Industry is still relatively simple, but business is not so simple, which has something to do with the place of commerce in Chinese history.

Commerce has never played an important role in China's history. Although there are figures like Lu Buwei and Fan Li who have left their names in history, they really appeared on the stage of history after abandoning business and politics. This is exactly the case with Mizhu in history. He used the money of the Mi family for Liu Bei's hegemony career, so he got the opportunity to soar.

That is why the topic of the Commercial Division has been going on for so long. It is indeed not an ordinary complication to revise the policy details while changing the concept.

At the helm of the Commercial Division, Mi Zhu is duty-bound. Apart from him and Li Yi, few people in the shogunate had enough confidence in the prospects of commercial development, and there were many who were worried.

Passion is not the only factor in success, but it is one of the most important. Think about it, how bleak the prospects for the Commercial Division would be if someone who didn't have confidence in himself would be at the helm.

Mi Zhu also made a decision in advance for this reason, handed over all the family business to the General's Mansion, and devoted himself to doing a good job in the Commercial Division.

The director of commerce is a new position, and Li Yi positions it on a par with agriculture. Dasi Nong, who was in charge of the country's agriculture, was one of the nine secretaries of the imperial court, so this new position could be evaluated accordingly.

Li Yi's return is not over yet. After announcing the appointment of Mi Zhu, he appointed Mi Fang to the newly established position of Taishou of Yuyang County. This position is now the sweetheart of the Jicheng Imperial Court, after all, this Yuyang County is the place where Li Yi started, and it is also the most economically developed place in Northern Xinjiang today. If the status of the current Guangyang County is relative to the previous Henan Yin, then the status of Yuyang County is similar to that of Jingzhao Yin.

Coupled with Mi Zhen, the eldest lady of the Mi family, who has married Li Yi, the Mi family in the East China Sea can be regarded as completely completing the transformation from a businessman to an upstart.

Of course, everyone may envy this, but no one will object.

In the eyes of many people, the Mi family should have enjoyed the treatment of relatives, and then considering the contribution made by the Mi family to Northern Xinjiang in the past two years. The current status is not very high.

Taking this opportunity, Li Yi announced the appointment of other aides.

Today's Great General's Mansion, there have been a lot of changes in personnel. The previous Changshi Kou Zhun and Sima Tianfeng have now entered the imperial court, and they are among the top nine Qings. Not only Kou Zhun and Tian Feng are gone, but the other Chen Qun, Zhong Xuan, Xun Chen and others are also either serving in the imperial court or in the states and counties below. Under such circumstances, they are not only a little too busy to hold the position of the General's Mansion, but also seem a little inappropriate.

And after this appointment, Li Yi's staff can be regarded as completing a diversion.

Some of them served in the imperial court and the following states and counties, namely Kou Zhun led Guangluxun, Tian Feng led Weiwei, Zhong Xuan led Dasi Nong, Wang Xiu led Shaofu, Chen Qun led Shangshuling, Guan Ning led Jinwu, Bingyuan led Zongzheng, Zhuge Xuan led Guangyang Taishou and Sili Xiaowei, Xun Chen led Youzhou Thorn History, Xin Ping led Liaodong Metropolitan Protection, Xin Bi led and Zhou Assassin History, Xun Yan led Beiting Metropolitan Protection, Li Xuan led Jizhou Assassin History, Guoyuan led Tun Tian Zhonglang General, and Mi Zhu became the director of the newly established Commercial Department.

The rest remained in the General's Palace, but their positions were adjusted. Xu Maogong, Liu Bowen, Guo Jia, Jia Xu and Xun You are all the military advisors of the Great General's Mansion, and they are now the highest think tank of the Northern Xinjiang Army. Xun Yu was transferred to the head of the General's Mansion, Xu Shu was transferred to the General's Mansion Sima, Zhuge Jin was appointed as the chief secretary of the General's Mansion, and Zhao Shang and Feng Dao were appointed as Zhonglang in the General's Mansion.

As for industrial affairs, it will be said after Li Yi summons the person in charge.

The biggest headache is actually Wang Xiu's Shaofu. This position was nominally the private office of the Son of Heaven, but in fact it was relative to the governor of the People's Bank of China in later generations, and was in charge of the minting of coins.

From a common point of view, coinage is a beauty difference. However, Hebei's monetary reform is very different from what it used to be. It's not just a matter of collecting good materials and opening the furnace to refine. This includes a lot of complicated procedures.

First of all, it is necessary to collect the old coins in the hands of the people in the jurisdiction. At present, there are many kinds of coins circulating in the world, the strongest credibility is the five-baht coin handed down in the Han Wu era, others such as the four out of five baht made by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo's Dong small coin, the Yellow Turban Army made the Taiping hundred coins, and the princes from all walks of life, Haoqiang privately minted coins, etc., there are many kinds of variety.

Among them, Dong's small money is the most clumsy.

Five baht money is not heavy, in the Han Dynasty, one tael of twenty-four is one baht, five baht is three to four grams. The small money minted by Dong Zhuo is less than one gram. The first price rise in the late Han Dynasty was certainly affected by the war, but it was more because of the sins created by Dong Fatzi.

Minting money is the job of making money, how to make money, how to do it, cutting corners is not a problem, even Dong Fat understands this truth, but Li Yi doesn't understand it. The demand he put forward was to recycle the old currency in the hands of the people as fairly as possible, and to implement the new currency with sufficient money.

In the new monetary system conceived by Li Yi, copper coins are no longer the only ones, and gold and silver coins will replace the mainstream status of copper coins.

This kind of thing is easy to think about, but it is not ordinary difficult to do.

There are already a lot of issues involved in recycling old currency. How to formulate an exchange rate that convinces the people and does not suffer too much loss from the General's Mansion is a big problem. In addition, if the price is too good, how to prevent people from taking advantage of loopholes and reselling coins from abroad into the country is also a problem that has to be considered. If we take into account the possibility that hostile forces may obstruct it, Wang Xiu only feels that one head has two big heads.

There is also the problem of the source of gold and silver materials, the gold and silver of the Han Dynasty have not yet entered the circulation field, the main reason is that there are too few and are not enough. In fact, until the Ming Dynasty, gold and silver were never enough, China was too big, there were too many people, and the common people had a tradition of accumulating wealth, even if there were mountains of gold and silver, it was not enough.

was recommended by Li Yi as a young man in the imperial court and ranked as Jiuqing, Wang Xiu didn't experience the joy of being promoted and valued at all, but he wanted to cry. Although it has been a while since he took up the post of Shaofu, Wang Xiu is still a little unhappy.

Li Yi smiled and said, "Shuzhi, don't put on such an expression, things are not so terrible." Don't worry, the materials or something, Ben will solve it by itself, you just need to do the preliminary work well. The rumors were released first, so that the people spontaneously boycotted the bad coins of Dong's small money and Taiping Baiqian, and at the same time secretly purchased these bad coins. If there is a problem with circulation, the workshop can first imitate a batch of five-baht coins to use ......"

"Your subordinates should do their best." Hearing Li Yi's words, Wang Xiu was relieved. No matter how difficult things are, it doesn't matter if you have materials and time, what I'm afraid of is that the lord is in a hurry.

After discussing this, the myriad of political affairs can be regarded as an eyebrow, and all the staff members thought about their own affairs and retired one after another, and Li Yi was finally free again. It's just that this time the free time is only superficial, and he has a lot more things to think about in his heart than before the meeting.

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Just when Li Yi had a little free time, news came from Hedong that there was another war in Guanzhong.

On the 22nd of December last year, a second earthquake occurred in Chang'an, and the situation in Guanzhong deteriorated extremely, but at this critical moment, the Yellow River froze and disaster relief materials in northern Xinjiang could not be transported to Guanzhong, and the situation in Guanzhong deteriorated further.

Although Yue Fei, the general of Zhengxi, and Xu Da, the general of Zhenxi, tried their best, they could only look up to the sky and sigh in the face of the ensuing heavy snowfall.

The weather is getting worse day by day, and heavy snow and severe cold rarely seen in decades have invaded the entire northern and western Xinjiang.

After surviving the most difficult first month and February, March finally came, and Han Sui and Ma Teng of Xiliang immediately asked Li Dao, Guo Yan and others in Guanzhong to provide relief to Xiliang as quickly as possible, but the disaster in Guanzhong was equally serious, and Li Dao and others had to delay it again and again.

Li Wei and they could afford to drag it out, but the western Xinjiang couldn't afford it, so Han Sui and Ma Teng had no choice but to send troops to attack Chang'an, grabbing a little bit is a little bit.

Ma Teng's army is in Fufeng County, only a few hundred miles away from Chang'an, and it is almost there.

Li Wei held the city on the one hand, and on the other hand, he urgently told Hedong and asked Yue Fei to send troops to rescue, but at this time Yuan Shao ordered Wang Kuang, the Taishou of Hanoi, to make a posture of attacking Hedong to the west, Yue Fei had no choice but to stop supporting Li Dao, and then Feige sent a letter to Quanzhou and reported to Li Yi urgently.

Li Yi, who finally got a little free time, suddenly received the news of the mutiny in Chang'an, and couldn't help but get up, and said angrily: "This Yuan Shao, dare to reach out to Guanzhong, his mind is too big!" ”

The situation in Guanzhong was in such a difficult situation, Yuan Shao sent troops to Guanxi to attack the Northern Xinjiang Army, and its purpose was obvious. Li Hong even suspected that the rebellion of Han Sui and Ma Teng was the work of Yuan Shao.

Western Xinjiang and Guanzhong were seriously affected this year, and Ma Teng sent troops to attack Chang'an, where did his money and food come from? Could it be that Xiliang's army fought by cannibalism? Han Sui and Ma Teng must have received Yuan Shao's help.

In the letter, Yue Fei urged Li Yi to urgently transfer the two armies of Xu Da of Jinyang and Xu Huang of Shangdang to cross the river to Chang'an to support Li Dao and others.

Yue Fei is a general of Zhengxi, supervising the military affairs of Bingzhou and Hedong, he has the right to requisition troops from these two places to send troops to Guanzhong, but not only did he not immediately send troops to support Chang'an at this moment, but he traveled thousands of miles to Jicheng, obviously with ulterior motives.

As for what he said in his letter, Yuan Shao sent Wang Kuang to send troops to contain him, but it was just a pretext. After all, the army stationed in Bingzhou and Hedong now includes a cavalry corps and two infantry corps of the standing army with a total of 82,000 people, and there are also 40,000 garrison corps, with a total strength of 122,000 people. (To be continued.) )