Chapter 609: Hidden Dragon Enters the Earth

"How could I think of opening the cabinet shop?" Hu Peiyun said strangely.

Chang Jin saw him surprised and smiled and said, "It's nothing strange. Since the completion of Tang Zhidao, the time from Central Plains to Anxi has been reduced by 40%, and the trade with the West has become more and more developed. Although the government has a cabinet, it is an official office after all, and there is only one, which is not convenient for many small and medium-sized merchants. In this way, we can use our regional advantages to open multinational banks, save money, release money, exchange money, withdraw money from other places, etc., and we must make the business bigger."

“Multinational Bank?”

This was the first time Hu Peiyun heard of such a name. Although he could understand the literal meaning, he didn't understand the specific content very well. He was about to ask, but at this moment, a guy ran in in a panic and said a few words to Chang Jin.

Chang Jin immediately stood up and said, "My lord is here, let's go and greet him!"

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Outside Rehai, hundreds of cavalry blocked the alley in the west of Lingxi. Li Qing'an stood in front of Rehai'an, and there were more than a dozen men and Hu Ji standing respectfully next to him. Li Qing'an was a regular visitor here, and they all knew him.

In Li Qing'an's hand was a little girl about two years old. This was his adopted daughter Li Siyue, who was Zhang Yue's daughter. She originally named Zhang Si. She recognized Li Qing'an as her father and Wuyi as her mother, so she changed her surname to Li. In order to commemorate her father, Li Qing'an added the word "Yue" to her name, and her full name was Li Siyue. She was named the Lord of Jinman County. The little girl held Li Qing'an's hand and looked up at her father from time to time. She grew up next to her wet nurse and had no father's care. Now she has a father who loves her, which makes her heart full of attachment to Li Qing'an.

Li Qing'an stood behind his second wife Jiang Wuyi. Wuyi took her daughter to Ci'en Temple to fulfill her wish in the morning, and later went to Li Linfu's old house. Looking at her former residence, although Li Linfu's children were pleaded with by Li Qing'an and were not sent to Lingnan, they were all demoted to common people by Li Longji and drove them out of Chang'an. Li Longji dug out Li Linfu's body from the tomb, issued a decree of ten crimes, whipped the body, peeled off his brocade clothes and jade robe, wrapped them in a straw mat, and buried them in a chaotic grave.

Most of Li Linfu's children were scattered in the Tang Dynasty, and their old houses were deserted and no one lived there. Wuyi had been living in the courtyard for nearly ten years and left Pingkangfang. It happened to be a coincidence that she met her husband who came out of Pei Zunqing's mansion in Chongrenfang.

Li Qing'an took the mother and daughter onto the carriage and came to Rehaiju together. Pei Wan'er stayed at her parents' home to guard the seventh day of her grandfather, but she didn't come with her. Li Qing'an knew that Wuyi was coming for the first time, so she smiled and introduced to her: "This is a store that I often open. I used to come."

"Oh! It turned out to be a store opened by Uncle Chang."

Wuyi met Chang Jin and smiled and said, "His daughter Chang Yu is still my student! I don't know if she is in Chang'an, but I have to ask."

At this time, Chang Jin and Hu Peiyun ran out and bowed to Li Qing'an together and said, "See General!"

"It turns out that General Hu is here too. I thought you would come at noon."

Hu Peiyun blushed and said, "I went back to the yamen to deal with some urgent matters. I just arrived."

"Okay! Let's see something with me later."

Li Qingan smiled at Chang Jin again and said, "Can your wife and daughter be there?"

"Here! They are all here."

When Chang Jin saw Wuyi, he hurriedly stepped forward and gave a bow, and ordered someone to find his wife and daughter. After a moment, Chang Jin's wife Feng and his younger daughter Chang Yu hurried out.

Chang Jin has three sons and one daughter. The youngest daughter Chang Yu is only thirteen years old. She learns the piano with Wuyi in Suiye. Feng also often goes to Li Qing'an Mansion's house. They are very familiar with each other. They meet in Chang'an and are extremely happy. Feng picked up Li Siyue and smiled and said, "Madam, follow me to the back house! It's time to have supper."

Wuyi looked at Li Qing'an, and Li Qing'an nodded and smiled, "Go! Take the students' piano skills by the way, do you think she has forgotten?"

Wu was happy in her heart and said, "I'll call me when I leave later, I'll go first."

Several women talked and laughed, and left the house.

Seeing them walking away, Li Qingan followed Chang Jin and Hu Peiyun into the room. He sat down and smiled and said, "Going back here is like returning home."

Chang Jin poured a cup of hot tea for Li Qing'an and smiled and said, "This is the lord's home."

"Yeah! That's right."

Li Qing'an took a sip of tea and asked, "Are the bank's matter confirmed?"

He explained to Hu Peiyun again: "I decided the name of a bank. They originally wanted to call it Qianxing, but Dashi and Byzantine do not use money. They use gold coins and silver coins. We also use silver dollars in Anxi, so it is better to call a bank."

"I understand, it's better to call a bank, it's both generous and easy."

Chang Jin reported: "It has been confirmed that we are going to open six banks first, one in Baghdad, one in Samarkand, one in Samarkand, one in Constantinople, one in Chang'an, and the other in Guangzhou."

"How could I think of opening a company in Guangzhou? Could it be for maritime trade?"

Li Qing'an reacted very quickly and suddenly thought of maritime trade. He received information that the Port of Tulan, located in the southernmost part of Punjab, had been repaired at the beginning of the year and was invested by Sogdian merchants to facilitate their maritime trade. Persian and Arab trade ships began to approach the port and engage in maritime trade with Xinde. Two months ago, a fleet of more than 300 sea ships transported two million stones of Xinde food to Guangzhou of the Tang Dynasty.

This is the main reason why Li Qing'an wanted to repair Tulan Port. First, it was to establish a maritime trade line with Xinde in Tianzhu, and secondly, it was to transport the rich grain of Xinde to the Tang Dynasty. There was no large transportation vehicle by land, and the road was inconvenient and consumed too much on the road. There was not much transport to Chang'an, and it could be transported in large quantities by sea.

Chang Jin smiled and said, "That's right now, maritime trade is quite prosperous, no less than land trade. I heard that there are 100,000 Arabs in Guangzhou, so we decided to open a bank in Guangzhou."

Li Qing'an nodded, "You are very considerate. The court has already established a civil service supervision in Guangzhou and collected commercial taxes. Last year alone, it has received nearly one million chunks of tax revenue. This shows the prosperity of maritime trade, and it is very wise to open a bank there."

Chang Jin took out a book and handed it to Li Qing'an, "Lord, this is a formal document signed by the Eighteen Family, and everyone agreed to disband the Hidden Dragon Society."

"Ah! Disband the Hidden Dragon Society."

Hu Peiyun next to him was shocked, his eyes widened, filled with incomparable shock. He simply fainted when he disbanded the Hidden Dragon Society.

Hu Peiyun was a member of the Hidden Dragon Society of the later generation. After joining the Anxi Army and becoming the military leader, he gradually broke away from the affairs of the Hidden Dragon Society. He had not participated in the Hidden Dragon Society's annual meeting for two consecutive years and did not know the situation of the Hidden Dragon Society. He only knew that Hidden Dragon Society had experienced hundreds of years of vicissitudes. How could he say that it would be disbanded? At this time, he had always been calm and was in a mess and said anxiously: "What the hell is going on? Why should I disband the Hidden Dragon Society?"

In fact, the Yinlong Association has held meetings for three consecutive days and made many major decisions. The twenty-five members of the Yinlong Association represent the eighteen generals who escorted the Crown Princess Jiancheng to escape to Suiye. In addition to Li Qing'an and the four people who served as public office, a total of twenty people participated in the meeting that decided the fate of the Yinlong Association in these three days.

Seeing that Hu Peiyun had lost his composure, Li Qingan knew that he was anxious, so he smiled at Chang Jin and said, "Just tell him! Let him reply as soon as possible."

As the chief of the meeting, Chang Jin actually had the obligation to explain some of the decisions of the meeting to Hu Peiyun and others. Since Li Qing'an spoke, he said: "Actually, this is also something we have discussed for a long time. If the lord ascends the throne, then my Hidden Dragon Society will realize the dream of a hundred years and fulfill the wishes of the ancestors. What should we do in the future? Is the Hidden Dragon Society still necessary to continue to exist? Three months ago, my grandfather asked for a signature in front of the Hidden Prince Spirit, and the signature was 'Flying Dragon in the sky, and the Hidden Dragon Enters the Earth'. This is the Spirit of Hidden Prince Spirit, so we decided to disband the Hidden Dragon Society, but the lord's meaning is that Hidden Dragon Society will not disband...."

Hu Peiyun nodded silently. He had already understood a little and asked, "My elder brother should have signed it too!"

"Yes, your elder brother Hu Peiquan has signed the dissolution essay on behalf of the Hu family."

Chang Jin looked at Hu Peiquan's signature to Hu Peiyun and said, "The so-called "solving but not dispersed" means that the Yinlong Association will change its purpose and no longer care about politics, but become a commercial consortium, which divides the assets of the Yinlong Association into 18 parts, and each of our eighteen families will hold one. In the future, when encountering major commercial decisions, the 18 families will vote together. Your eldest brother Hu Peiquan should have a detailed discussion with you at night."

Hu Peiyun nodded. The Yinlong Club changed his purpose. He finally understood that the purpose of their 18 families for a hundred years has been to ascend to the throne. Now that this purpose is about to be realized, the Yinlong Club will either disband or change its appearance and continue to exist. In terms of emotions, the 18 families have shared honors and disgraces for more than 100 years, and no one is willing to disband. It is also a way out for everyone to form a large merchant group, which is also a kind of reward for the Yinlong Club.

"Then what will our main business in the future?"

"A trade is mainly transnational trade, including land and sea routes. Qi Huaiyuan has gone to Guangzhou to prepare for the Tongji Maritime Trading Company and the Tongji Guangzhou Bank. It is estimated that in half a year, our first Tongji Maritime Trading Fleet will go to sea."

"Tongji Society?"

"Yes, the Yinlong Society was renamed to the Tongji Society. Everyone unanimously decided on this name, which means that the eighteen families will work together. In the future, the lord will no longer have any relationship with us. The president will be elected by the families."

Hu Peiyun nodded silently, and he asked again: "Then there is another main business, the bank!"

Li Qing'an smiled beside him and said, "That's right, one trade, one bank, I hope the Tongji Society will become the world's number one business consortium in the future. The world I am talking about not only refers to the Tang Dynasty, but also to the Arabs and Byzantium, and even the farther West."

In fact, this was also a well-thought decision by Li Qing'an. The Hidden Dragon will have a huge help to his ascension to the throne. However, as a controlling throne, he did not want the Hidden Dragon to exist as a political force and must be disbanded. Considering the mysterious and powerful financial resources of the Hidden Dragon, Li Qing'an thought of the Rothschild Consortium and Rockefeller Consortium in later generations. Perhaps the Hidden Dragon will be able to transform into such a powerful consortium, infiltrating from the economy to the West, and instead affecting the Western contract spirit in the East, thereby gradually changing the traditional Chinese clan thought.
Chapter completed!