A scholar of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

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Yan Liben also nodded, "Now we are going to the South China Sea, and I don't know how the preparations are going in Chang'an."

Li Zhi stayed up all night sitting in Gu Qing's study studying the route of the South China Sea.

"His Royal Highness King Jin has not slept all night?" Gu Qing said with a smile.

Li Zhi remembered what Gu Qing said last night, lowered his head and asked, "Gu Qing, what kind of person are you?"

"What kind of person I am in King Jin's eyes is what kind of person I am." Gu Qing said.

Only then did Li Zhi raise his head and look at Gu Qing with disgust, "A person who has nothing to do but only knows how to make money, but he has all the skills and doesn't want to do anything? What do you think Datang did to make you such a number one person?" .”

"Why do I feel like I've been scolded?" Gu Qing sighed, watching Li Zhi write and draw on the chart, "What is His Royal Highness King Jin thinking?"

"I'm thinking about the route in the South China Sea." Li Zhi spread out the chart and said, "Gu Qing, how about my route?"

Seeing that there is generally no problem with Li Zhi's route, he used Shanghai as an intermediate stop, then completely entered the South China Sea, followed Lingnan all the way south, and then stopped on the coast of Nanzhao.

"In fact, there is a very good island in the South China Sea that cannot be missed." Gu Qing circled an island on the sea chart, "This island is called Luzon Island, and the supplies on this island are very good."

"How wonderful?" Li Zhi wondered, "Aren't there many good things?"

"That thing is more than good." Gu Qing said with a smile, "That island is rich in gold, it is a gold island."

"Gold!?" Li Zhi almost shouted, staring at the island that Gu Qing circled, "Is what you said true?"

"It's not wrong, there is indeed a lot of gold in that place." Gu Qing smiled.

Li Zhi looked at his own course and stared at the islands circled by Gu Qing, "No, I have to draw the course again, you go out! I will draw it myself."

Chapter 987 Fat Monk's Mouth

The island rich in gold, Gold Island, Li Zhi’s eyes lit up and he began to re-plan the waterway. This time, the first goal of going to the South China Sea is Luzon Island. All the gold must be dug out. The silver mines in Japan have already tasted the sweetness. Gold is more valuable than silver mines. The Construction and Maritime Trade Department’s development of marine trade is indeed a huge profit. Gu Qing keeps saying that it is for business. It doesn’t look like a business. When it comes to a place, it is a robbery. The Japanese royal family is still trembling. Trembling, for fear that Datang's artillery would be placed in front of his house.

Goguryeo is the same now. I’m afraid that Datang’s sea ships will appear on their Goguryeo coastline. The previous pirate attack scares the king of Goguryeo from sleeping well for a few days. I’m afraid that Datang will be unhappy and destroy Goguryeo. Facing Datang's bloody mouth, they hugged each other and shivered.

Chu Suiliang brought someone to withdraw the money, and when he arrived at Gu Qing's house, Chu Suiliang seemed in a good mood.

"Old Chu, I plan to spend a sum of money to build roads. How about your bank paying the bill first?" Gu Qing said to Chu Suiliang.

"As long as you like it." Chu Suiliang said.

Wu Mei also came over with the ledger, "I've seen Zhongshu Ling, this is our current ledger, now our family has a lot of money to flow, and a total of tens of millions is needed, can the academy come here?"

"It's okay to walk." Chu Suiliang said, but thinking about it, he felt wrong, "Are you so mobile?"

"Yes." Wu Mei nodded and said, "I'm afraid that your bank has just been established and you can't bear it. Now our Gu family has a big business, and there are many places where money is needed. Even a port needs hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. , There are also academies to give, and factories to give, of course there are more, and now we can hand them over to your bank, which will save us a lot of worry."

Chu Suiliang swallowed a mouthful of saliva, feeling that he had received a hot potato. Looking at the numbers following each entry on the ledger, he also felt that the ledger was heavy, and the bank might not be able to manage the Gu family alone.

The Gu family has so many businesses. If the bank is required to manage these businesses as a whole, then the bank will be busy. Every time they withdraw money, every time they deposit money, they will be too busy, let alone those idle accounts in Datang.

"Not easy?" Gu Qing asked.

"It's really difficult." Chu Suiliang said with a dark face, "I was negligent. I'll go back and re-arrange the manpower. The bank is not ready yet."

"That's right." Gu Qing said to Chu Suiliang again, "Chang'an, Cheng's family, Niu's family, and many other state officials also have business dealings with us, and their families also have a lot of business. Zhongshuling can do it Just be safe, and nothing will go wrong."

Hearing Gu Qing's words, Chu Suiliang quickened his pace and turned his old face. The matter of the bank was easy to think about, but the scale of the bank in his mind was still too small. There was so much money in activities, if he couldn't manage it, there would be chaos. When did the dignitaries in Chang'an become so rich, Chu Suiliang became more and more angry as he thought about it, and planned to expand the size of the bank again after returning to Chang'an.

"Just leave like this, isn't he here to get the money?" Gao Yang obviously doesn't think highly of Chu Suiliang, and marrying into the Gu family is a woman of the Gu family. Gao Yang is very sure, and she is also proud of the huge family business Yes, I don't like people like Chu Suiliang who want to raise their own money.

"They haven't prepared enough, they have underestimated our flow." Wu Mei said to Gao Yang, "It won't work for a while."

"It's better not to toss all the time." Gao Yang said with a pouted mouth.

"This is also a helpless move. Who made me so rich."

"You sleep in the study tonight!" Gao Yang said unhappily to Gu Qing.

"Why!" Gu Qing sneered, "Believe it or not, I'll show you how to do it."

"How dare you!" Gao Yang said.

"You will know at night whether you dare or not." Gu Qing remained calm.

"Ignore him." Wu Mei took Gao Yang's hand and left.

Gu Qing took out the drawn road map and found Yang Sheng, "Old Yang, what are you doing?"

"Didn't you see me digging the ground?" Yang Sheng waved his hoe, "The weather is getting warmer this year, so we need to turn over the soil more, and it will be better to plant it after the beginning of spring."

"There's something I need you to do." Gu Qing waved the blueprint in his hand, "I'm going to build a road, please help me with it when you have time."

"Do you have money?" Yang Sheng asked.

"If you have money, I will give you a hundred guan a month."

Yang Sheng immediately threw the hoe in his hand casually, patted the mud off his hands and walked up the field ridge, "Tell me what you want to do."

Gu Qing opened the road map, "I want to build roads, and I want to build infrastructure."

"What is infrastructure?"

"It's just the basics... You don't understand even if you tell me!" Gu Qing said to Yang Sheng, "I want to build the road first, Fan Jian has already gone to find the craftsman, there will be many people, and you will know many rangers by then, right? When the time comes, you call on someone who is competent and quick to do things for you, anyway, you are the boss, and you can just direct the craftsmen under you."

"Sounds like an easy job, I did it." Yang Sheng nodded.

Three days later, Fan Jian came with a group of craftsmen. These craftsmen came to build roads. Fan Jian registered them one by one. Yang Sheng took a few rangers and divided these craftsmen into several teams. And the dwarf also brought a lot of people to help me.

"If you have money, do you?" a craftsman asked the fat monk.

"That's not right, Gutou... When Gu Houye doesn't make money from selling and buying, do it well." The fat monk said.

Another craftsman asked, "It is said that Master Gu is very rich, but he is very low-key?"

"That's necessary." The monk patted his big belly and said, "Let me tell you, Lord Gu went to Pingkangfang back then and bought all the Qingguan people in Pingkangfang because of a disagreement. Men's legs are weak when they see it, and women cry when they see it."

"Excellent." Someone on the side nodded.

The dwarf smiled wryly, but is it considered low-key?

"I heard that Gu Houye's family with a lot of money can't let it go, is it true or not?"

"Of course it's true." The fat monk pointed to the mountain behind with his thumb, "I can tell you that there is nowhere to put the money of Marquis Gu, and he hollowed out the whole mountain. You go dig it up." You may be able to dig out the silver cake in a few strokes."

"Wow." The silver cakes were all in the eyes of several craftsmen.

"I heard that Gu Houye has three children. Is Gu Houye particularly capable of giving birth?" Someone asked again.