. The only mission of this organization was to assassinate Yang Guang. However, they assassinated him more than a dozen times without success."

Li Feng asked curiously: "Since they are not even afraid of the imperial court, they must be very capable. Why can't they assassinate Yang Guang?"

Yu Su said: "According to the manual left behind by my father, there was a traitor in the King of Assassins organization, who sold out every assassination mission, so every time it failed, many good players were lost.

After more than a dozen times, the Assassin King organization went into hibernation and has been hiding underground ever since, that is, in the underground sewers, which are abandoned sewers that extend in all directions and are very spacious and can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people."

"It's simply a natural underground shelter." Li Feng murmured to himself.

"Underground shelter?" Yu Su nodded and said, "The Marquis is right, they used the sewer as an underground shelter. That traitor became the leader and only leader of King Assassin.

From then on, the Assassin King Organization began to assassinate Sui officials, especially those who knew he was a traitor.

My father was also their target, but in the end my father did not die in their hands, but died on the way to Goryeo.

Over time, the King of Assassins organization gradually became known as the underground. After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court initially allowed its development and did not interfere.

But when I was in my fourth year of martial virtue, the underground began to assassinate the imperial officials. The Marquis should have guessed who they assassinated, right?"

Li Feng rolled his eyes slightly and said: "You don't mean to say that all the people who were assassinated were people from Prince Qin's Palace, or people who were very close to Prince Qin's Palace, right?"

"The Marquis is indeed wise, and what he said is absolutely correct. My uncle was also assassinated. Later, His Majesty became angry and led an army to encircle and suppress them. However, everyone suffered casualties every time, and in the end, His Majesty had to give up the encirclement and suppression of them.

However, in order to kill more people on his side, His Majesty even paid a large sum of money to ask the underground to kill people on Li Jiancheng's side.

After Li Jiancheng's party died, Li Jiancheng stopped using underground workers. When the emperor found out about this, he almost ordered the sewers to be blocked."

"Then Chang'an will not become Zeguo?" Li Feng said with a smile.

"That's right, His Majesty, Li Jiancheng and the ministers all spoke out to stop it, and finally the matter was dropped.

However, the underground people also reminded the court that whenever someone became the target of assassination by the underground people, they never failed.

Now that the underground people have to report to the bureau when they leave, there are only two things we can do. One is to give in, and the other is to pay them to satisfy them. If the underground people get to the surface, they will also be in danger."

"You mean to let me spend money to settle this matter?" Li Feng asked.

"Does the Marquis want to give up the newspaper office?" Yu Su said angrily.

Li Feng smiled, and after a long time, he slowly said: "Publish a message in the newspaper, saying that I, the Marquis of Lantian, will burn down the underground camp in three days. If you want to escape, run away now. If you don't escape, don't blame me if you die."

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Yu Su stood up with a roar, stared at Li Feng in disbelief, and slowly said word by word: "Do you know what you are talking about?"

Li Feng said: "Get rid of the underground people so that they don't have a nest."

"Do you know the situation of the underground people? If you cannot catch them all, then you are provoking the underground people and you will get into big trouble."

Li Feng smiled, stood up, patted Yu Su's shoulder and said, "You are mythologizing the underground people too much. They are also human beings and they also have weaknesses. Let Chang'an be excited tomorrow."

"This... well, you are the Marquis and the owner of the newspaper." Yu Su sighed.

Li Feng smiled and then left the newspaper office with fifty pieces of information.

After arriving at Baijiayan Tavern, Li Feng returned to his room and asked Han Wu to see him.

"Master, are you looking for me?" Han Wu asked respectfully.

Li Feng nodded and said: "Yes, I want to ask you about the situation of the underground people."
To be continued...