In fact, it may not be related to the court during the reign of Zhao Xu. With Zhang Zai's character, even in the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song, there would not be a chance to make a name for himself. A country's governance cannot be separated from politics, but politics is always despicable, and it is useless to be rude and rude.

Wang Ju did not discuss it in depth and said: "Your Majesty, I actually think that my teacher is famous in Shaanxi and that cultivating people in the world will make greater contributions to the Song Dynasty in the court."

"This is also..." But Zhao Xu thought in his mind, to see if he could be awarded a position as an official, one would be a reward for Zhang Zai, and the other would be to soothe Wang Ju's injured heart...

"Wang Qing, how are your injuries?"

"Your Majesty, it's okay, you're starting to heal."

"Let me take a look."

"Your Majesty, this is really not needed."

"Prince, let Your Majesty take a look." Old Wang said, although Wang Ju said it was okay, Old Wang clearly saw some blood coming out of Wang Ju's official uniform. It had been more than ten days since he was cured, and it seemed that his injuries were not light.

This injury is the best proof!

Wang Ju had to lift up his official uniform and inner clothes. The wound began to become scarred, but it was not completely scarred. The blood hole could still be seen through the gauze.

Lao Wang murmured: "It's too much, too much."

Cai and Zhang were filled with joy.

Feng Lusun and the other two frowned. Can such injuries be said to be a bitter plan written and directed by themselves? It was not a bitter plan. Li Ding went down again, and the matter was going to be big again.

Zhao Xu said with a gloomy face: "Wang Qing, what happened in Yizheng County, and what Wang Anli said, come one by one."

Wang Jujiang explained the details one by one.

Lu Gong looked not very good-looking, his disciple...

Feng Jing changed the topic in time: "Prince An, this money..."

"Duke Feng, I and my family's guests talked about two strange things: Bashu and Qiongzhou. Renzong was exempted from the salt service of Qiongzhou by 1,000 guan, but in the second year, the expenditure of more than 10,000 guan was increased. After hearing this, Renzong sighed for a long time. The strange thing about Bashu was that Bashu produced a lot of cloth, but every year because of tax payments, it could not meet the needs of the local people. So some vendors ignored the dangers of the Three Gorges and sold the cloth from Jinghu to Bashu for sale. My family's guests said, why the court could not use coins to regulate it. I mentioned two reasons, one was that it was not suitable for regulation, and the other was that our dynasty had serious lack of currency. An Dao (Zhang Fangping) reported that the people of Bashu were trapped in the law of exemption from service. In fact, partly because of the greed of the clerks, partly because of the lack of currency, and the officials forced the people to pay the money for exemption from service, which led to the hardship of the people."

These are just two small examples, because there are too many disadvantages caused by lack of currency.

"In addition, Mr. Jiefu said that the people do not increase taxes and the country's power is self-sufficient. This is not a false statement. The best proof of my in Quanzhou and Qingzhou."

"Wang Zi'an, are you talking about the Qingzhou Development Fund?" Wang Gui asked.

“That’s right.”

"Later, the imperial court imitated it, but failed."

"That is inevitable. There are three factors that make Qingzhou successful. First, it is proper regulation. At that time, there were ministers in charge. And there were many responsible economic personnel from merchants to help. It was not that the court could not invite useful talents, but that the court invited the court, and they did not have a strong sense of responsibility."

Wang Ju didn't explain in detail, but everyone understands that the economic person he hired was an economic person from merchants such as Zhu Li in Yanzhou. Of course, he did his best to assist Wang Ju.

"And Qingzhou is just a state, easy to manage. If it is enlarged to the whole country, the situation will be a hundred times more complicated, and the difficulty of regulation will also increase by a hundred times. This is one. Secondly, when the ministers used the salt of Yanzhou to gather a large amount of coins, but when it was enlarged to the whole country, where could so many coins be called? Thirdly, Mr. Jiefu saw that the country was seriously deficit and was too anxious to make money, so the interest rate was high, so the merchants could not accept it, or they would forcefully pay, so they would inevitably fail."

"Quanzhou is different. What I do is to develop business, trade taxes in order to drive Quanzhou's manufacturing industry with overseas trade. Although it is successful, other prefectures and counties are difficult to imitate. However, the practice of Qingzhou ministers can be promoted. Only when the time comes, and then combining the current post office and Feiqian officials can play a role in financial management, disaster relief, poverty alleviation, emergency relief, and benefiting the people. It may bring more than 20 million RMB of income to the court a year, so in theory, it can implement the people without increasing taxes and the country's own use. Of course, its appearance will seriously crack down on usury, but if it does not harshly collect the people and increase the source of wealth, I believe the public will not object."

The few people looked at each other and didn't believe it very much.

Wang Ju added: "If it can appear, it can not only increase wealth, but also replace the current market law and Qingmiao law. Because many of them overlap or exclude, even if everyone wants to retain these two laws, as long as it appears, it will inevitably be banned."

"That's true?" Lu Gongzhu asked with wide eyes.

It would be better to ban these two laws.

"Mr. Lu, when did I ever say anything false? Your Majesty, I have said similar things to Your Majesty before."

"Wang Qing, can you say it carefully?"

“It’s not time to speak.”

“Why?”

"I haven't figured it out yet, the time is not right. The first time is ripe and the treasury is full."

"The treasury is full?"

"Prince, to give an analogy, if a person with a family of hundreds of hectares of fertile land borrows 1,000 guan from you, are you relieved? If a fifth-class household borrows 1,000 guan from you, are you relieved?"

"The same is true for the Qingmiao Method." Sun Gu said.

The fifth-class household wants to borrow Qingmiao loans to help the emergency, but many officials are reluctant to borrow, so they even need to ask someone to guarantee the fifth-class household. If the third-class household or above, it will not be possible to repay the third-class household if it is not borrowed!

Wang Juke didn't want to get into a dispute over right and wrong with the Qingmiao Law, and immediately said: "The second opportunity is that it is a real new thing, and there is no precedent to follow, especially various management talents and related systems. Qingzhou is actually just an experiment in order to verify his own ideas. However, this problem is gradually being solved, such as the operation of the Post Office and the Feiqian Office, which is also a process of honing relevant talents."

"The third opportunity is enough coins."

"In this way, the people can use their own taxes without increasing the taxes?" Lu Gongzhu asked suspiciously.

"Mr. Lu, when I was in Qingzhou, how much money did the government have for me to misappropriate? Of course, some coins must be prepared. They are prying and carrying. Without this prying and carrying, it cannot be implemented."

The few people understood a little. No wonder the first opportunity was that the treasury must be full and not full. How could the people believe it? But after thinking about it again, they couldn't figure it out, so they looked at Wang Ju again.

"I didn't think it clearly, don't ask me..." Wang Ju spread his hands and said, "But no matter how you think about it, these three conditions are the key prerequisites."

"The coin problem is really difficult to solve."

"So I brought the silver. Your Majesty, please look at these red copies. I used two thousand taels of silver to test it. When I arrived in Hanzhong, there were only more than four hundred taels left."

"I understand what you mean, but I want to cancel the tax on gold and silver entering the city and use gold and silver to increase coins."

“That’s right.”

"But the country lacks copper coins, and even more lacks gold and silver."

"That's true. Especially silver, we have to send so much silver to Liao and Xixia every year. Although some of it has been circulated, not all of it has been circulated. In addition, the consumption of gold and silver in the people has increased, and part of it has been circulated overseas, so our dynasty has become increasingly lacking in gold and silver. But it can also be solved."

“How to solve it?”

"It can be solved in three steps, and the first step is being solved. But the second step and the third step are to be solved by Your Majesty."

"Tell me."

"The terrain of the Wanu Kingdom is easy to produce gold and silver," Wang Ju explained again: "Volcanic terrain. Therefore, I have secretly sent people to take craftsmen to the Wanu Kingdom to look for gold and silver mines. I also encouraged maritime merchants to increase trade with the Wanu Kingdom. Therefore, as long as I find a large amount of gold and silver mines, I can use trade to exchange for circulation in our dynasty."

In fact, the highest gold mine reserves are not Japan, but South Africa and Central and North America, that is, the United States and the southern countries of the Caribbean in later generations. But for the current Song Dynasty, it is too far away.

The silver mine reserves are also not the highest in Japan, but in Central and North America.

However, compared with the mineral deposits in Central and North America, Japan is close to the Song Dynasty, which is the biggest advantage. In addition, they are shallow mines, which are conducive to mining in this era of backward technology. Therefore, as they are driving, there are almost no gold and silver mines in Japan...all of them are dug out.

So Wang Ju General focused on Japan.

"The Japanese slaves have so many silver reserves?" Cai Que asked suspiciously.

Wang Ju did not explain clearly, but what was probably the idea? Several top Song dynasty bosses could understand it. This was a major measure to leverage the entire Song dynasty economy. Otherwise, Wang Ju would not have said that he could make more than 20 million yuan in a year.

The idea is good, but this crowbar is thick enough and hard enough...

Then the silver required is not hundreds of thousands of taels or millions of taels. It may be calculated in tens of millions of taels. In theory, this measure can be implemented by combining copper coins and Jiaozi. Even if the reformists do not want to make noise every day.

However, does the Japanese slave country have so much money?

In fact, China is also a big country of gold and silver. Its storage capacity is only higher than that of Japan, but it is difficult to mine with current technology. Look at how much silver you get in the Song Dynasty when it is searching for mines all over the world? Think about how much silver the Song Dynasty produced in a year. When it was low, it was only tens of thousands of taels of silver a year.

"Yes," Wang Ju said in a deep voice.

In fact, in the eighty years from 1560 to 1640, Japan produced more than 250 million taels of silver. At its peak, the annual output almost reached more than 5 million taels. The entire Ming Dynasty received nearly 200 million taels of silver from Japan, which did not include a large amount of silver flowing to Western powers such as Portugal.

Moreover, the situation at that time was still in a semi-banned state of sea circulation and poor circulation.

If it were now, as long as the country had it, Wang Ju would have a way to change it all, and could use violent mining to increase its output.

Of course, Wang Ju didn't know these output data, he only knew that at that time, the silver in Japan shocked the whole world, so would the output be low?

Wang Ju changed his voice and said, "This is the first step, and the second step is to snipe the currency circulation. This is also divided into two steps. The first step is to produce goods from the outer version. The outer version has the Japanese sword Xia Guo sword. Our Song Dynasty must have the Taoxi sword and the exquisite barbarian sword. If there is the Japanese fan, we must have the more exquisite bamboo fans, jade fans, and bone fans. The outer version has various cotton fabrics. Our Song Dynasty should try to launch more exquisite and cheaper products than them."

With everything in mind, the Song Dynasty naturally became a trade exporter, and all kinds of gold and silver were turned back to the Song Dynasty.

"The next edict is issued to exempt foreign trade from taxes with light taxes, and use it to stimulate output rather than input."

This is what Zhao Xu wants to do.

This foreign trade is not only a trade between several maritime authorities, but also a trade with Liao, Xixia and Tubo. If foreign exports are completely exempt from taxes, the Song Dynasty would lose a lot of revenue in a year.

Therefore, Zhao Xu frowned.

Wang Ju said again: "The third step, Your Majesty, you will be stronger by leading the Song Dynasty."

Is it necessary to send so much silver, silk and tea to the Western Xia and Liao Kingdom every year?

In fact, Wang Ju really wanted to say, at least he would still give Xixia a gift now?

Why give Sui Ci and spend money to buy An? But it was not during the Qingli period that the border war between the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia had already gained the upper hand, so why should I continue to give Sui Ci blood transfusions to him?

However, Wang Ju only said one sentence, and a little unhappy expression appeared on Sun Gu's face.

Lao Wang also felt that the atmosphere was not very good, so he immediately interrupted and asked: "Zi'an, but how can ordinary people distinguish between authenticity of money?"

"Prince, our dynasty has been executing Jiaozi for decades. Compared with silver, Jiaozi is more expensive (referring to higher denominations) and is easier to imitate, but why did there be no large-scale forgery incidents? It is simple. After gold and silver are used as currency, they are used for government procurement or large-scale transactions, so copper coins will be saved. If all copper coins are saved, can the amount of copper coins in our dynasty still meet the needs of ordinary people?"

Most ordinary people in the Song Dynasty were definitely unable to distinguish the authenticity of the money.

But when it comes to bulk transactions, can't those big merchants identify them?

It has the same nature as Jiaozi.

It’s just that Jiaozi is a piece of paper, and its credit always has a problem.

In fact, once the silver is circulated on a large scale, Lao Wang’s worries will not be left at all. The Ming and Qing dynasties are the highest examples.

At this point, Wang Ju has explained his intention to bring the silver back.

Otherwise, how to convince Zhao Xu?

Zhao Xu nodded and said, "Wang Qing, let me talk about the situation in Jiaozhi and Dali again."

"Here, I'm talking about Jiaozhi first. After I arrived in Guangnan, I made some conjectures in the situation left by Guo Gong Nanzheng. The first is to continue to maintain Guo Gong Nanzheng's situation and reunite with Jiaozhi. However, Guo Gong only killed tens of thousands of Jiaozhi soldiers. Will Jiaozhi recover in ten years? In fact, it takes less than ten years, and it may be restored in less than five years. For example, Xixia. But after recovery, my dynasty is still reluctant to take out another 300,000 military and civilians in the south?"

In fact, Guo Kui was frightened by Jiaozhi this time. Jiaozhi was honest for a long time, but who can know about it?

If Wang Ju said this, it would undoubtedly be a few years later, Jiaozhi would suffer heavy casualties in the southern expedition because of Guo Kui's heavy casualties. The Song Dynasty was reluctant to spend a lot of money to carry out the second southern expedition, which would inevitably become even worse.
Chapter completed!