The newly issued banknotes in Shamen Town, the original monthly money in everyone's hands more than ten or twenty pounds of heavy copper coins, all of a sudden replaced with a few thin pieces of colorful paper, this huge change at first caught many people a little off guard. In the face of this piece of paper, some older people are full of confusion and worry. However, because Li Jing had anticipated these possible situations, the town immediately announced many notices.

When the proclamation announced that the banknotes could be exchanged for food, cloth, clothing, etc., at any time, and that they could even use the banknotes to buy a new house in the city, or to buy a house plot in a designated manor outside the city, everyone immediately settled down. At the beginning, some old people went to the warehouse to buy and hoard food with the newly issued banknotes, but when everyone saw how much money they took out, how much grain was sold to everyone in the warehouse, and there was no shirk at all, and everyone's worry was over.

The real opposition to banknotes is still those merchants on the island such as Changjie, and the more prosperous the town of Shamen, the more the merchants on the island are booming. Now Li Jing ordered that all merchants must collect banknotes as payment, and even those outsiders such as sailors who came to the island had to exchange money and silk for money as soon as they got to the dock before they could spend on the island. If they do not comply with the new rules and directly collect copper coins and silk, two currencies that have been banned from circulation on the island, then merchants will be fined heavily.

If that's all right, the key now is that the banknotes they receive can only be circulated on the island, and if they want to exchange these banknotes for money and take them out of the island, they have to go to the money bank to do the exchange business. What made them even more unhappy was that the merchants exchanged the money in their hands for money. A handling fee must be paid. This is in the eyes of merchants. This is Li Jing's disguised breaking of his previous promise not to collect their business taxes. The handling fee is the commercial tax. Moreover, this business tax is still very tricky, and how much money they have in business is clear when they exchange it, unless they hold these colorful papers and do not make a move.

The issuance and circulation of banknotes on the island quickly suppressed the hidden money shortage.

But Li Jing knew in his heart that the prosperity and liveliness on the surface at the moment was actually just the appearance, and the island was still short of money. Banknotes can only circulate internally, externally. How much money should be needed and how much money should be spent, which cannot be replaced by money.

By the beginning of April, the whole army of Shamen Town had once again completed the change of spring clothes. Originally, this batch of spring clothes was going to be changed in February, but due to various reasons, the most difficult quilt workshop could not be exchanged, and seeing that the spring was about to end, the workshop delivered more than 8,000 spring clothes.

The Shamen Town Army has military uniforms all year round, with two sets per person per quarter. This is the system set by Li Jing early, and this system has always made Zhang Hong, the housekeeper, a little dissatisfied. In his opinion, it is enough for a soldier to have a military uniform in summer and winter a year. Get a spring, summer, autumn and winter military uniform. It's a bit of a luxury. But Li Jing has always insisted, not only the military uniforms of the four seasons. There are also shoes and socks and underwear that are distributed in rations. Even in addition to the military uniforms and rations, even the towels for the soldiers to wash their faces, the tooth brushing for brushing their teeth, the tooth powder, the pancreas for bathing, the soap horns for washing clothes, and the buckets and rice bowls were all uniformly distributed.

In Li Jing's words, the army is sacred, and soldiers must not be treated as a group of slaves or a group of people called flowers. If the soldiers don't even have a single image, then where does they have a sense of honor, and how can they be expected to defend their homes and the country and fight on the battlefield.

Money should be spent, Zhang Hong, a conservative old rich man, when he sees that the money is being used quickly, what he thinks of is throttling.

But for Li Jing, if he doesn't have enough money, he has to earn it, instead of thinking about how to spend it in half. Throttling is needed, but more important is open source.

Sitting in the town general's mansion, Li Jing was also a little bored, and in April, he put on a much lighter spring clothes, and the whole person was much lighter. But what bothers him now is money, without which he can't buy food, buy raw materials for equipment, and even can't guarantee the exchange of banknotes for the people.

It's just that this money is really not easy to make, last month's crackdown on bandits was good, and more than 20 cottages of all sizes were wiped out, and a lot of extra money was made. But by now, there are no pirates left in the coastal area of Dengzhou that can be exterminated. The rest are either on the land belly or have to go outside Dengzhou. Li Jing sent troops to the coast of Dengzhou to suppress bandits, but he had already crossed the border, just because he acted quickly every time, and he only cared about suppressing bandits and confiscating the property in the lair, and even didn't care. Li Jing did not repay the credit for the exterminated bandits, and let those local officials take credit, so everyone was safe, and no one told Li Jing about crossing the border and sending troops.

In the past, it was fine along the coast, but now if you want to go deep into the interior to suppress bandits, it is not suitable, let alone go to other states to suppress bandits. Sending troops across the border is always a taboo. In Dengzhou, there are always Song Wei and others covered, and it is not good to go to other people's territory to make any misunderstandings.

Now Li Jing regretted it a little, if he was more bold and simply cooperated with Wang Xianzhi and them to sell illicit salt. At present, the Nantongzi Salt Factory has produced three batches of salt, and has stored more than 100,000 stone salt and has not yet been sold. If you cooperate with Wang Xianzhi, a big salt seller, the hundreds of thousands of stone salt will become tens of thousands of yuan in cash.

Where to get the money, or who to sell this batch of salt?

When Li Jing was frowning, Li Wei suddenly came to report that the reconnaissance battalion had found several suspicious ships on the periphery of the Pearl Waterway. They went forward to surround the ship, and after searching, someone on the ship claimed to be an envoy from Duli Town, and came to see Li Jing.

Just now, Wang Xianzhi's No. 1 general, Shang Junchang, came to ask to see him, but was arrested by Li Jing and sent to Dengzhou. In the blink of an eye, another messenger from the town of Tori came, what's going on?

"I may know some internal reasons under my job." Seeing that Li Jing was a little puzzled, Li Wei hurriedly reported back: "The spies sent by the reconnaissance battalion in Liaohai have just reported that in the middle of the night yesterday, Li Lingpu of Qingnipu suddenly sent a fleet to attack a patrol detachment in Duli Town. Qingnipu used the divine fire we gave them to take the town by surprise. The patrol detachment of eleven ships of the opposing side was completely annihilated. ”

Although the fleet of Qingnipu had more than 3,000 people, the warships and sailors were far inferior to the equipment of the combined fleet of Duli Town. Although only a detachment was annihilated, the detachment of these eleven ships was 2,000 men. In terms of strength, they are even above the Qingnipu fleet. But now, they didn't even hold out until the combined fleet came to reinforce them, and they were completely annihilated.

Being attacked by a sneak attack was one of the reasons for their defeat, and the bigger reason was that Qingnipu used divine fire in this battle, which was not only powerful, but also had a deterrent power. The kind of divine fire that can burn when exposed to water, cannot be extinguished by water, can quickly burn a ship, and can ignite other ships even next to each other, is the reason why the fleet of the town of Tori was in chaos after the attack and was finally completely annihilated.

This battle shocked the group of merchants in Duli Town. Without figuring out what that divine fire was, they no longer dared to send a fleet to cruise outside Qingni Harbor. Immediately withdrew all the fleets back to port, and immediately sent an emissary to Salmon Town.

"They actually know that this divine fire was sold to Qingnipu by us, and the news is still very well-informed." Hearing that there was such an inside story, Li Jing immediately almost understood the other party's intention. Needless to say, this group of merchants must have come to buy Shenhuo.

"My subordinates think that as long as the price they give is high, it doesn't hurt to sell some to them, anyway, didn't the general say that no one else can crack this divine fire?" Li Wei said on the side, and he also knew that Li Jing was frantically looking for a way to make money recently.

"A gentleman loves money, but he takes it in the right way. This divine fire is no ordinary commodity, and since we sold it to our allies at a high price, we can no longer easily sell it to our enemies. Have you ever thought that if we sell it to the Divine Fire of Duli Town, they are likely to use it against us? Li Jing shook his head.

"Let Zhang Bingcao receive the people, the rest is easy to discuss, we may sell all kinds of goods to each other, but Shenhuo has nothing to talk about." Although Zhilu Dao is willing to sell, Shenhuo will definitely be able to sell it for a super high price, but Shenhuo is completely called a strategic weapon. With such a striking force, Li Jing even strictly controlled the number of Qingnipu for sale, how could he sell it to Duli Town, the opponent, for some money.

Duli Town came straight to the divine fire, but he didn't even touch Li Jing's face. Although they also liked many commodities on the island, they didn't really come to talk about these businesses at this time, and after staying for a day, they saw that they didn't have a chance to see Li Jing, so they went home. When he returned to the capital to report to the city lord Wang Pu, Wang Pu was furious.

At that moment, he sent people to Dengzhou again, but this time he went straight to Da Xie Cheng. It was the Duli Town Feng clan who came, and the last time the Duli Town Fleet was completely wiped out, Duli Town actually didn't know what kind of status this divine fire played in this battle. But they knew that Feng Zhang had been defeated by Li Jing's divine fire attack, so they specially sent a representative of the Feng clan to find out what kind of terrifying weapon Lu Dao was.

"Horror, that is, the ghost fire from hell, more than ten times stronger than ordinary fire oil or even fierce fire oil. This is simply a ghost fire specially born for naval warfare and used to deal with warships. In the face of this ghostly fire, the tall warships were powerless. There may be some hope for a battle at sea, but if it is against a shore defense dock equipped with this kind of ghostly fire, there is no hope at all. Facing the separation of people from his uncle according to his generation, Feng Zhang's face was pale, and when he talked about this ghost fire, it seemed that the battlefield scene of that day was still emerging in front of him.

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