Chapter 297: Invite the Sun family to become the first customer
Looking at Sun Xiunian standing in the hall.
Li Chengqian pointed to the seat closest to him: "Uncle Sun, you don't have to sit so far, just come and sit next to me..."
Hearing this, Sun Xiunian was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly bowed and said: "Your Highness, ordinary people really don't dare to call you uncle..."
"What's wrong with this?"
"You are the elder and I am the junior. If I call you uncle, that is what I should do."
Li Chengqian smiled and said: "Besides, with Uncle Cheng's relationship, it's even more appropriate for me to call you uncle."
After saying that, he simply went over in person and pulled Sun Xiunian to sit next to him.
Seeing Sun Xiunian's restraint, Li Chengqian comforted him and said, "Uncle Cheng risked his life and death to save my father several times. Without him, the Tang Dynasty would not be what it is today."
"Similarly, without the Sun family's protection and support, how would Uncle Cheng be where he is today?"
"So, although the Sun family is not as big as those local families, based on the Sun family's support for Uncle Cheng, we in the Tang Dynasty will always remember the Sun family."
After hearing these words, Sun Xiunian also sighed with emotion.
After all, the aristocratic family is both small and big.
As the saying goes, a family can only become aristocratic after five generations of officials.
If a family wants to be called an aristocratic family, the prerequisite is that five generations of the family must be officials.
That is to say, one must start from the generation of the great ancestor, then to the great-grandfather, grandfather, father, and then to oneself as an official, in order to be called a noble family.
With this threshold alone, I don’t know how many people will be turned away.
As for scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, the lowest level is the merchant.
If it weren't for the sudden emergence of Li Chengqian, which greatly increased the status of businessmen, it would have been several years before the Sun family could be included in the aristocratic family.
Sun Xiunian looked at Li Chengqian and said, "I would like to apologize to His Highness first."
"When I got together with my cousin before, I talked about His Highness in private."
"At the beginning, the common people had never met His Highness, but they had heard about His Highness's deeds from my cousin." "The common people only think that His Highness does have something unusual, but he is a bit frivolous and will not be praised by his cousin."
"Now that I saw His Highness's extraordinary grace on the street, ordinary people realize how short-sighted they are."
After hearing these words, Li Chengqian smiled and said: "There is nothing to apologize for."
"I haven't seen a living person. I just heard rumors from other people's mouths. I just don't know what this person is like."
"Judging from my deeds, don't say it's frivolous. Even if you say I'm arrogant, I still recognize it."
"But Uncle Sun, do you think I can do it without being arrogant when dealing with this kind of aristocratic family that dares to gather people to scold me and kill me?"
Li Chengqian shook his head and said: "If I behave like a weakling, I'm afraid I will be bullied to death by them."
This is quite true.
Sun Xiunian is not a fool, so he naturally knows this.
He pursed his lips and said, "Then what do you want to do next, Your Highness? Is there anything you need help from the Sun family?"
"Of course there are."
Li Chengqian said directly: "I came here this time to open a bank in Yangzhou."
"If Uncle Sun doesn't mind, I would like to invite you to be my bank's first customer."
Sun Xiunian had heard some things about the bank.
But people in this era inevitably have outdated ideas.
He glanced at Li Chengqian, pursed his lips and said, "Your Highness, ordinary people still don't understand this bank matter."
"How about your Highness explaining something to the common people?"
"sure."
Li Chengqian smiled and said: "This bank, to put it bluntly, is an institution that can circulate money."
"For example, the Sun family wants to go to Jeju to do business.
How many large carriages are needed to load it?”
“When walking through a ravine, I’m afraid of being robbed by robbers; when walking by water, I’m afraid that my car will overturn and be lost.”
"Not to mention the losses on the road, not to mention the tolls, just to work hard to protect the money, it is very time-consuming."
"But after we have a bank, it's different."
Li Chengqian did not brag, and said: "For example, if you deposit 10,000 yuan in Yangzhou, the Yangzhou bank will issue you a receipt."
"When you go to Jeju to do business, you can use the receipt of these ten thousand dollars to withdraw ten thousand dollars from the Jeju Bank."
"In this way, you will save the link of transporting money and greatly avoid the loss of money."
"And when you save money at a bank, you only need to pay the bank some savings fees."
After hearing these words, Sun Xiunian's eyes suddenly lit up.
After all, only those who do business know the hardships involved.
As Li Chengqian said, transporting money has always been a problem that troubles merchants.
Two months ago, his caravan was robbed by bandits.
Although the government later recovered the money, it was still delayed for more than ten days.
As a result, he had to prepare two sums of money to send to the owner of the goods.
But if this bank thing can be accomplished, so many people will no longer be needed to escort it.
In this way, not only does it save a lot of expenses, but it is also much safer than before.
Moreover, it was Li Chengqian who united the Changsun family and the Lu family to do this.
Judging from their reputation in society, there is definitely no such thing as taking money in but not taking it out.
Sun Xiu young stroked his beard and said: "If this is really the case, then ordinary people are really willing to hand over their money to the bank for safekeeping."
"If that's the case, then we've made an agreement."
Li Chengqian smiled and said: "Uncle Sun, you want to be our bank's first customer." r> "Of course."
Sun Xiunian said: "When His Highness' bank opens, ordinary people will definitely be the first to support it."
Regardless of whether the Sun family's status is recognized by outsiders or not.
At least their influence in the business world is unmatched by others.
If the Sun family is willing to believe in the bank, it will definitely attract a large number of people to follow suit, which will be absolutely beneficial to the development of the bank.
Li Chengqian talked a lot with Sun Xiunian about the bank affairs.
But these two people didn't know that just when they were chatting passionately, Yangzhou City was already in chaos.
Cheng Huailiang led his troops to the homes of various aristocratic families, and arrested the heads of those families without any explanation.
No matter how big your family is or how many people you have, take them all away.
If anyone dares to resist, it will be easy to handle.
Cheng Huailiang was worried that he had no place to vent the frustration he suffered today.
For example, in the Zhang family in Yangzhou, he didn't get used to it at all, and directly led Qian Ziying from the front door to the back door.
After arriving at the main house, he punched and kicked the head of the Zhang family, and then carried him away without caring about others.
When Li Chengqian came to Yangzhou City, the city was turned upside down on the first day, and the chickens and dogs were restless.
But no matter what, when the banquet was held in the evening, all the heads of the wealthy families in Yangzhou came.
No matter how you got here, no matter whether you were beaten and bruised, you will still get there.
Banquet scene.
Li Chengqian wore a blue brocade robe and sat upright on the main seat.
He looked at the heads of the aristocratic families in front of him and said with a smile: "Is this a situation where everyone is happy?"
"I invite you all to come here today, I have nothing else to do."
"I just want to tell you that I want to open banks in Yangzhou and even the entire Jiangnan."
"It's okay if you don't support me, but whoever dares to cause trouble will be punished without mercy!"