Accompanying Li Zhen, he walked on the beach of Dafengtai, enjoying the gentle sea breeze, watching the sunny weather, and listening to the waves crashing on the beach.
Jia Liping walked forward silently, took over from Qi Lengzi, and put a coat behind Li Zhen: "Master Li, be careful of catching a cold."
Li Zhen walked with his hands behind his back, his eyes always looking at the distant sea, not knowing what he was thinking. I don't know what happened behind my back.
Behind him, followed a dozen people, all of whom were from the Kyushu Academy of Sciences. There were also two soldiers with live ammunition following them.
Standing on a rock, his hair ruffled by the sea breeze, Li Zhen suddenly felt a familiar throbbing in his heart at this moment. He lowered his head and covered his heart. He knew that there was a mark there, and the mark was like a tear.
"I don't know why, but I often have heart palpitations like this recently. Is this something I've been thinking about day and night? Will it come true?"
"But what am I thinking about all the time?"
Li Zhen murmured in his heart. You can feel that the mark is constantly giving off a slightly hot feeling.
If he could still remember what happened before, he would be familiar with this phenomenon. Before experiencing a big emotional change, there will be some previous signs.
But Li Zhen doesn't remember anything now, he just looks forward to it inexplicably.
"Master Li, please drink some ginseng tea to warm you up. The sea breeze is strong and your bones are weak, so you still need to take good care of yourself."
Li Zhen was awakened by the sound and turned around, only to see Jia Liping holding a porcelain cup in his hand and passing it over. Looking back, I saw a large group of people standing under the rock. I couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I just came out to relax, why are you following me?"
Everyone lowered their heads and laughed, but no one spoke.
Li Zhen's status is completely different now. He once only had the mission of cultural revitalization, and students respected him.
But now, Li Zhen is responsible for the capital direction of the future empire. One person can almost bear the fate of the entire Dongzhou and all the capitalists in the entire Dongzhou. Today is different from the past. Now he has a high position and weight.
Li Zhen smiled and took the cup of tea: "I'm sorry for you. Let's talk about something. It's quite a distance from Murakami. You can get a cup of freshly brewed ginseng tea. You are very generous."
Jia Liping laughed and said, "I'm thinking about Master Li's body and bones."
"Let's talk about it."
Li Zhen blew, brought the tea cup to his mouth and drank lightly.
Jia Liping looked back and glanced at the people waiting for Li Zhen to count. Everyone was very sensible and turned their heads and stood in the distance. I feel bad, damn, is it still a secret
Li Zhen was a little funny: "No more ink stains, just tell me. If you don't tell me, I will go back."
Jia Liping rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "The students have questions and I want to ask you."
"Um."
"This question is a bit naive, but I'm sure Master Li will give a different answer."
"Say it."
"What do you think is the most profitable business in the world?"
Li Zhen handed him the tea cup expressionlessly: "Print money."
Jia Liping smiled bitterly and said: "Master Li, please don't be joking... Now I am responsible for running the Ten Thousand Years Financial Group, and I have to lead everyone to seek more benefits."
Li Zhen said seriously: "Do you think I'm joking?"
Jia Liping smiled bitterly again: "But it has to be easy to operate. Printing money... only the founding emperor who changes dynasties can do this. You don't want us to join in the fun and make a revolution, right?"
Li Zhen laughed loudly and patted Jia Liping on the shoulder: "Liping, you have studied social structure so thoroughly. But in financial mathematics, you still need to work more. I have said that when you print money, you must A revolution?"
Jia Liping felt something in his heart. He seemed to realize the deep meaning behind Li Zhen's words: "My idea is not mature enough and I dare not bring it up in the academy. There is no one now, so I still ask Master Li for advice."
Li Zhen understood Jia Liping's behavior.
I basically don’t teach much anymore, and everyone is free to explore. In his free time, he would go out to wander around, and every time he wandered around, there would be many students waiting behind him, hoping to find an opportunity to ask him some questions alone.
Especially in the School of Finance and Mathematics, most students are now sent out to engage in capital, doing research while practicing. Everyone hardly saw Li Zhen for a long time, and could only ask for advice alone when they had the chance.
Li Zhen asked him back: "I asked you to purchase gold, silver, grain, and supplies. How are you doing with the Kyushu coins?"
Jia Liping smiled bitterly and said: "Those seven people are reluctant to part with it. They are all businessmen, and they are used to not putting their eggs in one basket. They all have a plan and do it on a small scale."
"Do you know why you hoard those things?"
"Master Li said that Kyushu coins will depreciate. If you save the goods, when the new dynasty appears, these things will be wealth."
Li Zhen shook his head: "This is not the reason for unilateralism. Recently I have seen the rise of capital in Dongzhou. Maybe we can do something big without waiting for the new dynasty."
Jia Liping took a deep breath: "How can you do something big?"
"Hoard gold."
"I have never understood why we are hoarding gold? Now the gold coins in Kyushu are almost eliminated, the price of gold is rising, and gold jewelry is also rising. Isn't it unreasonable to hoard gold at this time? We have missed it It’s time for gold to be at a low price, so it’s pointless to do this now, right? Even if a new dynasty is established, selling gold will yield very little.”
Li Zhen asked back: "Did I say that the recovered gold should be sold? I seem to have only said that the resources can be sold, right? I never said that the gold should be sold."
"Ah? If we don't sell gold, then why are we hoarding it?"
Li Zhen stood with his hands behind his back and said in a deep voice: "Capital reserves. Use a lot of gold to build trust."
"sense of trust?"
"If the consortium opens a 'money bank', after the collapse of the Kyushu currency, gold and silver will become the currency in circulation. The capitalists in Dongzhou will store gold with us because it is inconvenient to store gold, and we will issue invoices to them . How much gold is deposited, you can use the invoice to retrieve the gold at any bank branch... Doesn't this form what I call 'printing money'? The invoice we issue for storing gold, isn't it a new currency."
When Jia Liping heard this, he was completely stunned. Are you playing like this
Li Zhen added: "Why do businessmen keep their money with us? This is a sense of trust. Simply relying on our reputation is obviously not enough. Businessmen will think, what if we collapse and the money cannot be withdrawn?" So we need real gold and silver to build trust. And when we have enough gold reserves, merchants will put aside all their worries and safely store gold with us."
Jia Liping asked again: "Then our bank makes money by charging fees for depositing money? But the profit is too small. The risk is high and the profit is not big. If a businessman deposits 10 grams of gold with us , we have to charge at least one-tenth of the custody fee to achieve profit, right? And this one-tenth is just like cutting meat for businessmen. Let alone one-tenth, even one percent of the custody fee , they are reluctant to part with it.”
Li Zhen smiled and said: "Who said we have to charge storage fees?"
"What? We don't charge storage fees? How do we make money? Are we obliged to work for the capitalists? How is this possible?"
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(End of chapter)