Chen Lin's old hands kept brushing over Kou Ji's shoulders, as if she was going to break his neck at any time.
His voice was low and hoarse like a ghost, and he whispered in Kou Ji's ear: "Kou Ji, you are getting more and more presumptuous..."
Kou Ji didn't seem to notice Chen Lin's hand brushing over his shoulder. He held Zhao Zhen's inscription in his arms and walked forward while saying calmly: "Everything I do is approved by the officials.
"
Chen Lin narrowed her eyes and said coldly: "The officials have forgiven you for the sins you committed, but the officials have not forgiven you for bullying the emperor."
Kou Ji paused, turned his head to look at Chen Lin, and asked seriously: "When will I deceive you?"
Chen Lin walked up to Kou Ji with small steps and said with a cold face: "First you deceived the official family and established the emperor's personal army, and now you plan to make money by using the official name.
It’s soldiers and horses, money and food...
It was clearly an evil intention.
You use the hands of officials to achieve your ulterior purposes. If you don't deceive the emperor, what is it?"
Kou Ji stared at Chen Lin in front of him, frowned and said, "Everything I do is for the official family."
"For the official family?"
Chen Lin sneered and said: "If you are really doing it for the officialdom, then you should not do anything."
Kou Ji stared at Chen Lin and said nothing.
Chen Lin continued: "Your grandfather now has power over the government and the public. If you want to follow Cao Mengde's words, it will be easy."
Kou Ji said solemnly: "My grandfather is loyal to the official family."
Chen Lin sneered and said: "Our family knows that your grandfather is loyal to the official family.
But the power in his hands has reached its peak.
If you take another half step forward, you will threaten the official family.
You are gathering troops and amassing money, so you are pushing your grandfather to take the remaining half step."
Kou Ji glared at Chen Lin and snorted coldly: "The official family and I are also brothers and sisters."
Chen Lin said disdainfully: "Taizu and Taizong are still brothers..."
Kou Ji glared at Chen Lin and said in a deep voice: "Neither my grandfather nor I have any objections. Why do you say that I am pushing my grandfather to walk the remaining half step?"
Chen Lin said sadly: "Power and strength have reached a certain peak. Even if you don't want to sit in a high position, some restless people will push you forward."
Chen Lin's words were very blunt and harsh to Kou Ji's ears, but he had to admit that Chen Lin was telling the truth.
Kou Ji pondered for a while and said, "You know the situation in Baozhou.
You should know what will happen to those soldiers in Baozhou if they cannot become the emperor's personal soldiers."
Chen Lin said unhurriedly: "Our family naturally understands, so we didn't say much about your establishment of the emperor's personal army in Baozhou.
But now you want to make money by using the name of an official, so our family has to stop you."
Kou Ji said solemnly: "I have not made any profit by using my reputation as an official.
The reason why it is necessary for the official to handwrite the royal letter is to send money to the official in a clear and correct manner."
Chen Lin didn't believe Kou Ji's words at all. He said sarcastically: "Are you so kind?"
Kou Ji asked: "Do you know Jiaozi?"
Chen Lin was stunned for a moment, then raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "Jiaozi from Shu?"
Kou Ji nodded slowly.
Chen Lin said thoughtfully: "When Jiaozi appeared, our family noticed it.
When the Mu family and other major merchants were greedy and caused trouble by borrowing money from friends, our family had the intention to reveal the matter to the inner court and planned to let the inner court intervene.
It’s just that our family hasn’t sent someone to reveal it to the inner court yet.
Your Kou Mansion's manpower has arrived at Sichuan Mansion.
Let’s just let our people wait and see what happens.”
After a pause, Chen Lin said in a faint tone: "I heard from my subordinates that you made tens of millions of dollars by taking advantage of the Sichuan government's Jiaozi crisis.
The means of making money are the best in the world."
Chen Lin's eyes fell on Kou Ji's face, and she said calmly: "We don't hide it from you. The reason why we think your Kou family is planning something evil is because of this ten million yuan.
Ten million dollars is enough for you to bribe hundreds of thousands of soldiers!"
Kou Ji frowned and said, "No matter how much money I make, that's my ability.
I didn't steal or rob, nor did I embezzle. Every penny I earned was clean.
Let alone 10 million guan, even if it is 10 million guan, I would be justified in taking it.
The fact that I mentioned Jiaozi to you has nothing to do with making money for me."
Chen Lin slowly opened her eyes wide and said in a strange tone: "Ten million guan, Shilang Kou has such a strong tone!"
Kou Ji said angrily: "Can you let me finish what I'm saying?"
Chen Lin sneered and said, "Okay, we'll give you time to finish your sentence."
When Kou Ji saw Chen Lin's sneer on his face, he knew that no matter what he said, Chen Lin would judge it with a critical attitude.
But Kou Ji didn't care.
He had already made plans in his mind, and he believed that his plans could conquer Chen Lin.
Kou Ji pursed his lips and said, "You know Jiaozi, and you have also learned about Jiaozi Shop in Shuzhong, so you should know how profitable Jiaozi is."
Chen Lin twitched her lips and mocked: "Can Jiaozi make money? How come our family saw that the major merchants who opened Jiaozi shops not only failed to make any money, but also lost a lot of money. Some people even lost their families because of it."
Hearing Chen Lin's words, Kou Ji was slightly startled, a little confused about whether to laugh or cry.
He thought Chen Lin knew Jiaozi very well, but he didn't expect that Chen Lin only knew a little bit about him.
Seeing Chen Lin's face full of ridicule, he couldn't help but sarcastically said: "Several major merchants didn't make any money, and some even lost their families because of it. That's because of my intervention.
If I don’t take action, if you think about it, what will happen?”
Chen Lin thought about Kou Ji's words carefully, and the smile on her face became stiff.
Kou Ji continued: "If I don't take action, those big businesses will definitely make profits without losing money. In the end, only the common people will suffer, and it will be those common people who will have their families destroyed."
Chen Lin looked a little ugly and said: "The Grand Master and others will not sit idly by and let the people suffer."
Kou Ji imitated Chen Lin's behavior just now and sneered, but said nothing.
Chen Lin's face became even more ugly.
He is not a stubborn person, nor is he someone who likes to get into trouble.
Just from the fact that after the run on Jiaozi Shop in Sichuan, the people overturned the Sichuan government office, but the court did not receive the news, it is not difficult to see that several major merchants in Jiaozi Shop in Sichuan have bribed the local government.
Even if the imperial court sent people to investigate, they wouldn't be able to find much.
In the end, the only one who could pay to clean up the mess was the imperial court, and the one who took the blame could only be the Zhou family who fled to the Liao Kingdom.
The other major businesses were not hurt at all.
Chen Lin said with a dark face: "It is the responsibility of the Criminal Department to investigate and deal with corruption and it has nothing to do with our family."
Kou Ji smiled calmly and said: "I didn't ask you to investigate and deal with corruption, nor did I talk about corruption with you. I was talking about Jiaozi from the beginning to the end."
Chen Lin gritted her teeth and said, "So what if Jiaozi makes money? The Jiaozi shop in Shuzhong has been closed. The people of Sichuan no longer trust Jiaozi."
Kou Ji still looked indifferent, "It was me who ordered the Shuzhong Jiaozi store to close. The Jiaozi store they made before had too many mistakes and was not greedy enough, which led to a run on the store.
After I re-established the rules, these troubles will no longer occur in the future.
Not only will there be no trouble, Jiaozi will become bigger and bigger.
At present, Jiaozipu has been set up in Sichuan Prefecture, Jiangning Prefecture and Bianjing City respectively.
It can only be opened after the official signboard is put up.
By then there will be a large amount of gold, silver and copper coins stored in Jiaozipu."
When Chen Lin heard this, she still disagreed.
Kou Ji dropped a bombshell with a smile, "In just half a month, the money saved in the three Jiaozi shops will exceed the national treasury."
Kou Ji is not talking big words.
The reason why he dared to say that in half a month, Jiaozipu's savings would exceed the national treasury.
It's not because the savings from the three Jiaozi shops will reach a terrifying figure within half a month.
It's because the treasury has been empty for many years, and in the past year or two, only after the abolition of the Criminal Division and half of the officers and soldiers of the Sanbiangxiang Army, a little surplus was left.
Currently, there is less than two million dollars in the national treasury.
Originally there should have been more, but the court spent some in order to appease the soldiers of the Xiang Army who had been laid off.
But, even so, Chen Lin's eyes widened for a moment.
You know, the monthly profit of the imperial salt farm is only one million yuan.
How could he not be surprised that a small three-store Jiaozi shop could absorb more than twice the profit of the imperial salt farm in just half a month?
Kou Ji was very satisfied with Chen Lin's reaction. He raised the corners of his mouth and continued with a bright smile: "I plan to pave Jiaozi pavement to seventeen roads under the jurisdiction of the imperial court within three years."
There were originally fifteen roads in the Song Dynasty court. After Kou Zhun proposed and added Dongping Road and Xiping Road, it became seventeen roads.
Kou Ji stared at Chen Lin and dropped a bigger bombshell again, "Once Jiaozipu has paved seventeen roads, Jiaozipu's annual savings will be equal to the tax revenue of the imperial court."
Chen Lin's pupils shrank into a dot for a moment, her lips trembled, and she growled: "It's impossible..."
Kou Ji smiled calmly and said: "It's not impossible... The appearance of Jiaozi is to provide convenience for large-scale transactions. At that time, large-scale transactions, and even transactions exceeding a certain amount of money on the street, will all use Jiaozi.
trade.
If they want to use my Jiaozi, they naturally have to store the corresponding copper coins in the Jiaozi shop.
By then, the savings in Jiaozipu will increase day by day.
It’s the same as the imperial tax, it’s easy.”
When Chen Lin heard this, she was trembling all over.
Kou Ji asked with a smile: "You don't naively think that the money in the hands of the common people is not as much as the tax revenue of the imperial court?"
Chen Lin shook her head stiffly.
Of course he would not have such naive ideas.
From the beginning of the Song Dynasty to today, the amount of copper coins issued every year has been around 30 million guan.
Decades have passed, and the number of copper coins minted by the imperial mint workshop held by the common people has exceeded one hundred thousand guan.
Therefore, the demand for copper coins among the people has not yet reached saturation.
Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many workshops for casting private money, let alone iron money.
It can be seen that the stock of copper coins among the people is very huge.
In Chen Lin's shocked look, Kou Ji continued: "A large amount of money among the people is in the hands of wealthy households and businessmen. Ninety percent of wealthy households are also doing business.
As long as they do business, they cannot do without convenient Jiaozi."
Kou Ji made his words so clear that Chen Lin didn't need to think too much to understand that once Jiaozi was recognized by the people, the people would almost convert their money into Jiaozi without hesitation.
The fact that Jiaozipu's annual savings exceed the court's tax revenue is not an idea, but something that will actually happen.
When Kou Ji saw Chen Lin clenching her teeth and remaining silent, he knew that the heat was almost over. He said with a half-smile, "It would be even more powerful if Jiaozi Pavilion could be spread to more than 200 states in the Song Dynasty."
"no!"
Chen Lin blurted out.
Kou Jixiao asked: "What's not working?"
Chen Lin stared at Kou Ji and said seriously: "Jiaozi cannot be in your hands."
Kou Ji expected that Chen Lin would say this, so he smiled calmly and said: "Then who do you think is more suitable for it to be in the hands of? The imperial court? My grandfather? Or the Queen Mother?"
Kou Ji looked at Chen Lin and said, "As for you...you don't have the qualifications or the ability."
Chen Lin gritted her teeth and said, "Then let the imperial court take charge."
Kou Ji burst out laughing and said: "Let the imperial court take charge, and then become a money-making machine for those corrupt officials. Eventually it triggers a run on money, causing wealthy businessmen to riot, and then rise up?"
"Tightly guarded..."
"If strict supervision was effective, Lu Yijian would not have uncovered thousands of corrupt officials."
Kou Ji stared at Chen Lin and said seriously: "Jiaozi is no better than others. It is not difficult for corrupt officials to plunder the people's wealth, thousands of guan, tens of thousands of guan, or even hundreds of thousands of guan. But if you want to exceed a million guan, then
It's difficult.
Jiaozi is different.
Once Jiaozi is rolled out to every state.
There are officials in charge of Jiaozi who want to embezzle, and if they do it, the amount is millions, or even tens of millions."
Chen Lin gritted her teeth and lowered her head sadly.
He did not make a stupid suggestion to let Kou Zhun and Liu E take charge of Jiaozi.
If Kou Zhun was in charge of Jiaozi, he would not be half a step away from Zhao Zhen's throne.
But it's within reach.
If Liu E takes charge of Jiaozi, with her ambition, she will definitely come to the forefront again.
When the time comes, Kou Zhun may not be her opponent.
Zhao Zhen will become a puppet in her hands.
Neither the former nor the latter is what Chen Lin wants to see.
Chen Lin pondered for a long time, stared at Kou Ji and asked: "What percentage of the official family accounted for in Jiaozipu?"
Kou Ji said calmly: "Originally it was 30%, but the officials were unwilling, so it became 20%."
Chen Lin stared, "So few?"
His face darkened, he stared at Kou Ji and gritted his teeth and said, "You monopolize 80% of the money... and you want to use this to control the world's money. You really have evil intentions."
Kou Ji rolled his eyes and said angrily: "I only accounted for two percent."
Chen Lin was stunned and asked: "Where is the remaining 60%?"
Kou Ji spread his hands and said, "Distributed to the Mu family, Qian family, and Meng family."
Chen Lin said angrily: "How do a group of cheap businessmen have the right to account for 60% of the members in Jiaozi Shop? We don't allow it!"