Chapter 35 Feiqian’s Anti-counterfeiting Technology

In the study of Li Jiancheng in the East Palace, Li Yuanji and Wei Zheng stood side by side in front of the book case. Li Yuanji looked at Li Jiancheng and said excitedly: "Brother, the second brother was called into the palace by his father. It is probably because of the assassination of Luo Shixin!"

Li Jiancheng seemed not to feel Li Yuanji and Wei Zheng in front of him, his eyes wandering outside his body. Wei Zheng kept observing Li Jiancheng's expression, and Li Jiancheng seemed to be thinking about something. After a long time, Li Jiancheng slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.

Li Yuanji said carefully: "Brother, are you going to sit down and watch Luo Shixin be assassinated and remain indifferent?"

Li Jiancheng was slightly stunned and said, "How do you say this?"

"Isn't the matter obvious?" Li Yuanji said: "Luo Shixin was assassinated just now. Changsun Wuji was reported to the house of Qujiangfang. It was ridiculous. Changsun Wuji's fat man took a new concubine Jiang. Jiang originally had a childhood sweetheart Guo Silang, but when Guo Silang had a private meeting with Jiang, he was discovered by Changsun Wuji. In anger, Changsun Wuji ordered someone to beat Guo Silang to death. Jiang was angry and exposed the fact that Changsun Wuji had raised the dead soldiers and privately hiding his armor..."

Li Jiancheng looked at Wei Zheng and said, "Xuancheng, what do you think about this?"

Wei Zheng was slightly stunned, frowned, and muttered to himself: "It seems to make sense, but it is really a coincidence. In this world, the most trustworthy thing is coincidence."

"Xuancheng's view is exactly what I mean!" Li Jiancheng nodded deeply and said, "There are too many coincidences here. Although the Changsun family is not a high-ranking family, it is not necessary to force a concubine. He only needs to take concubines, and there are people in Chang'an, and send his daughter to Changsun Wuji's mansion."

When Li Yuanji heard this, he was anxious: "Brother, this is the best time to deal with the King of Qin..."

Before Li Yuanji finished speaking, Li Jiancheng interrupted: "The father is not confused yet. Although he is in the palace, his eyes can see clearly."

Hearing this, Li Yuanji felt very disappointed.

Li Jiancheng asked again: "What is Mr. Chen doing now?"

Wei Zheng was slightly stunned and bowed and said, "I don't know. I think I should be enjoying family happiness with His Highness Pingyang."

Li Yuanji said: "Brother, I know this. My third brother-in-law and my third sister thought Chang'an was too hot and wanted to go to Qinglin, Wannian County to escape the heat!"

"Summer escape?" Li Jiancheng laughed in silence: "They are very good at enjoying it, but this palace is not idle for a moment."

Wei Zheng asked, "What's the matter? Can you share one or two of yourselves?"

Li Jiancheng rubbed his head and said, "Is Xuancheng familiar with the Bailan tribe?"

"Bailan!" Wei Zheng turned his head and asked in confusion: "Does His Highness refer to the Tuyuhun Bailan King's tribe or the Qiang tribe's tribe?"

The Xianbei Tuyuhun tribe was originally a branch of the Xianbei Murong tribe. The eldest son of Murong Sheguishu, the leader of the Murong tribe, and Murong Li, the founder of the Murong tribe, had a good relationship. Because Murong Li was provoked and gradually became alienated, he once argued with Murong Tuyuhun on the grounds that horses were biting each other. Later, Murong Tuyuhun expressed his desire to go. Although Murong Li apologized and repaired, Murong Tuyuhun believed that the rift had arisen and decided to go. So Murong Tuyuhun led 1,700 households to go away.

Yinshan, from then on, the descendants of Murong Tuyuhun all regarded Tuyuhun as their clan name. In the early fifth century AD, the Tuyuhun tribe praised the Liu Dynasty court, and Liu Yu named Muliyan the King of Henan, also known as the Bailan King. However, when the Tuyuhun was rising, Tuyuhun split due to the strength of the Tuyuhun tribe at that time and divided it into two divisions, one was to pay tribute to the Tuyuhun tribe, and the other abandoned the name of the Tuyuhun tribe and was called the Bailan tribe. However, the Xianbei Bailan tribe gradually became silent.

However, there are thirteen tribes including the Qiang tribe, the Baima tribe, the Shaodang tribe, the Heishui tribe, the Tang yak tribe, the yak tribe, the Qingyi tribe, the Ganlang tribe and the Ran feng tribe. The Bailan tribe is one of them, and its ethnic group is actively adjacent to the Xianbei Tuyuhun, also known as the Lintao Bailan tribe.

The fact that Wei Zheng was able to divide the Xianbei Bailan tribe and the Western Qiang Bailan tribe is enough to prove that Wei Zheng had a certain understanding of this.

Li Jiancheng said: "It is the Western Qiang Bailan tribe. I just received the news a few days ago that the chief of the Bailan tribe, Ke Luo, requested to be attached. I am not sure what to do!"

Wei Zheng asked: "Your Highness, can you tell that Bailan's tribe requested to be attached? Is it because Tuyuhun launched a war against him or because of natural disasters?"

For the nomadic peoples in northern and northwest China, when they cannot survive, they usually choose to surrender. Anyway, all the Central Plains dynasties need is nominal surrender, and the tribe's internal affairs are still in charge. Once they choose to surrender, they can openly ask for money, food and supplies from the central court. As long as they survive the difficulties, they will always rebel. They have tried this routine, but unfortunately, all dynasties have been deceived.

Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "Tubo's national power is rising now. He wants to fight eastward to annex Tuyuhun. Both sides have fought several battles in the West Sea. Although Tubo wins more than loses less, the Bailan tribe is still no match for Tuyuhun. They were forced to conquer more than 50,000 cattle and sheep by Tuyuhun..."

More than 50,000 cattle and sheep are not even a drop in a huge tribe like the Turks. However, for a small tribe like the Bailan tribe with only more than 10,000 households and five or six thousand young and strong ones, more than 50,000 cattle and sheep are almost severely damaged.

According to Li Yuan's character of being very fond of merit, he must have accepted the Bailan tribe as the affiliation, but he established Mizhou Guizhou and appointed his leader Ke Luo as the governor of Guizhou.

However, Li Jiancheng felt that it was not easy. The Tang Dynasty is now full of trouble, especially when the Turks were still gathering in Dingxiang but not dispersed. Li Jiancheng really didn't want to accept the Bailan tribe and attracted the powerful enemy of Tubo. However, once the Bailan tribe was extremely needed to support the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty would avoid it. I am afraid that in the future, it would not be so easy to conquer their remote tribes.

Although Wei Zheng could distinguish the difference between the Bailan Qiang tribe and the Tuyuhun Bailan tribe, he really had no other good way to deal with these ethnic minority matters.

However, Wei Zheng advised Li Jiancheng: "Your Highness, if this matter is difficult to decide, why not ask Mr. Chen's plan?"

"Mr. Chen? I haven't heard that Chen Ying is familiar with the affairs of the Bailan Qiang tribe!" Li Jiancheng said in confusion.

Wei Zheng smiled bitterly and said, "Didn't Chen's concubine know about the land beside the Di tribe? He also doesn't know about the Turks, but once he uses Chen's concubine, he will definitely think of appropriate opinions."

Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "It's so good!"

...

When Li Xiuning and Chen Ying arrived in the Qinglin, it was almost noon. It was the time of the day when the heat was the highest. Because the weather was too hot, neither Li Xiuning nor Chen Ying was in the mood to eat. After taking a cold shower in the indoor swimming pool of Chenjiabao, Li Xiuning yawned for a long time.

Chen Yingke is not as good as Li Xiuning because Ma Zhou came to report to Chen Ying.

Chen Ying was satisfied with Ma Zhou's work ability. Chen Ying did not engage in financial work in later generations, and he was actually only a little understanding of the management and operation process of banks and financial systems. However, Ma Zhou was too smart and quickly derived a completely immature concept proposed by Chen Ying to form an endorseable plan.

Among them, Ma Zhou made great contributions.

In order to reward Ma Zhou, a great hero in the Chen family, Chen Ying personally made a pot of millet, red dates and hawthorn porridge into ice, as if he was a magician. Ma Zhou was shocked to the point of seeing this scene.

Chen Ying enjoyed this feeling very much, using his later generations to impress Ma Zhou. After all, Ma Zhou was not an ordinary person, he was the first common prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. Before Ma Zhou, the prime minister was the patent of aristocratic families. Even if it was again, he was also a poor man, not a common man like Ma Zhou.

When Ma Zhou first came into contact with the money shop industry, he was very puzzled why Chen Ying fixed the interest at 20% of the profit. You should know that at this time, there was almost no interest below 40%. Chen Ying did this, in fact, to establish countless enemies. All the wealthy families and families in the world who put money on will regard Chen Ying as a life-and-death disaster. After all, cutting off people's wealth and wealth is like killing their parents.

However, Chen Ying's explanation made Ma Zhou suddenly realize. Chen Ying told Ma Zhou that he was not short of money, so he didn't care much about how much money could make.

Chen Ying's real purpose was to master the Tang Dynasty's money printing machine and allow the entire country to enjoy the risks brought by banknotes. However, Chen Ying also knew that if he had a big step, he would easily get eggs. Therefore, he had to eat rice bite by bite, and the road had to be taken step by step.

In ancient times, it was too difficult to master anti-counterfeiting technology. Chen Ying did not dare to print banknotes openly. He had become the public enemy of the world with the behavior of attracting loans with 20% of the profits of Chen Ying. It was just because Chen Ying's head was thick enough and the backstage was hard enough that no one dared to touch his cheese.

However, once Chen Ying prints paper money and launches it into the market, other wealthy families and aristocratic families will definitely spare no effort to create counterfeit coins, allowing Chen Ying to lose all his money.

Seeing Ma Zhou carefully holding a box and gently put it in front of Chen Ying. Chen Ying opened the box and saw that it was a new paper made of good birch and silk thread. This paper is three parts thicker than ordinary rice paper, and the texture has a smooth texture. The key is that the denomination of this banknote called flying money is more than 10,000 guan. Chen Ying gently stroked the "bank notes" printed with more than a dozen seals on it and said, "Ma Zhou, which anti-counterfeiting technology do you adopt?"

Looking at the flying money printed in woodblocks, although the pattern of four colors: red, yellow, green and blue was adopted, Chen Ying knew that if the counterfeiting method was adopted, Chen Ying was completely confident that within one month, he would try to make a flying money banknote that was fake and real.

Ma Zhou smiled and said, "Master, if you look carefully, you will definitely find clues."
Chapter completed!