Time Travel: I am the idle king Li Shen and Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty

Hundreds of thousands of workers are coming back, which makes Li Shenyou frown.

The last time there were 100,000 workers, the commotion was big enough, and this time there are hundreds of thousands of workers.

Li Shenxian could imagine the scene at that time. Chang'an City was facing a great enemy, and hundreds of thousands of laborers surrounded Chang'an City.

Thinking of this scene, Li Shen couldn't help but shudder.

By then, my father would hang me on the city wall and beat me.

Just thinking about Li Shen makes me feel painful.

"no!"

Li Shen suddenly shouted when he thought of this, which scared Wang Hongfu.

What's wrong with Prince Ji? He's so jumpy.

"What's wrong, sir?"

Wang Hongfu asked.

“This king said that it is not okay for so many laborers to come here.

There are too many people, and if they all come to Chang'an City, it will cause panic in Chang'an City.

If His Majesty blames us, we won't be able to afford it."

Li Shen explained.

"But...what about paying the wages? If we don't pay them, the consequences may be even more serious."

Wang Hongfu said that if hundreds of thousands of workers were not paid, a riot would occur if someone instigated them.

By then, Prince Ji’s Mansion will not be able to bear the consequences.

Of course Li Shen knew the consequences. He lay there and thought carefully. Now the most troublesome thing was distributing the money.

If each person has ten strings of coins, that's only sixty or seventy kilograms, and for hundreds of thousands of people that would be tens of millions of kilograms.

It is very troublesome to transport.

Today's four-wheeled carriages can only transport three to four thousand kilograms of cargo, which is only two tons.

Thousands of horse-drawn carriages were needed to transport it.

I have a headache.

Li Shen rubbed his temples with his hands. He didn't have any good solution at the moment. It would be better if he had paper and pen.

“Your Majesty, transporting money is troublesome and laborious. If you want to pay the workers halfway, I’m afraid it won’t work.

But if they all go to Chang'an, it will be very troublesome to transport their money back.

Why not let them go back to their registered place of residence to collect their money? "

Wang Xuance on the side suggested.

"Master Wang's idea is feasible, Your Majesty, most of the laborers we recruited this time are from Jiannan and Shu.

There were only a few counties and cities along the way, and their wages were paid by local newspapers.

We can let them return to their registered places of residence and collect their wages from local state and county newspapers.

This way they can save themselves the trouble of paying for long-distance transportation, killing two birds with one stone."

Hearing Wang Xuance's suggestion, Wang Hongfu agreed.

"Well, this is a good idea. Let's do this. Send someone to intercept them on their way back.

Notify the workers to return home, Xuan Ce, write a memorial to the Secretariat to report the matter.

Ask them to send an order to the states and counties along the way,

If they disagree, then tell them that Ma Zhou will bear the consequences of the laborers coming to Chang'an City."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Their large-scale recruitment of laborers was supported by the court and would improve the lives of the people.

However, common people need a document to pass through the customs.

When they went there, the prefectures and counties issued documents, and the reason was that they were working for Prince Ji's Mansion.

When they returned, they were escorted by government soldiers and sent back to their respective states, and the documents were also issued by the imperial court.

But now that the route has been changed, it must be reported.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid the money from the various states and counties is not enough. We need to transfer money from Prince Ji's Palace."

Wang Hongfu said again.

"Then move it, just don't let me see it, and have the truck company transport it out quickly.

The workers walk slowly, so if the cars go faster they should be able to arrive ahead.

Don't delay the payment of wages, or people will say that our Ji Wangfu is dishonest."

Li Shen waved his hand and said that the money could be transferred, but he couldn't see it, otherwise he would be heartbroken, really heartbroken.

"Yes, I will make proper arrangements and will not delay the payment of wages."

Wang Hongfu agreed.

Li Shen suddenly thought of something, looked up and asked:

"By the way, how is the establishment of our Tang Central Bank going?"

"Your Highness, we have already established branches of the Central Bank in the governor's offices of the twelve prefectures.

Some of the remaining large states also established branch offices, such as Luoyang, Fuzhou, Guangzhou and other places.

A total of more than 40 branches of the Central Bank were established.

Wang Hongfu took out his notebook and checked the report.

"Only more than forty?" Li Shen raised his voice.

“It’s been more than a year, and you’ve only built more than forty for me?

My Great Tang now has twelve circuits and more than two thousand prefectures and counties, and you have established more than forty branches for me?

What do you do for a living?

At this speed, it’s hard to say whether I can complete it before I die.

Old Wang, please give me an explanation. "

Li Shen was almost angry to death.

The Tang Dynasty now has a large territory, especially after it conquered the Tiele in the north and most of Goguryeo.

And after annexing some small countries around it.

There are more than 2,000 states and counties, and only 40 are established in a year, which takes 50 years.

He is twenty years old now, and it is not certain whether he can live to be seventy.

"Your Majesty, calm down. Your Majesty, calm down."

Wang Hongfu quickly explained:

“Your Majesty, it is not difficult to set up this bank, but the money and accounts that need to be managed are very complicated.

It is also important to be able to exchange bills from other places.

I have no experience and I am afraid that any mistake will bring heavy losses to Prince Ji's Mansion.

So I want to build a few dozen as a pilot first, and then start building on a large scale after I become proficient in it."

What King Ji requested was too difficult to achieve universal peace.

There are many links involved in this process, including how often bills and money should be summarized.

How often will we send people to check the bills and money?

This requires detailed data statistics. The time for counties far away and counties close to them is definitely different.

Li Shenyi frowned, he seemed to think this matter was too simple, even though he had made a special kind of paper.

Anti-counterfeiting was avoided, but without computers and underdeveloped communications, many things were troublesome to do.

"Well, what you said makes sense. So, you can start by letting all places start to transfer money, and don't do cross-border exchange for the deposit business.

By sending money by air and specifying the place to pick up the money, you can save a lot of trouble.

The money deposit business is deposited and withdrawn locally.

However, for safety reasons, money from county-level branches must be transported to the state capital every day.

Large withdrawals must be notified two days in advance.

The customs declaration fee is charged at ten cents per string of coins per year and the storage fee is ten cents per string of coins per year.

Please go back and write a specific plan for me based on the actual situation. Remember, I am a little cheaper than others.

Have an advantage.”

Li Shen is neither an economist nor a banker, and it is good enough that he can figure out deposits and withdrawals.

Even his loans were mortgage loans.

"Yes, Your Majesty. I will discuss this with someone when I return."

Wang Hongfu accepted the order and said that Prince Ji's money shop was a completely new thing, completely different from the court's money shops and the flying money in other places.

He was also slowly figuring out what King Ji meant.

(As for money houses, to be honest, I only know how to deposit and withdraw money, but I really don’t understand what the standard is, what the interest rate conversion is.

If there are any mistakes, please don’t take them too seriously and don’t write them down.)