Chapter 414 Sima Shilang

The Datong Money House has a very high status in the capital. Firstly, the Xu family of Duke of Wei has been among the old ministers of the Ming Dynasty since the founding of Taizu, and secondly, the Datong Money House has an extremely important role now.

Jiangnan is the main burden of the Ming Dynasty's wealth. Every year, a large amount of silver and money is transferred to the capital. There are many disadvantages and inconveniences in the process of escort. Both the capital and the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing have abnormal headaches, but in the past two years, it has begun to allocate silver through the Datong Money House.

At the beginning, perhaps occasionally, but later I realized the convenience of this. The government no longer had to waste a lot of manpower and material resources every year. As long as the Nanjing Ministry of Revenue deposits the silver at the general account of the Nanjing Datong Money House and issues documents there, the capital can pay according to the documents.

However, now it is only the Datong Money Bank that uses the silver and money exchanges between Nanjing and the capital. If it is scattered to various provinces and towns of the Ming Dynasty, this is the structure of banks and branches.

Although the Ming Dynasty tax was levied on industries and commerce after the land investigation case, and because of the abundant treasury, there was another prosperous industry that was not within the scope of tax collection, that is, maritime trade. When products produced by various handicraft workshops were purchased by maritime merchants, the price was the price on the market, but after being sold overseas, it was a jaw-dropping price.

The huge price difference in the transaction did not have a slight tax burden, and it all entered the pockets of ship owners and maritime merchants. The burden of these people now was to pay Jiang Feng's fleet, but this money was still much cheaper than the tax collection of the Ming Dynasty.

Most maritime merchants are not willing to deposit their money into Jiangfeng's Huazhou Money House, because Jiangfeng's maritime fleet and his maritime merchant fleet are already too strong. Putting the money under such a force always feels a bit unsafe. Moreover, the history of the Huazhou Money House is too short and its reputation has not been fully established. However, Huazhou Money House is currently only a business fleet and a power under its protection to provide loans.

The money of these maritime merchants exists in the Datong Money House, which is an extremely huge amount of money. The reason why Datong Money House dared to take over the business of remitting silver to the capital was because his own plate was far greater than the remittance silver.

I don’t know when the officials of the Ministry of Revenue in the capital had developed a habit of a large number of silver allocations, and discussed with the shopkeepers of Datong Money Bank in the capital. It was vague that Datong Money Bank had a tendency to become a national bank in the Ming Dynasty, but the concept of banking will not appear for a long time now, and no one realized the meaning of this.

On the street where Sanjiang Commercial Bank and Datong Money House are located, people are no longer surprised by visiting officials from the Ministry of Revenue. After a day off in the commercial bank, Jiang Feng was about to go to Xicheng. When he walked out of the door, he saw an official sedan at the intersection of the street, and he was familiar with the door of Datong Money House.

The shopkeepers of Datong Money House and his men were waiting in front of the door, following the entourage beside the official sedan chair and a dozen curtains. An old man came down from inside, wearing a wealthy man's outer uniform. Seeing him walking out of the sedan chair, the people in the money house bowed and said:

"Welcome to Lord Sima!"

The old man who became Sima nodded reservedly, as a gift to return, walked into the money shop, and Jiang Feng turned around curiously and asked Huang Liping who was sending him out:

"Who is this Lord Sima?"

The voice on the opposite side was quite loud, and Jiang Feng could hear it clearly, but Huang Liping said in a low voice with anger on his face:

"It's Lord Sima Tai, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. The name of the Ministry of Revenue, whose name is Fuji and whose name is Mr. Zhizhai, has caused us a lot of trouble either openly or secretly!"

Although Sanjiang Commercial Bank is Jiang Feng's system, it also does serious business in Daming to make money. They have reserves of gold and silver, and have exchanges with many merchants in the north. Naturally, they not only do business, but also develop the business of money houses.

If the money shop business is developed, it will definitely be a big source of wealth. Datong Money Shopping is now making a fortune, but Sanjiang Commercial Bank can only do some business among familiar customers.

It turned out that money shops and bill numbers in various places needed to be approved by the Baochao Tuanju and tax department before they could be opened. In the past, these yamen were controlled by eunuchs. Since Emperor Jiajing purged the Beijing Merchants Group, eunuchs in the inner court lost power and their power was gradually controlled by the cabinet and the six ministries.

The Ministry of Revenue, which is responsible for the world's finance and taxation, naturally took back all the approved business of the money bank ticket number. When the eunuchs were in power, Sanjiang Commercial Bank had no intention of building a money bank ticket number, so it did not use those connections and resources. Now that I want to do it, I can only deal with the Ministry of Revenue.

Although the officials and nobles of the Beijing Merchants Group fell out, the Sanjiang Merchants Bank still had a relationship in the capital. However, during the communication with the Ministry of Revenue, people were always stuck and slowly found out that it was Sima Tai, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, who interfered with it.

Jiang Feng had nothing important. He listened to Huang Liping's resentful explanation from the side door of the business bank. Jiang Feng thought that he was really destined to be with the Ministry of Revenue. Among the female relatives in the family, there were two wives from the Ministry of Revenue. Moreover, Su Guanyue's current identity was not only Jiang Feng's second wife, but also the "Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue" in Huazhou, because Su Guanyue took charge of the financial power and the allocation of income and expenditure.

Listening to the complaint, Jiang Feng interrupted:

"Just give him money, no one doesn't love money..."

Huang Liping replied in a frustrated manner:

"Sir, this Sima Shishu will not collect cash."

"Oh, it's still a clean official."

"What kind of honest official is that he looks so hypocritical. He is actually an old pervert. Datong Money House not only gives away silver every year, but also gives away two beautiful maids from Jiangnan for half a year. The subordinates are very strange, why do they just collect Datong Money House not our money?"

The Minister of Revenue, Sima Tai, who was discussing, was having a good chat with the shopkeeper of the money shop in the inner hall of Datong Money House. Several shopkeepers of Datong Money House sat respectfully. On the contrary, the merchant and Sima, the Minister of Sima, said slowly:

"The Ministry of Revenue has placed the task of allocating military salaries to Datong on your Datong number. Don't delay the military and national affairs."

The allocation of military pay is a huge profit for the money shop. Several shopkeepers smiled and thanked him. The merchant laughed, picked up a cup of tea and made a pose to worship tea, and said there:

"I thank you Mr. Zhizhai this time. By the way, can you use a few Yangzhou horses from the past few days? "

The shopkeeper in the room had just left the business, and the Shanggong said much casually. Sima Tai smiled slightly and said:

"It's indeed a famous product, it's really extraordinary."

When the merchant, who was a warrior, heard this, he immediately laughed. The Sima Shishu over there took a sip of tea and said leisurely:

"Mr. Shang Gong, a few days ago, the shopkeeper Huang from Sanjiang Business Company sent me money again, saying that they wanted me to be able to make peace with the money shop."

The merchant over there was stunned at first, then smiled and said:

"These northerners must not know the relationship between Mr. Zhizhai and our money house, so they acted rudely there."

In fact, the transfer of silver to Xuanfu, Shanxi Datong and Shaanxi three sides is even more convenient. Sanjiang Trading Bank and Shanxi Jin merchants' money shops are all more convenient. After all, these ticket numbers are local tyrants, and they are familiar with the channels, which will improve a lot of efficiency. Datong Money Bank has huge advantages in the seas in the south and south of the Yangtze River. After coming to the north, the transactions will be concentrated in the capital and Baoding. If Sima Shilang had no relationship with Datong Money Bank, such good deals would definitely not fall on Datong.

The merchant looked at Sima Tai's unfamiliar appearance and couldn't help but curse in his heart: If the Datong Capital's business had 20% of your shareholding, you would have helped you like this. But suddenly I remembered the Sanjiang Trading Company opposite and immediately said:

"There is something that Mr. Zhizhai knows. The Sanjiang Trading Company opposite said that it was the head of Liaoyang's general account. I think the boss is clearly a general who commands the army. He has sent someone to investigate in Liao Town. He will have to commit a serious crime at that time. We will say hello to the people of the Ministry of War for this matter, but we will also ask Mr. Zhizhai for more help at that time!"

"Their boss? Did they come from Liaoyang?"

Sima Shishu, who had been sitting there firmly, suddenly asked two questions. The Shanggong didn't take it seriously, nodded there and replied:

"Their guys also have our staff. Although they are doing odd jobs, they also know some news."

Sima Tai, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, changed slightly, and then he made the first move. The two sides exchanged a few gossips and assigned the transfer of military pay. Sima, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, refused the other party's retention and hurried back home...

In the west Fort Tar River outside the pass, which is the place where the Jiang family army stationed on the grassland, the sentry on the watchtower building in the castle was shouting below:

"A team of cavalry came towards here, about one hundred cavalry..."

Dangdang's gong rings, and the soldiers of the Jiang family army and the guards of the fortress acted urgently. However, the generals responsible for guarding the West Fort were a little strange. There were 2,500 soldiers in the fortress. The nearby Mongolian tribes that were grazing in the pastures could also quickly mobilize 3,000 cavalry. What are these 100 cavalry doing? Will they die?
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