"Of course, I can't always stay in a post house. Fan Zhixu knew that Yang Zhi had a spare house in Qinzhou, and replied without the slightest embarrassment; Yang Zhi smiled, knowing that the old guy was really a little discouraged about the government. Later, Yang Zhi paid attention to it, and specially picked some topics for small talk and said that after eating, Yang Zhi arranged a mansion for Fan Zhixu alone, and secretly instructed the people below to try their best to meet Fan Zhixu's requirements.

Fan Zhi is also looking for a reason to stay in Qinzhou, not that he doesn't want to contribute to the country, but that the current situation in the Great Song Dynasty is too pressing, and Fan Zhi is humble and weak. The Dingbei army is located in the northwest, but without this big enemy, King Kang Zhao Gou and King Jing Zhao Qi are not easy to get along, and their subordinates have begun to be on their own guard, and it is said that there are confrontations in the court, so as soon as he heard that someone recommended him to go to Yingtianfu, Fan Zhixu hid in Qinzhou.

Fan Zhixu stayed in Qinzhou, and he didn't care about those core places, but often read the information in the Zhifu Division and the state government, and gave a note to Runzhou in two days, talking about the situation in Qinzhou, so that most of Yang Zhi's measures in Qinzhou were clear to Runzhou. Although Yang Zhi and Fan Zhixu both wrote about the difficulties in Qinzhou now, it is too difficult to prepare materials for war, and there are still those tribes in Qingtang to be appeased, even if Yang Zhi can make money, he can't turn into food and other materials for war.

However, it is the unanimous view of the upper and lower levels of Runzhou to decide that the Northern Army and the Western Xia will be stumbling to the death, no matter what the purpose of each side is, the result will be the same; not to mention that most people understand that the problem lies in the Gyeonggi Road, and if there is no obstruction from Zhang Jun and others, otherwise Yang Zhi can spend money to buy enough grain to Qinzhou, but it is just a matter of King Kang, and no one says it clearly.

In his letter to Fan Zhixu, Tang Zhong reminded Fan Zhixu to let Yang Zhi figure out his own way, this kind of breakthrough thinking, Yang Zhi is definitely better than those who are scholars; Fan Zhixu took Tang Chong's letter to the Zhifu Division, and Yang Zhi and Ye Mengde and a group of others were discussing Qinzhou's plan for next year.

The population of Qinzhou is not much in Longyou, the problem is that although Hezhou and Xizhou have a large population, they are mainly composed of Tibetan people, and like Huanzhou, which made trouble, the local wealthy people are not Han nationality; so during the reign of Song Renzong, the Great Song Dynasty could only choose Qinzhou as the territory port and set up a business market in Qinzhou, with an annual payment of 40,000 taels of silver, 15,000 pieces of silk, and 8,000 good horses from ethnic minorities. In the seventh year of Xining, Song Shenzong decided to formally set up a tea and horse division in Qinzhou and Chengdu, and held a tea and horse business with Tubo and Western Xia, which was also for this reason.

At that time, Qinzhou business travelers gathered, in addition to the main play of horses and tea, musk spray nose, mercury, bezoar, pearl from the west, silk, tea, gold, silver, lacquerware from the Great Song Dynasty to the Western Regions, the south of the Wei River Da Luo Gate, Xiao Luo Gate produced a lot of good wood, a steady stream of sent to Henan. During the Xining period, Qinfeng Road also set up an iron money supervisor in Qinzhou, mining 140,000 catties of iron ore in three years, and the related workers reached 50,000 households and more than 120,000 people.

Yang Zhi's purpose was naturally to restore the old glory of Qinzhou, and now that Yang Zhi had ensured the feasibility militarily, the Western Xia army retreated to Wuyuan County, so that the Dingbei army could control Longnan to the south and Longxi to the west; if Yang Zhi did not want to recover Youzhou and other places, the next step was to compete with the Western Xia for Hexi and completely control the Hexi Corridor. Strategically speaking, even if the Dingbei Army only acquired the southern end of the Hexi Corridor, the trade of tea and horses would become unimpeded.

Fan Zhixu stopped Cai Qing, who was about to report, and asked his subordinates to wait outside the door with Cai Qing, and walked into the conference room alone; Yang Zhi and the others were not surprised, and Yang Yizhong gave up his seat to Fan Zhixu. When Fan Zhixu sat down, he heard Yang Zhi reject Quan Bangyan's suggestion to cast tin money, Yang Zhi's voice said firmly: "The iron money prison should be restored, but the money should be minted carefully, either not minted, or it is pure copper money, iron money, tin money, don't need to mention it." You have all read the history books, in the history of the Central Plains once used shells as money, shells are the foundation of no money, why didn't people go to find shells to use as money at that time?

In my opinion, there are two reasons, one is that the cost of going to the beach to get shells is too high, and the other is that both sides of the transaction have a scale in their hearts, and not everyone can trade shells. If our coins are different from other places, copper and iron coins become a commodity, which will directly impact the food and other materials we need. ”

In the second year of Chongning, in order to prevent Liao and Xia from purchasing a large number of iron coins of the Great Song Dynasty, the ruling prime minister Cai Jing decided to add tin to the iron coins and cast an alloy currency. Shaanxi is the main area that uses tin money, Tong Guan was in charge of the period and was also affected by the Bashu Jiaozi, Yang Zhi does not want to waste his efforts on this, once it causes inflation, then not only Guanzhong is not guaranteed, but also affects the economy of Taiyuan.

Zeng Wei nodded and said: "Yang Shuai is right, during the founding of the country, the Great Song Dynasty issued a copper restriction order in the Liangchuan region, allowing the people to continue to use the previous iron money to consume; ”

Yang Zhi agreed: "A gentleman loves money in a good way, and the behavior of Fan Xiang and others is understandable, because the most important thing is Shen Lun's mistake in making iron money." It seems to be a shortcut, but in fact it is a road of no return, and there will always be a day when the people's strength will fail. I'm still a little more comfortable looking at the food and tools. ”

From a historical point of view, the reason why the Great Song Dynasty did not directly embark on capitalism was that the productive forces were not enough to support an independent commercial system; Yang Zhi was not an expert in this area, and he did not plan to do anything ahead of his time, but only considered solving the problems in front of him, and solved them one by one. Shaanxi is a barren land, and it seems that it cannot solve the food supply, but this is from the pure grain point of view, and the party and the Tibetan ethnic groups have been able to entrench themselves in Hexi and other places for hundreds of years in history, relying on cattle and sheep breeding.

Fortunately, since soap and soap came out, Yang Zhi was only allowed to exchange grain for ordinary merchants, and a large number of merchants from Bashu and Lianghuai came to Qinzhou with grain to make up for the difference in grain prices; Yang Zhi wanted to improvise a process of bartering for cattle and sheep in exchange for grain from Guanzhong and Hedong, but there were too many layers involved, and Yang Zhi couldn't bother this god.