"Your Majesty, Lu Yao seems to have started taking action."
It was Tang Long who said this, and he and the emperor were in the meeting hall at this time.
Zhao Zhen's face moved slightly, then returned to normal, and said: "That's right, his bank will open tomorrow. I thought about it carefully, this bank has never appeared before, even Lu Yao is not exempt from the custom, it must be
We need to promote it before opening.”
Tang Long nodded, and then said: "Your Majesty, should we help Lu Yao at this time and take some money as principal and deposit it in Lu Yao's bank?"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Zhen waved his hands and said: "No, if other people know that royal money has entered the bank, it will make everyone think that this bank is a royal business like a lottery station. The principal of this bank
, I heard Lu Yao say before that except for the 200,000 yuan given by Fan Lou Pan Yuanwu, the rest is Lu Yao's own money. What's more, I don't know if this bank will make money now. I have to wait and see for a while.
time."
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty," Tang Long said, "What should we do next?"
Zhao Zhen thought for a while and said: "It's very simple. You must keep an eye on Lu Yao. Although, when I heard him talk about the bank before, I also felt that this was a good thing for Bianliang and could make more people
More people stay in the city, and it also indirectly retains talents for us. Of course, his bank can also make money. This kind of strategy of killing two birds with one stone can not only make money, but also help poor scholars. In my case, it can also help poor scholars.
I can't find any suitable reason to stop him. Only Lu Yao can think of such an idea."
Tang Long said: "I don't understand. Master Lu Yao's move should be to gain some benefits for those scholars. Why is your Majesty still keeping an eye on him? What's more, he has already made it clear to you about the bank."
"Are you questioning my decision?" Zhao Zhen's face darkened, and Tang Long immediately knelt down and expressed his fear.
"How do you view the matter of the bank? You can say that he is helping the people who are living in poverty in Bianliang City, but can I understand that he is actually looking for an opportunity to gather his own gang in disguise?
What about the person? After receiving his favor, he will speak for him when the time comes. So, what is the difference between what Lu Yao does now and what Fan Zhongyan did at that time? "
Tang Long was shocked. He didn't expect that Zhao Zhen would think about the bank's problem so far. Since the emperor was so angry, Tang Long couldn't say much and immediately resigned and started to do things.
Zhao Zhen sat on the dragon chair, saying nothing, looking outside the hall, not knowing what he was thinking.
At this time, Lu Yao was still kept in the dark about the series of actions that Zhao Zhen made to him. Although Lu Yao was a time traveler and his thoughts were delicate, the deepest feeling in ancient times was
It is true that people's hearts are always attached to the emperor. Lu Yao originally told Zhao Zhen that establishing this bank was indeed beneficial to himself, the court, and Bianliang, but Zhao Zhen misinterpreted this move as
Lu Yao intends to form a clique for personal gain.
Outside the Lu Mansion, Tangxi's subordinates were a little confused looking at the large pile of manuscripts that Lu Yao brought out.
Just now, Lu Yao said that the most important thing for them to do next is to send these manuscripts to the people who need them most.
Lu Yao likes to write. In fact, everyone knows this. When they occasionally get together with Tang Xi, these brothers have heard Tang Xi talk about it. Although they have never read any stories in the stone, nor have they met Lu Yao.
He wrote poems, but just the Bird's Nest Stadium and the new Cuju competition had already made them admire him very much.
Therefore, today was actually the first time they saw something written by Lu Yao himself, and they were still a little excited. Later, Lu Yao said that one manuscript is one, and then asked Tangxi to distribute the manuscripts to them evenly according to the head.
.
Although Lu Yao knew that letting these people read the manuscript would be in vain, after all, they were likely to face inquiries from scholars and people who were short of money, so he still had to let them take a look first.
Then, as Lu Yao expected, these Tangxi brothers looked at the manuscript in front of them in confusion. Although they knew that Lu Yao's bank would open tomorrow, they didn't know what kind of deposit was written on the manuscript.
They have no idea about the operating mechanism of withdrawals, loans, etc. and interest rates.
Lu Yao and others basically read the manuscript in their hands, and after showing doubts, he said: "I think everyone must feel that they don't understand this thing, so I will briefly explain it to you here.
"
Lu Yao knew in his heart that when talking to these Tangxi brothers, he couldn't use official accent or the way of explaining to scholars. So Lu Yao used a very easy-to-understand method and gave a few examples.
I explained to all the Tangxi brothers present about deposits, withdrawals and loans.
When it comes to matters such as interest and term repayment mechanism, Lu Yao did not explain. He said that everyone only needs to understand what the bank does and what the loan is. As long as someone asks about the bank's business and
For operational matters, just tell the other party exactly what you just said to them. If you see that the other party is interested in learning more or wants to borrow money, tell him the details and just read the manuscript.
It's impossible not to understand. If you still have any questions, you can come to the bank to ask in person when the bank opens tomorrow. Speaking of this, Lu Yao couldn't help but think, as long as people can be there tomorrow, Xu and Lu Hao will be able to ask again.
Let me explain more details. The focus now is to attract people. No matter what, just make these people show up tomorrow.
After listening to Lu Yao's very down-to-earth explanation, the brothers in Tangxi basically had an understanding of the bank's purpose, business model and business. Most of these people had basically been to pawn shops or
It is a place like a gambling house, so they really have their own understanding of the bank. Some people even started to regret it after Lu Yao finished explaining, saying that if the bank had been established earlier, maybe it would have been better.
He would not have to end up wandering in the outer city. However, someone on the side pointed out coldly, if it really
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Then maybe this guy is on the road to being collected by the bank at this time.
Lu Yao originally thought that he would have to explain more, but he didn’t expect that these people in the world had their own understanding of money, so he said: "It seems that everyone has stories. In this way, I think for this
There is still something to introduce about the contents of the manuscript in a moment, so I don’t think I need to tell you any more.”
Tangxi looked at the expressions on the faces of his brothers and began to admire Lu Yao again.
At the beginning, in order to prevent Lu Yao from not being familiar with his brothers, Tang Xi just did some warm-up work just now, so that there would be no awkward scenes when Lu Yao was speaking. Although
Lu Yao has done so many things for the people, but in the final analysis, his identity is still the second son of Lu Xu, the Minister of Household Affairs. This identity will never change. This shows that no matter how many things Lu Yao has done, he still remains.
His identity has never been the same as that of Tang Xi. In any case, he can be regarded as a rich man. This will never change. It is precisely because of Lu Yao's identity that in fact, Tang Xi's brothers
They always felt that there was some distance between them and Mr. Lu. They could not let go of the grudge in their hearts. They believed that they were different from the rich and the poor, with different conditions and origins. After all, they were not from the same group. So instead of letting Lu Yao give orders directly,
In the past, Tangxi was personally responsible for the arrangements for his brothers after consulting Lu Yao.
But this time, because the incident happened suddenly and the matter was urgent, when Lu Yao decided to go into battle and give a speech in person, Tangxi was still worried for Lu Yao. He didn't know that if Lu Yao acted like Cao You and Han Wenyuan,
What kind of effect will your way of speaking have on these brothers of yours?
However, it turned out that Tang Xi was overthinking it. The young master was worthy of being a young master. Lu Yao did not act condescending towards his brothers. On the contrary, he made himself look like a person from the same background as them.
As a person born in Jianghu, his words are also full of Jianghu atmosphere and human touch, making it easy for people to listen. Especially the example he just gave about banks is something that often happens in the daily lives of these people, or in other words,
This is a situation you will encounter.
After going back and forth like this, Lu Yao invisibly got closer to his brothers through just a few simple words. Tang Xi could see that his brothers had now slowly lowered their guard against him.
Lu Yao also lost the sense of distance that he had at the beginning, so that when Lu Yao said what he just said, someone below him even started to answer.
"Sir, just tell us who we want to give this to."
When this came out, everyone responded one after another. Lu Yao also smiled, and then said that these manuscripts would be distributed to the following categories of people.
The first one is those who live in various small inns or temples in Bianliang City. They are very confident in their imperial examination results, but they are helpless by the cash-strapped scholars.
Second, there are people who have family members at home, including wives, children, or elderly people to take care of, but they have no jobs or their living income is very limited.
Third, there are people who are full of ideas and want to do things, but have no luck because they have no money as starting capital.
After Lu Yao finished talking about these three types of people, he said: "It can be said that these three types of people are everywhere in Bianliang City now. Of course, I refer to the inner city and the outer city combined. So, these few in your hands
If you have hundreds of manuscripts, you don’t have to worry about not being able to send them out.”
Hearing what Lu Yao said, everyone felt that what Lu Yao said was reasonable. The most indispensable thing in the world is the poor. Even in Bianliang City, there are many of these three types of people.
After Lu Yao finished speaking, he heard someone below say: "Sir, there may not be any problem with these second and third categories of people. After all, they are common people, like us, born in poverty, but these scholars, they will look at
Are you worthy of people like us? Maybe they won’t even look at what we post, or they may not believe us at all.”
Just as Lu Yao was about to answer, another person said: "That's right, those scholars are very upright and upright, and they won't pay attention to us."
It seems that these brothers in Tangxi usually do not deal with scholars very much, or in other words, there have been some conflicts. Lu Yao understands very well that the atmosphere of scholars in the Northern Song Dynasty is very serious, not to mention that in Zhao Zhen, who is a heavy scholar,
In the Qingwu era, even a penniless scholar had a bookish air about him, which made him unwilling to get close to people he didn't like.
Lu Yao said: "I know what you mean. Indeed, dealing with scholars is a very troublesome and learned thing. But don't you have me? I can't guarantee anything else. When you meet scholars,
, don’t introduce the banker in the first sentence, just say that Lu Yao invited you to go to the banker for a gathering tomorrow, then hand this manuscript to them, and then you can leave."
Everyone was a little confused when they heard this. Is it really okay to say this?
"You believe me, sir, there must be no problem!" Tangxi stood up and said at this time. In fact, Tangxi already understood why Lu Yao asked these people to say this.
In any case, in addition to being famous in business and food, Lu Yao is also a famous poet in Bianliang City. Therefore, once Lu Yao is mentioned, these scholars who have not yet achieved fame will give these people some credit.
Face. Moreover, since we are meeting with a great poet, even if we are not doing business, we should give Lu Yao face and come to the bank tomorrow to meet him, otherwise it will be very embarrassing if Lu Yao recognizes him in the future.
On the other hand, the brothers in Tangxi said this to save face for the poor scholars. In name, they came to the bank to attend a party. In fact, if they directly stated that they wanted to come to the bank to borrow money, they would not even kill them.
Yes, but by saying this, it is equivalent to giving them a step up. They can come to the bank in the name of a gathering. As for whether they can do business or not, it depends on themselves.
Lu Yao's move can be said to be very clever, and it can even save the Tangxi brothers from spending a lot of time introducing the bank business to these scholars.
"Yes, follow Master Lu Yao's arrangements."
The brothers took a look and saw that the boss of Tangxi had spoken. It seemed that Lu Yao's
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This decision was indeed correct, so everyone agreed.
After all the words were said, Lu Yao felt that it was not too late. It was already afternoon, so he asked the brothers in Tangxi to take action. When it comes to action, there must be a general direction. Tangxi then divided his brothers into
We formed several groups and went to different areas in the inner city and outer city respectively. Tangxi knew very well about these brothers of his, including what factory each of them worked in on weekdays, what the nearby streets were like, and
He just needs to find a few people who are very familiar with the outer city to go to the outer city to promote it. Lu Yao did not stop Tangxi's move. After all, he didn't know his brothers better than Tangxi, and it was up to him to make the distribution.
The mission is the safest.
Lu Yao gave the brothers who arrived in Tangxi two hours to send out all the manuscripts before dark.
After everyone discussed the plan for a quarter of an hour, they began to take action. Outside the Lu Mansion, which was crowded just now, only Lu Yao and Tang Xi were left.
"Master, do you want to send someone to keep an eye on them to prevent them from being lazy?" Tang Xi said.
Lu Yao smiled and said, "As their boss, how come you still can't trust them?"
Tangxi smiled bitterly and said: "Of course I believe them, but time is tight. The bank will open tomorrow. I must ensure that there are enough people by then, so I cannot let them cheat in this."
Lu Yao nodded, walked forward, patted Tang Xi on the shoulder, and said, "As a steward of the Lu Mansion, what you just said is indeed correct. But I believe in you and let you be the steward.
It means that I also believe in your brothers, they will definitely do their best, let’s go, go back to the house and rest for a while.”
After saying that, Lu Yao took Tangxi back to the mansion. So far this day, Tangxi had basically not been idle, so Lu Yao didn't plan to arrange any other tasks for him, and just asked Tangxi to go back to his room to rest. Tangxi
In fact, he was still a little worried about his brothers, but since Lu Yao said so, it seemed that he was confident about the promotion of these manuscripts, so Tangxi didn't say anything more and went back to the room to rest.
On Lu Yao's side, he came to the study and found his father, Lu Xu. However, he did not find his father just to let him attend the opening ceremony of the bank as a special guest tomorrow. At first, Lu Yao didn't feel that
Relying on his father's relationship, he can attract more customers tomorrow. Secondly, Lu Xu will not agree to delay his attendance at court tomorrow because of Lu Yao's personal affairs.
Regarding this matter, both father and son had a tacit understanding, so when Lu Yao came in, Lu Xu already knew that he must be looking for her for something else.
However, Lu Xu still symbolically asked Lu Yao about the progress of the bank affairs. Lu Yao did not mince words and told his father everything.
Lu Xu nodded after listening, saying that Lu Yao thought about the problem very comprehensively. With Lu Hao's publicity and the blessing of these manuscripts, when the bank opens tomorrow, at least it will not look too deserted.
Afterwards, Lu Xu didn't say anything more about the bank. Instead, he asked Lu Yao why he came to the study to find him now.
"Of course it's for the banquet tomorrow night," Lu Yao said.
The last time Lu Yao went to court to find Zhao Zhen to report about the bank and food street, Yan Shu, Fan Zhongyan, and Han Qi found Lu Xu who was waiting for Lu Yao to come out outside the palace. Judging from that time, the time should be
Tomorrow night, the night when the bank opened, Fan Zhongyan booked Fan Lou and decided to hold a banquet. They hoped that Lu Yao could also attend. In this regard, Lu Xu's analysis at the time was that although the banquet was in name only,
It was a farewell drink for Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi when they went to the border. But in fact, it was Yan Shu, Fan Zhongyan and others who summoned some talented people in the court who they thought were talented to go to Fanlou to ask them about the upcoming negotiations between the Song Dynasty and Xixia.
The relevant matter, to put it bluntly, is an inquiry gathering. I hope to hear some suggestions from everyone before leaving. Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi.
According to the analysis of Lu Yao and Lu Xu, although it seems that this banquet was organized by Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi, in fact, it is impossible for Emperor Zhao Zhen not to know about such a big thing. Therefore, this banquet is actually to a certain extent
It was also held under the instruction of the emperor. Otherwise, how could Fan Zhongyan dare to hold such a large-scale banquet in Fanlou? He would definitely be labeled as forming a party for personal gain.
The main reason why Lu Yao came to Lu Xu was because this gathering was no different than other gatherings. First of all, it was organized by the emperor, and there were three main people in charge, Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, and Yan Shu. Among them, Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, and Lu Yao had some preliminary ideas.
However, Lu Yao didn't know much about Yan Shu, who had only met him once.
However, those who can become the father-in-law are not ordinary people, and Lu Yao knows this very well. Since this gathering is essentially a gathering of ministers, the scale and atmosphere of the chat are not as good as those at court on weekdays.
It must be completely different. Even though Lu Yao is a time traveler, there are still certain rules that must be followed, and in the final analysis, this party is just a hodgepodge, with all kinds of people and people from all factions.
Go, that's it. On the surface, because the emperor is not here, everyone can speak freely, but in fact, every word you say will be known to all the officials present, and it may become a handle for you in the future.
Therefore, Lu Yao, who has not really entered the officialdom, came to Lu Xu's study today just to ask him to give him some advice on how to deal with himself. After all, in the court, Lu Yao can be said to be
There are no friends at all. The only Han family that can be regarded as relatives is Han Wenyuan instead of Han Yonghe. Han Wenyuan's political sense and ability are far inferior to Han Yonghe. Lu Yao has never
There is no hope in him.
Looking at Lu Yao, Lu Xu sighed and said: "Tomorrow's party has now become the focus of everyone in the court. It can be said that it has caused a storm in the city. The more this time, the more attention must be paid.
You must not talk nonsense, otherwise, you may be killed."
Having said that, Lu Xu also began to study the countermeasures to be given to Lu Yao.