"Lieutenant Envoy Huang, think about it, if I don't say it, don't the people of Western Xia know?" Wang Ju asked rhetorically.

"Yes."

"But I can't immediately withdraw my troops and go back, and continue to garrison troops in Yanzhou, one is to ensure the construction of the Hengshan Forts, and the other is for salt."

Father-in-law Xiao Huang was also speechless.

The salt of the Song Dynasty was too expensive, think about it a pound of pig iron is only about 30 yuan, how high the cost of opening a pit at this time, and the cost of smelting iron ore into raw iron.

Therefore, Wang Ju released this, almost the entire people of Huanqing Road went crazy, not only Huanqing Road, but even Zhao Wei acquiesced to the security army and the people of Yanzhou to come to transport salt, this is not to transport salt, it is to grab money.

Every extra day that the army stayed in Yanzhou meant that it snatched thirty or forty thousand stone blue salt from the hands of the Tangut people, or even more, and turned it into coins, that is, tens of thousands of pieces of money and silk, scattered into the pockets of various soldiers and people.

Therefore, if Wang Ju's army can not be withdrawn, it is best not to withdraw, and continue to stay in Yanzhou.

Wang Ju said again: "I don't say it, they may want to get into it, but if I say it, they don't dare to think about it." ”

This is too profound, and Xiao Huang's father-in-law said that he didn't understand.

Huang Hua rearranged the records just now, and wrote down the conversations of several people, including their expressions.

Wang Ju handed the sorted record to Xiao Huang's father-in-law: "Envoy Huang, do you think this is the case?" ”

"Yes."

"That's good, you also take it to the capital, give it to the official, and tell the official, don't take it out for the time being, and wait until the summer envoy comes to see you, and the scholars and doctors put forward all kinds of ideas. Then give it to the doctors to read. ”

Father-in-law Xiao Huang thought about it. Suddenly, he smiled and said, "Wonderful." If this is the case, no one will dare to consult to return Hengshan to Western Xia. ”

He thought of just this one, but he didn't expect that Wang Ju would really let some people fall into the stinky dung pit by doing this.

On the other side, the three messengers were also deliberating.

Lu Ning said: "Yes, if they withdraw in large numbers, the front-line troops will be small. It's really an opportunity. ”

Wei Ming Kerong frowned and said, "If this is the case, how can he sue us?" Remember that he asked Song Ji to send a letter to Liang Guoxiang, saying that he wanted peace between the two countries, but what was the result? Don't be fooled. ”

"And what does he mean?"

"According to my guess, I'm afraid that those civil servants in the Song Dynasty opposed the war, and this kid couldn't fight it, so he deliberately did this and continued to tempt our army to make a move. Then it wasn't him who took the initiative to go to war, it was our Great Xia who took the initiative to go to war, which was exactly what he wanted. ”

"That's true."

"So Guan Jian is still on our way into the capital of the Song Dynasty. See if you can convince the emperor of the Song Dynasty to issue an edict. Force this kid to withdraw his army and go back. Otherwise, let him continue to transport green salt to Shaanxi in the Song Dynasty, and the economy of our dynasty will not be able to recover in the future. ”

The amount of salt consumed in a year during the Song Dynasty was staggering.

However, the scope of the green salt radiation is limited, it is just Shaanxi Road, or through Guò Yanzhou, and the radiation reaches the northern area of Hedong Road, and the south is not good, and there is salt relief. Or some powerful people liked the delicious taste of green salt, and some of them were dispersed to the capital and Gyeonggi area.

However, with the current mining method of the Song Army, I am afraid that in the next four to five years, these areas will no longer have a thirst for green salt.

Without the economic resources of Qingyan, it was even more difficult for the Western Xia to recover its finances.

Thinking of this, Wei Ming Kerong sighed secretly, thinking, how did he fail like this. It can't be said that Liang Yibu and Liang Yongneng are young, there are not too many young generals in history, and it is not said that Huo Qu is sick, just say that the ancestors of the Tuoba tribe, the founding emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Jue, was called the emperor at the age of fifteen, and Wei Shizu Tuoba Tao went on an expedition to Rouran at the age of twelve. Besides, the little Zhizhou next door is not very old.

Thinking about it, he sighed: "This son is not dead, and the summer is difficult." Let's not think so much, write a letter to the Queen Mother, and let them find a way to go. ”

As he spoke, he began to write letters.

And he wrote two letters with the "heart of a villain", one was dense, put it in a wax pill, and put this wax pill on the sole of the guard's shoes, and the other was an open letter.

This prevents Wang Ju from sending people to search on the road.

Search for the hell.

However, as for what Wang Ju said about the Liang family, these words were automatically erased.

The next day, the three men followed the army all the way south, deliberately not allowing him to come into contact with the prisoners of war.

As for what the terrain is secret, it doesn't matter, Wei Ming Kerong will definitely not take the Gyeongju Road, but return to Western Xia from the national channel. By that time, the entire Yokoyama had undergone earth-shaking changes.

Over there, the Liang family also received a secret letter from the famous Kerong.

Liang didn't see Wang Ju's evaluation of her, so he breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the envoy successfully entered the capital of the Song Dynasty, it would be easy to do.

However, the two things that Wang Ju said were beneficial to Western Xia, the first one Liang automatically ignored, and she had no choice but to see how the three envoys fought in the capital of the Song Dynasty.

The second one is still very cautious, but after thinking about it, it is also in vain, Ren Duo Lingding is still frantically fighting Dong Yu.

Compared with the history this time, Dong Yu was lucky at first, and then a little sad.

Because of the cold weather and the slow speed of assembling the army, by the time he invaded Hexi, he had repeatedly heard the news of the defeat of Western Xia, so the army went deep into Hexi to invade, and the capture was far better than the plunder in history.

But he didn't expect that Western Xia was suddenly defeated, and then Ren Duo Lingding took the defeated army and mourned the army, and fought hard with him. Dong Yu just wanted to reap the benefits, and he wanted to fight with him, so he had to hurriedly transfer the captured materials to Huangzhou.

Ren Duo Ling Ding is even more anxious, after this battle, Western Xia is very miserable, and now the material is human life! In particular, Dong Yu's first department took away many Tubo people in Liangzhou, that is, the remnants of the original Liugu Tribe. Compared with materials, the population of Western Xia is now more precious!

One wanted to transfer the captured materials immediately, but he was reluctant to let go. One desperately wants to leave the supplies behind.

Therefore, when it is fighting, it is a real fire.

From the entire Lingzhou to Xingqing Mansion, the troops are very empty, and the Liang family is worried that it will be too late, where do they still think about attacking Xiazhou? In fact, Western Xia was really miserable at this time, even worse than the information fed back by the scouts sent by Wang Ju.

But Wang Ju just knew. He won't send troops anymore.

This is called moderation. In fact, you can also advance and retreat. Take advantage of this opportunity to launch some medium-sized battles, but if they continue to fight, the Song Dynasty's finances will not be able to bear it.

Therefore, Wang Ju has secretly turned his focus to internal governance, but he himself continues to stay in Yanzhou.

…………

The willows began to turn a little blue, and Yao Daworm came to Zuyang's house again.

Wei Ming Kerong and Liang are smart people, and smart people think more. They may not believe what Wang Ju says. Just like some time ago. Wang Ju wrote a letter to Liang Yiburi, let's not fight, let's make peace. As a result, in only three or four days, the Tiandu Mountain camp and the palace were gone, and only tens of thousands of troops fled back.

But ordinary people can only rely on observation to analyze, Wang Ju only needs to build a fort in Hengshan, and a fort has not crossed Hengshan, so it shows that Wang Ju did not have an idea about Yanzhou.

In particular, tens of thousands of Paujie troops withdrew, although countless people in Gyeongju sent them off, but they thought it would be soon. The Song army was about to withdraw from Yanzhou.

Therefore, one by one they went crazy, and those who had no money rushed to the front line desperately to transport salt.

For them. This is also tantamount to grabbing money.

Moreover, after the government screened and registered, it also transferred some baggage carts and large livestock to lend them to pull salt. As long as you are diligent, you can easily earn more than a dozen yuan a month.

More than a dozen dollars, if you pick it out in the mud, how long does it take to pick it out?

Therefore, hundreds of people handed over their children to the elderly at home, and even handed over the spring ploughing production to the elderly at home, flocked to the front line to register, and then entered the various salt roads. Especially the people in the front line, the small amount of winter wheat they planted was all used as horse fodder by the Tangut people, and the horses were eaten without the drag of winter wheat, and almost even the old people and women went to the salt road. Even at the third watch, I could still watch groups of people pulling salt on the road.

As for the rich, they are frantically collecting money and silk, preparing to hoard green salt on a large scale, and they do not need to retail it, as long as the salt road is closed, they can get more than three points of profit as soon as they change hands.

went crazy together, how did Yao Daworm not force debts to Zuyang?

Zu Yang became bold this time and said, "Brother Yao, don't worry, I promise to repay it in ten days." ”

"After ten days, what will you pay back?" Yao Da Worm sneered.

"Zhizhou deliberately came to my house a few days ago and promised to lend me a few thousand guan of money with one cent of interest, and then I went to Gyeongju City and met with the general judge, and Zhang Tongju also agreed, and said that ten days later, let me take Li Zheng to Gyeongju to write the contract, and then I can take four thousand guan money and silk home."

"Hahaha," Yao Daworm laughed, and after laughing, he said, "Are you talking about the Book of Heaven?" If people are big and judged, why do they help you? Is there a profit in this world? The seedling method is returned once every six months, and it has to be paid off in two cents. ”

If you don't know the inside story, ten out of ten people won't believe it.

"Brother Yao, I really don't lie to you."

"I don't care if you cheat or not, and pull his wife and daughter away to pay off the debt."

"Brother Yao, you can't do this." Zu Yang is in a hurry, can this be pulled away? The front is pulled away, and the wife in the back is about to be ruined. So he stepped forward to stop it.

But where was the opponent of the domestic servant brought by Yao Daworm, he kicked him to the ground with a few kicks, kicked his nose and face swollen, and then dragged his wife and eldest daughter away.

Zu Yang wanted to cry without tears, just when a villager in the village came back from Huai'an Town, he didn't dare to interfere on the side just now, and waited for Yao Daworm to drag people away, before he came over and said: "Brother Yang, what you said is true?" ”

"It's true."

"That Zhang Tongju is in Huai'an Town, you go to him immediately."

In fact, Zu Yang was also stupid, otherwise Zhang Ji would have to go to Gyeongju City immediately even if he was not in Huai'an Town. Although it is a little far from Huai'an Town to Gyeongju City, and he has no horses, it will take a lot of time to come and go, but it is better than sitting here in a daze.

After hearing what this villager said, Zu Yang got up and rushed to Huai'an Town.

Zhang Qi is indeed in Huai'an Town, and this Gyeongju Development Fund is actually a primary bank, of course, a more advanced bank, which could not be implemented in the Song Dynasty. However, it is not only a junior bank, but also a junior bank in the lowest version.

Of course, it is this version that also makes everyone feel incredible.

However, it must first absorb the money in the hands of the people before it can lend, at least now it is the only one, no other bank has transferred capital, and the government's money is inconvenient to embezzle, there must be a process of saving first and then releasing it.

It was too late to write about Lubuna, and there were still many people who could not read.

And Zhang Ji also has to face two major problems. The first is the credibility of the imperial court. Don't be afraid. The main thing is to save. However, the imperial court edict was changed endlessly, so what kind of credit can we talk about?

Secondly, the problem is even greater, credit is a trivial matter, no matter how bad the national credit of the Song Dynasty is, it is not worse than that of the Republic of China, the main thing is that the people may not be used to it at all now.

It is true that many people have surplus money in their hands, and even if there is no green salt this time, the amount of surplus money in the hands of the people of Gyeongju will not be small. But what about when you have money. In addition to buying a house on land, and then burying it underground.

Therefore, there was a lack of circulating currency in the market of the Song Dynasty, but when it was unearthed in later generations, tens of thousands of copper coins were often dug out of the ground, and Bacheng was the copper coin of the Song Dynasty.

So Zhang Kai put down his frame, handed over the government affairs to other officials first, and he himself came to the front line with a large group of officials, there were three major green salt trading locations on the Gyeongju front, and Zhang Kai came to Huai'an Town in the first step.

One is to put up a cloth of luke, and the other is that he himself personally explained to the people. even did not hesitate to use Wang Ju's position in the hearts of the people to persuade the people, and then set up a branch in Huai'an Town. Write a contract on the spot and deposit the freight money issued by the people from the government. In fact, this is just a formality, mainly after obtaining the consent of the people themselves, the money can be transferred to this development fund directly within the government.

But this cutscene has to go, otherwise it will fall into the hands of others.

When he was lobbying everyone bitterly, Zu Yang came over, listened to Zu Yang finish telling the story, and looked at Zu Yang being beaten, Zhang Qi was angry.

In order to attract everyone's attention, Wang Ju deliberately made a metaphor. It doesn't take much, as long as the freight money of Qingyan this time can mobilize the people to store half of it in the development fund, although it is a little difficult, but Zhizhou is Wang Ju, and the credit of the imperial court may not be of much use, but Wang Ju's credit is still a little useful.

Then you can make at least 15,000 yuan a year, and the tax revenue you drive is immeasurable.

Some people question the difficulty of mobilizing the people, but it is also difficult to release it, because the conditions set by Wang Ju are a bit picky.

Wang Ju used Zu Yang as an example.

In the past, Zuyang was a small workshop-style production and hired people, but only hired a few short-term workers, but Zuyang was born as a businessman after all, once he got the top technology of Western Xia, and the government cooperated with him, would it be large-scale production?

Even if the production of 10,000 blankets a year may require more than 70,000 or 80,000 yuan in cost alone, but it is not a unique thing like bamboo paper and cane sugar, and a part of the deposit can be collected first, so it can only be delivered first and then profited.

Taking 10,000 felt blankets as an example, he is short of at least 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, and if the market is better, he can sell 20,000 or 30,000 felt blankets a year, and the shortage of funds will be even more, and the larger the sales, the greater the shortage of funds.

However, now that the government is lending money to him, and the interest rate is not heavy, what will he do in order to make a profit?

This is just a workshop.

But after Zhang Ji listened, he thought more. What if the conditions are ripe and it can be rolled out across the country?

The Song Dynasty had more than 300 state armies, and Gyeongju could only rank in the middle of the ranks in terms of the number of households. Of course, from a military point of view, then it will be very important. But from an economic point of view, it is not even medium.

Large commercial cities such as Hangzhou and Ezhou may have an economic volume dozens of times that of Gyeongju, and needless to say, the gold silk store in the east of the imperial city can often reach hundreds of thousands, or even millions, in a single transaction.

Don't pull any taxes, it is the profit itself, which may exceed the commercial tax of the current Song Dynasty, or the single income of salt and wine.

That's why he put down his frame and personally came to Huai'an Town to lobby the people, and planned to go to White Leopard City and Dashun City in the next few days.

But why does Wang Ju fancy Zuyang, first, he is usually not evil, and second, this person has ideas, and only with ideas can he succeed in business. Maybe Zu Yang himself didn't know, but Wang Ju secretly sent someone to investigate, and there were not many people like Zu Yang in the entire Gyeongju, but there were only a dozen people.

Can Zhang Qi let a group of vampires force Zuyang's family to ruin?

He immediately ordered the official to go to the house of the Yao Da Worm, let him release the hostages immediately, and come to Huai'an Town with the loan contract.

The official came to Yao Daworm's house.

Yao Daworm was also stupid when he heard Zhang Ji personally ask, in their eyes, a general judgment, especially the general judgment of Gyeongju, is already a great official who has ascended to the sky. I was stunned for a long time before asking: "Brother Ya, why did Zhang Tongju personally intervene?" ”

"That Zuyang has touched a nobleman."

"Noble?"

"Yao Dalang, I don't know the specifics, but Xinzhizhou can be named and named, and he has said several times to support Zuyang, you have a big problem."

Yao Da Worm's matter is really big, even bigger than Zhang Qi thought. Yao Da Worm was killed, and he didn't believe what Zu Yang said, so he snatched Zu Yang's wife and daughter to the house, and Zu Yang's wife looked at Wang Ju, thinking that she had a bit of a posture, and Yao Da Worm.

Anyway, they planned to sell their mother and daughter to pay off their debts, so their pants were loose, and Zuyang's wife was ruined. But in the Song Dynasty, this is also normal, every year because of the loan shark, I don't know how many women from good families are ruined by the loan shark, but this time it is different, not to mention that Zuyang is the key object of Wang Ju's upcoming support, with Wang Ju's temperament, this kind of thing is the most hated...... But for Yao Daworm, this is the big deal. (To be continued......)