I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 449 Business Road
After leveling the land for the construction of the Tianjing Stock Exchange, Zhou Tieyi came to the headquarters of the Southeast Chamber of Commerce in Wangluoyuan in the afternoon. He was accompanied by Feng Zikuan and Mei Qingchen.

"We are here to pay our respects to Lord Zhou, Eunuch Feng, and Consort Mei."

Qian Guangyun brought the leaders of several other major chambers of commerce to pay their respects. Since Zhou Tieyi was now a real marquis, the other leaders wanted to pay their respects with great ceremony.

Zhou Tieyi glanced at the expressions of the other people and knew why they did this, so he sneered and said, "Forget it. These empty gifts can't be exchanged for money with me. Let's finish the business first and then discuss the empty gifts!"

Qian Guangyun looked calm, having expected this, and said with a bow, "Yes."

The other heads of the Chamber of Commerce looked a little embarrassed, looked at each other, and quickly said, "Yes."

Zhou Tieyi had been to Wangluo Garden several times and was basically familiar with everything here. He took the lead and walked towards the parliament flower hall. Although all the flowers had withered at this time, the strange pines and cypresses, and the green bamboos covered with snow added a unique flavor.

The servants served tea. Zhou Tieyi took a look at the tea without touching it. He asked, "Where are the accounts I asked you to calculate?"

Many chamber of commerce leaders looked at Qian Guangyun, and Qian Guangyun signaled his subordinates to bring up the account books. Soon, the massive amount of account books were piled up in front of the ten-foot-wide flower hall, forming eight small hills.

Zhou Tieyi then picked up the tea and took a sip of the hot tea. "Let me be frank. We can all find ways to solve the deficit in the accounts, but if someone still keeps it secret from me and makes false accounts, I will not be able to solve the problem. You know what the result will be."

Everyone is already aware of Zhou Tieyi's current habit of checking accounts, and the Mo Shi case also gave these businessmen the confidence to report the true accounts to Zhou Tieyi.

After all, the loss of Mo Shi was so huge. Although all the major families in Taihang Mountain were searched, at least the foundation was saved, and the account was also solved under Zhou Tieyi's management. So it was better to say that everyone trusted Zhou Tieyi's ability to solve problems rather than trusting his character.

Qian Guangyun quickly stood up with several presidents of the major chambers of commerce, "How could we dare to hide this from you?"

Zhou Tieyi nodded and looked at Mei Qingchen, "Ask someone to go over this account, summarize it, and then hand it over to me."

"Yes."

Zhou Tieyi looked at Qian Guangyun again, "Tell me, how much banknotes did each of your eight families issue in vain?"

Although the silver bill system of the entire Daxia now contains huge risks, it has not yet reached the point of eruption, so Zhou Tieyi cannot directly declare the silver bills of various money houses invalid and invalid. He can only incorporate the silver bill systems of the eight largest chamber of commerce money houses in Daxia into the scope of the entire central bank, and collect the silver bills step by step, just like exchanging new currency for old currency, and eventually replace all the silver bills with the unified silver bills of the central bank.

Only after the money houses of the eight major chambers of commerce have become stable and cover the major commercial cities of Daxia, will they be able to slowly collect and process the silver bills issued by small money houses in various regions, thus reducing financial turmoil to a minimum.

The other seven people did not dare to answer and could only look at Qian Guangyun again. After receiving the notice yesterday, they went back to sort out the accounts and even shocked themselves.

Qian Guangyun looked calm, "The Southeast Chamber of Commerce has now issued more than 400 million taels of silver notes, the Northern Chamber of Commerce has issued more than 400 million taels of silver notes, and the remaining Southwest, Luozhong and other chambers of commerce have issued more than 1000 million taels of silver notes, totaling 1964 million taels."

Before Zhou Tieyi could say anything, Feng Zikuan at the side said shrilly, "You are so brave!"

Feng Zikuan was really angry. On the one hand, Daxia was in urgent need of money, but he never expected that the businessmen would secretly leave such a big hole!
At present, these are only the eight major chambers of commerce. There are at least dozens of chambers of commerce in Daxia that issue silver bills. Isn't this another Moshi case? !
On the other hand, he originally thought that he followed Zhou Tieyi to share the credit, but now he has to bear the blame for the loss of tens of millions of taels for these bold merchants, which is unbearable for him, the eunuch in charge.

According to his daily work, knowing this situation, simply ransacking the homes of these people would be the lightest punishment!
After hearing this, Mei Qingchen sighed softly. The major chambers of commerce must have involved court ministers and officials from various departments. He knew about the tricks involved before, but he never thought that just issuing false banknotes would reach such a big level.

Zhou Tieyi put down the tea bowl, and there was a crisp collision between the porcelain bowl and the wooden table. Then he smiled and said, "Not bad, not as much as I imagined."

Hearing that Zhou Tieyi not only did not scold but instead looked very relaxed, many chamber of commerce presidents now wished they could place Zhou Tieyi's tablet in the family ancestral hall and build a shrine for him to live forever!

"The Southeast Chamber of Commerce and the Northern Province Chamber of Commerce have so many false accounts. Is it because of me and General Zuo?"

Zhou Tieyi asked directly, this year, under his instructions, Qian Guangyun of the Southeast Chamber of Commerce had taken over so many shops and industries of Tianjing merchants, and had to spend extra on newspapers, iron mines and other things, so it was completely understandable to use the reserve silver and issue more fictitious silver bills.

After all, Qian Guangyun can’t just create money.

Similarly, behind the Northern Province Chamber of Commerce is the General Zuo's Mansion. There is a war on the front line this year, and General Zuo has to overhaul the railways again. The army is not as cost-effective as he is when building railways, and they have to choose profitable lines to build. It's a blessing that they can make no loss by building railways on the five northern provinces. Moreover, it would be strange if a group of soldiers didn't take advantage of the construction process. There is no one to threaten the five northern provinces, and General Zuo can only turn a blind eye. Therefore, in theory, it is not surprising that the cost per mile of building railways there is two or three times more expensive than Zhou Tieyi.

Zhong Shuliang, the president of the Northern Province Chamber of Commerce, quickly stepped forward and said, "Mr. Zhou, please understand."

Zhou Tieyi tapped the table and said, "Tell the people behind you that I will be responsible for settling the debt this time, but the issuance of silver bills will be unified under the Central Bank of Daxia. If they dare to take action again, don't blame me, Daoli!"

Many chamber of commerce presidents also communicated with the big shots behind them yesterday. The big shots also know that the hole is big, and Zhou Tieyi's willingness to fill the hole is the best thing. As for how to get money later, the big shots naturally have other ways. After all, they can afford to wait for a few years and just get through the current difficulties first.

"We will follow Lord Zhou's orders."

The presidents of the major chambers of commerce quickly stood up.

Zhou Tieyi waved his hand, motioning them to sit down. "Although I have to settle the debt, it doesn't mean you won't be punished. The banknotes that were falsely issued by each company will be compensated by your future profit dividends. It's just that the timeline will be extended for you so that you won't feel so uncomfortable."

Then Zhou Tieyi looked at Feng Zikuan, "Eunuch Feng, how did you handle the things I told you yesterday?" Feng Zikuan smiled and said, "Although my family is not as powerful as you, Lord Zhou, it is still easy to handle these small matters."

After saying that, he took out a stack of papers from his arms.

Above are templates for Daxia silver notes with denominations of one tael, two taels, five taels, ten taels, twenty taels, fifty taels, and one hundred taels, as well as Daxia Railway special bonds and Tianjing Railway Chamber of Commerce stocks.

The Printing Bureau of the Imperial Household Department was originally in charge of the printing affairs of the court. In the past, they were in charge of the most sophisticated and advanced printing technologies, such as imperial edicts, so they were very familiar with anti-counterfeiting printing such as silver bills. On the contrary, when Zhou Tieyi was printing newspapers before, the Printing Bureau's efforts to reduce costs caused them trouble for several nights.

Zhou Tieyi picked up the exquisitely cut paper and nodded slightly, then handed the sample paper to the presidents of the chamber of commerce present.

He was not worried that these banknotes would be counterfeited in large quantities during circulation. This world had the means of spiritual practice, so the criminal investigation methods were extremely unpredictable. As long as the central government wanted to investigate, the truth would definitely be revealed. As for small-scale counterfeiting, it would be enough to deter people by confiscating their property and exterminating their clan.

"Eunuch Feng will hand you the sample later. Your people will try to issue it in Tianjing first. From now on, only the silver bills of the Central Bank will be issued in the four cities of Tianjing. You are not allowed to issue silver bills of your own money houses. All the silver bills collected from your own money houses must be exchanged for silver bills of the Central Bank."

Many chamber of commerce presidents sighed in their hearts. From now on, the chamber of commerce's way of making money has been taken over by Zhou Tieyi, and with Zhou Tieyi's ability, they will never be able to take it back.

A Chamber of Commerce president said cautiously, "Lord Zhou, what should we do if the common people don't want to take the newly issued silver notes? Moreover, the silver notes themselves have already been issued to a saturation point. Except for merchants or family members who need to trade across regions, ordinary people are not willing to put their silver in the bank."

Zhou Tieyi smiled and said, "I naturally have a way to make the people willingly buy, and you don't have to worry about not having this way to make money in the future. The central bank is only responsible for issuing silver bills and supervising you. As long as your previous profit-making methods such as lending through money houses are legal and tax-paying, you will still make the money. The Great Xia Dynasty can tolerate me, so it can naturally tolerate you."

After hearing what Zhou Tieyi said, the presidents of the chambers of commerce present were confused, but they still quickly bowed and said, "Yes."

Feng Zikuan understood his meaningful words. Zhou Tieyi said this to convey it to the Emperor of Daxia through him. If one day Daxia can no longer accommodate Zhou Tieyi, then everything in front of them, including such a huge amount of debt, will explode in an instant, and the power caused will be enough to shake the country!
The remaining specific issuance matters, including the collection of reserves and interest setting, all need to be implemented step by step according to the actual development and operation of society, so Zhou Tieyi simply sorted out the general theory and gave it to Qian Guangyun and Mei Qingchen, letting the two confirm it step by step.

The third day of November.

Ever since Zhou Tieyi came back, the people of Tianjing generally felt that the entire city had become "lively" again.

Although during the time Zhou Tieyi was away from Beijing, railways, factories, and newspapers were all operating in an orderly manner under the impetus of various philosophers, in general they were all proceeding within the framework set by Zhou Tieyi, and nothing new was produced.

But yesterday, the Tianjing Daily published an article about this new thing called stocks, and everyone was still asking how to buy stocks, and today new news came out.

"Breaking news, breaking news, the specific stock trading rules have been released, and they will be implemented immediately when the Tianjin Stock Exchange is completed! The presidents of the major chambers of commerce have spoken out, this will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for ordinary people to make money!"

Nothing drives ordinary people crazier than making money, so today's "Tianjing News" is selling like crazy, as if returning to the scene when "Tianjing News" was first sold and paper in Tianjin was in great demand.

In the major teahouses, everyone took today's copy of the Tianjing News and read it carefully. However, this time the newspaper was a lot more obscure than before. Also, because stocks were a matter of court policy, the details of this stock transaction directly occupied the two pages of "Memorials" and "Business".

The memorials contain detailed descriptions of the specific rules, while the commercial documents include the interpretations and praise of the trading rules by the presidents of the major chambers of commerce.

In addition to the major teahouses, the Huwei Weaponry at the foot of Fuyao Mountain and the Railway Chamber of Commerce headquarters were also crowded with people today. Everyone wanted to see which two lucky people would be accepted as Zhou Tieyi's disciples.

The office building of the Railway Chamber of Commerce has long been expanded into a four-story three-piece connected steel and concrete building.

What is good above is effective below.

When Zhou Tieyi was promoting the new residential building in Shantongfu, the Railway Chamber of Commerce, upon learning the news, began to build identical buildings in Tianjing. Not only were the dormitories for the train workers built like this, but also the offices.

In the office, Zhou Tieyi looked at Hao Ren. Ever since he got the Yanhuang Tongbao artifact and the corresponding Shinto talisman, Hao Ren had successfully entered the sixth level of business, "Porter". The core practice of the sixth level of business, "Porter", was the understanding and perception of wealth.

Now, with the Railway Chamber of Commerce in hand, under the leadership of Hao Ren, the Tianjing-Kaiping railway line connects the two places, allowing business to prosper at a visible speed. With the smooth progress of the railway project, Hao Ren can decide which city the next train line should pass through first with just one idea.

When he came up with this idea and started planning, he clearly felt the waves of wealth rushing towards him from all directions. With just a thought, he could decide the flow of millions or even tens of millions of taels of silver, and through this silver, he could affect the fate of countless people.

This is far more than the wealth that ordinary business practitioners have accumulated over decades by opening shops and restaurants, so Hao Ren's practice naturally progressed by leaps and bounds. The speed was so fast that he was a little scared. He could vaguely feel that the moment the train route was truly determined according to his plan, he would be able to complete all the practice of the sixth level of "transportation".

"The Chamber of Commerce has been well managed in your hands during this period, which proves that I was right to hand the Chamber of Commerce over to you. I can rest assured about the future development of the Chamber of Commerce."

"grown ups."

Hao Ren's already slightly thin face showed surprise, and he quickly tried to express his loyalty.

Zhou Tieyi waved his hand and smiled, "You also discovered when you were practicing. In the end, you have to decide the development of the Chamber of Commerce by yourself. Only then can you truly cultivate the way of business. I just suggested a path for you. It is up to you to walk this path. I hope you can walk out of the first-class path of business."

(End of this chapter)