Shanxi Chamber of Commerce Hall.

Xu Bangyan took a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his face carefully. As the car stopped, his heart skipped a beat. When he left Jinshang Bank just now, all his colleagues in the bank were looking forward and envious. At that time, he was also full of energy, but the closer he got, the more nervous he was. When he got off the car, he felt his legs were weak. If Li Junwei hadn't helped him casually, he would have fallen to the ground.

"Why do you keep up with the execution ground?" Li Junwei quipped.

Xu Bangyan said while wiping his sweat: "It's really the majesty of the Tian family, and the people... the people are so terrified that they are in their hearts."

Li Junwei said: "Don't be nervous, the royal family does not have those many rules. After all, you are a meritorious person."

The reason why Xu Bangyan was nervous was because the royal family had no rules. For an ordinary person like him, no rules was the biggest rule, and there was no etiquette officer to teach etiquette. No one explained what he wore and how he was behaved. Now he didn't even know which leg he stepped on.

"The emperor is still talking to local officials about the expansion of the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum. Please go to my house for a while. Don't worry, I will go with you later." Li Junwei comforted.

When Xu Bangyan heard the meeting with King Yu, he finally calmed down all the way and said, "It's great, it's great."

When he arrived at the side hall, Xu Bangyan wanted to ask about the rules of the Face Saint, but saw the female servant bringing a bowl of sour plum soup and putting it on the table. There were still ice cubes that had not yet been completely melted. Li Junwei said: "You are so hot that your clothes are wet. It's not so good. Drink this bowl of sour plum soup to relieve the heat."

Xu Bangyan knew that the hot weather was just one aspect. He was sweating profusely, mainly nervous and excited. He didn't want to be arrogant, but the more nervous he became the more dry he was. He picked it up and took a sip. It was really refreshing. He went straight from his throat to the base of his tail. After drinking a bowl, he still couldn't stop it. Xu Bangyan wanted to drink it again, but he didn't dare to ask for it. He could only pick up the teacup, but Li Junwei held his hand and the teacup was also taken away.

"Sour plum soup and tea are going to get dilute, don't drink it anymore. I remember when I was a child, a businessman from North Korea went to the palace to see his father. He got up early and drank the soup. He was excited when he saw his father. He didn't know how to use the new toilet and pee his pants directly. It would be fine if you had diarrhea, but if you had diarrhea, the scene wouldn't be able to be cleaned up." Li Junwei said with a smile.

This was originally a joke, but when Xu Bangyan heard it, he immediately didn't dare to eat or drink. He also thought that when he came, he was lucky to eat nothing.

Xu Bangyan also wanted to ask how to act when he saw the emperor, but when he saw the attendant invited him, Li Junwei put down the teacup in his hand, got up and left. Xu Bangyan followed behind and asked in a low voice: "Prince, how can the Caomin not be polite when he sees the emperor?"

Li Junwei said: "There are two rules in front of the imperial court. You must kneel when you meet at the first time and kneel when you have the grand ceremony. Is it better to kneel down when you meet for the first time? If you have the chance to see you again in the future, you won't need to."

“What about the others?”

Li Junwei thought for a while and said, "Just just treat it as your father-in-law after the New Year."

When Xu Bangyan heard Li Junwei say this, he felt a rough idea in his heart. When he entered the door and gave a big gift, Li Junhua said in a deep voice: "Mr. Xu invites you, come and give him a seat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Xu Bangyan sat there nervously, and his butt was hit by the chair, ready to get up at any time.

"This Shanxi Chamber of Commerce Hall is very well packed. I am here to do this, but it has disturbed your tranquility..." Li Junhua said.

When Xu Bangyan heard this, he said that he didn't dare to stand up and kneel down, but was held down by Li Junwei. Li Junwei said: "If you don't have to get up when talking to the emperor, just sit firmly and say that you're just like that."

Xu Bangyan then sat down and said carefully: "All the Shanxi merchants have the intention to serve. Your Majesty's residence in the Shanxi merchant hall is the honor of all our Shanxi merchants. The Shanxi merchants were given the grace of Your Majesty in their early years, and they dared not forget their roots. They were willing to serve Your Majesty and the court."

The last sentence is about the old things. When the empire was established, the legacy of the Qing Dynasty was completely liquidated. The most powerful person in Shanxi was not the gentry, but the eight great masters of Shanxi merchants and the imperial merchants of the Qing Dynasty. These completely traitors were implicated by the entire clan and their family property was confiscated. The Shanxi merchant group was almost completely caught in one go, but there will always be later generations of Shanxi merchants who were vacant.

Later, the empire established Shangtun in the current inner Xinjiang region to prepare for the Northern Expedition. Shanxi merchants were the largest group besides Beijing merchants. They took advantage of the spring breeze of Shangtun to go to the south of the desert to trade, which was also the first pot of gold for the newly-shang merchants. Among them, Li Junhua was also the contribution of Li Junhua.

At that time, Li Junhua was still the crown prince. At that time, in the imperial education system, history was regarded as a very important subject. The prince who was still a student keenly discovered the "overcorrection" in the textbooks. Among the traitors, eight major Shanxi merchants were listed. At that time, Li Junhua believed that the Shanxi merchants were the general name of Shanxi merchants, and the traitors were traitors and merchants could not be called the Shanxi merchants, which had a regional identity. After that, he changed his name and used the eight fake imperial merchants in Shanxi as the new title, separated the Shanxi merchants from the traitors and treacherous merchants and treacherous merchants to correct the name of the Shanxi merchants, so that the Shanxi merchants could act publicly. At this time, Xu Bangyan mentioned that he was just climbing along the pole.

"I know that the Shanxi merchants suffered some grievances in the early years, but fortunately they have been stable over the years..." Li Junhua opened up and started chatting with Xu Bangyan. However, after chatting for a long time, he did not talk to the Ottoman Empire's ten million loan. Xu Bangyan was nervous. He didn't know what the emperor meant, but he didn't dare to take the initiative to mention it. After thinking about it, he decided to beat the drum and said, "Your Majesty, the people of the grass want to ask for grace."

"Oh, come and listen." Li Junhua said.

Xu Bangyan said: "Your Majesty, during this period, the Holy Driving has arrived in Xi'an, and there is a new immigration policy for the Shangjianyuan. Caomin waited to see His Majesty's foresight, especially the newly established girls' school, which was even more generous and open. Caomin went to Beijing to buy and sell when he was young. He had seen the current girls' school run by the Queen Mother. He also wanted to let his daughter go to school, but he was not qualified. Now Xi'an also has a girls' school, but for the time being, only girls in the Shangjianyuan. Caomin wanted to ask His Majesty to open the girls' school so that the people who are waiting for us can also send their daughter to school."

Li Junhua nodded slightly, praising Xu Bangyan for being open-minded, and agreed immediately, but Li Junwei, who was bored, knew that Xu Bangyan was reminding the emperor to talk about the important things, but Li Junhua just didn't mention it. After talking about the girls' school, he simply talked to Xu Bangyan and started talking to him. It was not until the end that he ordered the attendant: "Give him a banquet to the Jin Shang merchants and send it to the banquet hall of the Jin Shang Bank. King Yu, please go for me. Mr. Xu asked King Yu directly about the Jin Shang Bank."

When Xu Bangyan heard that the emperor arranged this matter to King Yu, he felt even more happy. King Yu was an old acquaintance and was much easier to deal with than others, but Li Junwei became in a daze. Then he realized that this mission had been arranged on his head.

After leaving, Xu Bangyan saw that Li Junwei was a little excited and asked, "Prince Yu, what's wrong with you?"

Li Junwei shook his head slightly and said, "It's nothing, I just feel that there is a little tree that wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop."

Xu Bangyan was not sure about it, and accompanied King Yu to the car and went to the banquet hall of Jinshang Bank. The banquet was immediately followed. When the senior executives of Jinshang Bank arrived, the Zhongting official came and sent the gold-plated plaque of Jinshang Bank that had been prepared, which made people feel even more glorious.

Xu Bangyan had a face in front of his colleagues in Shanxi, but he did not forget it. He knew that King Yu was not happy with this kind of excitement, so he briefly introduced him in front of his colleagues, so he invited him to the back hall. After being sent, Xu Bangyan asked: "Prince, what is the constitution of His Majesty's loan to the Ottoman Sultan?"

"What kind of charter? The charter is what you earn, and I will do the matter." Li Junwei said lightly.

Xu Bangyan was not surprised at all: "Yes, this is natural. Ten million is not a small amount. Even in places like Europa, where the silver price is low, it can arm 50,000 elite troops. However, it is called the capital to destroy the country. Only the prince, such as the imperial sect, can handle it properly. If the prince takes action, the people will feel relieved.

How to do it specifically, the prince will give the grass people an idea."

Li Junwei smiled and asked back, "Mr. Xu, I ask you, can you Shanshang Bank take out 10 million taels of silver?"

Xu Bangyan said: "Of course, Jinshang Bank does not have that much money now, but behind Jinshang Bank is all the Shanxi merchants. As long as the court gives me a reassurance, 10 million people will definitely be able to get it together in two lifetimes. The key is that this is the first time to cooperate with the Ottomans, and many people are afraid of being wasted."

"Then if you were asked to disburse money from Shanxi and Shaanxi to Xijin now, how much could Jinshang Bank get rid of?" Li Junwei asked.

Xu Bangyan said: "Two million taels are absolutely fine. That's right. We have established a branch in Xijin. Last year, we sent 500,000 taels of silver and contacted all local parties..."

Xu Bangyan briefly mentioned the reason why Shanxi merchants were so successful in the border areas, especially the Far Krai and Xijin. It was that after they went there, they directly found local tyrants. Not only did they develop good relations with the local vassals, but they also contacted the Black Sea around the Black Sea. The active merchants, Jews and Venetian merchants in the Tsarist Russia and the Politic Federation were the keys. These two merchants were also important participants in the European financial industry. With their help, Shanxi Merchants Bank won the Sanjiang Pass in Russia and quickly opened up the situation in Xijin.

"The Ottoman borrowed ten million taels for war. Since it was for war, it might not have to ask for money, so there was no need to really take out ten million taels of silver. It would be enough for you, Jinshang Bank, to raise about three million," said Li Junwei.

Xu Bangyan immediately understood: "What do you mean to offset the goods?"

Li Junwei nodded slightly, and Xu Bangyan frowned: "But there are only two types of war materials that can be raised in Xijin area, one is war horses and the other is the base price of food, but these two cannot offset so much. Does the prince want us to reduce the scale of lending to control the expansion of the Ottoman?"

"Of course not, I mean, this cake is too big, you Shanxi merchants can't swallow it!" Li Junwei said bluntly.

Xu Bangyan nodded when he heard this, and Li Junwei continued, "Don't think that the emperor's brother agreed and sent me there again, everything will go as he pleases. To be honest, as long as the court provides you with a bottom line, you Shanxi merchants can take out any of them. Even if the interest rate is lower, you can collect it from the customs of Egypt and Iraq. It doesn't matter. But Mr. Xu, you have to know that eating alone will attract people's grudges. Shanxi merchants are not short of money or big trees now. What they lack is power. As long as you do things that suit the overall situation of the imperial frontier, the emperor brothers are your support. But you Shanxi merchants are not imperial merchants, and you need someone in the court. I would like to ask, do you have any voice in the cabinet, the Senate and the House of Assembly?"

Xu Bangyan could only shake his head in response. Although the empire has been established for more than 20 years, the center of power of the empire has been in the south. Needless to say, the Senate is all heroes from the dragon. Many times, and a small number of northerners were either from Shandong or from Shaanxi from Xiying. But they can only be said to be from the ancestral home. Take King Rong Li Dingguo as an example, and authentic Shaanxi people, but they started to conquer the world from the southwest, and their interests were spread all over the southeast. There was an ancestral home in Shaanxi to worship their ancestors.

Most of the cabinets have always been in southern China. Even though the new cabinet has been reopened, there are no real northern people, and there are no Shanxi people. In many cases, it is better to find a cabinet than to find a vassal court.

The distribution of members in the House of Representatives seems fair, but it comes from the population. In the south, there are not only domestic provinces but also overseas provinces, so maritime trade is valued, while land commerce is supported by stepmothers.

"Prince, you understand what the people mean. You want to cut some of the benefits to the southerners, right?" Xu Bangyan asked simply.

Li Junwei said: "Join to participate and share risks! Although I take this matter, I cannot tell you that this is a business that is stable and profitable, and there is no business that is stable and profitable. Moreover, this matter cannot be separated from other places, especially the participation of Nanyang merchants. At least, the Ottomans need armament. There is no extra nail in Xijin and the far-reaching Kerbera region, and there is no support at all. The Ottomans are used to going to Penang to purchase guns and steel.

At that time, the Ottomans would buy goods from Nanyang with the money of Shanxi merchants, and no one could stop them from participating. Instead of being disturbed by the Ottomans, it would be better for Shanxi merchants to join forces with Nanyang merchants to win this big order.
Chapter completed!