In fact, it may not be related to Zhao Ji's court, with Zhang Zai's temperament, even in the era of Song Renzong, there will be no chance to get ahead. The governance of a country is inseparable from politics, but politics is always despicable, unscrupulous and black.

Wang Ju did not discuss in depth, and said: "Your Majesty, the actual minister thinks that the teacher is famous in Shaanxi and teaches that educating the people of the world has made a greater contribution to the Great Song Dynasty than in the court. ”

"This is also ......" But Zhao Ji thought in his heart, to see if he could award Zhang Zai an official, one is to reward Zhang Zai, and the other is to appease Wang Ju's injured heart......

"Wang Qing, how are your injuries?"

"Your Majesty, it's okay, I'm starting to recover."

"Let me take a look."

"Your Majesty, this is really useless."

"Wang Zi'an, let Your Majesty take a look." Lao Wang said, although Wang Ju said that it was okay, but Lao Wang clearly saw that there were some blood stains coming out of Wang Ju's official uniform, and more than ten days had passed, and it seemed that the injury was not light.

This injury is the best proof of this!

Wang Ju had no choice but to lift his official uniform and underwear, and the wound began to scar, but it was not completely scarred, and the blood hole could still be seen through the gauze.

Lao Wang muttered, "It's too much, it's too much." ”

Cai and Zhang were happy in their hearts.

Feng Lusun and the others frowned, can such an injury be said to be a self-written and self-directed bitter plan? It's not a bitter trick, Li Ding is going down again, and the matter is going to be big again.

Zhao Ji said with a gloomy face: "Wang Qing, what happened to Yizheng County, and what Wang Anli said, come one by one." ”

Wang Ju explained the details one by one.

Lu Gongzhu's face is not very good-looking, his protégé ......

Feng Jing changed the topic in time on the side: "Wang Zi'an, ...... this silver?" ”

"Gong Feng, I told the guests at home about two strange things in Bashu and Qiongzhou. Renzong exempted Qiongzhou from 1,000 guan of salt at the time, but the expenditure increased by more than 10,000 guan in the second year, and Renzong sighed for a long time after hearing about it. The strange thing in Bashu is that Bashu is rich in cloth, but because of the tax every year, it cannot meet the needs of the local people, so there are traders who ignore the risk of the Three Gorges. The cloth from Jinghu was trafficked to Bashu for sale. My servants in my family said why the court couldn't use coins to regulate. I mentioned two reasons, one is that the number of roads is not suitable for regulation, and the other is that there is a serious shortage of currency in our country. An Daogong (Zhang Fangping) reflected that the people of Bashu were trapped in the exemption law, which was actually partly caused by the greed of the officials, and partly because of the lack of currency, and the officials forced the people to pay the exemption money, which led to the hardship of the people. ”

These are just two small examples, as the drawbacks of a lack of currency come with it. Too much, too much.

"Moreover, Jiefu Gong said that the people do not add endowments and the country is self-sufficient, which is not a lie, and the minister's presence in Quanzhou and Gyeongju is the best proof."

"Wang Zi'an, do you mean the Gyeongju Development Fund?" Wang Qi asked.

"Exactly."

"Later, the imperial court imitated it, but it failed."

"That's inevitable, and there are three factors to Gyeongju's success. First, it was properly regulated, and there were ministers presiding over it at that time. And from the businessmen to invite many responsible economic people to help, it is not that the court can not invite useful talents, but the court invited talents, and their sense of responsibility is not strong. ”

Wang Ju didn't elaborate, but everyone understands that the brokers he invited were brokers from Zhu Li and other Yanzhou merchants. Of course, I tried my best to assist Wang Ju.

"And Gyeongju is only a state, which is easy to manage, and when it is enlarged to the whole country, the situation will be a hundred times more complicated, and the difficulty of regulation and control will also increase a hundred times. This is one of them. Second, when the ministers used the salt of Yanzhou to gather a large number of coins, but when they were enlarged to the whole country, where were there so many coins? Third, Jiefu Gong saw that the state was in serious deficit and that he was too eager to collect money, so the interest rate was so high that the merchants could not accept it, or they were forced to apportion, so it was bound to fail. ”

"Quanzhou is different, what the minister did was to develop commerce, pay taxes, and then use overseas trade to drive Quanzhou's manufacturing industry, although successful, but other states and counties are difficult to imitate. But Gyeongjuchen's approach can be promoted. Only when the time comes, and then combine the current post department and the flying money department, it can play the role of financial management, disaster relief, poverty relief, emergency relief, and benefiting the people, and may bring more than 20 million yuan of income to the imperial court a year, so theoretically it can be implemented for the people's own use without endowment. Of course, its appearance will seriously deal a blow to usury, but if you don't harsh the people and increase your financial resources, I believe that the princes will not oppose it. ”

Several people looked at each other, not quite convinced.

Wang Ju added: "If it can appear, it can not only increase financial resources, but also replace the current market law, the green seedling law." Because many of them overlap or exclude, even if everyone wants to keep these two laws, as long as they appear, they will inevitably be banned. ”

"Really?" Lu Gongzhu asked with wide eyes.

These two laws are outlawed, and that couldn't be better.

"Lu Gong, when have I ever lied? Your Majesty, I have said something similar to Your Majesty before. ”

"Wang Qing, can you be more careful?"

"It's not time to say yet."

"Why?"

"The minister hasn't thought it through yet, and the timing is not right, the first time is ripe, and the treasury is full."

"The treasury is full?"

"Prince, to use an analogy, if a person with a hundred acres of fertile land borrows a thousand yuan from you, can you rest assured? If a fifth-class household borrows 1,000 yuan from you, are you at ease? ”

"The same is true of the Seedlings Method." Sun Gudao.

The fifth-class households wanted to borrow the seedlings loan to help the emergency, but many officials were reluctant, even if they borrowed it, they also asked the fifth-class households to find someone to guarantee it. Households above the third class can't borrow it!

Wang Ju didn't want to get caught up in the dispute over the rights and wrongs of the Qingmiao Law, and immediately said: "The second opportunity is that it is a really new thing, and there is no precedent to follow, especially all kinds of management talents and related systems, and Gyeongju is actually just an experiment for the ministers to verify their ideas." However, this problem is also gradually being solved, such as the operation of the Post Office Division and the Flying Money Division, which is also in the process of honing relevant talents. ”

"The third opportunity is to have plenty of money."

"So that the people can use the country for their own use without endowment?" Lu Gongzhu asked suspiciously.

"Gong Lu, how much silk did the government have for me to embezzle when I was in Gyeongju? Of course, it is necessary to prepare some coins, they are pry-carry, without which it cannot be carried out. ”

A few people somewhat understood. No wonder it is said that the first opportunity is that the treasury must be full, and if it is not full, how can the people believe it? But after thinking about it again, I couldn't figure it out, so I looked at Wang Ju together.

"I haven't thought it through, don't ask me ......" Wang Ju spread his hands and said, "But no matter how you think about it." These three conditions are the key prerequisites. ”

"The coin problem is really hard to solve."

"So the minister brought silver, Your Majesty, please look at these Zhu copy, the minister used two thousand taels of silver to test, and when he arrived in Hanzhong, there were only more than four hundred taels left."

"I understand what you mean, but I want to abolish the tax on gold and silver entering the city, and use gold and silver to increase coins."

"Exactly."

"But the country lacks copper coins, and even less gold and silver."

"That's right. In particular, silver is sent to Liao and Xixia every year, although some of it is circulated back, but not all of it is circulated, coupled with the increase in the consumption of gold and silver by the people, and some of it is circulated overseas, so I am more and more lacking in gold and silver. But it can also be solved. ”

"How to fix it?"

"It can be solved in three steps, and the first step is that the minister is solving it. But the second and third steps will be solved by His Majesty. ”

"Tell me about it."

"The terrain of the Japanese slave country is easy to produce gold and silver," Wang Ju explained: "Volcanic terrain." Therefore, the minister has secretly sent people with craftsmen to the Japanese slave country to find gold and silver mines. It also encouraged maritime merchants to increase their trade with the Japanese slave states. Therefore, as long as a large amount of gold and silver mines are found, they can use trade to exchange for circulation in our dynasty. ”

In fact, the highest gold reserves are not in the Japanese countries, but in South Africa and Central and North America, that is, the United States and the southern countries of the Caribbean. But for the current Song Dynasty, it is too far away.

The silver reserves are also not the highest in the country. Or in North and Central America.

However, compared with the mineral deposits in Central and North America, the proximity of the Wa Kingdom to the Song Dynasty is the biggest advantage, and the other is shallow ore, which is conducive to mining in this technologically backward era. Therefore, it was opened, and in the end, there was hardly any gold and silver mine in the territory of the Wa Kingdom...... It's all dug up.

Therefore, Wang Ju focused on the Wa Kingdom.

"The Japanese slaves have so much silver in reserve?" Cai asked suspiciously.

Wang Ju didn't explain it clearly, but about what the idea, several top bigwigs of the Song Dynasty can understand it, this is a big measure to leverage the economy of the entire Song Dynasty, otherwise Wang Ju would not be able to say that he can make a profit of more than 20 million yuan a year.

The idea is good, but this crowbar is thick enough and hard enough......

Then the silver taels required are not hundreds of thousands of taels, nor millions of taels, but may be calculated in tens of millions of taels, so that with copper coins and jiaozi, theoretically this measure can be implemented. Even if he is a law-changer, Cai does not want to make noise every day.

But did the Japanese have so much silver?

In fact, China is also a big country of gold and silver, and its reserves are only higher than those of the Japanese country, but it is difficult to mine them with current technology. Look at how much silver did the Song Dynasty get from searching for minerals all over the world now? Think about how much silver the Song Dynasty produced in a year, when it was low, it was only tens of thousands of taels of silver a year.

"Yes," Wang Ju said in a deep voice.

In fact, in the eighty years from 1560 to 1640, the Wa State produced more than 250 million taels of silver, and at its peak, the annual output reached almost more than 5 million taels, and the entire Ming Dynasty received nearly 200 million taels of silver from the Wa State, not including a large amount of silver flowing to Portugal and other Western powers.

And the situation at that time, the Ming Dynasty was still in a semi-forbidden state of the sea, and the circulation was not smooth.

If it is replaced now, as long as the Japanese state is stated, Wang Ju will have a way to replace it all, and he can use violent mining to increase its output.

Of course, Wang Ju is not clear about these production data, but he only knows that the silver of the Wa Kingdom shocked the whole world at that time, so will the output be low?

Wang Ju's voice changed, and he said: "This is the first step, the second step is to snipe the currency to circulate to the outside world, which is also divided into two steps, the first step is to produce goods from the outside, and the outside has the sword of Xia Guo, and our Great Song Dynasty will have the Taoxi sword and the exquisite brute knife." There are Wa fans outside, and we must have more exquisite bamboo fans, jade fans, and bone fans. There are all kinds of cotton fabrics outside, and we try our best to introduce products that are more exquisite and cheaper than them. ”

With everything, the Song Dynasty naturally became a trade exporter, and all kinds of gold and silver returned to circulation to the Song Dynasty.

"Under the edict, foreign trade is subject to light taxes and exemptions, and it is used to stimulate exports, not imports."

That's what Zhao Ji is going to do.

This foreign trade was not only the trade of several cities, but also the mutual trade of Liao, Western Xia, and Tubo, and if the export was completely duty-free, the Song Dynasty would lose a lot of income in a year.

Therefore, Zhao Wei frowned.

Wang Ju said again: "The third step, Your Majesty, you lead the Great Song Dynasty to become more powerful. ”

It is so powerful that it is enough to send so much silver, silk and tea to the Western Xia and Liao States every year?

In fact, Wang Ju really wants to say, at least now that he needs to continue to give Xixia New Year?

Why give the year and spend money to buy An! But I didn't buy An, and it wasn't the time of Qingli, the border war between the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia had already gained the upper hand, so why did they continue to give the year a blood transfusion for it?

However, Wang Ju only said one word, and Sun Gu already showed a little unhappy expression on his face.

Lao Wang also felt that the atmosphere was not good, so he immediately interrupted and asked, "Zi'an, but how can ordinary people distinguish the authenticity of silver?" ”

"Prince, I have been executing Jiaozi for decades, and compared with silver, Jiaozi is more expensive (meaning higher in denomination) and easier to imitate, but why haven't there been large-scale forgeries? In fact, it is very simple, after gold and silver are used as currency, they are used for government procurement, or large-scale transactions, then copper coins will be saved, if all copper coins are saved, is it not enough to meet the needs of ordinary people with the number of copper coins in our dynasty? ”

Most ordinary people in the Song Dynasty were certainly unable to distinguish the authenticity of silver.

But when it comes to large transactions, can't those big businessmen be screened?

It is of the same nature as Jiaozi.

It's just that Jiaozi is a piece of paper, and its credit is always in question.

In fact, once the silver is circulated on a large scale, there is no worry about Lao Wang at all, and the Ming and Qing dynasties are the highest examples.

At this point, Wang Ju had already explained his intention to bring the silver back.

Otherwise, how to convince Zhao Ji?

Zhao Ji nodded and said, "Wang Qing, you can talk about the situation between Jiaozhi and Dali." ”

"Well, the minister said Jiaozhi first, after I arrived in Guangnan, I made some speculations in the face of the situation left by Guo Gongnan's expedition. The first is to continue to maintain the situation of Guo Gong's southern expedition and re-establish friendship with Jiaozhi. However, Guo Gong only killed tens of thousands of Jiaozhi soldiers, will Jiaozhi recover in ten years? In fact, it doesn't take ten years, maybe less than five years, to recover. For example, Western Xia. But after recovering, is our dynasty reluctant to take out another 300,000 soldiers and civilians to march south? ”

In fact, Guo Kui's southern expedition frightened Jiaozhi, and Jiaozhi was honest for a long time, but who here can know.

Let Wang Ju say this, there is no doubt that a few years later, Jiaozhi will inevitably intensify because of Guo Kui's heavy casualties in this southern expedition, and the Song Dynasty is reluctant to spend blood to carry out the second southern expedition.

Guo Kui became a victim! (To be continued.) )