Chapter 449 There is a kind of thing called bonds
Northeast to Chang'an, there are 3,000 on the way.
At that time, it was late autumn, and it had been more than two months since Han Yue went crazy and killed people in the court, and on that day he slashed Wang Qi, the patriarch of the Taiyuan Wang clan, with a sword, and then thrust the sword of the Son of Heaven into the lobby, and then drifted away with his family.
Though the people are gone, the world is shaken.
From the day Han Yue left, the entire Central Plains was plunged into a strange turmoil.
The family that forced the palace was in turmoil.
The family of the loyal monarch is in the future.
The rebellion of the family is not a rebellion, but a chaos like a soft knife cutting flesh, and it starts from the root to the ground. The last time the Five Hundred Family resigned and forced the palace to have room for maneuver, but this time it was a direct and endless situation.
There are 12 provinces and 360 mansions in the Tang Dynasty, and all the prefectures and county governments have come to a standstill.
Whether it is Guanzhong, Longxi, Shandong or Lingnan, as long as it is the Central Plains, there is a depression everywhere. Eighty percent of the world's industries are controlled by the other side's camp, and this time the other party attacked fiercely and stopped all the industries.
The brick-burning industry stopped, and the people no longer had employers.
The big cloth dealers no longer buy cloth, which makes many women of small farmers and small households miserable, and the coarse cloth they weave all night can no longer be exchanged for money.
In addition, there are tea merchants, salt merchants, rice merchants, vegetable merchants, etc......
It seems that overnight, there is no shortage of these things in the world, and the people used to hate the family for buying their labor income cheaply, but now they don't even dare to hate.
In the past, the price was lowered, but at least it could be sold for money.
Now the price is not pressed, and people don't want it directly.
Only two months have passed, and the newly established empire of the Tang Dynasty has shown signs of death.
The people were at a loss to understand, but there were people in the court who understood.
This is an economic war launched by the family, to overthrow the world from the roots, and their purpose is very simple, that is, to force the people to rise up.
Because the family has money and food, even if they don't do industry for a year, they can bear it, but the people can't bear it, it only takes half a year, and the people of the whole country will be in trouble.
Think about it, your family is surrounded by walls, and finally your wife and daughter stayed up late to weave a piece of cloth, and you were looking forward to exchanging this batch of cloth for some fried rice, oil and salt, but suddenly you couldn't sell it, what would you do?
Think about it, what will happen to you if the vegetables you have worked so hard to grow, the silkworms you raise, the salt you have sun, the iron you have beaten, and the things you have made with blood and sweat will suddenly be thrown there and waiting to rot?
The people of the Tang Dynasty are loyal, but no matter how loyal the people are, they also need to eat.
Li Shimin is only 43 years old this year, and it is said that he is in the prime of life, but the emperor is getting more and more haggard day by day, and in just half a month, he seems to have aged for ten years.
"The royal family can't bear it, Li Shimin can't bear it, and if we provoke our family, we will overturn the world......" The other camp released words, and someone shouted in Langya County, arrogantly: "If the emperor wants to save Datang, he must kill Han Yue, if he doesn't kill Han Yue and let us eliminate this breath, then there is no need for Datang to exist!" ”
It's crazy......
When these words reached Chang'an, Li Shimin overturned the table in one fell swoop and said angrily: "I want to see if Datang will always exist." ”
The emperor's eyes were blood-red, and he was extremely haggard for half a month, but this time Li Shimin did not back down, he knew that it was useless to retreat.
"Spread my will, empty the treasury, and purchase the materials produced by the people of the world, as long as Datang still has a penny, the people can't be hungry!"
Li Shimin also has a family on his side, and the other party wants to fight an economic war, and the emperor will also do it.
In the midst of this turmoil, a huge special ox cart appeared in the northernmost part of Hebei Province, and traveled all the way, slowly but surely towards the northeast.
This ox cart is not particularly luxurious, but it occupies a large size, and it takes five bullocks to pull it, and there is a kitchen and a bedroom on the cart, and it is clear that a family of six lives there.
The roads in Datang are not smooth, even the official roads are bumpy, but this ox cart is not bumpy at all, because its wheels are all specially made, with rubber tires on the outside and pneumatic inner tubes on the inside.
In addition, the car was loaded with shock-absorbing springs that Datang could not manufacture, and the bearings of the wheels were coated with lubricating butter.
Such a magical ox cart moves slowly, it is like a moving home, it lives on it with a family of six, and it gathers the eyes of the world from the moment it sets out.
On the official road from Chang'an to this ox cart, there are crazy galloping horses every day, some of which gallop to Chang'an to report to the emperor, and some of which are spies sent by the family.
"Where did the stinky boy go today?" This is what the emperor asks every day.
"Where did the kid go today?" It's something the Maison asks every day.
The emperor and the family paid attention to an ox cart every day, but the ox cart was still moving around, and half a month passed, and the ox cart slowly left Hebei and slowly stepped through the Shanhaiguan.
Further on, there are white mountains and black waters.
If you go further, you will be out of the Central Plains.
"Haha, that kid is finally gone, he's panicking, he's scared! What do I mean, what kind of natural genius? It's not like I'm running away from the wind in the face of my family......"
The family shouted wildly, but the emperor sighed gloomily, Li Shimin held the shoulders of the eldest grandson in the palace, and the husband and wife looked at the sky in a daze, and suddenly muttered at the same time, sadly: "He is finally gone!" ”
At this time, it was exactly three months before Han Yue left Chang'an, late autumn had passed, and early winter was coming, and suddenly a north wind was howling, as if the world had become solemn overnight.
The Central Plains region became more and more depressed, and the royal family slowly showed its defeat under the persecution of the family.
Li Shimin emptied the treasury, and still could not recover the decline, although the emperor had more than 100 families to support, but there were 400 on the opposite side......
They are all gate valves that have been inherited for thousands of years, and the difference in strength between them is not large, one or two families may not be able to see it, but a hundred against four hundred, this disparity is too big.
This economic war is doomed to be lost.
The north wind in Guanzhong was blowing, but the white mountain and black water ushered in a heavy snowfall, and just when the snow was flying, the ox cart suddenly stopped.
Han Yue stood on the car with his hands in his hands, looking back at the direction of Chang'an, the snowflakes in the sky were beautiful above his head, and the young man who had been a coachman for three consecutive months finally slowly spit out two words: "Do it!" ”
Gradually faded two words, but it seemed to shake the world with a roaring sound.
In Chang'an City, Li Shimin was puzzled and muttered: "The world has been in turmoil for three months, so why don't you have a backhand?" ”
All over the Central Plains, countless families were vigilant and secretly guessed: "This son wants to act by unscrupulous means, could it be that he has a backhand?" ”
The emperor and the family kept speculating, but after Han Yue finished saying two words, he fell silent again, and he drove the ox cart forward, as if he had forgotten everything he had said.
Walk slowly during the day, tease the children at night, and occasionally stop the car and take the wives to the snow to enjoy the scenery, as if this trip is just for fun.
The Maison slowly let go of his thoughts.
The emperor grew disillusioned
However, three days later, the world changed dramatically.
First, a message was slowly sent out from the ox cart, and Li Fenghua, who followed the ox cart, copied dozens of copies, and then entrusted the emperor's Hongling envoy to bring it back to Chang'an, and then spread the book to the world with flying birds.
"Now there is Anshan iron ore in Northeast China, which can produce 10,000,000 catties of ore every year, and build a smelting steel mill, which can produce a huge amount of refined iron every year, and the first batch of 5 million catties has been baked, and it is sold cheaply if it wants to be sold all over the world. The people of the world can exchange the materials at home, whether it is coarse cloth, tea, herbs or vegetable rice, as long as the people produce it will be exchanged for the price, and each catty of refined iron will only be sold for five ......."
Wuwen, you can't even earn back the freight, right?
There are at least 3,000 miles from the northeast to Guannai, and even if it is transported to Hebei, it will take seven or eight hundred miles, not to mention the cost of steel from mining to smelting, and the freight alone can be lost.
The family side laughed disdainfully, and spread rumors one after another: "Han Yue's son, his skills stop here, and without Li Shimin's support, he finally began to make stupid moves." ”
But the next day they couldn't laugh!
Li Boran of the Li clan of Zhaojun suddenly jumped out and spoke out, and said to the world: "The matter of steel transportation, our Li clan of Zhaojun took it at a loss. ”
Received at a loss?
I took it at a loss......
The family was shocked, and suddenly had a bad feeling.
Li Shimin took the opportunity to order, saying that there are steel sales agents in the twelve provinces of the world, and as long as the Li family of Zhaojun transports the iron back to the Central Plains, it will be able to spread the Tang Dynasty in half a month.
The imperial court did not set taxes on the transaction of exchanging materials for steel for the people, not only did not set taxes, but also encouraged more exchanges, if there was really no money and materials, then it could also be credited.
Credit......
It's even on credit!
The other camp of the family was in an uproar, several bigwigs gathered overnight, and someone said with a pale face: "Five million catties of steel seems to be a lot, but even a place can't be satisfied, since that kid wants to play at a loss, our family will play with him, I want to see how many tens of thousands of catties of steel he can afford?" ”
All the bigwigs nodded frequently, and they all felt that Han Yue's hand was easy to deal with.
However, three days later, the news came out again from the ox cart.
It was still Li Fenghua who urgently copied dozens of copies, and this time he didn't need Hongling's urgent envoy to bring them back to Chang'an, because Li Shimin urgently allocated hundreds of domesticated birds here.
Birds spread the word and spread it all over the world again.
This news was more ruthless than exchanging it for steel cheaply, and everyone on the family side broke out in a cold sweat.
"Today, there is Liaodong Goguryeo, since ancient times and the Central Plains feud, I want to instigate a large army to conquer Liaodong, under the command of 260,000 iron cavalry, only responsible for fighting, not responsible for receiving. As the old saying goes, the grain and grass have not been moved, the soldiers and horses go first, I Li Yue issued a call to the people of the world, and those who have surplus materials at home can sell them for military use, and then issue war bonds, and the people subscribe for the price of materials, and the income is guaranteed to triple and be accepted after the war. Anyone who holds bonds can come to Liaodong to make a fortune......"
War Bonds!
Han Yue issued a war bond!
And it's a bond with a guaranteed return tripled!
The family was at a loss at first, and the bigwigs loyal to Li Shimin in the court were also a little confused, and everyone didn't believe in this thing at first.
However, only a few days later, news suddenly came from the world that the war bonds were selling like crazy.