Li Che's carriage stopped outside Xianyang Palace. The Qin law letter was placed in the carriage. After Li Che got out of the carriage, he asked the guards to report to the palace.
Not long after, Zhao Gao walked out of Xianyang Palace.
"Lord Li, the King has been waiting for you for a long time. Let's go see the King now.”
Zhao Gao showed respect to Li Che, which made Li Che feel as if Zhao Gao respected him.
In fact, Zhao Gao had the same expression towards the nine ministers. After all, Zhao Gao was only a commander of the Zhongche Prefecture. His official position was much lower than the nine ministers. The reason why Zhao Gao was more powerful was that Zhao Gao worked beside the King of Qin. Everyone was afraid that Zhao Gao would add fuel to the fire and spread rumors around the King of Qin.
"Has Qin Wang had breakfast?"
"No, the King of Qin said that he wanted to admire the changes in the laws of Qin by Lord Li while drinking! The King of Qin is looking forward to seeing you.”
Li Che and Zhao Gao walked past the Xianyang Palace and arrived at the King of Qin's bedroom.
The King of Qin's bedroom was extremely huge. There were 100 guards lying in ambush in the tall hall to prevent assassins.
The six eunuchs carried the Qin law slips in their hands and followed along.
Outside the bedroom.
Zhao Gao entered first. A moment later, Ying Zheng's laughter rang out from the King of Qin's bedroom,""Good, good, good. Tingwei Li is finally here!”
After Li Che entered the King of Qin's bedroom and paid his respects, Ying Zheng said,""Come, bring it over and let the Gu family take a look!”
As soon as Ying Zheng finished speaking, Li Che opened his mouth to stop him,""Slow down! Your Majesty, before you open the letter, can you talk to me about the nobles of Qin?”
After hearing the words " aristocrat ", Ying Zheng's expression changed slightly, and his hand that was reaching out for the letter stopped in midair.
"The aristocrats of the State of Qin? Does Tingwei Li have anything to say?"
"Your Majesty, this subject does have a few words that I want to say to Your Majesty. However, this matter is of great importance, so this subject can only say it to Your Majesty.”As soon as Li Che finished speaking, Zhao Gao's expression changed and he said,""Your Majesty, you can't! If there is no one to protect him, His Majesty's body of ten thousand people cannot be harmed…"
Qin Shihuang had been assassinated twice.
The first time was when Jing Ke assassinated Qin.
Once, Gao Jianli threw Qin.
Qin Wang waved his hand and shouted at Zhao Gao with a livid face,""I'm talking to Tingwei Li, who are you to interrupt? Have all the guards retreat fifty steps!"
"Understood!"
Zhao Gao retreated, and so did all the guards.
"Li Tingwei, tell me, how are the nobles of Qin?”
"Reporting to the King of Qin, I want to ask, who is the richest in the Qin country?”
"Of course, the Qin country's aristocrats are the richest. These aristocrats have been passed down for hundreds of years, and their wealth can rival a country! Moreover, there are many aristocrats in Guanzhong. The Qin country has been fighting for years, and most of them provide food…"
Of course, Ying Zheng knew how powerful the aristocrats of the Qin State were. Not only were the aristocrats of the Qin State powerful, but the aristocrats of the six states were also very powerful. Even though the six states had been wiped out, the aristocrats of the six states still existed.
"Your Majesty, I have a way to make the nobles of the Qin country take out all the grain in their hands, and the king of Qin only needs to pay some copper coins forged by blacksmiths!”
Hearing Li Che's words, Ying Zheng was filled with great interest.
The purpose of creating copper coins in the State of Qin was to use copper coins to conduct transactions. The state controlled the casting of copper coins and used them to exchange for food. However, the circulation of currency was very small, and the commoners did not particularly trust coins. Therefore, the commoners in the State of Qin still mostly bartered.
"Come, tell me in detail." Ying Zheng was an emperor who was good at learning and daring to change. He held Li Che's hand and brought him to the banquet, where he personally boiled a pot of warm wine for Li Che.
Li Che said," Your Majesty, I believe that Your Majesty should set up a bank in each county of the Nine States. This bank will have banknotes and stubs. With the banknotes, it will be circulated throughout the country. Wherever you go, you only need to take the banknotes of the Great Qin Bank to exchange for copper coins of the same value. However, if he wanted the bank to gain the recognition of the people, he had to do one thing!”
"What is it?" Ying Zheng asked in surprise.
" Completely lift the ban on commerce!"
" I didn't restrict commerce. There are many merchants in Guanzhong. During the Six Kingdoms, Qin merchants traveled the world. Moreover, Zhongfu Lu Buwei was born a merchant…"
After Qin Shihuang finished speaking, Li Che said,""The business that this minister is talking about is not this kind of business. The business that this minister is talking about is to establish a business ecosystem. If the business ecosystem is complete, the currency of the Qin country will have value, and the bank that this minister is talking about will be established.”
Ying Zheng's face was still filled with confusion. At this moment, Ying Zheng knew that Li Che was talking about a great event that would change the Qin State, but he could not quite understand what he was talking about.
"What does the bank have to do with the nobles of the State of Qin? According to Li Tingwei, it was impossible for the nobles to take out all the grain in their hands!”
Li Che shook his head and continued to explain,""Your Majesty, the money house that I'm talking about is a way to accumulate wealth. Your Majesty, please listen to me in detail.”
"Your Majesty, please think about it. If Your Majesty sets up banks in various places for merchants to deposit and withdraw money, the merchants will be able to avoid the risk of bartering. At that time, they will be able to deposit money from the banks of the Qi Kingdom. They only need to take the silver notes and they will be able to withdraw money from the Chu Kingdom. At that time, the value of money would increase. All the wealth of the merchants would be converted into money and stored in the bank. Wouldn't that be used by His Majesty?”
"If Your Majesty wants food, you can take out money from the bank and buy food from the merchants! Didn't His Majesty control all the merchants 'wealth through the bank?”
As soon as Li Che's words fell, Ying Zheng was stunned on the spot, pondering over Li Che's words.
"Bank? Banknotes? Business system? Money value?"
"That's right! Without a perfect commercial system, currency would be a pile of scrap metal. However, once a perfect commercial system was established, currency would be real gold, silver, grain, and soldiers!”
Boom!
In an instant, Qin Shi Huang felt as if he had been enlightened!
He suddenly realized something!
Wasn't the appearance of money to exchange for food in the hands of merchants?
Wasn't the bank Li Che was talking about a merchant's warehouse? Merchants used grain to earn money and then deposited the money into the bank. Thus, there was money and grain in the bank!
No matter how hard a merchant tried to earn money, in the end, they had to deposit it in the bank.
After waking up from his dream, Qin Shi Huang looked at Li Che. He was completely different!
This was simply a legitimate robbery.
Now, the gentry of the State of Qin stored their grain in their own homes. Even if they stored it rotten, it would not produce any value. If a bank appeared and the value of money increased, these gentry would definitely sell their grain in exchange for money.
After all, food would rot, but copper coins would not…
As for how many coins there were, wouldn't there be as many as they were cast?
He had secretly taken out the grain of the Qin nobles and handed them strings of copper coins!
"Impressive! Master Li's idea was indeed a divine work! Come, tell me in detail how to use the bank to get all the wealth of the Qin Dynasty nobles…"
All along, Qin Shihuang had been longing for the wealth of the Qin country's aristocrats.
He really wanted to get the money from these aristocrats into his hands, but he had no choice. Wang Jian was a big family, Meng Tian was a big family, and the Qin royal family was also a big family. If he angered them, his throne would be unstable...
Now that there was a way to get the wealth from the aristocrats into his own pocket without anyone knowing, Qin Shi Huang was naturally very excited and curious!
In the main hall, Li Che began to explain the banking system to Qin Shihuang.
What was a country?
What was a bank?
What was the banking system?
The purpose of a bank was to make money for the country. All your wealth might seem to be yours, but it was actually controlled by the country…
No matter how much wealth you have, it's just a number in the bank. If you don't spend it, it will always belong to the country. No matter how rich you are, it doesn't matter if you have millions of dollars!
Qin Shi Huang was shocked by Li Che's advanced business system.
After Qin Shi Huang thoroughly understood the business system and the function of the bank, he looked at the letter Li Che sent in with even more eagerness.
"My dear minister, are these the laws of business?”
" Yes, these are the laws of Qin that I have revised. Among them, there are three laws of commerce that regulate the country's commercial system in detail..."
"Good! Good! With a talent like Lord Li, the heavens are really drooling!”
Qin Shi Huang was extremely impressed by Li Che's idea of a money house.
He had never thought that this kind of business would be so amazing. Now that Li Che had mentioned it, it was an eye-opener for him.
Li Che just smiled and didn't say anything.
The banking system was the accumulation of thousands of years of experience by Chinese merchants. It was naturally an eye-opener for him to take it out and give it to Qin Shi Huang in advance!
Li Che and Qin Shihuang chatted from morning to noon, then from noon to evening. When night fell, the two of them held a candle and chatted at night. They boiled pot after pot of warm wine and ate meat paste again and again.
Zhao Gao and a group of soldiers were standing guard outside, exclaiming in amazement.
"It has been a long time since the king has had such a good chat with a minister!”
"What kind of law did Li Che bring out to make the King of Qin so obsessed? She simply held onto Li Che's hand and refused to let go. It was as if she was afraid that if she let go, a genius would slip away from her!”
Zhao Gao looked at Li Che in the hall, and his respect for Li Che increased.
At the same time, he raised Li Che's danger level to the same level as Li Si's!
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