"Zihou, this weapon can only be said to be a combination of the original Tiger Cannon and the Big Thunderbolt, which can increase the probability of victory, but it cannot be said that it can completely determine the direction of victory or defeat."

Wang Ju made another analogy: "The excellent armor of our dynasty can be said to be unparalleled in the world, and it has certain advantages over Western Xia and Liao, but because of the fierce cavalry of the other party, the two sides are canceled out." But against Dali, Jiaozhi, and Zhancheng, the advantage is greater, so as long as they deal with the terrain and climate, they can be defeated. That is to say, there are advantages in dealing with these regions with more developed civilizations, but there are not many advantages. However, if you go further east and south, you will have a greater advantage against those uncivilized natives. But as long as they are a little more civilized and form a country that must be organized and orderly, then it will be difficult to deal with. So I let the fleet continue its voyage eastward on the other side, and although I bypassed the core of civilization, I still clashed with many natives, and the casualty rate reached a quarter of them. ”

On the other side, Zhao Niannu said that Wang Ju was developing a new weapon to counteract the nomads' cavalry superiority.

But the current artillery can only be equivalent to the level of the late Ming Dynasty, and the cost is relatively high.

It can play a role, but it cannot be said to completely neutralize the cavalry advantage of the nomads.

Unless it reaches the level of the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China, then the nomads' cavalry advantage will be gone.

But to achieve that level, all aspects of technology must be improved in order to achieve it. That is, you have to use a lot of money to burn a relatively complete industrial tree, but no matter how much money you burn, it is useless without a large number of relevant scientists.

With Wang Ju's textbooks, can scientists from all walks of life appear in a short period of time?

Anyway, in Wang Ju's life. Probably unlikely.

"Zi Hou. Or to use an analogy. Normally speaking, the wars that occurred between the Song and Xia Dynasty or the Song and Liao were not won by having an advantage in one aspect, the country's financial situation and support, the number of troops, whether the logistics were sufficient, the planning and command ability of the commanders, and whether the ordinary soldiers had strict military discipline. Heroic battles, as well as the quality of weapons and armor, as well as terrain and climate levels, can all determine the direction of victory or defeat. Just like the army led by Chong Ge to Yanzhou after encountering a heavy snowstorm, Western Xia flooded our army, this is the climate determines the victory, the terrain determines the victory, and the commander is also very important, if it is not Gao Zunyu to lead the Chinese army, it will be replaced by Miao Zhu or Liu Changzuo. Even if it can't destroy Western Xia, it won't be so bad. However, when one aspect of the advantage is more prominent. In other aspects, there is not much backwardness, such as replacing Li Jing, Han Xin and others as the main generals, then it will inevitably take down the Western Xia smoothly. If the armor technology goes further and becomes more powerful, the advantage of the cavalry can be negated. ”

"Zi'an, in this way, isn't my financial advantage very prominent?"

"So although my dynasty was defeated, I was able to hold the northwest, and although the Western Xia was victorious, I couldn't even take back Mizhi Zhailanzhou. However, in this regard, we have not yet made good use of this financial advantage. ”

How to play, and look at Helan Stone in two or three years!

"Zi'an, are you confident?"

"Then dare to say, Zihou, maybe some people have already started planning how to deal with me at this time."

"Zi'an, don't worry, after Your Majesty returned to the palace, he has already issued an order to release An Tao to Qingzhou."

"He is not alone, but in any case, the top priority at the moment is to settle down in the country before he can plot against Western Xia, so I ask the official family to let me enter the Zhongshu, give me rights, and give me three years."

"Why didn't Zi'an give him the Chinese book order?"

"Why did Jiefu Gong make Fu Gong the prime minister at that time, and he was the second minister? Being in the prime minister is equivalent to standing at the front, which seems to be beautiful, but the murder is even greater. It's just that Jiefu Gong didn't expect Fugong to take the lead in opposing his change of law. However, the prince is different from the rich duke, although he is not a law-changer or an anti-law-changer, he has more support for me, at least in Zhongshu will not hinder me. And as soon as I come back, I will be above him, so the prince may not like it in his heart, and the official family may be suspicious because of the decentralization of power and the instigation of others. So I made three requests to the officials and listed them first. ”

In short, Zhang Dian is a very good prime minister.

But there is more than enough fierceness, and the yin owl is insufficient, so he suffered a big loss from Zeng Bu.

But thinking about the queen in the palace, Wang Ju still had a headache.

Or kill Zhao Ji's son who was not born?

Isn't that?

Wang Ju asked again: "How much surplus does the treasury have?" ”

"There are still some of them, but if they are relaxed, although the treasury will not be tight, but in the summer, the finances will inevitably be insufficient."

This is also understandable.

Either the loss caused by the fiasco, or the post-war pension, is also a lot of money.

600,000 soldiers and civilians died.

One person plans to pay a pension of thirty or forty yuan, which is pitiful, and it will require more than 20 million yuan of pension expenses. If a martyr could have been compensated for more than 100 times when Xiang Wang Ju was in the south, the Song Dynasty's finances would have collapsed directly.

In fact, Zhang Dian used this sentence to euphemistically persuade Wang Ju not to abolish Wang Anshi's changes together.

Anyway, the law has been changed for so many years, and everyone has also adapted to it, plus the previous calendar adjustments, including Wang Ju's abolition of the market and the reset of the Southern 12th Road Shipping Division, the harm of the new law is not as great as it began.

In fact, these seemingly fragmentary pieces are exactly the intention of Zhang Dan to come.

It's easy to communicate here, when you get to the court, one is in the middle book, the other is under the door, and in front of everyone, how can you communicate with it?

To hell with important ministers, it is better not to meet in private.

Wang Ju has already said that as long as it is six years, and there are only three years in the capital, do you still want to avoid it?

Wang Ju shook his head.

What should be scrapped must be scrapped, and what should be adjusted must be adjusted.

If you are not ruthless, and there are only three years to go, how can you make the country level up quickly?

He added: "It seems that we still have to discuss it with the officials. ”

Discuss what?

Find a way to get more gold and silver.

The actual issuance of silk delivery, the country is also "making money" in a sense, Wang Ju estimated, if the issuance of 100 million silk delivery. On the other side, it can have a surplus of more than 30 million. placed in the Song Dynasty. The waste may be a little more, but it can at least have a surplus of more than 25 million.

But there is a primary premise that these silk exchanges can be recognized by the people.

Therefore, Wang Ju used such complex means and materials as a new exchange, and the denomination was so small, it was for everyone to recognize, so that some illegal snacks were not easy to forge.

But if you want to be recognized by everyone, this means alone is not enough, and there must be almost equal gold and silver as the principal. Then the two means are combined, and everyone agrees.

At present, on the other side, the gold and silver saved by Zhao Ji together are more than 2 million taels of gold and 1,300 taels of silver.

Wang Ju also promised that he would bring some gold and silver from the other side every year for the next six years, making up three million taels of gold and 20 million taels of silver, and if you add this batch of gold and silver from the imperial court, it would be more than 3.6 million taels of gold and more than 24 million taels of silver. With this as the principal, I was able to issue more than 150 million pieces of silk.

Seemingly huge. But it still could not meet the needs of currency circulation in the Song Dynasty.

Wang Ju can't wait for six years.

However, if you can't desperately squeeze the other side, shouldn't the other side develop?

Therefore, it is only possible to start from within the Song Dynasty.

But this one is a bit harder.

Because the economy is booming and the currency is insufficient, the currency is getting tighter, copper coins are tight, and gold and silver are even tighter.

At the end of the Song Dynasty in history, one tael of silver was worth more than 4,000 wen, and one tael of gold could be worth 30,000 to 40,000 wen.

There is also an unsolved case, some people use the silver of the Ming Dynasty compared with the silver of the Song Dynasty, saying that the economy of the Ming Dynasty was more prosperous, or that the prices of the Song Dynasty were higher. This statement is very wrong, can the silver of the Ming Dynasty be compared with the Song Dynasty. On average, the cost performance difference is more than five times, and the peak can reach twelve times!

In this case, if you want to get some gold and silver out of the hands of the people, you have to use some means.

"But do the people need silver and gold?"

"Brother Zihou, that's true, but I heard that some people have already started to use Zuyang's kind of loom to transform into a new type of textile machine to weave cotton cloth."

"Yes, that Zuyang is also benevolent, and this spring donated all the more than 40,000 yuan from the patent to the Gyeongju government, so that they can pay tribute to the families of the martyrs. However, these looms seem to be far inferior to the looms pushed out by Zi'an. ”

Can that be the same?

However, Wang Ju is also very grateful to Zuyang, in fact, Zuyang's new loom can weave wool and wool cloth, the secret is that he invented a primitive shuttle, Wang Ju sent someone to spend 30,000 yuan to buy its patent, but the person sent did not reveal that Wang Ju bought it. That is, more than 40,000 yuan donated by Zu Yang, more than half of which came from Wang Ju.

As for the patent protection mentioned by Wang Ju, many people have regarded it as a joke in the past two years.

But Wang Ju was not referring to this, he continued: "Brother Zihou, there is this loom, and before I came back this year, I sent a fleet to the other side of the shore to start expanding the construction and reclamation of several settlements. He also instructed them to use these settlements to send two death squads to go deeper, one to the depths of the southern continent, to find a divine beast. ”

"Divine beasts?"

"Very cute and valuable beast (refers to the sheep Luo, also known as the grass mud horse beast, hehe), it is bigger than the sheep, smaller than the camel, but like the wool sheep, it has thick fluff, and its hair quality is better than that of the wool sheep. The other is to go into the depths of the northern continent in search of a new kind of kapok, which is still not as fine as the big food cotton, but it is finer than the kapok lint of our dynasty. ”

Finer means easier to spin into cotton thread and easier to weave into cloth.

"The other side has spent a lot of money in order to develop high-quality glass (glass), once it is successful, what other goods will sell to me? Jade spices, and how much trade does that bring? ”

"Gold and silver repatriation?"

"Exactly."

In fact, since Wang's huge scale to sell advanced cold weapons over there, the great food gold and silver have returned, but not to the Song Dynasty, but to the other side.

This brings us to another issue.

In the previous life, the Celestial Empire would produce a huge trade gap every year, and some people complained that there was a trade difference, but how many of them were foreign-funded enterprises.

This statement is wrong, there are many foreign-funded enterprises, but these goods are produced in the Celestial Empire, then it will bring many employment opportunities and bring a lot of taxes to the people of the Celestial Empire. Moreover, how many downstream enterprises will survive with these commodities? If this continues, the industry and hidden income brought out are amazing.

Therefore, in this sense, as a country, we should encourage our people to dare to trade with foreign countries in large quantities. Of course, if you sell rare earths as Chinese cabbage, you can't count it.

The other side has not appeared for a long time, and the people in the past had almost nothing, why in a short period of time, it quickly became prosperous, which is also the reason. Especially like Feng City and Wen City, even in the Song Dynasty, it was a medium-sized city, but the difference is that these two cities began to appear rough industrial ......

"Not only is the gold and silver returned, although after six years, the other side no longer needs to donate to the imperial court, and it will not be donated again until more than thirty years later, but the population of the other side is very small, do you need so much gold and silver? Then gold and silver must be used to buy a large number of commercial goods and bring them back to the other side. Then the gold and silver on the other side, including the silver obtained from the Wa Kingdom, will also flow to our court. Brother Zihou, are you still worried about the shortage of gold and silver for civilian use? ”

"If the two sides are combined by next year, we can gather the equivalent of 100 million guan of gold and silver, and we will be able to issue 120 million guan of silk and silk, and we can make 30 million guan of profit for our dynasty invisibly. Although it can't be calculated in this way, for example, these gold and silver are the principal, so much gold and silver will generate 10 million yuan of interest a year, but they are mostly donations from the other side, so no one will care too much. ”

"Yes......" Zhang Dian also came to his senses.

Not to mention that the state issues silk is profitable, where these gold and silver are stored, there will be an interest difference every year.

Of course, it is better than putting it in the treasury without any income and sending someone to keep it.

What is in this new economy, Zhang Dun does not understand.

But he knows one thing, if he can earn an extra 30 million yuan in this year and a half, it will be enough for Wang Ju to do a lot of things.

"Zi'an, but it is not easy to let the people hand over the gold and silver spontaneously."

"yes, let's figure it up."

The two of them are thinking about how to get more gold and silver from the hands of the people, and there is already a sensation outside.

"Shao Bao is back."

"That's a young man."

"It's the Shaobao in Yanzhou."

"True or false?"

"Really, and it seems that he brought back a few heavy gifts for the official family, and the official family took the ministers to the bank of the Wuzhang River, and in order to watch the ceremony, they also expelled some of the surrounding people."

"That's great."

Wang Ju did not have much advantage in the capital, but since he abolished the City Change Law, he suddenly won the support of many ordinary people in the capital.

Besides, he won so gloriously before, and after he left, the Song Dynasty was defeated so badly.

For a while, almost every household was talking about it.

Some of the people rejoiced, and some of the people wept.

Why are you crying?

600,000 soldiers and civilians died, mainly the people of Shaanxi and all kinds of militia, but many of the forbidden soldiers in the capital also died.

If Wang Ju was not taken away by Wen Yanbo, Sun Gu and others, how could his son (husband) die in these two fiascos?

Therefore, the more I think about it, the more miserable it becomes, the more I think about it, the more aggrieved I become, and the more I think about it, the more angry I become, and some people can't help but cry.

But most people were still very happy, and it happened that the weather was sunny and the moon was shining that night, and many people thought that the moonlight was so brilliant and moving tonight. But fortunately, Wang Ju's new house is already located in the "noble area", otherwise at this time, maybe many people will come around to ask. (To be continued.) )