Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

After being told by Zhao Ning, Li Ruoshui finally came to his senses, and quickly said, "Your Majesty is wise, I never thought of this."

"The Kingdom of Jin just wants to extort another sum of money from our dynasty, and take the North as its own from a legal perspective, so as to calm people's hearts."

What does it mean to take possession of oneself from the legal level?

There are a large number of Han people in the Kingdom of Jin. It is said that Taiyuan Mansion, Zhending Mansion, and Hejian Mansion were originally from the Song Dynasty and were seized by the State of Jin.

In ancient times, there was no legitimate legal principle.

If Da Song recognized the boundary proposed by Yihe, it would also recognize Jin's legal rule over these places.

Is this important?

Very important!

The Jin Dynasty also needs to use scholars to govern the country, and it will never use a butcher who can only shout and kill if he can't read big characters.

Scholars governing the country pay attention to a legal principle.

If the Kingdom of Jin does not have those places, then the internal ideology will be divided, and internal conflicts will easily arise in this regard.

This is also an important reason why Jin Wushu stopped fighting in the end and forced Zhao Gou to sign the "Shaoxing peace agreement" in history.

In the Shaoxing peace talks, Zhao Gou admitted that the northern Central Plains belonged to the Kingdom of Jin, and this was the scene of scholars in the Kingdom of Jin scolding the Southern Song Dynasty for being a barbarian.

Therefore, for Zhao Ning, it is absolutely impossible to recognize national boundaries!

It is possible for the two sides to open a mutual market.

However, opening up the mutual market also requires methods.

Chapter 268 The Beginning of the Song-Jin Game (Second Update)

From the perspective of historical lessons, the currency war between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty caused a large amount of copper coins from the Song Dynasty to flow out to the Kingdom of Jin, causing considerable economic difficulties.

There is such a law in histology: the larger the organization, the more fragile it is.

For example, bloat is the most obvious feature of the bureaucracy of the Song Dynasty. The bloat leads to a decrease in work efficiency and a lot of problems. It is very difficult to picket and clean up.

Once foreign enemies invade, such a bureaucratic system will not only be ineffective, but will also weaken its own ability to act because of its bloat and mutual blame.

Moreover, there is another law in economics: the fragility of an economy is inversely proportional to its size and interconnectedness.

It means that the larger and more complex the economy is, and the higher the regional economic linkage is, the weaker the risk resistance of the overall economy will be.

On the contrary, the lower the regional business linkage, the smaller the business scale, and the stronger its risk resistance.

Such as Jin Guo and Xixia.

The Kingdom of Jin does not have a well-developed river system and road system like the Song Dynasty, and it is winter in the Northeast for nearly half a year. These objective factors will restrict its commercial development.

Its commercial characteristics are that there are sparse exchanges with each other, and the furthest commercial activities may be limited to their respective state capitals, and a small number of luxury goods specially prepared for dignitaries will be transported to Beijing from various places.

The same is true for Xixia.

At this time, there is no economic crisis, let alone the chain reaction caused by the collapse of certain industries in Shanghai.

Even in many places, things are bartered.

That's not to mention the financial crisis.

However, Da Song is different.

The business of the Song Dynasty was notoriously prosperous in ancient China.

There are convenient rivers all around from Tokyo, especially Gyeonggi Road extending to the southeast, and the rivers are dense like a network.

Moreover, the internal governance of the Song Dynasty was very strong, and it was the dynasty that most liked to open water conservancy and develop fertile land in all dynasties.

Various commodities emerge in endlessly.

For example, Luoyang flower, Jianzhou tea, Shu brocade, Ding porcelain, Zhejiang lacquer, Wu paper, Xima, Fuzhou lychee, Wenzhou osmanthus, Linjiang oriole, Jiangyin puffer fish and so on.

For another example, the Song people said this: the country of Qingqi, the fertile fields are thousands of miles away, the richness of hemp sang is rich, and the world is covered with clothes.

There are also a large number of ships from Mizhou Seaport regularly, transporting goods to various roads in the south.

Da Song encouraged business.

It is amazing that the Great Song Dynasty was founded by warlords, but a group of business elites ruled the country.

In such a Great Song Dynasty, the economies of various sectors are more interconnected than Jin and Xixia, and at the same time they are more dependent on currency.

Therefore, Jin Guo wants to fight a currency war with Song Dynasty, but Song Dynasty is actually on the weak side.

As long as the currency flows to the Kingdom of Jin, the Kingdom of Jin will make a profit, and the Great Song Dynasty will lose money.

Moreover, there is a high probability that the currency will flow to the Kingdom of Jin.

Because the purchasing power of the copper coins of the Song Dynasty is too strong, the surrounding countries are willing to sell goods at low prices in order to attract more copper coins of the Song Dynasty.

For example, passer-by A, a businessman from the Kingdom of Jin, only sold 200 copper coins for a stone of grain. He sold 100 stone and transferred 20000 coins.

After returning to China, he can use the 20000 copper coins to buy 150 shi of grain, because there is even a shortage of copper coins in the country.

The aristocrats had surplus grain, and after exchanging these grains for copper coins, they went to buy luxury goods.

So, the copper coins of the Song Dynasty are very popular.

Going back to Zhao Ning's only agreement to Jin Guo's trade.

If the Song and Jin Dynasties opened up trade on a large scale, it would inevitably cause the outflow of copper coins.

Can trade dumping be used to return copper coins?

It's hard.

Why do you say that?

Because Jin Guo also implemented a set of strict anti-dispute system, almost most of the transactions were state-owned.

In the history of the transactions between Song and Jin, after the Jin State took away the copper coins, it was strictly controlled by the Jin State government.

Those who have not been controlled, for example, passer-by A has 20000 copper coins in his hand, he will never use these 20000 coins to buy Song Dynasty goods.

Because of the same purchase of goods, copper coins are more valuable in the Kingdom of Jin, and you can buy more things.

Unless the Song Dynasty lowered commodity prices to a very, very low level, without advanced assembly lines and a well-developed supply chain system, it would be impossible to really lower commodity prices.

Not to mention the establishment of the low-price dumping model of the 20th century.

Judging from these factors, the full opening of the Song and Jin trade was not good for the Song Dynasty in the context of productivity in the 12th century.

What should I do?

Of course there are ways.

At least Zhao Ning has figured out a way.

This matter is not in a hurry. Right now, the Shaofu Supervisor of the "Da Song State-owned Manufacturing Bureau" is being reorganized, the University of Tokyo is expanding its enrollment, and the assembly line model is also taking shape.

Of course, these are all preparations for commodity dumping, and it takes time to build them up slowly.

There is still a way to deal with it.

At the end of February, Xilinhelu returned to Yanjing and reported to Zongwang the situation of his mission to the Song Dynasty.

"Your Highness, Song Dog has no sincerity in negotiating peace!"

"No no, the Emperor of Song Dynasty has already agreed to negotiate a peace."

Xilin Helu looked confused, what?The emperor of the Song Dynasty has agreed to negotiate a peace?

Your Highness, I'm still here with the wounds from being hit by the dog Song with a chair!

I don't read much, don't lie to me!

Zong Wang continued: "Emperor Song agrees to sit down and talk about Zheng'er's Eight Classics, which means that Emperor Song is also willing to negotiate a peace, and he agrees to the mutual market."

"This...but he doesn't agree to give the old coins."

"Xilinhelu, don't be impatient. This kind of important matter cannot be discussed once or twice. The Song Dynasty has just defeated me a few times. It is inevitable that I will be a little proud. It is inevitable that I will not agree temporarily."

"Then what should we do now, how will the next official return to Shangjing?"

"Just go back to Beijing and tell the truth, I will write a letter to His Majesty to clarify the current situation."

"Thank you, Your Highness."

"Go."

Xilinghelu left.

Liu Yanzong said: "Your Highness, Emperor Song is unwilling to give the old coin, I'm afraid His Majesty will not agree."

"As I said, there are three major pains in the Song Dynasty. People's livelihood and public security in the north of the Yellow River, internal bureaucratic strife, and political chaos caused by the New Deal at any time. Every pain hurts the inner organs of the Song Dynasty. It is difficult to heal it. ascend to heaven."

"Whether or not to give Sui coins is only temporary, and peace talks are only temporary. We must continue to send envoys to the south to seek peace, let Song Guo feel our sincerity in seeking peace, and let them relax their vigilance against us."

"Your Highness said yes."

Wanyan Zongwang continued to speak incisively: "As long as Emperor Song is willing to trade with each other, a large amount of copper money will flow to our dynasty. People's livelihoods in Hebei and Hedong are already withered. Once a large amount of copper money flows in, it will be even more difficult for these places to recover."

On February 28, Cai Mao arrived in Shouchun.

When Cai Mao arrived in Shouchun, all the officials in Shouzhou came to welcome the governor of the Great Song Dynasty.

The first thing Cai Mao did in the past was not to be invited to dinner, but to meet Nie Chang.

Then, according to the list provided by Wang Zhongheng, all officials who had participated in forced land purchases and tax evasion were arrested and interrogated one by one.

Afterwards, let Li Chongwen start to check the accounts unimpeded in each yamen, and go through all the accounts.

Then order the officials below to cooperate to measure the fields.

Cai Mao appeared in a cold-blooded state in Huaixi, and for a while, all the officials in Shouzhou were shocked.

This is not over yet. On the first day of March, Cai Mao summoned Shouzhou officials to discuss matters, and dismissed Zhang Cheng, the envoy of punishment and prison in Huaixi, and Zhou Cai, the prefect of Shouchun Prefecture, on the spot.

It was also on the same day that Wang Changgen, who had injured the official of the household department, was taken down, and the sneaker hurried to Luzhou to arrest Zhu Changgui, who had beaten the official of the household department to death.

No one expected that at the turn of February and March, Huaixi staged a big change of blood.

Chapter 269 Huaixi Cleansing! (third change)

On the evening of the second day of March, Zhao Ning went to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

Weng Yanguo was imprisoned here.

Weng's family has been sealed off, and all the more than 100 members of the family have been brought under control.

Seeing Zhao Guan's family coming, Weng Yanguo just said symbolically: "See Your Majesty."

Zhao Ning asked, "Did you receive instructions from others, or did you make your own decision?"

"The minister made his own decision."

"No one from above instructed you?"

"No."

"In this case, why do you dare to kill officials? Don't you know that this is a capital crime?"

"I know, but I have to do that!"

Zhao Ning asked calmly, "Why?"

"Because there is no other choice." Weng Yanguo didn't seem to hope that he could live anymore, he just wanted to die quickly.

"Isn't it enough for you to be supported by the high salary of the imperial court, and the last grain of rice must be taken away from the common people?"

Weng Yanguo remained silent, and after a while, he opened his mouth and said, "Your Majesty, I want to investigate Huaixi, but I can't!"

"Can't check?"

"Can't check!"

"why?"

"Your Majesty knows why."

"I don't know!"

"If Your Majesty wants to investigate, eight out of ten officials in Huaixi are unclear, so why should Your Majesty still want to investigate?"

Zhao Ning didn't speak, just looked at Weng Yanguo quietly for a while, turned and left, and finally turned around at the door and said a word: "Check!"

When he was going out, he could still hear Weng Yanguo's laughter: "Your Majesty can't check, and even if you check, you can't move!"