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3. Sail out to sea

"So to be cured, we can only rely on me, and we can only work together. Whether it is the Confucian Taoist tradition, the Pure Land Sect Maitreya, or the Zen lamp, I just hope that the fire can be passed down by wise men from generation to generation, breaking the big and small cycles that Han Tuizhi said, without waiting for any great evil or great sages, but everyone can be a sage, not fighting for this world, but to save this world, so that it can move forward and towards the light." At this time, Gao Yue turned around, turned his back to the rolling Yangtze River, and said to the two contemplative people.

"How to save this?"

"This is the first way to truly increase the wealth of the people.

This Taoist hopes that among the country and the people, in addition to the Yuan and the Constant Tax, there are more ways to obtain the gift. The second is that.

This path hopes that in the world, in terms of money, we can set aside one, and in the future, money and the country will be completely equal (the sovereign currency that the Celestial Empire has never had for thousands of years). Then people can freely transfer money to each other with the "national money" and use this national money to closely combine the land outside the Jiuzhou under the wings of China. This is the third one.

This is the meaning of Xingyuan loom. Under the moral norms, it is not shameful to pursue profits. This is the fourth thing about the pursuit of profits under the moral norms."

Han Yu was really scared. A vivid picture seemed to appear in front of him. His ideal "life has common sense, men and women have their own qualities, cold clothes and hungry food, and work hard in spinning", that is, men and women weave, closed the natural countryside, completely collapsed under Gao Yue's words: the originally simple people in the village saw the snow-like platinum (silver), carrying yellow and bright copper coins, and understood that this magical metal could exchange for everything, and they were crazy. They threw down their farm tools, farmland and mulberry trees,

Leaving his hometown, traveling freely between mountain roads or water towns, wherever he could get money, he went there, the "home" disintegrated and the "country party" collapsed. Whether it was merchants, farmers, craftsmen, they carried weighing plates or beads outside or at home, and they were very careful. By measuring the thickness of the coins, the blood of the country was no longer the admonition of the sages, but white silver, or gold, and copper. This scene was more exciting and shocking than the "Xingyuan Revolution" scene that Han Yu had imagined before.

At this moment, Han Yu picked up his head and said to Gao Yue: "In this way, in a village, in a village, the east households are poor if they have money, and the west households are expensive if they have money. The upper and lower households compete to make profits, and all of them chase gold and silver, and morality will completely collapse..."

But Liu Zongyuan seemed to understand something, "The Xingyuan loom has a one-day contribution of five people, or even ten people. That is to say, it means that the town supervision department of Yujin must be set up. If there are fifty looms, it is equivalent to 250 people. However, one person and one machine are enough, and then the functions of two hundred people will be redundant. If you save money, the price of cotton or silk will inevitably decrease, and then there will be cloth and silk all over the world soon."

"The reward for human merits will be reduced by four or five times!" Han Yu corrected angrily, saying that he believed that Liu Zongyuan had just seen the good side.

Gao Yue said: "I only see one of them when I retreat, but not the other. Since I have invented the tricks and can make the rewards fall, the merchants and shop owners will soon flock to them to save money. As for the redundant human work, they can be used in other directions, such as burning porcelain, moving and losing, and doing anything else. Since wealth is created by people, only then can the wealth be truly expanded and expanded. The more wealth, the more merchants and kumbang households, the more tax money the court and the government can withdraw, and there is no need to increase the amount of yuan, and there is no need to impose excessive taxes when the country has something to do (such as war), because the two taxes paid by these two households are all cash."

"Since there are too many taxes, you have to need more money to transfer. This is what Duke Wei said. Not only do you have to cast more money, but you can't be very effective in just copper coins." Liu Zongyuan keenly learned from it, "then gold and silver must be added."

Gao Yue nodded, "The farmer and craftsman's work income for several days is very small, so it is enough to settle it with copper coins. However, if you want to expand trade and facilitate the levy, you must have gold and silver." Then he said: "For example, platinum was once minted and ingots, and there was no discipline. This road is preparing to hire Persian food craftsmen to mint platinum into money, and it is determined to be one, and it is a national currency (Han Yu was frightened, why did you mint the national currency)."

In the context of the Celestial Empire, coins refer specifically to copper coins, because the Celestial Empire almost never minted gold and silver into coins. Therefore, in later trade with the West, compared with the fine and stable gold and silver coins that were minted in the West, the silver of the Celestial Empire suffered a great loss because it had no fixed style and was chaotic and rough (for example, the Qing government's previous compensation, how many taels of silver was written in the treaty, but in the end the great powers did not recognize the Qing government's silver, so they had to be replaced with a Mexican silver dollar to pay, and were slaughtered in the process.)

At this moment, Han Yu had a new question, "I only know that platinum is produced in Xinzhou, Xidao, Jiangnan, and in Qinzhou, Longxi, in the northwest. Recently, I heard that Duke Wei said in the military yamen that the five states of Fujian also produce platinum. Therefore, if Duke Wei only sells platinum as coins in Huainan, it should be enough, and it should be promoted as national currency. I am afraid that the mountains and rivers will not be enough to transfer the needs of the world."

At this time, Gao Yue told Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan very casually: "The platinum produced in Longxi, Anxi, Jiangxi and Fujian is completely inadequate (the Celestial Empire has been extremely lacking in precious metals since ancient times), but there is another way to obtain platinum - Nanzhao, Borneo, and Japan in Haidong. All of these things are there. As long as we introduce them in, it can not only be used for the country to transfer, but also firmly control these countries. If they are not tamed, they will use force to compete."

Han Yu was shocked. What did Duke Wei mean? He might have to carry out trade, or even war on these countries for platinum...

To drive out the army to start a war, it is just to get platinum, and it will also plunder human power. This is completely incompatible with the Taoist traditions of all dynasties!

Liu Zongyuan never thought that when he was visiting Gao Yue in court, he talked about the difference between siege and invasion, but he didn't expect that Tang, I, soon, would have started to invade other countries for gold and silver?

Han Yu had expected the situation in "Theory of Xingyuan Revolution", probably would come true soon!

A sixty-year-old, the so-called historical cycle is the limit that Han Yu could predict. However, Gao Yue and the Duke of Wei in front of him were not constrained by the number of sixty years.

At this moment, a slogan sounded, and Gao Yue pointed to the river below Guangling. Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan came forward to watch. Only then did they realize that Gao Yue's behavior would never be just verbal:
Chapter completed!
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