Even Xiao Han himself did not expect the bank's move to issue treasury bonds.
Look in the eyes of those who care.
It’s not just as simple as simply issuing a bill that can be circulated in the market and has an equivalent effect!
Those businessmen who live in Chang'an and have the most sensitive sense of smell in the world have long imagined many, many things from this royal action!
The merchants of the Tang Dynasty have been suffering from the world for a long time!
Of course, their suffering is not material suffering, but status and spiritual suffering!
Ever since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Guan Zhong of Qi State, known as the "First Prime Minister of the Spring and Autumn Period", proposed the four people of "scholars, farmers, industry and merchants", and their businessmen were automatically classified as the most despicable profession!
Later, because of the saying "If there is no businessman, there will be no treachery, and if there is no treachery, there will be no businessman", and he became an alien in the eyes of everyone in the world. It seemed that even if he said a few words to them, he would be deceived out of two ounces of meat.
But what about actually?
In this world, you really can’t find a few groups of people who value trust and keep their promises more than businessmen!
If you say that people cannot stand without faith!
If you put it on a businessman, it would be a businessman who has no faith and will die!
Let's just say that in today's Tang Dynasty, not counting small businessmen and hawkers, any businessman who has reached a certain scale will regard his reputation as more important than his life!
Because a good reputation can be passed down to future generations and be used for generations to come!
And if the reputation becomes bad, then this businessman will definitely be close to bankruptcy!
Furthermore, there is the famous saying “Scholars, farmers, industry and merchants!” A few people still remember: Guan Zhong’s original words were: “The four common people, scholars, farmers, industry and merchants, are the stones (pillars) of the country!”
Moreover, the scholar here also refers to the sergeant, not the scholar-officials who can only talk so much now!
It is clearly a wise saying that emphasizes how important the four people are to the entire country.
They were forcibly twisted into four social classes by those crooked monks, and they smugly listed themselves as the first class, squeezing out all the original soldiers, not even leaving a place for them!
Such shameless behavior can only be carried out by those scholars who are always benevolent and moral, but in fact are full of male thieves and female prostitutes.
But there is no way, who allows public opinion and inheritance to be in the hands of these so-called scholars?
As long as they look down on something, they will do everything possible to make the world look down on it too.
The First Emperor of the Pre-Qin Dynasty was like this, and so were the later businessmen Fan Li, Bai Gui, and Lu Buwei.
So from the Spring and Autumn Period to the present day of the Tang Dynasty, it took a thousand years.
Businessmen have always been looked at with colored eyes by the world. Although they are not like rats crossing the street and everyone shouts to beat them, they have also suffered from cold looks and contempt!
Having huge wealth but no social status is a true portrayal of a businessman.
The daughter he gave birth to will not be able to marry into a good family.
The son cannot marry a good wife who is knowledgeable and sensible.
Even if you go out on the street, you have to take off your silk and satin clothes and put on a patched brown cloth jacket, for fear that if you are not careful, the officials will forcibly confiscate all your family property in the name of trespassing!
Even if they file a lawsuit, they will not accept it at all on the grounds that the businessman is treacherous and his words are untrustworthy!
In the past thousand years, businessmen have lived extremely miserable lives. Enough is enough!
Therefore, in order to reverse this situation, businessmen do not know how much effort they have made and how many sacrifices they have made!
What you get in exchange is just a slight improvement.
Yes, today's Tang Dynasty has an open atmosphere. Businessmen can also wear fine clothes and go to the streets, enter and exit the houses of powerful people, and even spend huge sums of money, in exchange for many envious looks.
But all this was not brought about by the improvement of the status of the businessmen, but because they used a deformed way to tie themselves to the powerful and became their vassals.
A little convenience!
Moreover, while enjoying this convenience, businessmen are also very clear: they regard the powerful as a tree that can protect them from wind and rain, but the powerful only regard themselves as a tool that can continuously earn money for them.
To put it even more exaggeratedly, businessmen are just like a circle of piglets raised by the powerful. They just wait for them to get fat and strong, then peel off the skin and bones, and then swallow them in one last bite!
As the spirit of all things, human beings all have pursuits and ideals.
Perhaps, when people don’t have enough to eat, their ideal is just a bowl of hot white rice!
And when I have a full meal, I will think about wearing some warm clothes.
When food is available, clothes are available, and people live without worries about food and clothing, then people will most likely think about building a house, finding a mother-in-law, having a few children, and continuing the family line for themselves.
As long as all these basic needs are met, only the spiritual needs are left.
It is obvious that today's businessmen in Datang are stuck at this step.
They long for recognition from the world, but they are suppressed by those in power!
It is obvious that we are working the same hard, getting up early and working late, but we are still being treated as if we are getting something for nothing, cheating and cheating. How many people know this pain and depression that is not understood?
Therefore, when the emperor let out some words and hoped that someone could help the Tang Dynasty, no one was more interested than these businessmen!
Just by paying a little money, you can get the emperor's favor and even gratitude. This transaction will not be a loss no matter how you calculate it!
Not to mention, the money is not just wasted like it was supplied to the powerful families before, but is replaced by a transaction method that is more helpful to them!
This kind of multi-purpose business cannot help but make businessmen flock to it!
"They regard banks and national bonds as the emperor's affirmation of their status as subjects!"
After understanding this, Xiao Han's doubts disappeared and a smile returned to his face.
"Go down, the road here is not easy for a carriage!"
After patting the back of Ziyi's tender hand, Xiao Han rolled over from the carriage, stood there and stretched.
As one of the designers of the bank, no one knows better than him how many exquisite designs are hidden in this narrow alley.
Not to mention anything else, the thing that shook the carriage just now and almost jumped was set up by the people in the bank.
It was a very long strip of bluestone, buried deep in the ground, against both sides of the alley. There were two openings on it, and the width of each section was exactly the width of a wheel.
It's just that it's different from regular cars running on the same track. The distance between these two small gaps is obviously wider than the wheelbase of ordinary cars. This also means that no matter how Xiao Han's carriage avoids it, there will always be one wheel that will run over the bluestone.
past.
But if it is a bank car, it is specially designed. The wheelbase of the wheels is just right to pass through the gap, so it can drive unimpeded on these bluestones.
