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Chapter 1083 The Song and Liao Economic War

Zhao Zhen had already expressed his attitude. Cai Boqi knew that the next place to be conquered by the Song Dynasty after the Western Xia was not the Liao Dynasty, but the Jurchens, which completely violated the original plan. The Song Dynasty wanted to borrow from the Jurchens instead of conquering...

Obviously, the official family changed the original thing, but Cai Boyi was used to it. The official family always did this, and his thoughts were like antelope hanging on the horns were unpredictable, but he didn't know that this was actually a method of Zhao Zhen. When everyone thought that the next target of the Song Dynasty was the Liao Dynasty, everyone was wrong.

Destroying the Liao Dynasty was not a simple matter. Unlike the Western Xia, the Liao Dynasty ruled even longer than the founding of the Song Dynasty. Even the lean camel was bigger than the horse, and there were three thousand nails in the broken ship, let alone a huge Liao Dynasty?

Before the emergence of the Song Dynasty, the Liao Dynasty was already a giant. Its culture, its rule, and even its customs had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, which was difficult to change. Even Confucian culture became part of the Liao Dynasty, which also exposed another flaw of Confucian culture. The idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor was not only useful to the Song Dynasty, but also to the Liao people.

What should I do to deal with such a dynasty? This is a systematic problem. Zhao Zhen gained from the experience that the most effective way to subvert a regime and a country is to attack him from all aspects. At the beginning, isolate it, destroy the country's economy with economic advantages, and finally use troops.

Of course, these are just general definitions, and there are many detailed parts, and Zhao Zhen has already prepared them. In the Secret Pavilion, these simple and bloodless methods are effective.

Su Shi had a thorough understanding of economic issues. His method was very effective. He could at least destroy the Liao people's monetary system overnight. The Liao people had already begun to imitate the Song Dynasty to promote their own banknotes. In this matter, the Liao people were astonishingly fast, and even Zhao Zhen was shocked.

According to the report of the Liao Dynasty's mafia, of course these mafia were also qualified merchants. They said that the Liao Dynasty's currency also had gold and silver as a guarantee. He could also exchange real gold and silver at the Liao Dynasty's money shop with such banknotes. This also made the Liao people highly respect this brand new currency because they felt that they could succeed in the Song Dynasty and in the Liao Dynasty.

The person who presided over the official was Zhang Jian, a figure like a pillar of the Liao Dynasty.

But to be honest, no one knows better about currency than Zhao Zhen. In later generations, there were endless means between countries. It can be said that later generations had a better experience in currency than this era, as simple as a giant crushing a baby.

Zhao Zhen only needed a few ways to devalue the Liao people's officials, and Zhang Jian's biggest flaw was that his advancement was too fast. The Song Dynasty made many years of preparations for the implementation of Jiaozi, including plundering gold and silver from Japan. It can be said that Jiaozi issued by the Song Dynasty could be exchanged in real terms and would never be printed.

This is a means that the credit system has not been established, but the Liao people are different. Their officials are the same as Jiaozi in the Song Dynasty. The stupid decision copied this has laid the root of disaster for them, because as far as Zhao Zhen knows, the Liao Dynasty did not have so many gold and silver reserves at all...

They have exceeded the insurmountable "bottom line". Similarly, a devil is also hidden among the nobles of the Liao Dynasty. In the Liao Dynasty, some people have proposed to add seals to deal with a large number of gaps, such as sending military pay, which is not as good as purchasing requirements.

This is simply seeking death. Once a robbery occurs, the consequences will be unimaginable. Think about the official in your hand that turned into a piece of waste paper overnight. What would the working people think?

A country and a regime are likely to be subverted in an instant.

It took Zhao Zhen a long time to make the rich people and merchants of the Song Dynasty give up the copper coins at home, and also waste a lot of effort to send the money to the money shop to exchange for transactions. You should know that for the Han people, hiding money and storing grain is an unchangeable habit.

Time, only enough time can make them slowly develop trust in people to change their habits, because everyone is using Jiaozi. This convenient and fast payment method fascinates people and becomes a habit. When some people take to the streets, they will consciously send the money to the money house for exchange for Jiaozi.

The last guarantee of the Song Dynasty was the court. Everyone believed that if their money could not be exchanged for gold and silver, they could go to the local yamen to beat drums and make trouble...

And the Liao Dynasty... was originally a court conspiring with paper money. Many of the things were issued with great fanfare before they could figure it out. It was very successful at the beginning. Many people in Liao knew that the Song Dynasty was Jiaozi, and even some people were using it. What else would you be worried about if you had this thing as a guarantee for the Song Dynasty?

When Zhang Jian began to promote the Liao Dynasty's official son, the name alone gave the Liao people confidence and used it as Jiaozi. Everyone had a good understanding of it. It was natural to use officials in the Liao Dynasty and Jiaozi in the Song Dynasty.

A strange phenomenon occurred. In the Liao Dynasty, there were both Jiaozi and official corpses, but in the Song Dynasty, few people used official corpses because the people of Liao recognized Jiaozi and the people of Song Dynasty were skeptical.

The infiltration of black hands is omnipresent. They are slow and silent, but undoubtedly their power is powerful. The important officials of the Liao Dynasty soon believed that the Song Dynasty's Jiaozi was also printing in large quantities, otherwise how could so many Jiaozi appear?

But they had no reserves of gold, silver, copper and other substances in the Song Dynasty. They just blindly believed that the Song Dynasty had so many Duojiaozi, which must have been printed...

This is a terrible speculation and the beginning of the economic collapse of the Liao Dynasty. More and more people support the sealed officials in the court. Most of the memorials reviewed by Emperor Yelu Hongji of Liao were like this. Although the same was true, the result could not be changed. Because Zhang Jian discovered something wrong, he strongly urged Yelu Hongji not to sealed officials.

Although he didn't know the reason, he knew one thing that if the people could not exchange so much gold and silver with officials, the final result would be terrible.

When Zhao Zhen saw this memorial, he secretly lamented Zhang Jian's sense of crisis. The result of printing paper money and issuing paper money indiscriminately is the collapse of the monetary system, and the rulers are plundering the people with their rights.

And one thing is that since the beginning, the Liao people have distributed too many officials, and their reserves cannot be compared with the Song Dynasty at all, but a one-man official who has been able to exchange for a one-two-silver money for a long time.

Although there is no problem with the face value, the number of officials they issued was almost up to the Song Dynasty at the beginning. This is a secret of the Liao Dynasty, a small trick of Yelu Hongji and Zhang Jian, or a clever trick.

First, it is for the sake of face, and for the sake of being more affordable. As long as there is no robbery, no one will find out... In this era, there can be no such thing as the China Banking Regulatory Commission.
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