"Report to the Queen Mother, when the capital heard that Wang Zi'an had returned, they were all overjoyed." The little eunuch replied cautiously.

"Where to help the mourning family go to the official's house."

"Whoa."

Gao Taotao found Zhao Ji, who was reviewing the official document.

She said, "Er, I heard that Wang Zi'an brought you six great gifts? ”

In fact, these six gifts were not brought to Zhao Ji, but to the entire Song Dynasty.

So this is the most bad part, including the other side, everyone thinks that everything belongs to Wang Ju, and the common people are Wang Ju's......

Fortunately, Wang Ju summoned everyone and partially corrected this concept.

Zhao Ji also had this thought, and he replied: "Queen Mother, yes, it is indeed six rich gifts. ”

"Er, this son seems to be rude and arrogant, but he is really a scheming person."

In fact, Gao Taotao had a good impression of Zhao Ji before, especially Wang Ju sold all the bamboo paper workshops to the Gao family. However, the problem is that Wen Yanbo has a bad impression of Wang Ju.

Although they can't see Gao Taotao often, Gao Taotao often summons some women in the palace to gather and relieve boredom, so those women, Sima Guang's wife, Wen Yanbo's wife...... Well, good people are afraid of three challenges, and bad people are afraid of three persuasions.

Under the frequent brainwashing, Gao Taotao's impression of Wang Ju gradually became bad.

Zhao Ji was not happy.

Let's not talk about anything else, let's just say that those gold and silver, in the past few years, the other side will be handed over to the Song Dynasty 3 million taels of gold, 20 million taels of silver, worth 100 billion wen, and there have always been only 700 tens of wen, how much is it.

It is the annual coins dedicated to the Liao State together. It's only about a million. These gold and silver are equivalent to the annual coins given to the Liao State in the past 130 years!

And a few other gifts. Which one is bad?

How could a mother say that?

Gao Tao said: "Er, why did this son give half of the deed shares of the new machine to an individual? ”

"Easy to promote and supervise each other."

In fact, the shortcomings of the "state-owned enterprises" of the Song Dynasty have long been clear to everyone. Just like many pit and mining workshops, before the implementation of the reform of the river crossing of the farm, many pit and mining workshops were in a state of loss, but after being contracted by private individuals, one by one they made a profit. That's a good example of that.

The key is that the tax system of the Song Dynasty was very imperfect. If it is like the Celestial Empire, the implementation of value-added tax, everyone understands, that is 17 percent, even for small-scale enterprises to help, the starting price has reached 3 percent, that is, the Song Dynasty's tax is the lowest tax rate of the Celestial Empire, not urgent, and industrial water and electricity, which is nearly twice as much as that of civil use. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, and there are all sorts of unexpected costs. If it weren't for the Great Elder's anti-corruption, it would have been given by entertaining officials to eat and drink, and it would be enough to drink a pot.

Therefore, we cannot ridicule the wealth accumulation of the Song Dynasty, and it can only be said that the wealth accumulation system of the Song Dynasty is not perfect......

So when Wang Ju launched the sugar workshop, he adopted a joint venture.

Wang Ju handed it over, the management gradually became chaotic, and there was also cane sugar on the other side, although it was not sold to the Song Dynasty, but it was sold to the Wa Kingdom of Goryeo, so the profit margin was gradually declining, which is the best proof.

Gao Taotao said: "Xu'er, you see that people are too simple, and his purpose in doing this is to use this half of the deed shares to win over some nobles, so as to implement the Qi business tax." ”

"The queen mother, is it wrong to implement the Qi business tax with the smallest difference?"

"Whether it's right or wrong, the mourner is talking about his thoughts."

"Queen Mother, everyone has a mind and a means."

"But he's asking you for the right."

"Queen Mother, Prince An has only been in the capital for three years."

"What the mourning family is worried about is not his three years in the capital, but the three years he went to Shaanxi, when he will control two or three hundred thousand Shaanxi troops."

"O queen mother, let my son say so. These more than 200,000, or 300,000 troops, including the forbidden soldiers, the Tibetan soldiers, and the township soldiers, what ability can he have to hold so many different armies together, not to hold them to attack the Western Xia, but to rebel. It is this ability that these armies are scattered all over the country, west to Hezhou, north to the Suide army, if you want to rebel, you must assemble the army together in Tongguan, the army is held by him, so many officials can hold him down? So many officials held him in, as well as generals and people, but it was impossible. ”

"Xu'er, have you forgotten An Lushan?"

"This is exactly what Erchen wants to say, An Lushan can hold a few knots, and it is the Tang Dynasty that gave him all the rights of military and political finance, including the right to mint money."

"It's also what Wang Zi'an wants."

"Queen Mother, after listening to Erchen, how many years has An Lushan been operating in Hebei? The time given to Wang Zi'an is only three years, these three years are not for him to stay in Shaanxi, two years to rectify the army, and the remaining one year, it will be summer. Can all Shaanxi officials, generals, and soldiers be brought together in two years? Even if it's a hold, not only must there be a commitment, but at least give these people some benefits. Moreover, so many troops gathered and marched to the Central Plains. Our dynasty must be prepared, Hedong, Hebei and the capital also have a huge army, as long as Tongguan is blocked, or Luoyang is defended, it can last at least a year. When the time comes, if nothing else, food and materials, he will not be able to turn around. What the son said, the queen mother will understand, right? That is, why did he donate the money and silk on the other side to the imperial court? It takes money to buy people's hearts, and it also costs money to secretly prepare a large amount of grain and grass. However, now he asked the other side to sell the mining workshop to raise gold and silver, and to set up a banking department for me. If he had rebels, wouldn't he be the stupidest rebel in history? ”

"Er, can you know how much gold and silver there is on the other side?"

"Queen Mother, how much has the other side donated over the years, in fact, in the past two years, the other side has also successively supported some materials on Yunnan Road, but I just pretended not to know. With such a small population, is there gold everywhere on the other side? ”

Gao was speechless.

Wang Ju said before that the country of Wa was the homeland of gold and silver.

There are a lot of gold and silver mines.

But it was only after the autumn of the previous year that a large silver mine was found one after another.

So in the face of such a huge amount of gold and silver, Zhao Ji would not have any doubts.

In fact, he was wrong, Wang Ju would not rebel, even if he wanted to rebel, he would not dare to rebel. Not what he said. I really want to rebel. As long as you can hold 20,000 cavalry, and then find an excuse to quickly gallop 20,000 cavalry back to the capital and behead them, the Zhao Dynasty will be finished.

But why not dare to rebel.

It's easy to decapitate, but it's harder to behead. Now that the Song Dynasty has not lost the hearts of the people, if Wang Ju really dares to play like this, the Song Dynasty will soon be torn apart. Even if Wang Ju takes advantage of overseas. In the end, it took more than ten years and twenty years to stabilize the world, but it also became a mess, and Wang Ju himself was old. So what's the bother? If you want to be an emperor, it's better to go to the other side and be a free king. I believe that in 20 years, what will happen on the other side, there will be more than 20 million people, and there will be no risk.

However, depending on the angle from which you stand, the direction of consideration is also different.

Someone is also thinking about directions......

An Tao was relegated to Qingzhou, which is actually the nominal capital of Jingdong Road. The best state capitals for the prime minister to be released are undoubtedly Luoyang, Daimyo, Jingzhao, Yingtian, and Taiyuan. Then there is Qingzhou, and Hangzhou, Jiangning, and Chengdu are still below Qingzhou.

Keep in mind that An Tao is not the prime minister, just a household secretary, and during the day, it was not Wang Ju who provoked him, but he was the first to attack Wang Ju.

Therefore, although it is demoted, the official is not picked up, and it is not too heavy a degrade.

And the banking department has become a reality, Wang Ju wants to implement the Qi business tax, and at this time, there is no room for opposition. A little bit of An Tao is just a killer.

However, some people were still slightly dissatisfied, although they did not dare to express their position in the cheers of the people in the capital.

In addition, there are some people who are usually good friends with An Tao.

Therefore, several scholars came to settle down, including Fan Chunren, and the secretary of the province is Fan Zuyu.

Fan Chunren was a little better and comforted a few words. In his heart, he thought that Wang Ju was rude and unruly, but he did not deny Wang Ju's loyalty to the country.

So it's hard to say anything.

Fan Zuyu sighed sadly.

An Tao said: "Yaofu, Chunfu, you don't understand, let me say one first, how many pieces of silk do you think a horse of silk can be made into ten cents of silk?" ”

Here I want to say, how much area is a silk horse?

The first is the length, everyone thinks that the length of a silk is ten zhang, more than 30 meters. It seems that the books also write about it.

However, it would be a mistake to think so.

After Qin Shi Huang unified the whole country, he also unified weights and measures, but it was only a preliminary unification, and the actual weights and measures of all dynasties have been very confused.

First of all, let's talk about the weight, in ancient times, a catty was sixteen taels, but after the length, it became a decimal system, and one zhang is equal to ten feet. Therefore, Wang Ju wanted to abolish the hexadecimal system on the other side and stipulate that one catty was ten taels, but the people were not used to it, and Wang Ju had no choice but to stop the one-catty ten-tael system and restore one-catty sixteen taels.

It's not a mess, it's like one bucket is equal to ten liters, but how many buckets is one stone? Ten buckets? NO, stone is a unit of weight, in meters, a stone meter is only about eight buckets.

However, it's not chaotic, the most chaotic thing is money, how much money has always been money, a thousand wen? Wrong. In the Song Dynasty, the standard of consistent money was 700 tens of wen, and later the copper coin was slightly loosened, it was more than 800 wen, and more than 900 wen was regarded as consistent money.

It has nothing to do with the imperial court, but the number of the people themselves who default to it.

However, with the stability of the Song Dynasty, especially after the rule of Song Zhenzong Xianping, the rapid economic prosperity also led to a serious shortage of currency, and there was a serious shortage of copper coins, so the money was always in private traders, often only five or six hundred yuan.

If you are not convinced, then use Chongbao (that is, the big money issued by the Song Dynasty, slightly larger, a copper plate is equivalent to ten yuan).

If you don't accept it with heavy treasures, then use iron money.

If you don't accept it with iron money, then use paper to hand over tea and salt money!

But you can't blame the Song Dynasty for its inaction, there really isn't enough currency.

However, by the time of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, he began to come and go, regardless of the country's economy, and indiscriminately issued coins (paper money made of 楮皮), which led to the loss of price control. Therefore, although paper money has progressive significance, it has not been implemented in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Therefore, the length of a horse of silk is ten zhang, and it cannot be taken seriously.

The real standard is forty feet, but on silk, forty feet is ten feet!

But don't worry, forty feet is not more than thirteen meters, because the length of the ruler is different in each dynasty, and even the length of the same dynasty is different in different periods. It is about 40 feet in the western circumference, which is equivalent to 23.92 city feet (797.25 cm). Han, 27.74 feet (915.58 cm). Tang, 37.3574 city feet (1245.12 cm). Song, 36.9009 city feet (1229.90).

Therefore, in ancient times, people called husbands, and it was not more than three meters tall that they were real men.

This one zhang is more than one meter and nine.

Of course, reaching a height of more than 1.9 meters was quite amazing in ancient times.

The length of a silk is a little more numerous, but the width is even more confusing. The width of a silk horse in the Zhou Dynasty was 2.2 square feet (1.3150 square feet, 43.83 cm). Han Dynasty, 2.2 Han feet (1.5247 city feet, 50.82 cm). Tang Dynasty, 1.8 Tang Dynasty (1.6811 city feet, 56.03 cm). Song Dynasty, 2.0 Song feet (1.8450 city feet, 61.49 cm).

Maybe everyone is disappointed, a silk horse is less than eight square meters.

But look at the silk scarves on the market, a real silk scarf costs at least more than 100 yuan, and a silk horse can cut more than 30 silk scarves.

Don't worry, this silk scarf is not the kind of good silk that has always been worth more in the Song Dynasty, it can only be regarded as a small silk, Xiao Luo (tulle silk silk), a Xiao Luo is only five or six hundred Wen, six or seven hundred Wen.

A penny is worth six dollars! If calculated according to the tea leaves, one penny should be worth two yuan. If calculated according to the salt, a penny is only worth five cents!

This has nothing to do with what An Tao said.

An Tao is talking about area.

Wang Ju took out a total of five kinds of silk hand, comparing the five emperors of Song Taizu, Song Taizong, Song Zhenzong, Song Renzong, and Song Yingzong.

The largest of 100 yuan is equivalent to the size of one and a half hundred yuan, and the smallest of 10 yuan is equivalent to the size of 50 yuan.

There is no objection to this, Song Yingzong can't be allowed to climb to the head of the "ancestor", or be as noble as the ancestor.

An Tao objected to this area and the silk material.

If you use normal silk cloth, a piece of silk can cut 720 pieces of ten cents, but this kind of new cloth has a characteristic, thick and dense.

Otherwise, how to come from the two-sided printing and dyeing without dampness, in fact, it is not enough to be thick and dense, it is necessary to use a new method of textile disclosure, and then use special pigments and specially set equipment to print and dye, in order to ensure that both sides are not dripping.

In this way, the silk material used is equivalent to nearly five times the silk cloth silk material, nearly eight times the silk material of small silk, and nearly ten times the silk material of Xiaoluo.

Well, a horse of silk has only been cut to less than one hundred and fifty pieces of ten cents.

Even if you use slightly cheaper Guangnan raw silk, if you add labor costs, machinery costs, and pigment costs, you can only barely maintain its cost. If the scheduling is not done properly, maybe the silk payment of ten cents will be lost.

Fan Chunren was still confused, and An Tao said again: "Yaofu, if you think about it again, tens of millions of guanjiaozi will be launched soon, how much silk will be used?" ”

Fan Zuyu patted his thigh and said, "Gong An is right, this move is harmful to the country and the people." (To be continued.) )