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At this time, Xiao Ming, Fiji and others stood in the barracks, looking at all this, all smiling.

Pang Yukun said: "Congratulations to Your Highness, I didn't expect that the atrocities of King Wei helped His Highness unite the hearts of the people, and now the feudal country is united from top to bottom." ”

"This is indeed a bit surprising, in fact, it is not difficult to explain, the people now do not want to go back to the time when they were oppressed by the wealthy families." Xiao Ming said with a deep groan.

Fiji and Pang Yukun nodded, and Fiji said: "But although the people are angry, we can't recruit so many soldiers, and the finances of the feudal country can't afford it, and the soldiers are not much more expensive." ”

Although Xiao Ming ordered the expansion of the army this time, there were more people who came to sign up for the army this time, but it can be seen that the national education of the people during this period of time has achieved initial results.

What do the country have to do with me, and this kind of numb words can no longer sway the minds of the people.

"Yes, this time Yangzhou was slaughtered, and our idea of obtaining a large amount of supplies from Yangzhou City fell through, even if the army recruited now is probably overstretched." Xiao Ming asked.

Pang Yukun and Fiji glanced at each other, sighed and said yes.

Xiao Ming felt a burst of anger in his heart, King Wei's scorched earth policy this time turned the original war dividend into negative equity, and now he had to find a way to reverse the situation.

Thinking of this, he said to the two: "This king has an idea, the government treasury has money and grain, but the merchants and people of Qingzhou have, this king is going to issue war bonds, as long as those who buy war bonds will be able to get war spoils and dividends in the future, what do you think?" ”

"War bonds?" Fiji and Pang Yukun were stunned.

Xiao Ming came back to his senses, and he remembered that the two of them didn't know what a war bond was, so he explained.

In fact, his war bonds are nothing more than national bonds, and it is only because it is a time of war, and because the war has been won one after another, and the people's confidence is very high, he will decide to issue war bonds.

Similar to the national debt, the purpose of the war bond is to raise materials in advance, and the strategic goal set below is half a year later, so he will take advantage of this half year to raise war materials.

In fact, he had already done this kind of thing, this was during the Northern Expedition, but at that time, it was only a few big businessmen who benefited, and now these businessmen almost monopolized the pastures of the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Out of vigilance against monopoly capital, Xiao Ming did not solicit merchants to raise funds this time, but decided to issue them in the entire feudal country, and the people could receive war bonds even if they took grain.

In this way, he can avoid his feudal kingdom being swayed by war capital, after all, history is a mirror, and he does not want to be controlled by fanatical war capital.

After explaining, Fiji and Pang Yukun understood that this war bond was nothing more than borrowing money from merchants and ordinary people to fight the war, and when there were war dividends, they would return the dividends to the people and pay interest in addition.

Pang Yukun was suddenly amazed, and Fiji also shook his head again and again, he didn't know what Xiao Ming remembered about this wonderful method.

According to the normal system of the Great Chongqing State, the way for the government to run out of money is very simple, that is, to levy heavy taxes.

Now Xiao Ming didn't consider this option at all, but directly adopted this gentle method.

"Now you get it?" Xiao Ming asked.

"The minister understands, and when he goes back, the lower official will ask the Chamber of Commerce to put up the war bonds for sale." Pang Yukun said.

Xiao Ming nodded, "But you have to control it and limit the number of purchases so that a very small number of merchants don't buy on a large scale and make huge profits." ”

Now Xiao Ming is no longer worried about the unification of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, but with the reform of the feudal country, the social change may move towards an uncontrollable stage.

With the flowering of people's wisdom, all kinds of advanced ideas will be grasped by the people, and what he is most worried about is that the people's will will be used by people with intentions, resulting in the division of the country because of ideas.

And the person who is most likely to take advantage of public opinion is the big capitalist, now Qingzhou is just staying in the embryonic stage of capital, once he unifies the country of Chongqing and goes into the ocean, capital will inevitably grow rapidly like a wild horse, how should he tame this beast when the time comes?

After all, in this era of closed information and backward barbarism, it is not as easy to maintain stability as in modern times.

After saying this, Xiao Ming remembered that Princess Pingyang entered the palace yesterday and talked about the royal family, when he was with Concubine Zhen, Princess Pingyang mentioned the matter after giving gifts to Fei Yueer and Concubine Zhen.

So he asked, "What do you think of the royal family in Qingzhou this time?" Now they thought they would have reached out and asked for money. ”

When Fiji heard this, he immediately looked at his nose and nose, and pretended to be confused, he was an old fox and did not want to offend these people.

Pang Yukun said: "Your Royal Highness, you can't feed these royal clansmen in vain, since Gaozu to the present, the number of royal clansmen in this Great Yu Country is as high as more than 100,000 people, and the worship of these more than 100,000 people has become a heavy burden on the treasury, if Your Highness wants to raise this group of people, it won't take long for the country to be dragged down." ”

Xiao Ming thought so, which reminded him of the affairs of the Ming Dynasty, when these royal clansmen were also a heavy burden on the imperial court, but the Ming Dynasty at that time would rather support these people than let them support themselves.

"Fei Zhongshu, what do you think?" Xiao Ming looked at Fiji, he didn't believe these Tang Guogong, Rong Guogong had not looked for Fiji.

Compared with Xiao Ming, these people are more familiar with Fiji, Luo Quan and others.

"Your Royal Highness, the number of royal clansmen in Qingzhou City is not many now, in fact, there are only more than a thousand people, and the others are distributed in various parts of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, but these thousand people are all people with relatively high titles." Fiji said.

Xiao Ming actually wanted to force Fiji to speak his mind, but now it seems that Fiji is in favor of feeding these people.

"Elder Fei Ge, you also know exactly how much money there is in the treasury now, aren't you adding to the chaos?" Pang Yukun naturally heard the sound of Fiji.

Fiji was calm as usual, he sighed, he said: "Pang Shoufu, don't worry, I say this, naturally there is a reason for me to say this, these people can't let them starve to death on the streets, after all, they fled all the way to this Qingzhou life is not familiar, to say a common thing, these people are relatives of His Royal Highness, even if His Royal Highness does not pay for it, this must find a way out for them." And the lower officials are also doing this so that His Royal Highness can ascend the throne smoothly in the future, after all, these people are still needed to preside over when the time comes to worship the temple, and they are more important at this time, not to mention, with the support of these people, His Royal Highness's throne can also be more stable. ”

Xiao Ming glanced at Fiji, and said that the thinking of Fiji is still at the level of family management of the country.